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Scrapper
Charlotte Regan · 2023
A resourceful 12-year-old, who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London, makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. But when her estranged father turns up out of the blue, she's forced to confront reality.
Silver Linings Playbook
David O. Russell · 2012
After losing his job and wife, and spending time in an institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life and reconcile with his wife, but his father would be happy if he shared his obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles. Things get complicated when he meets Tiffany Maxwell who offers to help him reconnect with his wife if he will do something very important for her in exchange.
Lion
Garth Davis · 2016
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Isle of Dogs
Wes Anderson · 2018
Un Japón distópico, dentro de 20 años. La saturación canina ha alcanzado proporciones de epidemia en Megasaki. Un brote de gripe canina se propaga, por eso, el Mayor Kabayashi dicta una orden de emergencia decretando la cuarentena. Isla Basura es el lugar donde se evacua a todos los perros. Allí, un grupo de aterradores perros alfa, encabezados por Chief, han perdido toda esperanza de volver con sus dueños. Hasta que un día aparece Atari, un niño de 12 años, sobrino del malvado Mayor, que llega hasta la isla pilotando un avión. Su objetivo es buscar a su perro Spots. Esté donde esté, el niño y la manada perruna lo encontrarán.
Aloners
홍성은 · 2021
Jina is the top employee at a credit card company call center. She avoids building close relationships, choosing instead to live and work alone – until she is suddenly tasked with training a new recruit.
Good Will Hunting
Gus Van Sant · 1997
Will Hunting, un conserje del M.I.T., tiene un don para las matemáticas, pero necesita la ayuda de un psicólogo para encontrar el rumbo de su vida.
I Saw the TV Glow
Jane Schoenbrun · 2024
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate Maddy introduces him to a mysterious TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
The Kings of Summer
Jordan Vogt-Roberts · 2013
Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank's attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for all, he escapes to a clearing in the woods with his best friend, Patrick, and a strange kid named Biaggio. He announces that they are going to build a house there, free from responsibility and parents. Once their makeshift abode is finished, the three young men find themselves masters of their own destiny, alone in the woods.
A Real Pain
Jesse Eisenberg · 2024
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson · 2009
The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family.
A Silent Voice: The Movie
Naoko Yamada · 2016
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?
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.
