Movies: Troubled youth

The social worker Luise Gottschalk dedicates all her passion to the Viennese caretakers and derailed young people. Tirelessly, she advertises to adults for understanding the needs of adolescents. She is particularly committed to a girl named Elfie Br...

A documentary on reformed ex-con Rick Maylender and his attempts to help troubled youths by taking them out of their environment and showing them how to find and repair abandoned classic vehicles....

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In the mid-1990s, Dieter Dubbert accidentally ends up with the Miskito Indians in Bismuna, Nicaragua. Here he begins to work with drug-addicted and delinquent young people from Germany who would otherwise disappear into homes and prisons....

Montréal-Nord is one of those areas we euphemistically call “disadvantaged.” A place where drugs, poverty, delinquency, suicide and all kinds of dysfunction are depressingly commonplace. This is where the late Magnus Isacsson decided to film 18 month...

Kyle spends yet another day on school detention waiting for a dressing down. Acts of rebellion get him through it. Created by Bus Stop Films, which uses filmmaking to raise the profile of people living with disability....

In late-1990s Santiago, three troubled teenagers navigate adolescence, trauma and taboo. United by grief and a desire for escape, their bond deepens into something intense and ultimately destructive....