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 6.9
 46K
May December (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
Style: captivating, entertaining, sincere, dramatic, dark comedy ...
Plot: actress, statutory rape, child sexual abuse, pedophilia, female pedophile, sexual abuse, husband wife relationship, graduation, sex, child rape, marriage, life ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s
Place: georgia
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 4.2
 472
The Giant (2019)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A teenager's small town life is changed forever when a series of murders begin on the same night that her missing boyfriend suddenly reappears.
Style: dark, ambiguous ending, weird
Plot: mansion, dark and stormy night, serial killer, woman in a bikini, teen party, giant, high school prom, town with a secret, flashback, teenage girl, suicide by hanging, little girl ...
Place: georgia
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Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story: It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family, while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The children have just grown up, and ...
Style: talky, melancholic, realistic, sentimental, family saga ...
Plot: lawyer, culture clash, family problems, human nature, society, introspection, parents and children, cancan dance, family relations, dysfunctional family, sorority, bittersweet ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: usa, missouri, kansas city, kansas, cleveland ohio ...
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Dead in 3 Days (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Nina and her high school friends receive eerie text messages declaring that they will all die within three days, they dismiss it as a hokey prank -- until one by one, the pals start turning up dead in the alpine countryside. With the cops ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, gory, survival, haunted by the past, psychopath, vengeance, best friend, danger, riddles and clues, sex, bullying ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria, europe
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 5.7
 2K
1 Night (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Thirty-something Elizabeth must decide whether to salvage her disappointing relationship with Drew. Meanwhile, Bea, a worrisome teenager, reconnects with her introverted childhood friend, Andy, at their high school prom. Past and present collide as ...
Style: romantic, touching, sincere, light, sweet ...
Plot: prom, hotel, relationship problems, childhood friend, class differences, love and romance, couples, love story, photography, love, bare chested male, teen romance ...
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 6.4
 6K
Jacknife (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived.
Style: realistic, talky, psychological, sincere, cult classic ...
Plot: vietnam war, vietnam veteran, friendship, dialogue, loneliness, depression, idealism, complex characters, siblings relations, haunted by the past, love and romance, homecoming ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: usa, vietnam, connecticut
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The Art of Getting By (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred spirit.
Style: feel good, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, youth, coming of age, teenage love, friendship, friends, teenage life, artist, art, pessimism, homework ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 5.4
 16K
Prom (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: At “Prom,” every couple has a story and no two are exactly alike. As the big dance approaches for Nova Prescott, it’s a battle of wills as she finds herself drawn to the guy who gets in the way of her perfect prom. Fellow seniors Mei and Tyler ...
Style: feel good, light, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, date night ...
Plot: prom, teenage love, high school, teenager, teen romance, couples, unlikely couple, wooing, friendship, opposites attract, teenage life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: michigan, usa
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Behind Blue Skies (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: It's 1975, and Martin is a teenager looking to break out of a stifling home environment ruled by his alcoholic father and long-suffering mother. When Martin's pal Micke suggests they get jobs together as waiters at a resort off the Swedish ...
Style: realistic, serious, clever, sentimental, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, unlikely criminals, teenage life, teenage love, satire, dishonesty, workplace, drug dealing, youth, boss and employee, cons and scams, power relations ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century, 80s
Place: eastern europe, europe, scandinavia
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 7.1
 130K
Booksmart (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two academic teenage superstars realize, on the eve of their high school graduation, that they should have worked less and played more. Determined to never fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one ...
Style: feel good, teen, cult classic, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: lesbian, coming of age, high school, teenager, lesbian teen, last day of school, teenage sex, female best friends, lesbian sex, teen party, lesbian interest, sexual humor ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new haven connecticut, los angeles
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 6.6
 51K
The Beaver (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black (Mel Gibson) begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter (Anton Yelchin) pushes for his ...
Style: touching, depressing, emotional, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot: depression, mental illness, midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, family drama, psychology, mental disorder, solitude, adaptation, happy ending, family relations, losing-it hero ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Meet Monica Velour (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: For Tobe, a nerdy, horny, frizzy-haired cineaste who doesn't quite fit in with the average contemporary teen, the pinnacle of womanhood is Monica Velour (Kim Cattrall), a soft-core actress who reached the zenith of her career in the 1980s. When ...
Style: sex comedy, sexy, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: stripper, strip club, porn actress, older woman younger man relationship, caught having sex, kinky sex, lap dance, bare breasts, seductive, single parent, seduction, youth ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: indiana, usa
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Make-Out with Violence (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A genre-bending tale of a boy trying to fulfill his unrequited love for a girl who has risen from the dead. It tells the story of twin brothers Patrick and Carol Darling, newly graduated from high school and struggling to come to terms with the ...
Style: atmospheric, sincere, mind bending, semi serious, slasher ...
Plot: afterlife, graduation, funeral, undead, dark humor, zombie, supernatural, love and romance, countryside, youth, blood, missing girl ...
Place: tennessee, nashville tennessee
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 8.2
 32K
Temple Grandin (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling.
Style: touching, inspirational, sincere, compassionate, emotional ...
Audience: kids
Plot: autism, human spirit, teacher, disability, genius, female protagonist, scientist, against the odds, biopic, inventor, asperger's syndrome, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, y2k, 60s, 70s, year 1951 ...
Place: arizona, new hampshire, boston, texas, usa ...
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Van Wilder: Freshman Year (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: It is freshman year at Coolidge College and Van Wilder is ready to party. To his dismay, all the girls have taken a vow of chastity and the dean rules the school. Van embarks on a crusade to land the campus hottie, Kaitlin, and liberate his school ...
Style: sex comedy, sexual, humorous, not serious, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, bare chested male, male masturbation, looking for sex, dream girl, cheerleader, teenager, high school, youth, teenage love, couples, buddies ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.0
 2K
La Mission (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Growing up in the Mission district of San Francisco, Che Rivera has always had to be tough to survive. He's a powerful man respected throughout the Mission barrio for his masculinity and his strength, as well as for his hobby building beautiful ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: gay teenager, gay, gays and lesbians, self discovery, parents and children, family relations, family problems, redemption, social differences, gay son, estrangement, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco
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 6.5
 924
Aching Hearts (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Set in the early 1960s, the story evolves around highschool sweethearts Jonas and Agnete, their friendships and families, trials and tribulations. Jonas fails to give Agnete the kind of attention she craves, and when she decides to start a new ...
Style: captivating, romantic
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, first love, grownups, teenager, graduation, loss of virginity, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, friendship, teenage love, love and romance, teenage life ...
Time: 60s
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 6.9
 31K
The Wackness (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, ...
Style: realistic, touching, independent film, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: marijuana, coming of age, hip hop, misfit, dysfunctional family, first love, depression, high school, friendship, weed, drug, stoner ...
Time: year 2008, 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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A Separate Peace (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Four friends with one dark secret they could never outrun.
Style: psychological, emotional, sincere, serious, realistic
Plot: friendship, betrayal, boarding school, lifestyle, teenage love, youth, rebellion, teenage life, coming of age, secret, gay, world war two ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943
Place: boston, new england
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Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Leanne is salutatorian when she needs to be valedictorian to get her scholarship to Harvard. The only class she is worse than the leader in is history, taught by Mrs. Tingle, and the teacher hates her. When an attempt to get ahead in Mrs. ...
Style: suspenseful, black comedy, suspense, entertaining, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, school, teachers and students, high school, teacher, malice, youth, teenage life, female psychopath, false accusation, fight, blackmail ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
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Outside Providence (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In this coming-of-age comedy, Tim Dunphy is leading a go-nowhere existence, spending his days smoking pot and hanging out with his best friend, Drugs Delaney. But Tim's lazy days of getting high are jettisoned after a brush with the law ...
Style: feel good, humorous, intense, sweet, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, high school life, father son relationship, family relations, prank, honest, high school, parents and children, american football, teenage life, student ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1999, y2k, 90s
Place: usa, rhode island, connecticut, arizona, new england ...
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The Accident: A Moment of Truth Movie (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Lizzie and Janie are best friends, bonded like sisters, who share many things in common: crushes, gossip, and a taste for liquor. Although they manage to sneak alcohol at home and in water bottles at school, they never get caught. One night, while ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: wife, love, recovery, substance abuse, car, alcoholism, emergency room, memorial service, intoxication, best friend, beach party, cemetery ...
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The chronic innocence (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story: For Janus his friend Tore is his big ideal: pretty, intelligent and self-confident. Janus is grateful for his friendship even though he is considered the court jester. When Tore falls in love with the beautiful and sweet girl Helle, Janus accepts ...
Plot: scandinavian girl, teenage sexuality, high school prom, teenage love, school teacher, graduation, high school student, schoolgirl, teenage boy, teenage girl, jealousy, teenager ...
Place: denmark, scandinavia
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Making the Grade (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lazy preppie Palmer Woodrow hires street-smart Eddie Keaton to go to school for him while he lives it up in Europe. Eddie falls in love with preppie gal Tracey, upsetting Biff, the Hoover Academy bully. When his bookie from the old neighborhood, ...
Style: funny, semi serious, feel good, humorous, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: comedy of errors, friendship, justice, college life, teenage life, hidden identity, teenage love, social differences, school, teenager, pretending to be someone else, jealousy ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, europe, usa, new england
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Graduation Day (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After a high school track runner, named Laura, suddenly dies from a heart attack after finishing a 30-second 200-meter race, a killer wearing a sweat suit and a fencing mask begins killing off her friends on the school track team one by one. The ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, slasher horror, retro, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, serial killer, track and field, murder, female nudity, holiday horror, masked killer, teenager, fear, camp, dead teenager, pandemic ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
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 6.7
 88K
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it ...
Style: romantic, teen, sexy, romantic comedy, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family friendly, chick flick, date night ...
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, teenage girl, teen romance, bullying, class differences, father daughter relationship, relationships, love story, high school life, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, massachusetts
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 7.9
 100K
Sing Street (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
Style: sweet, touching, realistic, teen, feel good ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, teen drama
Plot: youth, music band, musician's life, friendship, rock and roll, coming of age, bullying, dream girl, singing, adolescence, teenager, school ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 2010s, future, 20th century ...
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, nebraska, london, england
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 3.4
 51K
Vampires Suck (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Becca, an anxious, non-vampire teen is torn between two boys. Before she can choose, Becca must get around her controlling father, who embarrasses Becca by treating her like a child. Meanwhile, Becca's friends contend with their own romantic ...
Style: parody, spoof, humorous, funny, slapstick ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick
Plot: vampire, werewolf, prom, vampire human love, vampire slayer, supernatural, imaginary, youth, satire, true love, teenage life, high school ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: brazil
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Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On a prom-night dare, a trio of high school friends chant an incantation, unleashing an evil spirit from the past with deadly consequences.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban legend, afterlife, spirit, ghost, supernatural, murder, danger, haunted by the past, profanity, legends and myths, supernatural ability, vengeance ...
Time: 2000s, year 1969, 60s, 21st century
Place: utah, salt lake city utah
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 6.8
 18K
Storytelling (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.
Style: black comedy, bleak, dark comedy, controversial, disturbing ...
Plot: high school, dark humor, high school football, strong sexual content, celebrity, maid, writers, filmmaking, family problems, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, homosexual ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, colombia, israel
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