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1) Ben is back
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ben Burns, a drug-addicted teenager, shows up unexpectedly to visit his family on Christmas Eve. His wary mother welcomes him, but after finding out he's still in danger, she must to do everything she can to help her family.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
In a small village near Paris, 14-year-old boys and girls enter the training center for future lads and jockeys. For these young pupils, the transition between the family environment and this new world is brutal. Though sharing the world of teenagers -- flirting, cell phones and PlayStation -- they enter a world where the comfort of the horses comes before that of the human.
4) Sing Street
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
See 1980s Dublin through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Conor, who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents' relationship and money troubles while trying to adjust to his new inner-city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher. He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious, ��ber-cool Raphina. With the aim of winning her heart he invites her to star in his band's music videos. There's only one problem:...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Focusing on the relationship between Hubert Minel (Xavier Dolan), a 16-year-old Quebecois living in suburban Montreal, and his single mother Chantale (Anne Dorval), I killed my mother beautifully captures the anxieties of a mother-son relationship. While he gauges her with contempt, only seeing her out-of-date sweater and kitschy decor, the ingrained mechanisms (i. e. manipulation and guilt) of their relationship beautifully (and tragically) unravel...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
For summer vacation, two groups of high school students hitchhike to the Baltic Sea, where fun and trouble mix to create ties of friendship and love. After DEFA made a number of "pessimistic" films for teenagers, this musical was a breakthrough into unrestrained entertainment and was one of East Germany's top box-office hits. Hot Summer was featured in the 1997 documentary on East Bloc musicals, Eastside Story. While hitchhiking to the Baltic, a group...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In this Golden Globe-nominated psychological thriller, Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton plays Eva, the mother to her deeply disturbed son Kevin (Ezra Miller). Eva contends with her clueless husband (John C. Reilly) and her son's malevolent ways as the narrative builds to a chilling and unforgettable climax.
10) Boys To Men?
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this moving follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Hoop Dreams, award-winning filmmaker Frederick Marx continues his exploration of the lives of ordinary young men and the extraordinary challenges they face. Boys to Men? - the second in a proposed trilogy about masculinity in America - trains its focus on the pressures and expectations faced by a diverse group of young urban males. This program consists of four films. Are You Listening? features...
11) The 400 blows
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Français
Description
Fourteen-year-old Antoine Doinet lives in a cramped apartment with his mother and stepfather, neglected by them and unlucky at school. Living an intense imaginative life of his own he gets into trouble and is finally committed to reform school from which he escapes and runs towards the sea, which he has never seen.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
When the class-overachiever, the head cheerleader, and the vegan lover discover they're all dating the same guy - namely the star basketball player John Tucker - the girls decide to recruit a bashful new girl named Kate to become the ideal girl to break Tucker's bad boy heart. But as Kate uses the girls' combined wiles to lure Tucker, his interest gives her a social standing she's never had before. But the intoxicating experience may cost her a chance...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this inspiring tale based on true events, seventeen-year-old Ali Jahani is a newcomer to a small California town, where he stands out as different in an unwelcoming community. Living with his embittered uncle, the boy faces a mountain of adversity everywhere he turns. Rejected by everyone but determined to fit in, he joins the schools' floundering wrestling team. With a chance to change how others see him, Ali must step up and learn to be a hero....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Faced with a drought that endangers the continuity of their people, Masai elders are convinced that they have been cursed by the Red God -- the God of Vengeance. Following the death of the war chief, a group of adolescents must now cross over to adulthood, forced to quickly form a new generation of inexperienced but brave warriors. The young men must bring back the mane of a legendary lion, which appears at every critical period of Masai history to...
15) Saturday church
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this New York Times Critics' Pick, A 14 year old boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.
16) No hard feelings
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
On the brink of losing her childhood home, Maddie discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to "date" their introverted nineteen-year-old son, Percy, before he leaves for college. To her surprise, Maddie soon discovers the awkward Percy is no sure thing.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
Ça Twiste à Poponguine is perhaps the most charming, fast-paced and accessible film in our Library of African Cinema collection. This bittersweet, coming of age story is a kind of African equivalent of George Lucas' American Graffiti, Spike Lee's Crooklyn or Godard's Masculin/Feminin. These Senegalese teenagers living it up on the beach may also remind less discriminating viewers of Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon in Beach Blanket Bingo! Director...
20) Scum
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the 'old hands'. The film was originally made as a BBC play but it was banned before ever being shown. So 'Alan Clarke' and 'Roy Minton' got it re-made as a film. This is a tough and brutal film and should not be viewed lightly....
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