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This Teen guide collects various types of information of benefit and interest to students at a high school age.
1) Degrassi
Publisher
WildBrain
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
DEGRASSI: The Next Generation, a dramatic sequel from the producer of the award-winning Degrassi series of the 1980s-- Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High. Degrassi: The Next Generation continues the core spirit of the previous Degrassi series. It tells its youthful viewers: you are not alone. It talks directly to its young audience, exploring their dilemmas from their point of view. It’s a brave new world as Degrassi:...
2) Tahara
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A queer, coming-of-age drama about an anxious teen girl who is manipulated into a romantic encounter with her best friend (Rachel Sennott).
3) Dogtooth
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Greek
Description
2011 Academy Award nominee for best foreign language films and winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth is a darkly funny look at three teenagers confined to their parents' isolated country estate and living in an absurdist, nightmarish experiment of manipulation and oppression.
7) Freak Show
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Billy, a cross-dressing teen, starts attending an ultra-conservative high school. He takes a stand for his individuality by running for homecoming queen.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After a writer (Academy Award®-nominee Vanessa Kirby) loses her memory, she finds herself on the streets of New York City. She connects with a group of teenagers — in conversations both real and imagined — searching for a way home.
10) Dog Pound
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this gritty, award-winning drama, three teenage boys have a rude awakening when they end up in a juvenile detention center. Facing attacks by hardened criminals and ruthless guards, they are forced to do whatever it takes to survive.
11) The Last Tree
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After a happy childhood in the countryside, a teenager moves to London, where he must navigate an unfamiliar environment on his road to adulthood.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
Life is what you'd expect for young teenagers in this seemingly normal private all-girls school, until a past alumni returns as a teacher. She strikes up a new friendship with two very different students and a horrific course of events ensues. A teacher is found dead, apparently having committed suicide, and circumstances that inextricably link both the past and the present are unveiled. As the body count rises, the memories of the deaths unleash...
14) Some Freaks
Publisher
Good Deed Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A charming romance develops between a boy with one eye and an overweight girl, though when she loses her weight after going to college, their relationship is tested in devastating ways they never dreamed would happen. *"What seems like an ordinary teenage comedy about cliques and bullying on the surface is actually a modestly perceptive and touching glimpse into the ways in which we transition from adolescence into adulthood." - Todd Jorgenson, **Cinemalogue***...
15) Almost Friends
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Once a promising chef, now unmotivated and living at home with mom, Charlie gets by as a movie theatre assistant manager. But when he meets his dream girl and his estranged father returns, will he finally be able to find a path forward?
16) Flunk
Publisher
Principal Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Set in Melbourne Australia, Flunk is a critically acclaimed LGBT teen drama following shy sixteen year old Ingrid, as she starts to explore her sexuality. Falling for her best friend Stella, Ingrid struggles to navigate her first relationship, the pressures of a country high school and conservative Chinese-Australian family. Shot in a gritty, handheld style, with new faces and improvised dialogue, the series has attracted a passionate international...
17) Fast Talking
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Set in Sydney's western suburbs, year 10 student Steve Carson (Rod Zuanic) is a fifteen year old conman and always in trouble, whether it's stealing eggs from a farm with his mate Moose (Chris Truswell) or selling dope for his older brother. Abandoned by his mother and left in the care of his alcoholic, unemployed father Steve's older brother is an overbearing bad influence, further pushing him into street crime. He meets Redback (Steve Bisley), an...
18) Ham on Rye
Publisher
Factory 25
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
HAM ON RYE, a coming-of-age comedy centered on the nervous excitement of youth and the strange horror of entering adulthood uses an expansive ensemble of over one hundred performers, including non-actors, musicians, 90's Nickelodeon child stars, and more, to explore a suburban community’s relationship with a prom-like ritual and the decay of the human spirit. It begins with the crowd-pleasing spirit of a John Hughes movie and fades slowly into an...
19) My Sweet Prince
Publisher
SND Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Alcopops, VHS tapes, cigarettes, boys, MSN Messenger, Placebo. Set on the Isle of Wight in 2003, fragments of the director’s own teenage video diaries collide with the fictional story of 15-year-old Tommy in this short film about a boy’s search for connection in the advent of the internet age. Infatuated with his best friend’s boyfriend and unable to truly reveal himself to anyone, Tommy feels an overwhelming sense of isolation on the small...
20) Animals
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This very unconventional coming-of-age tale is an intoxicating blend of fantasy and cold reality as it follows shy teenager's perilous period when exciting but troubling sexuality enters into his formerly innocent world. Seventeen-year-old high-schooler Pol has stubbornly extended his childhood, aided in no small measure by his opinionated, drums-playing, English-speaking pet teddy bear Deerhoof. But when he meets alluring new student Ikari, the safety...
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