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22) Diggers
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age story about four working-class friends growing up in Long Island, New York, as clam diggers.
23) Abe
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old ABE is an aspiring chef, but his family—half-Israeli, half-Palestinian—have never eaten together without a fight. But when ABE ditches camp to spend time with street chef Chico, his mentor’s fusion cuisine inspires him to unite his family through food. ABE wants to cook a meal that will bring everyone to the table, but he’s about to learn that the kitchen can’t heal some divides.
24) Paper Spiders
Publisher
Entertainment Squad
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Dawn recently lost her husband, and experiences growing anxiety as her daughter Melanie plans to move away for college. An altercation with a hostile new neighbor aggravates Dawn's mental condition, and she begins to show signs of paranoid delusions. Determined to help her mom, Melanie attempts a series of interventions, but challenging Dawn's reality of persecution threatens to destroy their loving relationship. Melanie is forced to make the toughest...
25) Boyhood
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Filmed over twelve years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's acclaimed smash hit is a groundbreaking celebration of life. Stars Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.
26) Hesher
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.
27) Georgia Rule
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A troubled young woman is sent to live with her grandmother for the summer, while hiding a secret that could potentially tear her family apart.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In his third feature, director Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha) scores a triumph with an autobiographical coming-of-age story about a teenager (Jesse Eisenberg) whose parents are divorcing. The father (Jeff Daniels) and mother (Laura Linney) duke it out in half-civilized, half-savage fashion, while their two sons adapt in different ways, shifting allegiances between parents. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for...
29) All Summers End
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A teenage boy (Tye Sheridan) falls in love with a girl (Kaitlyn Dever), but after a summer prank goes awry, he must grapple with his guilty conscience.
30) Adult World
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An aspiring writer craving inspiration (Emma Roberts) stalks her literary idol (John Cusack) and finds work in a sex toy shop in this very funny and sexy comedy.
31) Drunk Bus
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A directionless, young campus bus driver and a Samoan security guard named Pineapple form an unlikely kinship as they navigate the unpredictable late shift known as the "DRUNK BUS."
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Icelandic
Description
In acclaimed Icelandic film HEARTSTONE, two teens share a summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other finds new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends, it's time to leave the playground and face adulthood.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The acclaimed, bestselling author--winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize--tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining...
34) The Great Day
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Cesar-winner Pascal Plisson ("On the Way Back to School") introduces four children from different regions of the developing world, all of whom have the ambition and talent to rise to the top. Their perseverance is the foundation of their dreams, and it fires their capacity to practice regularly and to make the most of their physical, mental, and emotional powers. A 15-year-old girl from Benares, India, studies to pass a test to gain a scholarship...
Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
With only a library book as his guide, 14-year-old William Kamkwamba builds a windmill in his Malawian village that changes his life forever. Using junk parts and an inexhaustible imagination, he harnesses enough energy to power a generator that saves his family from famine and resuscitates his dying farming community. This film captures the dramatic upheavals, external pressures, and subtle shifts of perspective in this inspiring story of a young...
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An enlightening and poignant coming of age story that follows the journeys of four courageous blind teenagers as they strive to achieve their dreams: to be a sponsored skateboarder, travel the world, become a rock star and be the first family member to graduate. Their stories shine a proactive light on the social and institutional obstacles faced by people who are blind and what it takes to surmount those barriers. Winner of an Audience Award at the...
37) The only story
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the Man Booker Prize-winning author ..., a novel about a young man on the cusp of adulthood and a woman who has long been there, a love story shot through with sheer beauty, profound sadness, and deep truth. Most of us have only one story to tell. I don't mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are countless events, which we turn into countless stories. But there's only one that matters, only one finally worth telling. This...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
This PEN/Hemingway Award winner about coming of age in Los Angeles is a “little gem of a novel . . . a masterwork of Hollywood fiction” (Salon).
He’s a child of 1940s Hollywood—specifically, Casa Fiesta, a ranch in the Malibu hills that he shares with his mother, a onetime Broadway headliner, and his father, a star of Westerns. But when his parents fall out of favor in Tinseltown, the narrator...
He’s a child of 1940s Hollywood—specifically, Casa Fiesta, a ranch in the Malibu hills that he shares with his mother, a onetime Broadway headliner, and his father, a star of Westerns. But when his parents fall out of favor in Tinseltown, the narrator...
39) The Paper Man
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a strange seaside city on the verge of revolution, a young man made of paper climbs out of a crashed bus and into his new life. He is called Michael, and since the procedure that transformed him from a regular boy into one made of paper, he has been living the isolated existence of a freak inside his family's Inland home. Escape is Michael's only hope, and the City offers art, adventure and possibility for everyone, even somebody as strange
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Publisher
SparkPress
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Briar Logan is a loner who has already survived a wretched childhood, near starvation, and the harsh western frontier in the 1860s. Just when she is on the brink of finally opening her heart to the possibilities of happiness, the love of her life is kidnapped by lawless gold miners-and she steels herself for what could be the greatest loss of her life.
Desperate to save her husband and the solitary life they have carved out of the wilderness, Briar...
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