Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Youth: 29 Films to Rent
- An Education (2009)
- Dir. Lone Scherfig
Feat. Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina…
- An assured and alluring coming–of–age drama set in swinging sixties London (1961 in fact), with teenage ingenue Carey Mulligan falling in…
- School of Rock (2003)
- Dir. Richard Linklater
Feat. Jack Black, Joan Cusack, Mike White
- A must for rock fans of all ages, this hilarious, tongue–in–cheek tribute to rock music is charged by the head–banging enthusiasm…
- Final Destination (2000)
- Dir. James Wong
Feat. Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith…
- A young man's premonition that his Paris–bound plane of classmates will explode after take–off causes a fall–out of unpredictable…
- American History X (1998)
- Dir. Tony Kaye
Feat. Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Stacy Keach…
- Potent dissertation on generational anger among the skinhead community of Los Angeles' Venice Beach, that though flawed by brushes with cliche, is a…
- Breakfast Club, The (1985)
- Dir. John Hughes
Feat. Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall…
- Five teenagers do detention together in this John Hughes classic.
- Quadrophenia (1979)
- Dir. Franc Roddam
Feat. Phil Daniels, Michael Elphick, Ray Winstone…
- Brilliant portrait of alienated youth, inspired by The Who's concept album, focuses on a young Mod's personal crises and his gang's violent agenda…
- Grease (1977)
- Dir. Randal Kleiser
Feat. John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing…
- Musical sensation set in a 1950s high–school was a box–office phenomenon, now an enduring classic. John Travolta, Olivia…
- Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
- Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Feat. Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates…
- From Anthony Burgess' novel, Stanley Kubrick flexes his genius with this electrifying satire about an ultra–violent gang of 'droogs' whose…
- 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…