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Drama, Komödie, comedy drama
Jadzia is the matriarch of a family of five children, four sons and a daughter. The household also includes eldest son Ziggy's Syrian-American wife Sofie, who works with Jadzia as a cleaner, and Ziggy and Sofie's baby. Jadzia is somewhat-h…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
The titular quartet are Yugoslavian-born Danilo Prozor, who arrived in America at the age of twelve and ever since has been trying to distinguish between the reality of his adopted homeland and the idealistic vision of it he brought with h…
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Coming Of Age, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
17-year-old Brooklyn high schooler Jackie Kimball lives with her widowed mother, her 18-year-old brother Matthew, and her older sister Jeanne, while her oldest brother is abroad on a student exchange program. Jackie and Matthew have always…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film
Shirley Moochmoore is a sweet misfit and mother of five daughters who are all convinced they suffer from various mental illnesses. Living in the Australian coastal suburb of Dolphin Heads and married to the often absent local politician Ba…
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biographical film, coming-of-age film, teen film
The movie begins with Ernest Green explaining how every morning on his ride to Horace Mann, the school for African-Americans, he would pass Little Rock Central High School, which would soon open its doors to nine African-American students.…
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Drama, drama film, teen film
Vanessa Snyder (Alexa Vega) is a beautiful and intelligent eighth-grader who is best friends with queen bee Stacey Larson (Leah Pipes) and Nikki Rodriguez (Elizabeth Rice), who is secretly jealous of the bond between the two. Outside of th…
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comedy film, coming-of-age film, teen film
Harold Clemens is a 16-year-old boy with early male pattern baldness. He copes all right in his hometown of Douglas, until his mom, Maureen, announces that the family is moving to a new house in Fredericksburg due to a promotion at her job…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
Joss Grey, a 16-year-old English girl, finds herself responsible for the care of her three younger siblings on a summer holiday in France when their mother is suddenly taken ill and rushed to the hospital. When they go to the Hotel Oeillet…
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Komödie, comedy film, coming-of-age film, teen film
Greg is nearing the end of his high school days as graduation slowly approaches. He is also anxiously awaiting prom and has the hopes of going with Cinny, the school's local beauty. As he tries to ask his parents for help paying for prom, …
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Coming Of Age, Thriller, crime film, drama film
The wife of prospective politician David Stratton is away in San Francisco, visiting relatives there. David comes home one night but not to an empty house—a young woman, Jody, is asleep in his daughter's bed. Jody has just escaped from a j…
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drama film, family film
The movie begins with Marty Preston (Jason Dolley) explaining the events of Shiloh and Shiloh 2: Shiloh Season. Then Judd Travers (Scott Wilson) shows up at the Preston home with dead squirrels as a present for Marty and his family for hel…
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children's film, fantasy film
In 1946, 38-year-old Lady Mary Craven visits an American orphanage, telling the children about an exchange program that will allow one child to travel to England and stay at Misselthwaite Manor, now an orphanage. She meets young Lizzie Bus…
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LGBTQ-related film, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Russell is 16 years-old and is going on dates with girls. But he's recently started falling for football quarterback Kevin. When Min stumbles across Russell and Kevin kissing for the first time during a school trip, she decides to invite R…
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Coming Out, LGBTQ-related film, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
This film focuses on Claude (Alison Folland), a tomboy teenage girl who lives with her divorced mother in Hell's Kitchen, New York City, and is the story of her sexual discovery and budding lesbianism during summer vacation. Claude's best …
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Komödie, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy, teen film
High school student Starla Grady is the popular head cheerleader and pageant queen of the small town of Splendora, Texas, who aspires to be a news anchorwoman. She hosts a French exchange student, an orphan named Genevieve Le Plouff. The s…
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Drama, Komödie, buddy film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film
There are three Libner brothers: Marvin, the oldest, is a sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. Buddy, the middle child, is a timid dreamer.
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coming-of-age film, drama film
On the evening of September 30, 1955 in Conway, Arkansas, college student Jimmy J. watches the film East of Eden alone in a theater. The next day at football practice, he hears that the film's star, James Dean, was killed in a road acciden…
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Erotic Film, Sex Film, comedy drama, drama film
17-year-old Justine (Laura Fraser) bemoans being a virgin so, after being stood-up on a date, goes to a virtual reality exhibition with her geeky friend Chas (Luke DeLacey). There she encounters a virtual makeover machine which she uses to…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film
The film stars Jesse Bradford as Johnny, a young man with dreams of becoming a stock car racer. After he loses all of his money and possessions in Las Vegas, he drifts into the world of hustling, in the hope of making enough money to trave…
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comedy drama, coming-of-age film
Winter 1986, a small Canadian town called Hobart which is still suffering the effects of financial recession. Tim, a student with pretensions of sophistication, enters a student exchange program in hopes the French student will share his l…
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Adventure, adventure film, coming-of-age film, drama film, pirate film, swashbuckler film
A hurricane hits Jamaica in the mid-19th century. Frederick and Alice Thornton feel it is time to send their five children — Emily, Rachel, John, Edward, and Laura — to England for a more civilised upbringing and education. During the voya…
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comedy drama, coming-of-age film
The movie chronicles New Orleans through the eyes of Master P growing up in the notorious Calliope Projects. His brother Kevin Miller is played by Anthony Boswell. Master P wrote, directed, and acted in the film.
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Coming Of Age, Social Drama, drama film
Chop Shop tells the story of Alejandro "Ale" (Alejandro Polanco), a 12-year-old Latino street orphan from Queens, New York. The film opens with Ale waiting by a roadside with several other men for work. A man in pickup truck arrives lookin…
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coming-of-age film, drama film
Set in Shelbyville, Tennessee, in 1978, the film centers on high school student Clancy Whitfield, whose family is facing financial ruin due to his father Billy's inability to hold a job because of his drinking. His mother Joan desperately …
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