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Père Goriot is a significant 19th-century French bildungsroman by Honoré Balzac. The novel follows Eugène de Rastignac’s journey from provincial student to participant in Parisian society. It explores themes of ambition, social class, and the corrosive effects of wealth through the story of Vincent...
Honoré de Balzac’s *Lost Illusions* (1837) offers a sharply observed portrayal of Parisian society in the 19th century. The novel follows René Caïllou, a young poet, as he confronts ambition and disillusionment within the city's publishing industry. Its enduring value lies in its biting social satir...
On a fateful summer night in 2006, Mutta Nanba and his younger brother Hibito witness what they believe to be a UFO flying toward the Moon. This impressing and unusual phenomenon leads both siblings vowing to become astronauts, with Hibito aiming for the Moon and Mutta, convinced that the eldest bro...
Election (1999) is a black comedy film directed by Alexander Payne, starring Matthew Broderick as Jim McAllister, a high school teacher who becomes obsessed with thwarting Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), an ambitious student running for student body president. The film uses its school election narr...
A 1959 Bildungsroman written by acclaimed Canadian author Mordecai Richler. The novel follows the life of Duddy Kravitz, an ambitious and unscrupulous young Jewish man growing up in the working-class neighborhood of Mile End in Montreal, Quebec. Driven by his grandfather's maxim that a man without l...
All the King’s Men is a 1949 political drama based on Robert Penn Warren's novel. The film portrays the trajectory of Willie Stark, a Southern politician inspired by Huey Long, as he ascends to power through increasingly questionable methods. Broderick Crawford stars in this story examining corrupti...
Queen of Ambition is a 2013 South Korean drama adapted from Park In-kwon’s manhwa. The series aired on SBS for twenty-four episodes between January and April of that year, focusing on a woman's pursuit of political power and a man seeking retribution after betrayal. It features Kwon Sang-woo, Soo Ae...
Patti Cake$ is a 2017 American musical drama film written and directed by Geremy Jasper. It stars Danielle Macdonald as Patricia Dombrowski, a plus-size young woman from New Jersey who aspires to escape her working-class life by becoming a rapper. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and...
"Honor Society" is a 2022 American teen comedy film directed by Oran Zegman and released on Paramount+. It stars Angourie Rice as Honor, an ambitious high school student who plots to secure a coveted letter of recommendation for Harvard University from her guidance counselor. Her plans are complicat...
