Inspirational Music and Film

Film

A short selection of some classic films about youth transitions:

A Taste of Honey (1961) A young girl growing up in Manchester has an unconventional relationship. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M_pfoHgUjA&index=6&list=PL4CK2suoh0UYMSsiBvQaeJiRu7w_Ao2-v

The Loneliness of the long distance runner (1962) A young man growing up in the UK in the 1950s www.youtube.com/watch?v=4asUxvijYQ8

The Graduate (1967) A disillusioned, award winning scholar makes his way through some tangled love affairs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=acEh0kEL7_E

Harold and Maud (1971) A suicidal young man gets a new lease of life through his relationship with an 80 year old woman www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mz3TkxJhPc

Scum (1977) Life in a prison for young offenders in the 1970s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6rIV9gP8Fs

Quadrophenia (1979) A young man’s journey from London to Brighton in 1965. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmxcW23nWho

La Haine (1995) Three young men living in the suburbs of Paris.   www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMafnSY9_9M

Hackers (1995) Young hackers are blamed for capsizing five oil tankers.www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/

Trainspotting (1996) Young people growing up in Scotland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LuxOYIpu-I

Cresceranno i carciofi a Mimongo (1996) The quest for work and love of an agricultural student. www.youtube.com/watch?v=69L1QwDC3LE

Tutti giu’ per terra (1997) the story of a reluctant young student in Turin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOBxK_UWe40

Kevin and Perry Go Large (2000) Kevin and Perry go on holiday to Ibiza.www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIagpKaoxuk

Inbetweeners (2001) Four young 18 year olds go on holiday to Malia. www.imdb.com/title/tt0217570/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Legally Blonde (2001) Elle goes to law school. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8I-Qzmbqnc

Bend it like Beckham (2002) Jess wants to play football, but her family don’t. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Pt_GMDdGo

Million Dollar Baby (2004) A young woman wants to become a boxer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B0zmj0-Iac

Kidulthood (2006) Life of a 15 year old finding his way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uIauoMugTw

This is England (2007) A young boy becomes a skinhead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0jkv2bRFgQ

Tutta la vita davanti (2008) A young graduate woman working in a call centre while searching for employment security and a career. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5_Hr1tAuU0

Get a Job (2010) Unemployed and living with the ‘mother-in-law from hell’, Will and Terry open a comedy club.www.imdb.com/title/tt1753860/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

The Social Network (2010) A Harvard student with few friends creates Facebook. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RB3edZyeYw

C’e’ chi dice no (2010) A story of three former high school companions facing uncertain employment prospects, creatively trying to oppose a biased referral system of entrance into employment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM7lZm-kdjo

Eat, Sleep, Die (2012) A young Swedish woman struggles to find a new job and look after her sick father. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1sKX6m5nlA

Goob (2014) A young man in rural Norfolk fighting, womanizing and stock car racing, falls for a pretty foreign field worker. www.imdb.com/title/tt3009070/

Top Boy (2014) Young men growing up in London. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIkEmW1PkYE

Smetto quando voglio (2014) Comedy around precariousness, and the attempt of three (former) researchers to pursue employment success. www.youtube.com/watch?v=seEhOShK0cc

Girlhood (2015) Young women growing up in the tough suburbs of Paris. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJudaZEY-Uc

The Intern (2015) A retired man becomes a senior intern at an online fashion house. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU3Xban0Y6A

I, Daniel Blake (2016) A 59 year old carpenter fights to get Employment Benefits, and support a young family. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahWgxw9E_h4

Get a Job (2016) After college, life doesn’t go to plan as Will and Jillian take on increasingly strange jobs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXmOmdzsQVs

Che vuoi che sia (2016) Comedy around uncertain prospects and difficulties in forming a family. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp8qrJy3KTk

T2: Trainspotting 2 (2017) The original crew twenty years later. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGdiACWiMAM

Nadia (2017) A British school girl with a difficult family who is made homeless. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffqp6f0_rzw

Eviction (2017) A young man loses his bike with serious consequences www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Fl3Biz9Eo

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