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Action, Martial-Arts, action film, coming-of-age film, martial arts film
Former Green Beret Louis Stevens returns to his hometown of Miami after completing military service in Brazil, only to learn that his old high school has become a haven for gangs and drug dealers. After Stevens uses his capoeira skills to …
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Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Mary Ann ("Pookie") Adams is a quirky oddball who meets quiet, reserved Jerry Payne while waiting for a bus heading to their colleges; both are first-year students and their colleges are near each other. Jerry notices that Pookie is differ…
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Drama, Romance Film, Teen Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, teen film
Three teenage friends live in Ohio—high school sophomores Natalie, Jeff, and Polly. Jeff has trouble getting along with his stepfather Gerry. After an argument, he storms out of the house and goes to Natalie's house.
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Crime, Drama, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, teen film
Trevor has been charged for throwing a brick at the window of a Pakistani man, Mr. Shahnawaz. Trevor's social worker, Harry Parker, takes him to Hooper Street Residential Assessment Centre, where his punishment will be determined.
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Coming Of Age, Drama, LGBTQ-related film
Henry Gamble is a closeted teenager and active member of a church youth group. The film begins the night before his 17th birthday party. During a sleepover, he and his friend Gabe masturbate together while discussing a girl who will be at …
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Coming Of Age, Social Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1990 amid the Kuwait War of 1990–1991, 13-year-old Jasira, a Lebanese-American girl, lives with her mother in Syracuse, New York. When her mother's live-in boyfriend helps Jasira shave her pubic hair, her mother sends Jasira to live wit…
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LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, teen film
Mary (nicknamed Mouse) is a new student at the all girls' boarding school, and dorms with Pauline (nicknamed Paulie) and Victoria (nicknamed Tori). In an effort to get the shy Mary to break out of her shell, Paulie and Tori involve her in …
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Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
Harriet is an upper-middle class English teenage girl who lives with her family on the banks of the Ganges River in British India. Her father runs a jute mill, and she has four sisters and one brother, all of whom are at least several year…
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, Romantic Drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
In the early 1950s, sixteen-year-old Lynda Mansell lives in a small English seaside town with her widowed father Hubert and younger sister, Margaret. Feisty, outspoken, and bawdy, Lynda likes to shock other people with her histrionic behav…
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, teen film
The film follows Heidi, a teenager from suburban Canberra, who runs away after making a sexual advance toward her mother's boyfriend. When caught, she flees to a ski town in the Snowy Mountains, hoping to reconnect with a man who once offe…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
In 1945, best friends Nat and Anoushka give birth, as they hold hands, to two girls named Ginger and Rosa, respectively. Ginger and Rosa grow to become best friends and by 1962, the two are inseparable. Ginger is a compassionate girl with …
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Drama, Komödie, comedy film, coming-of-age film, sex comedy
The movie opens with scenes of an aerobics class juxtaposed with a classroom of students taking an examination. The movie's two protagonists are featured in these scenes, with Terry Green (Kaye) participating in the aerobics and Bobby Chry…
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Komödie, buddy film, musical film, romantic comedy, teen film
After high school graduation and his father's death, Kid, with scholarship money provided by the congregation of his church, goes off to college with his girlfriend, Sidney. Play, now driving a 'Foxbody' Ford Mustang instead of his beat up…
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Komödie, coming-of-age film, stoner film, teen film
The film is set in Torrance, California on a Saturday night in 1980. An aggressive ex-convict known as "Crump's Brother" is picked up by a local teen while hitchhiking on the freeway and informs him about two girls he intends to party with…
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film
thumb|left|James Dunn and Peggy Ann Garner in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The Nolans are a family living in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1912. Katie is a hard-working, German American housewife who scrubs the floors of her ten…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, Thriller, drama film, horror film, thriller film
When Abby and Loren McWilliams' parents John and Mary Beth are killed in an accident, they are sent to live with their uncle Charlie and aunt Fay in the small town of Glenby, Florida. Charlie and Fay own a small amusement park with an atta…
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Drama, Romance Film, romantic comedy
The Mortmain family live in genteel poverty in a decaying English castle, which family patriarch James Mortmain leased years ago to cure his writers' block. James hasn't written anything in 12 years, since the spectacular success of his fi…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, drama film, musical film
In an urban area in early-1940s England, a young child, Jim MacLaine, lives with his mother Mary and grandfather. His seaman father returns, spends time with him, and works in the family's grocery shop. However, he finds himself unable to …
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Komödie, comedy film, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film
Nineteen year old Bernard Chanticleer, called "Big Boy" by his parents, lives in Great Neck, New York with his overbearing, clinging mother and his commanding, disapproving father, who is curator of incunabula at the New York Public Librar…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Josephine (nicknamed "Josie") Alibrandi (Pia Miranda) is an ambitious and outspoken 17-year-old Italian-Australian teenager who lives in Glebe, an inner-western suburb in Sydney, and is in her final year of high school. Josie is a scholars…
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Coming Of Age, LGBTQ-related film, Social Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy film
Anna has been rejected by her college, her girlfriend broke up with her, and her older sister is getting married. She meets Sadie, who invites her to join Clits In Action, or C(i)A, a radical Third-wave feminist group. Anna soon gets in to…
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Coming Of Age, Romantic Comedy
In 2006, George Bobbin, a 16-year-old who lives in a small English town and dreams of becoming a pop star, meets Max, the son of a famous musical duo.
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Romantic Comedy, coming-of-age film, drama film, romantic comedy film
In New York City, Sam Wexler is a writer on the verge of turning 30 and is unsuccessfully trying to get his first novel published. On the subway, he meets foster care child Rasheen and decides to take the boy in for a few days. Meanwhile, …
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
The film follows a group of kids growing up in a depressed rural town in North Carolina, as seen through the eyes of 12-year-old Nasia. After breaking up with her show-off boyfriend Buddy, she withdraws from her delinquent friends and beco…
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