Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 925 Films to Buy & Rent
Youth, The (Yuva) (2004)
- Dir. Mani Ratnam
Feat. Abhishek Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor, Ajay Devgan
- A Bollywood epic with debts to the likes of PULP FICTION and AMORES PERROS, structuring the storylines of three contrasting young men around a…
15 (2003)
- Dir. Royston Tan
Feat. Melvin Chen, Erick Chun
- Doing for the tiny island nation of Singapore what LA HAINE did for France, this box–office hit follows the misfiring antics of three teenagers…
American Pie 3 (American Wedding) (2003)
- Dir. Jesse Dylan
Feat. Jason Biggs, Eugene Levy, Seann William Scott
- Third in the series of raunchy–on–top comedies, this offers little that's new, but does manage to be better than expected.
With two of…
Battle of Shaker Heights, The (2003)
- Dir. Efram Potelle, Kyle Rankin
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Elden Henson, Amy Smart…
- This product of the "Project Greenlight" film–making reality–TV is a a light but engaging story of a young war–reenactment…
Best of Youth, The (La Meglio gioventù) (2003)
- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Sprawling and heady Italian saga tracks the lives of two brothers through the idealistic dreams of the 1960s and the long messy aftermath of…
Bookies (2003)
- Dir. Mark Illsley
Feat. Nick Stahl, Lukas Haas, Rachael Leigh Cook…
- Four college friends become small–time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the…
Bright Young Things (2003)
- Dir. Stephen Fry
Feat. Emily Mortimer, Stephen Campbell Moore, Dan Aykroyd…
- Set among the aspirant youth of 1930s Britain, this fresh satirical comedy marks a promising debut for dir. Fry, even if the drama is sliced a little…
Cafe Lumiere (Kôhî jikô) (2003)
- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Tadanobu Asano, Yo Hitoto
- Luminous tribute to Japanese dir. Yasujiro Ozu from a Taiwanese admirer, which honours Ozu's aesthetic in a minimalist study of personal…
Camp (2003)
- Dir. Todd Graff
Feat. Daniel Letterle, Joanna Chilcoat, Don Dixon
- A heart–on–its–sleeve musical set an American summer camp for 'artistic' teenagers, in which individual fears and hopes find group…
Cheetah Girls, The (2003)
- Dir. Oz Scott
Feat. Raven -Symone, Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan…
- Bubblegum pop teen chick flick following four New York teens trying to make it big in the music world who end up having to choose between fame and…