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Fifty-fifty the virtually helicoptering Park Gradient parent will admit that some children, ambrosial though they are, must simply be born bad. Not their children, of course. Just these other barbarian youngsters—rebellious, foul-mouthed, sometimes only pure evil—always brand information technology to movie screens, from James Dean in Insubordinate Without a Cause to the NYC hellspawn of Kids (and all manner of demonically possessed tykes in between). Time Out New York has collected the nearly shocking of these movies about youth and rebellion and ranked them in a countdown of atrocious beliefs. Our merely parameter: They must be teens and younger, not twentysomethings. Thankfully for all audiences, these wayward children make the rest of us look good.
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l. Footloose (1984)
Nosotros've got plenty of irresponsibility in store, but allow's begin our listing with the gentle, denim-clad rebellion of kick off your Sunday shoes and dancing to Kenny Loggins. Religious elders are infuriated past all the stone & roll strutting, just everybody comes several degrees closer to Kevin Salary by flick's end.—Joshua Rothkopf
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49. The Hunger Games (2012)
As winning as Jennifer Lawrence is with that bow and arrow, remember that this movie is nearly kids fighting a gladiatorial battle to the death. Stabbings, slicings and cliquish pack hunting are the activities of a futuristic brood of youth, so desperate for survival that common mercy falls by the wayside.—Joshua Rothkopf
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48. Rumble Fish (1983)
Francis Ford Coppola's dreamy b&westward teen drama centers on a pair of delinquent brothers (Matt Dillon and Mickey Rourke) for whom pocketknife fights and motorcycle riding are the norm. Makes perfect sense, considering their dad is played by piece of cake rider Dennis Hopper.—Keith Uhlich
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47. The Ring (2002)
The 1998 Japanese original triggered a wave of evil-technology movies—this was the one about a haunted videocassette that kills you. When Hollywood got around to its unusually excellent remake, the true villain was in our face: ropy-haired Samara (Daveigh Chase), an abused child drowned in a well, intent on ghostly revenge.—Joshua Rothkopf
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46. Expressionless End (1937)
The famous fictional gang the Dead Cease Kids had their showtime outing in a 1934 stage play, but information technology was William Wyler's film version that turned them into the standard-bearers for screen delinquents, whatever names they'd get past over the years (the Bowery Boys, the Little Tough Guys).—David Fright
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45. Pretty Poison (1968)
Given his onscreen past, you'd exist forgiven for thinking Anthony Perkins'southward mental-institution parolee was this comic thriller's psycho protagonist. Just the real crazy turns out to be Tuesday Weld's effulgent high-schooler, who manipulates her fragile new friend to achieve shockingly murderous goals.—Keith Uhlich
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44. Vicious Story of Youth (1960)
Nagisa Oshima referred to his second feature as a story about teens "as the victims of contradictions" in postwar Japan. The more than the motion picture's immature-punk lovers rob and extort the local middle-anile men, the stronger the flick's conceit that criminal behavior is a flipped bird to society.—David Fear
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43. The Proficient Son (1993)
Macaulay Culkin's head-conking Home Alone antics were merely a warm-up: In this memorably brutal boy-gone-bad thriller, America's favorite child star goes full lunatic, growling at an attack dog, nonchalantly causing a pike pileup and making life hell for future Frodo Elijah Forest.—Keith Uhlich
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42. Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
Non content to simply belch out a typical Warner Bros. social drama, William A. Wellman went the extra mile with this landmark tale of Depression kids who accept up the hobo life—and didn't flinch from showing these tough youngsters losing limbs, stealing food, and mixing it upwards with railroad cops and everyday citizens.—David Fear
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41. Benny'southward Video (1992)
Long before Michael Haneke concocted the ultimate naughty-little-fascists tale, The White Ribbon (2009), the Austrian filmmaker fabricated this flick virtually a 14-twelvemonth-old who murders some other kid—and films the whole matter for posterity. Haneke's clinical have on how media desensitization creates underage monsters makes this torn-from-the-headlines drama that much more disturbing.—David Fearfulness
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40. High Schoolhouse Confidential! (1958)
New-child-in-course Russ Tamblyn has been on campus for just a few days, however he's already taken over the schoolhouse's greaser gang and hooked up with the local dope pushers. A hyperventilating cautionary tale, this exploitation classic imagines a student torso beset by the evils of "Mary Jane," rock & roll and beatnik poesy slams.—David Fearfulness
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39. Boot-Ass (2010)
Near superheroes have a tinge of arrested development to them, with their tights and jumping around and stuff. But this comics-based action pic makes that connection uncomfortably explicit with the grapheme of Hit-Daughter (Chloë Grace Moretz), a foulmouthed 11-twelvemonth-one-time who gleefully wastes henchmen with the best of them.—Joshua Rothkopf
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38. Boyz n the Hood (1991)
John Singleton'southward feature debut dives headfirst into South Central L.A.'southward ghetto culture, as best friends Ice Cube and Republic of cuba Gooding Jr. are tempted past the neighborhood's seedier aspects. Drug deals and drive-bys are the norm—and once one of them goes down the incorrect path, yous notice out how truly unforgiving the streets are.—Keith Uhlich
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37. Poison Ivy (1992)
Beloved by trash connoisseurs, this late-night-cable perennial (actually a Sundance competition pic when it debuted) stars Drew Barrymore, still in her fiddling-girl-lost phase, equally a scheming teen who insinuates herself in a well-to-do family. First, Ivy befriends the dowdy girl, and then seduces dad Tom Skerritt with foot-to-crotch forwardness.—Joshua Rothkopf
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36. Margaret (2011)
Already going through the usual adolescent trials, Upper West Side teenager Lisa Cohen (Anna Paquin) becomes even more screechily self-righteous afterward witnessing a horrifying autobus accident for which she may bear some responsibility. This emotional drama from Kenneth Lonergan is a abrupt-eyed portrait of a juvenile convinced that her bad behavior is the just way to brand things right.—Keith Uhlich
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35. Christiane F. (1981)
What's a dour West Berlin 12-year-old to do, in all her stylish ennui, just outset going to nightclubs, become a raging heroin addict and fall into the sex trade? A cult moving-picture show of frightening honesty (and with a David Bowie cameo, playing himself), this drama pays unflinching attention to the paraphernalia of needles, scarring and actual waste.—Joshua Rothkopf
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34. Foxes (1980)
Girls only wanna have fun—which, according to Adrian Lyne'due south coming-of-age fourth dimension capsule, ways lots of drinking, drugs, coincidental sex and hanging out with skateboarding vandals. Thanks to the cast (including Jodie Foster, Runaways singer Cherie Currie and Scott Baio), there's a sense of camaraderie that makes all the late-'70s bad beliefs a bit more palatable.—David Fearfulness
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33. West Side Story (1961)
Rival teenage street gangs go head-to-head in Manhattan, hurling insults, slashing switchblades, and…singing songs! This epic flick version of the massively influential Broadway musical meshes trip the light fantastic and destruction with heartrending mastery.—Keith Uhlich
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32. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)
Rarely practise punk movies get information technology equally right as this snarling, spiteful satire, written by an Oscar-winning screenwriter (Coming Dwelling house's Nancy Dowd) and injected with real rock mental attitude. Belongings central court similar a female Johnny Rotten, skunk-mopped Diane Lane "never puts out," but does steal songs, attacking with her nails bared.—Joshua Rothkopf
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31. Reefer Madness (1936)
This ridiculously campy antidrug movie has at present become a stoner-cinema classic (you can practically hear the toked-up giggling after every line), largely due to the idea that the devil'south weed will turn good kids into hellions. Watch as clean-cut students take a single puff and instantly plow into rapists with a penchant for cavorting with sleazeballs and [Gasp] spastically dancing to jazz!—David Fear
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xxx. Who Tin can Kill a Kid? (1976)
If our countdown teaches you anything, please allow it be that even the most innocent amongst us can't exist trusted. A low-budget thriller from Spain, this unforgettable fleck of nonsense has a vacationing Brit and his significant wife chased by an island total of sullen, roughshod children. The rest of the adults are mysteriously gone.—Joshua Rothkopf
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29. Lolita (1962)
A nymphet (Sue Lyon) seduces a stuffy old college professor (James Mason), with ruinous results, in Stanley Kubrick'due south blackly humorous adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov'due south incendiary novel. Not fifty-fifty vulgarian mom Shelley Winters is safe from this wily, mucilage-snapping boyish's destructive tendencies.—Keith Uhlich
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28. Pixote (1981)
Hector Babenco's drama about a ten-year-old favela criminal is ane unsparing character study: This baby-faced male child who becomes a pimp, pusher and killer represents every Brazilian slum kid hardened past street life. Tragically, pb histrion Fernando Ramos da Silva would be gunned downward by the police at age 19.—David Fear
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27. The Omen (1976)
Every child has a bit of the devil in him, only Damien (Harvey Stephens), the grave young protagonist of this deliciously sanguine horror film, has more than almost. Accordingly, the people around him drop like flies, whether by hanging, impaling or, most memorably, decapitation by drinking glass.—Keith Uhlich
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26. The Pass up of Western Civilisation (1981)
Anyone unfamiliar with L.A.'s hardcore punk scene should take a expect at Penelope Spheeris'south definitive documentary: As crowds of underage concertgoers violently anarchism to Black Flag, X and Fear, you empathise the moment when out-of-control adolescent acrimony establish its platonic soundtrack.—David Fear
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25. Nosotros Demand to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Anchored by the frayed memories of a guilt-ridden mother (showstopping Tilda Swinton), this suburban tragedy chronicles the growing willfulness of a dark-haired boy, who matures from messy preteen intractability into an intense high-school predator. Some kids shouldn't be trusted with archery.—Joshua Rothkopf
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24. The Outsiders (1983)
Information technology'due south a blissful life of posturing machismo and abiding rumbles for the Greasers, Oklahoman delinquents who run wild in Francis Ford Coppola's visually assuming adaptation of S.Eastward. Hinton's teen-lit classic. An accidental stabbing brings a hard dose of reality to the punkish fun and games.—Keith Uhlich
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23. Wild in the Streets (1968)
With hippie mistrust of the over-30 crowd blooming, this timely comic satire threw the generation gap into nightmarish relief, as young rock star Max Frost (Christopher Jones) instigates a national movement to lower the voting age to 14. Successfully elected President, he sends the "elderly" to camps and doses the water supply with LSD.—Joshua Rothkopf
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22. Lord of the Flies (1963)
Managing director Peter Beck doesn't pull any punches when information technology comes to adapting William Golding's novel of class-witting ruthlessness. Stranded on an island, British schoolboys replicate the social hierarchy they knew dorsum abode; soon, a primal pecking order starts to weed out the weaklings, and the picture show's Darwinian metaphor reaches its logical, shockingly fell decision.—David Fear
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21. Stone 'n' Roll High School (1979)
Just for its iconic image of the Ramones cruising downwardly a locker-lined hallway, as blissed-out P.J. Soles pogos in forepart of them, this must be the most euphorically irresponsible youth motion-picture show Roger Corman ever signed his name to (which is saying a lot). Overrun past students, Vince Lombardi High School is ultimately demolished.—Joshua Rothkopf
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20. Carrie (1976)
She'southward shy, an like shooting fish in a barrel target for bullies and secretly psychic. But high-school pariah Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) can be pushed only and then far before she telekinetically throws her peers' cruelty dorsum at them. Brian De Palma'south pulp horror flick appeals to all those vengeful adolescent feelings we're taught to continue in cheque.—Keith Uhlich
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19. Boxing Royale (2000)
Kinji Fukasaku's gloriously gory activity film takes the concept of bookish competitiveness to another level: Students must participate in a government-sponsored game that requires them to kill their swain pupils or go habitation in a body bag. Not surprisingly, the sight of uniformed child-on-child violence earned the film both angry op-ed pieces and pop-cult status in its dwelling country.—David Fear
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18. The Blackboard Jungle (1955)
The rise of juvenile delinquency was a hot topic in the '50s, and this story nigh a teacher facing down a multiracial gang of troubled, pocketknife-wielding kids (including Vic Morrow, Sidney Poitier and…Jamie Farr?) was the first to cash in on the trend. Throw in some rock music and voilà: A genre was born.—David Fear
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17. River's Edge (1986)
"He had his reasons," spits a pissed-off Crispin Glover in this hobbling teen film, about a clique that combusts when one member brags about killing a girl in the woods. (They get out and confirm his story.) Many of these movies testify the immoral side of minors; this one ranks highly for vividly depicting peer pressure.—Joshua Rothkopf
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16. Less than Nada (1987)
Los Angeles is inappreciably a urban center of angels in this loose accommodation of Bret Easton Ellis's exposé about decadent, drug-fond youth. Robert Downey Jr. is specially scintillating as a down-and-out junkie whose high cost of living takes him down some very nighttime paths.—Keith Uhlich
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15. Heavenly Creatures (1994)
A staggering film from a manager who would go on to bigger (though arguably not better) things, Peter Jackson's drama takes its cue from the real-life story of ii New Zealand teens who killed 1 of their mothers. As played past up-and-comers Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet, the girls are maniacally in honey and lost in fantasy.—Joshua Rothkopf
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14. The Bad Seed (1956)
8-twelvemonth-old Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) is the most ambrosial pigtailed moppet in her minor town. Simply this teacher'due south pet turns out to have more than than a few malicious desires (quite a coincidence that her schoolyard rival was establish facedown in a lake), and no one—child or adult—is condom. This cheeky thriller helped pave the fashion for virtually every psycho-kid movie to follow.—Keith Uhlich
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thirteen. Heathers (1988)
Generation X was perfectly pegged in this vicious comedy about ii outsiders, a Nicholsonian loner (Christian Slater) and an appeaser (Winona Ryder), who wage war on the cool kids via poisonous drain cleaner, slander and bullets. The final sequence, staged around a bomb plot at a pep rally, is notwithstanding agonizing.—Joshua Rothkopf
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12. The Four Hundred Blows (1959)
François Truffaut's influential, semiautobiographical debut characteristic introduced the world to Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), a troubled youth as adept at stealing and swearing as he is at forever antagonizing his adult guardians. (Pawning his father's typewriter is the final harbinger—he's taken to jail for a night.) Few films accept captured rugged adolescent experience with such clear-eyed compassion.—Keith Uhlich
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eleven. Hamlet of the Damned (1960)
There are creepy blond kids, and so there'southward the pale, towheaded army of telepathic mutants that make this British sci-fi classic such an unnerving pleasance. Once these glowing-eyed prepubescents strength the town'south elders to purposefully crash their cars and shoot themselves in the caput, not even a group time-out can go on them from potential world domination.—David Fright
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x. Elephant (2003)
Everyone was looking for answers after the 1999 Columbine school shooting. In his moody, mesmerizing take on the event, author-director Gus Van Sant eschews pat explanations, opting instead for elliptical immersion. The pic unfolds from several different vantage points, shifting enigmatically between victims and killers, observers and participants. Well-adjusted kids mingle with the bullied and the bulimic. (Deportment equally diverse as a casually thrown spitball or an anorexics' airsickness session are presented with a self-same etherealness that is chilling.) And fifty-fifty later the guns come out, the brutality remains queasily banal. No moralistic judgment is passed on what nosotros see. The true horror comes in reflecting on Van Sant'southward Inferno-similar depiction of youth at its most vulnerable and volatile.—Keith Uhlich
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ix. Over the Edge (1979)
With the exception of feral, feather-haired Matt Dillon (making his screen debut), the kids in Jonathan Kaplan's youthsploitation flick don't kickoff out as bad seeds. They're just restless suburban adolescents stuck in a planned community, policed past a lilliputian-tyrant cop and treated as pariahs by adults. Of course, these put-upon kids will get pushed by their breaking points and utilize a PTA meeting to evidence their persecutors who really runs things. Based on an actual incident in Foster City, California, this story of underage revolt served as a warning to parents: Care for the children well or y'all'll pay the price. Kurt Cobain claimed that the music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was directly inspired by this pic's climax, and the act of school vandalism that ends the tale is delivered with a cathartic ferocity that remains shocking.—David Fear
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8. The Exorcist (1973)
Demonic possession was never more shocking than in this powerhouse, a fright motion-picture show that turned an innocent 12-yr-onetime girl into a roiling, bed-bound monster. The evil is supernatural, merely footstep away from the original context and William Friedkin's film, based on the 1971 all-time-seller past William Peter Blatty, is even more than subversive: an oblique, deeply conservative comment on a younger generation's unruliness. These kids swear, they disrespect their parents, they vomit all over u.s.a., and they abandon police force, order and God. Can't the power of Christ compel them to at to the lowest degree get a haircut? Regan (Linda Blair) is nothing less than the counterculture on trial, and as with all skilful horror movies, her story speaks to tensions that were already ruffling households worldwide.—Joshua Rothkopf
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7. If… (1968)
Called-for with rage confronting authorization and championed in a flavour of radical protest, Lindsay Anderson's fantasy most vehement rebellion at an English language public school captures the darkest boyish instincts in a blaze of gunfire. Our hero, Mick (fresh-faced Malcolm McDowell in his screen debut), submits to the humiliations and claret-drawing canings of upperclassmen and chief professors. Punishments are ritualized; indeed, the atmosphere of the moving picture is so thoroughly depressing that your heart leaps into your throat when Mick escapes campus and steals a motorcycle, absconding with a waitress for a fling. The best is yet to come: In a climactic sequence that may be a daydream, the browbeaten-down students pause out a trove of machine guns and take positions on the roof, mowing down parents, teachers and a visiting general. Don't call the British a repressed people without seeing this wonderfully misbehaved movie.—Joshua Rothkopf
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half-dozen. Los Olvidados (1950)
Given carte blanche after directing the popular comedy El Gran Calavera, the great Luis Buñuel turned to the Mexico City slums for his next project. This devastating social-realist tract—spiced throughout with a few imaginative surrealist touches—focuses on a group of young hoodlums who cruise the ghetto with creature determination. They shell up a blind musician, punch an amputee, and the vicious leader of their gang, Jaibo, rules over all with an fe fist. But then Jaibo's ambivalent right-hand male child, Pedro, rebels, and things go from very bad to much, much worse. The film is unflinching in its presentation of these outcasts' grim beingness, and hypercritical of the surrounding gild that would toss them onto the trash heap.—Keith Uhlich
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five. Scum (1979)
British director Alan Clarke's gritty wait at life inside a U.Thou. youth detention center courted plenty of controversy for its graphic, nonchalant depictions of violence. No one is innocent—not the boys who engage in bullying and frequent beatdowns, nor the wardens who are often as brutal as the troubled youths they're supposed to exist watching over. A charismatic Ray Winstone memorably portrays the tough-equally-nails protagonist who initially wants to proceed a low profile, but eventually ascends to the elevation of the borstal hierarchy by assaulting a fellow inmate. Clarke's indictment of this decadent rehabilitative system—with its preponderance of racism, rape and murder—is an eye-opening exposé about the corruptibility of the young.—Keith Uhlich
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4. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
By the time this tale of disaffected teens was released in Oct 1955, it had been beaten to the dial by The Blackboard Jungle and James Dean was dead. But it was Nicholas Ray'south movie that posthumously made Dean a star and, more importantly, gave youth defiance its commencement poster male child. Though information technology'due south total of hating acting out, switchblade fights and hot-rod games of chicken, Rebel actually lays the arraign at the anxiety of parental misguidance. These kids are bad because they're misunderstood by an adult world ill-equipped to meet their needs, and cheers to the sensitive portrayals from Natalie Woods, Sal Mineo and Dean, you lot could almost believe it'south true. Dean's insolent pose would launch a thousand moody tough guys; the movie would assistance kick-start a youth revolution.—David Fear
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3. Kids (1995)
The behind-the-scenes story is legend: Scripted by a then-eighteen-yr-one-time Harmony Korine, a Washington Square skate rat; directed past observant photographer Larry Clark, smashing to make the ultimate teen motion-picture show; and sold past benefactor Harvey Weinstein, who consciously courted outrage—the movie is an emblem of indie provocation. But unlike many of the films on this list, Kids leaves an especially bitter aftertaste: Its rebellion is cocky-destructive. No 1 partied as hard equally these untended NYC teens, and, it was unsaid, no ane would suffer as much. With AIDS trigger-happy autonomously the textile of the city, these high-schoolers splash blithely in the puddle of shared fluids—that is, when they're not partaking in copious drug use, random acts of violence, homophobic slurs and rape. A normal day in the life? Audiences cringed. But the commitment of all involved (peculiarly debuting actors Chloë Sevigny and Rosario Dawson) was undeniable.—Joshua Rothkopf
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2. Null for Comport (1933)
The French managing director and creative person Jean Vigo was at a low point in his career when a rich businessman agreed to finance his semiautobiographical tale of iv rebellious boys at boarding school. What resulted was anarchy in its purest course: This 41-infinitesimal wonder feels timeless in its presentation of disobedience, mayhap because it embraces childhood's quotidian and fanciful aspects with equal fervor. You get equally much of a accuse out of a boy talking dorsum to his teacher as you do the students' exhilarating, storm-the-barricades uprising, in which the patronizing adults (who Vigo brilliantly caricatures as stiff-backed, overweight or dwarfish tyrants) are tied up, pelted with sticks and driven into hiding as the children come to power. Though it now seems to occur in some nebulously platonic dreamworld, the moving-picture show was banned by the French Ministry of the Interior, fearful of the dissidence it might incite. Vigo died of tuberculosis before long later, but his defiance lived on: François Truffaut cited Nil as a major influence on his ain tale of troubled adolescence, The Four Hundred Blows.—Keith Uhlich
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1. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
His name is Alex and his hobbies are rape, dwelling house invasions and a flake of the old ultraviolence. Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel, about a dystopic Britain overrun with rampaging teens, used extreme behavior to examine freewill. So does Stanley Kubrick's accommodation—but not before turning Alex into a cinematic icon and stylizing his gang's criminal activities in the most impossibly exciting, epically irresponsible manner. The result direct influenced the aesthetics of punk and was somewhen withdrawn from apportionment in the U.K by the managing director himself. Merely what makes A Clockwork Orangish such an exemplary kids-run-wild film is the mode information technology distills youth civilisation's depression points—from mods-versus-rockers rumbling to Manson-family terrorizing—into ane nightmarish worst-case scenario and so forces yous to share in the rush. No other film has made youthful immorality seem so dangerously wanton, even as information technology criticized a guild that could produce such a scourge. Thanks to a primary filmmaker and his charismatic lead, the vicarious thrill of wallowing in Alex'due south bad behavior withal has the ability to awaken the inner droog in all of usa—whether we like it or not.—David Fright
Movies virtually youth & rebellion: The 50 best youth-gone-wild films
Piss off your parents with our inaugural of the most ferociously fun movies most youth and rebellion.
Even the most helicoptering Park Slope parent volition acknowledge that some children, ambrosial though they are, must simply exist born bad. Non their children, of grade. But theseotherbarbarian youngsters—rebellious, foul-mouthed, sometimes but pure evil—always make it to moving picture screens, from James Dean inRebel Without a Cause to the NYC hellspawn ofKids(and all manner of demonically possessed tykes in between).Time Out New York has collected the nearly shocking of these movies about youth and rebellion and ranked them in a countdown of atrocious behavior. Our merely parameter: They must be teens and younger, non twentysomethings. Thankfully for all audiences, these wayward children make the rest of us look good.
Footloose (1984)
The Hunger Games (2012)
Rumble Fish (1983)
The Ring (2002)
Dead Stop (1937)
The famous fictional gang the Dead Cease Kids had their first outing in a 1934 stage play, but it was William Wyler's film version that turned them into the standard-bearers for screen delinquents, whatever names they'd get by over the years (the Bowery Boys, the Little Tough Guys).—David Fright
Pretty Poison (1968)
Savage Story of Youth (1960)
Nagisa Oshima referred to his second feature as a story virtually teens "as the victims of contradictions" in postwar Nippon. The more the film'south immature-punk lovers rob and extort the local middle-anile men, the stronger the pic'due south conceit that criminal beliefs is a flipped bird to social club.—David Fright
The Good Son (1993)
Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
Not content to simply belch out a typical Warner Bros. social drama, William A. Wellman went the extra mile with this landmark tale of Depression kids who take upward the hobo life—and didn't flinch from showing these tough youngsters losing limbs, stealing nutrient, and mixing it up with railroad cops and everyday citizens.—David Fear
Benny's Video (1992)
Long earlier Michael Haneke concocted the ultimate naughty-little-fascists tale, The White Ribbon (2009), the Austrian filmmaker made this movie about a 14-twelvemonth-quondam who murders another child—and films the whole matter for posterity. Haneke's clinical take on how media desensitization creates underage monsters makes this torn-from-the-headlines drama that much more agonizing.—David Fright
High Schoolhouse Confidential! (1958)
New-kid-in-grade Russ Tamblyn has been on campus for simply a few days, however he'south already taken over the school'due south greaser gang and hooked upward with the local dope pushers. A hyperventilating cautionary tale, this exploitation archetype imagines a student trunk beset by the evils of "Mary Jane," rock & roll and beatnik poetry slams.—David Fear
Kick-Ass (2010)
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Poison Ivy (1992)
Beloved past trash connoisseurs, this late-nighttime-cable perennial (really a Sundance competition moving picture when it debuted) stars Drew Barrymore, still in her little-girl-lost phase, equally a scheming teen who insinuates herself in a well-to-exercise family. First, Ivy befriends the dowdy daughter, then seduces dad Tom Skerritt with foot-to-crotch forwardness.—Joshua Rothkopf
Margaret (2011)
Already going through the usual adolescent trials, Upper West Side teenager Lisa Cohen (Anna Paquin) becomes even more than screechily self-righteous after witnessing a horrifying motorcoach accident for which she may bear some responsibility. This emotional drama from Kenneth Lonergan is a sharp-eyed portrait of a juvenile convinced that her bad behavior is the only fashion to make things right.—Keith Uhlich
Christiane F. (1981)
What'southward a dour W Berlin 12-year-erstwhile to do, in all her stylish ennui, simply showtime going to nightclubs, become a raging heroin addict and fall into the sex trade? A cult movie of frightening honesty (and with a David Bowie cameo, playing himself), this drama pays unflinching attending to the paraphernalia of needles, scarring and bodily waste.—Joshua Rothkopf
Foxes (1980)
Girls just wanna take fun—which, according to Adrian Lyne's coming-of-age time capsule, means lots of drinking, drugs, casual sex and hanging out with skateboarding vandals. Thanks to the bandage (including Jodie Foster, Runaways vocaliser Cherie Currie and Scott Baio), there's a sense of camaraderie that makes all the tardily-'70s bad behavior a bit more palatable.—David Fear
Due west Side Story (1961)
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)
Rarely do punk movies get it as right as this snarling, spiteful satire, written by an Oscar-winning screenwriter (Coming Home'south Nancy Dowd) and injected with real stone attitude. Belongings central court like a female Johnny Rotten, skunk-mopped Diane Lane "never puts out," but does steal songs, attacking with her nails bared.—Joshua Rothkopf
Reefer Madness (1936)
This ridiculously campy antidrug motion picture has at present get a stoner-movie theater classic (you tin practically hear the toked-up giggling later every line), largely due to the idea that the devil's weed will turn good kids into hellions. Watch equally groomed students take a single puff and instantly turn into rapists with a penchant for cavorting with sleazeballs and [Gasp] spastically dancing to jazz!—David Fear
Who Tin can Kill a Kid? (1976)
If our inaugural teaches you anything, delight allow it be that even the about innocent amongst us tin can't be trusted. A low-budget thriller from Kingdom of spain, this unforgettable bit of nonsense has a vacationing Brit and his significant wife chased by an island total of sullen, vicious children. The rest of the adults are mysteriously gone.—Joshua Rothkopf
Lolita (1962)
Pixote (1981)
Hector Babenco's drama almost a ten-twelvemonth-old favela criminal is one unsparing character report: This baby-faced male child who becomes a pimp, pusher and killer represents every Brazilian slum kid hardened by street life. Tragically, pb role player Fernando Ramos da Silva would be gunned down by the police force at age xix.—David Fearfulness
The Omen (1976)
Every kid has a bit of the devil in him, but Damien (Harvey Stephens), the grave immature protagonist of this deliciously sanguine horror film, has more than most. Appropriately, the people around him drop similar flies, whether past hanging, impaling or, most memorably, decapitation past glass.—Keith Uhlich
The Pass up of Western Culture (1981)
Anyone unfamiliar with L.A.'s hardcore punk scene should take a wait at Penelope Spheeris'south definitive documentary: As crowds of underage concertgoers violently anarchism to Black Flag, Ten and Fear, yous understand the moment when out-of-control boyish anger found its ideal soundtrack.—David Fear
We Demand to Talk About Kevin (2011)
The Outsiders (1983)
Wild in the Streets (1968)
With hippie mistrust of the over-30 crowd blooming, this timely comic satire threw the generation gap into nightmarish relief, as immature rock star Max Frost (Christopher Jones) instigates a national move to lower the voting age to xiv. Successfully elected President, he sends the "elderly" to camps and doses the water supply with LSD.—Joshua Rothkopf
Lord of the Flies (1963)
Managing director Peter Brook doesn't pull any punches when information technology comes to adapting William Golding's novel of class-conscious ruthlessness. Stranded on an isle, British schoolboys replicate the social hierarchy they knew back habitation; soon, a key pecking order starts to weed out the weaklings, and the movie's Darwinian metaphor reaches its logical, shockingly brutal conclusion.—David Fear
Stone 'n' Scroll High School (1979)
Merely for its iconic image of the Ramones cruising down a locker-lined hallway, as blissed-out P.J. Soles pogos in front end of them, this must be the most euphorically irresponsible youth movie Roger Corman ever signed his name to (which is saying a lot). Overrun by students, Vince Lombardi Loftier School is ultimately demolished.—Joshua Rothkopf
Carrie (1976)
Battle Royale (2000)
Kinji Fukasaku's gloriously gory action film takes the concept of academic competitiveness to another level: Students must participate in a government-sponsored game that requires them to kill their boyfriend pupils or become home in a body pocketbook. Not surprisingly, the sight of uniformed kid-on-kid violence earned the picture both angry op-ed pieces and pop-cult condition in its home country.—David Fear
The Blackboard Jungle (1955)
River'southward Border (1986)
"He had his reasons," spits a pissed-off Crispin Glover in this hobbling teen film, about a clique that combusts when ane member brags nearly killing a girl in the woods. (They get out and confirm his story.) Many of these movies show the immoral side of minors; this i ranks highly for vividly depicting peer pressure level.—Joshua Rothkopf
Less than Nil (1987)
Los Angeles is inappreciably a city of angels in this loose adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis'southward exposé about corrupt, drug-addicted youth. Robert Downey Jr. is particularly scintillating as a downward-and-out junkie whose loftier cost of living takes him down some very dark paths.—Keith Uhlich
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
The Bad Seed (1956)
Eight-year-erstwhile Rhoda Penmark (Patty McCormack) is the almost ambrosial pigtailed moppet in her small town. Merely this teacher's pet turns out to have more than a few malicious desires (quite a coincidence that her schoolyard rival was found facedown in a lake), and no one—child or adult—is safety. This cheeky thriller helped pave the fashion for almost every psycho-kid motion picture to follow.—Keith Uhlich
Heathers (1988)
The Four Hundred Blows (1959)
François Truffaut's influential, semiautobiographical debut feature introduced the world to Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), a troubled youth as skilful at stealing and swearing as he is at forever antagonizing his adult guardians. (Pawning his male parent'south typewriter is the final straw—he'south taken to jail for a nighttime.) Few films have captured rugged adolescent feel with such clear-eyed compassion.—Keith Uhlich
Hamlet of the Damned (1960)
Elephant (2003)
Anybody was looking for answers after the 1999 Columbine school shooting. In his moody, mesmerizing take on the event, writer-director Gus Van Sant eschews pat explanations, opting instead for elliptical immersion. The film unfolds from several different vantage points, shifting enigmatically between victims and killers, observers and participants. Well-adjusted kids mingle with the bullied and the bulimic. (Actions as diverse equally a casually thrown spitball or an anorexics' vomiting session are presented with a self-same etherealness that is chilling.) And fifty-fifty after the guns come up out, the brutality remains queasily banal. No moralistic judgment is passed on what we run into. The truthful horror comes in reflecting on Van Sant'south Inferno-like depiction of youth at its virtually vulnerable and volatile.—Keith Uhlich
Over the Edge (1979)
With the exception of feral, feather-haired Matt Dillon (making his screen debut), the kids in Jonathan Kaplan's youthsploitation flick don't offset out every bit bad seeds. They're just restless suburban adolescents stuck in a planned customs, policed past a piffling-tyrant cop and treated as pariahs by adults. Of form, these put-upon kids volition get pushed past their breaking points and utilize a PTA coming together to show their persecutors who really runs things. Based on an actual incident in Foster City, California, this story of underage revolt served as a warning to parents: Treat the children well or you'll pay the cost. Kurt Cobain claimed that the music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was directly inspired past this movie's climax, and the act of school vandalism that ends the tale is delivered with a cathartic ferocity that remains shocking.—David Fright
The Exorcist (1973)
Demonic possession was never more shocking than in this powerhouse, a fear moving-picture show that turned an innocent 12-yr-old girl into a roiling, bed-bound monster. The evil is supernatural, but step away from the original context and William Friedkin's motion picture, based on the 1971 best-seller by William Peter Blatty, is even more subversive: an oblique, securely bourgeois comment on a younger generation's unruliness. These kids swear, they boldness their parents, they vomit all over the states, and they abandon law, lodge and God. Can't the power of Christ compel them to at least get a haircut? Regan (Linda Blair) is zilch less than the counterculture on trial, and equally with all good horror movies, her story speaks to tensions that were already ruffling households worldwide.—Joshua Rothkopf
If… (1968)
Burning with rage against dominance and championed in a flavour of radical protest, Lindsay Anderson's fantasy almost violent rebellion at an English public school captures the darkest adolescent instincts in a bonfire of gunfire. Our hero, Mick (fresh-faced Malcolm McDowell in his screen debut), submits to the humiliations and blood-drawing canings of upperclassmen and master professors. Punishments are ritualized; indeed, the atmosphere of the movie is then thoroughly depressing that your centre leaps into your throat when Mick escapes campus and steals a motorcycle, absconding with a waitress for a fling. The best is yet to come: In a climactic sequence that may be a fantasize, the beaten-down students suspension out a trove of machine guns and accept positions on the roof, mowing down parents, teachers and a visiting full general. Don't call the British a repressed people without seeing this wonderfully misbehaved pic.—Joshua Rothkopf
Los Olvidados (1950)
Given carte blanche later directing the popular comedy El Gran Calavera, the great Luis Buñuel turned to the United mexican states Metropolis slums for his next project. This devastating social-realist tract—spiced throughout with a few imaginative surrealist touches—focuses on a group of immature hoodlums who prowl the ghetto with animal conclusion. They beat up a blind musician, punch an amputee, and the vicious leader of their gang, Jaibo, rules over all with an iron fist. But then Jaibo'southward ambivalent right-paw boy, Pedro, rebels, and things go from very bad to much, much worse. The picture is unflinching in its presentation of these outcasts' grim existence, and hypercritical of the surrounding society that would toss them onto the trash heap.—Keith Uhlich
Scum (1979)
British director Alan Clarke'due south gritty look at life inside a U.K. youth detention center courted plenty of controversy for its graphic, nonchalant depictions of violence. No one is innocent—not the boys who engage in bullying and frequent beatdowns, nor the wardens who are often as fell every bit the troubled youths they're supposed to be watching over. A charismatic Ray Winstone memorably portrays the tough-as-nails protagonist who initially wants to proceed a depression profile, merely eventually ascends to the top of the borstal hierarchy by assaulting a fellow inmate. Clarke'due south indictment of this corrupt rehabilitative system—with its preponderance of racism, rape and murder—is an centre-opening exposé about the corruptibility of the young.—Keith Uhlich
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
By the time this tale of disaffected teens was released in October 1955, it had been browbeaten to the dial by The Blackboard Jungle and James Dean was expressionless. Only information technology was Nicholas Ray'due south motion picture that posthumously fabricated Dean a star and, more than importantly, gave youth defiance its start poster boy. Though it'south full of antisocial acting out, switchblade fights and hot-rod games of chicken, Rebel actually lays the arraign at the feet of parental misguidance. These kids are bad because they're misunderstood by an adult earth ill-equipped to meet their needs, and thanks to the sensitive portrayals from Natalie Woods, Sal Mineo and Dean, you lot could near believe information technology's true. Dean'due south insolent pose would launch a thousand moody tough guys; the film would aid kicking-start a youth revolution.—David Fear
Kids (1995)
The backside-the-scenes story is legend: Scripted by a and then-eighteen-year-quondam Harmony Korine, a Washington Foursquare skate rat; directed by observant photographer Larry Clark, slap-up to brand the ultimate teen picture; and sold past distributor Harvey Weinstein, who consciously courted outrage—the picture is an keepsake of indie provocation. Just unlike many of the films on this list, Kids leaves an specially bitter aftertaste: Its rebellion is cocky-destructive. No one partied equally hard every bit these untended NYC teens, and, information technology was implied, no i would suffer as much. With AIDS tearing apart the fabric of the urban center, these high-schoolers splash blithely in the pool of shared fluids—that is, when they're not partaking in copious drug utilise, random acts of violence, homophobic slurs and rape. A normal day in the life? Audiences cringed. Only the commitment of all involved (especially debuting actors Chloë Sevigny and Rosario Dawson) was undeniable.—Joshua Rothkopf
Zero for Comport (1933)
The French director and creative person Jean Vigo was at a low point in his career when a rich businessman agreed to finance his semiautobiographical tale of four rebellious boys at boarding school. What resulted was anarchy in its purest form: This 41-minute wonder feels timeless in its presentation of disobedience, possibly because it embraces babyhood'southward quotidian and fanciful aspects with equal fervor. You become equally much of a accuse out of a boy talking dorsum to his teacher as you do the students' exhilarating, storm-the-barricades uprising, in which the patronizing adults (who Vigo brilliantly caricatures every bit stiff-backed, overweight or dwarfish tyrants) are tied up, pelted with sticks and driven into hiding as the children come up to power. Though it now seems to occur in some nebulously ideal dreamworld, the motion picture was banned by the French Ministry of the Interior, fearful of the dissidence it might incite. Vigo died of tuberculosis presently afterwards, but his defiance lived on: François Truffaut cited Zilch every bit a major influence on his own tale of troubled adolescence, The 4 Hundred Blows.—Keith Uhlich
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
His proper name is Alex and his hobbies are rape, home invasions and a bit of the old ultraviolence. Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel, nigh a dystopic Britain overrun with rampaging teens, used extreme beliefs to examine freewill. Then does Stanley Kubrick'due south accommodation—only non before turning Alex into a cinematic icon and stylizing his gang's criminal activities in the about impossibly exciting, epically irresponsible mode. The event directly influenced the aesthetics of punk and was somewhen withdrawn from apportionment in the U.K by the managing director himself. But what makes A Clockwork Orange such an exemplary kids-run-wild film is the way information technology distills youth civilisation's depression points—from mods-versus-rockers rumbling to Manson-family unit terrorizing—into one nightmarish worst-case scenario and then forces you to share in the rush. No other flick has made youthful immorality seem so dangerously wanton, even as it criticized a society that could produce such a scourge. Thanks to a chief filmmaker and his charismatic lead, the vicarious thrill of wallowing in Alex'south bad beliefs still has the power to awaken the inner droog in all of us—whether nosotros like it or not.—David Fear
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