Movies that have altered my brain chemistry
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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.
Brokeback Mountain
李安 · 2005
Verano de 1963. Dos vaqueros, Ennis Del Mar y Jack Twist, se conocen mientras hacen cola para ser contratados por el ranchero Joe Aguirre. Los dos aspiran a conseguir un trabajo estable, casarse y formar una familia. Cuando Aguirre les envía a cuidar ganado a la majestuosa montaña Brokeback, entre ambos surge un sentimiento de camaradería que deriva hacia una relación íntima. Al concluir el verano, tienen que abandonar Brokeback y seguir caminos diferentes.
Bottoms
Emma Seligman · 2023
Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school self-defense club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up in the name of self-defense.
Saltburn
Emerald Fennell · 2023
Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.
All the Bright Places
Brett Haley · 2020
Two teens facing personal struggles form a powerful bond as they embark on a cathartic journey chronicling the wonders of Indiana.
The Good Dinosaur
Peter Sohn · 2015
An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
Remember Me
Allen Coulter · 2010
Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout from their separate tragedies jeopardizes their love.
Bridge to Terabithia
Gábor Csupó · 2007
Jess Aarons, un chico que se siente extraño tanto en el colegio como en su propia casa, se ha entrenado durante todo el verano para correr una carrera; pero llega al colegio Leslie Burke y le gana. A pesar de ello, pronto se hacen amigos. Leslie, aficionada a contar fantásticas y mágicas historias, le abre a Jess las puertas de un mundo dominado por la imaginación. A Jess le gusta dibujar, pero nunca había compartido esa afición con nadie. Los dos crean el reino secreto de Terabithia, un lugar mágico cuya entrada sólo ellos conocen. Allí reinan, luchan contra el Maestro Oscuro y sus criaturas y trazan planes para vengarse de los compañeros prepotentes del colegio.
Corpse Bride
Tim Burton · 2005
In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.
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.
My Girl
Howard Zieff · 1991
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...
Summerland
Jessica Swale · 2020
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
The Shining
Stanley Kubrick · 1980
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
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.
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.
Barbie
Greta Gerwig · 2023
Barbie vive en Barbieland donde todo es ideal y lleno de música y color. Un buen día decide conocer el mundo real. Cuando el CEO de Mattel se entere, tratará de evitarlo a toda costa y devolver a Barbie a una caja.
The Great Gatsby
Baz Luhrmann · 2013
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.
Thunderbolts*
Jake Schreier · 2025
After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, seven disillusioned castoffs must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.
Alice in Wonderland
Tim Burton · 2010
Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
James Gunn · 2023
La querida banda de los Guardianes se instala en Knowhere. Pero sus vidas no tardan en verse alteradas por los ecos del turbulento pasado de Rocket. Peter Quill, aún conmocionado por la pérdida de Gamora, debe reunir a su equipo en una peligrosa misión para salvar la vida de Rocket, una misión que, si no se completa con éxito, podría muy posiblemente conducir al final de los Guardianes tal y como los conocemos.
Titanic
James Cameron · 1997
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.
La La Land
Damien Chazelle · 2016
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
Midsommar
Ari Aster · 2019
Dani et Christian sont sur le point de se séparer quand la famille de Dani est touchée par une tragédie. Attristé par le deuil de la jeune femme, Christian ne peut se résoudre à la laisser seule et l’emmène avec lui et ses amis à un festival estival qui n’a lieu que tous les 90 ans et se déroule dans un village suédois isolé. Mais ce qui commence comme des vacances insouciantes dans un pays où le soleil ne se couche pas va vite prendre une tournure beaucoup plus sinistre et inquiétante.
Don't Worry Darling
Olivia Wilde · 2022
Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why.
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.
Pretty in Pink
Howard Deutch · 1986
Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.
Sixteen Candles
John Hughes · 1984
With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. Samantha pines for studly older boy Jake, but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular senior. Meanwhile, she must constantly rebuff the affections of nerdy Ted, who is unfortunately the only boy in school who seems to take an interest in her.
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.
It
Andy Muschietti · 2017
En el verano de 1989, un grupo de niños maltratados se unieron para destruir a un monstruo cambia-formas, que se disfraza de payaso y se aprovecha de los niños de Derry, su pequeño pueblo de Maine.
Wicked
Jon M. Chu · 2024
Elphaba é uma jovem como outra qualquer do Reino de Oz, mas incompreendida por causa de sua pele verde incomum e por ainda não ter descoberto seu verdadeiro poder. Sua rotina é tranquila e pouco interessante, mas ao iniciar seus estudos na Universidade de Shiz, seu destino encontra Glinda, uma jovem popular e ambiciosa, nascida em berço de ouro, que só quer garantir seus privilégios e ainda não conhece sua verdadeira alma. As duas iniciam uma inesperada amizade; no entanto, suas diferenças, como o desejo de Glinda pela popularidade e poder, e a determinação de Elphaba em permanecer fiel a si mesma, entram no caminho, o que pode perpetuar no futuro de cada uma e em como as pessoas de Oz as enxergam.
Lolita
Adrian Lyne · 1997
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Pride & Prejudice
Joe Wright · 2005
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Wonder
Stephen Chbosky · 2017
Betrachtet man August „Auggie“ Pullman nach rein äußerlichen Gesichtspunkten, fällt es schwer, ihn als einen normalen Jungen zu bezeichnen: Von Geburt an ist er von massiven Entstellungen im Gesicht gezeichnet. Bisher wurde er deswegen von seinen Eltern Isabel und Nate mehr oder weniger vor der Außenwelt versteckt gehalten, doch das soll sich mit dem neuen Schuljahr ändern, denn Auggie wird dann die fünfte Klasse der Beecher Prep School besuchen. Und ihm liegt viel an dieser Veränderung. Endlich will er als Mensch akzeptiert und nicht länger als Monster betrachtet werden. Es wird eine Herausforderung für alle Beteiligten …
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky · 2012
És l'any 1991 i en Charlie, un noi acadèmicament precoç i poc sociable, és un marginat, sempre observant des de la distància, fins que un parell de joves carismàtics l'acullen sota les seves ales. La bella Sam, d'esperit lliure, i el seu germanastre Patrick, sense por a res, cuiden de Charlie oferint-li noves amistats, el primer amor, sexualitat incipient, festes sense fi, visionats a mitjanit de «The Rocky Horror Picture Show», i la cerca de la cançó perfecta.
Little Women
Greta Gerwig · 2019
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
