Reform school teacher tries to carry his class to the right path by teaching them diving.

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.

A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.

With his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and his friend Gary spend their time burglarizing...

The drama of a youthful triangle among gang leader Freddy, his brother Jan, and bad girl Cissy, in one of the first considerations of juvenile...

After fleeing from his foster family, 11-years-old Khamsa returns to the gypsy camp where he was born. With his cousin, Tony "The Midget", Khamsa...

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and...

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry...

After being wrongfully convicted for stealing a pair of shoes, Stanley Yelnats is sent away to Camp Green Lake, a boys detention facility where...

In lieu of prison, Lyle, a violent adolescent, is placed in a juvenile mental institution where he encounters a group of equally troubled teens. This...

A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada.

A pious 20-year-old juvenile delinquent is sent to work at a sawmill in a small town; on arrival, he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes...

Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.

Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by...

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community...

Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order...

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star...

After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street,...

Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow...

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.