Coming-of-Age Drama movies

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Intense Gritty Melancholic Romantic Inspiring

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After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he is courted by the top two campus fraternities, both of which want and need his fierce street-style dance moves to win the highly coveted national step show competition.

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Realistic Raw Claustrophobic Brutal Witty

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A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends, even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.

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Alienation and belonging, Class tensions, Family fragility, Racism and nationalism, Gang belonging, Peer influence

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Realistic Claustrophobic Restrained Clinical Fast-paced

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Kale has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing the net, eating junk food and watching cable. He has complete free reign of the house, and a beautiful young hottie named Ashley has just moved in next door. There’s only one problem—he’s not allowed to leave the house. Kale’s under court-ordered house arrest for three months, and if he takes one step beyond a 100-foot perimeter of the house, his next confinement will be in a real prison.

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Deception and misdirection, Paranoia under house arrest, Confinement and surveillance, Parental control and autonomy, Jealousy and social tension, Suburban danger and violence

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Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Dry Relentless

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An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts a war between him and the informal leader of the class.

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Bullying culture, Family pressure and masculinity, Toxic masculinity, Classroom violence, Homophobia and peer pressure, Group conformity and retaliation

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Immersive Realistic Tense Intimate Raw

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A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

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Educational equity at high school, Gang violence dynamics, Diary entries shape identity, High school pressure, Racial segregation pressures, Cross-cultural empathy in class

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Realistic Tense Intimate Claustrophobic Dry

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The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

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Academic pressure, Grammar school dynamics, Lgbt themes in adolescence, Teachers and students dynamics, Class ambition and merit, Headmaster authority, History teacher mentorship

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Immersive Realistic Tense Steady Bleak

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A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's 'A' School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.

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Discipline under pressure, Survivor guilt shaping duty, Loyalty and duty tension, Mentorship through hardship, Leadership forged in crisis, Memory of loss guiding action

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Tense Intimate Claustrophobic Bleak Dry

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Phillip and Erik have been best friends since childhood. Both young men share a passion for the works of reclusive novelist Sten Egil Dahl, and both harbor literary ambitions. However, fate deals differently with the friends as each strives to make his dream come true.

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Public image vs private life, Artistic ambition vs mental health, Creative doubt and persistence, Romance and dependency, Friendship tested by success, Obsession and relational decay

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Realistic Tense Intimate Bleak Deliberate

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A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.

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Family fracture, Deception within family, Loss and fragile coping, Search for missing loved ones, Tentative romance, Protective deception

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Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Bleak Dry

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Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a startling discovery of his secret life, causing a tenuous bond between the two that could either end disastrously or provide a catalyst of hope.

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Drug habit, Class pressure, Freebasing behavior, Prison proximity, Basketball presence, Boundary erosion

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