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Dope
Rick Famuyiwa · 2015
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
Last Summer
Catherine Breillat · 2023
Anne, brillante avocate, défend les mineurs victimes d’abus et les adolescents en difficulté. Son mari Pierre, leurs deux filles et elle vivent en parfaite harmonie dans une belle villa sur les hauteurs de Paris. Lorsque Théo, fils de Pierre né d’un précédent mariage emménage avec eux, l’équilibre de la famille se retrouve chamboulé par l’irruption de cet adolescent. Anne entame en effet une liaison avec cet adolescent de dix-sept ans, rebelle et contestataire, et cela risque de tout détruire.
Eighth Grade
Bo Burnham · 2018
Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.
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.
Crossroads
Tamra Davis · 2002
La historia de tres amigas de la infancia, Lucy, Kit y Mimi, quienes después de ocho años deciden redescubrir su amistad y realizan un viaje con el apuesto y misterioso amigo de Mimi, Ben. Su aventura será una lección que cambiará sus vidas para siempre.
Lilya 4-ever
Lukas Moodysson · 2002
Sixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Russia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.
When It Melts
Veerle Baetens · 2023
Many years after a sweltering summer that spun out of control, Eva returns to the village she grew up in with an ice block in the back of her car. In the dead of winter, she confronts her past and faces up to her tormentors.
Aloha Scooby-Doo!
Tim Maltby · 2005
The Mystery Gang goes to Hawaii for the Big Kahuna of Hanahuna Surfing Contest. However, the gang and the locals find the island invaded by the vengeful Wiki Tiki spirit and his demons.
Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico
Scott Jeralds · 2003
A friend of Fred's, Alejo Otero, invites the Scooby gang to Veracruz, Mexico. There they find a monster, El Chupacabra, terrorizing the town.
Scooby Goes Hollywood
Ray Patterson · 1979
Shaggy and Scooby-Doo quit their Saturday morning TV series in pursuit of Hollywood stardom.
Bama Rush
Rachel Fleit · 2023
Follow four young women as they prepare to rush at the University of Alabama in 2022. Against the viral backdrop of #BamaRush on TikTok, and the long-held tradition of sorority recruitment at the University of Alabama, the film explores the emotional complexities and high-stakes of belonging in this crucial window into womanhood.
Palm Springs
Max Barbakow · 2020
When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.
Belladonna of Sadness
Eiichi Yamamoto · 1973
An evil feudal lord rapes a village girl on her wedding night and proceeds to ruin her and her husband's lives. After she's eventually banished from her village, the girl makes a pact with the devil to gain magical ability and take revenge.
Lolita
Stanley Kubrick · 1962
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.
Breakfast on Pluto
Neil Jordan · 2005
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.
Punch-Drunk Love
Paul Thomas Anderson · 2002
A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.
The Hangover
Todd Phillips · 2009
When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom. But they can't seem to locate their best friend, Doug – who's supposed to be tying the knot. Launching a frantic search for Doug, the trio perseveres through a nasty hangover to try to make it to the church on time.
Superbad
Greg Mottola · 2007
Os estudantes adolescentes Seth e Evan têm grandes esperanças para uma festa de formatura. Os adolescentes co-dependentes pretendem beber e conquistar garotas para que eles possam se tornar parte da multidão popular da escola, mas a ansiedade de separação e dois policiais entediados complicam a auto-missão proclamada dos amigos.
Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson · 2012
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
(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.
The Bling Ring
Sofia Coppola · 2013
Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the Internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.
Project X
Nima Nourizadeh · 2012
Alors qu'ils semblaient jusque-là se fondre dans la masse, trois lycéens décident de sortir de l'anonymat. En apparence, leur projet est plutôt inoffensif puisqu'ils ont l'intention d'organiser une fête des plus mémorables. Mais rien n'aurait pu les préparer à la soirée qu'ils s'apprêtent à vivre… La rumeur se propage alors rapidement, tandis que les rêves des uns s'effondrent, les résultats scolaires des autres dégringolent, et des légendes se forgent…
Anne of Green Gables
1979
Anne Shirley is a freckle-faced, red-haired girl, who grows up in an orphanage having lost her parents at a very early age. Anne is always cheerful and fun-loving despite being brought up without love or affection. When she turns 11, she is adopted by the old farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla. Anne starts her new life with Matthew and Marilla at a farm called "Green Gables", but actually the Cuthberts wanted a boy who could help with their work on the farm... Overcoming many hardships and meeting many friends and people, Anne grows up to be a strong-minded woman.
Ghost World
Terry Zwigoff · 2001
Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls’ friendship.
Blue Bayou
Justin Chon · 2021
As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
Asteroid City
Wes Anderson · 2023
In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
Thirteen
Catherine Hardwicke · 2003
Tracy, una joven de 13 años de Los Ángeles, queda fascinada por Evie, la chica más popular del instituto. Tras hacerse muy amigas, y debido a la peligrosa influencia de la "cool" Evie, la antes inocente Tracy se verá poco a poco atrapada en un trepidante ritmo de vida que nada tenía que ver con su anterior vida sedentaria. Tracy se embarca en un mundo salvaje sobre el que no tiene control. Mientras, Mel, la madre de Tracy, trata desesperadamente de comprender la radical transformación que está sufriendo su hija.
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.
The Last Unicorn
Jules Bass · 1982
From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.
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.
The Princess Bride
Rob Reiner · 1987
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.
The Secret Garden
Agnieszka Holland · 1993
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and forgotten. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.
Midsommar
Ari Aster · 2019
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
The Florida Project
Sean Baker · 2017
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
Aftersun
Charlotte Wells · 2022
Avec mélancolie, Sophie se remémore les vacances d’été passées avec son père vingt ans auparavant : les moments de joie partagée, leur complicité, parfois leurs désaccords. Elle repense aussi à ce qui planait au-dessus de ces instants si précieux : la sourde et invisible menace d’un bonheur finissant. Elle tente alors de chercher parmi ces souvenirs des réponses à la question qui l’obsède depuis tant d’années : qui était réellement cet homme qu’elle a le sentiment de ne pas connaître ?
Spring Breakers
Harmony Korine · 2013
After four college girls rob a restaurant to fund their spring break in Florida, they get entangled with a weird dude with his own criminal agenda.
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PEN15
Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Sam Zvibleman · 2019
Middle school as it really happened. Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle star in this adult comedy, playing versions of themselves as thirteen-year-old outcasts in the year 2000, surrounded by actual thirteen-year-olds, where the best day of your life can turn into your worst with the stroke of a gel pen.
Skins
Bryan Elsley, Jamie Brittain · 2007
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
Euphoria
Sam Levinson · 2019
A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.
