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1) Indignation
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Passion ignites culture clash in this provocative coming-of-age story, based on the best-selling novel by Philip Roth. Marcus, a student from New Jersey arrives at a small conservative college in Ohio. He becomes infatuated with his class mate Olivia. The mutual attraction sparks a torried encounter with consequences no one ever could have imagined. He puts his family's best-laid plans and his own beliefs to the ultimate test.
2) Elegy
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A renowned college professor, known for his romantic escapades, becomes involved in a possessive, passionate relationship with Consuela, a young student.
3) The hole
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A group of British private school students discover a hole that was possibly dug as a bomb shelter, and soon a prank involving the mysterious hole effects all their lives.
4) The Narrows
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A talented photography student from Brooklyn on a partial scholarship to New York University takes a job with a crime boss to make up the rest of the tuition.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Brian is a working class student from Essex navigating his first year at Bristol University with a ragtag group of new friends. Brian's life-long dream is to join the team for the British quiz show University Challenge, and pull Alice, the fittest girl on the team.
10) One missed call
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
After receiving a voice mail in which they hear their own death, several friends die in the ways the voice message described and a young woman is determined to find the answers behind the phone calls.
11) Speak
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Speak unfolds a story about Melinda, a smart and spirited high school freshman who retreats into self-imposed silence after she is raped one night at a party. Eventually through her work in art class, she begins to reach out to others.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Perks of Being a Wallflower is based on the wildly popular novel by Stephen Chbosky about a freshman named Charlie who is always watching from the sidelines until a pair of charismatic seniors takes him under their wing. Beautiful, free-spirited Sam and her fearless stepbrother Patrick shepherd Charlie through new friendships, first love, burgeoning sexuality, bacchanalian parties, midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the quest...
14) Timeline
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A group of present-day archeology students are stunned to discover a handwritten plea for help dated April 2, 1357...from their own professor. He's been blasted back in time to the 14th century. To rescue him, they must travel back and survive one of the most violent battles in world history--and make it back to the 21st century alive.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After his reputation is ruined by the false accusations of a female student at an all-girl prep school, a teacher tries to start over in a small town, but finds himself accused of rape; a high-profile criminal attorney defends a teenage Amish girl who is on trial for murdering her baby; two families must pick up the pieces when their teenage children decide to commit suicide together, but only one of them dies.
Publisher
TGG Direct, LLC
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Nineteen eighty-four: Winston Smith endures a squalid existence in totalitarian Oceania under the constant surveillance of Big Brother. When he starts an illegal love affair, he becomes the target of a brain-washing compaign to force him to conform.
Crime and punishment: A modern version of Dostoyevsky's classic of one man's search for the true meaning of his existance.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts is marked by the Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, in which student representatives from three different wizarding schools compete in a series of increasingly challenging contests. However, Voldemort's Death Eaters are gaining strength and create the Dark Mark - giving evidence that the Dark Lord is ready to rise again. In the unsuspecting lives of the students at Hogwarts, the competitors are selected...
18) Hannibal rising
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
After young Hannibal is forced to watch his little sister, Mischa, being devoured by starving soldiers in his Lithuania homeland. Hannibal vows to avenge his sister's death by slaying those who committed not only war crimes against the Lecters, but also against other families during WW II. Hannibal's revenge plan includes his cannibalism to justify his insatiable appetite for human flesh. Hannibal excels in his medical school classes dissecting cadavers....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young wizard Harry Potter and his fellow students learn their craft at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; when the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at Hogwarts, Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school; during his third year at Hogwarts, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard thought responsible for his parents' deaths; as Harry enters his fourth year at Hogwarts,...
20) Nerve
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Industrious high school senior, Vee Delmonico, has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the adrenaline-fueled competition partnered with a mysterious stranger, the game begins to take a sinister turn with increasingly dangerous acts, leading her into a high-stakes...