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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Social Drama, biographical film, drama film
Frank McCourt and his family live in America, and his sister Margaret dies shortly after birth. Frank's mother Angela slips into depression, his drunkard father Malachy Sr. leaves for several days and they are left without food.
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Romantic Drama, drama film
The story takes place in Thomas Hardy's Wessex during the 1880s. The events of the story are set in motion when a clergyman, Parson Tringham, has a chance conversation with John Durbeyfield, a simple villager. Tringham is a local historian…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about a young woman dealing with her brother's serious illness and forming an unusual friendship with an eccentric activist.
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Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, hood film
In 1973, 9-year-old Troy Carmichael and her brothers Clinton, Wendell, Nate, and Joseph live in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn with their parents Woody, a struggling musician, and Carolyn, a schoolteacher. The neighborhood…
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Romantic Comedy, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film
Matt Franklin is a recent MIT graduate, working at a Los Angeles Suncoast Video store in 1988 while trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, something that his LAPD officer father has grown impatient with. When Matt's high s…
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Drama, drama film
Thomas Webb is a recent college drop-out trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life. He has a one-sided crush on his friend, Mimi. Thomas meets a new neighbor, W.F.
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Animated Film, Cartoon, Coming Of Age, Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, sport film
After Max Goof leaves for college with his friends P.J. and Bobby Zimuruski, Goofy falters at work due to his empty nest syndrome, resulting in his dismissal. At the unemployment office, Goofy is told that he needs a college degree to get …
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American football film, Drama, Romance Film, Sport, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, teen film
Stefan "Stef" Djordjevic is a Serbian American high school defensive back who is gifted in sports and is a "B" student academically. He is seeking a college football scholarship to escape the economically depressed small Western Pennsylvan…
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Drama, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, hood film, romance film, teen film
Rashad is a teen living in Atlanta, Georgia, with his Uncle George, and his little brother Ant. He and his brother were raised by George since their parents died in a car accident, and they work with him as part of his custodial company. W…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, coming-of-age film, drama film
Hallam Foe is a teenage loner who lives on his father Julius' large estate near Peebles. His hobby is spying on people from his tree house. Hallam is convinced that his stepmother, Verity, is responsible for his mother's death by drowning …
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Crime, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, hood film, mystery film
In a Brooklyn housing project, a group of clockers — street-level drug dealers — work for Rodney Little, a local drug lord. Rodney orders Ronald "Strike" Dunham, one of his lead clockers, to kill Darryl Adams, another dealer who has been s…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Political Drama, Social Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
The pupils return after the summer for a new Michaelmas term at a traditional British public school for boys in the late 1960s. Mick Travis arrives hiding his moustache, which he quickly shaves off. He, Wallace, and Knightly are three non-…
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Drama, action film, adventure film, disaster film, drama film
The film is based on the fate of the brigantine Albatross, which sank May 2, 1961, allegedly because of a white squall. The film relates the ill-fated school sailing trip led by Dr. Christopher B.
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Melodrama, biographical film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
In the summer of 1942 on the fictional New England Packett Island (based on the real-life Nantucket Island), 15-year-old "Hermie" and his friends – jock Oscy and introverted nerd Benjie – are hanging out on the beach. They spot a young sol…
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Sport, comedy film, coming-of-age film, sport film
In a flashback to 1962, Benny becomes Benny "the Jet" Rodriguez. The story shifts to 1972, a decade after the events of The Sandlot. A new crop of five kids now reside in San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles and play baseball at the Sandlot.
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, drama film
Having been dumped by her boyfriend after graduation, Aura moves back home to her mother's loft in Tribeca for the summer. Aura's plan is to save money until her friend Frankie finishes her degree at Oberlin College and can move to the cit…
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Coming Of Age
Shortly after the death of her mother in a car accident in 1973, Alysia Abbott and her gay father Steve move to San Francisco where he can live openly. Steve's bohemian lifestyle clashes with the expectations of being a parent from both th…
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Coming Of Age, drama film
Jem Starling is a 17-year-old girl raised in a fundamentalist Christian community in Kentucky. Her parents Paul and Heidi expect Jem to be a model Christian for her four younger siblings. Jem's age necessitates that she begin the tradition…
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Adventure, Komödie, Musical, comedy film, teen film
In October 1978 in Cleveland, Ohio, four rebellious teenage boys – Hawk, Lex, Trip Verudie, and Jeremiah "Jam" Bruce – play in Kiss cover band "Mystery" and prepare to see their idols in concert in Detroit, Michigan the following night. Th…
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Coming Of Age, Romance Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, romantic comedy film, teen film
Set in 1958, the coming of age story follows four lower middle-class Brooklyn teenagers known as The Lords of Flatbush. The Lords chase girls, steal cars, shoot pool, get into street fights, and hang out at a local malt shop. Chico attempt…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, High School Comedy Film, Komödie, comedy film, drama film, teen film
Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett — after being expelled from several private academies for various infractions — enrolls in a public school run by embittered alcoholic Principal Nathan Gardner. Unable to fit in with most of his fellow stu…
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Coming Of Age, Justice Drama, comedy drama, drama film, romance film
At the age of 10, Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram. Once at Mansfield Park, Fanny meets her cousins Tom, Maria, Edmund and Julia, as well as Fanny's other maternal aunt, Mrs Norris. F…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1973, nine-year-old JR Maguire and his mother Dorothy move back in with her parents on Long Island. Abandoned by his deadbeat father Johnny, a radio DJ known as "the Voice", JR grows up with his mother's working-class family. He finds a…
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coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
Alcoholic Bart Hunter (Arthur Kennedy), his long-suffering wife Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire) and their teenage son Johnny (Troy Donahue) operate a crumbling inn on Pine Island off the Maine coast. Bart receives a reservation request from an ol…
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