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The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Marielle Heller · 2015
Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.
The Emperor's Club
Michael Hoffman · 2002
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to a close student-teacher relationship, but results in a life lesson for Hundert that will still haunt him a quarter of a century later.
Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson · 2012
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
The Edge of Seventeen
Kelly Fremon Craig · 2016
Dos estudiantes de instituto que son las mejores amigas ven cómo su amistad se tambalea cuando una comienza a salir con el hermano mayor de la otra.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky · 2012
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. Charlie, estudiante de primer año en la escuela secundaria, es un marginado, alguien invisible que observa la vida desde sus márgenes, hasta que dos estudiantes de último año, Sam y su hermanastro Patrick, se convierten en sus mentores, ayudándole a descubrir las alegrías de la amistad, la música y el amor.
Dead Poets Society
Peter Weir · 1989
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Girl, Interrupted
James Mangold · 1999
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
The Virgin Suicides
Sofia Coppola · 2000
Cinco irmãs sonhadoras, as Lisbon, moram em uma casa simples de subúrbio em uma rua cheia de árvores, em meados dos anos 70 nos Estados Unidos. Seus destinos são marcados visivelmente pela vizinhança cheia de meninos, que ainda hoje continuam obcecados por elas. A vida das irmãs é marcada de amor e repressão, fantasia e terror, sexo e morte, memória e desejo. Esta é, na sua essência, uma história de mistério, que muda a vida de segredos dos adolescentes americanos.
Beautiful Boy
Felix van Groeningen · 2018
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.
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig · 2017
Christine McPherson está no último ano do colégio e o que mais deseja é ir fazer faculdade longe de Sacramento, Califórnia, ideia rejeitada por sua mãe. Lady Bird, como a garota de forte personalidade exige ser chamada, não se dá por vencida e leva o plano de ir embora adiante mesmo assim. Enquanto a hora não chega, ela se divide entre as obrigações estudantis no colégio católico, o primeiro namoro, típicos rituais de passagem para a vida adulta e inúmeros desentendimentos com a progenitora.
