 | Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut)
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $3.39 Watch this movie if you've ever thought about doing heroin.
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 | The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
Buy used from: $9.95 A great coming of age story about a restless and intelligent high school student coping with change.
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 | Dancer, Texas Pop. 81
Buy used from: $15.39 One of the best small town dramas... captures the essence of what it's like to leave someplace special because you must.
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 | My Own Private Idaho - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $17.07 Road story about the disaffected. Here, the subjects happen to have peripheral forms of what is popularly denoted and controlled as "sexuality"
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 | The Believer
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $11.99 A fascinating look into a disturbing phenomenon. Raises many questions about the relation between truth and fanaticism.
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 | 13 Conversations About One Thing
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $2.00 A thought-provoking and philosophical approach to the issue of happiness. What lies beyond the ups and downs of daily life?
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 | Mysterious Skin (Original Theatrical Director's Cut)
Buy used from: $7.99 A somewhat disturbing look at male prostitution, memories, and child sexual abuse.
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 | Rebel Without a Cause (Single Disc Edition)
Buy used from: $4.00 A classic needs no introduction. This was the one that started them all. Ambiguity permeates all the characters. We might ask: has manhood deteriorated in our age? Then we could ask: so what if it has? What is man, after all?
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 | Trans
Buy used from: $2.59 Humble realism is refreshing every now and again...
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 | The Dreamers (Original Uncut NC-17 Version)
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.00 sex, film, and politics... in that order
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 | The Passion of Joan of Arc (Criterion Collection Spine #62)
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $17.25 A young woman faces injustice and misunderstanding... Probably the most emotional and moving film I've ever seen... be sure to watch it with the musical score.
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 | Y Tu Mama Tambien
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.93 A great road story about youth and sex.
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 | Rent (Fullscreen)
Buy used from: $2.13 Classic bohemian tale of the 90s. You'll get addicted to the characters' personalities.
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 | Elephant: A Film By Gus Van Sant
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $1.78 Disturbing look at a school shooting. Van Sant shows us the facts without judgment, and the result is perfectly useful because it is shocking.
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 | Gerry
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.78 You'll have to open the senses for this one, otherwise you may miss the point and get bored. Enjoy the sky, the sand, the silence... the nothingness and the futility of death... yes, it is very good: this being hurdled slowly but inevitably toward a grisly end.
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 | Last Days
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $1.50 Along with Elephant and Gerry, this one is essential Van Sant viewing.
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 | Diary of a Country Priest - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $18.99 A young priest confronts the apathetic conformity of a small town. A passionate testament to something very radical: ideals and principles. To what do all ideals drive toward? Only youth can fully embrace the consequences of carrying them to their absolute, logical end: idealisms and meanings are nihilistic, and they are also good.
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 | SLC Punk
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $3.97 Salt Lake City Punk... they go out of state for booze. Now that's dedication!
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 | Imaginary Heroes
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.25 Dealing with loss in a world without heroes.
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 | The Virgin Suicides
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $2.90 Profoundly depressing? You'd think, but no. Strangely unsettling.
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 | Igby Goes Down
Buy used from: $0.87 A contemporary Holden Caufield.
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 | A Home at the End of the World
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.49 Finding people to love and a place on this Earth are two very important things for human beings.
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 | Saved!
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $1.64 Hilarious satire of fundamentalist Christian high school students reacting to issues of homosexuality and teen pregnancy.
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 | The Breakfast Club (High School Reunion Collection)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.24 Classic 80s high school drama... entertaining if nothing else.
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 | Pumpkin
Buy used from: $1.71 An incredible film if you like dark humor (the critics got this one way wrong)... so unusual that you wonder if it's really a comedy at all, or what it's trying to say.
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 | City of God
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $4.25 Growing up poor in the City of God (Rio, Brazil)
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 | Trainspotting - Director's Cut (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $7.99 Another heroin movie... not quite as good or as impactful as Requiem though (imo)
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 | Election
Buy used from: $1.99 Biting satire, ponderous irony. Ambition and humility do not seem compatible: youth and maturity, or two universal types? What of humble youth?
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 | Boys Don't Cry
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $4.56 A pretty good story about a girl who feels like a boy, and his dilemma of growing up in rural Texas.
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 | The Edukators
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.50 Young German socialists trash the houses of the wealthy in their spare time, and get themselves into a bit of a problem in the process
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 | C.R.A.Z.Y. (Original French with English Subtitles ONLY)
Very rewarding film... not for its depiction of growing up gay, but for the father-son relationship amidst the complications and imperfections of life.
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 | Dreamland (Widescreen)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.20 Lazy days in the desert sun... loving, losing, and getting on with our lives. Dreams can die in dreamland, but they can also be born.
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 | Dandelion
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $2.73 Tragic love story set in midwestern prairies. The landscapes are hypnotic here, and successfully reflect the dazed longings of the characters
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 | MTV Films Present: Better Luck Tomorrow
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.01 An Asian-American high school student gets bored with academic success.
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 | Full Speed
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $7.95 A decent French film about friends coming together and moving apart.
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 | Love in Thoughts
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $5.88 Youth in mid twentieth century Germany form a suicide club... destructive but insightful.
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 | Mouchette - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $19.90 Another bleak spiritual tale from Bresson. I'm not sure what to think of this one yet.
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 | A Better Place
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $3.11 A disturbed, isolated, and taciturn high-schooler is befriended by a nerdy classmate. Violence escalates to a disturbing crescendo as personalities and peer groups come into conflict.
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 | Before Sunrise
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $2.41 A truly unique film. This one is younger and fresher, though not better, than the sequel "Before Sunset."
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 | Donnie Darko - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $5.98 Couldn't forget this one... everyone on this Earth dies alone.
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