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1) Beach rats
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.
2) Downriver
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sometimes the path to redemption is paved in sin.. James, 18, has been released from juvenile detention after serving time for his involvement in the suspected drowning of a young boy in a river years earlier. Ravaged with uncertainty, dealing with an estranged family and forced to face the dead boy's mother, James is set upon a journey of self discovery, shocking revelations and danger as questions surrounding the boy s death brim to the surface....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
'Tomorrow's city...today' is how the suburban paradise of New Granada promotes itself, but something has been left out of the plans. No one is paying attention to the town's teens. They must discover their own values and create their own entertainment.
4) Prince
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Nederlands
Description
The story of Ayoub, a 17 year-old in Amsterdam who falls in love with a taken neighborhood beauty.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The spoiled daughter of a prominent California congressman is a willful, self-destructive girl who masks her insecurity by treating life as one big party staged solely for her benefit. A barrio boy, Carlos, from the wrong side of town, but goes to school with weathly Nicole, has a chance encounter with her that leads to romance -- a romance that threatens his future when her reckless behavior nearly costs him an appointment to Annapolis.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Kelly, Nathan, Curtis, Alisha and Simon are five unruly teenagers forced to do community service as payback for their crimes. But when a freak electrical storm hits their town, strange things begin to happen to them that are way out of their control. In fact, they have no idea that they've actually turned into superheroes, each with a power they didn't choose or want. They must save their town from the evil that has descended upon it.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
After 15-year-old Leland commits a chilling crime, he is sent to juvenile hall where he meets Pearl, a teacher and aspiring writer who dreams of making Leland's story into a book. As Pearl digs deeper into Leland's life and the people caught up in it - his mother, his famous writer-father, and his troubled girlfriend - he uncovers Leland's disturbing motive. The tables soon turn when the enigmatic teen forces Pearl to examine his own morally questionable...
10) Kwik stop
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005], c2001
Language
English
Description
An edgy, engaging tale about a traveling grifter called Lucky, who decides to hit the road for California and knock off a few stores along the way. A moving depiction of the high-stakes lives and loves of con-artist America.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After the stunning events in the first season finale that found all of the survivors of the Ark attempting to return to the surface, and the epic battle with the Grounders, there are plenty of questions for Season Two. Foremost: Who are the mysterious Mountain Men? Who survived the battle with the Grounders? And what₂s with that mysterious white room in Mt. Weather?
Publisher
O2 Filmes
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Portuguese
Description
Built in the 1960s, Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a sprawling housing project built to keep the poor as far as possible from Rio's glamorous beaches and resorts. By the 1980s, it has degenerated into a war zone so dangerous that visitors from outside risk being shot to death on sight, a poisonous stew of poverty, drugs, and crime. "If you run away, they get you, and if you stay, they get you, too," says Rocket, who wants to be a photographer....
13) Breathing
Publisher
Manufactured and distributed by Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Portrait of an incarcerated teenager attempting to win parole by working at a local morgue. Raised from birth in institutions, he is initially impassive and self-sabotaging in his behavior; soon, though, he begins to respect the solemn work of handling the dead, and starts to come to terms with his own youthful crime.
16) Susan slept here
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Screenwriter Mark Christopher gets a Christmas present that isn't on his Santa list: a 17-year-old delinquent named Susan, deposited in his bachelor pad by a cop pal who doesn't want to see the kid spend Christmas behind bars. Touched by Susan's plight, Mark decides there's only one way to keep her out of juvie: marry her in name only and get an annulment when she comes of age. But after a Vegas elopement, Susan isn't so sure she wants to be the ex-Mrs....
17) Bravetown
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Josh is a New York DJ who spends his nights partying in the city's exclusive clubs. After an accidental drug overdose he is sentenced to spend a year with his dad in small town Paragon, North Dakota. When he meets Mary, she shows him this small town has more to offer than he could have ever expected.
18) Dear Wendy
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When a young loner discovers a handgun, he finds himself strangely drawn to it despite his pacifist views. Soon he forms a secret club with other misfits in his town who collect and revere antique guns and call themselves the Dandies.
19) Big brother
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
中文
Description
Martial arts legend Donnie Yen stars as a former soldier recruited for his toughest mission yet, teaching a class of teen delinquents. As he kicks his way into their school and home lives, it becomes clear that his unconventional teaching style might be just what they need.
20) Endless love
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A story of the doomed romance between seventeen-year-old David and fifteen-year-old Jade. Banished from Jade's home by her daddy Hugh, David obsessively cooks up a scheme to get back into the family's good graces. Since this plan involves setting Jade's house on fire, the puppy-love romance is in for a bumpy ride. Jailed for arson, David heads directly to Jade the moment that he's released, with tragic results.
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