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Movies that i love, and that have been on my letterboxd top 4 at some point📽️
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Manic
Jordan Melamed · 2001
Follows the fate of Lyle, a violent adolescent who, in lieu of prison, is placed in a juvenile mental institution where he encounters a group of equally troubled teens. This motley crew - abused, sexually confused, violent, and yet hanging on by their grit and anger - becomes Lyle's last lifeline as he fights to find meaning in a world that seems to defy understanding.
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.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Peter Greenaway · 1989
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
Minari
Lee Isaac Chung · 2021
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
Sharing the Secret
Katt Shea · 2000
Beth es una adolescente modélica, obsesionada en agradar a todos los que le rodean. Pero no puede aguantar la presión a la que es sometida y se ve irremediablemente abocada a un proceso de desorden alimenticio que acaba en bulimia. La obsesión por la delgadez y los peligros que entrañan trastornos alimenticios como la anorexia y la bulimia son los temas sobre los que gira esta película.
Fiona Has Wings
Kevin Moraes · 2018
The soul behind an artist who gave us so many unique songs.
00:08
Yutaro Kubo · 2014
This piece takes 8 seconds, and creates intervals between the frames, and then makes them bigger. It's about expansion and enlargement, not the passage of time. 8 seconds becomes that much more luxuriant.
Short Term 12
Destin Daniel Cretton · 2013
Grace es una joven de veintitantos años que trabaja como supervisora en Short Term 12, un centro de acogida para adolescentes en situación de vulnerabilidad. Le encanta su empleo y está entregada al cuidado de los chavales, pero al mismo tiempo se debate con su propio pasado conflictivo. Cuando ingresa en el centro una chica inteligente e inquieta llamada Jayden, Grace se da cuenta de que no puede seguir dando la espalda a los problemas que arrastra desde su propia infancia.
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.
Frances Ha
Noah Baumbach · 2013
An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Perfect Blue
Satoshi Kon · 1998
Tras años siendo una ídolo juvenil que forma parte del exitoso trío musical CHAM!, Mima Kirigoe decide abandonar el grupo para perseguir su sueño de convertirse en actriz. Alentada por su entorno, decide romper con su imagen de niña buena y acepta un papel en una serie policíaca subida de tono, lo que provoca la ira de muchos de sus fans. Pronto descubre que alguien está escribiendo un blog en internet en el que explica detalles íntimos sobre su vida y además su misterioso acosador pasa a la acción amenazando a sus seres queridos. Mientras los cadáveres comienzan a acumularse a su alrededor, la realidad y las alucinaciones se mezclan en un mundo terrorífico en el que no hay lugar para la inocencia y los sueños se convierten en pesadillas.
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.
Brave
Brenda Chapman · 2012
Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Mérida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus and Queen Elinor. An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Mérida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Mérida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman and is granted an ill-fated wish. Also figuring into Mérida’s quest — and serving as comic relief — are the kingdom’s three lords: the enormous Lord MacGuffin, the surly Lord Macintosh, and the disagreeable Lord Dingwall.
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.
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
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.
Stolen Dreams
Sandra Werneck · 2009
Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and find in prostitution a way to survive and satisfy their consumer desires. However, even faced with the trials of absolute uncertainty and lack of hope, Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane insist on loving, having fun and planning their future.
Requiem for a Dream
Darren Aronofsky · 2000
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins · 2016
La historia sensible, angustiosa de un joven que se esfuerza por encontrarse, contada a través de tres capítulos definitorios en su vida, ya que experimenta el éxtasis, el dolor y la belleza de enamorarse, mientras lucha cuerpo a cuerpo con su propia sexualidad.
20th Century Women
Mike Mills · 2016
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.
mid90s
Jonah Hill · 2018
In 1990s Los Angeles, a 13-year-old spends his summer navigating between a troubled home life and a crew of new friends he meets at a skate shop.
The Last Unicorn
Arthur Rankin, Jr. · 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.
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.
Bones and All
Luca Guadagnino · 2022
Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.
