Topic: Teens

Direction Fernando Meirelles · Kátia Lund

Cast Alexandre Rodrigues · Leandro Firmino · Phellipe Haagensen · Douglas Silva

Plot Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960's that--in the early 80's--became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Kanu Bannerjee · Karuna Bannerjee · Pinaki Sengupta · Smaran Ghosal

Plot The second chapter in director Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy ('Pather Panchali', 'Aparajito', 'The World of Apu'). Following Apu and his family to the city, Ray explores the crowded streets and...

Direction Émilie Tronche

Cast Émilie Tronche

Plot An emotional portrayal of adolescence follows Samuel and his friends, blending introspection, humor and nostalgic songs.

Direction Sang-Hoon Baek · Sung-Yoon Kim

Cast Kim So-hyun · Nam Joo-Hyuk · Yook Sung-Jae · David Lee

Direction François Truffaut

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Claire Maurier · Albert Rémy · Guy Decomble

Plot 14-year-old Antoine Doinel has troubles at home and at school. Ignored and neglected by his parents, his relationship with his mother is further strained when he discovers that she has...

Direction Lucy Forbes · Molly Manners

Cast Gabrielle Creevy · Jo Hartley · Di Botcher · Poppy Lee Friar

Plot TV Series (2018-2021). 2 Seasons. 10 Episodes. Darkly comic coming-of-age story that follows 16 year old Bethan as she deals with the anxieties and insecurities of teenage life, along with...

Direction Patricia Mazuy

Cast Leslie Azzoulai · Hélène Eichers · Julien Gerin · Thomas Klotz

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Grazyna Szapolowska · Olaf Lubaszenko · Stefania Iwinska · Artur Barcis

Plot 'Thou shalt not commit adultery' is a shorter, scaled-down version of 'A Short Film About Love', with a less complex plot and a different ending - though the basic narrative...

Direction Paul Feig · Jake Kasdan · Judd Apatow · Bryan Gordon

Cast Linda Cardellini · James Franco · Seth Rogen · Jason Segel

Plot TV Series (1999-2000). 1 Season. 18 Episodes. It's the 1980s and at McKinley High, there's two different groups of teenagers, the Freaks with cool and charismatic Daniel DeSario (James Franco)...

Direction Julie Andem

Cast Lisa Teige · Josefine Frida Pettersen · Tarjei Sandvik Moe · Ulrikke Falch

Plot TV Series (2015-2017). 4 Seasons. 43 Episodes. Skam – Shame, in English – tells the stories of the students of Hartvig Nissens school, in a reasonably wealthy middle-class suburb of...

Direction Rae Earl · Alex Winckler · Benjamin Caron · Tim Kirkby

Cast Sharon Rooney · Ciara Baxendale · Claire Rushbrook · Ian Hart

Plot TV Series (2013-2015). 3 Seasons. 16 Episodes. Set in Lincolnshire in 1996, My Mad Fat Diary follows the story of 16 year old, 16 stone Rae, who has just left...

Direction Peter Bogdanovich

Cast Timothy Bottoms · Jeff Bridges · Cybill Shepherd · Ben Johnson

Plot This coming-of-age tale set in the 50s focuses on best friends Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges) and their relationships. Duane is dating the beautiful but fickle...

Direction Víctor Erice

Cast Omero Antonutti · Sonsoles Aranguren · Icíar Bollaín · Lola Cardona

Plot "El Sur" ("The South") is the story of Estrella, a little girl from Southern Spain who has been uprooted to the North. Estrella maintains a sentimentalized attachment to the region...

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Alice Houri · Jessica Tharaud · Grégoire Colin · Martine Gautier

Plot It is Denis' contribution to "Tous les garçons et les filles de leur age", a remarkable French television commission that invited nine different directors to reflect upon their adolescence and...

Direction Makoto Shinkai

Plot Mitsuha is the daughter of the mayor of a small mountain town. She's a straightforward high school girl who lives with her sister and her grandmother and has no qualms...

Direction Edward Yang

Cast Chang Chen · Lisa Yang · Elaine Jin · Wang Chuan

Plot Based on the director's adolescent memories and focusing on one central male protagonist, an idealistic student who refuses to compromise his moral standards, looks at growing up in Taiwan during...

Direction Shane Meadows

Cast Thomas Turgoose · Lyra Mae Thomas · Chanel Cresswell · Joe Dempsie

Plot TV Miniseries (2015). 4 Episodes. Combo is released from prison, Shaun, Gadget and the others follow the rave scene, apart from Milky and Woody who open a scooter shop.

Direction Chantal Akerman

Cast Circé Lethem · Julien Rassam · Joëlle Marlier · Cynthia Rodberg

Plot At 15 Michèle decides to quit school. She writes endless absentee slips and then goes to the movies. At the movies she meets Paul, a Parisian army deserter, who makes...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Nadine Nortier · Jean-Claude Guilbert · Jean Vimenet · Marie Cardinal

Plot Mouchette is a young teenager living in the tough country. Her mother is going to die, and her father does not take care of her. Mouchette does not manage to...

Direction Bernhard Wicki

Cast Folker Bohnet · Fritz Wepper · Michael Hinz · Frank Glaubrecht

Plot A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht...