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Directed by Anna Boden,
Ryan FleckOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Medical-themed films,
Psychologie,
Films about suicide,
Films about psychiatry,
Films set in psychiatric hospitalsActors Keir Gilchrist,
Emma Roberts,
Zach Galifianakis,
Zoë Naelle Kravitz,
Viola Davis,
Thomas MannRating70%
After contemplating suicide by jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge, 15-year-old Craig Gilner (Keir Gilchrist), decides to go to the hospital to seek help. Craig tells Dr. Mahmoud (Aasif Mandvi) that he needs immediate help to which Dr. Mahmoud registers Craig for a one week stay in the hospital's psychiatric floor. It is revealed that Craig has a lot of pressure at his high school, Executive Pre-Professional (based on Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School), stressing over the need to turn in an application for a prestigious summer school, his shortcomings in the shadow of his best friend, Aaron (Thomas Mann), whom he considers to be great at everything, and his dad who pressures him to do well. At first, Craig is uncertain if he made the right choice to stay, mostly due to the fact that his friends might find out when he misses school, especially Nia (Zoë Kravitz), his crush and Aaron's girlfriend. He is placed in the adult ward with a few other teenagers because the teenage ward is undergoing renovations., 2h9
Directed by Michael BayOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Action,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Seafaring films,
Films about drugs,
Films about religion,
Sports films,
Transport filmsActors Mark Wahlberg,
Dwayne Johnson,
Ed Harris,
Rob Corddry,
Anthony Mackie,
Tony ShalhoubRating63%
In 1995, schemer Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) is a recently released convict who had served time for Medicare fraud. Sun Gym owner John Mese (Rob Corddry) hires him to increase membership and make the gym more fitness-based. Lugo increases the gym's membership by 75% within six weeks and befriends trainer Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie), a bodybuilder who uses steroids, which render him impotent. Lugo soon lusts after the earnings and lifestyle achieved by Victor Kershaw (Tony Shalhoub), a sleazy, new gym member he begins to train who Lugo believes is a crook. Inspired by motivational speaker Johnny Wu (Ken Jeong), Lugo decides to be a "do-er" and hatches a plan to extort Kershaw for his assets by kidnapping and torturing him., 1h36
Directed by Victoria MahoneyOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Films about families,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Films about domestic violence,
Gangster filmsActors Zoë Naelle Kravitz,
Jason Clarke,
Antonique Smith,
Black Thought,
Shareeka Epps,
Tim Blake NelsonRating58%
The film starts out with quiet, studious, high schooler, Sweetness O'Hara riding her bike with a friend down the street, when neighborhood bully Latonya, her boyfriend, and friends begins picking on her. The boyfriend threatens to take her bike, unless she can beat him in a race to a tree down the street. Sweetness agrees, taking off running. The bully comes up behind her and pushes her to the ground, proceeding to kick her. Sweetness' older, yet pregnant sister, Ola, comes to her rescue, beating up the bully. , 2h
Directed by George Tillman Jr.,
George Tillman, Jr.Origin USAGenres DramaThemes Films about children,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Buddy films,
Films about child abuseActors Anthony Mackie,
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje,
Skylan Brooks,
Jennifer Hudson,
Ethan Dizon,
Jordin SparksRating74%
During a sweltering summer in New York City, 13-year-old Mister’s (Skylan Brooks) hard-living mother (Hudson) is apprehended by the police, leaving the boy and nine-year-old Pete (Dizon) alone to forage for food while dodging child protective services and the destructive scenarios of the Brooklyn projects. Faced with more than any child can be expected to bear, the resourceful Mister nevertheless feels he is an unstoppable force against seemingly unmovable obstacles. But what really keeps the pair in the survival game is much more Mister’s vulnerability than his larger-than-life attitude. Plus he and Pete have to figure out how to do all of this without money, 2h10
Directed by Adam McKayOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilities,
Films about autismActors Brad Pitt,
Christian Bale,
Ryan Gosling,
Steve Carell,
Melissa Leo,
Karen GillanRating77%
En 2005, à Wall Street, au milieu des grandes banques, des médias et du gouvernement aveugles, quatre outsiders découvrent la bulle immobilière et l'opacité de son financement. Par l'analyse et l'enquête sur le terrain ils rejettent l'idéologie et l'optimisme écrasants de leur milieu. Ils sont les seuls à se positionner dans le sens de la débâcle qui leur apparaît certaine., 1h48
Directed by Matthew Ryan HogeOrigin USAGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Films about education,
Films about families,
Prison filmsActors Don Cheadle,
Ryan Gosling,
Chris Klein,
Ryan Malgarini,
Jena Malone,
Lena OlinRating69%
The film begins with a flashback narrated by Leland P. Fitzgerald, describing how he couldn't remember the details of the day that he killed an intellectually disabled boy named Ryan Pollard. Leland is arrested. Ryan's parents, Harry and Karen, sisters Becky and Julie, as well as Julie's live-in boyfriend Allen grieve the loss of their loved one. Leland's divorced mother, Marybeth, is desperate to see her son, while his father, famous writer Albert Fitzgerald, discovers his son's fate in a newspaper and returns home to be there for the trial., 2h
Directed by Anna Boden,
Ryan FleckOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Baseball filmsActors Algenis Perez Soto,
Michael Gaston,
André Holland,
Richard Bull,
Ellary Porterfield,
Karolina I. WydraRating71%
Miguel "Sugar" Santos (Perez Soto) spends his weekends at home, passing from the landscaped gardens and manicured fields on one side of the guarded academy gate to the underdeveloped, more chaotic world beyond. In his small village outside San Pedro de Macorís, Miguel enjoys a kind of celebrity status. His neighbors gather to welcome him back for the weekend; the children ask him for extra baseballs or an old glove. To his family, who lost their father years before, Miguel is their hope and shining star. With the small bonus he earned when he signed with the academy some time ago, he has started to build his family a new house—one that has a bigger kitchen for his mom and a separate room for his grandmother., 1h4
Directed by Willard MackOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Films about education,
Pregnancy films,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Sexploitation films,
Documentary films about health careActors Jean Parker,
Minna Gombell,
Willard Mack,
Betty Grable,
Bryant Washburn,
Ben AlexanderRating54%
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Directed by Mimi LederOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
RomanceThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about education,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugsActors Kevin Spacey,
Helen Hunt,
Haley Joel Osment,
Jay Mohr,
Jim Caviezel,
Jon Bon JoviRating72%
When Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) begins seventh grade in Las Vegas, Nevada, his social studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey) gives the class an assignment to devise and put into action a plan that will change the world for the better. Trevor's plan is a charitable program based on the networking of good deeds. He calls his plan "Pay It Forward", which means the recipient of a favor does a favor for three others rather than paying the favor back. However, it needs to be a major favor that the recipient cannot complete themselves., 1h50
Directed by Barry JenkinsOrigin USAGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes L'adolescence,
Films about education,
Films about children,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Films about sexuality,
Théâtre,
LGBT-related films,
Films based on plays,
Teen LGBT-related films,
Films about school violence,
LGBT-related films,
Coming out,
LGBT-related filmActors Naomie Harris,
André Holland,
Mahershala Ali,
Trevante Rhodes,
André Holland,
Janelle MonáeRating73%
Pendant trois périodes cruciales de sa vie (9-10 ans, 16-17 ans et dix ans plus tard), Chiron, un Afro-Américain de Miami se bat contre son milieu (scolaire) et sa famille (mère droguée) pour vivre son homosexualité, essayant de s'affirmer tout en demeurant fidèle à lui-même.