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Drama, drama film
It is a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philadelphia, where 12-year-old Gennaro lives with his widowed mother and ailing grandfather. His grandfather sits outside holding on tight to his last quarter. He has promised the quarter to Gennaro…
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coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
András Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.s during World War II. Disappointed by the girls his age, he meets Maya, a married woman in her 30s, who tutors him in love and rom…
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, drama film
Fifteen-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is first seen naked in a tattered shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her little brother Sonny, who thinks he's a dog. The film shares its story in choppy, disjointed fragments, telling the st…
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biographical film, coming-of-age film, drama film
In August 1953, the 13-year-old Tom Allen attends a Catholic juniorate in Melbourne, Australia. Students and Brothers face individual challenges of faith and self-restraint.
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comedy drama
In the small West Texas hamlet of Dancer, four friends (Keller, Terrell, John, and Squirrel) have just graduated high school and are weighing the decision to leave for Los Angeles. The young men made a pact to leave long ago, but their fam…
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Road Movie, comedy drama
Carlton Garrett is the adult son of baseball legend Kyle Garrett and a minor-league baseball player with the Corpus Christi, Texas Hooks. One night, after another game in which he continues to slump at the plate, Carlton gets a phone call …
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Drama, drama film, musical film
Small-town preacher's kid Angie King leaves the church and her Augusta, GA home to pursue a dream of singing stardom. Luckett plays Angie, the daughter of a stern but loving bishop, whose attraction to the hunky star (Tank) of a traveling …
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coming-of-age film, teen film
Ben Mercado is a talented high school senior who enrolls in a prestigious arts institute in order to realize his dreams of becoming an artist. However, his plans come into conflict with those of his strict immigrant father Roland, a postal…
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Coming Of Age, drama film, teen film
Meg is a high school senior living in the Dayton, Ohio area. She uses writing as an outlet for her troubled home life, having been abandoned by her father and now neglected by her mother Diane, whose busy work schedule leaves Meg as the ba…
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coming-of-age film, drama film
The Genesis Children is a non-narrative film with a theme of "the unity of mankind". The story is about eight American students of an international school in Rome who follow a want ad placed by a mysterious man: "Wanted: boys to act in a p…
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Family Drama, Marital Tragedy, comedy film, drama film, teen film
Set in 1979 Syosset, Long Island, New York, Lymelife follows two families, the Bartletts and the Braggs, who crumble when tangled relationships, real-estate problems, and Lyme disease converge in the heart of suburbia. 15-year-old Scott Ba…
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LGBTQ-related film, coming-of-age fiction, drama film
A boy from San Diego spends the summer with his Navajo grandmother on the reservation in Arizona, where he meets and connects with his cousin.
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Romance Film, coming-of-age film, erotic film
A sixteen-year-old boy discovers his father's suicide. Distraught, he goes searching for ways to numb the pain. He then meets a mysterious woman who turns out to be a dominatrix and finds solace in her arms.
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Coming Of Age, drama film
Rocks is a teenage girl who lives in London with her younger brother, Emmanuel, and their single mother. She has a tight-knit group of friends. A troublesome new girl, Roché, arrives at Rocks’ school and takes a liking to her, much to the …
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drama film, war film
A teenage Dutch boy, named Michiel van Beusekom, tries to assist the Dutch resistance during World War II by helping a British airman stay out of German hands during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. left|thumb|The area around the Ma…
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Drama, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Upon arriving in Concord, New Hampshire in January 1986 to cover the hometown hooplah for the looming Space Shuttle Challenger launch, with local teacher Christa McAuliffe on the mission's crew, reporter Campbell Babbitt decides to call an…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film
Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the following year unfolds, each member of his family struggles to recover from the tragedy wi…
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comedy film, coming-of-age film
Friends Albert (Luis Manzano), Isaac (Billy Crawford), Mozart "Mo" (DJ Durano), Michaelangelo "Mike" (Martin Escudero) and Aristotle "Aris" (Marvin Agustin) were used to living normal lives until careerwoman Beckie Pamintuan (John Lapus) a…
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Drama, Fantasy, coming-of-age film, drama film, fantasy film
Secondary school student Michael Cooper moves to a decrepit house with his parents. Soon after, his baby sister is born. The newborn baby is found to be suffering from a heart condition and is sent to the hospital.
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coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
College student David is having sex with a woman named Shelly until his girlfriend then pounds on his dorm room, demanding to know who is in there with him. Wearing only a towel, Shelly goes into the room next door, which belongs to David'…
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Coming Of Age, children's film, drama film
Two children, Howie (Chandler Canterbury) and Grace (Annalise Basso), are stripped naked and left stranded together on an island as victims of a vicious summer camp prank. Rather than returning to camp to face the humiliation, they decide …
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Coming Of Age
In the late 1960s, British teenager Dave Roberts (Brenock O'Connor) is living in his parents' house in Sevenoaks. He wishes to follow a major football team, but because of his father's strong disapproval, he is forced into secretly followi…
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Horror, Thriller, horror film, vampire film
A suburban family harbors a dark secret: When their parents are killed in a tragic accident, eldest Hamilton sibling David (Samuel Child) relocates the surviving family members to a quiet California suburb and assumes the responsibility of…
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Coming Of Age, Marital Tragedy, comedy drama
A young woman named Elaine (Frances O'Connor) and her husband, David Walker (Simon Baker) meet a lonely fifteen-year-old, Chet Becker (Gregory Smith), in an ice-cream shop. Over time, the couple becomes friendly with Chet, who develops a c…
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