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Komödie, comedy drama, romantic comedy
The film is narrated by the fictional Joe, voiced by Allen. Joe begins by relating how two burglars got involved in a radio game show after answering a random phone call during a home burglary; the burglars ransacked the house but the resi…
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Dance Film, Historie, Political Drama, drama film, musical film, war film
In Hamburg in 1939, Peter Müller and Thomas Berger join their friends Arvid and Otto at a swing club called the Bismarck. They have a good time, dancing and enjoying the music. Peter goes home to find his mother in an argument with the Naz…
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Family Drama, Melodrama, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, teen film
The lives of two families, the Holts and the Abbotts, intersect in the small Illinois town of Haley in the 1950s. Two brothers, J.C. and Doug Holt, are being raised by their single working mother.
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Drama, drama film
Adele August and her reluctant teenage daughter, Ann, leave their small town in Wisconsin and move to Beverly Hills. Adele hopes Ann will become a Hollywood actress despite Ann's interest in going to Brown University. They rent a run-down …
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Romantic Drama, comedy film, drama film, melodrama, romantic comedy film, sport film
Beginning in medias res, the opening scene presents Terry Wolfmeyer and a friend, Denny Davies, attending a funeral. The film flashes back to three years earlier, when a heavily intoxicated Terry announces to her daughters Hadley, Andy, Em…
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Drama, Komödie, Musical, comedy film, drama film
In September 1980, Alice Kinnon and Charlotte Pingress, recent Hampshire College graduates, work as poorly paid readers for a New York City publisher. After work one night, they enter an exclusive disco nightclub where Alice hopes to socia…
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Komödie, coming-of-age film
In 1960s Pennsylvania, a group of girls meet on board a train that is heading for St. Francis Academy, a convent school. One of the girls, Mary, convinces the others to go along with a prank.
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Komödie, Raunchy comedy, coming-of-age film, erotic film, sexploitation film
Philip "Philly" Fillmore is an adventurous 15-year-old boy and the son of a rich businessman in Phoenix, Arizona; when his father leaves town on an extended trip during summer break, the young man is left in the passing care of Nicole Mall…
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Coming Of Age, High School Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film
Upon first arriving at Vernon Academy, a prestigious boys' preparatory school in Illinois, Jonathan Ogner is mocked for wearing his school uniform. Then, going up to his dormitory, he meets his roommate, who introduces himself as Squire Fr…
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Adventure, Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, teen film
In 1823, during the Georgian era, teenagers David and Sarah travel with a caravan from Baghdad to Damascus. At an oasis, a slaver known as "The Jackal" raids the party and attempts to add the beautiful young Sarah, the daughter of a wealth…
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Komödie, comedy drama, coming-of-age film
The film mainly focuses on the "coming of age" of four girl students at a Midwestern university during spring vacation. In a class discussion, smart, down-to-earth Merritt Andrews suggests that premarital sex might be something young women…
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama
In 2003, Burlington, Ontario, egotistical Lawrence Kweller and his sociable best friend Matt Macarchuck present a short movie to their class about their weekly "Reject's Night" ritual of watching SNL skits. Classmate Lauren P. attempts to …
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Animation, drama film, family film, fantasy film
After his mother is shot and killed by a hunter, Bambi is greeted by his father the Great Prince, who takes him to the den. The Great Prince asks Friend Owl to find a doe to raise Bambi, but Friend Owl tells him that due to the harsh winte…
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Drama, drama film
In the New England town of Peyton Place, Paul Cross, fed up with his alcoholic stepfather, Lucas Cross, for his stealing, leaves town. Lucas is the school custodian and his downtrodden wife, Nellie, works as housekeeper for Constance "Conn…
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Drama, drama film, romance film
The film begins on November 21, 1963, the day before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Lance Corporal Birdlace and three of his Marine buddies have arrived in San Francisco for a twenty-four hour leave before shipping off to …
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film
In Salford, 17-year-old Josephine (who goes by "Jo"), struggles through an outdoor game of netball in gym class at her all-girls school. When she gets home, she hears her self-centred mother, Helen, arguing with their landlady, who is upse…
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Coming Of Age, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Hoops McCann, a recent high school graduate, fails to get a basketball scholarship, which disappoints his mother. He hopes to be admitted to the Rhode Island School of Design and must write and illustrate a love story for his application. …
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Coming Of Age, Fantasy, Teen Comedy Film, family film, fantasy film, teen film
Abby Jensen has been planning her sweet sixteen since she was a little girl and keeps a list of wishes that she wants to come true. When her sixteenth birthday finally arrives, she adds her crush, Logan, as her sixteenth and final wish to …
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Coming Of Age, Sport, sport film
Cru Jones is a teenage BMX racer who lives in a small town with his younger sister Wesley and their mother. Cru faces a tough decision: try to qualify for Helltrack or take the SAT, which is on the same day as the qualifying races. Winning…
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Romantic Comedy, Teen Comedy Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romantic comedy film, teen film
High school senior, Dave, meets junior, Aubrey, outside a house party, while rehearsing a confession of love for his best friend, Jane. The police bust the party, and Aubrey asks Dave to walk her home despite having a boyfriend. She invite…
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Komödie, comedy film
Jack Brown is an unemployed writer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in danger of having his house repossessed. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to get a job working for the local paper, the Bugle, he becomes so desperate that he ends up taki…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film
The residents of the small town of Clyde, Ohio, anxiously prepare for the return of Roxy Carmichael, a former resident who left for Hollywood 15 years earlier and has been invited to dedicate a new municipal building. Local resident Dinky …
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Gross Out Film, Komödie, black comedy film, comedy film
Noah Griffith is an unemployed suspended college student who lives with his divorced mother in New Jersey. After Noah returns home from his sex buddy Marisa's house, his mother tells him that her plans to go to a party with her friends the…
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Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
In a 1960s working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a teenage boy nicknamed "Birdy" befriends his next-door neighbor Al Columbato, who relates to Birdy’s fascination with birds and their ability to fly. The two begin pursu…
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