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A young Jeffrey Dahmer struggles to belong in high school.
"A warped wonder of a movie about a cannibalistic serial killer's awkward teenage years-it takes twisted to areas few have investigated."--Rolling Stone.
"This film is sensitively wrought. It's credible in its evocation of mid-'70s suburbia. The acting is excellent throughout, and Ross Lynch in the role of Dahmer elicits genuine sympathy for an increasingly lost but not yet monstrous soul."--New...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
עברית
Description
Based on the international best seller by Amos Oz, the story of his youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories told, become the stories lived.
3) Amarcord
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Language
Italiano
Description
"In his carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nino Rota's classic, nostalgia-tinged score."--Container.
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English
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Teamed with his friends Mickey, Neutron and Pedro, high school student Jim Carroll seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressures from his coach, his mom, and school seem to mount, Jim finds solace in all the wrong places, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart.
Language
English
Description
Fred Waitzkin, a sportswriter who dreams his 7-year-old son Josh will grow up to play baseball. One day in the park with his mother, Josh displays more than talent, he has a gift. Sensing his son is a future champion, Fred places Josh under the tutelage of a strict chess teacher. But when Josh suddenly starts to lose, his parents must confront their own motivations, and recognize what Josh prizes more than winning; his family's love.
6) The pistol
Language
English
Description
The true story of 'Pistol' Pete Maravich, a scrawny five-foot-two eighth grader. Though a target of ridicule, he perseveres, with the encouragement of his father and love of his mother, to become college basketball's greatest scorer.
7) Booker
Series
Pub. Date
c[2005]
Language
English
Description
Portrays Booker T. Washington's early life in the south during the closing days and aftermath of the Civil War, and shows the obstacles he overcomes to pursue his passion for learing.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Français
Description
The enchanting story of Marcel Pagnol's childhood in the south of France, and a very special summer when he was 11 years old. In the countryside of Provence he fell under the spell of the rugged hills, made new friends and strengthened the unique bond with his father.
Language
English
Description
A month by the lake : At a lakeside resort, an older guest has her eye on a well-to-do bachelor.
My life so far : Young Fraser Pettigrew has always been an adventurous child. But with the arrival of his French aunt, Heloise, Fraser enters a truly eye-opening summer of discovery.
The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain : A young man offends an entire town by declaring their mountain--a prized local landmark--to be a hill.
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