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Family Drama, Romantic Comedy, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, teen film
Seventeen-year-old Daphne Reynolds lives with her wedding singer mother Libby above a restaurant in Chinatown, Manhattan. Many years earlier, Libby had met Briton Henry Dashwood in Morocco, and they had gotten married in a Bedouin wedding …
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Christmas film, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, romance film
Clay Easton is a strait-laced college freshman on the East Coast of the United States, who returns home to Los Angeles for Christmas to find things very different from the way he left them. His high school girlfriend and now model, Blair, …
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Romance Film, Sport, coming-of-age film, drama film
Louden Swain is a wrestler at Thompson High School who has just turned 18 years old. He has decided that he needs to do something truly meaningful in his life. He embarks on a mission or, in a Native American term, a vision quest.
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Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, female buddy film, romantic comedy film, teen film
As children growing up in a small Georgia town, Lucy, Kit, and Mimi bury a "wish box" and vow to dig it up on the night of their high school graduation. However, as the trio grows up, their friendship fades: Lucy becomes the introverted va…
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Romance Film, coming-of-age film
Houston-based, 22-something professional dancer Oriah "Ry" Pera collapses during a performance. Her mother Isolde is present and rushes her to the hospital. Ry suffers from inherited epilepsy, and both the doctors and her mother urge her t…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, Komödie, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Introverted 14-year-old Duncan from Albany, New York, reluctantly goes on summer vacation to a beach house in Wareham, Massachusetts, with his mother Pam, her wealthy boyfriend Trent, and Trent's spoiled daughter Steph. Trent and Steph are…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, drama film, romance film
Homer Wells grows up at St. Cloud's, a Maine orphanage directed by avuncular Dr. Wilbur Larch.
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, hood film, romance film
Joseph "Jody" Summers waits for his girlfriend Yvette at an abortion clinic after compelling her to go. They then have a heated argument about his lack of commitment and selfishness; she asks him if he will ever come live with her and thei…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film
On November 30, 1962, a month after the Cuban Missile Crisis, George Falconer is a middle-aged English college professor living in Los Angeles. George dreams that he encounters the body of his longtime partner, Jim, at the scene of the car…
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Coming Of Age, Musical, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, teen film
In 1964, a young London mod, Jimmy Cooper, disillusioned with his parents and dull post-room job at an advertising agency, vents his teenage angst by abusing Dexamyl, partying, riding scooters and brawling with rockers, accompanied by his …
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Marital Tragedy, Melodrama, Satire, drama film
In 1973, two families in an affluent Connecticut suburb experiment with adultery and substance abuse over one Thanksgiving weekend. One family, the Hoods, consists of parents Ben and Elena and their children, Paul and Wendy. Ben is dissati…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, fantasy film, horror film
In Green Town, Illinois, two young boys, a reserved Will Halloway and somewhat rebellious Jim Nightshade, leave from an after-school detention for "whispering in class" and hurry home. The boys live next door to each other and were born a …
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
In 1914, fifteen-year-old Winnie Foster, who is from an upper-class family in the American town of Treegap, wants to make her own choices in life. After being told that she will go to a boarding school, she runs off into the forest, where …
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Coming Of Age, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, sex comedy
It is the fall of 2000. Alice is a sexually inexperienced but curious junior at a strict Midwestern co-ed Catholic high school, where Father Murphy instructs her Morality class that any sexual activity not aimed toward procreation within a…
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Drama, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Fifteen-year-old Billy Casper, growing up in the late 1960s in a poor South Yorkshire community dominated by the local coal mining industry, has little hope in life. He is picked on, both at home by his physically and verbally abusive olde…
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High Fantasy, Sword And Sorcery, action film, adventure film, fantasy film
Eons ago, in the land of Alagaësia, an order called the Dragon Riders was created to oversee the countries and bring peace to the world. However, a former Dragon Rider, Galbatorix, betrayed and destroyed the Dragon Riders, killing them all…
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Drama, Dramedy, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film
After graduating from Vassar College, best friends Frances and Sophie move to Brooklyn. They dream of becoming successful creatives. Frances becomes an apprentice at a dance company and juggles gigs while she waits for an opening on the pe…
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Coming Of Age, Computeranimation, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, children's film, comedy film, family film, speculative fiction film
In the town of Oceanside, Ruby Gillman and her family are secretly krakens. Determined to fit in with humans, Ruby's mother Agatha forbids her from going near the ocean, including her school's prom at sea. Ruby's friends Margot, Trevin, an…
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Coming Of Age, Satire, Teen Comedy Film, Werewolf, comedy horror, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, teen film
A rash of dog killings strikes the quiet suburb of Bailey Downs, Ontario. Teenage sisters Brigitte and Ginger Fitzgerald harbor a fascination with death and formed a pact as children to move out of the suburb or die together by the age of …
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Romantic Comedy, drama film, romantic comedy film
Samantha MacKenzie is the only child of U.S. President John MacKenzie. Due to her father's political career, she has been in the public eye her entire life and spent most of her high school years in the White House.
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, coming-of-age film, drama film, horror film, thriller film
In 1984 Southern California, 16-year-old high school student Todd Bowden discovers that his elderly neighbor, Arthur Denker, is actually Kurt Dussander—a former Nazi concentration camp commandant, who is now a fugitive war criminal. Todd, …
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High School Comedy Film, Romantic Comedy, coming-of-age film, drama film, romantic comedy film, sex comedy, teen film
Ronald Miller is a typical high school nerd living in suburban Tucson, Arizona. He has spent all summer mowing lawns to save up for a telescope. At an opportune moment, he makes a deal with next-door neighbor and popular cheerleader Cindy …
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Drama, drama film, fantasy film
In 1901, recently orphaned 10-year-old Mary Lennox is sent from her home in British India to her uncle Lord Archibald Craven's mansion, Misselthwaite Manor, in Yorkshire, England. She was unloved and neglected by her parents, who were kill…
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Drama, Fantasy, Modern-Day Fantasy, coming-of-age film, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
Charlie St. Cloud, with his younger brother Sam, wins a boating race on his sailboat Splendid Splinter, subsequently receiving a sailing scholarship to Stanford University. He graduates from Winslow High School and after graduation, Charli…
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