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coming-of-age film, drama film
In Chicago, single mother Carla Monroe has cooked dinner and sends her daughter, Kari, out to find her brother, August. The siblings become victims of a shooting and Kari dies. Eighteen months later, August has PTSD and anxiety attacks due…
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Coming Of Age, crime film, drama film
Set in a fictional New Jersey city, the film centers on Nick Rinaldi, the aimless son of corrupt property developer Joe Rinaldi. The elder Rinaldi owns a derelict apartment that is blocking the construction of a mixed-use development sough…
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Coming Of Age, Teen Comedy Film
thumb|In a mid-credits scene, Wendy finishes a jigsaw puzzle of Edmund Leighton's painting The Accolade (1901). Five years after spending a year studying economics in Barcelona, Xavier is aboard a Eurostar train typing on his laptop as he …
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film
When young Steven's mother Selma is diagnosed with ovarian cancer and becomes increasingly ill, his eccentric and emotionally distant inventor father Sid — despite deep reservations — allows him to live with his dysfunctional uncles, compu…
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comedy drama, coming-of-age film
Vallie Sue Russell, an imaginative small-town girl, living in a dusty Texas community built on an abandoned drive-in movie lot turns to an imaginary friend, The Cowboy, for solace from her self-absorbed mother and the dangerous world aroun…
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American football film, Coming Of Age, Komödie, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, crime film
High-school nerd Ed Wallis enters into a friendship with his neighbor, Ashby, a retired CIA assassin who only has a few months to live. The film is a coming of age/approaching death comedy drama. Ashby initially tells Ed that he is a retir…
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, teen film
Thomas Mollison (Rhys Wakefield) and his family move to a new home in the early 1990s. It begins with Charlie, his autistic brother, banging a wooden spoon on the grass with neighbours staring and pointing. Then, it cuts to the house where…
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, comedy film
Set in 1996 Los Angeles, Micky Adams, is an eccentric, singer-songwriter, burnout 70s rock musician. He has lost his grip on reality and his record label is looking to drop him and his newly created "unique" albums. Hoping to be promoted o…
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Komödie, romantic comedy, teen film
Molly (Hoffs), Val (Pfeiffer) and Gina (Cusack) are graduating college, but on their final night, frustrations are aired. Molly is still looking for real love and Val is beginning to doubt if that is what she has found. Gina is too busy vi…
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Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, biographical film, coming-of-age film
The film tells the story of Romulus Gaita, a Yugoslavian immigrant to Australia after World War II and his struggle to bring up his son, Raimond, in an isolated shack in the Victorian bush. Raimond's mother has an undiagnosed mental illnes…
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Drama, Family Comedy, Family Drama, Komödie, comedy drama
Emily Lindstrom, a 14-year-old aspiring concert violinist, spends her summer practicing for an important audition to get into the local youth symphony orchestra in Salt Lake City. Due to Emily's knack for keeping secrets, she also runs a s…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, drama film
Emily Ann Faulkner is born into poverty in the South, has no father, no friends, and is unloved by her indifferent mother, Laureen, who does not want to be tied down by a child. As a teenager, Emily is socially ostracized by the local town…
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama
Taylor Ogburn is an 18-year-old who suffers from PAT, a type of arrhythmia. Living in the South, his family is all creative: his brother Campbell is an artist, his father Wyatt a writer, and his mother Poppy a poet. In a flashback, Taylor …
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film
Art (Pattinson) is not talented, but aspires to be a musician. He has a dead-end job at a supermarket, despite having a degree (which he doesn't seem to value much). His girlfriend ends their relationship.
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Musical, Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, musical film, teen film
Jesse Tucker and his four friends live at Benedict Boys Home, under the strict guidance of headmaster Eugene Benedict, who has a daughter Sara. Newcomer music teacher Jack Cabe introduces them to rock and roll, until headmaster Benedict th…
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comedy film, drama film, family film
In the summer of 1947, thirteen-year-old Lily Jane Bobbit has moved with her mute mother to small-town Medda, Alabama, next door to Billy Bob Murphy. Billy Bob develops a crush on Lily Jane, who is a self-possessed Southern belle. Preacher…
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comedy drama, coming-of-age film, sport film
The story focuses on two teenage girls from the middle-class Sutherland Shire in Sydney. The girls attempt to create a popular social status by ingratiating themselves with the "Greenhill gang" of surfers, a group of boys with a careless a…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, drama film
After his elderly father dies, Brian Jardine moves his wife Kathy and 13-year-old son Jake into a Brooklyn apartment that they have inherited. The two-story building has a tenant in the ground-level space; a dress shop run by Leonor Calvel…
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama
Louise, an aimless twenty-eight year old musician who is recently single, is injured when she drunkenly breaks her hip. The subsequent physical therapy sees her associate with elderly people, and she meets Antonina, a Polish lady who speak…
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Drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, female buddy film
Next-door neighbours and best friends Holly and Marina are growing up together on the Isle of Wight in 1973. Holly is the child of supportive if stuffy Jewish parents, while Marina's mother is fixated on her looks and sexuality, while her …
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Coming Of Age, LGBTQ-related film, coming-of-age film, romantic drama film
16 year-old Grace is interviewed by police detectives after witnessing a woman drown in a reservoir. Despite seeing another girl near the scene, Grace claims that she was the only witness. She tracks down the other girl, Claudia, to her ho…
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Adventure, Drama, adventure film, coming-of-age film, drama film
Jack, a scrappy 15-year-old boy, bonds with his introverted cousin while facing off against a bully.
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, hood film, independent film, musical film
Raymond "Ray" Joshua (played by Saul Williams) is a young man growing up in the Southeast, Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Dodge City, slang for a real Southeast D.C. neighborhood.[A] Despite his innate gift for poetry and his aspiration …
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Fairy-Tale Film, Fantasy, fantasy film
Gerda lives in a remote hotel in the far North with her father, her only real companion being the hotel's new bellboy, Kai. A mysterious woman comes to stay at the hotel, dressed in white fur and diamonds and accompanied by wolves. She is …
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