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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, drama film, hood film, musical film
Rich Bower (Power) is a mover and shaker in the world of rap music (he's involved with a number of other licit and illicit business ventures as well), and his apartment is a favored meeting place for musicians, hangers-on, and hipsters who…
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Coming Of Age, comedy drama
Michael is a high school graduate living in North Hollywood, California with dreams of becoming a professional skateboarder. After being noticed by two professional skaters, Michael quits his water polo team to focus exclusively on skating…
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Social Drama, drama film
In 1986, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Wurtzel is a 19-year-old accepted into Harvard with a scholarship in journalism. She has been raised by her divorced mother since she was two years old and has not seen her father at all in the last four years. …
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Adventure, Coming Of Age, Komödie, Road Movie, comedy drama
In 1971, at a fraternity house on the University of Texas campus in Austin, a graduation party is going on. Gardner Barnes is a member of a clique called the Groovers, whose other members include Kenneth Waggener, engaged to be married, an…
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Adventure, Coming Of Age, Road Movie, Romance Film, adventure film, children's film
In 1935, teenage tomboy Natty Gann lives in Chicago with her unemployed widowed father, Sol. After being out of work because of the Great Depression, Sol applies for work as a lumberjack in Washington. However, to take the job, he must lea…
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Coming Of Age, LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, comedy film, fantasy film, mystery film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Smith, an 18-year-old film student who identifies sexually as "undeclared", has been having strange dreams recently. He is going to college with his best friend, Stella, whom he has known since junior high, and finds a note saying he is th…
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Coming Of Age, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
The film tells the story of three young friends whose passion in life is surfing. The friends include Matt Johnson, a self-destructive type who has a devil-may-care attitude; Jack Barlow, the calm and responsible one of the bunch; and Lero…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, coming-of-age film, exploitation film, science fiction film, teen film
Village of the Giants takes place in fictional Hainesville, California. After crashing their car into a roadblock during a rainstorm, a group of partying, big-city teenagers (Fred, Pete, Rick, Harry, and their girlfriends Merrie, Elsa, Geo…
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Cartoon, Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1959 Paris, an out-of-work illusionist packs his belongings, including an ill-tempered rabbit, and moves to London. Unable to compete with modern entertainment such as rock and roll, he plies his trade at smaller gatherings in bars, caf…
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Tragic Comedy Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, musical film, romantic comedy film, teen film
In 1978 Chicago, after the local roller rink the "Palisade Garden" closes down, 16-year-old Xavier Curtis Smith (known as 'X') and his friends Junior, Boo, Naps, “Mixed” Mike, along with his new neighbor Tori, spend their summer roller ska…
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Drama, teen film
The film showcases three 14-year-old girls: Dawn, Becca and Hannah. Hannah soon finds herself on the receiving end of peer pressure from her friends to engage in oral sex with Nick, a nice boy whom Hannah likes. She believes that she has t…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Dan and Peter, two youths vacationing on Fire Island in New York, befriend a young woman named Sandy, who has found an injured seagull on a beach. While nursing the seagull back to health, the three become friends and spend the summer toge…
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Drama, action film, adventure film, children's film, drama film
Black Beauty narrates his own story. He is born on a farm in the English countryside during the 19th century and remains by his mother's side until he is sent to Birtwick Park to serve Squire Gordon and his family. Lady Gordon, the squire'…
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Anti-War Film, Coming Of Age, Thriller
During World War II, a group of students in Leiden, the Netherlands—Erik Lanshof, Guus LeJeune, Jan Weinberg, Alex, Erik's friend Robby Froost and his girlfriend Esther—collaborate, while others join the Dutch resistance. A newsreel plays …
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Coming Of Age
Nate Gibson collapses shortly after diving into a lake at his family's Fourth of July weekend party in their summer place in the fictional town of Happy Days, North Carolina. Rushing him to a local hospital, he is in such bad condition tha…
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Coming Of Age, comedy drama, coming-of-age film
Four young people navigate through suburban Detroit, in search of love and adventure on their last weekend of summer vacation.
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Romantic Comedy, drama film, romance film, romantic comedy
Timothy "Dildo/Dunph" Dunphy is in the Class of 1974 in his high school senior year living in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, comes from a troubled single parent working-class family, and is friends with those who have aspirations which do not ex…
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Komödie, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1976, 14-year-old Vivian Abromowitz's family are penniless nomads, moving from one cheap apartment to another in Beverly Hills, so that Vivian and her two brothers can attend the city's prestigious local schools. Their father, Murray, i…
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Romantic Comedy, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, teen film
Gregory Underwood is a young man who plays for his school football team. They are not doing very well, so the coach holds a trial to find new players. Dorothy shows up and despite the coach's misgivings, proves to be a very good player.
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Coming Of Age, Coming Out, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Drama, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy
Jamie Gangel is a teenager who is bullied by his classmates due to his introverted nature and dislike of football. He lives on a council estate in Thamesmead, a working-class area of south-east London, with his single mother, Sandra, who i…
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Adventure, Drama, adventure film, children's film, drama film, family film
Sixteen year-old Jesse works as an orca-research assistant on a research ship called the Noah alongside his old friend Randolph who promised Glen and Annie to keep him out of trouble while on the job. Aboard just such a ship, the Botany Ba…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film
Following the murder of Diana Floss in a restaurant in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in 1972, her fiancé, Joe Nast, elects to stay with her parents. Her father, Ben, is a realtor whose business partner has recently left. Ben and Joe go into bus…
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Drama, children's film, drama film, family film
Ezra "Penny" Baxter, once a Confederate soldier, and his wife Ora, are pioneer farmers near Lake George, Florida in 1878. Their son, Jody, a boy in his pre-teen years, is their only surviving child. Jody has a wonderful relationship with h…
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Action, Drama, action film, coming-of-age film, drama film
The undefeated champion of underground motorcycle drag racing is Smoke, the "King of Cali". A biker, Chu-Chu, eventually issues a challenge to Smoke, who accepts. Smoke wins the race while the challenger crashes into parked bikes.
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