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Talented young sketch artist Jerome Platz escapes from high school to a tiny East Coast art college. Here his ambition is to become, like his hero Picasso, the world's greatest artist. Unfortunately the beauty and craft of Jerome's portraiture are not appreciated in an art class that he finds bewildering and bogus, neither his harsh judgments of his classmates' efforts nor his later attempts to create pseudo-art of his own win him any admirers, though he does attract the attentions of his dream
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Teenager Kyle is the spoiled, shallow, and generally unpleasant main man of his high school kingdom; in love with his own physical perfection. But when he rashly chooses Goth classmate Kendra as his latest target for humiliation he discovers to his cost that she’s a witch; transforming him into someone as unattractive on the outside as he is on the inside.
Now Kyle has one year to find someone who can see past the hideous surface and love him for who he is, or he will remain “Beastly” foreve
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Rapper/DJ Kenny meets jazz artist Tracy and, inspired by her commitment, decides to use his talents to escape the ghetto. However the death of a graffiti artist friend presents Kenny with an emotional dilemma, whether to honour the memory of his friend or pursue his own dreams. "Beat Street" doesn't have the most striking of story lines, but the film is really about the musical phenomenon of hip hop (correctly spotting the burgeoning talents of Afrika Bambaata and the Soul Sonic Force, Grand Mas
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Two boys become acquainted when one accuses the other of stealing his bicycle. One is a simple peasant, the other an ambitious schoolboy, thus pitting the doubtful virtues of capitalism against human dignity and pride. Winner of the Silver Bear and Grand Jury Prizes at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival Beijing Bicycle is considered to be reminiscent of The Bicycle Thief, yet exceptional cinema in itself.
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Jess is a Sikh teenager with a passion for football, something that her traditionalist parents, who want her to grow up as a nice Asian girl with an arranged marriage and cooking Aloo Gobi, are horrified by. After making friends with white girl Jules she is introduced to the local womens' team, for whom she must play without her parents' knowiledge, and where she develops a forbidden love interest with the coach. Poor girl, her parents find out everything she does, and imagine worse. A witty find out more...
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By day Ben Manibag is an exemplary student and destined for the highest rungs of whatever life he chooses, by night however Ben fills his time with petty crime, an escape from the pressure and tedium of others' expectations. 'Better Luck Tomorrow' is an intelligent and believable diatribe against the genteel façade of middle class suburbia and the contradictions inherent within it.
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The lives of teenage junkies and bickering old people in a small Cotswold town are revealed in this series of interconnected vignettes about the complexity of love, life, youth and the vulnerabilities of old age. The pace of life is slow and the dialogue sparse in this critically acclaimed example of a new wave of British Indie cinema.
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Kati and Steffi are bestest buddies and reaching an age when the pull of the pub, club and blokes that reside within are beginning to outweigh all other concerns. As adulthood beckons the two girls begin to finally drift apart, but with the exploration of their womanhood and their new found independence comes the trauma of events and emotions that defy their control. Big Girls Don't Cry is a strong heart-felt coming of age drama, convincing and compelling in equal measures.
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Lin Yuezhen is in love with swimming star and school heartthrob Zhang Shihao. She's far too shy to approach him and instead asks her best friend Meng Kerou to act as a go-between. Kerou reluctantly agrees but whenever Shihao appears Yuezhen flees. Shihao can only conclude that Kerou is using an imaginary character to court him but she has her sights set elsewhere. An insightful and original coming of age drama.
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