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Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
English
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Description
An official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Michael O'Shea's debut feature THE TRANSFIGURATION follows troubled teen Milo who hides behind his fascination with vampire lore. When he meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to challenge Milo's dark obsession, blurring his fantasy into reality. A chilling portrait of violence, THE TRANSFIGURATION is an atmospheric thriller set against the grit of New...
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
It follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Brooklyn couple has always known that their four-year-old son is more interested in fairy tale princesses than toy cars. But when his preschool director points out that his gender-nonconforming play may be more than a phase, the couple is forced to rethink their roles as parents and spouses as they apply for him to go to a private kindergarten in New York City.
4) Scaffolding
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Language
עברית
Formats
Description
17-year-old ASHER has always been the impulsive troublemaker. It’s hard for him to concentrate in class, and he is compelled by a lot of rage and violence; yet he is also endowed with a considerable amount of charm and street wisdom. While his strict father sees him as a natural successor to the family’s scaffolding business, Asher finds a different masculine role model in his literature teacher and forges a special connection with him. Torn between...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Arabic
Formats
Description
Director Nabil Ayouch (Razzia, Horses of God) drew on his own experience opening a youth cultural center in Casablanca for this story of a former rapper named Anas who takes a job teaching hip hop in an underprivileged neighborhood. Despite differences in identity, religion, and politics, Anas encourages his students to bond together and break free from the weight of restrictive traditions in order to follow their passion and express themselves through...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deadpan rich boy Harold (Bud Cort) stages elaborate suicide tableaux to get the attention of his mother, but she keeps planning his brilliant future for him instead. Obsessed with the trappings of death, Harold freaks out his blind dates, modifies his new sports car to look like a mini-hearse, and attends funerals, where he meets the spirited Maude (Ruth Gordon). An eccentric to the core, Maude lives exactly as she pleases, with avid collecting and...
7) Half Nelson
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?
8) Free Willy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A story about the friendship that develops between a 12-year-old boy who knows what it's like to be without a family, and a whale confined in a too-small tank at an aquatic park.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
From two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne comes the story of seventeen-year-old Lokita and twelve-year-old Tori, two immigrants to Belgium from Cameroon and Benin, respectively whose siblinglike bond is the only resource they can depend on in their struggle for survival on the margins of European society. The pair work as performers in a cheap trattoria, dealing drugs on the side, while balancing the demands of an indifferent bureaucracy....
10) Fish tank
Series
Criterion collection volume 553
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old dropout Mia, whose only interest is in dancing, forms an uneasy friendship with her mother's new boyfriend.
Language
English
Description
Fred Waitzkin, a sportswriter who dreams his 7-year-old son Josh will grow up to play baseball. One day in the park with his mother, Josh displays more than talent, he has a gift. Sensing his son is a future champion, Fred places Josh under the tutelage of a strict chess teacher. But when Josh suddenly starts to lose, his parents must confront their own motivations, and recognize what Josh prizes more than winning; his family's love.
12) Smooth talk
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family whose summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations is shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, it captures the thrill and terror of adolescent sexual exploration as it transforms the conventions of a coming-of-age story into something altogether more troubling and profound.
13) Slash/back
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In Pangnirtung, Canada, just 31 miles south of the Arctic Circle, it₂s just a typical summer day with no school, no cool boys (well... except one), and 24-hour sunlight. But for Maika and her friends, everything changes when they discover an alien invasion threatening their small village. These teenagers have been underestimated their whole lives but, using makeshift weapons and their horror movie knowledge, they fight to show the aliens that you...
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Maya DiMeo is a mom on a mission who will do anything for her husband, Jimmy, and kids Ray, Dylan, and J.J., her eldest son with cerebral palsy. A single camera comedy about a family with a special-needs teen that is good at dealing with the challenges he faces--and excellent at creating new ones.
15) Crescendo
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Deutsch
Description
When world-famous conductor Eduard Sporck accepts the job to create an Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, he is quickly drawn into a tempest of sheer unsolvable problems. Having grown up in a state of war, suppression or the constant risk of terrorist attacks, the young musicians from both sides are far from able to form a team. Lined up behind the two best violinists, the emancipated Palestinian Layla and the handsome Israeli Ron, they form...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Television
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Maya is the mom who will do anything for her husband, Jimmy, and kids Ray, Dylan, and JJ, her eldest son with cerebral palsy. This begins of this amusing and often unexpected comedy, the family, along with JJ's, aide Kenneth, head to London to meet up with Maya's long-estranged father, Martin, to ask him to help them in their time of need.
17) The inheritance
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An ensemble work set almost entirely within a West Philadelphia house where a community of young, Black artists and activists form a collective. A scripted drama of characters attempting to work towards political consensus-- based partly on Asili's own experiences in a Black liberationist group-- the film weaves with a documentary recollection of the Philadelphia liberation group MOVE, the victim of a notorious police bombing in 1985.
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Maya DiMeo is the mom who will do anything for her husband Jimmy and kids Ray, Dylan, and J.J., her eldest son with cerebral palsy. In season two of this amusing and often unexpected comedy, the family, along with JJ's aide Kenneth, is reunited after JJ's first summer camp adventure. As the new school year approaches, the DiMeos, who have been searching endlessly for the right school support for JJ, are faced with a new and unfamiliar reality: the...
19) Smooth talk
Series
Criterion collection volume 1068
Language
English
Description
"Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost. Based on Joyce Carol Oates' celebrated short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?," the narrative debut from Joyce Chopra features a revelatory breakout performance by Laura Dern as Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, whose summertime idyll of beach...
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