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Whether it's being told you have to purchase two seats on an airplane or getting dirty looks when you're with a handsome man, being a big girl in a superficial world can come with more issues than any woman should have to deal with. Add to that some over-the-top family and marriage issues, and you have the perfect recipe for some Big Girls Drama.
When Vivian married Sheldon, she thought she would be spending life with her best friend, but now she...
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What happens off court?
Marsha Lawson has no idea what her team-mates do when they're not playing netball - that's her first mistake. Taking her eye off the ball is her second.
Using netball as an escape from her miserable home life, she's desperate to keep the past buried and to forge a brighter future.
But she's not the only one with secrets.
When two players want revenge, a Tsunami of emotions is released at a tournament, leaving destruction...
3) Spork
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2012.
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English
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Spork is a thirteen year-old, frizzy-haired outcast who's not afraid to stand out despite the pressures around her to fit in. Luckily, a junior high dance competition provides the perfect opportunity for her unique talents to shine through.
4) Girlhood
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Français
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Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the "boys' law" in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the gang. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection. Realizing this sort of lifestyle will never...
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[2014]
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English
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Canterlot High is hosting a musical showcase and Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy are going to be performing with their new band, The Rainbooms. But when a new girl group, The Dazzlings, arrives at CHS, they convince everyone to turn the friendly showcase into a Battle of the Bands. As tensions mount between the competing musical acts, a reformed Sunset Shimmer realizes that the Dazzlings may not be ordinary girls and are...
6) Midnight sun
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[2018]
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English
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17-year-old Katie Price has been sheltered since childhood with a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. During the day she is housebound, but after nightfall, Katie can venture out to the local train station and play her guitar for travelers. One night, her dreams come true when she's noticed by Charlie, whom she has secretly admired for years, and decides to hide her condition from him as the two embark on a uniquely...
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[2015]
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English
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The new chapter in the terrifying horror series is a chilling prequel, set before the haunting of the Lambert family, reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.
8) Buffaloed
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Desperate to escape her hometown of Buffalo and make enough money to attend her dream college, Peg decides to cheat the system after she is scammed by a debt collector.
9) Split
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Writer/director/producer M. Night Shyamalan returns with an original thriller that delves into the mysterious recesses of one man's fractured, gifted mind. Though Kevin (James McAvoy) has revealed 23 personalities to his psychiatrist, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him - as well as...
10) Chatterbox
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2009.
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English
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Middle schooler Chelsea Ryan decides to compete in the Chatterbox competition to prove her popularity. But will the lengths she goes to in pursuit of victory be worth the cost?
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"Janey is a shy good girl. Lynne is a cool rock chick. But when the two friends scheme to get Janey on television's biggest after-school dance show, they find themselves on a wild adventure filled with cute boys, hot dancing, prudish nuns, mean rich kids, parents that just don't understand, and girls doing what they know best ...just having FUN!"--Container.
12) Palindromes
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2005.
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English
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Acclaimed writer/director Todd Solondz once again presents a story of moral complexity in his latest film about a 13-year-old girl who wants to be a mom.
13) The other lamb
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[2020]
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English
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For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins...
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Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a bright, quirky, 16-year-old who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde - a venerable, impossible-to-please music critic with an insatiable lust for fame, fortune, and men. It isn't long before the rapid pace at which Johanna's life is changing becomes overwhelming and she runs face-first into a devastatingly real, existential crisis: Is this the type of girl she wants to become? Or does she need to start over and...
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The precocious, purple-haired traveler spends the day playing with her dad as she pretends everyday things (like the sandbox) are extraordinary places. Isabella ends the day in her own home-sweet-home, the most wonderful place to be. Travel around the world to places like: Pyramids of Giza, Eiffel Tower, Great Wall of China, Chichen Itza, Big Ben and the Statue of Liberty.
17) Five feet apart
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Stella is a vibrant, fun-loving seventeen-year-old, who, unlike most teenagers, has to spend much of her time living at a hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. When Stella meets Will, a charming and rebellious fellow patient, she feels a powerful connection, but the risk of life-threatening infection dictate that she and Will maintain a safe distance between them. As their feelings grow, Stella and Will face a life-changing question: How does love...
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[2017]
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English
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Beautiful and haunted Joan makes a bloody and determined pilgrimage across a frozen landscape toward a prestigious all-girls prep school, where Rose and Kat find themselves stranded after their parents mysteriously fail to retrieve them for winter break. As Joan gets closer, Rose watches in horror while Kat suffers terrifying visions and becomes possessed by an unseen force.
19) Above the clouds
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[2020]
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English
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A wilful teenager seeks her real father, on a learner's permit with a homeless 'responsible adult' in the passenger seat.
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[2016]
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English
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The girls from Eastland are girls no longer. Facing the challenges of young adulthood (including marriage, work, and their very different future goals) the four ladies seem destined to go their separate ways and leave their longtime home in Peekskill. But when Eastland School For Girls is threatened with closure, Blair takes steps to save the place where their unshakeable friendship all started.
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