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Tomboy (2011)
23K
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself off as Mickaël.
Style:
serious, crying, sincere, touching, captivating, emotional, lgbt cinema, sexual, educational, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
childhood, gender, child protagonist, children, transsexual, friendship, youth, coming of age, society, child, sexual identity, soccer, gender bending, cross dressing, summer, female protagonist, gender disguise, new friend, caught in a lie, siblings living together, friends, tomboy, girl, lesbian teen, lgbt ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 90s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, paris france, indiana, europe
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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teens
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Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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serious, sincere, touching, lgbt cinema, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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75%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, touching, inspirational, visually stunning, aesthetic ...
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teens, date night, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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50%
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Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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france, tokyo, paris france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
talky, psychological, captivating, disturbing, sincere ...
Audience:
kids, teens
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Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
sexual abuse, gay, transsexual, lgbtq, child abuse, transvestism, male nudity, teacher, coming of age, boarding school, lgbtqi, glbt ...
Time:
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spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: UK, Netherlands
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: Germany
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
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Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Country: Netherlands
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, touching, serious, melancholic, realistic
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
holland
Similarity:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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teens
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Story:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
sexy, psychological, erotic, sexual, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, northern england, yorkshire, california
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Country: France, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, emotional, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe, california
Similarity:
100%
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Country: USA, Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sad, costume drama, period piece, stylized ...
Plot:
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Time:
19th century, 1890s, 1800s, victorian era, turn of the century ...
Place:
ireland, england, britain, dublin ireland, europe
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67%
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
new zealand, oceania, australia
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Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, inspirational, melancholic
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Mohsen teaches French at the University of Tehran, and Hassan is a photographer. Mohsen and Hassan are also lovers, and in Iran they live in fear, as homosexuality is punishable by death. Tired of denying their love, Mohsen and Hassan flee Iran to ...
Style:
emotional, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
friendship, small town, couples, friends, couple relations, hopes, love and romance, introspection, love affair, gender, gays and lesbians, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
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