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1) Shazam!
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
For one 14-year-old boy, life can be a challenge sometimes. With all of the usual crises that accompany being an adolescent, foster kid Billy has some additional obstacles in life. A chance encounter with a mystical wizard completely changes everything. And it's not long before this boy discovers that one phrase grants him the ability to make a transformation into a superhero. In fact, it couldn't be easier. All Billy needs to do is shout "Shazam!"...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The breathtaking, generation-defining Broadway phenomenon becomes a soaring cinematic event as Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt reprises his role as an anxious, isolated high schooler aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social-media age. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Stephen Chbosky, the film is written for the screen by the show's Tony winner Steven Levenson with music and lyrics by the show₂s...
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of his older brother Joe, Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is shocked that Joe has made him sole guardian of his teenage nephew Patrick. Taking leave of his job as a janitor in Boston, Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea, the fishing village where his working-class family has lived for generations. There, he is forced to deal with a past that separated him from his wife, Randi (Michelle Williams), and the community where he...
4) Mischief
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A shy teen befriends his rebellious neighbor and gathers the courage to ask out his dream girl in 1950s Ohio.
5) Equus
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged psychiatrist tries to find out why a young man has blinded six horses entrusted to his care.
7) Gran Torino
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Walt is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor, Thao, a young Hmong teenager, becomes pressured by his gang member cousin to steal Walt's Gran...
8) Kick-Ass
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Ordinary teenager and rabid comic-book geek Dave Lizewski captures the imagination of the public when he becomes the no-nonsense vigilante, Kick-Ass. After he teams up with the fearless father-daughter crime-fighting duo, Big Daddy and Hit-Girl, the three work together to take down the criminal empire of local Mafioso Frank D'Amico. But when D'Amico's son Chris is reborn as Red Mist, the showdown between the forces of good and evil will force Kick-Ass...
Series
Criterion collection volume 329
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Traces a young peasant's journey from potential Resistance member to Gestapo recruit. At once the story of a nation and one troubled boy's horrific coming of age, the disquieting portrait of lost innocence and guilt.
10) Sing Street
Publisher
the Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
See 1980s Dublin through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Conor, who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents' relationship and money troubles while trying to adjust to his new inner-city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher. He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious, über-cool Raphina. With the aim of winning her heart he invites her to star in his band's music videos. There's only one problem: he's...
11) Billy Elliot
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.
12) Turtles can fly
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Kurdish
Description
A young teenage boy's life in rural Iraq is thrown into flux by the impending U.S. invasion, his crush on a local girl, and the seemingly-magical abilities of one of his friends.
13) Malena
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Set in a small Sicilian town during WWII, the story centers on Renato, a 13-year-old boy with a coming of age fantasy life who falls hard for the town's ultra-beautiful twentysomething, Malena.
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