Coming-of-Age Drama movies

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Tense Brutal Atmospheric Dry Stylish

Overview

Years after walking away from her past as a teenage private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown - just in time for her high school reunion - in order to help her old flame Logan Echolls, who's embroiled in a murder mystery.

Themes

Deception and manipulation, Accountability under scrutiny, Class bias in policing, Corruption and cover-ups, Blackmail and surveillance, High school reunion pressures

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Bright Tense Dry Witty Intense

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The bitter fight for supremacy between the three most popular girls at North Gateway High takes an unexpected turn when their classmate, Tanner, is outed and becomes the school’s first openly gay student. The trio races to bag the big trend in fashion accessories, the Gay Best Friend, while Tanner must decide whether his skyrocketing popularity is more important than the friendships he is leaving behind.

Themes

Identity and belonging, Peer pressure and conformity, Outness and acceptance, Norms and prejudice, Clique dynamics and rivalry, Appearance and popularity

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Realistic Intimate Restrained Deliberate Measured

Overview

Two teen track stars discover first love as they train for the biggest relay race of their young lives.

Themes

Friendship under pressure, Coming of age pressures, Family obligations vs career, First love in adolescence, Lgbt themes and desire, Tenderness and sensitivity

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Immersive Dry Fast-paced Vast Cinematic

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A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

Themes

Vicarious living through daydreams, Print vs digital transition, Pursuit of meaning through travel, Job security anxiety

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Tense Intimate Stylish Minimalist Measured

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Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthrals all who encounter her. But, ultimately, she must confront her fate.

Themes

Class inequality, Social climbing, Appearance vs reality, Freedom vs obligation, Emotional displacement, Wealth shaping identity

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Realistic Tense Raw Bleak Intense

Overview

A hyperactive boy and his best friend, a slow-witted youth with an affinity for horses, start collecting scrap metal for a shady dealer.

Themes

Economic precarity, Friendship under pressure, Adhd and impulse, Illicit scrap economy, Horse affinity and loyalty, Short story origins

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Realistic Tense Intimate Bleak Restrained

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After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.

Themes

Trust under strain, Foster care strain, Abusive mother control, Family ties tension, Pregnancy under pressure, Shelter as refuge

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Realistic Tense Steady Raw Sun-drenched

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A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.

Themes

Pursuit of recognition, Deception under pressure, Family expectations, Journey and self discovery, Independence versus guardianship, Invention and curiosity

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Tense Steady Claustrophobic Brutal Bleak

Overview

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.

Themes

Power and retaliation, Otherness and difference, Crowd cruelty and humiliation, Oppressive religious control, Social isolation and bullying, Teenage rebellion under pressure

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Tense Intimate Raw Claustrophobic Brutal

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A young girl in 1990s Iceland is caught between the life that took her brother and her own inability to strike out on her own. In her grief, she finds solace in metal and dreams of making her own music.

Themes

Grief and creative drive, Family memory and resilience, Subculture stigma, Outsider identity in a small town, Obsession with music, Belonging and rejection

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