Coming-of-Age Drama movies

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Tense Raw Claustrophobic Brutal Fast-paced

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In 1991, a sheltered teenager comes of age during a wild summer on Cape Cod, getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying, and eventually realizing that he's in way over his head.

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Loyalty and betrayal, Coming of age under pressure, Illicit economy and risk, Masculinity under pressure, Youth crime consequences, Romantic distractions and danger

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Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Brutal Deliberate

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Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex attraction.” Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance.

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Religious coercion, Emotional abuse, Lgbt stigma in institutions, Coming of age under oppression, Found family against intolerance

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Realistic Bleak Restrained Relentless Measured

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Fresh out of university, a Turkish young man with literary aspirations returns to his home village and starts scraping together money to publish his book. While trying to reconnect with his old friends and environment; his uncertainty, existential struggle and his father’s gambling addiction bring him difficulties.

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Failed literary ambition, Economic precarity in rural settings, Tradition versus modernity, Gambling addiction and debt, Family obligation and isolation, Religion and modern world, Generational disconnect

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Realistic Tense Sun-drenched Measured Oppressive

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Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.

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Class inequality, Deception and manipulation, Economic exploitation, Rural feudalism, Displacement and resilience, Debt bondage

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Intense Reflective Melancholic Bittersweet Nostalgic

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Dueling high school debate champs who are at odds on just about everything forge ahead with ambitious plans to get into the colleges of their dreams.

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Playful Bright Realistic Tense Witty

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Alex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A magical house party throws Alex into the presence of Elliot, a hunky college guy, who pegs Alex as gay and flirts hard. Alex is taken aback but after a series of setbacks on the girlfriend front he takes the plunge and learns some interesting new facts about himself.

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Identity negotiation under social pressure, High school sexuality, Peer influence on desire, Family health anxiety, Coming-of-age choice, Friendship under competition

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Realistic Tense Bleak Measured Gritty

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Charley Thompson, a teenager living with his single father, gets a summer job working for horse trainer Del Montgomery. Bonding with an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete, Charley is horrified to learn he is bound for slaughter, and so he steals the horse, and the duo embark on an odyssey across the new American frontier.

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Economic precarity, Family instability, Loyalty under pressure, Attachment to companion, Fugitive road journey

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Realistic Tense Deliberate Intense Measured

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Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of the United States.

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Economic hardship, Masculinity under pressure, Family obligation vs independence, Disability and agency, Work and identity, Caregiver strain

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Realistic Intimate Restrained Hopeful Reflective

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Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.

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Coming of age under pressure, Romance under constraint, Risk and exposure, Isolation due to illness, Protective family dynamics, Hope amid vulnerability

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Realistic Tense Atmospheric Dry Eerie

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Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.

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Deception and betrayal, Romance under strain, Fame under pressure, Creative ambition and consequence, Family abuse cycle, Obsessive fandom

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