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My So-Called Life [DVD] [1995] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]My So-Called Life [DVD] [1995] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Buy used from: £11.00
Classic 90s series that more than captured the zeitgeist, like! Brilliant acting & superior soap opera. The Creek is a bit of a joke compared!
The DreamersThe Dreamers by Gilbert Adair
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Gilbert Adair's The Holy Innocents rewritten/filmed by Bertolucci: an American teen in 60s Paris at the height of the counter-culture revolution...
Battle Royale [DVD] [2001] [NTSC]Battle Royale [DVD] [2001] [NTSC]
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Great fun- even if it's banned in the U.S.! Not unlike JG Ballard colliding with The Running Man and a class of schoolkids....
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Original Uncut Edition [1974] [DVD]The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Original Uncut Edition [1974] [DVD]
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Key teen horror film based on serial killer Ed Gein- pointlessly remade by Hollywood-idiots....
Harry Potter Paperback Box Set: Four VolumesHarry Potter Paperback Box Set: Four Volumes by J.K. Rowling
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JK Rowling's teen hero's adventures for all the family...
The End of AliceThe End of Alice by A.M. Homes
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This was controversial at the time and contrasted often to Nabokov's Lolita....
The War Zone [DVD] [1999]The War Zone [DVD] [1999]
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Tim Roth's bleak film adapted from an equally bleak novel...
TulsaTulsa by Larry Clark
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Larry Clark's iconic photos, an influence on his own films and Drugstore Cowboy...
Heathers [DVD] [1989]Heathers [DVD] [1989]
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Classic black comic satire from the late 1980s....
Garden StateGarden State by Rick Moody
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Rick Moody's debut novel detailing disaffected youth & depression in the 1980s...
If... [VHS] [1968]If... [VHS] [1968]
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Lindsay Anderson's classic related to Zero de Conduite & capturing its age....
Kids [DVD] [1996]Kids [DVD] [1996]
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Pretty bleak stuff with great music, excellent camerawork, and superb performances...
Footloose [1984] [DVD]Footloose [1984] [DVD]
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I always wanted my teens to be like this: hanging with Chris Penn, dating Lori Singer- though perhaps listening to Kenny Loggins is too far? Deeper than you'd think....
Out Of The Blue [VHS] [1982]Out Of The Blue [VHS] [1982]
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Dennis Hopper's depressing film with a title influence by Neil Young. Has had dialogue sampled by Primal Scream!
Vernon God LittleVernon God Little by DBC Pierre
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Excellent satire, if you can ignore the quandaries of hype and jealousy!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Complete Season 1 [DVD] [1998]Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Complete Season 1 [DVD] [1998]
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Buffy was a classic series til about halfway through Season Six...
Less Than Zero (Picador Books)Less Than Zero (Picador Books) by Bret Easton Ellis
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Ellis' debut novel which still has the cover associated with the dire adaptation!
Crazy/Beautiful [DVD] [2001]Crazy/Beautiful [DVD] [2001]
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Pity the studio cut the grittier elements of this interesting tale that touches on class and race....
Rules Of Attraction [DVD] [2003]Rules Of Attraction [DVD] [2003]
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Sterling adaptation of Ellis' great book
Le Grand Meaulnes (Essential Penguin)Le Grand Meaulnes (Essential Penguin) by Alain-Fournier
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Classic novel of youth....
Girl, Interrupted: Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Winona Ryder and Angelina JolieGirl, Interrupted: Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie by Susanna Kaysen
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Much better than the film, as they say....
This Boy's Life (Bloomsbury Paperbacks)This Boy's Life (Bloomsbury Paperbacks) by Tobias Wolff
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Wolff's autobiographical novel which has been turned into a not bad film with De Niro & Di Caprio...
The Wild One [VHS] [1954]The Wild One [VHS] [1954]
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Teen rebellion at its finest!
The Buddha of SuburbiaThe Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
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Kureshi's classic 1970s tale of race, sex and pop culture memorably filmed by the BBC...
Carrie [DVD] [1976]Carrie [DVD] [1976]
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De Palma's best film from King's novel.