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The Dreamers
Bernardo Bertolucci · 2003
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.
What If...?
· 2021
Taking inspiration from the comic books of the same name, each episode of this animated anthology series questions, revisits and twists classic Marvel Cinematic moments.
The Social Network
David Fincher · 2010
In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, Mark is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend.
Rushmore
Wes Anderson · 1998
When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.
The History Boys
Nicholas Hytner · 2006
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.
Maurice
James Ivory · 1987
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
The Riot Club
Lone Scherfig · 2014
Two first-year students at Oxford University join a secret society and learn that their reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of one evening.
Atonement
Joe Wright · 2007
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Kill Your Darlings
John Krokidas · 2013
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
The Secret History
Jennifer Reeder · 1999
A loop of horses frolicking in the pasture.
Good Will Hunting
Gus Van Sant · 1997
Will es un joven rebelde con una inteligencia asombrosa, especialmente con las matemáticas. El descubrimiento de su talento por parte de los académicos le obligará a elegir entre seguir con su vida de siempre -un trabajo fácil, buenos amigos, muchas cervezas y alguna bronca- o aprovechar sus grandes cualidades intelectuales en alguna universidad. Sólo los consejos de un solitario y bohemio profesor le ayudará a decidirse.
Dead Poets Society
Peter Weir · 1989
Em 1959 na Welton Academy, uma tradicional escola preparatória, um ex-aluno se torna o novo professor de literatura, mas logo seus métodos de incentivar os alunos a pensarem por si mesmos cria um choque com a ortodoxa direção do colégio, principalmente quando ele fala aos seus alunos sobre a "Sociedade dos Poetas Mortos".
