Movies: Youth culture

This is the true story of Bobby Kent, a teen bully in the suburban town of Hollywood, Florida. Eventually, his best friend and girlfriend team up with the various other kids that are tired of getting beat up by him. Included in that group are the ove...

Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism...

Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s....

Outlines the history of 40 years of the skinhead subculture, beginning with the most recent versions of the culture....

A young, millionaire rock promoter creates a new boy/girl team for his teen TV dance show. Will the ambitious go-go dancer and has-been pop star fall in love for real?...

The extrovert, yet slightly naive Fanny (18) has just relocated to a new high school and is struggling to navigate the social hierarchy where status and likeability seems to be measured only by cute outfits, going to the right parties, and having eno...

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It's the last week of school in a small polish town's junior high school. Waiting for the final party, several students pass the time at a city pool, as if anticipating the emotional whirlwind they are about to experience. The action takes place some...

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A multi-awarded 23 minute short film about pansexual punk rockers in a toxic relationship in London’s underground music scene...

Documentary about the rave and techno scene of the 90s....

A jet-setting model leads a freewheeling life in Mexico City until she falls in love with an artist....

Paris, October 1948. Nino, Gilles, Donald, Barbara and their friends are a new breed of spectators. They discover the cinema as art, they are moviegoers. They will try to realize their grand project: to found a film club. "My film first wants to be a...

Unrest breaks out in eastern Helsinki as a Finnish family man gets hospitalized in the summer of 2015. Gangs of young people are burning down cars and public buildings, confronting the security guards and the riot police. The narrative goes backwards...

Street art, creativity and revolution collide in this beautifully shot film about art’s ability to create change. The story opens on the politically charged Thailand/Burma border at the first school teaching street art as a form of non-violent strugg...

After being whacked on the head with a shovel, Valdis no longer shows interest in the things that used to make his life worthwhile: alcohol, techno, cars and fights. His friends desperately try to help him regain his memory, but nothing works....

Lia, a broken young woman, awaits an important call about a job response on her 22nd birthday, the first spent without her grandmother. While the cell phone doesn't stop ringing, Lia and her friends Tuco and Gael, get ready for an 80's themed party....

In his new film, Erwin Wagenhofer is looking for the good and beautiful in this world....

A documentary about the rave and techno scene of the 90s. Back then, this emerging youth scene was still unfamiliar to most people and difficult to categorize....