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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The Cold Lands
When his fiercely self-reliant mother dies unexpectedly, eleven-year-old Atticus is wary of the authorities and flees deep into the forests of his Catskills home. His sheltered, off-the-grid childhood is over, and a new life on the move has begun. As Atticus wanders the woods in a daze, relying...Watch Movie
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Lore
Left to fend for themselves after their SS officer father and mother, staunch Nazi believers, are interned by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, five German children undertake a harrowing journey that exposes them to the reality and consequences of their parents' actions. Led by...Watch Movie
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Kisses
On the fringes of Dublin two kids, Kylie and Dylan, live in a suburban housing estate devoid of life, colour and the prospect of escape. Kylie lives with five other siblings and her overworked mother. Next door, Dylan lives in the shadow of an alcoholic father and the memory of an elder brother...Watch Movie
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Only the Young
ONLY THE YOUNG follows the story of three teenagers that live in a small desert town in Southern California, a town dominated by foreclosed homes and underpasses, unfilled swimming pools and skate parks. These kids must find things to do in a place that offers nothing, yet in the course of...Watch Movie
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Treeless Mountain
When their mother needs to leave in order to find their estranged father, seven year-old Jin and her younger sister Bin are left to live with their Big Aunt for the summer. With only a small piggy bank and their mother's promise to return when it is full, the two young girls...Watch Movie
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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
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Boy
During summer break in 1984, eleven-year-old Michael Jackson fanatic "Boy" (James Rolleston) has the adventure of his life. With his mother dead and father AWOL, Boy becomes the head of a household full of kids when his Nana leaves town for a funeral. It starts as just another few weeks of...Watch Movie
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Gretchen
Social misfit Gretchen Finkle has spent high school years falling for losers and senior year isn't any different. When she becomes obsessed with bad boy Ricky, her mother sends her to an in-patient therapy clinic. Gretchen realizes she must take responsibility for her life and the choices she makes.Watch Movie
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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
