6.5 /10
Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-nonsense attitude informed by her military training and a fearless determination to better the lives of her students -- no matter what the cost.
Run Time: 99 Min . MMPA: 15 . Release: Aug 11, 1995
Director: Director: John N Smith,
Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney B Vance, Robin Bartlett, Beatrice Winde,
7.1 /10
María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs to discover the world on the other side of the mountain, a place she cannot even imagine. And so she seduces a coffee-harvester who wants to escape to the USA. When this man leaves her behind, María discovers her own world and culture anew.
Run Time: 93 Min . MMPA: 7 . Release: Jan 20, 2015
Director: Director: Jayro Bustamante,
Stars: Mara Mercedes Coroy, Mara Teln, Manuel Antn, Justo Lorenzo, Marvin Coroy,
6.7 /10
Mary is a good Christian girl who goes to a good Christian high school where she has good Christian friends and a perfect Christian boyfriend. Her life seems perfect, until the day that she finds out that her boyfriend may be gay — and that she’s pregnant.
Run Time: 92 Min . MMPA: 14 . Release: Jan 21, 2004
Director: Director: Brian Dannelly,
Stars: Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin, Patrick Fugit, Heather Matarazzo,
7.1 /10
A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where he uses pubescent energy to break rocks and build walls and cairns. (It's the tradition of the father's family, called "The Irascibles" by neighbors, to spend puberty doing this.) Belli visits him and they begin sleeping together. By winter, the boy is back in the house and Belli is pregnant. Soon her parents must know.
Run Time: 120 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Sep 02, 1985
Director: Director: Fredi M Murer,
Stars: Thomas Nock, Johanna Lier, Dorothea Moritz, Rolf Illig, Tilli Breidenbach,
7.5 /10
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Run Time: 154 Min . MMPA: 16 . Release: Jun 13, 1962
Director: Director: Stanley Kubrick,
Stars: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon, Gary Cockrell, Jerry Stovin,
6.4 /10
A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.
Run Time: 105 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: May 22, 1998
Director: Director: Don Roos,
Stars: Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Galecki,
7.2 /10
At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist Judge Smails, and then the caddy golf tournament which Smails sponsors.
Run Time: 98 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Jul 25, 1980
Director: Director: Harold Ramis,
Stars: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael OKeefe, Bill Murray,
5.8 /10
A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
Run Time: 100 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Oct 16, 2013
Director: Director: Kimberly Peirce,
Stars: Chlo Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde, Judy Greer, Portia Doubleday,
7.1 /10
Algiers, 1997. The country is in the hands of terrorist groups, seeking to establish an Islamic and archaic state. Women are particularly affected and oppressed by primitive diktas, who seek to take control of their bodies and control their passage through the public space. While a frenzied hunt for women unveiled is launched, Nedjma, a young student passionate about fashion, is determined to federate the girls of her campus to organize a fashion show braving all the forbidden.
Run Time: 108 Min . MMPA: 15 . Release: Sep 21, 2019
Director: Director: Mounia Meddour,
Stars: Lyna Khoudri, Shirine Boutella, Amira Hilda Douaouda, Nadia Kaci, Yasin Houicha,
6.2 /10
A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.
Run Time: 89 Min . MMPA: 15 . Release: Oct 18, 2012
Director: Director: Sally Potter,
Stars: Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Christina Hendricks, Alessandro Nivola, Timothy Spall,
6.7 /10
When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap bureaucratic quest she crosses paths with JB, a 50-year-old man in the middle of a burnout, and Mr. Blin, a blind archivist prone to overenthusiasm. The unlikely trio set off on a hilarious and poignant helterskelter journey across the city in search of Suze's long-lost child.
Run Time: 87 Min . MMPA: 12 . Release: Oct 21, 2020
Director: Director: Albert Dupontel,
Stars: Virginie Efira, Albert Dupontel, Nicolas Mari, Jackie Berroyer, Philippe Uchan,
6.3 /10
Robert Altman's story – a riff on race, class, and power – cross-cuts between two kidnappings and a background of corrupt politics and virtuoso jazz music. It all takes place in Kansas City in 1934.
Run Time: 116 Min . MMPA: 15 . Release: Aug 16, 1996
Director: Director: Robert Altman,
Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Murphy, Dermot Mulroney,