| Gridiron Gang (2006) | 6.9 | |
| Neds (2010) | 6.9 | |
| The Tribe (2014) | 7.0 | |
| Christiane F. (1981) | 7.5 | |
| King's Faith (2013) | 6.4 |
Juvenile delinquency movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant juvenile delinquency movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, bleak, disturbing, rough and independent film films and TV shows about / with juvenile delinquency, youth, coming of age, society, teenager, life is a bitch, teenage boy, violence, teenage life and school plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as juvenile delinquency: Dog Pound (2010), Coldwater (2013), Standing Tall (2015), The Graffiti Artist (2004), Boot Camp (2008), The Class (2007), L.I.E. (2001), Manic (2001), Song for a Raggy Boy (2003), Thirteen (2003).
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List of juvenile delinquency movies
14K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
Style:
sincere, tense, sexy, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, prison, juvenile prison, teenage boy, teenage protagonist, accidental killing, male pubic hair, prison life, reformatory, sodomy, juvenile detention, youth ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
montana
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, juvenile delinquent, re-education, juvenile detention, escape attempt, survival, prison life, youth, danger, confined, power relations, boy ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, touching, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
social worker, juvenile delinquent, teen angst, juvenile delinquency, teenage boy, judge, pregnant teenager, teenage pregnancy, juvenile detention, mother's boyfriend, truancy, nervousness ...
Time:
year 2015, 90s, year 1997
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Adrift in the lush, nocturnal urban landscape of THE GRAFFITI ARTIST, Nick (Ruben Bansie-Snellman) is a post-modern urban hero asserting his anarchistic agenda on the endless maze of virgin exterior walls that comprise downtown Seattle and Portland. ...
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Plot:
gay teenager, gay, street kid, graffiti, youth, social differences, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, lifestyle, friendship, drug abuse, life is a bitch ...
Place:
oregon, seattle, usa, portland oregon, washington state
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10K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A group of troubled teens are sent to a rehabilitation program housed in a remote camp on the island of Fiji. What their parents believe is a state-of-the-art deluxe institution in a beautiful natural environment turns out to be a prison-like boot ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, tense, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
boot camp, problem child, remote island, juvenile delinquency, corporal punishment, abuse, power relations, escapades, young heroes, isolation, teenage life, addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pacific ocean
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17K
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
Style:
serious, disturbing, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, school shooting, youth, humiliation, vengeance, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, teenage life, mistreatment, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
estonia, europe, eastern europe
Is relevant?
11K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In this biting and disturbing coming-of-age tale from writer-director Michael Cuesta, life is bittersweet along the L.I.E., also known as the Long Island Expressway, as suburban teen Howie Blitzer learns all too clearly. In the space of a week, he ...
Style:
sexy, disturbing, controversial, brutal, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, coming of age, pedophile, teenage boy, male prostitution, sexual abuse, lgbt teen, juvenile delinquent, childhood, pedophilia, mentor, intergenerational friendship ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
long island, new york, new jersey, california
Is relevant?
11K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lyle is filled with rage. After badly beating a classmate during a schoolyard fight, Lyle is committed to a juvenile mental institution in lieu of criminal prosecution. Inside the hospital, Lyle encounters a group of adolescents struggling with a ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, independent film, depressing, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, depression, self harm, addiction, mental health, manic, psychology, therapy, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
new jersey, california
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Franklin becomes the first non-cleric instructor at St. Jude's, a ...
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, bleak, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
child abuse, juvenile delinquency, abuse, boarding school life, corporal punishment, gay rape, punishment, dedicated educator, child rape, boyhood, reformatory, orphanage ...
Time:
1930s, year 1939
Place:
ireland, europe, spain
Is relevant?
107K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style:
tense, sincere, emotional, teen, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence, friendship, drug addiction, addiction, peer pressure, teenage protagonist, dysfunctional family, underage drinking, teenage girl, teenager, self harm ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, y2k, near future, 2000s ...
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
Is relevant?
40K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of a young ex-con Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a murder he committed as a child.
Style:
psychological, touching, suspense, heartbreaking, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
redemption, juvenile delinquency, childhood, haunted by the past, going straight, bullying, melancholy, released from prison, teen angst, rehabilitation, violent, starting over ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, britain, united kingdom, england, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, rough ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, street gang, coming of age, youth gang, gang, bullying, friendship, parents and children, urban ghetto life, high school life, urban ghetto, blackmail ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Steve Moore is sixteen and lives with his younger sister, mother Cheryl and her boyfriend John, in a modest house in Bakersfield, California. An abusive and often intoxicated man, John rules the household, and though his attacks on Steve result in ...
Style:
realistic, serious, independent film, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
troubled youth, juvenile delinquency, on the run, downfall, teenage life, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, youth, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
Is relevant?
652
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Tomek is 14 and a good student. He's interested in astronomy and plays football to please his father. The only thing is, he lives in a poor little border town plagued by unemployment, whereas across the river lies Germany with all its relative ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
rent boy, abused child, teenage prostitution, teenage protagonist, troubled teen, male prostitution, friendship between boys, 13 year old, boy in peril, child protagonist, best friend, social problems ...
Is relevant?
11K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by ...
Style:
depressing, rough, atmospheric, serious, political ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
prostitution, street kid, child abuse, boy, sex with a minor, coming of age, 10 year old, child rape, children, nude boy, violent, loneliness ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place:
brazil, south america, latin america, rio de janeiro, sao paulo brazil ...
Is relevant?
308
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Straight-laced Luke inadvertently finds himself sentenced to two years in Young Offender Institution Sunnybank View after becoming a bank robber’s getaway driver, along with the bank robber in question, his girlfriend’s brother and so-called ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, realistic, buddy comedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
prison, fish out of water, juvenile delinquency, prison life, youth, unlikely criminals, disorder, odd couple, misadventure, friendship, deadpan, bank robbery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Is relevant?
13K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ukraine, Netherlands
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Deaf mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for deaf-and-dumb. In this new place, he needs to find his way through the hierarchy of the school’s network dealing with crimes and prostitution, the Tribe. By taking part of several ...
Style:
disturbing, depressing, surreal, art house, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
deaf, sign language, boarding school, deaf mute, sex scene, juvenile delinquency, prostitution, unwanted pregnancy, bullying, male nudity, troubled youth, female nudity ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
ukraine, kiev ukraine
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Teenagers at a juvenile detention center, under the leadership of their counselor, gain self-esteem by playing football together.
Style:
inspirational, hood, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night
Plot:
american football, juvenile delinquency, athlete and trainer, african american, prison, redemption, underdog, youth, destiny, competition, football, life philosophy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the ...
Style:
depressing, disturbing, rough, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, heroin, drug abuse, drug addict, downfall, junkie, drug overdose, teenage girl, friendship, teenage life, teenage prostitution ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1981
Place:
berlin germany, west berlin west germany, europe, west germany, germany ...
Is relevant?
1K
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a gritty retelling of the Dickens's classic, Twist takes Oliver and the Artful Dodger out of the poorhouse and onto the streets, where junk is the currency and hustling is the game.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, crying ...
Plot:
male prostitute, kids in trouble, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, sexual relations, youth, drug abuse, lgbt, pimp, addiction, apprentice, society ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada, quebec
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Armin Steeb is adrift: just finished with school, living with his middle-class parents, clueless about finding work. He tries connecting with a girl, he engages in risky sex with strangers in public toilets, he goes to job interviews. He also sends ...
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, sexual, crying ...
Plot:
gay, juvenile delinquency, dark humor, teenage life, unemployment, society, socially awkward, vandalism, coming of age, police investigation, mistaken identity, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The story focuses on the life of an 11-year old boy surrounded by criminality and poverty in the suburbs of Naples.
Style:
disturbing, serious, bleak, rough, realistic
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, youth, friends, danger, society, life is a bitch, coming of age, social worker, social decay, urban ghetto life, teaching the ways of the world, street life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy
Is relevant?
9K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
NEDs (Non Educated Delinquents) is the story of a young man’s journey from prize-winning schoolboy to knife-carrying teenager. Struggling against the low expectations of those around him, John McGill changes from victim to avenger, scholar to NED, ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, gang, street kid, bullying, coming of age, youth, gang war, social decay, teenage life, society, social problems, realism ...
Time:
year 2010, 70s, 20th century
Place:
scotland, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When eighteen-year-old Brendan King attempts to leave his turbulent gang life behind him, his past continues to threaten his new-found faith, family, and future
Style:
christian film, realistic, touching, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, adoption, christian, haunted by the past, redemption, human spirit, going straight, society, youth, crime and punishment, teenage love, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A destitute 14 year old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major ...
Style:
emotional, harsh, tense, rough, grim ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
redemption, child abuse, children, coming of age, boy, dysfunctional family, working class, juvenile detention, youth, corporal punishment, childhood, poverty ...
Time:
year 1999, 70s, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, california
Is relevant?
329K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, offbeat, entertaining, biting ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, youth, gay teenager, bipolar disorder, gay, teenage life, family problems, siblings relations, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, drinking problem, dark humor ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, idaho
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Nordvest is a gangsterfilm set in the suburbs of Copenhagen. Casper (18), the oldest of 3 siblings, survives life on the streets by committing burglaries for the neighbourhood boss, Jamal. When Casper gets an offer to work for Jamal’s rival ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, bleak ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, gangster, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, friendship, family problems, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, vengeance, teenage boy, organized crime ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
Style:
sentimental, sexy, disturbing, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, innocence lost, heroin, juvenile delinquency, prison, downfall, teenager, dysfunctional family, drug dealing, family problems, adolescence vs adulthood, siblings relations ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, year 2002, 80s, 21st century
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, united kingdom
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.
Style:
emotional, captivating, serious, realistic, semi autobiographical ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
police dog, dysfunctional family, depression, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, alcoholic, going straight, family problems, coming of age, youth, hopes, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa, new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Higher Ground is an American-Canadian drama action television show shot outside Vancouver, British Columbia. The series ran from January 14, 2000 - June 16, 2000 and aired on Fox Family. It stars Joe Lando, Hayden Christensen, A.J. Cook, Meghan Ory, ...
Style:
sincere, serious, emotional, touching, existential ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
troubled teen, juvenile delinquency, hardcase students, dedicated educator, rebellion, boarding school, youth, social misfits, social problems, understanding, teenage life, troublemaker ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place:
usa
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