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Drama, Road Movie, Social Drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, road movie
Star is living in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She lives a painful life, caring for two children that are not hers and living with their sexually abusive father, Nathan. While trying to hitchhike home one day, she spies a van full of young people a…
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Komödie, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, teen film
Vance "Van" Wilder is a confident and sardonic seventh-year senior at Coolidge College who spends his days driving around campus in his customized golf cart, posing nude for figure drawing classes and organizing soirees and fundraisers for…
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Coming Of Age, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Ellie Chu lives in the remote town of Squahamish with her grieving widower father, where she performs most of his station master and signalman duties. She makes extra money by ghostwriting essays for her classmates. The socially ostracized…
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Buddy Film, Coming Of Age, Social Drama, biographical film, drama film, musical film
The drama tells the story of John Lennon's teenage years from 1955 to 1960. John was separated from his mother, Julia Lennon, when he was five. His aunt and uncle, Mimi and George Smith, raised him like a son.
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Psychodrama, drama film, fantasy film, mystery film, thriller film
Middle-aged photographer and businessman Bobby Garfield returns to his old hometown upon learning that his childhood best friend, decorated soldier John "Sully" Sullivan, has died in a traffic accident. There, he begins recollecting his pa…
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Animation, adventure film, buddy film, comedy film, family film, live-action/animated film, musical film
After the events of the first film, Erik, the son of Mumble and Gloria, cannot dance like the other penguins of Emperor-Land. He and his friends Bo and Atticus follow one of Mumble's friends, Ramón, the leader of the Amigos, to Adélie-Land…
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Action, Martial-Arts, action film, coming-of-age film, drama film, martial arts film, teen film
Jake Tyler has recently moved from Iowa to Orlando, Florida with his mother, Margot, and younger brother, Charlie. The move furthers Charlie's budding tennis career. Jake's father died in a drunk-driving car crash, which classmates have ta…
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Drama, Musical, Romance Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, musical film
In 1985, 15-year-old Conor Lalor lives in inner-city South Dublin with his parents, Robert and Penny, and two older siblings, Brendan and Ann. Since his parents constantly argue, Conor writes music as a way to cope with his troubled home l…
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Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film
After playing with a Ouija board with her brother Larry, 11-year-old Faith Corvatch becomes convinced that her soulmate, the man she is destined to be with, is named "Damon Bradley". This belief is strengthened when a few years later, a ca…
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High School Comedy Film, Sci-Fi, Teen Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, teen film
Benjamin Purvis lives with his single mother Judith, who designs tacky clothes and makes rock-hard popcorn balls. Judith and Benjamin make ends meet by working at a women's retail clothing store. Benjamin spends his spare time writing scie…
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
Sixteen-year-old Vivian lives with her mother Lisa and attends Rockport High School. One day she joins her best friend Claudia at an exclusive class taught by Mr. Davies, where she notices that her classmate Seth “The Shrimp” has gotten ta…
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Komödie, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Three years after the events of the first film, inventor Wayne Szalinski has moved to Nevada with his wife Diane and their children. Their older son Nick is now a 14-year-old teenager, their 18-year-old daughter Amy is preparing to leave f…
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Buddy Film, Drama, Komödie, Social Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, buddy film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
13-year-old Kevin "Freak" Dillon suffers from Morquio syndrome and lives with his mother Gwen "Fair Gwen" Dillon. Due to his disability, he walks with leg braces and crutches. Meanwhile, 15-year-old Maxwell "Max" Kane has learning challeng…
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Coming Of Age, Musical, Road Movie, buddy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, musical film, mystery film
17-year-old Eugene Martone has a fascination for blues music while studying classical guitar at the Juilliard School in New York City. Researching blues and guitar music brings famed Robert Johnson's mythically creative acclaim to his atte…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
In June 1966, Mark Thackeray, an immigrant to Britain from British Guiana, has been unable to obtain an engineering position despite an 18-month job search. He accepts a teaching post for Class 12 at North Quay Secondary School in the East…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Drama, Social Drama, drama film
In San Francisco in 2000, Afghan-American writer Amir Qadiri and his wife Soraya watch children flying kites. Arriving home, Amir receives a call from his father's old friend and business associate, Rahim Khan, now in Peshawar, Pakistan. I…
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Drama, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1946, Sandy, a student at Amherst College, meets a Smith College student named Susan at an on-campus event and they begin dating. While they enjoy each other's company, Susan is hesitant to take their relationship to a physical level. S…
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Coming Of Age, Silly Movie, comedy film
Best friends Max, Lucas, and Thor enter sixth grade facing their own personal dilemmas: Max has a crush on their classmate Brixlee, Lucas learns his parents are getting divorced, and Thor experiences bullying from his peers which discourag…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, horror film
In the poor Adelaide suburb of Salisbury, 16-year-old Jamie lives with his distressed mother, Elizabeth Harvey (Louise Harris), and his brothers—including half-brother Troy, who rapes Jamie. One day, his mother's boyfriend takes indecent p…
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Family Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1986, Bernard Berkman -- an arrogant, twice-divorced, failing novelist -- lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with his third wife, Joan, and their two sons, sixteen-year-old Walt, and twelve-year-old Frank. Bernard's career is in jeopardy due…
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Coming Of Age, Romantic Comedy, Teen Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, romantic comedy film, teen film
In 1987, James Brennan's plans for a summer vacation in Europe after graduating from Oberlin College falls apart after his mother informs him of his father losing his job. Knowing that their current finances will not permit them to support…
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Komödie, coming-of-age film, teen film
Tripper Harrison leads a group of new counsellors-in-training (CITs) at Camp North Star, a cut-rate summer camp located in Ontario, and leads practical jokes on camp director Morty Melnick, mainly by taking Melnick from his cabin late at n…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, drama film
In 1980 Queens, New York City, on his first day in sixth grade, Jewish-American Paul Graff becomes friends with a rebellious African-American classmate, Johnny Davis. Johnny was held back by a year and gets harsher treatment from their tea…
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LGBTQ-related film, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
Novelist Grady Tripp teaches creative writing at a Pennsylvania university. He is having an affair with the university chancellor, Sara Gaskell, whose husband, Walter, is the chairman of the English department in which Grady is a professor…
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