films that changed the trajectory of my life .ᐟ

Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.

Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son, though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It's a race against time as the group struggles to learn three songs for the festival's rock concert—including a classic '80s song by the Japanese punk rock band The Blue Hearts called "Linda Linda".

Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered...

Miso lives from day to day by housekeeping. Cigarettes and whiskey are the two things that get her through the day. As cigarette prices and rent start to rise, Miso decides to give up her house for cigarettes and whiskey, leading her to couch surf with old friends while reconsidering her place in life.

A bullied girl becomes friends with a new kid during a break, but when classes start up again, their new friendship is nearly ruined when the bullying continues.

Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voyage of self-discovery.

Hirayama is content with his life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured routine, he cherishes music on cassette tapes, books, and taking photos of trees. Through unexpected encounters, he reflects on finding beauty in the world.

Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.

After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.

An unapologetic former sex worker starts working at a bento stand in a small seaside town, bringing comfort to the lonely souls who come her way.

Yeon-du le pide a su mejor amiga Bora que recopile toda la información que pueda sobre Baek Hyun-jin mientras ella está en los Estados Unidos para someterse a una cirugía de corazón. Bora decide acercarse primero al mejor amigo de Baek, Pung Woon-ho. Sin embargo, el torpe plan de Bora se desarrolla en una dirección inesperada. En 1999, un año antes del nuevo siglo, Bora, que cumple diecisiete años, cae en la fiebre del primer amor.

Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human being. Il-soon is another patient, who catches the eye of Young-goon and soon becomes a close friend. Il-soon is now confronted with the biggest task: to cure Young-goon's mental problem and have her eat real food.

Having been released after serving his sentence, a funeral director accidentally crosses paths with a girl which brings about an unexpected change in his attitude towards life.

Lilico je mladá, krásná modelka, která je pro svůj úspěch ochotná udělat cokoli. Na vrchol módního a filmového průmyslu se propracovala nejen tvrdou prací, ale také intrikami a poskytováním sexuálních služeb různým významným lidem ze "showbyznysu". Spolu s její krásou ji však předchází pověst arogantní, bezcitné osoby, která nezná hranice slušnosti. Jednoho dne se jí z ničeho nic začnou na tváři objevovat modřiny. Aby toho nebylo málo, agent agentury naverbuje další krásku, osmnáctiletou studentku Kozue Jošikawu. Dokáže se Lilico smířit s tím, že její vlastní krása upadá, nebo že její popularita klesá kvůli nové konkurenci?

A job seeking dreamer Yong-jun works part-time at his parents' lunch box house. Yeo-reum lives only to support for hearing-impaired swimmer sister. One day, Yong-jun meets Yeo-reum while delivering lunch boxes and falls in love at the first sight. Yeo-reum slowly opens her heart to warm-hearted Yong-jun.

Barefoot and her friends decide to make a samurai movie, gather a unique cast and staff for the production, and try to screen it at their school festival.

A high school girl, Sayaka Kudō was the bottom of the class. After a year, she improved her deviation value from 30 to 70, then passed Keio University that is considered one of the most difficult to enter in Japan.

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.

Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.

A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.

Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.

When eighth-grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small elementary/middle school with only six kids enrolled, wholesome and honest Soyo becomes enthralled with his sophisticated world.

During the 1990s, hardworking Mi-soo and optimistic Hyun-woo meet at a bakery and fall in love while exchanging stories on a radio station, but while their paths keep crossing, the timing never seems to work out.

When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, 'leap' backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.

In the dead of night, a body donated for organ transplants mysteriously disintegrates into ashes. Soon after, five recipients, given a heart, corneas, lungs, liver, and kidneys, begin to develop supernatural powers. A teenage girl gains immense strength, a hipster manipulates electromagnetic waves, a novelist summons powerful gusts, a factory manager can heal others, and a woman discovers a strange, still-unidentified ability. Together, they form a reluctant but heroic team known as "HI-FIVE." But they aren’t the only ones transformed. A cult leader who received the donor's pancreas gains the terrifying power to drain life energy and sets his sights on stealing the abilities of HI-FIVE to achieve godlike domination.

In the god-forsaken satellite city of Tuen Mun, 13-year-old Cookie suspects she's pregnant. Lately things have not been going her way. Her mother left; her father ignores her; her best friend is in reform school; and her boyfriend is off selling bootleg VCDs in bustling Mong Kok. Flanked by her ride-or-dies Banana, Sissy, and Bean-Curd, she journeys into town to find an abortionist.

Office worker Truly Lin goes on a journey through her memories. 20 years ago, she had a crush on the most popular guy in school. Taiyu, a ruffian and a bully, is in love with the campus belle. Truly teams up with Taiyu to tear the golden couple apart and help each other to get the ones they love.

Two twenty-somethings, both reeling from bad break-ups, connect over the course of an eventful day in South London – helping each other deal with their nightmare exes, and potentially restoring their faith in romance.

Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.

Léo y Rémi, de 13 años, son amigos de toda la vida. Hasta que un suceso impensable los separa. Léo se acerca entonces a Sophie, la madre de Rémi, para tratar de entender.

A young woman struggling to stay on top of everything in her life meets a married publisher and begins an affair with him.

Megan Bloomfield es animadora en su colegio, tiene amigas animadoras y es novia del capitán del equipo de fútbol. Es vegetariana, no le gustan los besos de su novio y abraza cuando puede a sus amigas. Un día sus amigos/as, su novio y sus padres le tienen una trampa para enviarla a un campamento en el que curan la homosexualidad. Megan tiene que pasar varias pruebas, incluyendo la primera que es darse cuenta de que es lesbiana.

Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of misfortunes and everyday life.

The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.

In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.

Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.

Quando a jovem Olive ganha a oportunidade de participar da final do concurso de beleza infantil "Little Miss Sunshine", toda a família se mobiliza para lhe permitir o sonho, embarcando numa divertida e atribulada viagem até à Califórnia numa carrinha "pão-de-forma" a cair aos pedaços. Mas esta família tem tudo menos normalidade: o pai é um orador motivacional fracassado, a mãe está à beira de um colapso nervoso, o irmão mais velho é um adolescente revoltado que fez voto de silêncio contra a família, o avô é um pervertido e o tio é um homossexual com tendências suicidas que sabe tudo sobre Marcel Proust.

Paddington raconte l'histoire d'un jeune ours péruvien fraîchement débarqué à Londres, à la recherche d'un foyer et d'une vie meilleure. Il réalise vite que la ville de ses rêves n'est pas aussi accueillante qu'il croyait. Par chance, il rencontre la famille Brown et en devient peu à peu un membre à part entière.

Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

Paddington travels to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

Todd Anderson est un garçon plutôt timide. Désormais élève de la prestigieuse académie Welton, réputée pour être l'une des plus fermées et austères des États-Unis, tout le monde attend de lui qu'il suive les traces de son frère, qui avait fait à Welton de brillantes études. C'est là qu'il va faire la rencontre de M. Keating, un professeur de lettres anglaises qui, c'est le moins que l'on puisse dire, sort des sentiers battus. Jour après jour, M. Keating encourage ses élèves à penser par eux-mêmes et à refuser l'ordre établi. Cette rencontre va bouleverser la vie du jeune Todd, mais aussi celle de ses amis.

Ambientada en un pueblecito europeo en el siglo XIX, esta película de animación fotograma a fotograma cuenta la historia de Victor, un joven que es llevado de repente al infierno, donde se casa con una misteriosa Novia Cadáver, mientras que su verdadera novia, Victoria espera en el mundo de los vivos. A pesar de que la tierra de los muertos resulta ser más colorista que su estricta educación victoriana, Victor aprende que no hay nada en este mundo, ni en el siguiente, que pueda separarle de su único y verdadero amor.

Jack Skellington, un épouvantail squelettique surnommé « le Roi des citrouilles », vit dans la ville d'Halloween. En tant que maître de l'épouvante, Jack occupe ses journées à préparer la prochaine fête d'Halloween. Mais le terrible épouvantail, lassé de cette vie répétitive et monotone, décide de partir. C'est alors qu'il découvre la ville de Noël. Après cette aventure, il revient chez lui, avec une idée originale en tête : et si cette année, c'étaient les habitants de la ville d'Halloween qui allaient fêter Noël ?

A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites three of her mother's ex-boyfriends in hope of finding her biological father to walk her down the aisle.

Elphaba é uma jovem como outra qualquer do Reino de Oz, mas incompreendida por causa de sua pele verde incomum e por ainda não ter descoberto seu verdadeiro poder. Sua rotina é tranquila e pouco interessante, mas ao iniciar seus estudos na Universidade de Shiz, seu destino encontra Glinda, uma jovem popular e ambiciosa, nascida em berço de ouro, que só quer garantir seus privilégios e ainda não conhece sua verdadeira alma. As duas iniciam uma inesperada amizade; no entanto, suas diferenças, como o desejo de Glinda pela popularidade e poder, e a determinação de Elphaba em permanecer fiel a si mesma, entram no caminho, o que pode perpetuar no futuro de cada uma e em como as pessoas de Oz as enxergam.

In her first animated musical featuring seven original songs, Barbie comes to life in this modern re-telling of a classic tale of mistaken identity and the power of friendship. Based on the story by Mark Twain.

Shipwrecked as a child, Rosella (Barbie) grows up on the island under the watchful eyes of her loving animal friends. The arrival of Prince Antonio leads Rosella and her furry pals to explore civilization and ultimately save the kingdom by uncovering a secret plot.

Liana and Alexa (Barbie and Teresa) are best friends who share everything, including their love of singing. Upon meeting a girl inside a mirror, the duo embark on a journey that will put their friendship to the ultimate test.