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1) Lady Bird
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English
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Directed by Greta Gerwig and nominated for five **Oscars**, LADY BIRD is a warm, affecting comedy about a high schooler (Saoirse Ronan) who must navigate a loving but turbulent relationship with her strong-willed mother (Laurie Metcalf) over the course of her eventful and poignant senior year of high school. **Golden Globe** winner for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy and Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy....
4) Abyss
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By the Colombian author of The Bitch, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and PEN Awards Winner
"An eight-year-old girl takes in a series of troubling events in this luminous and transfixing account of fractured family life from Colombian writer Quintana (The Bitch). Readers will be dazzled." -Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around...
6) Holiday
Publisher
TLA Releasing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
In a time of turmoil for Ecuador, Juan Pablo, sixteen, travels to the family hacienda in the Andes, where his uncle, facing a corruption scandal, has taken refuge with his wife and teenage children. There he meets Juano, seventeen, an enigmatic, self-assured black-metal fan from the nearby pueblo, who opens his eyes to a new, liberating universe.
Series
Film Movement volume 11, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
"Alberto, a divorced father, takes his two children for a vacation at a thermal resort in Salto. Things don't turn out as planned as the non-stop rain forces them to stay indoors, away from the pools and with no TV. Alberto's efforts to entertain his children are met with indifference by Federico, his youngest son, and Lucía, his teenage daughter."--IMDb.com
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Publisher
DistriMax
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Español
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Dos abrazos: A poignant tale of four lonely strangers: a schoolboy, a cashier girl, a taxi driver and a passenger's daughter. Forced to fend for themselves they will find hope in chaotic Mexico City.
Dos abrazos: La conmovedora historia de cuatro extraños: un chico de doce años, una cajera, un taxista y la hija de un pasajero. En la caótica Ciudad de México estos solitarios personajes encontrarán una luz de esperanza.
Efectos secundarios: At...
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English
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Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered, both are put into social services. After clashing with their new surroundings, Will and Tom set off on a harrowing journey back to their wild homeland. Nominated for Best Feature, Best Supporting Female, and Best Director at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards.**...
10) Eighth grade
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school (the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year) before she begins high school.
12) The Fabelmans
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Young Sammy Fabelman falls in love with movies after his parents take him to see The Greatest Show on Earth. Armed with a camera, Sammy starts to make his films at home, much to the delight of his supportive mother.
13) Sublime
Publisher
Cinephobia Releasing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Sublime is a thoughtful and tender handling of a teen's emerging sexuality. Shy sixteen-year-old Manuel comes alive when he, his best friend Felipe, and other buddies form a garage rock band. The two boys, friends since childhood, have a close, easy relationship made even more intense with the band and their music making. Strains develop for Manuel when his best mate starts dating a girl. Manuel also begins to date a female classmate, yet all the...
14) La bastarda
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English
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"The story of an orphan, Okomo, who lives with her grandmother and dreams of finding her father. She enlists the help of outcasts in the village including a gang of girls. She finds herself falling in love with the gang leader and rebelling against the norms of Fang culture."--
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Series
Vampyria saga volume 1
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: A fiery heroine seeks vengeance against a royal court of deadly vampires in this epic alternate history set in lavish Versailles.
16) Minari
Language
English
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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.
17) Bonsai
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean students who, seeking truth in great literature, find each other instead. Like all young couples, they lie to each other, revise themselves, and try new identities on for size, observing and analyzing their love story as if it's one of the great novels they both pretend to have read. As they shadow each other throughout their young adulthoods, falling together and drifting apart, Zambra spins...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Catalan
Description
Six-year-old Frida looks on in silence as the last objects from her recently deceased mother's apartment in Barcelona are placed in boxes. Punctuated by moments of youthful exuberance and mature ruminations, this coming-of-age drama, set amongst summery hues, is an extraordinarily moving snapshot of being a child in an adult world.
19) Barrio
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
Caught in the concrete jungle of the big city, 15-year-old friends Rai, Manu, and Javi pass the summer dreaming of girls and sandy beaches. Javi is surprised by his friends' sexual interest in his sister Susi. Not having a vehicle, Manu struggles to keep his pizza delivery job. Rai decides to enter a contest for an exotic vacation, but wins a jet ski instead. This is immediately stolen before he manages to profit by selling it. Manu and his father...
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
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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.
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