On the heels of his success with the groundbreaking drama Boyhood, director Richard Linklater shifts gears to sports for this comedy about a successful college baseball team that plays hard both on and off the diamond.

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Erik is not so much bad as fiercely independent and at constant odds with authority so he's expelled, his desperate parents enrolling him in an exclusive and Draconian boarding school, a punishment Erik feels he deserves. Determined to make amends, Erik shows nothing but silent defiance to his brutal new overseers, but, as the battle of wills with his nemesis, the school captain, reaches breaking point, Erik decides to make a stand not merely for himself, but for all those who have felt the inst find out more...

Based on a true story; from the small town of Odessa The Permian High Panthers of 1988 were the most successful high school American football team in Texas history. This thoughtful tale depicts the immense pressure these young lads and their coach found themselves under in a town with nothing else to aspire to; like a "Springfield" devoid of wit, irony or indeed hope. 'Friday Night Lights' is a powerful, gripping drama with excellent performances and a refreshing lack of sporting schmaltz. find out more...

A charming story of a Scottish adolescent who struggles to get to grips with being replaced by a girl on the school football team. Demoted to goalie he becomes infatuated by this wonder woman. But will she be interested in poor spotty Gregory? Or will Gregory perhaps become the next George Best? Watch and see in this fantastic British comedy! find out more...

A young working-class lad in a grim Northern mining town has no more ambition than to follow his dad down the pit. However he finds an injured young kestrel, which he nurses back to health and trains, an event which opens up a once bleak landscape for him. It's grim up there..... find out more...

Set in a West London comprehensive we follow a group of confused and disillusioned fifteen-year-olds who may or may not get the opportunity to experience full blown adulthood. Bag up as large a selection of the sensationalist journalism about the state of our nation from the stand point of our disaffected youth; teenage pregnancy, suicide, organised crime, murder and you have a good taster of the trip "Kidulthood" is going to take you on. While the story overflows with harsh, gritty urban realis find out more...

Christine "Lady Bird" MacPherson is a high school senior from the "wrong side of the tracks." She longs for adventure, sophistication, and opportunity, but finds none of that in her Sacramento Catholic high school. LADY BIRD follows the title character's senior year in high school, including her first romance, her participation in the school play, and most importantly, her applying for college.

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Truffaut's first feature, the melancholy and revealing portrait (semi-autobiographical) of an adolescent boy growing up in Paris. We see the intense, destructive family background followed by an escape from reform school. Beautifully perceptive performances make this one of Truffaut's finest works. find out more...

11-year-old swimming ace Tommi and 12-year-old Viola are being raised by financially struggling single dad Renato. Their individual lonelinesses, and the collective family need for the return of the most important woman in their lives, creates a strong bond within the surviving family unit, that is until she actually returns. Italian actor Kim Rossi Stuart makes an impressive directorial debut with this moving and richly rewarding coming-of-age drama, which won the Directors' Fortnight prize at find out more...

Butchy rebel Paulie and golden girl Tory's relationship is intense and it's all their own...until Mouse comes to their boarding school and is put in their once-private room. The couple become Mouse's closest friends but the depth of their relationship confuses her although she remains fiercely loyal to them as others around them start talking. When things start to break down, Paulie loses the plot, following her heart into serious drama, while Tory begins to deny everything and flaunts her expl find out more...