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Jim Stark, a new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens, is still reverberating 50 years later. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers.
3) If
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Criterion collection volume 391
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Three British boarding school students (Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick) decide to revolt and turn their repressive school upside down. Nominated for Best English-Language Foreign Film at the **Golden Globes.** Nominated for Best Director and Best Screenplay at the **BAFTA Awards**. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.** *"A film of tremendous resonance, coming when it did in 1968 with the force of a grenade." - Elliott...
4) Set it off
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Four women take the law into their own hands and try to get some pay-back by robbing the city's biggest banks.
7) City teacher
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Jeff Solomon, a jewish man raised by black parents, dedicates his life to serving the public as a parole officer and dealing with dangerous felons. At the suggestion of his bosses, and against the wishes of his wife, Solomon takes a position teaching reading to a New York City Public School System class of illiterate future felons. In order to keep his students out of the prison system and teach them to read, Solomon must fight the school system itself....
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Jim Stark, a new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens, is still reverberating 50 years later. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers.
10) Dangerous years
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"After a botched robbery, a district attorney prosecutes a teenage boy he doesn't realize is his own son" --Container.
11) Weapons
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This film presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America, and tragically reveals how they are all interrelated.
12) Sleepers
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Sentenced to the Wilkinson School for boys, four pals are mistreated at will by a cadre of sadistic guards. 15 years later, they have an unexpected opportunity for revenge.
13) Dead end
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"On the mean streets on New York's Lower East Side, Drina hopes to save her brother from a life of crime. But notorious hoodlum Baby Face Martin has come back to his old haunts looking for trouble and threatening to drag the boy down with him. Drina turns to her childhood friend Dave for help. But can he stop Martin without becoming just like him?"--Container.
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On the edge: He was a shooting star headed for the big time, until he took the fall. There's a war going down in the hood. A local basketball hero, caught deep in the drug game, got his best friend killed when he couldn't pay his debt. Now Dakota Smith is fighting mad, and he's going up against Slim, the big pimp and Felix, a cold-blooded assassin to save the young man's life.
Tracks: The true story of a suburban teenager whose one mistake leads...
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"[A] campy cult favorite first released in 1938 as a propaganda film meant to scare America's youth away from drugs. In this quintessential classic, innocent teens partake of the 'demon weed, ' only to find that one puff plunges them into a hilarious web of murder, sex, lunacy, and jazz music."--Container.
18) Boulevard nights
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The bond between two brothers is tested when the younger one's gang is challenged by a rival gang.
19) Reefer madness
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Originally released in 1935, this is the first film to fully inform the public of the dangers of habitual marijuana use. Mae and Jack, accomplices in the distribution of marijuana, manage to entice local high school kids to stop by Mae's apartment to smoke reefer.
20) Set it off
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After a man from the projects commits a bloody bank heist, four tough female friends in L.A. think they could pull one off also, so they armor up and decide to make it a woman's game.
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