meg’s top 25 films
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Moonlight
Barry Jenkins · 2016
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
The Edge of Seventeen
Kelly Fremon Craig · 2016
Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother, who is totally his sister's nemesis.
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.
Mommy
Xavier Dolan · 2014
A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.
The Substance
Coralie Fargeat · 2024
'Tú, pero mejor en todos los sentidos'. Esa es la promesa de la sustancia, un producto revolucionario basado en la división celular, que crea un alter ego más joven, más bello, más perfecto.
But I'm a Cheerleader
Jamie Babbit · 2000
Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn''t like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she''s pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.
Brokeback Mountain
Ang Lee · 2005
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.
Short Term 12
Destin Daniel Cretton · 2013
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
Booksmart
Olivia Wilde · 2019
Dos excelentes estudiantes y grandes amigas, en la víspera de su graduación de su instituto, de repente se dan cuenta de que podrían haberse esforzado algo menos en clase y haberse divertido más. Así que deciden hacer algo al respecto para compensar tanto estudio y tan poca diversión: recuperar los años perdidos en una noche loca.
Call Me by Your Name
Luca Guadagnino · 2017
In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant.
Mysterious Skin
Gregg Araki · 2005
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
I Believe in Unicorns
Leah Meyerhoff · 2015
Follows the lyrical journey of an imaginative teenage girl who runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter, but not even unicorns can save her now.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Céline Sciamma · 2019
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Anora
Sean Baker · 2024
A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to get the marriage annulled.
The Holdovers
Alexander Payne · 2023
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Coraline
Henry Selick · 2009
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.
Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky · 2010
The story of Nina, a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired ballerina mother Erica who zealously supports her daughter's professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice.
Little Miss Sunshine
Jonathan Dayton · 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.
Parasite
Bong Joon Ho · 2019
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Clueless
Amy Heckerling · 1995
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.
Hereditary
Ari Aster · 2018
Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.
The Breakfast Club
John Hughes · 1985
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig · 2017
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.
Swiss Army Man
Daniel Kwan · 2016
Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the duo go on an epic adventure to bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Daniel Scheinert · 2022
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
