The Young Stranger

A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to...

When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in...

A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with another soldier.

Three troubled young girls will do anything to escape their stifling lives - even if it means turning to drugs and prostitution. Set in the...

Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride...

A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.

Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place...

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

With his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and his friend Gary spend their time burglarizing...

The Herdmans – Gladys, Claude, Imogene, Leroy, Ollie and Ralph – are undeniably the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie,...

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

In lieu of prison, Lyle, a violent adolescent, is placed in a juvenile mental institution where he encounters a group of equally troubled teens. This...