Movies: Adolescence

A coming of age drama set in Texas, about a suburban teen boy, estranged from his family, who enlists the help of his dysfunctional friends to become a professional motorcycle racer....

Three working-class teenage girls in a port city in Bangladesh escape daily hardships and stifling family lives by riding waves on their surfboards and grabbing hold of the fleeting and thrilling sense of freedom that brings....

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A new haircut. A look. And the horrendous routine of high school becomes an odyssey of love for 16-year-old Romane. But Diego is as good-looking as he is cowardly, and love is as sweet as it is cruel. Romane copes, armed with courage and humor....

Five sunbathing teenage girls find a sleeping man in the bushes and start to play a game, but it all goes a bit too far....

Eleven-year-old Manue and Sophie are best friends. Be it one or the other, their main topic of conversation concerns going out with boys. Manue, her time taken up with a succession of passing fancies, progressively neglects Sophie, who really doesn’t...

Rio de Janeiro, May, 2012. João waits for Bia in front of the women’s restroom. However, she mysteriously disappears. Now, he doesn’t know if she died, was raptured or just fell in love with somebody else....

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The emotional need and the fear of exposing themselves make Etna and Dario learn to cope with loneliness....

13-year-old Rafael Bregman prepares for his bar mitzvah in the Jewish community of Montevideo, Uruguay....

An adolescent girl loses her mother and is left to live with her distant family members. She discovers her aunt is keeping her from the last letter her mother left for her, growing her resentment toward her family....

A teenager tests his limits by attending a costume party, where his anxiety manifests itself in the form of a looming shadow....

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Five boys and five girls ages 13 to 19 live on a farm for ten weeks, to be filmed, and to see what might emerge for each of them personally....

This film presents a series of extemporaneous interviews with teenagers and young adults who have taken narcotics for "kicks," "association," or "curiosity." Residents of the California Rehabilitation Center relate how they were introduced to narcoti...

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The Smog blanketed the planet forcing people to live confined. But when you are 15 like Juliette, real life truly begins outside....

A young woman reminisces over her adolescence before her birthday....

Steve Street is about to lead his Highschool Football team to the City Championship, when he's diagnosed with cancer....