The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Bad Reputation (2018), The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973), Lords of Dogtown (2005), New Waterford Girl (1999), Eight Miles High! (2007), Accepted (2006), Coming Through the Rye (2015) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Spirit Of Rebellion movies.
Storyline: A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy's reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary runs, reveries of his life and times before his incarceration lead him to re-evaluate his privileged status as the Governor's prize runner.
Plot Keywords: british film, social realism, class conflict, working class, 1960s, black and white film, social critique ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary about rock star Joan Jett.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, rock music, biography, rebellion, gender equality, music industry, independent music ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A married bureaucrat (Winfried Glatzeder) and a single mother (Angelica Domröse) of two meet and fall in love.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, working class, life struggles, social critique, classic film, marital issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys, as they come to be known, perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually moving into legend.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, extreme sports, 1970s, street culture, brotherhood, rise to fame, social outcasts ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sometime in the 1970s, 15-year-old loner Agnes Marie "Mooney" Pottie dreams of escaping existence in New Waterford, a coastal Nova Scotia town on Cape Breton Island. She quietly scorns most of the people around her, including her large family, who don't share her sensibilities; her fiercely-Catholic family think she's weird. She thinks she's realized her dream when, with the help of her teacher Cecil Sweeney (who came to New Waterford to find himself and is still looking) she wins a scholarship to a New York art school. When her parents don't let her go, she devises a plan to escape New Waterford. Meanwhile, a bit of NYC comes to New Waterford when Lou Benzoa and her dance-instructor mother temporarily move in next door to the Potties to escape the Bronx until "the stink dies down." Lou becomes friends with Mooney and quickly gains a reputation as the female Equalizer, whose powers only work on the guilty.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: coming of age, small town life, female friendship, family dynamics, cultural clash, dark comedy, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Akiz's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but soon becomes the "it girl" of Munich's club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans, they move to Berlin and live in "Kommune 1", the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. While the other occupants claim she isn't political enough, Uschi just wants to have fun, works as fashion model and leads international music stars in temptation...—fippi2000
Plot Keywords: musical, biography, drama, german film, history, rock music, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After being rejected from every college he applied, Bartleby Gaines decided to create a fictitious university, South Harmon Institute of Technology, with his friends, to fool their parents. But when their deception works too well and every other college rejects starts to apply to his school, B. must find a way to give the education and future his students and friends deserves, including his own, while trying to win the heart of the girl next door.
Plot Keywords: comedy, youth, campus, rebellion, education system, prank, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Coming Through the Rye, set in 1969, is a touching coming of age story of sensitive, 16 yr. old Jamie Schwartz, who is not the most popular kid at his all boys' boarding school. Disconnected from students and teachers, he believes he is destined to play Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye, and has adapted the book as a play. After a series of increasingly hostile altercations with the boys at school Jamie runs away to search for JD Salinger. On his way he picks up Deedee Gorlin, a quirky townie. Their odyssey to find Salinger becomes a journey of sexual awakening, the discovery of love and of the meaning of one's life.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, literary adaptation, rebellion, self-discovery, writer, 1960s, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A backwoods Alabama boy named Peejoe -short for Peter Joseph- gets a quick education in grown-up matters like freedom in 1965. The catalyst is an unlikely source - his glamorous, eccentric Aunt Lucille, who escapes from her abusive husband and takes off for Hollywood to pursue her dreams of TV stardom.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, coming of age, 1960s, race relations, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: St Trinians proudly continues to represent the unacceptable face of British education. When the new Minister of Education announces he will personally sort the place out he doesn't realise either the enormity of the task or that the headmistress is an old flame. The school is anyway threatened with closure by their bank; with the staff clearly a waste of space the girls realise the responsibility to save the day falls on them. Perhaps ripping off the girl with the pearl earring (a painting by Johannes Vermeer) might be the way out?
Plot Keywords: school life, british film, pranks, crime comedy, hilarious, chaos, classic remake ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A diverse group of high school students band together to peacefully stick it to their overbearing principal.
Plot Keywords: teen, comedy, high school, american, rebellion, friendship, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the gorilla takes her back to become a flea market freak Rick takes it upon himself to break Katie out and take her on an adventureous journey to get her out of the country.—Christopher D. Ryan <cryan@direct.ca>
Plot Keywords: adventure, comedy, road movie, coming of age, youth, rebellion, motorcycle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Inspired by true events. After surviving a train derailment, Nicole Barrow has lost all of her memories. The only things she remembers about herself are that she has a husband running for Attorney General and she is a geography professor with a love of cartography. Months of recovering lead her to believe she is slowly putting her perfect life back together. However, when she is approached by several strange men claiming she had contacted them to meet for sexual fantasies, she discovers a series of social media pages claiming to be her. Has her identity been stolen, or is this her former self? As she scrambles to put the pieces of her mind together, she questions who she can trust and must fight to remember the truth.—Alexa Hampton
Plot Keywords: adventure, comedy, drama, family, coming of age, youth, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Though it is forbidden, a man (Jim Sturgess) devises a way to reunite with a long-lost love (Kirsten Dunst) from the twin world that sits just above his own.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, romance, fantasy, dystopian, class divide, social allegory, visual spectacle ...
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