Most Similar Movies to American Teen (2008)
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Seventeen (1983), Off and Running (2009), All This Panic (2016), Making the Grade (2017), The Girl Next Door (2000), Superstar (1990), A Northern Soul (2018) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Seventeen (1983)
This cinéma vérité documentary covers several months in the lives of a group of high school students in Muncie, Ind. The filmmaker focuses on Lynn, a white girl whose relationship with an African-American student has caused controversy. After a cross is burned on her lawn, Lynn responds with righteous anger rather than fear, standing up to her community's bigotry. Meanwhile, Lynn's peers face their own trials, including an unplanned pregnancy and alcohol abuse.
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Off and Running (2009)
Avery Klein-Cloud, a teenage African-American girl, lives in Brooklyn with her Caucasian Jewish lesbian mothers and two brothers who are also of other races. When Avery decides to contact her birth mother, this triggers a major identity crisis.
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All This Panic (2016)
Shot over a three-year period with unparalleled intimacy and access, ALL THIS PANIC is a feature length documentary that takes an intimate look at the interior lives of a group of teenage girls as they come of age in Brooklyn. A potent mix of vivid portraiture and vérité, we follow the girls as they navigate the ephemeral and fleeting transition between childhood and ...Read all
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Making the Grade (2017)
The musical educational system in Ireland is explored, where over 30,000 students prepare for graded piano exams each year.
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The Girl Next Door (2000)
Filmmaker Christine Fugate interviews Stacy Valentine, nee Baker, whose abusive husband pushed her into performing in porn films.
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Superstar (1990)
Filmmaker Chuck Workman profiles pop artist Andy Warhol through interviews with friends and colleagues.
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A Northern Soul (2018)
A documentary following a resident of Hull as he attempts to make a positive impact on his community by travelling with a hip-hop tour bus.
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Mad Hot Ballroom (2005)
The students of several New York City elementary schools learn ballroom dancing and compete in a city wide dance competition.
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On the Ropes (1999)
The story of three young boxers and their coach who is determined to guide them in a positive direction in and out of the ring.
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Changing the Game (2019)
Journeying into the lives of three high school athletes, Sarah, Andraya, and Mack, at different stages of their athletic seasons, personal lives, and their unique paths as transgender teens.
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Inspirations (1997)
This latest documentary film by Michael Apted (7Up series, Gorillas in the Mist, Nell) explores the creative process through candid discussion with seven artists from diverse media. David Bowie, Roy Lichtenstein, Dale Chihuly, Edouard Locke, Louise LeCavalier, and Nora Noranjo-Morse answer the questions regarding their particular artforms: "How do you create your prob...Read all
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Sound and Fury (2000)
Cousins Heather and Peter Artinian -- ages 6 and almost 2, respectively -- are deaf. Their condition could be changed by a cochlear implant, a device that stimulates hearing. The benefits are obvious, but this documentary focuses on why the children's families face a tough decision. There are concerns about how the device will change the recipient's relationship with deaf culture and whether there can ever be a true connection between those who hear sounds and those who hear only silence.
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Chain Camera (2001)
Chain Camera is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Kirby Dick about the lives of Los Angeles high school students.
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Generation Z (2015)
After a zombie outbreak, adventure seekers are invited to a luxury island resort where they can hunt the mindless undead on safari.
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Hoop Dreams (1994)
A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
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American Pie (1999)
Four teenage boys enter a pact to lose their virginity by prom night.
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East Side Story (1997)
Though its films were rarely exhibited on the other side of the Iron Curtain, the prolific Soviet film industry churned out more than propagandistic documentaries and epic-length versions of 19th-century Russian novels. This documentary explores the musical comedy genre in the communist era, when, just as in Hollywood musicals, characters broke into elaborately stylized song and dance numbers mid-movie, the difference being that these characters sang in praise of collective farms and factories.
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