Chhoti Si Baat (1975), Look at Me (2004), Other People (2016), Wonder (2017), The Frog Prince (1986), Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), The Goodbye Girl (1977), Carrie (1976) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Self-esteem movies.
Storyline: In the Kilpatrick juvenile detention center, the supervisor and former football player Sean Porter sees the lack of discipline, self-esteem, union and perspective in the teenage interns and proposes to prepare a football team to play in one league. He is supported by his superiors and his successful experience changes the lives of many young kids.
Plot Keywords: counselor, juvenile delinquent, football player, coach, co-worker, delinquent, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This is the story of Ana, a first generation Mexican-American teenager on the verge of becoming a woman. She lives in the predominately Latino community of East Los Angeles. Freshly graduated from high school, Ana receives a full scholarship to Columbia University. Her very traditional, old-world parents feel that now is the time for Ana to help provide for the family, not the time for college. Torn between her mainstream ambitions and her cultural heritage she agrees to work with her mother at her sister's downtown LA sewing factory. Over the summer she learns to admire the hardworking team of women who teach her solidarity and teamwork. Still at odds with what her mother expects of her, Ana realizes that leaving home to continue her education is essential to finding her place proudly in the world as an American and Chicana.—smbuvideo
Plot Keywords: student, seamstress, teacher, grandmother, mother, latina, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On the day he is released from the state penitentiary on parole after serving five years for robbery, Jack Kelson is tracked down by his now fourteen year old son, Nick Kelson, who wants to be with his father. Jack, in turn, wants nothing to do with Nick, both in having enough to contend with in getting his life on track for himself, and knowing that his own life has been one big failure, he determined for Nick not to get caught up in that cycle. Regardless as Nick cannot be dissuaded, the pair try to eke out a life together living in a rundown residential hotel in a low income neighborhood in Seattle, with the pipe dream of moving to the land of opportunity of frontier Alaska. While Jack goes to work for a commercial window washing business - one of the lies he telling Nick being he has a job as a construction supervisor - and strikes a relationship with Charlotte, a cab driver who wrote to him in prison, Nick has his first case of puppy love for Molly, a teen prostitute who lives with her adolescent brother Roy and stripper/prostitute mother Diane in a unit in the same building, leading to Nick being ensconced within a group of street youth to which Molly belongs. As the going gets tough, it may be easy for Jack to fall into old routines and Nick to follow in Jack's past footsteps, especially as Jack's old criminal associate Ray, who learned everything he knows from Jack, comes around trying to pull one or both into the life.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, teenager, father, son, criminal, gritty, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: professor, daughter, son, teacher, mayor, political boss, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An unfocused twentysomething (Peter Fenton) moves in with a former co-worker (Sacha Holder), who is suffering from low self-esteem because of her weight, looks, and a case of eczema. Their relationship is based on unending drink, drugs, and sex. Curiously, though the two are presented in a tender and humorous light that lets the viewer get involved in concerned about their direction.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: loser, young man, young woman, nymphomaniac, lover, bleak, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two unpopular teenagers, Gary Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men. On their road to becoming accepted, they encounter many hilarious obstacles, which gives the movie an overall sense of silliness.
Plot Keywords: nerd, best friend, dream girl, older brother, teen girl, bully, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The couple from Vienna, a theater director, and Daniel, a nursing home doctor, are going through a crisis. They love each other, but they can't stand each other. Both cling to their professional activity to fill the agonizing void in their lives. Their worlds and their needs are different, almost antagonistic. Story about the worst of loneliness: loneliness in company; about unsatisfied wishes and promises that cannot be fulfilled, but which become a pretext to continue living in spite of everything.—jsanchez
Plot Keywords: director, doctor, son, nurse, actor, gripping, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks something better.
Plot Keywords: young woman, boyfriend, friend, romantic interest, parent, emotional, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After years in hiding, ex-Weather Underground militant, Nick Sloan, a.k.a. Jim Grant, learns about his old compatriot's arrest for a bank robbery turned deadly in the 1970s, for which he is wanted as an accomplice. This puts the ambitious young local reporter, Ben Shepard, on the scent of a story that exposes Nick as well. As such, Nick goes on the run while taking his daughter to safety. With that accomplished, Nick stays one step ahead of the F.B.I. while pursuing a faint hope to clear his name. Meanwhile, Shepard digs deeper into the case as he discovers the true complexities of another times' determined ideals, even as Nick faces their consequences with another.
Plot Keywords: orphan, young boy, warrior, pirate, fairy, friend, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this double coming-of-age comedy, Bird, 12 - wise beyond her years - finds herself having to take care of her fun-but-flighty stoner of a mom, Jenny. When Bird is humiliated by getting her first period at the school picnic, the delicate balance at home blows up as both mother and daughter struggle to discover what it really means to become a woman.—DB
Plot Keywords: young girl, mother, sister, classmate, friend, young boy, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Evie Decker, a shy young woman, falls in love with pop star Drumstrings Casey after hearing his voice on the radio. Summoning the courage to pursue the singer, Evie starts to break out of her shell...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: young woman, musician, father, store manager, rock star, emotional, solemn ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hank Smith, a brutish stoker on board a freighter, is appalled when Mildred Douglas, a society girl forced by circumstance to travel as a passenger, visits the stokehold and recoils at the filthy, sweating Hank. A powerhouse of a man with a primitive confidence, Hank has never been looked down on before nor suffered the insult "hairy ape" flung at him by the rich girl. At first he seeks vengeance for the insult, but broods over it until more than anything, he desires to understand it. When the ship reaches port, he seeks her out in her upper class surroundings, determined to grasp the meaning of the encounter.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: socialite, engineer, laborer, beautiful woman, tender, uneasy, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Edmond's favorite story is of Chanticleer, a rooster whose singing makes the sun rise every morning until the Grand Duke of Owls, whose kind despises the bright sun, makes him look like a fraud. The owls drive Chanticleer from his farm and put it under a spell of perpetual darkness and rain. As Edmond's own farm floods, he calls to Chanticleer and summons the Duke himself, who transforms him into a kitten to devour him. He's rescued by Chanticleer's friends Patou the hound, Snipes the magpie, and Peepers the mouse, and they go on an adventure to the city where Chanticleer has become a rock star.—Grifter Wolf
Plot Keywords: rooster, mouse, kitten, little boy, dog, amusing, cheery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A bored housewife poses as a call girl for a movie star sex-symbol, hoping she can prove to her husband, the star's agent, that she is still desirable to other men and thereby, rekindle the spark in their marriage.
Plot Keywords: wife, husband, movie star, agent, call girl, amusing, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As Phyllis, a Beverly Hills housewife, is in the middle of a divorce, she tries to find focus in her life by taking over her daughter Hannah's Wilderness Girl troop. Among the girls are Tiffany, (who her father has to bribe to attend meetings, Emily (the daughter of an out of work actor, whose financial difficulties hinders her wanting to participate in certain activities), the neurotic Tessa (whose parents divorce has forced her into therapy twice a week), the hostile Chica (whose parents are too busy with their own lives to even remember her birthday), and Claire (the child star who see the wilderness girls as her chance to lead a "normal" life). Phyllis then begins to take the girls camping at a Beverly Hills hotel and earn patches relating to material things. The district leader, Velda, feels the troop should be disbanded. However, the head of the Wilderness girls organization believes that as long as Phyllis has taken an active interest in the girls, that is the only thing that's important. Then Velda begins to sabotage the girls endlessly.—Theresa
Plot Keywords: housewife, young girl, leader, husband, daughter, rival, lighthearted ...
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