#14 Fame by Alan Parker

There have been countless movies made about students in high school. Countless others about artists making it, but few if any about students in a high school for the arts trying to make it any way they can. There is something so poignant in the quiet desperation that Fame paints in each of the characters as they have no other dream, no other hope, but to make it. The stories feel real and characters are the people you grew up with and come graduation day there isn't a bunch of happy feelings or sad eyes, but an explosive farewell that is to say "Here I come world, whether I'm ready or not. I'm gonna shine."