Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Youth: 466 Films to Buy & Rent
Final Test, The (1953)
- Dir. Anthony Asquith
Feat. Jack Warner, Robert Morley, George Relph…
- Gentle comedy of values has a famed cricketer making his way to the middle for one last innings. Meanwhile is son is torn between seeing dad bat one…
Summer with Monika (1952)
- Dir. Ingmar Bergman
Feat. Harriet Andersson
- Early Bergman turns his lens on a pair of working class, teenage lovers. At first this rebellious holiday boat ride comes across as dreamy escapism…
Los Olvidados (The Young and the Damned, aka The Forgotten Ones) (1950)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
- Ground–breaking masterwork from dir. Luis Bunuel's Meixcan period, set among slum children in Mexico City, whose harsh circumstances and…
Boys in Brown, The (1949)
- Dir. Montgomery Tully
Feat. Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde…
- Soft youth rebellion drama with Jack Warner as warden of a borstal struggling to keep his tempestuous young charges in line. Mostly of note for its…
Les Enfants Terribles (The Strange Ones) (1948)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Edouard Dermithe, Nicole Stephane
- A poetic drama–fantasy from the pen of Jean Cocteau (who also directed several scenes), that centres round the narcissistic,…
Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
- Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Freddie Bartholomew, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Jimmy Lydon
- Thomas Hughes' classic novel of life at the Victorian Boys public school of Rugby is given a generous, populist treatment. New boy Lydon finds…