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List of juvenile delinquent movies

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 4.4
 1K
Buried Alive (1989)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by various ex-mental patients. Spurred on by a series of horrific hallucinations, she begins to investigate the mysterious ...
Style: scary, realistic, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, insanity, mental illness, gory, danger, juvenile delinquency, school, teenage life, youth, serial killer, edgar allan poe, buried alive ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
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The Dawn Rapists (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Crime drama centering on a gang of rapists, the aftermath of their crimes on the victims and the gang members being brought to justice.
Style: disturbing, suspense, crying
Plot: rape, anal rape, forced sex, painful sex, teenage rape, rape victim, gang rape, raped woman, juvenile delinquent, gang, pregnant woman, kidnapping ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, post world war two
Place: spain, europe
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Lute: Forge On or Die (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, ...
Style: social, hood
Plot: biopic, gang, juvenile delinquent, mafioso, gangster, ghetto, nazi, totalitarian state, gulag, justice, poverty, robbery ...
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 7.1
 3K
Neighborhood (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story in the vein of CITY OF GOD and KIDS - available for the first time in the U.S.!
Style: social, hispanic, serious, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, boy, juvenile delinquent, suburbs, dysfunctional family, friendship between boys, best friend, family relations, friends, kids in trouble, contests and competitions, drug dealing ...
Time: 90s
Place: madrid, europe, spain
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The Rose Seller (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: 13-year-old Monica leads a street life, making her living by selling flowers to couples in local nightspots, she is joined by 10-year-old Andrea who runs out of her house after her mother beats her.
Style: social, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: gang, children, homeless, tramp, hobo, feminist, juvenile delinquent, teenage girl, intimacy, homelessness, street kid, poverty ...
Time: 90s
Place: colombia
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 6.3
 268
Glue Sniffer (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Oliver flees from abuse of his family and seeks refuge in the violent streets of Caracas, where survival is only possible in an environment of corruption, crime and sniffing glue to escape hunger, like other children in the same situation. Soon, the ...
Plot: juvenile delinquent, homelessness, child in peril, survival, poverty, children, misery, street life, street kid, desperation, brutality, police brutality ...
Place: venezuela
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Our Lady of the Assassins (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Colombia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: World-weary arthur Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando's once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs and corruption. On the brink of despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a ...
Style: disturbing, meditative, thought provoking, rough, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, murder, vengeance, poverty, lgbt, drug dealing, teenage life, fall in love, love affair, drug, writers, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: colombia, los angeles, usa
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If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A teenager prisoner awaits his release when two weeks before that happens he's told that his mother is returned home. Meanwhile, he finds himself in love with a Sociology student, Ana, working in the penitentiary as an intern.
Style: serious, rough, touching, realistic, psychological ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: forced sexual contact, prison life, teenage love, redemption, parents and children, unfulfilled love, family relations, power relations, confined, hopes, society, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: romania, europe
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 6.4
 6K
El nino (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Two youths, Niño and Compi, enter the world of drug smuggling in the Strait of Gibraltar; while two police officers, Jesús and Eva, try to eradicate the contraband.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, hispanic ...
Plot: drug traffic, law enforcement, hashish, phd, juvenile delinquent, conspiracy, mafia, teenager, cocaine, police, violent content, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, morocco, europe
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Nothing in Return (2015)
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, tense ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: shoplifting, friendship, juvenile delinquency, divorced parents, friendship between boys, coming of age, teenage life, voyeurism, adolescence, youth, teenage boy, police chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children.
Style: suspense, scary, psychological, rough, tense ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids
Plot: ghost, children, supernatural, sacrifice, evil, death, graphic violence, demon, seance, curses spells and rituals, fear, demonic possession ...
Time: 2010s
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Incident in an Alley (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A policeman is accused of manslaughtering a 14 year old boy, but is acquitted of all charges. Still, he feels a lot of guilt and begins to doubt if he really is innocent after all. A stolen clarinet gives him a lead in his desperate hunt for the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: police officer, juvenile delinquent, murder trial, death of child, teenage life, heist, redemption, law enforcement, legal investigation, alley, pistol, haunted by the past ...
Time: 60s
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KO One (2005)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: KO One is a 2005 Taiwanese drama starring Jiro Wang, Calvin Chen, Aaron Yan and Danson Tang. It was produced by Comic International Productions and was first broadcast in Taiwan on cable TV Gala Television Variety Show/CH 28 on 26 November 2005 to ...
Style: captivating, humorous, enigmatic, exciting, surreal
Plot: school, high school friends, troubled youth, uninhibited rivalry, fight for supremacy, breaking the law, high school life, teenage protagonist, teenage life, showdown, good versus evil, rivalry ...
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Les Misérables (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: With a gun at his belt and a truncheon in his hand, Pento has just joined the Seine-Saint-Denis anti-crime brigade, an inner suburb of Paris. On the same team as Chris and Gwada, two men with occasionally “peculiar” methods, he soon discovers ...
Style: realistic, crime thriller, suspense, political, art house ...
Plot: police, ghetto, thief, organized crime, society, life is a bitch, police officer, father son relationship, pursuit, police investigation, danger, gangster ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: paris france, france
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The Killing of a Cat (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the closed community of a reform school for teenagers, the principal's daughter is found sexually molested. The schoolgirls seem to know more than they are willing to tell.
Audience: teens
Plot: sex crime, sexual abuse, rape, juvenile delinquent, reform school, child rape, coming of age, killing an animal, teen romance, teenage rape, escapee, male female relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: finland
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Kill Devil (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Kill Devil is a Japanese movie about a group of juvenile delinquents in the year 2025. The juveniles are host to a "murder gene", and are sent to an uninhabited island by the government so that they can be rehabilitated. The government ...
Plot: juvenile delinquent, game of death, remote island, experiment, handgun, human experiment, weapons, young adult, battles, game, daughter, fight to the death ...
Time: 2020s
Place: japan
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 3K
Roadracers (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Cynical look at a '50s rebellious Rocker who has to confront his future, thugs with knives, and the crooked town sheriff.
Style: suspense, realistic, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: chase, rivalry, danger, gang, car race, music band, youth, friends, on the road, racing, juvenile delinquent, young girl ...
Time: 1950s, 50s
Place: texas
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 15K
Wildcats (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.
Style: feel good, entertaining, inspirational, light, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, football, coach, high school football, high school, rivalry, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer, mother daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, custody battle ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago
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Only the Strong (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Former Green Beret Louis Stevens returns to his hometown of Miami after completing military service in Brazil, only to learn that his old high school has become a haven for gangs and drug dealers. After Stevens uses his capoeira skills to kick ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, independent film
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fight, high school, kung fu, mixed martial arts, capoeira, friends, school, youth, teacher, karate, hardcore ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: usa, miami, florida
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 6.3
 157K
Scream (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
Style: slasher, suspense, slasher horror, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: masked killer, serial killer, characters killed one by one, homicidal maniac, mystery killer, sister sister relationship, psychopath, whodunit, murder mystery, killing spree, gory violence, threatening telephone call ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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 6.9
 11K
El Angel (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: About a real-life criminal who shocked Argentine society: Carlos Robledo Puch, a merciless teen killer dubbed “The Angel of Death” because of his beatific good looks, who now ranks as the longest-serving prison inmate in Argentine history.
Style: tense, psychological, exciting, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: homoeroticism, gay, gay interest, lgbt, murder, teenage gang, violence, police, money, teenage boy, serial killer, villain as protagonist ...
Time: 70s, year 1971
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
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 7.1
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Why? (1987)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Why? (Czech: Proč?) is a 1987 Czechoslovak drama film directed by Karel Smyczek. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. The film deals with the hooliganism in Czechoslovakia, particularly with the fans of ...
Style: crying, non-linear
Plot: football, renaissance, hooliganism, escalation, drunkenness, train conductor, train, beer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenager, teenage boy, older brother ...
Place: eastern europe, prague
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Bastardi (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The story of a practical education environment without superficiality, clichés and affectations. The film is based on a real basis and shows what happens when the system fails. Set in the harsh environment of elementary school. The group of local ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
Plot: police officer, murder investigation, murder, revenge, psychopath as protagonist, teenage murderer, serial killer, teenage boy, death, partner, murderer, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: czech republic
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Gotham (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Before there was Batman, there was GOTHAM. Everyone knows the name Commissioner Gordon. He is one of the crime world's greatest foes, a man whose reputation is synonymous with law and order. But what is known of Gordon's story and his ...
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, detective, neo noir ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: batman, police, corruption, police corruption, superhero, super villain, police station, mafia, friendship, police detective, organized crime, gang war ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new jersey
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 3K
Zappa (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Denmark, 1961. Bjørn, a middle-class boy in his early teens, wants to be accepted by Steen, a bullying peer of his with wealthy but freezingly cold parents. Bjørn's other good friend is Mulle, a cheerful and more childish working-class boy. ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, emotional, crying
Plot: coming of age, boy, teenage boy, female nudity, nordic, rape, family relations, friendship, bare butt, vacation, teenager, male nudity ...
Time: 60s, year 1961
Place: denmark, scandinavia, europe
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 7.1
 55K
Win Win (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When down-on-his-luck part-time high school wrestling coach Mike agrees to become legal guardian to an elderly man, his ward's troubled grandson turns out to be a star grappler, sparking dreams of a big win -- until the boy's mother ...
Style: touching, emotional, feel good, humorous, comedy drama ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: coach, lawyer, parenthood, wrestling, adolescence, dysfunctional family, responsibility, coming of age, character study, changing lives, bonding, contests and competitions ...
Time: y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
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 7K
Kids Return (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local Yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspense, anime ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, boxing, yakuza, high school, friendship, bullying, coming of age, prank, athlete's life, teenage life, ambition, gangster ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: japan
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 6.6
 38K
Gummo (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.
Style: disturbing, surreal, dark comedy, experimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sexual abuse, white trash, youth, redneck, adolescence, unsettling, coming of age, gay slur, abuse, violence, sister sister relationship, teenager ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: ohio, usa, america
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Another Day in Paradise (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A vending machine robbery by small time thief and drug addict Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) goes badly awry, and his friends contact street-wise thief and part-time druggie Mel (James Woods) to patch him up.Recognizing a kindred spirit, Mel befriends ...
Style: realistic, tense, talky, controversial, suspense ...
Plot: drug, addiction, drug addiction, adolescence, murder, junkie, heist, drug addict, violence, heroin, death, brutality ...
Time: year 1998, 70s, 20th century
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 8.0
 203K
Akira (1988)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda are pulled into the post-apocalyptic underworld of Neo-Tokyo and forced to fight for their very survival. Kaneda is a bike gang leader, and Tetsuo is a member of a tough motorcycle crew who becomes involved in a ...
Style: anime, surreal, futuristic, atmospheric, adult animation ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, experiment, post apocalypse, motorcycle gang, distopia, psychic power, protest, post apocalyptic, military, post thermonuclear war, hallucination, motorcycle ...
Time: future, 2010s, distant future, year 1988, year 2019 ...
Place: japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
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