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Biographical picture, Komödie, association football film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film
Bernie Reubens, a young Jewish boy, is about to have his bar mitzvah. Initially, he meticulously plans a lavish reception to upstage that of his older brother Alvie, but as the family's finances lurch from one disaster to another, the fami…
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Coming Of Age, coming-of-age film, drama film
Wyoming ranchers Rob and Nell McLaughlin somewhat reluctantly decide to give their 10-year-old son, Ken, a chance to raise a horse and learn about responsibility. Rob is disappointed in his son when he shows him his poor grades while he wa…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
The rebellious teenage dropout, Emelia Conan Doyle, believes herself to be a descendant of Arthur Conan Doyle. She takes on a job as a cleaner in a seaside hotel owned by Jonathan Fischer. Jonathan is a writer from Germany who has struggle…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film, teen film
In an effort to secure employment at the upscale Century City Mall in Los Angeles, Jennifer, a 17-year-old "goth" girl who just graduated from high school, makes a nuisance of herself at a clothing store run by 49-year-old Randall Harris, …
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Teen Horror Film, horror film, slasher film
Catherine is cooking dinner, expecting her boyfriend to arrive. She discovers his car in her driveway, and inside finds him with his throat slit. A killer wearing a skull mask breaks into the home and murders her, throwing her body in a sw…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, High School Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1961 the freshman class of Westwood High School in Los Angeles is profiled in Look magazine. In the article they are called "the future of the country." Now it's four years later, and that class is experiencing their last day of school.…
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Coming Of Age, Romantic Comedy, comedy film
Komödie, Sport, teen film
Since kindergarten, Handsome Davis and Sammy Green have been stealing teachers' test answer keys to cheat on tests. By the time they're in middle school, they regularly have a classmate named Evan Rosengarten do their homework for them, an…
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Coming Of Age, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Gemma Dillard is a 13-year-old country girl who lives with her Grandpa Dillard on a farm in the Texas Panhandle. Gemma is visited by her mother, who lives in Fort Worth, with an offer to come stay with her in the city. Her mother (who had …
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Coming Of Age, Social Drama, crime film
In 1998, Sam Gold is a mild-mannered 20-year-old Orthodox Jewish man who lives with his large family in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn. Sam works in his father Mendel's fabric store while studying to be a rabbi. He and his family hop…
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama
Tom, Willie, Johnny, and Vinny are four friends who grew up together in the Bronx. Tom aspires to be an actor and sells magazine subscriptions over the phone to pay the rent. Johnny, the youngest of the group, works in a supermarket; thoug…
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LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
Nathan Davies (Stephan Bender), a shy and quiet but intelligent 15-year-old boy, moves to St. Francisville, Louisiana, with his parents Harlan (Thomas Jay Ryan) and Vivian (Diana Scarwid), one of many unexplained moves his family has made.…
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coming-of-age film
The film opens with a lifeboat washing up onto shore of a tropical island. Inside the lifeboat is eight-year-old Robby. Robby explores the island but finds no signs of any other humans.
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Coming Of Age, Horror comedy, Zombiefilm
In 1987, in the small oceanside town of Hubris, awkward teenager Oliver Martin lives all alone in his house following the loss of his beloved mother, Dolly, a year prior. After doing some time in a psych ward to deal with his trauma, Olive…
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musical film
Jon-Jon sees a ripe opportunity for a major party when he snags the job house-sitting for his rich Uncle Charles. The mansion comes with a platinum colored Mercedes-Benz 430 and, although Uncle Charles has told him not to drive the car or …
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Coming Of Age, coming-of-age film, drama film
The film narrates the coming-of-age story of a teenager hailing from an Italian-American working-class family, specifically a household of construction workers in the Bronx. Tommy De Coco and his brother Louis, affectionately known as Chub…
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Drama, Family Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, magic realist film
After her fifteenth birthday, Rachel McKnight, a member of a fundamentalist Mormon community in Utah, listens to a cassette recorder for the first time and hears a cover of "Hanging on the Telephone" by The Nerves on a blue cassette. Her b…
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Adventure, adventure film, biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film
The film tells of real-life Robin Lee Graham, a 16-year-old boy who sets sail in a 23-foot sloop in attempt to be the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo. He had planned the trip with his sailor father Lyle Graham for years. O…
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Coming Of Age, drama film
As Fernanda enters her senior year at Tanner Hall—a sheltered boarding school in New England, she is faced with unexpected changes in her group of friends when a childhood acquaintance, the charismatic yet manipulative troublemaker Victori…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
Studious high schooler Sweetness O'Hara rides her bike with a friend down a street, when neighborhood bully Latonya, her boyfriend, and friends begins picking on her. The boyfriend threatens to take Sweetness's bike, unless she can beat hi…
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Adventure, adventure film, family film
Several odd occurrences, including a suspicious fire, happen at the farm where Alec Ramsay (Kelly Reno) and his mother (Teri Garr) stable Alec's horse, “The Black.” One night, “The Black” is taken away. Sheik Ishak (Ferdy Mayne) says he is…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Social Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
The plot of Oliver Twist is updated to the present day, and moved out of the London poor house onto the streets of Toronto. In addition, the tale is told not from Oliver's point of view, but rather that of Dodge (Nick Stahl). Oliver (Joshu…
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comedy drama, coming-of-age film
Derrick Cabrera (Paul Rodriguez) is an up-and-coming street skateboarder from Chicago with dreams of going pro. He and his fellow skateboarding friends Cash (Ryan Dunn), Reese (Terry Kennedy), and Troy (Rob Dyrdek), as well as filmographer…
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High School Comedy Film, Romance Film, comedy film, drama film, romance film