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1) Girlhood
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the "boys' law" in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the gang. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection. Realizing this sort of lifestyle will never...
3) Lolita
Publisher
Under the Milky Way
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (132 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An iconic adaptation of the Vladimir Nabokov Classic, starring Oscar Winner Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith and Dominique Swain, LOLITA tells a disturbing tale of tortured and forbidden love. Humber Humbert, a professor of French literature, travels to a small New England Town to take a teaching position, searching for lodging he visits the home of a single mother Charlotte and her 14 year old daughter Dolores (Lolita). Upon seeing Dolores, Humbert...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
A taut, nuanced story about the depths of female friendships and the dark side of teenage infatuations. BREATHE, the sophomore directorial effort from Melanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds, Beginners), is an assured adaptation of the sensational French young adult novel of the same name. Charlie (Josephine Japy) is seventeen and bored. Her estranged parents are too caught up in their own drama to pay her much attention. School holds no surprises either,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 94 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Deutsch
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...
6) Paper moon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1973, [2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A teenage delinquent befriends a surly magician who helps her navigate her inner demons and dysfunctional family with sleight of hand magic. A coming-of-age comedy that touches on unlikely friendships, grief and finding hope in the darkest moments.
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (243 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
日本語
Description
From the creators of Ghost in the Shell comes a wonderfully expressive and beautifully hand-drawn animated tale that combines bursts of whimsy and kinetic humor with deeply felt emotion and drama. The last time Momo saw her father they had a fight - and now all she has left to remember him by is an incomplete letter, a blank piece of paper penned with the words "Dear Momo," but nothing more. Moving with her mother to the remote Japanese island of...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A popular teenage girl who makes fun of everyone awakes one morning to find herself in the body of a 30 year old man. While trying to figure out how this happened and how to get her old body back, she discovers how cruel she's been.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Lily and her companion, Rosaleen, an African-American woman who has cared from Lily since her mother's death ten years earlier, flee their home after Rosaleen is victimized by racist police officers, and find a safe haven in Tiburon, South Carolina at the home of three beekeeping sisters, May, June, and August.
11) Teen spirit
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Violet is a shy teenager who dreams of escaping her small town and pursuing her passion for singing. 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, it is a visceral and stylish spin on the Cinderella story.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For over fifty years, Judy Blume's classic has connected with readers through its relatable story, achingly funny details, and candid exploration of life's biggest questions. In Lionsgate's big-screen adaptation, eleven-year-old Margaret is uprooted from her life in New York City for the suburbs of New Jersey, going through the messy and tumultuous throes of puberty with new friends in a new school. She relies on her mother, Barbara, who is also struggling...
13) Lamb
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A chaste love story of sorts, about a couple of depressed outsiders who find each other: David, a divorced 47-year-old Chicagoan reeling from the death of his father, and eleven-year-old Tommie, who has little use for her sullen and neglectful parents and seems to spend her days wandering around acting wise beyond her years.
14) Vesper
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a thirteen-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed father, meets a woman with a secret who will force her to use her wits, strengths, and biohacking abilities to fight for the possibility of having a future.
16) Raw
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In Justine's family everyone is a veterinarian and vegetarian. Sixteen-years-old, and an exceptional student, she is about to start studies at a veterinarian school where her older sister is also a student. But, she has barely arrived when the hazing starts. Justine is forced to eat raw meat. It is the first time in her life she has eaten meat of any kind. The consequences quickly make themselves felt, and Justine discovers her true nature.
17) Ixcanul
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Language
Mayan
Description
"A dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Mayans living on a coffee plantation at the base of an active volcano. A ... fusion of fact and fable, this ... film is an immersive journey into its characters' customs and beliefs, chronicling with unblinking realism disappearing traditions and a disappearing people"--Container.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 146 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a Victor's Tour of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games, The Quarter Quell, and announces a...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, Autumn and her cousin Skylar embark across state lines to New York City on a fraught journey of friendship, bravery, and compassion.
20) Yes, God, yes
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Alice, a strait-laced Catholic student, discovers more than she bargained for after an innocent AOL chat turns racy. Seeking redemption, she attends a mysterious religious retreat to try to suppress her urges, only to come face to face with everything she's been trying so desperately to avoid.
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