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Drama, Fantasy, drama film, family film, fantasy film
Ryan Flynn is a young boy who, traumatized by the death of his father, has not spoken aloud or exercised his imagination since. While on a walk with a friend, Ryan falls from a bridge and apparently drowns. He finds himself in a parallel u…
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film
Daniel Bagnold, a withdrawn and heavy metal–obsessed teenager, is preparing to spend the summer holidays with his father and his father’s new family in Florida. However, when the trip is unexpectedly cancelled, he is forced to remain at ho…
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Coming Of Age, coming-of-age film, drama film
Karchy Jonas is a 17-year-old high-school student and immigrant from Hungary trying to find his way in the world. He meets radio personality Billy Magic, who takes him under his wing. However, unbeknownst to Karchy, authorities are after B…
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Coming Of Age, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1962, in the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis, two teenage girls (Isabelle Fuhrman and Liana Liberato) break out of their normal life, jump in the car and embark on a trip across the country in search of the former First Lady of the U…
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Coming Of Age, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Seventeen-year-old Caroline Wexler and her father move from a large city to a small town where an industrial fire burns endlessly and many of the students in her new high school seem to be permanently stoned. One of Caroline's classmates, …
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama
Seventeen-year-old Phil returns home from summer camp to the secluded Villa Visible, an old mansion where he lives with his mother, Glass, and his twin sister, Dianne. The family, viewed as eccentric by their remote community, maintains li…
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy
In 1963, liberal-minded and reckless Lydia Callahan is raising her 14-year-old son, Sam. Lydia's father Caspar, a prominent local businessman, is running for governor of North Carolina, and does not want Lydia and Sam in his way, so the tw…
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Drama, drama film, education, teen film
Mark Thackeray, from British Guiana by way of California, took a teaching position in a London East End school in the 1967 film. He spent twenty years teaching and ten in administrative roles. He has taught the children of his former pupil…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Eleven-year-old Lonnie and fourteen-year-old Karen live on the same street in New York’s Lower East Side, but they come from different worlds. Lonnie lives with her well-off family in an upscale townhouse with her parents and little sister…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, coming-of-age film, drama film
When eight-year-old Oscar Madly finds out that his parents are getting divorced, he retreats into a fantasy world filled with happy memories and conversations with his talking pet hamster, Buffy. One night, the young Oscar witnesses a viol…
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coming-of-age film
The first half of the movie centers around Elaine Cheng (played by Cindy Cheung), a single mother and immigrant living in the Boston suburbs, and the life she provides for her two children (played by Michael Chen and Crystal Chiu). As a wa…
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Coming Of Age, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, hood film, teen film
Magdalena, a fourteen-year-old girl from a working-class Mexican American family in Echo Park, Los Angeles, attends her cousin Eileen's quinceañera, an extravagant coming-of-age ceremony to celebrate her fifteenth birthday. Eileen's older …
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Coming Of Age, High School Comedy Film, Road Movie, comedy film, drama film
In a last-ditch effort to win over the girl of his dreams, a nerdy high school senior and his best friends embark on a road trip to see their favorite band at the biggest music festival of the year, only to discover true love in the most u…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Alice Harvey, a 28-year-old assistant book editor and aspiring writer, is tasked with handling the re-release of Milan Daneker's book Waking Eyes. Her father is a successful literary agent, who is overbearing, and her mother is overpowered…
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crime film, drama film, hood film
Dennis, living in a Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn, New York has had enough of poverty, and witnessing his alcoholic father beat his mother. His father is depressed and troubled from working hard for "the white man" for so many years…
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Romance Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
The film follows the radicalization of Simon, a student at a fictional university in San Francisco. Initially indifferent to the student protests around him, Simon learns of plans to occupy a university building in opposition to the constr…
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Coming Of Age, Drama
Kate has been absent from seventh grade for a week due to a broken foot. She frets about returning, as she knows how quickly things can change during junior high, and wonders what she has missed. Upon arriving, she learns her clique of fri…
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Komödie, comedy film
Benjamin Fiedler is the 12-year-old son of Jewish couple Adam and Joanne Fiedler. After attending the elaborate bar mitzvah party for the son of Arnie Stein — which was done on a cruise ship, with a Titanic theme — Benjamin's parents decid…
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Coming Of Age, Coming Out, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, teen film
Steven Carter is an intelligent and introverted 16-year-old middle-class schoolboy in Basingstoke, England, who is secretly gay. Bullied at school and misunderstood by his parents, his only confidante is his best friend and next-door neigh…
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comedy film, coming-of-age film
Megan is a 14-year-old girl who is afraid of trying new things. She hangs out with her confident friend Paige and birthday girl Anna Maria, the latter of whom is going through family troubles involving her divorced parents and soon-to-be s…
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film
Fifteen-year-old Ellis Whitman (Graham Phillips) is leaving his home in Tucson, Arizona, for his freshman year at Gates Academy, an East Coast prep school. He leaves behind Wendy (Vera Farmiga), his flaky, New Age mother and Goat Man (Davi…
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coming-of-age film, drama film
Timid student Abigail returns to school after spending months in a psych ward. She is taunted for her odd mannerisms, often adopting the traits of characters from the books she reads, prompting her peers to nickname her "Sybil". Tough-and-…
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Drama, drama film
Following the events of National Velvet, Velvet Brown's younger brother, Donald, has since married and moved to Arizona. After Donald and his wife are killed in a car crash, their 14-year-old daughter, Sarah, goes to England to live with h…
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Drama, drama film
Don, a 15-year-old with terminal cancer, attempts suicide by the train tracks, but ultimately lets the train rush past him. Don draws comic stories and has hallucinations. During a scan, he sees a twisted woman laughing at him.
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