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1) Joe Bell
Language
English
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Description
Mark Wahlberg plays the rough-edged Oregon-based father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin by embarking on a walk across America to speak his heart to heartland adults and students about the potential terrifying high costs of bullying.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the summer of 1983 in Italy, and Elio, a precocious 17-year-old, spends his days in his family's villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading and flirting with his friend Marzia. One day, Oliver, a charming American scholar arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father, an eminent professor. Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives...
Publisher
FilmRise
Language
English
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Description
Cameron is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car. Run by the strict and severe Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, the center is built upon repenting for same sex attraction. In the face of intolerance and denial, Cameron meets a group of fellow sinners, including the amputee stoner Jane and her friend, the Lakota Two-Spirit Adam. Together, this group of teenagers forms...
4) Pariah
Series
Language
English
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Description
Alike is a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents Audrey and Arthur and younger sister Sharonda in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is a good student at her local high school. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity--sometimes succeeding, sometimes...
5) Love, Simon
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for seventeen-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying, and life-changing.
6) Socrates
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
After his mother's sudden death, Socrates, a fifteen-year-old living on the margins of Sao Paulo's coast, must survive on his own. As he faces isolation because of his sexuality, his search for a decent, worthy life reaches a breaking point.
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Lorenzo is a quiet teenager living with his family at the edge of the world in beautiful Patagonia. One day, Lorenzo's father decides to host the son of a friend from Buenos Aires named Caito, who had to go to hospital for a long stay. At first, Caito appears shy, tough, and hardly ever speaks, but over time the two boys become friends. However, Caito quickly wears out his welcome with Lorenzo's parents.
8) Naz & Maalik
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this riveting dramatic tale, Naz and Maalik are friends, classmates, business partners and lovers. As the two closeted Muslim teens go about their regular daily routine on a Friday afternoon in Brooklyn they arouse the suspicions of an undercover FBI agent who begins to track them.. This complex tale of race, religion and sexuality features a pair of tremendous performances from Kerwin Johnson Jr. as Naz and Curtiss Cook Jr. as Maalik. Intimate...
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
In THE OBITUARY OF TUNDE JOHNSON, a wealthy, Nigerian-American teenager is pulled over by police, shot to death, and immediately awakens, trapped in a terrifying time loop that forces him to confront difficult truths about his life and himself. Tackling the social issues of racism, police brutality, LGBTQ+ acceptance, mental health and addiction, The Obituary of Tunde Johnson confronts these seminal issues, all too prevalent in American society.
10) 1:54
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Tim, a 16-year-old teenager, is gifted with a natural athletic ability and driven by a fierce rage to win. How far would he be willing to go to push back his limits and to not 'disappear' under the threat of intimidation? 1:54 is a psychological drama wherein human limits are pushed to the point of no return.
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
An exquisite coming-of-age movie with a perfect cast, HENRY GAMBLE'S BIRTHDAY PARTY unfolds over the course of one very eventful day in the life of 17-year-old preacher’s kid Henry (played by newcomer Cole Doman in a tremendous performance). At Henry’s afternoon birthday pool party the guests include an assortment of grown-ups from the family church, as well as Henry’s secular and religious teen friends — including the closeted young Logan,...
12) Closet monster
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fresh take on the coming-of-age story, this surreal tale follows the artistically driven Oscar (*American Crime*’s Connor Jessup) hovering on the brink of adulthood. Struggling to find his place in the world after a rough childhood and haunted by images of a tragic incident, Oscar dreams of escaping his small town. After he meets a mysterious and attractive new co-worker, Oscar follows the guidance of his pet hamster Buffy (voiced by Isabella...
13) Punch
Publisher
Darkstar Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Jim is a promising teenage boxer, training under the watch of his demanding and alcoholic father. When Jim develops a relationship with a male classmate, the two are forced to navigate isolation, homophobia, and the brutality of small-town life. As Jim discovers what it means to be gay, he realizes how little strength has to do with heroism.
14) Boys
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Nederlands
Description
In this beautiful and uplifting gay romance, two teen track stars discover first love as they train for the biggest relay race of their young lives.
15) @Suicideroom
Publisher
Wolfe
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Polish
Description
A series of humiliating events 100 days before his graduation pushes privileged Dominik into the virtual world for comfort. He begins spending all his time as an avatar in the 'Suicide Room', but soon his online adventures begin to dangerously bleed into his real life. Breathtaking animated sequences draw the viewer into the virtual world portrayed in this psychological drama of a teenager trying to escape the torment of bullying.
16) Fireworks
Publisher
Cinephobia Releasing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Italiano
Description
1982, in the heat of a Sicilian summer, two teenage boys, Gianni and Nino, meet and fall in love. The relationship soon becomes a topic of gossip in the small town and despite their families' objections the two dream of living together, something the community is determined to stop.
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
Focusing on the relationship between Hubert Minel, a 16-year-old Quebecois living in suburban Montreal, and his single mother Chantale, the film beautifully captures the anxieties of a mother-son relationship. While he gauges her with contempt, only seeing her out-of-date sweater and kitschy decor, the ingrained mechanisms (i.e. manipulation and guilt) of their relationship beautifully (and tragically) unravel on the big screen.
18) Being 17
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
Damien and Thomas are French teenagers from very different upbringings who go to the same high school but can't stand each other. When circumstances bring Damien's mother Marianne to invite Thomas to live with them, the young men are forced to coexist and work through their emerging attraction and complicated desires.
Publisher
Vanguard
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
Español
Description
Diego and Sebastian are two teens who used to be friends in childhood. They reunite one summer, leading to a strong friendship while they get drunk, and wander to different places looking for the meaning of life, sex, and love. Diego is discovering his fascination with Sebastian. As the teens gradually awaken to their sexual desires, their relationship grows increasingly complicated and ultimately honest and sincere.
20) Wild reeds
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Follows four teenagers in Southern France at the end of the French-Algerian War as their relationships are impacted by sexual awakening and political differences.
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