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1) Beans
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A Mohawk girl experiences adolescence amid the armed standoff known as the 1990 Oka Crisis.
3) Joyride
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
12-year-old Mully steals a taxi and is shocked to find Joy, in the back seat with her baby. Two loveable rogues go across Ireland, gradually finding the friendship and love they never knew they needed in each other.
4) Fitting In
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This irreverent coming-of-age comedy follows 16-year-old Lindy, who is unexpectedly diagnosed with a reproductive condition. The news upends Lindy’s plans to have sex, her views on womanhood and sexuality, and her relationship with her mother. Most importantly, it changes her own relationship with herself. FITTING IN is a semi-autobiographical feature written and directed by Molly McGlynn.
5) Head On
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Over a 24-hour period, 19-year-old Ari confronts his sexuality and his Greek background. Ari is obsessed with sex and has sexual encounters with multiple people, most of them gay, and attempts to fulfill the sister of one of his best friends. At the same time, he is facing problems with his traditional Greek parents, who have no clue about his sexual and drug taking activities.
6) Premature
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
On a summer night in Harlem during her last months at home before starting college, seventeen-year-old poet Ayanna (Zora Howard) meets Isaiah (Joshua Boone), a charming music producer who has just moved to the city. It's not long before these two artistic souls are drawn together in a passionate summer romance. But as the highs of young love give way to jealousy, suspicion, and all-too-real consequences, Ayanna must confront the complexities of the...
7) Wonderwell
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age fairy-tale set between modern-day Italy and the fantastical realm just beyond, Wonderwell follows Violet, a naive and inquisitive 12-year-old girl, on a thrilling adventure that transforms her life forever.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
For three teenage boys spending a lonely summer on the beach in New England, it was the summer they learned about life, the summer they became men, the SUMMER OF '42. World War II. Fifteen-year-old, sensitive Hermie (Gary Grimes) and his friends Oscy (Jerry Houser) and Benjie (Oliver Conant), the "terrible trio," spend the long summer days dreaming of and ogling girls. But Hermie has his eye on an older woman, 22-year-old, married Dorothy (Jennifer...
Author
Description
We all love our mothers.And our mothers love us back. There is little more unconditional love than that which a mother gives. Mothers love their disobedient and even criminal sons. In their mind, they can do no wrong.Mothers want to protect their children, usually more than they want to protect themselves. Are there mothers so determined to protect their sons from the risks and dangers that the wide world presents, that they would choose an astonishing...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Una exasperada profesora de ciencias sociales de secundaria con la mitad de su clase de último año reprobando, recurre a una medida drástica que resulta en el Mar de la Tranquilidad 2.0. Cuatro de sus estudiantes proponen un proyecto radical para ayudar a frenar el aumento del nivel del mar y proporcionar una patria a algunos de los millones de refugiados que están a la deriva por las guerras, las economías en quiebra y la violencia de las pandillas....
Author
Language
English
Description
While watching the demolition of his old school Placidus College, Simon Hickey looks back on ten turbulent, life defining years, when the first crop of Australia's baby boomers were awakening to their sexuality. Seduced by the power of the pulpit, and the Aquinine Brothers, Simon's attention is directed toward a religious vocation.
12) A Cold Retreat
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Description
As a child, Penny dreams of being a princess. She knows life isn't exactly like fairy tales, but she hopes it can be similar.
The future isn't so kind to Penny. The princess in her reality turns out to be evil. Battered and bruised, she hits rock bottom.
Years have passed, but the past cannot be forgotten. Now someone is intent on making the men pay for what they have done.
This is a chilling tale of revenge that explores the impact of not being...
13) Séance
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After the death of her mother, Nancy is relocated to a place she's never known existed: her family's ancestral home, the haunted Spottswood Mansion, located in the quiet hamlet of Summer's End Louisana. Starting school at Talbot High without knowing anyone can be challenging. Still, Nancy is experiencing a tough time adjusting to her life as a Freshman, falling victim to bullying by Emma, the leader of the popular girl group The Posh Girls. But things...
Author
Language
English
Description
An offbeat love story about the adventures and mutual rescue of a young woman out of place in her hometown and a mysterious stranger who calls himself Peter Parker (and begins to cast her in the role of Spider-Man's first sweetheart), The Night Gwen Stacy Died is about first loss, first love, and finding our real identities.
15) The Frontrunner
Author
Language
English
Description
Russ Clayton is a young man who keeps losing the important people in his life. Each time someone disappears, he finds himself left adrift. The Universe stacked against him. He only finds peace running alone on the roads of his small town in Kansas.Russ finally believes that everyone in his life is gone. Feeling abandoned, reckless, and liberated, he gives himself up wholly to the running by setting an impossible goal. But, he needs help.Long ago,...
Author
Language
English
Description
A word of caution - everything you think you know may be wrong.
Tom has a lot on his plate, he is feeling useless and dejected. A chance meeting with an old man and the tales he tells of magic, mystery and mayhem changes Tom's beliefs and he embarks on an arduous journey in search of wealth. When Tom reaches his destination he does indeed find treasure - although not what he believed treasure to be. Tom returns home a changed man after discovering...
17) Suburbia
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Description
SUBURBIA is director Penelope Spheeris's study of the Los Angeles punk rock scene in the early 1980s. Evan and his younger brother leave their broken home in an attempt to escape their alcoholic mother. They fall in with "The Rejected" (aka T.R.), a group of punks who live as squatters in an abandoned home by the side of the highway. With T.R., the boys find a new family. But their newfound family will be tested when they become the target of "Citizens...
18) Ties
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a shiny new convertible arrives for her twenty-first birthday, Hattie Beckett has had enough of her absent dad trying to buy a place in her life. It's time for him to face her--or get out of her life forever.She tosses some clothes in a bag, looks up her father's last known address, and sets her GPS for Silver Stand, California.When she arrives at a beach-bum paradise that's totally foreign to her New England upbringing and finds nothing but...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Writing in a fervently literary style that flirts openly with the traditions of Salinger, Plath, and Fitzgerald, Hernández is a diamond-sharp satirist and a bracingly fresh chronicler of the heartbreak of trying to grow up. Honest and absurd, funny and tragic, wild and lovely, this novel describes modern coming-of-age with poetic precision."*
The Devil Wears Prada meets The Bell Jar in this story of a wide-eyed Ivy League grad who discovers that...
Author
Language
English
Description
A woman's coming-of-age through a toxic relationship, isolation, and betrayal-set against the stark landscape of the far north.
Millicent is a shy, 24-year-old reporter who moves to Whitehorse to work for a failing daily newspaper. With winter looming and the Yukon descending into darkness, Millicent begins a relationship with Pascal, an eccentric and charming middle-aged filmmaker who lives on a converted school bus in a Walmart parking lot. What...
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