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1) Charlie zone
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A disgraced aboriginal boxer is reduced to backstreet brawls for chump change. But when he's hired to kidnap a runaway teen from a local drug house, the two will bust open a nightmare of violence, betrayal, desperate choices, and dark secrets. For a last-chance fighter who won't stay down and a long-damaged girl who's finally standing up, is staying alive only half the battle? It's a hard-hitting drama about rage, revenge, and redemption in a hellhole...
2) Malamor
Publisher
Venevision International
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
"Con la Sierra Nevada como encenario, Lisa (Cristina Umaña), quien es una adolescente, se encuentra ahora en el dilema de estar enamorada del novio de su madre, quien es adicto a la heroína."--Container.
Fifteen-year-old Lisa, once a teenager with normal interests, now a troubled girl in love with her mother's heroin-addict lover, searches desperately and violently for understanding and for vibrant color in a world too bland for her.
3) 10E
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A teenager's reputation takes a hit at school, and her father tries to rebuild their relationship by being a friend when she really needs a father.
4) Pariah
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Alike is a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents Audrey and Arthur and younger sister Sharonda in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is a good student at her local high school. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity - sometimes succeeding, sometimes...
7) Speak
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
A teen retreats into self-imposed silence after being raped. Her art and a teacher help her regain her voice and inner strength.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
It's l968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind, but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley, where for generations the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time.
9) Lore
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Deutsch
Description
Abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings, led by fourteen year old Lore embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country.
10) Scream
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997?]
Language
English
Description
A series of mysterious murders committed by a masked killer transforms a seemingly peaceful community into a place where no one is safe and everyone is suspect. Part horror movie and part spoof of the slasher genre.
14) Thirteen
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen years after her abduction, 26-year-old Ivy Moxam flees the cellar that has held her captive for half her life. But escape is just the beginning of Ivy's story. Just as she's picking up the pieces of the life she was forced to leave behind, a startling discovery leaves everyone scrambling: her former captor has found his next victim. Forced to confront the truth of what happened in that cellar, Ivy's story leaves the detectives with one question:...
Publisher
Sony Picture Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Dawn "Wienerdog" Wiener is a junior high geek who just wants to be popular. Teased by her classmates and tormented by the school bully, Dawn develops an improbable plan to seduce the star of a high-school garage band.
16) Gimme shelter
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Based on inspiring true events, a teenage girl flees life with her drug-addicted mother to find the wealthy father she's never known. Tells the extraordinary and courageous tale of one girl's fight against the odds to find redemption and, ultimately, to create a family she can call her own.
17) Love you anyway
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The evolving formats of the home video chronicle the life of a young girl from birth to womanhood as she experiences the highs and lows of life alongside her childhood best friend, Lucas. As Mackenzie's struggle with depression worsens over the years, she's forced to find the will to fight alongside the people who love her most. It is an honest, voyeuristic glimpse into the intimate struggles of surviving depression and embracing life's challenges....
18) How I live now
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
An American teenager is sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, but soon they begin to struggle as war breaks out.
19) 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.
20) The nest
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A suspenseful Scottish drama about a wealthy couple who would do anything to have a baby. After a chance encounter, they recruit a down-on-her-luck eighteen-year-old to be a surrogate, but secrets emerge about the girl's past that could make them regret their deal.
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