Kids

6.9

1995

91 mins

DramaCrime

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

The Basketball Diaries

Year : 1995Rating : ⭐ 7.4

A high school basketball player’s life turns upside down after free-falling into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

Bully

Year : 2001Rating : ⭐ 6.7

A group of teenagers in South Florida enact a murder plot against their mutual bully, Bobby, who has emotionally, physically, and sexually abused them for years.

L.I.E.

Year : 2001Rating : ⭐ 6.8

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 their neighbors' homes — until they make the mistake of robbing the house of Big John, a macho former Marine who is also an unrepentant pedophile. He propositions Howie, who declines, but the two eventually develop an unlikely and dangerous friendship.

Shaft

Year : 1971Rating : ⭐ 6.4

Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Thirteen

Year : 2003Rating : ⭐ 6.7

When 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money. But it isn’t long before Tracy’s new lifestyle begins to take a heavy toll on her and her family.

Light Sleeper

Year : 1992Rating : ⭐ 6.7

John LeTour is a recovering drug user who suffers insomnia and still deals to a high-end New York clientele, even though he’s trying to move on from the business. John’s professional midlife crisis becomes something more acute — and dangerous — when he re-encounters an old flame while a string of seemingly drug-related murders rocks the city.

Beautiful Boy

Year : 2018Rating : ⭐ 7.6

After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Year : 2004Rating : ⭐ 5.8

Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.

The Poker House

Year : 2008Rating : ⭐ 6.2

Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.

Heaven Knows What

Year : 2015Rating : ⭐ 6.4

A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.

25th Hour

Year : 2002Rating : ⭐ 7.3

On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downfall in a city still reeling from 9/11.

Hot Summer Nights

Year : 2018Rating : ⭐ 6.6

In 1991, a sheltered teenager comes of age during a wild summer on Cape Cod, getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying, and eventually realizing that he's in way over his head.

The Crush

Year : 1993Rating : ⭐ 6.7

A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.

The Nines

Year : 2007Rating : ⭐ 6.0

A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.

Welcome to the Rileys

Year : 2010Rating : ⭐ 6.6

Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian.

A Thousand and One

Year : 2023Rating : ⭐ 6.6

Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.

The Wanderers

Year : 1979Rating : ⭐ 7.0

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’

Coffy

Year : 1973Rating : ⭐ 6.6

After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.

Mysterious Skin

Year : 2005Rating : ⭐ 7.7

A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Palmer

Year : 2021Rating : ⭐ 8.1

After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to ruin his new life and family.