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Drama, Thriller, coming-of-age film, drama film, independent film, thriller film
Trapped in his drug-addicted mother's apartment, 16-year-old Finn Earl wants nothing more than to escape New York City. He wants to spend the summer in South America studying the Ishkanani Indians (known as the "Fierce People") with his an…
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Drama, Thriller, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, psychological thriller film
Following the death of his wife Audrey, John Munn (Dermot Mulroney) moves with his two sons, mid-teen Chris Munn (Jamie Bell) and adolescent Tim Munn (Devon Alan), to a pig farm in rural Drees County, Georgia, where they lead a reclusive l…
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Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, teen film
Eighteen-year-old white Jewish DJ and rapper Zack lives with his single father, who runs a record store. Zack records music with his best friend, black rapper Dee. Zack quarrels at school with his girlfriend Michelle, and they separate.
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LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, drama film, romance film, romantic comedy
Xavier, a 24-year-old economics graduate student and aspiring writer from Paris, embarks on a year-long Erasmus exchange to Barcelona to study economics, as well as to learn Spanish in order to qualify for a prospective job at the French M…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1920s Kansas, a group of African-American boys, Newt Winger, Marcus Savage, and friends steal apples from Jake Kiner's orchard, and when Jake (who is white) confronts the boys, he is beaten and left for dead by Marcus, who later is sent…
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Romance Film, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film, romance film
Nora, a waitress with two teenage daughters, struggles to raise them in a trailer park as a single parent after her husband abandons the family. After repeatedly skipping school to go on dates, Trudi, the elder daughter, quits school and g…
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Coming Of Age, drama film, musical film
Sebastian Prendergast lives in a geodesic dome, a dated tourist museum, called the House of Tomorrow with his futurist grandmother, Josephine. Sebastian longs to leave his isolated existence which quickly changes when he meets Jared Whitco…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, teen film
In 1976, five years after the original film East Is East, little is known about most of the Khan children, except that they have fully adopted British culture and seldom communicate with their parents. Tariq is now a hippie (looking like G…
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crime film, drama film, romance film
In a small Georgia town in 1948, Buster Lane (Jan-Michael Vincent) is a handsome, popular high-school senior, who is engaged to be married to his pretty, popular high-school sweetheart Margie Hooks (Pamela Sue Martin). He is the 'big man o…
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Drama, drama film
Ten-year-old Devon Stockard, a precocious and lonely young girl obsessed with the fairy tale of the Baba Yaga, has recently moved into the suburban gated community of Camelot Gardens in McCade County, Kentucky outside of Louisville with he…
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Komödie, comedy film, coming-of-age film, teen film
Following the last day of school, Fred Figglehorn reveals his hopes to attend a very popular and luxurious summer camp named Camp Superior, but his dreams are dashed when he learns his mother is sending him to Camp Iwannapeepee instead, a …
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film
In September 1937, Eugene Jerome is almost 15 and lives in a Jewish-American household in Brighton Beach with his parents Kate and Jack, his 18-year-old brother Stanley, his widowed, asthmatic aunt Blanche Morton, and her two daughters, pr…
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LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, drama film, romance film
Annabelle Tillman, the worldly and emotionally mature 17-year-old daughter of a senator, is sent to Saint Theresa's, an all-girls Catholic boarding school, after being expelled from two previous schools. Simone Bradley, a poetry teacher at…
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Drama, Musical, Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, musical film, romantic comedy film
Eve escapes from the psychiatric hospital where she is being treated for anorexia nervosa and makes her way to Glasgow, hoping to become a musician. At a gig, she meets James, a lifeguard and aspiring songwriter. He introduces her to his g…
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Family Comedy, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, drama film
Jamie informs her ex-husband John that she is getting married. Even though they have been apart for seven years, the news devastates John, who was already depressed. At a party the next night, John gets more and more drunk until he ends up…
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Coming Of Age, Romance Film, drama film
Lincoln "Link" (Lewitski) is a teenager in his late teens who lives with his abusive single father and younger brother Travis (Winters-Anthony) in a run-down trailer park in Canada. After a particularly brutal beating, and upon learning th…
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Drama, comedy drama, fantasy film
The film dramatises three stories from the book: In "The Granton Star Cause", a comedy, Boab is an aimless layabout having a rotten day. His parents throw him out of the house so they can indulge in sado-masochism, and he is sacked from hi…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, romance film, teen film
In the past, Duncan Mudge's mom dies from a heart attack while riding her bike. In the current day, Duncan works with his grieving father Edgar on their poultry farm, where Duncan has developed a bond with most of the chickens. His relatio…
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Coming Of Age, drama film
A student hears the sound of someone falling within the disabled bathroom. She signals the custodian, who approaches and sees blood flowing out from under the door. Marcus is an intelligent student and skilled classical musician who aspire…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Sylvia Barrett, fresh out of graduate school, arrives at Calvin Coolidge High School, having just been hired to teach English. On her first day, she finds her classroom has a broken glass window and two broken chairs. When her class arrive…
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Coming Of Age, drama film
The film focuses on three African-American youths living in an urban neighborhood. Nathaniel Hamilton is a star basketball player from the neighborhood, nicknamed "Cornbread." In the film, he epitomizes the dream of the neighborhood to be …
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comedy film, coming-of-age film
Alfie Wickers has taken Class K on a school trip to Amsterdam. Unbeknownst to him, Mitchell has spiked his crepe with magic mushrooms, causing Alfie to hallucinate while in the Anne Frank Museum - Filmed in Mawnan Smith's Glendurgan Garden…
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Komödie, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film
A group of college students from Los Angeles travel to Palm Springs to spend the Easter weekend there. Student Jim Munroe (Troy Donahue) falls for Bunny Dixon (Stefanie Powers), the daughter of the overprotective Palm Springs police chief …
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Coming Of Age, Romantic Drama, Teen Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Hal Hefner is a fifteen-year-old student of Plainsboro, New Jersey with a pronounced stutter. His older brother Earl is an obsessive-compulsive kleptomaniac, his father Doyle has recently walked out on the family after a heated argument, a…
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