Ana is a first generation Mexican American and a bright, full-figured, working class teenager desperate to escape the stifling embrace of her orthodox upbringing and overbearing mother. While Ana is well on the path to acknowledging her own self worth the story is also about the constrictive social interpretation of what is 'Beautiful' that we have burdened ourselves with. Real Women Have Curves is a gentle, perceptive, vibrant and often funny observation of womanhood and the real deal of body b find out more...

A visually brilliant film about teenage gangs in America's urban wasteland. The leader of a small dying gang, Rusty James, lives in the shadow of the memory of his absent, older brother - The Motorcycle Boy. His mother has left, his father drinks, school has no meaning for him and his relationships are shallow. One of Coppola's two adaptations of S E Hinton novels, 'The Outsiders' being the other. A great performance from Dillon and an awesome soundtrack. find out more...

The heroine's sixteenth birthday turns out to be the worst day of her life, she has a crush on the most popular boy in school, the geekiest boy in school has a crush on her, her sister's getting married and, with all the excitement, the rest of her family forgets her birthday! Hughes reinvented the teen movie by introducing real emotions and anxieties behind the usual run of dating decisions, wild parties and adolescent pranks, this is the second of his trilogy, sandwiching 'The Breakfast Clu find out more...

Katrina, an attractive out of control 19-year-old with no sense of the boundaries of acceptable behaviour, is the key character in 'Suburban Mayhem'. Born to be a casualty, abandoned by her junkie teenage mum, raised by a weak father and with an older brother a convicted killer, Katrina, already an uncaring mother, manipulates and spits out all those around her. She needs the dosh to pay for her brother's hopeless appeal and Dad's finally not going to give her everything she wants, but he does o find out more...

In the future my son will lead mankind in a war against Skynet, a computer system designed to destroy the world. It has sent machines back through time to kill him, one to protect him. Today we fight to stop Skynet from ever being created. To change our future. To change his fate. The war to save mankind begins now! find out more...

Dean Stiffle lives in the mundanely surreal world that is upper-middle-class American suburbia, and, while his cynicism remains alive and kicking, he is slipping into the listless complacency of his adult peers. It is only the death of his friend, the neighbourhood's local supplier, that forces Dean out of his apathy. Now, under some serious pressure from the dealers at school, Stiffle Jr is about to embark on a reluctant adventure. 'Chumscrubber' is a witty, good naturedly satirical slice of Am find out more...

Four teenage boys who embody awkwardness, cowardess, stupidity and deplorableness try to cope with sixth form teachers, girls and bullies at their local comprehensive. They don't really like each other and they don't really like themselves - 'The Inbetweeners' is refreshing and hilarious in its painfully honest depiction of teenage boys. find out more...

A fatherless teenager arrives in California to find himself bullied by a local karate expert. Helped by a wise old Okinawan man, Miyagi, Daniel-san's training includes not just the technique to face his enemies in competition but many, far more valuable, moral lessons. A charming movie with many wry and wise quips and a huge nod to zen. 'Paintdafence', 'Wax-on-wax-off' and the less well known 'Sand-da-fwoor'. Ace. find out more...

Intelligent, affectionate rites-of-passage drama set in the late 1950s. 14-year-old Dani is on the verge of womanhood and her loins start astirring with the arrival of a tasty newcomer in town. But adolescent angst sets in when her worldly older sister catches his eye instead. Tear-jerking. find out more...

Reiner's splendidly confident, witty teenage variation on 'It Happened One Night' focuses on two students hitching across the States through rainstorms, starvation and show tunes. He's a libidinous layabout, who inadvertently dropped in to college, and she's an uptight goody-goody who believes spontaneity has its time and its place. There's plenty of mileage in this pairing, even if the movie isn't going anywhere unexpected. It now looks like a dry run for 'When Harry Met Sally' and some of the find out more...