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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, gloomy ...
Plot:
teenage life, youth, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquency, society, prodigy, political unrest, siblings, brother, brothers, family relations, gang ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
georgia
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Prosperous professional couple Mike and Christine are settling in for a standard evening of wine, TV and low-level marital hostility when a ring on their doorbell changes everything. Turns out their son Sebastian is in a little trouble with some ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
hostage, home invasion, juvenile delinquency, revenge, danger, parents and children, confined, family in danger, isolation, domestic disturbance, kidnapped, gang ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
britain, london, europe
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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, kids, teen drama
Plot:
prison, vengeance, juvenile delinquent, violence, juvenile delinquency, youth, bullying, prison escape, gangster, rivalry, prison rape, brat pack ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa, south america, illinois, new jersey ...
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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:
teen violence, homoeroticism, boys love, friendship, youth, juvenile delinquency, gang, gay, gangster, hardcase students, teenage life, drug dealer ...
Place:
singapore, china, asia
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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:
sexy, sexual, erotic, disturbing, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
youth, nudity, sex scene, hip hop culture, sex with a stranger, society, teenager, juvenile delinquency, hip hop, female nudity, making love, brutality ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France
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:
rough, bleak, hood, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
gang, violence, ghetto, favela, coming of age, storytelling, gang war, gangster, society, juvenile delinquency, organized crime, journalism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2003, 2000s, future ...
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, south america, brazil, africa
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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:
political, depressing, cult classic, stylized, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
skinhead, racism, childhood, friendship, coming of age, neo nazi, adolescence, nationalism, boy, children, youth, violent ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
england, britain, northern england, united kingdom, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
Style:
social, serious, realistic, cynical, tense ...
Plot:
street gang, gang, racism, murder trial, juvenile delinquent, juvenile delinquency, class differences, courtroom, lawyer, murder, brutality, district attorney ...
Time:
year 1961, 50s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city, new york state
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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:
serious, tense, rough, hood, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, gang, urban ghetto life, ghetto, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, urban, teenage life, social decay, gangster, friendship, teenage love ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, britain, europe
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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, sexual, cult classic, surreal, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
debauchery, spring break, juvenile delinquency, rapper, party, hedonism, murder, masked robber, beach party, danger, female killer, bad girl ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2013, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida, california
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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, crying ...
Plot:
revenge, sociopathy, homosexuality, attempted murder, bullying, adolescence, juvenile delinquency, truancy, lonely man, teenage murderer, friends, closeted gay ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them local legends.
Style:
teen, realistic, talky, harsh, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, youth, prank, boy, friendship, friend, adaptation, dark humor, juvenile delinquency, friends, high school life ...
Time:
70s, year 2002, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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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, disturbing, bleak, non-linear ...
Plot:
racism, punk, war trauma, gang, vandalism, society, youth, downfall, rebelliousness, life is a bitch, teenage life, prison life ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
holland
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Kang Chul-jung has been a detective fighting crime for 15 years and is at it again against a mob boss who recruits young kids to do his dirty work.
Style:
detective, crime thriller, suspense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, juvenile delinquency, detective inspector, crime investigation, fighting crime, sleuth, uncover truth, police investigation, mafia, police detective, criminal, mob boss ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
seoul
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
One summer, Dario flees the hellish environment of his home. Luismi, unconditional friend, a poor devil with pretensions of winning, and Antonia, an old woman who collects abandoned his motorcar furniture, become his new family. Three generations ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship between boys, dog sex, voyeurism, friendship, divorced parents, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, teenage life, adolescence, youth, teenage boy, police chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When a young woman is cruelly and indiscriminately attacked by a notorious gang led by the violent Trey, her little 16 year old sister Kayla wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means joining a rival girl gang led by the ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot:
vengeance, gang, girl gang, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, social decay, gang leader, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, rivalry, society, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, britain, london
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when ...
Style:
captivating, bleak, tense, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
small town, juvenile delinquency, gangster, danger, friendship, love and romance, betrayal, love triangle, farm, rivalry, hot and sexy, jealousy ...
Place:
texas, britain, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A hefty homeboy borrows his dad's Mercedes and goes to the beach with his friends for wild sun & fun.
Style:
light, semi serious, humorous, emotional, sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
beach, hip hop, juvenile delinquency, gangster, best friend, love and romance, society, lifestyle, nothing goes right, high school, destiny, urban ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
california, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Morocco, Tunisia, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's ...
Style:
serious, captivating, bleak, islamic, social ...
Plot:
homeless, street kid, youth, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, poverty, kids in trouble, friendship, danger, society, gang, vengeance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, middle east, maghreb, morocco
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After a drug deal gone wrong, Bédé goes into hiding in the countryside at a reformative school for criminal youth. His location is found out, and he and the pupils have to protect themselves with whatever means they have.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, spaghetti western ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, gang, crime gone awry, gangster, isolation, drug dealing, criminal heroes, violence, danger, nudity, teenage life, countryside ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, france, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
All, including school administration and a friend, turn their backs on a girl who accused a classmate of rape.
Style:
touching, realistic, disturbing, sincere, rough ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
rape, innocence lost, high school, sexualized violence, juvenile delinquency, rape and revenge, teenage love, against the odds, fighting the system, rebellion, youth, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
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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:
high school life, society, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, high school, gang, friendship, life is a bitch, teenage life, youth, school, asian ...
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Four women, Patti, Emma, Angela, and Nicki are completing their last year of high school. Unfortunately for the group, one of their own, Nicki, unexpectedly commits suicide. The three remaining women, upon finding out that Nicki had been raped ...
Style:
harsh, disturbing, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, women, high school, suicide, coming of age, death of friend, juvenile delinquency, righting the wronged, teenage love, life is a bitch, human nature, family relations ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
new jersey, california
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Mitraillette is 12 years old and lives in Rose City, a housing estate he would not leave for anything. His whole world comprises his family, especially his 16 year-old cousin Isma, who has taken a fancy to Narcisse, the local crime boss. His older ...
Style:
captivating, humorous, light, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, juvenile delinquency, society, youth, teenage life, coming of age, kids in trouble, family relations, hip hop, gang, danger, siblings relations ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Three small time criminals from Dublin's North Inner City each aspire to be somebody in a fast changing society.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, working class, urban ghetto life, moral dilemma, drug dealing, society, crime gone awry, unemployment, police detective, downfall, life is a bitch, st. patrick's day ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland
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271
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Wannabe "gangsta-rappers" resort to a crime spree in order to come up up with ten thousand dollars in order to finance a studio recording session.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, independent film, offbeat ...
Plot:
musician's life, desire for fame, unlikely criminals, juvenile delinquency, lifestyle, rise to the top, drug dealing, gangster, partner, disorder, misfit, criminal heroes ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Alix is taken in by a photographer, Digna, who despite her friends' protests, tries to help Alix piece her life back together and overcome her addictions.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, disturbing, gloomy ...
Plot:
addiction, friendship, juvenile delinquency, downfall, going straight, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, youth, drug abuse, overdose, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West.
Style:
disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot:
boy, circus, youth, child prostitution, human trafficking, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, kidnapping, kids in trouble, hopes, dishonesty, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, berlin germany, ukraine, europe, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
"Engwkentro" follows two teenage brothers attempting to escape an unnamed city controlled by an iron-fisted mayor. They must first break away from the cycle of crime, while trying to run from rival gang leaders and the state's ...
Style:
tense, serious, rough, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, politics, mayor, juvenile delinquency, vigilantism, moral dilemma, social decay, dishonesty, youth, rivalry, society, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
the philippines, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Trevor is a troubled high school student, thanks to the effects of bullying. This is the story of his fight to break free.
Style:
realistic, harsh, suspenseful, sincere, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bullying, school shooting, childhood, depression, teacher, bully, vengeance, social misfits, teenage life, school, violence, fighting the system ...
Place:
oregon, tokyo
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