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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, teen film
Set in 1953, the film explores the budding relationship between teenagers Billy Joe McAllister (Benson) and Bobbie Lee Hartley (O'Connor) (who corresponds to the unnamed narrator of the original song), despite resistance from Hartley's fam…
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Sitcom, Teen Comedy Film, buddy film, comedy film, teen film
Teenager Kevin has tried to lose his virginity for three years. He and his best friend Perry decide they want to go to Ibiza to become DJs and seduce women. When Kevin's parents, Ray and Sheila, see his bad school report, they forbid the t…
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Drama, Musical, coming-of-age film, musical film, romance film, teen film
Taking place in 1958, popular culture in London is transforming from 1950s jazz to a new generation on the verge of the rock and roll 1960s. Young photographer Colin is in love with aspiring fashion designer Suzette. Colin aims to be an ar…
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coming-of-age film, sex comedy
Leslie Hindenberg has just entered her senior year of high school. She visits her doctor to have a mole examined, but she mistakenly comes to believe she only has six weeks to live and goes about trying to lose her virginity. However, it i…
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Dark Comedy, Drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film
In an industrial area of Adelaide, Bubby is a mentally challenged 35-year-old man who lives in a squalid house with his abusive and religious fanatic mother, Florence. He has never left the house, due to his mother convincing him that the …
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, comedy film
In 1993, 16-year-old Johanna Morrigan lives on a council estate in Wolverhampton with her aspiring rock star father Pat, exhausted mother Angie, brothers Krissi and Lupin, and two infant twins. Johanna dreams of escaping her life to become…
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Romantic Comedy, coming-of-age film, romance film
Childhood friends Sidney and Dre, who originally bonded over their love of hip-hop, face an evolving relationship as adults. Sidney has just been appointed the editor-in-chief of the hip hop magazine XXL, and Dre is an A&R for Millennium R…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, gangster film
Billy Behan is a poor Irish American teenager from the Bronx in 1935. One day, he catches the attention of wealthy Jewish mobster Dutch Schultz. Changing his last name to Bathgate after a local street, Billy goes to work for Schultz's orga…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, hood film, teen film
In 2002, at Ladbroke Grove, local school student Katie suffers intense physical and emotional bullying by a group of girls, as well as by another bully, Sam Peel. When her father picks her up from school that day, Sam quietly threatens to …
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Drama, Romance Film, children's film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
In the small town of Concord, Massachusetts, during the Civil War, the March sisters—Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth—live with their mother in a state of genteel poverty, their father having lost the family's fortune to an unscrupulous businessman …
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Drama, comedy film, drama film
Willie Morris looks back on the early 1940s and how it was colored by his dearly beloved dog, a Smooth Fox Terrier whom he had named Skip. Willie is a lonely boy with a gruff, proud father, Jack, a Spanish Civil War veteran, and a charisma…
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Computeranimation, Sci-Fi, coming-of-age film, drama film, science fiction film, teen film
Stanley is a boy in the 1960s living with his and five siblings in the quickly-growing suburbs of El Lago, Texas. His dad works an office job at NASA. Stanley grows up living frugally, watching the newly-invented color TV, and playing with…
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Animation, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, family film, musical film, romantic comedy film
In 1912, Lady and Tramp raise three well-behaved daughters, Annette, Collette, and Danielle, and a rebellious son named Scamp. Dissatisfied with house rules, Scamp dreams of being a wild dog, which causes him to clash with his father, unaw…
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Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, horror film
In October 1962 in Key West, Florida, Gene Loomis and his younger brother Dennis live on a military base with their mother Anne while their father is away on a United States Navy ship. At a local movie theater one afternoon, Gene and Denni…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, teen film
Howie Blitzer is deeply affected by the death of his mother in a car accident on the Long Island Expressway. His situation is exacerbated by his acrimonious relationship with his distant father Marty, who brought a trophy girlfriend into t…
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Sport, comedy film, coming-of-age film, science fiction film
In 2004, successful, but arrogant, baseball superstar Tommy "Santa" Santorelli of the Los Angeles Dodgers is knocked unconscious by a wild pitch after being blinded by a mistakenly launched fireworks display. Tommy wakes up 28 years in the…
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Adventure, Komödie, children's film, comedy film, family film
Middle school student Roy A. Eberhardt and his parents have just moved to the fictional coastal town of Coconut Cove, Florida from Montana. Roy is mercilessly teased and bullied at his new school by Dana Matherson being called a “cowgirl”,…
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Drama, Psychodrama, coming-of-age film, drama film, prison film
In a flashback, Leland P. Fitzgerald, an emotionally detached teenage boy, explains that he cannot remember the details of the day he killed Ryan Pollard, an intellectually disabled boy. The murder shocks Leland's quiet Arizona community, …
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Drama, comedy drama, drama film
In the early 1970s, William Hundert is a revered classics teacher at Saint Benedict's, a boys' boarding school for the sons of wealthy families. Hundert attempts to impart wisdom and a sense of honor to his students. He begins the new scho…
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Coming Of Age, Horror, drama film, horror film, mystery film
Over the decade leading up to the summer of 1984, a total of 13 teenage boys disappeared in Cape May, Oregon, but their disappearances have never been connected or solved. As the summer begins, 15-year-old Davey Armstrong, who works a pape…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, drama film
In 1965 Alabama, Peter Joseph "Peejoe" Bullis is an orphan living in a small town during the Civil Rights Movement. His eccentric aunt, Lucille Vinson, kills her husband Chester with poison, after suffering years of domestic violence. She …
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Komödie, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Angus Bethune is a 14-year-old boy in Minnesota who, despite his talents in football and science, holds deep insecurities. Since kindergarten, he has been harassed by handsome, cruel Rick Sanford and his cohorts for not being "normal". His…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy drama
In (fictional) Burnfield, four young adult friends spend their nights hanging out drinking at "the corner" outside a Circle A convenience store and gas station run by Nazeer and Pakessa, a young Pakistani married couple. Jeff is aimless, w…
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Crime, Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, erotic film, hood film, romance film
As children, brothers Jason and Joshua Alexander witnessed the fatal shooting of their abusive father, Mad Dog (Forest Whitaker), one night when he came home drunk and attacked their mother. Said tragedy leaves deep scars and prompts them …
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