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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Teen Comedy Film, comedy drama, romantic comedy
Sixteen-year-old Dedee Truitt runs away from home. She is pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, Randy Cates. Not revealing her pregnancy, Dedee eventually moves in with her much older half-brother Bill, a gay teacher in a conservative, suburban co…
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Teen Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, female buddy film
In the winter of 1963 in New England, Odette "Odie" Sinclair is forcibly transferred by her parents to Miss Godard's Preparatory School for Girls after her parents find out that she has planned to have sex with her boyfriend, Dennis. Upon …
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Drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film
In the fall of 1954, the Kurtzmans, a Jewish family, live in Forest Park, a suburban neighborhood in northwest Baltimore. Nate, the father, runs a burlesque theater and engages in a numbers racket. His wife Ada is a homemaker.
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Coming Of Age, Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film
In the present, Billy Wyatt is a washed-up baseball player in his thirties, living in a hotel with a cocktail waitress. One afternoon, he receives a phone call from his mother, Ginny, informing him that his childhood babysitter and friend,…
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Drama, Komödie, Romance Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Nathan Ellis, a 9-year-old maths prodigy, has just lost his father in a car accident. Nathan is diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum early in the film, and his father was the only one who was able to connect normally with him. Althoug…
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Komödie, Road Movie, comedy film, drama film, family film, teen film
Melanie Porter, a 17-year-old college-bound girl, is preparing to graduate from high school and wants to go to Georgetown University. However, her father James Porter, the chief of police in the quiet Chicago suburb where they live, is ove…
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Action, Coming Of Age, Family Comedy, Family Drama, Musical, Romantic Comedy, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
Itinerant Western singer Red Stovall suffers from tuberculosis, but has been given an opportunity to make it big at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. He is accompanied by his young nephew, Whit. After a series of adventures that …
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Komödie, coming-of-age film, teen film
Genius high school student Duncan Pinderhughes is getting ready for graduation, but is somewhat disheartened to find out that, despite his perfect SAT score and 4.0 GPA, prestigious Hafford University (parody of Harvard University) will no…
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Drama, drama film, teen film
The film revolves around the intense relationship of the two teenage protagonists, Darren (Cillian Murphy) and Sinéad (Elaine Cassidy), who call each other "Pig" and "Runt", respectively. Pig and Runt were born at the same hospital at near…
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, romance film
Paul is a young womanizer who lives in the small town of Marshall, North Carolina, and earns a living fixing cars for his uncle Leland. He still lives with his mother, Elvira, who works as a clown cheering up children at the local hospital…
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Drama, Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, comedy film, drama film, romance film
Mirabelle Buttersfield is a young aspiring artist from Vermont who works behind the women's glove counter at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. Clinically depressed and leading a solitary existence, Mirabelle soon finds herself romanced b…
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Coming Of Age, Dramedy, drama film, romantic comedy film
Megan is an aimless 28-year-old living in Seattle who is in a committed relationship with her high school sweetheart, Anthony, and is still close with her high school friends. At her friend Allison's wedding, Anthony unexpectedly proposes.…
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Dark Comedy, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, teen film
Archibald Holden Buster "Archie" Williams (Gabriel Sunday) begins his film (rife with cutaway gags and Archie imitating famous movie quotes) by discussing his upbringing in a typical upper-middle-class suburb, and lamenting that he is a po…
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Drama, drama film, sport film
The film opens with Colin Smith running, alone, along a bleak country road somewhere in rural England. In a brief voiceover, he says that running is the way his family has always coped with the world's troubles, but that, in the end, the r…
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Coming Of Age, LGBTQ-related film, Musical, comedy drama, drama film, musical film
In Sheffield, England, Jamie New, a gay boy, lives with his single mother Margaret, and attends Mayfield School on his 16th birthday. At school, his teacher rebukes the pupils for their unrealistic career plans. Jamie pretends to agree wit…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Eleven-year-old diabetic Emily 'Skunk' Cunningham lives with her solicitor father Archie, her elder brother Jed, and au pair Kasia on a cul-de-sac in a British suburb. One of her few friends is Rick, a slightly simple young man living with…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, hood film
Flik Royale is a pampered 13-year-old boy from Atlanta who is sent to live with his preacher grandfather, Da Good Bishop Enoch Rouse, in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Flik struggles to connect with his religious grandfather, and clashes with him ove…
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biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film
The film is narrated periodically by Walt Disney. At the age of thirteen, he develops a love for animation and film. In 1919, after returning from his time with the Red Cross, Walt moves in with his older brother Roy and his girlfriend Edn…
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Romantic Comedy, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, teen film
Lauren King, a book-smart and affluent 13-year-old girl from the United States, lives in Paris with her mother Kay and stepfather Richard. Daniel Michon, a "street-smart" and movie-loving 13-year-old French boy, lives with his taxi-driver …
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Drama, drama film
During the 1950s, John Groberg (Gorham) graduates from Brigham Young University and is called on a 3-year mission to Tonga. Throughout the film, Groberg and his fiancée, Jean (Hathaway), exchange letters monthly. After a long journey acros…
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Tragic Comedy Film, coming-of-age film, romance film
Alex is a lonely college freshman struggling to adjust to college life, lying to his mother by inventing a best friend and girlfriend to conceal his lack of social life. One night, desperate to get out of his dorm, he attends a party at th…
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film
In 1981, teenager Josh Waaka lives with his widowed English-born mother Shirley and older brother Jamie in Dunedin. Josh and Jamie are of mixed Māori and European heritage, with their late father being Māori. Josh attends the private schoo…
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, drama film, teen film
In Kenosha, Wisconsin, Darcy Elliot, editor of her high school paper, and her steady boyfriend Stan Bobrucz are in their final year of high school and already have been accepted at good colleges. Before Darcy goes to the University of Wisc…
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Coming Of Age, Romantic Comedy, children's film, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film
Gabe, an adventurous 10-year-old boy lives in Manhattan with his parents who are on the verge of divorcing. Gabe spends most of his free time exploring the city on his scooter. His daily exploits are noticed and encouraged by the friendly …
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