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Pub. Date
2015.
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.
Pub. Date
2011.
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.
3) Summer of 84
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
It's the summer of 1984, the perfect time to be 15 years old and free. But when neighborhood conspiracy theorist Davey Armstrong begins to suspect his police officer neighbor might be the serial killer all over the local news, he and his three best friends begin an investigation that soon turns dangerous.
Pub. Date
2014.
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...
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
While fourteen year old Duncan is being dragged on a family trip with his mom and her overbearing boyfriend, he finds a gregarious friend at a local water park. The two form a powerful bond as Duncan learns to swim through the challenges of life, love, family and friendship, resulting in a vacation he'll never forget.
Pub. Date
2014.
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...
Formats
Description
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (*The Favourite, The Lobster, Dogtooth*) and staring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman, THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER is a heart-stopping thriller about a surgeon whose family is terrorized by a depraved teenager determined to take revenge on the doctor for a fatal past mistake. Winner of Best Screenplay at the **Cannes Film Festival**. Nominated for Best Supporting Male and Best Cinematography at the **Film Independent Spirit...
Pub. Date
2015.
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...
9) Boyhood
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen.
10) 5-25-77
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
During the spring of 1977, sci-fi-obsessed teenager Pat Johnson finds himself torn between making 8mm sequels to his favorite movies and pursuing the girl of his dreams, Linda. Desperate to help her son escape his likely future in Wadsworth, Illinois, (population 750), his mother Janet cold-calls the editor of 'American Cinematographer' magazine, and Pat soon finds himself on "the ultimate trip" to Hollywood, becoming the very first outsider to see...
11) Chronicle
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Description
When three ordinary high school friends discover they have unusual powers, harmless pranks escalate to dangerous activities as their darker sides develop along with their powers.
12) Dreamkeeper
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Fullscreen version.
Description
A Lakota storyteller and his grandson, a troubled 17-year-old boy, embark on a cross-country journey toward self-discovery. The grandson agrees to take his grandfather from Pine Ridge Reservation in S.D. to a powwow in Santa Fe in order to escape from some trouble with the local gang. Interwoven with the journey of the grandfather and grandson are retellings of Native American legends.
13) Labor Day
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler struggles to be the man of his house and care for his reclusive mother Adele, all the while confronting the pangs of adolescence. Henry and his mother encounter Frank Chambers, an intimidating man clearly in need of help. Frank convinces them to take him into their home and later is revealed to be an escaped convict. The events of this long Labor Day weekend will shape them for the rest of their lives.
14) Lean on Pete
Pub. Date
2018
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Charley (Charlie Plummer) finds acceptance and camaraderie at a local racetrack where he lands a job caring for an aging Quarter Horse named Lean on Pete. The horse's gruff owner, Del Montgomery (Steve Buscemi), and his seasoned jockey, Bonnie (Chloë Sevigny), help Charley fill the void of his absent father. But when Charley discovers that Pete is bound for slaughter, he takes extreme measures to save him, as Charley and Pete embark...
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
Verging on adolescence, Joe finds himself more and more aggravated by his dad's attempts to control his life. Declaring freedom, Joe and his best buddy Patrick, along with an odd kid called Biaggio, escape to the woods. He declares that they're going to construct a house, just for them, with no parents or responsibility. There they discover that they are in control of their destinies, all alone out in the forest.
16) Risky business
Pub. Date
1997
Description
A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.
18) The wretched
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
A defiant teenage boy, struggling with his parents' imminent divorce, faces off with a thousand year-old witch, who is living beneath the skin of and posing as the woman next door.
20) Ordinary people
Pub. Date
2017
Description
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.
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