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Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Sometimes what's in your head isn't as crazy as you think ... that's certainly true for Craig, a stressed-out teenager who checks himself into a mental health clinic for some time out. What he finds instead is an unlikely mentor, a potential new romance and an opportunity to begin anew. Charming, witty and smart, it's a coming-of-age story that's kind of a funny story.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A coming of age comedy with a unique spin. Morris, a 13-year-old has just relocated with his single father, Curtis, to Germany. Morris who fancies himself the next Notorious B.I.G. is a complete fish out of water in this new country. He's a budding hip-hop star in an EDM world. To complicate matters further, Morris quickly falls for his classmate, Katrin. Morris sets out against all odds to take the hip-hop world by storm, and win the girl of his...
3) Circumstance
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Persian
Description
A provocative coming-of-age story that cracks open the hidden, underground world of Iranian youth culture filled with sex, drugs and defiance. This suspenseful tale of love and defiance unfolds as a wealthy family struggles to contain their teenage daughter's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's dangerous obsession.
4) Paper towns
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the bestselling novel by author John Green, a coming-of-age story centering on Quentin and his enigmatic neighbor Margo, who loved mysteries so much she became one. After taking him on an all-night adventure through their hometown, Margo suddenly disappears; leaving behind cryptic clues for Quentin to decipher. The search leads Quentin and his quick-witted friends on an exhilarating adventure that is equal parts hilarious and moving.
5) Mud
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Two boys, Ellis and his best friend Neckbone, find a mysterious man named Mud hiding out on a deserted island in the Mississippi. Mud tells the boys fantastic stories about his life, including how he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper. The boys agree to help him, but it isn't long until their small town is besieged by bounty hunters out...
6) Jolene
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
At the age of fifteen, Jolene, a free-spirited orphan, embarks on a decade-long cross-country adventure, where she experiences life, love, heartbreak, and freedom.
7) Sophie Jones
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In this debut feature by filmmaker Jessie Barr, sixteen-year-old Sophie Jones grapples with the recent death of her mother. Physical intimacy with another person becomes the only way for Sophie to feel anything. Eroticism becomes the antidote to her mother's death. She tries to keep her relationships strictly for her own empowerment and as a means of distraction. But what happens when Sophie finds that she does want more than physical intimacy but...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Damien and Thomas are French teenagers from very different upbringings who go to the same high school but can't stand each other. When circumstances bring Damien's mother Marianne to invite Thomas to live with them, the young men are forced to coexist and work through their emerging attraction and complicated desires.
9) Mustang
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Türkçe
Description
It's the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences. The family home slowly turns into a prison, classes on housework and cooking replace school, and marriages begin to be arranged.
10) Short term 12
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Grace is a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker, and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason. But Grace's own difficult past, and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself, throws her into unforeseen confusion, made sharper with the arrival of a new intake at the facility, a gifted but troubled teenage girl with whom Grace has...
11) Dear Eleanor
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the midst of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, two teenage girls drive from California to New York to meet their hero, Eleanor Roosevelt.
12) The way he looks
Pub. Date
2015
Language
Portuguese
Description
A fun and tender story about friendship and the complications of young love. Leo is a blind teenager who's fed up with his overprotective mother and the bullies at school. Looking to assert his independence, he decides to study abroad to the dismay of his best friend, Giovana. When Gabriel, the new kid in town, teams with Leo on a school project, new feelings blossom in him that make him reconsider his plans.
13) We the animals
Publisher
[Passion River]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Manny, Joel, and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah embraces an imagined world all on his own.
14) Beans
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge. Torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence, she is forced to grow up fast to become the tough Mohawk warrior that she needs to be during the Indigenous uprising known as The Oka Crisis, which tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.
15) Belfast
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A poignant story of love, laughter, and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Johanna Morrigan is a bright, quirky, sixteen-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life in Wolverhampton and live out her creative fantasies. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and off-beat music review to a group of self-important indie rock critics at a weekly magazine.
17) Minari
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Diagnosed with a mental illness halfway through his senior year of high school, a witty introspective teen struggles to keep it a secret while falling in love with a brilliant classmate who inspires him to open his heart and not be defined by his condition.
19) Shithouse
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A homesick college freshman goes to a party at legendary frat Shithouse and ends up spending the night with his sophomore RA who's had a shitty day and wants someone to hang out with. After having that moment, she ignores him completely, and he decides to pull out all the stops in order to rekindle their connection.
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