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American football film, Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
In September 1955, working-class 17-year-old David Greene receives a scholarship to exclusive prep school St. Matthew's Academy because of his grades and football prowess. Before arriving at school, David gets into a fight with a motorcycl…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, drama film, teen film
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Rusty James is the younger brother of "The Motorcycle Boy", a legendary figure amongst the gangs in the area who brokered peace between them. The Motorcycle Boy has been missing for two months, leaving the gangs to star…
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Action, Drama, Sport, action film, boxing film, drama film, teen film
Tommy Riley and his father John have just moved to start a new life. John has accumulated many gambling debts, but has found a new job that requires him to travel extensively, leaving Tommy alone at home. Tommy also has a hard time fitting…
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Komödie, Romance Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, teen film
The film is set against the strict social hierarchy of an American public high school in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles. Blue-collar mechanic and aspiring artist Keith Nelson is best friends with tomboy drummer Watts. Keith's father, Cl…
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Coming Of Age, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, female buddy film, teen film
In 1995, four women who were once childhood friends reunite in their hometown of Shelby, Indiana. They include science-fiction author Samantha Albertson, Hollywood actress Tina "Teeny" Tercell, gynecologist Dr. Roberta Martin, and homemake…
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Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, teen film
On the first day of summer, slacker high school student Dexter Reed takes his mother's car on a joyride while she is away on a business trip but is indirectly involved in a car crash with his school teacher, Mr. Wheat. With no driver's lic…
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Daffy Comedy, female buddy film, romantic comedy, teen film
Shelley Darlingson is a Playboy Bunny and aspiring Playboy Playmate who grew up in an orphanage but now lives a life of luxury in the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner. The day after her 27th birthday, she awakes to find a note, seemingly f…
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LGBTQ-related film, Monster Film, Teen Horror Film, crime film, crime thriller film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, slasher film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, teen film, thriller film
Five years after Freddy Krueger's apparent defeat, the Walsh family has moved into Nancy Thompson's former home. Their teenage son, Jesse, has a nightmare about Freddy. Jesse and his friend Lisa Webber discover Nancy's diary in his room, d…
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Teen Comedy Film, buddy film, romantic comedy film
College student T.S. Quint is preparing for a trip to Universal Studios Florida in Orlando with Brandi Svenning, during which he plans to propose to her; however, Brandi tells him she cannot go due to having volunteered to fill in as a con…
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Super Hero, action film, children's film, fantasy film, science fiction film, teen film
Kara Zor-El, cousin of Kal-El, and Jor-El's niece, lives in Argo City, an isolated community that survived the planet Krypton's destruction by being transported into a pocket of trans-dimensional space, called the "Innerspace". Zaltar, a w…
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Fantasy, High School Comedy Film, comedy film, fantasy film, romantic comedy, teen film
Scott Howard, a 17-year-old high school student, lives in a small town in Nebraska. His only claim to popularity is playing for the Beavers, his school's unsuccessful basketball team. Scott fawns after Pamela Wells even though she is datin…
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Action, Coming Of Age, Sport, action film, coming-of-age film, drama film, martial arts film, romance film, teen film
Shortly after his dojo's loss to Daniel LaRusso in the 1984 All-Valley Karate Tournament, a furious John Kreese attacks his student, Johnny Lawrence, in the parking lot over the loss after he stood up to him while the other pupils defend L…
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Komödie, Musical, Romantic Comedy, musical film, romantic comedy, teen film
Lizzie McGuire prepares for her junior-high graduation with one of her two closest friends, David "Gordo" Gordon. Their other best friend, Miranda Sanchez, has chosen to skip the graduation ceremony in favor of a trip to Mexico City to vis…
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Teen Horror Film, horror film, slasher film
In 1994, Heather, a bookstore employee at the Shadyside Mall, is fatally stabbed by her friend, Ryan Torres. He murders her and six other mall employees before he is shot dead by Sheriff Nick Goode. The media reports the massacre as the no…
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Dance Film, crime film, drama film, musical film, romance film
Brothers Mac and Skinny Carter and their best friend Tyler Gage attend a party where they have a fight with their nemesis, PJ. He is involved in car thefts around the city, and Tyler, Mac, and Skinny have also gotten involved in the crimes…
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Action, Horror, Thriller, action film, fantasy film, horror film, teen film, thriller film
In Ipswich, Massachusetts, 4 high school boys – Caleb Danvers, Pogue Parry, Reid Garwin and Tyler Simms, collectively known as the "Sons of Ipswich" – possess magical abilities as the descendants of the four remaining colonial witch famili…
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Thriller, drama film, supernatural film, teen film
Fifteen years after leaving Beacon Hills, Scott now runs an animal shelter in Los Angeles, adjoined to Deaton's new clinic, and is single. Lydia works at an energy company in San Francisco and has broken up with Stiles after receiving a re…
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Family Drama, Romantic Comedy, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, teen film
Seventeen-year-old Daphne Reynolds lives with her wedding singer mother Libby above a restaurant in Chinatown, Manhattan. Many years earlier, Libby had met Briton Henry Dashwood in Morocco, and they had gotten married in a Bedouin wedding …
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Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
It has been twenty years since Michael Myers escaped from Smith's Grove and returned to his hometown of Haddonfield to kill his long-lost sister, Laurie Strode. After an explosion at Haddonfield Memorial Hospital caused by Dr. Sam Loomis, …
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Teen Comedy Film, comedy film, romantic comedy film
Avery Hansen-White holds herself back from doing things she's not excellent at. So when her long-distance boyfriend seems to want to take their relationship to the next level at the upcoming STEM conference ("nerd prom"), she resolves to m…
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Christmas film, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, romance film
Clay Easton is a strait-laced college freshman on the East Coast of the United States, who returns home to Los Angeles for Christmas to find things very different from the way he left them. His high school girlfriend and now model, Blair, …
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Teen Comedy Film, comedy film
Jason Shepherd is a 14-year-old compulsive liar living in the town of Greenbury, Michigan, who tries to lie his way out of failing to write a creative writing assignment. He gets caught by his English teacher, Ms. Caldwell, and is given th…
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Romance Film, Sport, coming-of-age film, drama film
Louden Swain is a wrestler at Thompson High School who has just turned 18 years old. He has decided that he needs to do something truly meaningful in his life. He embarks on a mission or, in a Native American term, a vision quest.
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Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, female buddy film, romantic comedy film, teen film
As children growing up in a small Georgia town, Lucy, Kit, and Mimi bury a "wish box" and vow to dig it up on the night of their high school graduation. However, as the trio grows up, their friendship fades: Lucy becomes the introverted va…
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