When stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the party island Ibiza, they see it as their big chance to become superstar club DJs and, more importantly, to lose their virginities. But they aren't prepared for the interference of top DJ Eyeball Paul, not to mention the embarrassment factor of Kevin's long-suffering parents.

Something in the Air

2012

French

6.4

♡ 4

81%

Olivier Assayas Director

Johnny Flynn as

Paul Spera as Carl

Lola Créton as Christine

India Menuez as Leslie

During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.

Beyond Silence

1996

German

7.4

♡ 3

83%

Caroline Link Director

Birge Schade as Fräulein Mertens

Matthias Habich as Gregor

Sylvie Testud as Lara

Hansa Czypionka as Tom

Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.

Whale Rider

2002

English

7.5

♡ 30

91%

grandparent grandchild relationship

loss of loved one

ocean

tradition

Niki Caro Director

John Sumner as Obstetrician

Keisha Castle-Hughes as Paikea

Cliff Curtis as Porourangi

Rachel House as Shilo

A contemporary story of love, rejection, and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

Running with Scissors

2006

English

6.1

♡ 7

32%

56%

Action

based on novel or book

becoming an adult

Comedy

Drama

husband wife relationship

loose adaptation

sibling relationship

therapist

Ryan Murphy Director

Brian Cox as Dr. Finch

Patrick Wilson as Michael Shephard

Joseph Fiennes as Neil Bookman

Leslie Grossman as Sue

Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

2008

English

6.3

♡ 9

73%

71%

Action

adolescence

based on novel or book

parent child relationship

puberty

Romance

Gurinder Chadha Director

Georgia Groome as Georgia Nicolson

Eleanor Tomlinson as Jas

Ingrid Oliver as Miss Stamp

Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Robbie

Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around her hilarious journal entries, prepare to be engulfed in the world of the soaring joys and bottomless angst of being a teenager.

Ronia: The Robber's Daughter

1984

Swedish

7.3

♡ 8

88%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

parent child relationship

Tage Danielsson Director

Philip Zandén as Adelsherre

Per Oscarsson as Borka

Lena Nyman as Lovis

Allan Edwall as Skalle-Per

Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, braving dangerous Witchbirds and Rump-Gnomes. But when their families find out Birk and Ronia have been playing together, they forbid them to see each other again. Indeed, their fathers are competing robber chieftains and bitter enemies. Now the two spunky children must try to tear down the barriers that have kept their families apart for so long.

Mohabbatein

2000

Hindi

7.1

♡ 32

81%

Aditya Chopra Director

Anupam Kher as Kake

Amrish Puri as Maj. Gen. Khanna

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan as Megha

Shah Rukh Khan as Raj Aryan Malhotra

At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.

Private Parts

1997

English

6.9

♡ 27

75%

Betty Thomas Director

Edie Falco as Alison's Friend

Scott Lawrence as News Guy

Ozzy Osbourne as Ozzy Osbourne

Kelly Bishop as Ray Stern

The life and career of shock-jock superstar Howard Stern is recounted from his humble beginnings to his view from the top. Possessing a desire to be an on-air personality since childhood, Stern meanders through the radio world, always with his supportive wife, Alison, by his side. Landing a gig in Washington, D.C., Stern meets Robin Quivers, who will become his long-time partner in crime. When the two move to New York, they face the wrath of NBC executives.

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

1992

English

4.9

♡ 47

38%

Randal Kleiser Director

John Shea as Hendrickson

Keri Russell as Mandy

Ron Canada as Marshall Brooks

Julia Sweeney as Nosey Neighbor

Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his invention, the machine unexpectedly starts working. And when Adam comes right up to the machine, he gets zapped along with his stuffed bunny.

Wild Things 2

2004

English

4.5

♡ 38

22%

Jack Perez Director

Susan Ward as Brittney Havers

Ron Dean as Judge Ruben

Elizabeth Bond as Pool Party Girl

Michael Chieffo as Principal Mosster

Two Florida high school vixens hatch a murderous plan to win an inheritance, but they hadn't bargained for an escalating whirlpool of blackmail and sexual games with a sleazy insurance investigator who has his own plans for the money.

Walking Out

2017

English

5.8

♡ 45

92%

parent child relationship

Thriller

wilderness

Alex Smith Director

Matt Bomer as Cal

Bill Pullman as Clyde

Josh Wiggins as David

Alex Neustaedter as Young Cal

A city teen travels to Montana to go hunting with his estranged father, only for the strained trip to become a battle for survival when they encounter a grizzly bear.

Requiem

2006

German

6.8

♡ 12

86%

Hans-Christian Schmid Director

Sandra Hüller as Michaela Klingler

Alejandro Esquerra as Studenten

Kutrín Kreredis as Studenten

Hannah Neumann as Studenten

Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon begins hearing voices and seeing apparitions that tell her to avoid religious objects, although she is devoutly Roman Catholic. One priest scoffs at the idea that Michaela could be possessed by demons, but a younger pastor arranges an exorcism for the young woman.

My Summer of Love

2004

English

6.7

♡ 22

90%

Pawel Pawlikowski Director

Natalie Press as Mona

Paddy Considine as Phil

Emily Blunt as Tamsin

Lynette Edwards as Tamsin's Mother

In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal their friendship, Mona introduces Tamsin to her born-again Christian brother and helps her spy on her adulterous father. Bound together by their secrets, the two girls see their friendship deepen and enter into dangerous waters.

The History Boys

2006

English

6.8

♡ 8

66%

Nicholas Hytner Director

Dominic Cooper as Dakin

Stephen Campbell Moore as Irwin

Frances de la Tour as Mrs. Lintott

Clive Merrison as The Headmaster

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

L'effrontée

1985

French

6.9

♡ 4

Claude Miller Director

Charlotte Gainsbourg as Charlotte Castang

Clothilde Baudon as Clara Bauman

Bernadette Lafont as Léone

Jean-Claude Brialy as Sam

Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. Her mother died giving birth to her, and she lives with her crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Her only friend is Lulu, a sick 10-year-old she regards as a pest. Charlotte is antisocial, bored and dreams of a better life. Her life improves when she meets Clara Bauman, a pianist prodigy.

Woyzeck

1979

German

7.0

♡ 14

86%

Werner Herzog Director

Wolfgang Bächler as Jew

Irm Hermann as Margret

Dieter Augustin as Marktschreier

Klaus Kinski as Woyzeck

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One job is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.

Riding in Cars with Boys

2001

English

6.5

♡ 12

48%

Penny Marshall Director

Drew Barrymore as Beverly Donofrio

Brittany Murphy as Fay Forrester

Logan Lerman as Jason - Age 8

Steve Zahn as Ray Hasek

In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.

City of Men

2007

Portuguese

7.2

♡ 8

74%

parent child relationship

slum

street gang

Paulo Morelli Director

Douglas Silva as Acerola

Michel de Souza as Fininho

Darlan Cunha as Laranjinha

Jonathan Haagensen as Madrugadão

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

Love on the Run

1979

French

♡ 7

62%

François Truffaut Director

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel

Marie-France Pisier as Colette Tazzi

Christian Lentretien as Le dragueur du train

Roland Thénot as L'homme en colère au téléphone

Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel is a divorced proofreader in love with a record seller. Colette Tazzi, now a lawyer, buys his first published autobiography, leading them to a chance meeting.

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Kevin & Perry Go Large

Something in the Air

Beyond Silence

Whale Rider

Running with Scissors

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

Ronia: The Robber's Daughter

Mohabbatein

Private Parts

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

Wild Things 2

Walking Out

Requiem

My Summer of Love

The History Boys

L'effrontée

Woyzeck

Riding in Cars with Boys

City of Men

Love on the Run