Spotlight
Wondering which films to watch? Spotlight presents thematically grouped, must see films, hand-picked by Fandor's curators.

Some Dogs Bite


1981

Gretchen

Dottie Gets Spanked

Machuca

Viva Cuba

The Deflowering of Eva van End

Only the Young

Corpo celeste

Kisses

Treeless Mountain

Broken

Little Fugitive

Boy

Lore

The Colors of the Mountain

The Way I Spent the End of the World
Spotlight on Coming of Age
Few things have been more inspirational to filmmakers over the years than that period of life when childhood innocence turns to adolescent hunger and adult knowingness. The moments are ripe for drama: growing up and going to school, leaving home and entering the world beyond your family, struggling to fit in somewhere. Fumbling formative moments invest these stories with hilarity, horror and sometimes heartfelt nostalgic revelation.
Selected Films
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Machuca
Set in Chile, 1973, this is an astonishingly intimate and painful coming-of-age story about a pair of 12-year-old boys from opposite extremes of society who form an unlikely friendship during the last days of President Allende and the first days of Pinochet. The potent events are accompanied by a...Watch Movie -
Dottie Gets Spanked
Another dazzling suburban phantasm from writer/director Todd Haynes, DOTTIE GETS SPANKED (made post-POISON and pre-SAFE) is a stylized, bittersweet nod to his childhood fascination with I LOVE LUCY. Deep in the heart of pre-hippie 1960s America, young artistically-inclined...Watch Movie