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List of juvenile delinquency movies

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Prince (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A troubled teenager attempts to conquer the girl he's in love with, who seems out of reach. He's lured into criminal activities and becomes alienated from family and friends.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, hood
Audience: teens
Plot: juvenile delinquency, youth gang, teenage love, interracial friendship, friendship between boys, street life, drug dealing, wooing, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, group of friends, single mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
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 6.1
 10K
Wilderness (2006)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Juvenile delinquents gets sent to a small British island after a fellow prisoners death, where they have to fight for survival.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, dog, survival horror, death, danger, animal attack, gory, brutality, violence, wilderness, island, isolation ...
Time: 2000s
Place: britain, england, scottish highlands
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Scum (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the ...
Style: disturbing, rough, tense, serious, controversial ...
Plot: prison, racism, boy, youth, rebellion, corruption, revenge, riot, rape, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, sadism ...
Time: year 1979, near future, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, united kingdom
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 7.0
 12K
The Tribe (2014)
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, erotic, surreal, art house ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: deaf, boarding school, prostitution, bullying, sign language, mute or deaf, deaf mute, prostitute, illegal abortion, gang, adolescence, youth ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: ukraine, kiev ukraine
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 7.2
 17K
Bad Boys (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, realistic, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prison, teenager, youth, juvenile delinquency, violence, bullying, gangster, rivalry, brat pack, confined, society, gang war ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
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 6.3
 822
King's Faith (2013)
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, serious, touching, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: adoption, juvenile delinquency, christian, redemption, haunted by the past, human spirit, going straight, society, youth, parents and children, suburbs, crime and punishment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.7
 280
Crims (2015)
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: realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot: prison, juvenile delinquency, prison life, fish out of water, youth, unlikely criminals, disorder, young adult, profanity, misfit, friends, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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 7.6
 507
Caitlin's Way (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
TV show
Story: Caitlin's Way is a live action teen drama series that aired on Nickelodeon from 2000–2002. The show was co-created by Thomas W. Lynch. Aired on The N from January 2003 to September 27, 2009. It also aired on TeenNick from September 28, 2009 ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, teen
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: juvenile delinquency, culture clash, fish out of water, teaching the ways of the world, lifestyle, starting over, teenage life, orphan, young heroes, teenage love, youth, social relations ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: montana, philadelphia, usa
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 5.3
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River's End (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Corbin plays a fictional Menard County sheriff who uses country savvy and cowboy logic to straighten out his angry teen-aged grandson, Clay, a high school senior who can't seem to stay out of trouble.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, crying
Plot: juvenile delinquency, small town, going straight, danger, youth, teenage life, wilderness, family life, kids in trouble, cheerleader, escapades, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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 7.9
 4K
The Wall (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Produced, written and directed by Yılmaz Güney within his own personal experiences of capital offense, he dedicates Duvar to male teenagers aged 13 to 19 living behind the bars under diabolical treatments. These teenagers get barbaric corporal ...
Style: political, art house, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: kurd, juvenile delinquency, prison life, jail, sex crime, social injustice, traumatic childhood, politics, child abuse, revolutionary, injustice, revolution ...
Time: 80s
Place: kurdistan, turkey, europe, france
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All the Invisible Children (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
Style: anthology, touching, neorealism, serious, captivating ...
Plot: kids in trouble, juvenile delinquency, homeless, child abandonment, aids, life is a bitch, young heroes, social decay, survival, danger, society, youth ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: africa, serbia, napoli italy, sao paulo brazil, naples italy
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Blue Spring (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of ...
Style: bleak, realistic, disturbing, serious, manga
Audience: teen drama
Plot: juvenile delinquency, high school, gang, society, high school life, teenage life, life is a bitch, friendship, youth, coming of age, school, asian ...
Place: japan, asia
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Bad Meat (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Six troubled teens at secluded camp for juvenile delinquents must fight for their lives after a mysterious virus transforms the guards into cannibalistic mutants.
Style: suspense, slasher, humorous, absurd, horror comedy ...
Plot: isolation, cannibalism, peeping tom, food poisoning, juvenile delinquency, camp, danger, youth, society, wilderness, virus, cannibal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 6.7
 20K
Kidulthood (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
Style: hood, serious, tense, rough, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: urban ghetto life, bullying, gang, ghetto, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, urban, teenage life, social decay, gangster, friendship, teenage love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom, britain, europe
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Skin (2008)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives in a working class area in Holland. Frankie’s mother is taken to hospital in a terminal condition, causing a bigger rift between him and his ...
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing, non-linear ...
Plot: racism, gang, skinhead, vandalism, rebelliousness, downfall, life is a bitch, society, youth, teenage life, anti semitism, prison life ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: holland
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 7.7
 128K
This Is England (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
Style: emotional, political, depressing, stylized, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: skinhead, racism, childhood, adolescence, neo nazi, coming of age, nationalism, friendship, youth, children, xenophobia, prejudice ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, united kingdom, northern england, europe ...
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The Crocodiles Strike Back (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: New summer adventure of the Crocodiles, who set up their detective skills to find out who is behind the accidents of the factory where Ollie and Mary's parents work , which could mean the closure of the plant, the move of the family and the ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, fast, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: teenage love, juvenile delinquency, bankruptcy, best friend, friendship, teenage life, investigation, chase, rivalry, buddies, disorder, mine ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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Class of 1984 (1982)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Andy is a new teacher at a inner city high school that is like nothing he has ever seen before. There is metal detectors at the front door and everything is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and ...
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, cult classic, psychotronic, detective ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, punk, teacher, revenge, gang, violence, rape, bullying, juvenile delinquency, sexual cruelty, vigilante, school ...
Time: 80s, future, year 1982, 20th century
Place: usa
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Brother (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Giorgi is 16 years old when he discovers another world through American films forbidden in all Soviet Union until then. Since the post-revolutionary chaos in his home town, Tbilisi, Giorgi has wanted to have succeeded by following the path of his ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: teenage life, youth, juvenile delinquency, society, political unrest, prodigy, brother brother relationship, siblings, brothers, brother, family relations, gang ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: georgia
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 6.1
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15: The Movie (2003)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Singapore
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Fast, frenetic, and furious best describe the story of five teenage boys all but abandoned by the system, estranged from any parents, and discarded by life in general. They build a world of there own in which gangs, drugs, fighting, body piercing, ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, bleak, homoerotic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, youth, gang, juvenile delinquency, gangster, teen violence, hardcase students, teenage life, drug dealer, drug dealing, urban ghetto, kids in trouble ...
Place: singapore, china, asia
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 8.6
 796K
City of God (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by ...
Style: disturbing, rough, bleak, hood, stylized ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: gang, coming of age, storytelling, organized crime, society, gang war, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, photographer, journalism, favela, police corruption ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, year 2002, 20th century, year 2003 ...
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil, south america
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Spring Breakers (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After four college girls rob a restaurant to fund their spring break in Florida, they get entangled with a weird dude with his own criminal agenda.
Style: sexy, disturbing, stylized, sexual, surreal ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: party, spring break, debauchery, juvenile delinquency, rapper, murder, danger, nudity, summer, beach party, female killer, teenage life ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa, florida
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The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Style: emotional, rough, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug abuse, basketball, downfall, life is a bitch, teenage life, junkie, drug addiction, drug overdose, teenager, adolescence ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995, near future, 60s
Place: new york, seattle, boston, usa, manhattan new york city
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The Selfish Giant (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A hyperactive boy and his best friend, a slow-witted youth with an affinity for horses, start collecting scrap metal for a shady dealer.
Style: sad, atmospheric, depressing, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: family friendly, teen drama
Plot: teenage life, poverty, friendship, juvenile delinquency, child abuse, youth, bullying, brutality, social misfits, misfit, society, childhood ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, europe, northern england
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The Heroes of Evil (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three teenagers, brought together from bullying, indulge in petty theft, sex and drugs. They inevitably realize they can resort to violence to take revenge on everyone who has humiliated them: students, teachers and other outcasts. One of them ...
Style: suspense, tense, touching, psychological, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: theft, revenge, bullying, sociopathy, attempted murder, adolescence, homosexuality, juvenile delinquency, lonely man, truancy, teenage murderer, friends ...
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Havoc (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a ...
Style: disturbing, sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, nudity, teenager, sex scene, sex with a stranger, juvenile delinquency, promiscuity, hip hop, gang, gangster, erotica, female nudity ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 4K
Northwest (2013)
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, vengeance, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, burglary, brother sister relationship ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen
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 7.3
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Forever Mary (1989)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial ...
Style: serious, disturbing, realistic, touching, neorealism ...
Plot: reformatory, youth, transvestism, juvenile delinquency, prison, juvenile delinquent, life is a bitch, reform, school, teachers and students, prison life, transsexual ...
Time: 80s
Place: italy, sicily, europe, milan italy, palermo italy
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 7.1
 37K
Rumble Fish (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
Style: surreal, black and white, serious, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, street gang, gang, biker, brother brother relationship, teenager, gangster, character study, juvenile delinquency, life philosophy, family relations, melancholy ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: oklahoma, usa
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The Bling Ring (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: At the center of one of Hollywood's most notorious burglary rings in 2009 was a group of average, middle-class teens from a quiet suburb. This is the behind-the-scenes story of how Nick, a shy, awkward boy, lured by the promise of popularity ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: juvenile delinquency, teenage life, gang, youth, family relations, parents and children, hollywood, clubbing, panic attack, new school, social anxiety, nightclub ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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