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A Man Called Otto
Marc Forster · 2022
When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.

Little Miss Sunshine
Valerie Faris · 2006
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

(500) Days of Summer
Marc Webb · 2009
Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life.

All of Us Strangers
Andrew Haigh · 2023
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life.

The Pianist
Roman Polanski · 2002
Um pianista judeu polonês vê Varsóvia mudar gradualmente à medida que a Segunda Guerra Mundial começa. Szpilman é forçado a ir para o Gueto de Varsóvia, mas depois é separado de sua família durante a Operação Reinhard. A partir deste momento até que os prisioneiros dos campos de concentração sejam liberados, Szpilman se esconde em vários locais entre as ruínas de Varsóvia.

Blue Valentine
Derek Cianfrance · 2010
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

We Live in Time
John Crowley · 2024
An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.

The Pursuit of Happyness
Gabriele Muccino · 2006
Représentant de commerce, Chris Gardner a du mal à gagner sa vie. Il jongle pour s'en sortir, mais sa compagne supporte de moins en moins leur précarité. Elle finit par quitter Chris et leur petit garçon de cinq ans, Christopher. Désormais seul responsable de son fils, Chris se démène pour décrocher un job, sans succès. Lorsqu'il obtient finalement un stage dans une prestigieuse firme de courtage, il se donne à fond.

Marley & Me
David Frankel · 2008
A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of marriage, maturity and confronting one's own mortality, as seen through the lens of family life with a dog.

A Walk to Remember
Adam Shankman · 2002
Landon Carter est l'archétype du lycéen cool et superficiel américain. Il fait la connaissance de Jamie Sullivan, une jeune fille plutôt introvertie, douée d'un optimisme à toute épreuve et d'un sens de la répartie qu'elle utilise aux dépens de Landon. Alors que tout oppose ce chef de bande vantard et suffisant à la timide adolescente, la fascination cède progressivement la place à l'amour. Tournant le dos à ses anciens amis, trouvant un nouveau sens à sa vie, Landon est prêt à commencer une nouvelle vie avec Jamie, mais celle-ci refuse de s'engager. Landon apprend bientôt qu'elle est atteinte d'une maladie incurable. Landon et Jamie vont devoir apprendre à accepter la fatalité et profiter au jour le jour du peu de temps qu'il leur reste...

Me Before You
Thea Sharrock · 2016
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.

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.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Michel Gondry · 2004
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

The Lovely Bones
Peter Jackson · 2009
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.

Aftersun
Charlotte Wells · 2022
Sophie reflexiona sobre la alegría compartida y la melancolía privada de unas vacaciones que hizo con su padre veinte años atrás. Los recuerdos reales e imaginarios llenan los espacios entre las imágenes mientras intenta reconciliar al padre que conoció con el hombre que no conoció.

Good Will Hunting
Gus Van Sant · 1997
Will Hunting è un ragazzo orfano dedito a piccoli furti, ma con grandi capacità per la matematica. Queste doti vengono notate da un professore universitario, che mandandolo da un suo amico psichiatra cerca di aiutarlo a togliersi dalla strada.

All the Bright Places
Brett Haley · 2020
Deux adolescents à l'âme blessée bouleversent la vie l'un de l'autre dans ce film inspiré d'un roman à succès.

Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee · 2005
Été 1963, Wyoming. Deux jeunes cow-boys, Jack et Ennis, sont engagés pour garder ensemble un troupeau de moutons à Brokeback Mountain. Isolés au milieu d'une nature sauvage, leur complicité se transforme lentement en une attirance aussi irrésistible qu'inattendue. À la fin de la saison de transhumance, les deux hommes doivent se séparer. Ennis se marie avec sa fiancée, Alma, tandis que Jack épouse Lureen. Quand ils se revoient quatre ans plus tard, un seul regard suffit pour raviver l'amour né à Brokeback Mountain.

Dead Poets Society
Peter Weir · 1989
En un elitista y estricto colegio privado de Nueva Inglaterra, un grupo de alumnos descubrirá la poesía, el significado de "Carpe Diem" -aprovechar el momento- y la importancia de perseguir los sueños, gracias a un excéntrico profesor que despierta sus mentes por medio de métodos poco convencionales.

Call Me by Your Name
Luca Guadagnino · 2017
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.

Mysterious Skin
Gregg Araki · 2005
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.

Bridge to Terabithia
Gábor Csupó · 2007
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences including that she's rich, he's poor, she's a city girl, and he's a country boy the two become fast friends. Together they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants where they rule as king and queen.

The Notebook
Nick Cassavetes · 2004
En una residencia de ancianos, un hombre mayor (James Garner) lee a una mujer (Gena Rowlands) una historia de amor escrita en su viejo libro de notas. El libro cuenta la vida en los años 40 de Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) y Allie Nelson (Rachel McAdams), dos jóvenes adolescentes de Carolina del Norte que, a pesar de vivir en dos ambientes sociales muy diferentes, pasaron un verano idílico juntos y profundamente enamorados, antes de ser separados, primero por sus padres, y más tarde por la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

To the Bone
Marti Noxon · 2017
Ellen, 20 ans, atteinte d'anorexie mentale, entreprend sous la houlette d'un médecin peu conventionnel un voyage poignant mais parfois drôle à la découverte d'elle-même.

Five Feet Apart
Justin Baldoni · 2019
Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control — all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness. There's an instant flirtation, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain a safe distance between them. As their connection intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction.

Manchester by the Sea
Kenneth Lonergan · 2016
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.

My Girl
Howard Zieff · 1991
Vada Sultenfuss, uma garota de 11 anos, é obcecada com a morte, pois sua mãe morreu quando a garota nasceu e seu pai, Harry Sultenfuss, é um agente funerário que não lhe dá muita atenção. Vada é apaixonada por Jake Bixler, seu professor de inglês, e é muito amiga de Thomas J. Sennett, um garoto que é alérgico a tudo. Quando Harry contrata Shelly DeVoto, uma maquiadora, para os funerais e se apaixona por ela, Vada se sente rejeitada e quer fazer qualquer coisa para separá-los.

Beautiful Boy
Felix van Groeningen · 2018
Crónica sobre la adicción a la metanfetamina y el intento de recuperación y de salir de las drogas a través de los ojos de un padre que observa a su hijo mientras lucha contra la enfermedad de la drogodependencia.

Requiem for a Dream
Darren Aronofsky · 2000
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky · 2012
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.

Waves
Trey Edward Shults · 2019
Le parcours des membres d’une famille afro-américaine, menée par un patriarche protecteur, mais très exigeant, sur les eaux troubles du malheur et du deuil. Un chemin douloureux qui finira par les rassembler sur les rives de l’amour et du pardon, si tant est qu’ils parviennent à accepter de lâcher prise.






