Elle Fanning
1) Teen spirit
Author
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A shy teenager from a small town befriends a mentor who encourages her to pursue her dreams through a singing competition.
4) Teen Spirit
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Violet (Elle Fanning) is a shy teenager who dreams of escaping her small town and pursuing her passion to sing. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a local singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition. Driven by a pop-fueled soundtrack, TEEN SPIRIT is a visceral and stylish spin on the Cinderella story. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival** and **SXSW Film Festival**. "*"Teen Spirit,"...
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Sally Potter's THE ROADS NOT TAKEN follows a day in the life of Leo (Javier Bardem) and his daughter Molly (Elle Fanning) as she grapples with the challenges of her father's chaotic mind. As they weave their way through New York City, Leo's journey takes on a hallucinatory quality as he floats through alternate lives he could have lived, leading Molly to wrestle with her own path as she considers her future. Official Selection at the **Berlin International...
Language
English
Formats
Description
A strong-willed single mother (Annette Bening) raises her teenage son with the help of two unconventional younger women in this funny, heartwarming look at a makeshift family’s comic adventures in Santa Barbara during the summer of 1979. Nominated for an **Academy Award** for Best Original Screenplay (Mike Mills), and two **Golden Globes** (Best Motion Picture, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Annette Bening). Nominated for Best...
7) Mary Shelley
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The torrid true-life tale of how a passionate love affair fueled the creation of trailblazing writer Mary Shelley's Gothic masterwork, Frankenstein. Elle Fanning stars.
8) Leap!
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Determined to become a dancer, a young orphan girl finds a mentor in the ballet school custodian and leans on another orphan for support.
10) Leap!
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
11) Trumbo
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. TRUMBO (directed by Jay Roach) tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger. Nominated...
12) The beguiled
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
At a girls' school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tensions, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events.
" ... A hothouse flower of startling power and intimacy. You can't shake it."--Rolling Stone.
"The performances are engrossing, particularly Kidman's ..."--Associated Press.
"Kirsten Dunst is terrific...
14) Babel
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From acclaimed Director Alejandro González Iñárritu comes the third film in his trilogy, BABEL, a critically celebrated and emotionally gripping film about the barriers that separate humankind. Nominated for seven **Academy Awards** including Best Picture. Winner of the Best Motion Picture - Drama at the **Golden Globes.** Winner of Best Director, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Technical Grand Prize Award at the **Cannes Film Festival.**...
15) First the egg
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Using simple text and illustrations, shows how animals and objects change, including tadpoles to frogs and seeds to flowers, in a book with cutouts so that certain colors from the previous picture help create the next picture.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A satirical, comedic drama, based on the occasional historical fact, about the rise of Catherine the Great. An idealistic romantic young girl, she arrives from Prussia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter hoping for love and sunshine and finds instead a dangerous, depraved, backward world that she resolves to change. All she has to do is kill her husband, beat the church, baffle the military, and get the court on her side.
17) Maleficent
Author
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When the fairy Maleficent is stripped of her wings by a man who becomes king, Maleficent curses his infant princess daughter Aurora, only to realize that Aurora may be the one person to reunite the human and fairy worlds.