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1) Harry Brown
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Harry Brown lives in a world that has been taken over by drug dealers and gangsters. A world where killing is a way of life, and the police have lost all control. But when his only companion and best friend is senselessly murdered just feet from his own apartment, Harry takes matters into his own hands. Utilizing the skills he learned while fighting the IRA, Harry takes on these hooligans as he doles out his own form of justice.
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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.
4) If
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Criterion collection volume 391
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English
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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...
7) Set it off
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English
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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.
8) City teacher
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English
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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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Español
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A group of children, age seven through fourteen, are left home alone at a house in a secluded community in the countryside. Their innocence is gradually corrupted as they experiment with rule-breaking, ultimately leading to house break-ins around the neighborhood. The arrival of the maids son, a teenager of lesser privilege, exposes prejudice and ferocity climaxing with crimes that force the children to re-examine their actions.
10) Reefer madness
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English
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A classic anti-drug propaganda film that symbolizes the majijuana scare of the 1930's. Intented to scare teens and parents away from the "Dread Marijuana."
11) Reefer madness
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A lurid depiction of the horrors of marijuana use.
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English
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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.
15) 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.
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On the darkside of Tinseltown, there lives a group of runaways. The gang of teenagers are lead by King. They survive on the streets begging, prostituting and stealing money. Among King's best friends are Little J, who is a gay prostitute; Greg, who is drug addicted capable of stealing to buy drugs with the dealer Ted; and the paralytic Manny. When newcomer and runaway Heather comes from Chicago, she meets King. They fall in love for each other. But...
17) Weapons
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English
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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.
18) Shoeshine
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Italiano
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In post-WWII Rome, two orphan shoeshine boys who commit a petty crime are separated and sent to an over-crowded boys' prison.
19) Dead end
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English
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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.
20) Sleepers
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English
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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.
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