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Raunchy comedy, comedy film, coming-of-age film, romance film, teen film
The Rosedale High School “pom pom girls,” Sue Ann, Sally, Roxanne, Laurie and Judy, are courted by the school's star football teammates Johnnie Chrystal and Jesse Davis, and Duane, a longtime rival of Johnnie's. Jesse and Roxanne make a co…
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, Romance Film, Romantic Drama, drama film, romantic comedy
Brett Eisenberg is an ambitious yet unconfident New York City assistant book editor living in the literary hotbed of Manhattan's Upper East Side. Struggling to become a full-fledged editor, she is shocked when she learns that her mentor an…
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comedy drama, coming-of-age film
The film focuses on three eleven year-old children in New Plymouth. Sam is mixed-Māori and European New Zealander/Pakeha girl undergoing chemotherapy at a hospital. She and her Pakeha mother Wendy have no contact with her Māori birth fathe…
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Crime, LGBTQ-related film, Melodrama, Social Study, coming-of-age film, drama film
The film revolves around various plots. The central story-line is about a murder investigation involving one of the central characters Chris (Valentine Nonyela) and his relationship with his girlfriend Tracy (Sophie Okonedo). The second na…
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
This film depicts a cohort of Astoria, Queens working-class, now-thirtysomething childhood neighborhood friends confronting their history together and their future, while behaving both like children and mature adults, and both deceiving an…
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film
Kate Brady, a young girl just out of convent school, moves from her family home in the rural Irish countryside to Dublin, where she works in a grocery shop and rooms with her friend and schoolmate, Baba Brennan. The girls go dancing at clu…
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comedy film, crime film, drama film, romance film
Set in 2004, the film revolves around three young anti-capitalist activists in Berlin's city centre: Jule (Julia Jentsch), her boyfriend Peter (Stipe Erceg) and his best friend Jan (Daniel Brühl). Jule is a waitress struggling to pay off a…
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Adventure, Western, adventure film, children's film, drama film
In 1876, two orphans, Holly and Jason Smith, travel across the Rocky Mountains to claim their inheritance at the end of the Oregon Trail. They run into Zachariah Coop, a gambler on the run from a group of angry men. Coop tries to join the …
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Marital Tragedy, drama film
In 1987 Edward (Bill Milner) is a ten-year-old boy who lives at an old people's home run by his parents (David Morrissey and Anne-Marie Duff). Surrounded by death and dying, he becomes obsessed with finding evidence for the afterlife, ofte…
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Coming Of Age
A teenage boy named Paul Harker has a skin condition that causes his skin to grow werewolf-like fur and hair all around it. He runs away from home and his father, Denny in the search for his estranged mother. After a brief stint with the e…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
Somers Town follows several days in the lives of two teenage boys, Tomo and Marek, who develop a mutual trust and form an unlikely friendship. Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives with his father, who drinks too much. The film begins with Tomo…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
12-year-olds Rudy Carges and his overweight friend Leonard Fisher spend the night inside their treehouse after teenage bullies Jeff and Kenny threaten to destroy it. Jeff and Kenny arrive and set the treehouse on fire, not knowing Rudy and…
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Drama, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
14-year-old Marcus Frederick resides in Manhattan's Lower East Side with his grandmother, Lucy. His mother Joanna has spent the last nine years of Marcus's life in prison for smuggling undocumented people into New Mexico, while his father …
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Drama, coming-of-age film
NAWI is set in the arid, isolated landscapes of Turkana, Kenya, focusing on the life of a young girl named Nawi. The film, based on true events, follows Nawi, a 13-year-old girl who is sold into marriage for livestock. Desperate to escape …
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Western, Western film
Four Boston street urchins adopt a young infant that they discovered in a wagon when they made their escape from the police. They named the baby girl Mary Rose. As they grow up together, the five eventually settle in Blue Belle, Montana.
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romantic comedy film, teen film
After 17-year-old misfit Jones Dillon drops out of college on his first day, he moves into an old apartment building where he soon becomes entangled in the lives of his kooky new neighbors, including a temperamental photographer and a self…
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black comedy, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film
Puck's introduction The story is narrated by the protagonist, Puck, who opens with a monologue describing the basic reasoning underlying his philosophy, as well as the film's general interpretation of Anarchism, as he walks through the com…
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Drama, Komödie, children's film, comedy drama
Toby Wilson (Jonathan Lipnicki) is a 12-year-old boy who lives with his parents in the small, sleepy town of Granger, Texas, but his mother runs off to Nashville to try to become a singer. One summer, Toby's life changes when he and his be…
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Romantic Comedy, coming-of-age film, musical film, romantic comedy film, teen film
College-bound Gidget (Cindy Carol) is vacationing in Rome for the summer with faithful boyfriend Jeff, aka Moondoggie (James Darren) and their friends. Chaperoning the pair is Aunt Albertina (Jessie Royce Landis). However, Gidget's father …
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
Victor is a teenager who grew up on the Lower East Side of New York City. He is a cocky young man who is very sure of himself in his love life. He lives in a small apartment with his strict grandmother, bratty sister Vicki, and his younger…
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Coming Of Age, drama film
Feeling rejected when her older brother takes his honeymoon without inviting her, Frankie runs away from her middle-class Southern home. She endures several other adolescent traumas, such as the sudden death of her young cousin John Henry.…
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coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film
Jackie is a troubled, nineteen-year-old wild child, much to the dismay of her separated parents. Her only interest lies within photography, and she hopes that she can one day move to New York to study and escape her complicated life. One n…
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drama film
Pete and Joey drive their 1960 Chevrolet Impala from their home on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia to Toronto with the hope of meeting up with their relatives in the city who might be able to help them find jobs; but their relatives hide…
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