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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, family film
The film's plot follows the story of Paikea Apirana (Pai for short). In her village, the leader is traditionally a first-born son, a direct patrilineal descendant of Paikea, the Whale Rider who rode on top of a whale from Hawaiki. Pai is o…
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Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
thumb|Original release trailer of the film Splendor in the Grass (1961) In 1928 Kansas, teenagers Wilma Dean "Deanie" Loomis and her boyfriend, Bud Stamper, want a more physically intimate relationship, but heed the advice of their parents…
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Coming Of Age, LGBTQ-related film, Social Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1958, in the fictional small Irish town of Tyrellin, County Cavan, Eily Bergin leaves her newborn baby, Patrick Braden, on the doorstep of the local parochial house, where the baby's father, Father Liam, lives. Patrick is placed with an…
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Drama, buddy film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Erik is a thirteen-year-old loner who has just moved to a small town in Stillwater, Minnesota. Accompanying Erik is his newly divorced, emotionally abusive and neglectful workaholic mother, Gail. Erik and his eleven-year-old neighbor Dexte…
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Sport, coming-of-age film, drama film, martial arts film, teen film
Mr. Miyagi travels to Arlington National Cemetery for a commendation for Japanese-Americans who fought in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II. He is referred to as "Keisuke Miyagi" during the ceremony.
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Marital Tragedy, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Fifteen-year-old Astrid Magnussen lives in Los Angeles with her free-spirited artist mother Ingrid. Too young to remember her father, she relies heavily upon her self-centered mother who is in a relationship with Barry, a writer. When Ingr…
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Musical, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film, musical film, teen film
Cherie Currie is a teenager in Los Angeles who desperately wants to be a rock star. She idolizes David Bowie and cuts her hair and does make-up so she will resemble Bowie's character Aladdin Sane. At her high school talent show, she lip sy…
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Komödie, buddy film
Tucker has been a huge fan of the Playboy franchise since finding his friend Eugene's older brother's magazines when he was eight. Eugene and his girlfriend Cindi Whitehall are public speakers. They spend their time speaking to elementary …
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1956, 12-year-old Alabama native Lewellen lives in poverty with her stern, religious grandmother, who has taken it upon herself to raise the girl, as Lewellen's father, Lou, cannot provide her stability. Lou struggles with alcoholism, t…
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy, teen film
Julie Richman is a valley girl who seems to have it all: good looks, popularity, and a handsome Valley dude boyfriend, Tommy, but she is having second thoughts about her relationship with the arrogant and selfish Tommy. At the end of a sho…
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Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, teen film
Teenage friends Will McKenzie, Simon Cooper, Jay Cartwright, and Neil Sutherland finish their A-levels and prepare to leave Rudge Park Comprehensive. Jay's grandfather dies and Simon's girlfriend, Carli, breaks up with him. To celebrate fi…
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Coming Of Age, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, coming-of-age film, drama film, romantic comedy film
Vada Sultenfuss has matured from the 11-year-old hypochondriac in 1972 to a more serious teenager in early 1974. Her father Harry and his new wife Shelly DeVoto, whom he previously dated, are expecting a baby, and they all still live in th…
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Destiny, Drama, Family Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is autistic and lives in New York City with his parents Linda and Thomas Schell. He is close to his father, who stimulates him with missions to hunt for clues to New York City's "lost Sixth Borough". The tasks he…
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Adventure, Coming Of Age, Family Drama, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film
After surviving a car accident, in which her mother Aliane dies swerving out of the way of an oncoming truck on a rainy night, 13-year-old Amy Alden is brought from New Zealand to Ontario, Canada, by her estranged father Thomas Alden, a sc…
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Coming Of Age, Dark Comedy, black comedy film
Robert Bleichner, a high school student and aspiring cartoonist, meets with his art teacher, Mr. Katano, at his school classroom. After Katano looks over Robert's portfolio, which contains many bizarre sexual figures, Katano asks Robert to…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1959 Baltimore, friends Modell, Eddie Simmons, Shrevie Schreiber, Boogie Sheftell and Timothy Fenwick attend a Christmas dance before driving to their usual late-night haunt, Fells Point Diner. On the way, Fenwick stages a fake car acci…
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Komödie, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, romantic comedy
The structure of the film consists of several subplots which all revolve around an intertwined cast of characters. Richard is a shoe salesman and recently separated father of two. After being thrown out by his wife Pam, he gets an apartmen…
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Drama
Seventeen-year-old Rohan is expelled from the Bishop Cotton boarding school in Shimla with three of his friends (Vikram, Benoy, and Maninder) after they are caught watching a pornographic film outside campus in the middle of the night. Roh…
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Coming Of Age, Daffy Comedy, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Daphne Wilder is the loving, but overbearing mother of three women. Her daughters Maggie and Mae are happily married, but her youngest, Milly, recently broke up with her boyfriend, and Daphne is concerned. Daphne fears that Milly cannot fi…
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, comedy film, musical film
Willowdean Dickson grows up in a small Texas town, raised primarily by her Aunt Lucy. Her mother Rosie – who calls her "Dumplin’", much to Will’s chagrin – is a former beauty queen, too committed to various pageants to spend time with her …
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
In the summer of 2008, 13-year-old Chris Wang (often called Dì Di) lives in a middle-class neighborhood of Fremont, California, with his Taiwanese immigrant mother Chungsing, his demanding grandmother Nǎi Nai, and his older sister Vivian. …
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film
Jared Eamons is the son of Marshall Eamons, a car dealer and Baptist preacher in Arkansas, and Nancy Eamons, a hairdresser. He begins his first day at the Love in Action gay conversion therapy assessment program in Memphis, Tennessee. Chie…
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Adventure, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, coming-of-age film, heist film, science fiction film, teen film
In the near future, the Tracy family, led by widowed former astronaut Jeff Tracy, operate International Rescue (IR), a secret organisation that aids those in need during disasters using technologically advanced machines called Thunderbirds…
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Adventure, Drama, Thriller, adventure film, coming-of-age film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
In the prologue, told through photographs, a group of schoolboys are evacuated from England following the outbreak of an unidentified war. Their aircraft is shot down by a briefly-glimpsed fighter plane and ditches near a remote island. Th…
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