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Adventure, Sci-Fi, adventure film, coming-of-age film, science fiction film
Four teenagers – Kevin, Kathryn, Rudy, and Tish – and 12-year-old Max go to Space Camp, for three weeks during the summer to learn about the NASA space program and mimic astronaut training. They meet their instructor, Andie Bergstrom, a NA…
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Family Drama, Road Movie, Tragic Comedy Film, buddy film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film
Hot-tempered basketball player Victor Joseph and eccentric storyteller Thomas Builds-the-Fire live on the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation in Plummer, Idaho. The two men are brought together through Victor's father, Arnold, who rescued Tho…
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Coming Of Age, Road Movie, comedy film
High school senior Lillian Wade is on a class trip to Washington, D.C., until a local restaurant is attacked by an armed man who believes the establishment houses a secret pedophilia ring. She is led to safety by anarchist political activi…
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, Musical, comedy film, music-themed film, teen film
Metalhead Hunter Sylvester jams with his best friend, introvert Kevin Schlieb, who plays a single drum in the school's marching band. During marching band practice, Kevin witnesses sensitive Scottish student Emily having a full meltdown an…
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Coming Of Age, Romance Film, drama film, romance film
Teenager Henry Page considers himself a hopeless romantic but has never fallen in love. He aspires to be a writer and to be chosen as editor of his high school newspaper. The newspaper's faculty advisor disappoints him by making him share …
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Set in the mid-1960s, the story centers on ten-year-old Harriet Frankovitz, a lonely outcast who lives with her mother and older sister Gwen in a dilapidated New Hampshire motel with cabins shaped like tipis her mother received as part of …
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Coming Of Age, Dramedy, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Bliss Cavendar is a teenager in the small town of Bodeen, Texas. She has lost interest in the beauty pageants her mother, former beauty queen Brooke, pressures her to win. While shopping in Austin with her mother, Bliss is intrigued by thr…
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, time-travel film
Days from turning 40, Russ Duritz is a successful but unsympathetic image consultant in Los Angeles and has a strained relationship with his father. Returning home one day he finds a toy plane on his porch and a strange boy indoors, whom h…
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Action, Crime Comedy, action film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, heist film
In an Italian neighborhood of Greenwich Village, cousins Charlie Moran, a maître d'hôtel with aspirations of someday owning his own restaurant, and Paulie Gibonni, a bungling schemer who works as a waiter, have expensive tastes but not muc…
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film
Augusten Burroughs' mother, Deirdre, who wishes to become a famous poet, has severe mood swings and erratic behavior. Augusten's alcoholic father, Norman, proves to be of no help. By the time he is a teenager, Norman has moved out and Deir…
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, blaxploitation film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, romance film, teen film
In 1964 Chicago, Leroy "Preach" Jackson and his best friend, Richard "Cochise" Morris, are in the final weeks of their senior year at Cooley Vocational High School in the Near North Side. They sneak out of class one Friday and spend the da…
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Adventure, Coming Of Age, Komödie, adventure film, children's film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Huckleberry Finn is a half-literate son of Pap Finn, an abusive drunk. One night, his father arrives and takes Huck from his foster family. Jealous of Huck's money being kept away, Pap attacks Huck, but eventually passes out from exhaustio…
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Coming Of Age, coming-of-age film, drama film
Set in 1980s rural Pennsylvania, is based on true events. Stan Deen, a teacher in New Holland, Pennsylvania, discovers that one of his students, Nate, has been living out of his car and has been arrested. Moved by Nate's plight, Stan decid…
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Coming Of Age, Teen Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, melodrama, teen film
High school student Mark Hunter lives in a sleepy suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, and broadcasts an FM pirate radio station from his parents' basement, which functions as his sole outlet for his teenage angst and aggression. The station's them…
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Drama, Family Drama, drama film
Sam Harper, a struggling corporate trader in New York City, may have violated federal law and faces a possible Federal Trade Commission investigation, so his boss urges him to bribe federal officials. Returning home, Sam's girlfriend Hanna…
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Adventure, Family Drama, adventure film, drama film, family film, katastrophe
It has been two years since Jesse freed Willy and got him back home to his pod. The Greenwoods are planning a trip to the San Juan Islands to visit Randolph's new job while camping at Camp Nor' Wester. Before they leave, Dwight arrives wit…
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Coming Of Age, Heimatfilm, Political Drama, Social Drama, boxing film, drama film
Born in 1930 to a recently widowed Englishwoman on a homestead in the Union of South Africa, young Peter Philip Kennith Keith (nicknamed "PK") is schooled in the ways of England by his mother and the ways of South Africa by a Zulu nanny, w…
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Drama, Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, teen film
Following the suicide of her mother, famous poet Sara Harmon, 19-year-old American Lucy arrives at the Tuscan villa of her mother's friends, Ian and Diana Grayson. Other guests include a New York art gallery owner, an Italian advice column…
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Adventure, Drama, Komödie, adventure film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, teen film
One dark stormy night, Native American Injun Joe goes to meet Dr. Jonas Robinson for some criminal activity. Meanwhile, a boy named Tom Sawyer runs away from home with his friends to work on steamboats.
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Drama, Komödie, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Jason "Igby" Slocumb Jr. is a misanthropic 17-year-old boy, rebelling against the oppressive world of his strict East Coast "old money" family. Igby fears that he will eventually suffer a mental breakdown like his schizophrenic father, Jas…
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Coming Of Age, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, Teen Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, teen film
New Jersey teenager Nick O'Leary is a straight bass player in the queercore band The Jerk-Offs. Heartbroken after being dumped by his girlfriend Tris, he continues making and sending her "breakup" mix CDs. Bandmates Thom and Dev convince N…
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Coming Of Age, Romantic Comedy, Teen Comedy Film, comedy drama, romantic comedy film
Shy teenager Nick Twisp lives with his mother, Estelle, and her boyfriend, Jerry, in Oakland, California. After selling a faulty car to a group of sailors, Jerry takes Estelle and Nick to a trailer park in Clearlake where Nick meets Sheeni…
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Komödie, Romance Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film
During Manhattan debutante season, middle-class Princeton student Tom Townsend attends a deb ball on a whim. A mix-up over a taxi home introduces him to a small group of young Upper East Side socialites known as the Sally Fowler Rat Pack, …
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, comedy film
16-year-old Monroe "Mo" Harris is escorted out of class by a police officer. When Mo was younger, his older sister Kate dated her classmate Isaac "Zeke" Presanti. Even after she broke up with him, Zeke and Mo remained close friends, despit…
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