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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 1,388 films · Page 51.
action film, coming-of-age film, teen film
Tyson (Ashley Chin), Mannie (Jason Maza), and Jason (Michael Maris) grew up together in a working-class area of London's East End. With few opportunities available to them, the three turned to crime, committing armed robberies to support t…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, Family Drama, Fantasy
Guy Maddin (played by Erik Steffen Maahs as an adult, and Sullivan Brown as a child), returns to Black Notch, a deserted island on which stands a lighthouse that was his family home, an orphanage run by his parents, to slap a fresh coat of…
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coming-of-age film, drama film
Penny and Mary are sisters living together in a tenement apartment in a seedy section of an unnamed city. The responsibility of caring for fifteen-year-old Mary has fallen on Penny due to the death of their parents years before. Mary has c…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, Tragic Comedy Film
Eight-year-old Ardal Travis has a crush on his second grade class teacher, Ms. Purdy, and demonstrates his love by giving her a toy ring. Subsequently, while out shopping with his mother, Ardal sees Ms.
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LGBTQ-related film, coming-of-age film, drama film
On Myrtle Beach, Frankie works at her family's burger stand run by her older brother Neil. During her off hours, she hangs out with her best friend Nicola, who runs a nearby piercing stand. The dynamic between the girls shifts when her bro…
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Biographical picture, Drama
Simon Jackson is an awkward high school teenager who befriends a white bear that saves his life. He learns that the bear is endangered by the destruction of its habitat from logging and grows out of his shell to launch a campaign to the go…
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LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, coming-of-age film
Mangus Spedgewick is a typical high schooler living with his war veteran father, Mangus Sr., and neglectful stepmother, Raquel (Deborah Theaker), in a little town called River City, in Texas. It is a family tradition for the young male Spe…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film
Life for shy 21-year-old Tim Maitland is not always smooth sailing. His mum Jean is a cafeteria worker by day who hits the comedy club circuit by night, while his dad John is busy trying to recapture his fifteen minutes of fame from when h…
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coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
Virginia Radcliff is enrolled at the exclusive Crockett Hall finishing school by her mother, with the acquiescence of her wealthy businessman father. Miss Van Alstyne, the head of the school, informs her new student of Crockett Hall's stri…
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fantasy film, teen film
The film follows the story of socially inept adolescent Brendan Willy (Josh Zuckerman) who lives in Indiana. When he desires the affections of Twyla Day (Caroline Elliott), Mr. Five, (Robert Townsend) a tempter from Hell, approaches Brenda…
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Coming Of Age, Social Drama, drama film
A Boy Called Dad tells the story of Robbie, a fourteen-year-old boy who has just become a father. Robbie wishes to take responsibility for his baby son, Elliot, but the mother wants nothing more to do with him. A near-accident reunites Rob…
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film
Christchurch 1979. A minor bicycle accident brings schoolboys, Angus and Jamie face-to-face with a daring young woman, Holly. Outside Middle Earth Records, too intimidated to enter the shop, the two boys are ridiculed by Malcolm, the lead …
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comedy drama, coming-of-age film
The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing family tries to navigate his coming-of-age with his family's condescension and bigotry using his sarcastic Jewish humor. …
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romantic comedy
James Ellis (Kipp Marcus) meets and falls in love with Sarah (Alice Dylan) during time off for snow days while in high school. James, however, has commitment issues, and Sarah eventually winds up engaged to Peter (Peter Giles). His grandmo…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
John Saunders, a supply teacher with progressive anti-corporal punishment views, arrives to take up a post at Worrell Street School in a socially deprived area of East London. He is assigned a class of pupils in their last year before leav…
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romantic comedy
Andy Hardy is upset that his girlfriend, Polly Benedict, has fallen for Lieutenant Charles Copley. Soon, however, Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher, Rose Meredith. After Andy's play is chosen for the school's annual production, he…
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comedy drama
A.J. "Stoney" Stoneman, a grizzled sheep rancher from Medora, North Dakota, is tricked by Sheriff Hank Dawson into taking a trip to see his daughter Kate Harper in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While there, Stoney ends up bonding with his 16-yea…
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comedy drama, coming-of-age film, teen film
18-year-old Ben, fresh out of high school in Maryland, is heading to Senior Week to hang out with friends, party, and chase the hottest girl in high school, Annie. While waiting outside a liquor store in Columbia for his older brother Josh…
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Drama, slice of life
This movie is about a blonde, blue-eyed, "All-American" 18-year-old girl named Jesse Brenner and her experiences as a college freshman. While she moves away to college for her first year, Jesse struggles with drinking and often finds herse…
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A tough, macho, truck driver decides to make his soft son more manly by taking him hunting. They vacation and go to a honky tonk bar where the younger man falls in love with a burned out waitress.
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Drama, coming-of-age film
A coming of age tale told through the eyes of Tu, a young Maori man from South Auckland who dreams of being a professional hip-hop dancer. His father, a military man, dislikes his lack of direction and threatens him with army enlistment in…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy television program, drama film
In Inniston, Marc Hall is popular and his sexuality relatively well-accepted by his classmates and later his parents. But when he decides to take his boyfriend to the prom as his date, he finds he has stepped over the line straight into th…
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comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
A bullied teen chef wants to save his grandmother's business by entering a TV cooking contest to win the prize money, only to find his worst bully, Matt Prylek, suddenly pushing to become his new friend—and contest teammate. Meanwhile, Mat…
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coming-of-age film, drama film, erotic film
Annie, the mistress of a middle-aged financier, accompanies him on a trip to Hong Kong. When his business interests collapse Annie ends up destitute. She is befriended by a group of socialites and begins her rite of passage in their world.
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