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It (1990)
, 2h58Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Serial killer films, Films about school violence
Actors Harry Anderson, Dennis Christopher, Richard Masur, Seth Green, Annette O'Toole, Tim Reid
Set in the town of Derry, Maine in the year 1960, six-year old Georgie Denbrough is lured to a storm drain when his paper boat drops down into it. When attempting to retrieve it, he encounters a strange man dressed in a clown costume who calls himself "Pennywise the Dancing Clown." The man tempts Georgie closer with promises of cotton candy and balloons, exclaiming that "they all float down" into the sewer. He says that Georgie can "float" too before revealing his true nature, grabbing him and viciously tearing his right arm off. His older brother, Bill, is overwhelmed with guilt for inadvertently sending Georgie to his death and is terrified when his picture comes to life and bleeds.
15 (2003)
, 1h30Directed by Royston Tan
Origin Singapore
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Crime
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, La sexualité des mineurs, L'enfance marginalisée
The film stars three real-life juvenile gangsters, all aged 15, giving an accurate depiction of Chinese teenage gang-life in the Singapore suburbs. The 2003 film features two more gangsters as characters as well as a fight sequence with more affluent English-educated Singapore youths. Rather than scripting the movie or employing professional actors, Tan attempted to capture the troubled lives of his characters in realistic fashion, apparently without much prior scripting.
The Adulteen (2013)
, 1h27Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children
Actors Laurent Lafitte, Jonathan Cohen, Christophe Malavoy, Anne Canovas, Judith El Zein, François Rollin
Arnaud Mustier, avocat et philosophe brillant, suscite l'agacement de son petit frère Jules, seize ans.
Sixteen Candles (1984)
, 1h33Directed by John Hughes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Teen movie, Films about marriage, Films about virginity
Actors Molly Ringwald, Paul Dooley, Justin Henry, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling, Gedde Watanabe
High school sophomore Samantha "Sam" Baker (Molly Ringwald) struggles to get through the day on her 16th birthday, which her entire family has forgotten about because her older sister, Ginny, is getting married the next day. She is also plagued by infatuation with a popular and attractive senior, Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling). At school she fares no better when she finds out that a completed "sex quiz," which she tried to surreptitiously slip to her friend, never reached her friend and, unbeknownst to either of them, was picked up by Jake. Sam panics because the quiz contains sensitive information, such as she is a virgin and is saving herself for Jake.
17 Girls (2011)
, 1h26Directed by Delphine Coulin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Roxane Duran, Louise Grinberg, Yara Pilartz, Esther Garrel, Florence Thomassin, Noémie Lvovsky
In Lorient, 17 teenage girls from the same high school make an unexpected decision, incomprehensible to the boys and adults. They decide to get pregnant at the same time. Camille (Louise Grinberg) lives alone with her mother who is overwhelmed by her work. She becomes pregnant after a condom problem with a sexual partner who is not her boyfriend. She is the first to discover a positive pregnancy test.
2:37 (2006)
, 1h34Directed by Murali K. Thalluri
Origin Australie
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Transport films
Actors Teresa Palmer, Clementine Mellor, Frank Sweet, Sam Harris, Gary Sweet, Xavier Samuel
A contemporary, ensemble drama telling the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven. All six students have their own personal problems and goals.
3 petites filles (2004)
, 1h42Directed by Jean-Loup Hubert
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Gérard Jugnot, Adriana Karembeu, Morgane Cabot, Sabrina Ouazani, Marc Andreoni, Julien Hubert
Trois jeunes adolescentes - dont l'une essaie d'échapper à un mariage forcé - parcourent la Corse à la recherche de rêve et d'échappatoire.
30 Days of Night: Dark Days (2010)
, 1h32Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Vampires in film, Political films, Dystopian films, Films about school violence, Disaster films
Actors Kiele Sanchez, Rhys Coiro, Diora Baird, Harold Perrineau, Jr., Mia Kirshner, Monique Ganderton
A year after the Alaskan town of Barrow's population was decimated by vampires during its annual month-long polar night, Stella Oleson (Kiele Sanchez) travels the world trying to convince others that vampires exist. She is fully aware of the risk to the life that her work could bring, but does not care due to her grief over the death of her husband Eben.
Being 14 (2015)
Directed by Hélène Zimmer
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children
Actors Galatéa Bellugi, Oliver Cywie
C'est la rentrée.Sarah, Jade et Louise se retrouvent pour une dernière année au collège. Entre euphorie, rivalités, révoltes et séduction, elles affrontent les tourments de l'adolescence pour trouver leur place.
Because of Her (1993)
, 1h48Directed by Jean-Loup Hubert
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children
Actors Antoine Hubert, Thérèse Liotard, Jean-François Stévenin, Julien Courbey, Ludmila Mikaël, Patrick Catalifo
1963, près de Nantes. Antoine rêve de rock 'n' roll et doit repasser son certif pour la deuxième fois. Issu d'une famille modeste, il n'a d'yeux que pour la belle et austère Olivia qui vit chez ses parents dans un château des environs. Un accident de voiture, dont Olivia est en partie responsable, entraîne une hospitalisation prolongée pour Antoine. Pour se faire pardonner, elle se propose de le visiter régulièrement tout en l'initiant à la lecture de Balzac et Stendhal. L'amour d'Antoine grandit mais Olivia reste inaccessible. C'est alors qu'il décide de devenir écrivain.
Because of a Boy (2002)
, 1h26Directed by Fabrice Cazeneuve
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about school violence, LGBT-related films, Coming out, LGBT-related film
Actors Jérémie Elkaïm, Julien Baumgartner, Bernard Blancan, Julia Maraval, Patrick Bonnel, Christiane Millet
Vincent (Baumgartner) is a shy boy who is on the swim team and is also a good student with his girlfriend Noémie (Maraval) and a best friend, Stéphane (Comar), life in school can't be better for him. But then, he suddenly starts to have encounters with the new boy, Bejamin (Elkaïm). They have a private meeting and then some boys write on a wall "Molina is a fag". Vincent starts getting bullied at high school, changing his life and his relationships with family and friends in ways he will have to accept.
Five Feet Apart (2019)
, 1h56Directed by Justin Baldoni
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about cancer, Teen movie
Actors Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse, Moisés Arias, Kimberly Hebert Gregory, Parminder Nagra, Claire Forlani
Stella Grant (Haley Lu Richardson) est une patiente de 17 ans atteinte de la mucoviscidose. Elle rencontre Will Newman (Cole Sprouse) atteint lui aussi de la mucoviscidose, il se trouve à l'hôpital pour un essai clinique de traitement médicamenteux, dans le but de se débarrasser de l'infection bactérienne (Burkholderia cepacia) qu'il a dans les poumons.
Back to School (1986)
, 1h36Directed by Alan Metter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Sports films, Teen movie
Actors Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon, Adrienne Barbeau, Robert Downey Jr., Ned Beatty
Thornton Melon's is a rags-to-riches story. The son of an Italian immigrant tailor, he is shown as a boy (Jason Hervey) in his father's shop, bearing a report card with poor grades. His ambition is to go into his father's line of work, but his father reprimands Thornton for his poor schoolwork, and tells him no matter how hardworking, skilled or wealthy one may be, "if a man has got no education, he has got nothing".
Fat Girl (2001)
, 1h33Directed by Catherine Breillat
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, La sexualité des mineurs, Films about pedophilia, Films about virginity
Actors Roxane Mesquida, Arsinée Khanjian, Libero De Rienzo, Romain Goupil, Laura Betti, Albert Goldberg
Anaïs (Anaïs Reboux) and her older sister, Elena (Roxane Mesquida) are vacationing with their parents on the French seaside. Bored of staying in their vacation home, the two walk into town while discussing relationships and their virginity. Although the highly attractive Elena has been promiscuous, she is saving herself for someone who loves her, while heavy-set, overweight Anaïs thinks it is better to lose one's virginity to a "nobody" just to get it over with.
A Nos Amours (1983)
, 1h42Directed by Maurice Pialat, Cyril Collard, Florence Quentin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, La sexualité des mineurs
Actors Sandrine Bonnaire, Dominique Besnehard, Maurice Pialat, Pierre-Loup Rajot, Christophe Odent, Jacques Fieschi
The film is a character study focusing on Suzanne, a promiscuous sixteen-year-old Parisian, played by Sandrine Bonnaire. Despite her age, Suzanne engages in a number of affairs in reaction to her miserable situation at home.