Blackboard Jungle

1955

English

7.4

♡ 6

74%

Richard Brooks Director

Chuck Hicks as Applicant

Horace McMahon as Detective

Robert Foulk as George Katz

Margaret Hayes as Lois Judby Hammond

Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.

13 West Street

1962

English

6.3

♡ 5

27%

Crime

Drama

juvenile delinquent

Philip Leacock Director

Ted Knight as Baldwin

Michael Callan as Chuck Landry

Henry Beckman as Joe Bradford

Margaret Hayes as Mrs. Madeleine Landry

Walt Sherill is attacked and beat down by a group of juvenile delinquents on his way home from work one night. The boys who attacked him are not previously known by the police and are therefore hard to track down. As Sherill starts getting impatient he begins his own investigation. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Koleski does his best to track down the culprits.

Supermarket

1974

German

6.8

♡ 1

Roland Klick Director

Eckart Dux as Frank Bender

Hans-Michael Rehberg as Homosexueller

Eva Mattes as Monika

Paul Burian as Sozialarbeiter

Willi is 18 years old and lives on the street. Without a goal in his life he walks around the city and meets several people, helping but also cheating him. When he meets a girl, Monica, he realizes that there are people out there whose lives are even more desperate than his. So he's trying to help her (and him) by planning a great robbery on a supermarket's money transporter.

Manic

2001

English

7.1

♡ 7

67%

Jordan Melamed Director

Don Cheadle as Dr. David Monroe

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Lyle

Van Epperson as Night Staff

Zooey Deschanel as Tracey

Follows the fate of Lyle, a violent adolescent who, in lieu of prison, is placed in a juvenile mental institution, where he encounters a group of equally troubled teens. This motley crew—abused, sexually confused, violent, and yet hanging on by their grit and anger—becomes Lyle's last lifeline as he fights to find meaning in a world that seems to defy understanding.

Angels with Dirty Faces

1938

English

7.9

♡ 24

100%

92%

Action

based on novel or book

Michael Curtiz Director

Leo Gorcey as Bim

Frank Coghlan Jr. as Boy in Pool Room

Pat O'Brien as Jerry Connolly

Frank Hagney as Sharpie

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

The Young and the Damned

1950

Spanish

8.2

♡ 14

91%

Luis Buñuel Director

Estela Inda as La madre de Pedro

Charles Rooner as Pederasta elegante

Alfonso Mejía as Pedro

José Loza as Un asilado

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

Corpus Christi

2019

Polish

♡ 35

98%

youth correctional facility

Jan Komasa Director

Eliza Rycembel as Eliza

Leszek Lichota as Mayor

Lidia Duda as Parent 5

Tomasz Zietek as 'Pinczer'

A pious 20-year-old juvenile delinquent is sent to work at a sawmill in a small town; on arrival, he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the local parish. The arrival of this young, charismatic preacher is an opportunity for the local community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened a year prior.

Starred Up

2013

English

7.3

♡ 47

99%

David Mackenzie Director

Jack O'Connell as Eric Love

Anthony Welsh as Hassan

Ben Mendelsohn as Neville Love

Rupert Friend as Oliver Baumer

19-year-old Eric, arrogant and ultra-violent, is prematurely transferred to the same adult prison facility as his estranged father. As his explosive temper quickly finds him enemies in both prison authorities and fellow inmates — and his already volatile relationship with his father is pushed past breaking point — Eric is approached by a volunteer psychotherapist, who runs an anger management group for prisoners. Torn between gang politics, prison corruption, and a glimmer of something better, Eric finds himself in a fight for his own life, unsure if his own father is there to protect him or join in punishing him.

L.I.E.

2001

English

7.1

♡ 9

85%

long island, new york

male prostitution

paedophilia

Michael Cuesta Director

Brian Cox as Big John Harrigan

Adam LeFevre as Elliot

Paul Dano as Howie Blitzer

Chance Kelly as Prison Guard

With his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and his friend Gary spend their time burglarizing their neighbors' homes — until they make the mistake of robbing the house of Big John, a macho former Marine who is also an unrepentant pedophile. He propositions Howie, who declines, but the two eventually develop an unlikely and dangerous friendship.

Deprisa, Deprisa

1981

Spanish

7.0

♡ 6

62%

Carlos Saura Director

Berta Socuéllamos as Ángela

Jesús Arias as Meca

Jose Antonio Valdelomar González as Pablo

José María Hervás Roldán as Sebas

Angela is a young waitress who turns her back on society when she meets and falls in love with Pablo, a reckless criminal delinquent. Along with Pablo’s gang of car thieves, the pair embark on a drug and disco-fueled robbery spree as they hurtle toward oblivion.

The Outsiders

1983

English

7.0

♡ 88

71%

82%

Action

based on novel or book

Francis Ford Coppola Director

Diane Lane as Cherry Valance

Matt Dillon as Dallas Winston

Nicolas Cage as Soc #1

Tom Cruise as Steve Randle

In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny, to flee, their struggle for survival and redemption exposes the fragile innocence and enduring bonds of youth on the wrong side of town.

Bronco Bullfrog

1970

English

♡ 2

100%

Barney Platts-Mills Director

Ken Field as Dave

Mick Hart as Grimes

E.E. Blundell as Landlady

Marguerite Hughes as Marge

Del and his friends agree to take part in a robbery with a boy fresh from the borstal prison. When Del falls in love with Irene they decide to run away from their nagging parents - and the law.

Life as a House

2001

English

7.4

♡ 24

47%

parent child relationship

second chances

Irwin Winkler Director

Kim Delgado as Bob Larson

Ian Somerhalder as Josh

Scotty Leavenworth as Ryan Kimball

Hayden Christensen as Sam Monroe

When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.

High & Low: The Worst X

2022

Japanese

6.6

♡ 11

Masaki Suzumura Director

Masato Yano as Arata Maekawa

Miu Tomita as Madoka Ishii

Jun Shison as Satchio Ueda

Jin Shirasu as Seiji Kirihara

Fists fly when Oya High’s street fighters defend themselves from a three-school alliance of brawlers.

The Lost Boys

2023

French

6.7

♡ 18

100%

Zeno Graton Director

Marc Hens as Professeur atelier nature

Aurélien Vandenbeyvanghe as Professeur cours généraux

Giovanni Vanhaerens as Professeur menuiserie

Samir Asghir as Professeur soudure

In a youth correctional facility, Joe is preparing his return to society. But William’s arrival turns his desire for freedom into desire of another kind. Behind fences and cell walls, passions begin to play havoc with the need for liberty.

Cruel Story of Youth

1960

Japanese

6.9

♡ 18

100%

Nagisa Ôshima Director

Shin Morikawa as

Kei Satô as Akira Matsuko

Yûsuke Kawazu as Kiyoshi

Miyuki Kuwano as Makoto

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.

Night Comes On

2018

English

6.7

♡ 7

98%

Jordana Spiro Director

Dominique Fishback as Angel Lamere

Jeté Laurence as Erica

Max Casella as Mark

James McDaniel as Parole Officer

Angel is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future.

The Public Enemy

1931

English

7.6

♡ 19

100%

William A. Wellman Director

Arnold Lucy as Brewery owner

Jean Harlow as Gwen Allen

Robert Emmett O'Connor as Paddy Ryan

Frank Coghlan Jr. as Tom

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

2024

English

6.8

♡ 31

92%

97%

Adventure

based on novel or book

Dallas Jenkins Director

Pete Holmes as Bob

Ray Strachan as Fireman

Judy Greer as Grace

Liz Tabish as Mrs. Grady

The Herdman kids are undeniably the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, cheat, bully and overall terrorize their small community. But this Christmas, they're taking over their local church Pageant – and they just might unwittingly teach a shocked little town the true meaning of Christmas.

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