Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 915 Films to Buy & Rent
Year My Voice Broke, The (1987)
- Dir. John Duigan
Feat. Noah Taylor, Ben Mendelsohn
- Scrawny yet sensitive adolescent Noah Taylor can only watch as brazen older mate Ben Mendelsohn courts his dream–girl in '60s rural Australia.…
Crossroads (1986)
- Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Ralph Macchio, Jami Gertz, Joe Seneca…
- Great Ry Cooder music peps this light drama in which Ralph Macchio seeks lost blues tunes in the Deep South.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Matthew Broderick
- Probably the teen comedy of the '80s, with Matthew Broderick as the crafty 17–year–old Ferris who skips school to takes his friends on a…
Lucas (1986)
- Dir. David Seltzer
Feat. Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen…
- Genuinely sympathetic account of the teenage love of 'dweeb' Corey Haim for an older schoolmate (Green), through infatuation, rejection and...…
Pretty in Pink (1986)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton
- Molly Ringwald faces some tricky teenage dilemmas in John Hughes' quintessentially '80s rite–of–passage.
River's Edge (1986)
- Dir. Tim Hunter
Feat. Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye…
- Terrifying drama about a group of school friends who discover that one of them has murdered a classmate. Major cult film from the '80s with its lurid…
Soul Man (1986)
- Dir. Steve Miner
Feat. C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross…
- A privileged white student disguises himself as a black man in order to win a Harvard Law School scholarship, in this disappointing "blackface"…
Space Camp (1986)
- Dir. Harry Winer
Feat. Kate Capshaw, Kelly Preston, Larry B. Scott…
- Good natured 80's adolescent romp in which a group of young attendees of a space camp find themselves in space for real when their shuttle is…
Surf Nazis Must Die (1986)
- Dir. Peter George
Feat. Gail Neely, Robert Harden, Barry Brenner
- Gory battles for the beaches and waves, Troma–style. The T–shirt is better than the movie.
Weird Science (1986)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly Le Brock, Bill Paxton…
- Two computer nerds generate their fantasy woman in the form of Kelly Le Brock. Innocuous teen fun.