City of God (2002), The Here After (2015), Bully (2011), A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Young and the Damned (1950), The 400 Blows (1959), Confessions (2010), Lilya 4-Ever (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Juvenile Delinquency movies.
Storyline: In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster movies. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the case which would forever shake the United Kingdom's belief in capital punishment.—Scott Renshaw <as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu>
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, history, true story, courtroom, british, social injustice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: High school students led by the Girl and Boy turn from Christianity toward secret atheistic meetings. When a girl is accidentally killed by a stairway collapse, the Girl and Boy go to reform school where they are treated brutally.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, crime film, moral dilemma, religious conflict, american film, 1920s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A day in the lives of a group of average teenage high school students. The film follows every character and shows their daily routines. However two of the students plan to do something that the student body won't forget.
Plot Keywords: based on true events, psychological thriller, social issues, loneliness, documentary style, oppressive atmosphere, school life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A 14-year-old video enthusiast is so caught up in film fantasy that he can no longer relate to the real world, to such an extent that he commits murder and records an on-camera confession for his parents.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, violence, psychological, teen, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This film is based on a true story about a British teenager who allegedly poisoned family, friends, and co-workers. Graham is highly intelligent, but completely amoral. He becomes interested in science, especially chemistry, and begins to read avidly. Something of a social misfit, he is fascinated by morbid subjects such as poisons and murder. His family environment is intolerable to him and, in particular, his stepmother torments him. He decides to poison those who annoy him, first with antimony and later with thallium. He smugly thinks himself cleverer than all those around him, but nevertheless he is caught and sentenced to 'rehabilitation' at a psychiatric institution. Once there, he undertakes to deceive the new eminent psychiatrist sent there to 'cure' him, thereby securing his release.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: crime, black comedy, biography, thriller, drama, historical, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: As a detached kid spends time in juvenile hall for the unspeakable murder of a special needs kid, a writer and the people around him try to comprehend and cope with his reasoning for commiting this murder from the writings in a classroom book from his juvenile class, where he tries to let people know "the why".
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, teen, tragedy, psychological, moral dilemma, prison ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1965. Fourteen-year-old Ponyboy Curtis is the youngest of three orphaned brothers who live on the north side of town, the "wrong side" of the tracks. Sensitive Ponyboy used to have a good relationship with his oldest brother Darrel, but since Darrel became the household caregiver, he is always on Ponyboy's case. Caught in the middle is third brother Sodapop, who dropped out of school to work full time. They all belong to The Greasers, a gang of boys from the north side also from working class families, often broken. Ponyboy's main concern is that any problem they may encounter, especially in their Greaser activities, will lead to the authorities splitting up their family. He also believes Darrel would have outgrown them and become something in his life if it wasn't for his loyalty to the gang, and the need to take care of the family. The rest of the world sees the Greasers as all the same, the face being Dallas Winston, the most volatile one who has just been released...
Plot Keywords: youth, rebellion, gangs, class conflict, brotherhood, violence, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging hormones, the story focuses on Lex, who begins a downward spiral after he accidentally shoots the leader of Bobby's gang. Lex's cockiness and immaturity unfortunately prevent him from understanding the effect his subsequent crimes will have on both himself, and on those around him.—Ary Luiz Dalazen Jr. <ajr@fortalnet.com.br>
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, coming of age, scotland, teenagers, gangs, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of high school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Reactions vary, as Layne is intent on protecting Samson and smuggling him out of the state, while others think it's best to go to the police. Matt's tough little brother also finds out about the body and no one knows quite how the police will learn about the murder or who will be blamed for it.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, thriller, teen, murder, american, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: We follow the daily activities of two London bobbies, veteran Police Constable George Dixon (Jack Warner) and rookie Police Constable Andy Mitchell (Jimmy Hanley). Meanwhile, young hoods Tom (Sir Dirk Bogarde) and Spud (Patric Doonan) plan a series of robberies with Tom's girl Diana (Peggy Evans), a discontented beauty, as an inside worker. But in their second crime, one of our heroes is shot, setting off a citywide manhunt. The killer is clever, but will he outsmart himself?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, british film, film noir, police, murder, london ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 1999, Claremont, California. Middle-class kids, in their 20s, talk trash, wave guns, hang out in a pack. Johnny Truelove, drug dealer and son of a underworld figure, threatens Jake Mazursky, an explosive head case who owes Johnny money; Jake responds by breaking into Johnny's house. On impulse, Johnny and a couple pals kidnap Jake's 15-year-old brother, Zach. Zach's okay with it, figuring his brother will pay the debt soon. Johnny assigns his buddy Frankie to be Zach's minder, and they develop a brotherly friendship. Zach parties with his captors as things begin to spin out of control. Group think, amorality, and fear of prison assert a hold on the pack. Is Zach in danger?
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, thriller, based on true story, kidnapping, violence, drugs ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: SHEPHERDS AND BUTCHERS follows a jaded lawyer, John Weber (Steve Coogan), who takes on a seemingly hopeless multiple murder case and uncovers scandalous shortcomings in South Africa's capital punishment system as he mounts a defense for a prison guard traumatized by the executions he took part in.
Plot Keywords: crime, courtroom, drama, south africa, death penalty, race, law ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money and comes up with a complicated scheme: to steal sinks from a warehouse dressed as girls and using a stop-motion potion.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: comedy, teenagers, crime, heist, black comedy, independent film, low budget film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it out of the slums. Nick Romano is his client, a young man with a long string of crimes behind him. After he lost his paycheck gambling, hoping to buy his wife some jewelry, she announced she was pregnant, Later he finds her dead from suicide. When he turns again to robbery he's caught by a cop and Nick pumps all his bullets into him in frustration. Morton's appeal to the court emphasizes the evils of the slums.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, film noir, courtroom, trial, social issues, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Five young losers spend their days and nights wasting their lives away, hanging out in parking lots and occasionally mentioning that they might want to make something of themselves... someday. On this particular night, they are visited by an old high school friend who has escaped their suburban town to become a pop star.—Andy Bogursky <bogursky@erols.com>
Plot Keywords: suburban life, social outcasts, independent film, 1990s, counterculture, family conflict, escapism ...
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