'Intelligent/good' films for expelled & problem kids - suggestions?

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If they liked Adulthood and Kidulthood I'd suggest Bullet Boy.

I'm also thinking Ratcatcher, a while since I saw it and really should watch it again myself. It's a beautifully shot film, the scottish dialect might be an issue.

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is a film I think everyone should see , so that too.

Oh and Quadrophenia, the best youth movement film ever made. Impossible for marginalised teenage boys not to identify with Jimmy in some way or other.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I've been wanting to see Bullet Boy forever as my mate says it will be proper nostalgic for me having all been filmed around our area (Hackney). I can never find a torrent for it. Might try and buy it before I move back to China...

 

[Part 2]

I downloaded it only a few weeks ago, can't remember where from, just googled bullet boy torrent.

E2A: just tried it, top result looks healthy

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I downloaded it only a few weeks ago, can't remember where from, just googled bullet boy torrent.

E2A: just tried it, top result looks healthy

OK, cheers, was a while ago I looked for it

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

Stand By Me.

that is such a fucking brilliant film i almost cried watching it. everyone must see this.




maybe the breakfast club?

 

[fubert]

Clockwork Orange
The Untouchables
Hunger
Frost and Nixon
ID
The Warriors
Network

 

[albionism]

not this england, i meant made in britain

Exactly my first thought

 

[ShakespearO]

Battle Royale should learn 'em.

 

[vauxhallmum]

My son goes to a Primary Pru and the only films he has seen there are The Sound of Music and Oliver.

 

[vauxhallmum]

Clockwork Orange
The Untouchables
Hunger
Frost and Nixon
ID
The Warriors
Network

Not 'If', then?

 

[camouflage]

The Breakfast Club. Just for a laff like.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Not 'If', then?

I was just about to say 'If'.

followed immediately by A Clockwork Orange.

 

[spanglechick]

Juno - 15 cert (sex, pregnanacy and relationships).

Dreamgirls and Hairspray(modern version) - both 12 cert - work as a double bill, tangentally addressing the civil rights movement through the perspective of integrated entertainment. I show both and they are loved with a passion.

I've also had success with Caberet (Rise of Nazi germany), and Chicago (justice being bought, the cult of celebrity) - both of which, i think, are 12 certs.

much as i love west side story, it's a bit 'balletic' in the first five mins for the group I tried it with.

 

[Balbi]

The Truman Show

 

[Idris2002]

'The Wind That Shakes the Barley' is a 15 cert, IIRC.

Also, 'Bloody Sunday'. And you could get some good classroom debates out of 'Five Minutes of Heaven'.

 

[AverageJoe]

Dead Poets Society

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

The Truman Show

My favourite film of all time.

I dunno if troubled teenagers would dig it much though.

Tortured middle class kids would though.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I saw some of If... late on telly one night while having a few beers at a mate's house, and have been meaning to watch the full thing ever since.

Still can't locate that bullet boy torrent Found one but no seeders.