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Coming Of Age, High School Comedy Film, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Drama, drama film, romantic comedy, teen film
Matthew Kidman, an ambitious high school senior in suburban California, has been accepted to Georgetown University but lacks the funds to attend. As class president, he raises $25,000 to help a Cambodian student, Samnang Sok, study in the …
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Teen Comedy Film, children's film, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age fiction, romantic comedy, teen film
Grove High School student Mia Thermopolis resides with her single mother, Helen, in a refurbished firehouse in San Francisco. Unpopular among her peers, Mia suffers from a fear of public speaking while harboring a crush on Josh Bryant, and…
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Adventure, Fantasy, Komödie, action film, cinematic fairy tale, comedy film, fantasy film, pirate film, swashbuckler film
Peter Banning, a workaholic lawyer, has a strained relationship with his wife, Moira, and their children, 9-year-old Jack and 6-year-old Maggie, due to his constant absences and broken promises. During Christmas, the family travels to Lond…
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Adventure, Fantasy, adventure film, children's film, coming-of-age film, fantasy film, musical film
While in the park with her dog, Merlin, 16-year-old Sarah Williams recites from a book titled The Labyrinth but is unable to remember the last line. Realizing that she is late to babysit her infant half-brother Toby, she rushes home and is…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, Family Drama, comedy drama, musical film
In Gloucester, Massachusetts, 17-year-old Ruby Rossi is the only hearing member of her family; her parents, Frank and Jackie, and older brother, Leo, are all deaf. Ruby assists with the family fishing business and plans to join it full-tim…
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Coming Of Age, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have settled into a life of material comfort but emotional unease back in District 12 following their joint victory in the 74th Hunger Games. Katniss was traumatized by the Games and remains emotionally d…
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Teen Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, high school film, sex comedy, teen film
Seth and Evan are unpopular Nevada high school seniors who have been best friends since childhood, and hope to lose their virginities before going to different colleges. Jules, a girl Seth is attracted to, invites him to a party at her hou…
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Coming Of Age, Dance Film, Family Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, music-themed film
Tony Manero is an Italian-American from the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, living in his family's house and working in a hardware store. He escapes his day-to-day life by dancing at 2001 Odyssey, a local discotheque, where he receives…
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Coming Of Age, Martial-Arts, Sport, action film, coming-of-age film, drama film, martial arts film, romance film, teen film
In 1984, 17-year-old Daniel LaRusso and his mother Lucille move from Newark, New Jersey, to Reseda, Los Angeles, California. Their apartment's handyman is an eccentric, but kind and humble Okinawan immigrant named Nariyoshi Miyagi. At a be…
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Silly Movie, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
In the San Fernando Valley, popular Ridgemont High student Brad Hamilton has a job at All-American Burger, his Buick is almost paid off, and he plans to break up with his girlfriend Lisa to fully enjoy his senior year. Brad's sister Stacy …
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, science fiction film
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway arrives at the SETI program at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The film's prologue reveals that she was encouraged to pursue science by her father, who died in her youth.
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Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1967 in New England, aimless eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen has an acute psychiatric episode and overdoses on aspirin and alcohol. Against her wishes, she is checked into Claymoore, a psychiatric hospital. In the psychiatric ward, Sus…
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
In the sleepy suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a group of neighborhood boys—now grown men—reflect upon their memories of the five Lisbon sisters, ages 13 to 17, in 1975. Unattainable due to their overprotective Catholic parents, math tea…
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Melodrama, coming-of-age film, drama film, romantic comedy film
Vada Sultenfuss is an 11-year-old girl living in Madison, Pennsylvania in the summer of 1972. Her widowed father, Harry Sultenfuss, operates the town's funeral parlor, which is also their home. Her upbringing leads her to suffer from hypoc…
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Animation, Coming Of Age, Komödie, children's film, cinematic fairy tale, fantasy film, melodrama, musical film, romance film
Under the Atlantic Ocean, in the kingdom of Atlantica, the young mermaid Ariel is fascinated by the human world and collects human artifacts in her grotto. With her best friend Flounder, they both visit Scuttle, a dimwitted seagull who giv…
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High School Comedy Film, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, teen film
Cher Horowitz, a stylish, popular, and good-natured teenager, lives in a Beverly Hills mansion with her wealthy father, Mel, a gruff litigator; her mother died during a liposuction procedure when Cher was a baby. She attends Bronson Alcott…
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Action, Adventure, Computeranimation, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, coming-of-age film, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
In 1914, Washington, D.C., archaeo-linguist Milo Thatch obsesses over finding the legendary lost city of Atlantis, believed to have sunk thousands of years ago. His employers ridicule his theories, but he gains an unexpected ally in eccent…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, coming-of-age film, drama film
Charlie Simms is a scholarship student at Baird, an exclusive New England preparatory school. Karen Rossi hires him to watch her uncle, retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, during Thanksgiving weekend. Charlie accepts so he can buy…
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LGBTQ-related film, Psychodrama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
During the summer of 1981, two eight-year-old Little League teammates, Neil McCormick and Brian Lackey, both experience life-altering events in Hutchinson, Kansas. Neil, the son of an irresponsible single mother and already discovering his…
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, coming-of-age film, drama film, romantic comedy film, teen film
On Sunday, September 2, 1962, the last day of summer vacation, high school graduates Curt Henderson and Steve Bolander meet their friends, confident drag-racing king John Milner and unpopular but well-meaning Terry "The Toad" Fields, at Me…
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Dark Comedy, comedy film, coming-of-age film, mystery film, teen film
At Westerburg High School in Sherwood, Ohio, Veronica Sawyer is part of a popular-but-feared clique that includes three wealthy and beautiful girls with the same first name: Heather Duke, Heather McNamara, and the ruthless queen bee, Heath…
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Coming Of Age, Crime, Destiny, Melodrama, Psychodrama, comedy drama, drama film, romance film
Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged European professor of French literature, arrives in Ramsdale, New Hampshire, searching for summer accommodation before his professorship begins at Beardsley College, Ohio. Charlotte Haze, a sexually frustrate…
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Coming Of Age, Crime, Social Drama, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, hood film, romance film, teen film
In 1984, 10-year-old Jason "Tre" Styles III lives with his single mother, Reva Devereaux, in South Central Los Angeles. After Tre gets into an altercation at school, his teacher informs Reva that although intelligent, he lacks maturity and…
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Adventure, Coming Of Age, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller, family film, fantasy film
While staying at the Dursleys', Harry Potter and Dudley Dursley are attacked by Dementors. Harry repels them using a Patronus spell. The Ministry of Magic detects Harry using magic and expels him from Hogwarts, though he is later exonerate…
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