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Uptown Girls

Boaz Yakin · 2003

Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray, the oft ignored daughter of a music executive she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.

Lilya 4-ever

Lukas Moodysson · 2002

Lilya Michailova lives in poverty, dreaming of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her neglectful aunt. Desperate for money, Lilya starts working as a prostitute, and meets Andrei, who offers her a good job in Sweden. However, upon arrival, her life quickly enters a downward spiral.

White Oleander

Peter Kosminsky · 2002

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.

The Basketball Diaries

Scott Kalvert · 1995

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

Buffalo '66

Vincent Gallo · 1998

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.

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.

Malena

Giuseppe Tornatore · 2000

Malena es la belleza más encantadora e irresistible de Castelcuto, un aburrido pueblo de la soleada costa siciliana. Es nueva en la población y estando su marido en la guerra, cada paseo que da por el pueblo se convierte en un espectáculo, acompañado por las lujuriosas miradas de los hombres de la localidad y de los resentidos cotilleos de sus envidiosas esposas. Un ejército de flacos adolescentes en bicicleta la sigue allí donde vaya, con la única intención de observar su exquisita y arquetípica belleza. Entre ellos se encuentra Renato Amoroso, un chico de trece años con mucha imaginación que lleva su deseo a unos límites inesperados de obsesiva fantasía.

10 Things I Hate About You

Gil Junger · 1999

On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own.

Pride & Prejudice

Joe Wright · 2005

Elizabeth Bennet, 20 ans, est la seconde fille de Mr et Mrs Bennet. Elle grandit aux cotés de ses quatre autres sœurs et affectionne particulièrement Jane, de deux ans son aînée. Cette dernière est réputée pour sa douceur et sa beauté dans toute la ville de Meryton. Elizabeth, quant à elle, est une jeune fille ravissante, vive d’esprit, aimant observer la société dans laquelle elle évolue mais aimant surtout se moquer des sottises d’autrui. La famille Bennet est simple et très liée, faisant fi de certaines convenances exigée par l’étiquette à l’époque de Jane Austen. Mrs Bennet n’a qu’une idée en tête : marier ses cinq filles afin d’assurer leur avenir ainsi que celui de toute la famille.

mid90s

Jonah Hill · 2018

In 1990s Los Angeles, a 13-year-old spends his summer navigating between a troubled home life and a crew of new friends he meets at a skate shop.

Honey

Bille Woodruff · 2003

Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she teaches dance classes at a nearby community center in Harlem, N.Y., as a way to keep kids off the streets. Honey thinks she's hit the jackpot when she meets a hotshot director casts her in one of his music videos. But, when he starts demanding sexual favors from her, Honey makes a decision that will change her life.

Love & Basketball

Gina Prince-Bythewood · 2000

Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.

Pretty Woman

Garry Marshall · 1990

When a millionaire wheeler-dealer enters a business contract with a Hollywood hooker Vivian Ward, he loses his heart in the bargain.

The Raffle

Francesco Laudadio · 1991

Struggling with a financial crisis, a good-looking widow decides to put herself up for grabs. However, going through with it becomes almost impossible with a new love and the legal system thrown into the mix.

Crossroads

Tamra Davis · 2002

After eight years apart, three childhood friends - Lucy, Kit, and Mimi - rediscover their friendship on a cross-country trip. With barely a plan, practically no money but plenty of dreams, the girls catch a lift with Mimi's handsome friend Ben in his convertible. Along the way they not only gather experiences that will change their lives, but they also discover how important it is to hold onto their hearts' desires.

Waves

Trey Edward Shults · 2019

A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by an unexpected tragedy.

She's the Man

Andy Fickman · 2006

Viola Hastings is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school. She falls in love with her handsome roommate, Duke, who loves beautiful Olivia, who has fallen for Sebastian! As if that were not enough, Viola's twin returns from London ahead of schedule but has no idea that his sister has already replaced him on campus.

The Notebook

Nick Cassavetes · 2004

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

13 Going on 30

Gary Winick · 2004

After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. Thanks to some magic wishing dust, Jenna's prayer has been answered. With a knockout body, a fabulous wardrobe, an athlete boyfriend, a dream job, and superstar friends, this can't be a better life. But soon Jenna realizes that adult life isn’t as easy as she hoped for.

Speak

Jessica Sharzer · 2004

Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to hide her secret: that star senior Andy raped her at the party. But Melinda does manage to find solace in her art class headed by Mr. Freeman.

Christiane F.

Uli Edel · 1981

This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.

The Virgin Suicides

Sofia Coppola · 2000

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.

Boys on the Side

Herbert Ross · 1995

After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh to pick up Jane's friend Holly, who is trying to escape an abusive relationship. With three distinct personalities, the women must overcome their differences to help one another.

Scent of a Woman

Martin Brest · 1992

Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.

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.

Love Don't Co$t a Thing

Troy Byer · 2003

A high school outcast pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool.

27 Dresses

Anne Fletcher · 2008

Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.

Mysterious Skin

Gregg Araki · 2005

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

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Michael Patrick Jann · 1999

In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town, the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but sweet) Amber Atkins won't give up without a fight.

I Believe in Unicorns

Leah Meyerhoff · 2015

Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Donald Petrie · 2003

It's the battle of wills, as Andie needs to prove she can dump a guy in 10 days, whereas Ben needs to prove he can win a girl in 10 days. Now, the clock is ticking—and the wildly entertaining comedy smash is off and running in this irresistible tale of sex, lies and outrageous romantic fireworks!

сестры 2001

Sleepy Hollow

Tim Burton · 1999

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.