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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film
In 1996, five best friends attend a strict Catholic school for girls in the Scottish Highlands town of Fort William. They get the opportunity to go to Edinburgh for a choir competition, but they are more interested in drinking, partying an…
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drama film, romance film, teen film
In 1941, 16-year-old IRA volunteer Brendan Behan is going on a bombing mission from Republic of Ireland to Liverpool during the Second World War. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in a borstal, a reform…
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Adventure, Family Comedy, Fantasy, comedy drama, coming-of-age film
12 year old Josh Whitney and his younger brother Sam are on their way from their mother's house in the San Fernando Valley region of California to go stay with their father, Thom and his new family in Orlando, Florida. Their mother, Caroli…
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Adventure, Coming Of Age, Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
After the death of his father, ten-year-old Moon leaves their forest shelter home and is sent to an Alabama institution, becoming entangled in the outside world he has never known and making good friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a …
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy film
The story focuses on a dysfunctional Australian family that includes two daughters: Dawn (nicknamed "Sweetie"), a lively, but erratic, and often delusional woman who fancies herself an actor, and her uptight, sullen, and superstitious sist…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, coming-of-age film, drama film
Marcus Messner is fighting in the Korean War. After an encounter with Chinese troops, he reflects on the choices he made in his life and how they led him to where he is now. In the summer of 1951, before his first year of college, Marcus's…
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Drama, drama film
Saul Naumann is a somewhat controlling Jewish husband and father. A Religious Studies professor at UC Berkeley, Saul wrote his graduate thesis on the Kabbalah. Because he was a devout Jew, his wife Miriam converted to Judaism when they mar…
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Coming Of Age, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Seventeen-year-old Ben Marshall is the sensitive son of complacent Robert, a vicar obsessed with ornithology, and domineering Laura, who performs numerous charitable acts while ignoring her family's emotional needs, such as forcing Ben to …
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Romantic Comedy, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film
The story follows two high school seniors from Michigan on their quest to get into Ramsey College, a small college in Pennsylvania: popular and talented Jessica, and unnoticed underachiever Marlon. Jessica wants to break free of both her h…
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LGBTQ-related film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
1986 — Thomás is born with his eyes closed, and he does not open them for several weeks following the birth. Julieta, his mother, is unconcerned, believing that when Thomás is ready and wants to open his eyes, he will. These events instill…
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LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film
The film is narrated in flashback by Jake Briggs (Eric Stoltz), a young aspiring playwright, culminating in the production of one of his plays off-Broadway by agent Carl Fisher (Tony Curtis). The play is a flop, at least in part because th…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, comedy drama, romantic comedy
Back from prison to a small community on Long Island comes Josh, a sober young man whose crimes most cannot remember exactly and finds a job at Vic's auto repair shop. Vic's daughter Audry falls instantly in love with him, only to be rejec…
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Adventure, adventure film, coming-of-age film
In 1865, while working in a hotel kitchen in the small town of Kurtal in the Swiss Alps, Rudi Matt daydreams of reaching the summit of the Citadel. He is startled out of his daydreams by Old Teo Zurbriggen, the hotel's cook and a former mo…
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Coming Of Age, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
In 1962 in rural New South Wales, Australia, Danny is a thin, socially awkward 15-year-old boy who has been best friends with Freya since childhood. Freya was adopted as a baby; as a result, she is the subject of town gossip and rumours ab…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, romantic comedy
Dorky Andy (Jake Mosser), flamboyant Nico (Jonah Blechman), jock Jarod (Jimmy Clabots), and nerdy Griff (Aaron Michael Davies) reunite in Fort Lauderdale for spring break. The plot revolves around a contest—"Gays Gone Wild!"—to see who can…
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association football film, drama film
In the year 1978, Gracie Bowen, a 15-year-old tomboy who lives in South Orange, New Jersey, is crazy about soccer, as are her three brothers and their former soccer star father. Although Gracie wants to join her brothers and neighbor Kyle …
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Raunchy comedy, coming-of-age film, sex comedy, teen film
Four female students from snowbound Penmore College in the Northeast head to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break: Carole Singer is taking a separate vacation from her steady boyfriend Chip, but she winds up as a hot contender in a "H…
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Coming Of Age, Marital Tragedy, drama film
The film opens by following two American high school acquaintances, a few years after graduation. They are now suffering from deep anger and anguish, because they are less successful than they hoped to be. David Hancock is the high school …
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Drama, biographical film, drama film
The film begins with a chronicle of Hind Husseini's effort to establish an orphanage in Jerusalem after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the Deir Yassin Massacre, and the establishment of the state of Israel. In Jerusalem in 1948, on her way to …
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Drama, drama film, romantic comedy
Dori Lawrence (Rachael Leigh Cook) is an actress and singer who resides in Hollywood, California. She has undiagnosed schizophrenia, which causes problems in her career. After another concert goes wrong due to her untreated disease, she is…
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Komödie, comedy drama, coming-of-age film
Having no family, Marshall Hogan III (Warren Kole) has been granted residency in the house of his best friend Spence Holmes (Jason Jurman). But Hogan has a sexual habit that makes Spence's dad and girlfriend (Kaley Cuoco) fear that Spence …
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Drama, drama film
David Sinclair (Alan Boyce) seems to have everything. He is smart, talented, funny, and popular. He is best friends with Chris Townsend (Keanu Reeves), a quirky outsider.
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, buddy film, coming-of-age film, drama film
25 year old Gypsy Vale (Sara Rue) and 18 year old Clive Webb (Kett Turton) are two goths living in Sandusky, Ohio. Gypsy's parents, Ray (John Doe) and Velvet (Marlene Wallace), once were in a band together, and Gypsy now aspires to be a fa…
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Drama, comedy drama, drama film, teen film
Two sisters, 11-year-old Amanda (nicknamed Manny) and 15-year-old Laurel (nicknamed Lo), run away from several foster homes after the death of their mother, sleeping wherever they can, including in model homes. But when Lo realizes she's p…
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