Subgenre Sampler
Youth: 915 Films to Buy & Rent
To Sir with Love (1966)
- Dir. James Clavell
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Lulu
- Sidney Poitier instructs a class of cheeky, wayward teenagers in this feel–good classic of British cinema.
Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
- Dir. William Asher
Feat. Paul Lynde, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello…
- Most successful and best known of the ‘Beach Party’ movies, though it shows signs of being fifth in a series by straying quite a way from the…
Gidget (TV Series) (1965-1966)
- Feat. Sally Field, Don Porter, Betty Conner
- Truly likeable television spinoff series of the 1959 movie, about a spunky young surfer girl (Field) who comes of age around her friends, solo Dad…
Rapture (1965)
- Dir. John Guillermin
Feat. Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell…
- Drama based on the 1954 novel "Rapture in My Rags" about a lonely teenage girl living with her widower father, who develops an attraction to an…
Village of the Giants (1965)
- Dir. Bert I. Gordon
Feat. Ron Howard, Beau Bridges
- From the brainchild of Bert I. Gordon, an atomic monster and ‘giant’ movie specialist who did a lot of his own special effects, comes this gaudy…
Bikini Beach (1964)
- Dir. William Asher
Feat. Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Keenan Wynn…
- The third of the "Beach Party" movies starring peaches 'n' cream teens Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, this is arguably an improvement on both…
Leather Boys, The (1964)
- Dir. Sidney J. Furie
Feat. Rita Tushingham, Colin Campbell, Dudley Sutton
- Gritty study of an impulsive young woman's incompatible marriage to motorcycle–loving mechanic, and his subsequent 'close' relationship with a…
My Way Home (Igy jottem) (1964)
- Dir. Miklos Jancso
Feat. Andras Kozak, Sergei Nikonyenko, Janos Gorbe
- In the final days of World War II, a young Hungarian is making his way home, through countryside full of the debris of war, when he is captured and…
Ride the Wild Surf (1964)
- Dir. Don Taylor
Feat. Fabian, Tab Hunter, Barbara Eden…
- Clean–cut teenage beach party movie with Fabian, Tab Hunter and Barbara Eden looking splendid in their swimming trunks.
What's Happening: The Beatles in the USA (The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit) (1964)
- Dir. David Maysles, Albert Maysles
Feat. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr…
- First aired for television, this all access fly–on–the–wall account of the Beatles first trip through the USA in February 1964 is a…