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In a small coastal town of fishermen in Uruguay, the biologist Kraken works and lives in a house at the sea side with his wife Suli and their aggressive fifteen year-old daughter Alex. When Suli welcomes her former best friend Erika that comes with her husband, the surgeon Ramiro and their teenage s …on Alvaro to spend a couple of days with her family, Kraken learns that his wife invited Ramiro to operate Alex. Meanwhile Alex and Alvaro feel attracted by each other; however, Alvaro finds that Alex is hermaphrodite and she finds that Alvaro is gay. But the troubled and outcast Alex has the right to choose what gender she wants for her. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | adoptionhomophobiabullyingnaturefriendship |
Mood: | ambiguous endingrain |
Locations: | fishing villagecampfiregas stationoceantruckpolice stationrural settingbicycleboatsmall towncarforestbeach |
Characters: | biologistgay teenagerhomosexualitybest friendtranssexualgay sexteenage boyteenage girldoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipteenager …homosexual (See All) |
Story: | gender confusiongender identityferry boathormone treatmentmarine biologistpet lizardgender issuesgender transitionsea turtleplastic surgeonbeach housesex between cousinsdrinking from the cartoncruel fathercoastal village …homeopathypet fishservice stationhormonesbike ridingintersexuruguayhormoneargentiniantestosteronewaterfrontwashing haircoastlinesand duneseashoreboardwalkvendorsecrecydockssurgical operationremoteunderage sexandrogynysex changeteenage crushbroken nosesouth americabare feetmotorboat15 year oldreference to the beatlesgay crushstreet marketintolerancelizardadolescencepubertysexual awakeningconfusionnewspaper clippingbrushing teethsexual assaultgenderferrygrowing upsurgeonturtleblack eyevegetarianthunderstormheadphonespower outagethunderembarrassmentmilkbuttocksloss of virginityteenage sexidentitysurgeryattempted rapelightningreadingdollbased on short storyconfessionnecklacedrawingcandlegay slurswimmingrunningbookurinationtitle directed by femalecryingshowerphotographcigarette smokingf ratedsexmasturbationkiss (See All) |
William Miller is a 15-year-old kid hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming-of-age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo.
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | car |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipteenagerhomosexual |
Story: | underage sexteenage crushreference to the beatlesadolescencegrowing upthunderstormembarrassmentloss of virginitylightningreadingconfessionswimmingrunningbookurination …cryingphotographcigarette smokingkisssex (See All) |
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire savings account to charity, and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | adoptionnature |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfiretruckrural settingboatsmall towncarforestbeach |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipteenager |
Story: | remotebrushing teethgrowing upthunderlightningreadingswimmingrunningbookurinationcryingshowerphotographcigarette smokingsex |
Friendship, love, and coming of age in New York City, summer of 1994. Luke Shapiro has just graduated from high school, sells marijuana, and trades pot for therapy from a psychologist, Dr. Jeffrey Squires. Luke is attracted to a classmate, Stephanie, who's out of his league and Squires' step-daughte …r. By July, he's hanging out with Stephanie, taking her on his rounds selling pot out of an ice-cream pushcart. Then things take a turn. In the background, Squires and his wife as well as Luke's parents are having their troubles. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | oceanbicyclebeach |
Characters: | best friendteenage boyteenage girlmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipteenager |
Story: | beach housebrushing teethferryheadphonesloss of virginityreadingcandleswimmingbookurinationcryingshowerphotographcigarette smokingsex …masturbationkiss (See All) |
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shippi …ng news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey... (Read More)
Themes: | adoption |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfireoceanrural settingboatsmall town |
Characters: | father daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | ferrythunderbuttockslightningdollcandlecryingphotographkiss |
Tarkovsky mixes flash-backs, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a dying man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his family. The story interweaves reflections about Russian history and society.
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | nature |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | rural settingforest |
Characters: | doctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | washing hairadolescencebuttocksreadingswimmingrunningbookcryingshowerphotographcigarette smoking |
Based on the novel written by Stephen Chbosky, this is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), an endearing and naive outsider, coping with first love (Emma Watson), the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs. The intr …overt freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the real world. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | homophobiabullyingfriendship |
Locations: | truck |
Characters: | gay teenagerbest friendteenage boyteenage girldoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipteenagerhomosexual |
Story: | teenage crush15 year oldadolescenceteenage sexreadingcandlegay slurrunningbookcryingphotographkiss |
The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth o …f The Beatles. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | best friendteenage boyteenage girlhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | boardwalkadolescencereadingdrawingrunningbookurinationtitle directed by femalecryingphotographcigarette smokingf ratedkisssexmasturbation |
Valentine is a young model living in Geneva. Because of a dog she ran over, she meets a retired judge who spies his neighbours' phone calls, not for money but to feed his cynicism. The film is the story of relationships between some human beings, Valentine and the judge, but also other people who ma …y not be aware of the relationship they have with Valentine or/and the old judge. Redemption, forgiveness and compassion... (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycleboat |
Characters: | teenage boymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | ferry boatintoleranceferrythunderstormbuttocksconfessionbookcryingphotographcigarette smokingsex |
At the edge of adolescence, Tracy is a smart straight-A student--if not a little naive (it seems...she smokes and she cuts to alleviate the emotional pain she suffers from having a broken home and hating her mom's boyfriend, Brady.) When she befriends Evie, the most popular and beautiful girl in sch …ool, Evie leads Tracy down a path of sex, drugs and petty crime (like stealing money from purses and from stores). As Tracy transforms herself and her identity, her world becomes a boiling, emotional cauldron fueled by new tensions between her and her mother--as well as, teachers and old friends. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | adoptionfriendship |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | adolescencepubertysexual awakeninggrowing upidentitycandletitle directed by femaleshowercigarette smokingf ratedkisssex |
The story of 'James Whale (I)' (qv), the Director of _Frankenstein (1931)_ (qv) and _Bride of Frankenstein (1935)_ (qv), in the time period following the Korean War. Whale was homosexual, and develops a friendship with his gardener, an ex-Marine.
Themes: | friendship |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | beach |
Characters: | homosexualityteenage boydoctormother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshiphomosexual |
Story: | broken nosesurgerylightningdrawingswimmingurinationshowercigarette smokingsex |
Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, 'Richard Linklater' (qv)'s BOYHOOD is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by 'Ellar Coltrane' (qv)), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. Starring 'Ethan Hawke' (qv) and … 'Patricia Arquette' (qv) as Mason's parents and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister Samantha, BOYHOOD charts the rocky terrain of childhood like no other film has before. Snapshots of adolescence from road trips and family dinners to birthdays and graduations and all the moments in between become transcendent, set to a soundtrack spanning the years from Coldplay's Yellow to Arcade Fire's Deep Blue. BOYHOOD is both a nostalgic time capsule of the recent past and an ode to growing up and parenting. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | homophobia |
Locations: | campfirebicycle |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | reference to the beatlesadolescencegrowing upembarrassmentloss of virginityteenage sexgay slurswimmingurinationphotographcigarette smokingkisssex |
Amal is a small insignificant town where nothing ever happens, where the latest trends are out of date when they get there. Young Elin has a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to guys, but the fact is that she is inexperienced in that matter. Another girl in her school, Agnes, is in love with her … but is too shy to do anything about it. For a number of reasons, Elin ends up at Agnes' birthday party as the only guest. They have a girl's night out together but after that Elin desperately avoids Agnes, refusing to even consider her own feelings toward Agnes. (Read More)
Themes: | homophobiabullying |
Locations: | small town |
Characters: | homosexualityteenage boyteenage girlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphomosexual |
Story: | teenage crushvegetarianmilkloss of virginitygay slurcryingshowerphotographf ratedkisssexmasturbation |
Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year's high school student election. But school civics teacher Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks popular varsity football player Paul Me …tzler to run for president as well. Chaos ensues. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | gay teenagerteenage boyteenage girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipteenager |
Story: | teenage crushteenage sexconfessionrunningurinationcryingshowerf ratedkiss |
Based on actual events. Brandon Teena is the popular new guy in a tiny Nebraska town. He hangs out with the guys, drinking, cussing, and bumper surfing, and he charms the young women, who've never met a more sensitive and considerate young man. Life is good for Brandon, now that he's one of the guys … and dating hometown beauty Lana; however, he's forgotten to mention one important detail. It's not that he's wanted in another town for GTA and other assorted crimes, but that Brandon Teena was actually born a woman named Teena Brandon. When his best friends make this discovery, Brandon's life is ripped apart. (Read More)
Themes: | homophobiafriendship |
Locations: | campfirerural settingsmall town |
Characters: | transsexualmother daughter relationshiphomosexual |
Story: | gender confusionintolerancesexual assaultgay slurtitle directed by femaleshowercigarette smokingf ratedkisssex |
Two teenage Russian boys have their father return home suddenly after being absent for 12 years. The father takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake in the north of Russia that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfiretruckboatforestbeach |
Characters: | teenage boymother son relationshipfather son relationshipteenager |
Story: | remoteswimmingrunningbookcryingphotograph |
Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit, Australia dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to Abba music and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. Then she steals some money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, an …d turns her world upside down. (Read More)
Themes: | bullyingfriendship |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | oceanbeach |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | surgical operationblack eyeembarrassmentloss of virginitysurgeryswimmingcryingphotographcigarette smokingkisssex |
At the age of 38, Mark O'Brien, a man who uses an iron lung, decides he no longer wishes to be a virgin. With the help of his therapist and his priest, he contacts Cheryl Cohen-Greene, a professional sex surrogate and a typical soccer mom with a house, a mortgage and a husband. Inspired by a true st …ory, The Sessions, follows the fascinating relationship which evolves between Cheryl and Mark as she takes him on his journey to manhood. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | bicyclebeach |
Characters: | best friendteenage boyfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | sexual awakeningpower outagebuttocksloss of virginityreadingconfessionrunningbookurinationcigarette smokingkisssexmasturbation |
John and Laura Baxter are in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters' daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seei …ng their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola. (Read More)
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | police stationrural settingbicycleboat |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | motorboatbrushing teethbuttocksreadingdollbased on short storycandleshowerphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
Mia, an aggressive fifteen-year-old girl, lives on an Essex estate with her tarty mother, Joanne, and precocious little sister Tyler. She has been thrown out of school and is awaiting admission to a referrals unit and spends her days aimlessly. She begins an uneasy friendship with Joanne's slick boy …friend, Connor, who encourages her one interest, dancing. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | friendship |
Mood: | ambiguous endingrain |
Locations: | car |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlmother daughter relationshipteenager |
Story: | teenage crush15 year oldthunderloss of virginityrunningurinationtitle directed by femalecryingphotographcigarette smokingf ratedsexkiss |
Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness. Anton and his wife Marianne, who … have two young sons, are separated and struggling with the possibility of divorce. Their older, ten-year-old son Elias is being bullied at school, until he is defended by Christian, a new boy who has just moved from London with his father, Claus. Christian's mother recently lost her battle with cancer, and Christian is greatly troubled by her death. Elias and Christian quickly form a strong bond, but when Christian involves Elias in a dangerous act of revenge with potentially tragic consequences, their friendship is tested and lives are put in danger. Ultimately, it is their parents who are left to help them come to terms with the complexity of human emotions, pain and empathy. (Read More)
Themes: | bullyingnaturefriendship |
Locations: | truckpolice stationbicycleboatsmall town |
Characters: | doctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | surgical operationsurgerygay slurswimmingrunningtitle directed by femalecryingphotographf ratedkisssex |
Disturbing, dark, low-budget independent film about teen-agers in New York City. The story focuses on Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick), a teen who has a goal to de-flower as many virgins as he can. When one of his old encounters discovers that she is H.I.V.-positive, after only one encounter with a guy, Tell …y remains undaunted. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | friendship |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlteenager |
Story: | underage sexpubertybuttocksloss of virginityteenage sexgay slurswimmingurinationcigarette smokingsexkiss |
County Durham, during the endless, violent 1984 strike against the Thatcher closure of British coal mines. Widower Jackie Elliot and his firstborn, fellow miner Tony, take a dim view of 11 year-old second son Billy's poor record in boxing class, which worsens when they discover he sneakily transferr …ed to the neighboring, otherwise girls-only-attended ballet class. Only one schoolmate, closet-gay Michael Caffrey, encourages Billy's desire, aroused by the teacher, who judged him talented enough for private lesson, to train and try out for the world-renowned Royal Ballet audition. Only the prospect of a fancy career unimagined in the pauper quarter may twist pa and big brother's opposition to indispensable support. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | homophobiafriendship |
Characters: | best frienddoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshiphomosexual |
Story: | gay crushferryembarrassmentmilkgay slurrunningbookurinationcryingphotographcigarette smokingsexkiss |
Steven Russell is happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force when a car accident provokes a dramatic reassessment of his life. Steven becomes open about his homosexuality and decides to live life to the fullest - even if it means breaking the law. Steven's new, extravagant lif …estyle involves cons and fraud and, eventually, a stay in the State Penitentiary where he meets sensitive, soft-spoken Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts Steven to attempt and often succeed at one impossible con after another. (Read More)
Themes: | adoptionfriendship |
Locations: | boatcar |
Characters: | homosexualitygay sexfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshiphomosexual |
Story: | milkidentityreadinggay slurrunningbookurinationcryingshowerkissmasturbationsex |
Born Christmas Day 1960, Zac Beaulieu is the fourth of five sons of Gervais and Laurianne Beaulieu. Zac feels somewhat disconnected to his brothers, all of whom are different from each other. They include the bookworm Christian who is the eldest, the dumb jock Antoine who is third, and the youngest …Yvan. But Zac has the most contempt for his second eldest brother, the shiftless druggie Raymond. To his devout Catholic mother, Zac is her miracle son, both for being born the same day as Jesus Christ (a fact which Zac has always hated), and because a Tupperware-selling mystic once told her that he has the power to heal. Laurianne has always coddled Zac, the two who have a special if unspoken bond. But Zac wants more to please his father, who wants more than anything in his sons that they grow up to be man's men and not sissies. As Zac goes through his mid-teens to early twenties, Zac isn't sure if he can live up to the ideals of either his mother or especially his father. A young man with stress-induced asthma, Zac just wants to be what he considers normal, which includes getting rid of his asthma. But more importantly, he wants to get rid of the underlying thoughts that he has and which most going through puberty have, but that for him are becoming more prevalent as he grows older. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | homophobia |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclebeach |
Characters: | gay teenagerteenage boyteenage girldoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshiphomosexualteenager |
Story: | pubertybrushing teethblack eyelightningreadingconfessiongay slurbookcryingphotographcigarette smokingkissmasturbationsex |
A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girldoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | teenage crushnewspaper clippinglightningreadingcandlerunningbookcryingphotographcigarette smokingf ratedkiss |
Curtis, a father and husband, is starting to experience bad dreams and hallucinations. Assuming mental illness, he seeks medical help and counseling. However, fearing the worst, he starts building an elaborate and expensive storm shelter in their backyard. This storm shelter threatens to tear apart …his family, threatens his sanity and his standing in the community, but he builds it to save his family's life. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Mood: | ambiguous endingrain |
Locations: | gas stationsmall townbeach |
Characters: | doctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | street marketthunderlightningreadingbookurinationcryingshowerphotograph |
This is the beginning of the eighties and everybody is moving to the beat of Pop music, as the brand-new concept of the music video appears on television for the first time. However, in Dublin, Conor, a teenager with a sensitive heart, is trying to deal with a tense family relationship, reconnect wi …th his older brother while dealing with the hostile environment in his new public school. And then one day, he sees her. Tall, with long chestnut hair, a buttery complexion and big, dark eyes; an enigmatically beautiful girl standing in front of his school's gate, indolently observing people passing by. But who is she and how could a boy ever get noticed by such a distant girl? That's easy. He would form a band. Surprisingly, with every lyric Conor writes, the gap narrows and with every song he plays, her heart fills with affection. In the end, before a sea of opportunities lying ahead of them, what will the future hold for a brave love like this? (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | bullyingfriendship |
Locations: | bicycleboat |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipteenager |
Story: | motorboat15 year oldreference to the beatlesferryblack eyedrawinggay slurcryingcigarette smokingkisssex |
In a dreary Florida beach resort village, luscious-limbed lifeguard Raymond is the main attraction for girls. Teenager buddies Claire and Hailey became experts on him by observation, but never dared actually approach him, and after this closing summer season will be separated as one's parents move t …o Australia. Then they find a storm washed up in a pool a sassy mermaid, who promises them a wish if they help her prove to Neptune love exists, and Raymond is the only creature resembling a love-god. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | oceanbicyclesmall townbeach |
Characters: | best friendteenage girlmother daughter relationshipteenager |
Story: | adolescencethunderstormnecklaceswimmingtitle directed by femalef ratedkiss |
After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend, Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel ways, couldn't agree more and they strategize murdering Bobby, with a group of willing and unwilling participants in a small …Florida town. In the midst of their plotting, they find themselves contemplating with the possible aftermath of what could happen. (Read More)
Themes: | bullyingfriendship |
Locations: | small towncarbeach |
Characters: | gay teenagerbest friendgay sexteenage boyteenage girlmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipteenagerhomosexual |
Story: | black eyebuttocksteenage sexgay slururinationcryingcigarette smoking |
Teenager Hubert haughtily regards his mother with contempt, and only sees her tacky sweaters and kitsch decorations. In addition to these irritating surface details, there is also his parent's cherished mechanisms of manipulation and guilt. Confused by this love/hate relationship that obsesses him m …ore and more each day, Hubert drifts through the mysteries of adolescence - artistic discoveries, illicit experiences, the opening-up to friendship, and ostracism. The turbulent relationship between mother and son unfolds with a compelling combination of savage fury and melting affection. The stunning, semi-autobiographical directing debut of 20-year-old actor Xavier Dolan. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | gay teenagerhomosexualitygay sexteenage boymother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | adolescencebrushing teethdollgay slurshowercigarette smoking |
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her husband's lies. Their son, Paul, home for the holidays, … escapes to the city to pursue an alluring rich girl from his prep school. And young, budding nymphomaniac, Wendy Hood roams the neighborhood, innocently exploring liquor cabinets and lingerie drawers of her friends' parents, looking for something new. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century. Things get bad... (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | friendship |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclecar |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | sexual awakeningembarrassmentteenage sexreadingbookcryingshowercigarette smokingkissmasturbationsex |
Set in France, Georges is a TV Literary Reviewer and lives in a small yet modern town house with his wife Ann, a publisher and his young son Pierrot. They begin to receive video tapes through the post of their house and family, along side obscure child-like drawings. They visit the police with hope …of aid to find the stalker, but as there is no direct threat, they refuse to help. As the tapes become more personal, Georges takes it upon himself to figure out who is putting through his family through such horror. A true Michael Haneke Classic. (Read More)
Themes: | adoptionfriendship |
Mood: | ambiguous endingrain |
Locations: | gas stationbicycle |
Characters: | teenage boydoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | pubertyreadingdrawingswimmingrunningbookcrying |
At 16, Nick Twisp is wry about his teen funk: he lives in Oakland with his sex-addled mother; his father's child support is her meal ticket. While camping in Ukiah, Nick meets Sheeni: for him, it's love at first sight. Nick has to figure out how to get his father a job in Ukiah, then how to get sent … to live with his father, then how to get close to Sheeni, whose religious parents may want her sent away from temptation to a boarding school. There's also Sheeni's all-American boyfriend to contend with. Overwhelmed by the challenges, Nick's about to give up when he conjures an alter ego who whispers revolt into his ear. Nick is not altogether hapless, but can this end well? (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | forestbeach |
Characters: | best friendteenage boyteenage girlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipteenager |
Story: | adolescenceloss of virginityteenage sexreadingrunningbookurinationshowerphotographcigarette smokingkissmasturbationsex |
Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in prewar Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. The family relocates to the countryside where his father is assigned to take command a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped paj …amas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually a prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | doctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | black eyereadingdollnecklacedrawingrunningbookcryingshowercigarette smoking |
Mike Waters lives on the street and befriends the somewhat older and streetwise Scott Favor who shows him what is necessary to survive. Waters suffers from narcolepsy and can fall asleep at any moment and in almost any circumstance. Favor comes from a rich family and is rebelling against his own bac …kground. They travel together extensively - Waters is driven by the need to find his biological mother - and spend time in Italy. Later in life however, Favor has joined mainstream society and has little time for his old friend. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | campfiretruckrural settingsmall towncar |
Characters: | gay teenagerhomosexualitybest friendgay sexteenage boyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipteenagerhomosexual |
Story: | confessiongay slururinationcryingphotographcigarette smokingkissmasturbationsex |
Malena is about the peril of a beauty through the eyes of a 12 year old kid named Renato. He experiences three things on the same day, beginning of war, getting a bike and sees the arrival of Malena in town. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is pres …umed to be dead, and through his soul we see his love for her. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Locations: | bicyclesmall townbeach |
Characters: | teenage boydoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | waterfrontadolescenceteenage sexurinationcryingphotographcigarette smokingmasturbationkisssex |
Lil ('Naomi Watts' (qv)) and Roz ('Robin Wright (V)' (qv)) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotion …s that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | oceanbeach |
Characters: | best friendteenage boyteenage girlhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | beach houseswimmingrunningbooktitle directed by femalecryingphotographcigarette smokingf ratedsexkiss |
Brothers - older Stephen and three years junior Bloom - have been con artists since they were kids. Stephen is the mastermind, for who the intricacy of the story used in the con is as important as the positive outcome of the swindle. Bloom is the main character of Stephen's stories, the character he … considers the anti-hero. As adults, they travel the world and never enlist the same people twice in their cons, except for their consistent sidekick, the mysterious and primarily silent Bang Bang, a Japanese woman who just appeared in their lives one day and who has a penchant for blowing things up. As Bloom hits his mid-thirties, he wants to quit the business as he is losing his own identity to that of the characters he portrays; he doesn't know anymore what is real and what is make-believe. Stephen talks him into one last con, the mark to be the eccentric, lonely but beautiful New Jersey heiress, Penelope Stamp. Penelope's primary past-time in life is to, as she calls it, "borrow hobbies": when she sees something she likes, she learns how to do it solely through reading books. As the brothers go through their final con on Penelope, three main problems may occur to thwart the plan. First, the brothers' former mentor and now arch enemy, Diamond Dog, may exact his long awaited revenge on the brothers. Second, Penelope may end up being more unpredictable than all their former marks. And third, Bloom, who has let love slip by in his life, may fall for Penelope. But through the proces… (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycleboatsmall towncarforestbeach |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | beach housethunderstormidentitylightningreadingconfessiondrawingrunningbookcryingphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
The Lost City of Z tells the incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the 20th century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region. Despite being ridiculed by the scientific …establishment who regard indigenous populations as "savages," the determined Fawcett - supported by his devoted wife, son and aide de camp returns time and again to his beloved jungle in an attempt to prove his case, culminating in his mysterious disappearance in 1925. (Read More)
Mood: | ambiguous endingrain |
Locations: | campfiretruckboat |
Characters: | biologistteenage boydoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | south americanewspaper clippingthunderdrawingcandleswimmingbookphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
Two young men, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, meet when they get a job as sheep herders on Brokeback Mountain. They are at first strangers, then they become friends. Throughout the weeks, they grow closer as they learn more about each other. One night, after some heavy drinking, they find a deeper co …nnection. They then indulge in a blissful romance for the rest of the summer. Unable to deal with their feelings for each other, they part ways at the end of the summer. Four years go by, and they each settle down, Ennis in Wyoming with his wife and two girls, and Jack in Texas with his wife and son. Still longing for each other, they meet back up, and are faced with the fact that they need each other. They undeniably need each other, and unsure of what to do, they start a series of "fishing trips", in order to spend time together. The relationship struggles on for years until tragedy strikes. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfirerural settingsmall townforest |
Characters: | homosexualitygay sexteenage girlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshiphomosexual |
Story: | thunderloss of virginitylightningbased on short storycandleswimmingcryingphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank's attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for all, he escapes to a clearing in the woods with his best friend, Patrick, and a strange kid named Biaggio. He announces that they …are going to build a house there, free from responsibility and parents. Once their makeshift abode is finished, the three young men find themselves masters of their own destiny, alone in the woods. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | campfirepolice stationbicycleforest |
Characters: | best friendteenage boyteenage girlhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | teenage crushadolescenceshowermasturbation |
On a journey to San Francisco, Richard, his father and cousin Emmeline find themselves on a ship about to explode. Rushed to a lifeboat with Paddy Button, the two children escape while their father (and uncle) are on another lifeboat. In the chaos following, the lifeboats are separated. Paddy, Richa …rd and Emmeline find themselves with no food and no water stuck in the middle of nowhere. After some time, the three come across an uncharted paradise, where Paddy quickly teaches the children fishing, hunting and building. After maybe a month or two, Paddy gets very drunk off a barrel of rum found on the island when they first arrive, and drowns in the middle of the night. Emmeline and Richard, now alone and very scared, move location and rebuild their island home. Many years later, the two young teenagers have developed a very real home, but hormones and feelings between the two strain their friendship, until Richard, who is still very determined to reach San Francisco, is let down by Emmeline when a ship passes by the island and she does not light the signal fire. Throwing her out of the home they had built together, Emmeline attempts to survive on her own but is hurt. After Richard finds her dying, he realizes how he really feels for her and manages to save her. Nature runs its course and their friendship turns into love as the couple learn about the facts of life, when Emmeline has a baby and does not understand why. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | naturefriendship |
Locations: | campfireboatbeach |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipteenager |
Story: | sea turtlehormonespubertysexual awakeninggrowing uploss of virginityteenage sexphotographmasturbationsex |
When Sam Merrick is beaten up by local bully George Tooney, Sam's older brother Rocky and his friends Clyde and Marty plan to pretend it's Sam's birthday to "invite" George on a boat trip in which they would dare him to strip naked, jump in the lake, and run home naked. But when Sam, his girlfriend …Millie, Rocky, and Clyde see George as not much of a bad guy, they want to call off the plan, but Marty refuses. Will the plan go ahead as planned? (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | gas stationrural settingbicycleboatsmall townforest |
Characters: | teenage boymother son relationshipfather son relationshiphomosexualteenager |
Story: | gay slururinationcryingcigarette smokingkissmasturbation |
A couple on a holiday in the Caribbean decide to spend the day on a scuba diving trip. But was it the wrong decision? When a mis-count happens on the boat, Susan and Daniel are left behind in the middle of the ocean, the boat long gone. With all their hopes set on the boat coming back to rescue them …, they try to keep themselves safe, especially when sharks start to appear. (Read More)
Themes: | nature |
Locations: | oceanboatbeach |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | lizardbrushing teeththunderstormlightningswimmingurinationkiss |
THE READER opens in post-war Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna love …s being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn" and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives. THE READER is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | friendship |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | teenage boyteenage girlfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipteenager |
Story: | 15 year oldsexual awakeningembarrassmentloss of virginityreadingconfessionswimmingbookcryingphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
It's a post-apocalyptic world, several years after whatever the cataclysmic event, which has in turn caused frequent quakes as further potential hazards. The world is gray and getting quickly grayer as more and more things die off. A man and his pre-teen son, who was born after the apocalypse, are c …urrently on the road, their plan to walk to the coast and head south where the man hopes there will be a more hospitable environment in which to live. The man has taught his son that they are the "good people" who have fire in their hearts, which in combination largely means that they will not resort to cannibalism to survive. The man owns a pistol with two bullets remaining, which he will use for murder/suicide of him and his son if he feels that that is a better fate for them than life in the alternative. Food and fuel are for what everyone is looking. The man has taught his son to be suspect of everyone that they may meet, these strangers who, out of desperation, may not only try to steal what they have managed to scavenge for their own survival, but may kill them as food. Although life with his father in this world is all the boy has known, he may come to his own thoughts as to what it means holistically to be one of the good or one of the bad. Meanwhile, the man occasionally has thoughts to happier times with his wife/the boy's mother before the apocalypse, as well as not as happy times with her after the apocalypse and the reason she is no longer with them. (Read More)
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | campfiregas stationoceantruckforestbeach |
Characters: | husband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | washing hairseashorebrushing teethreadingdrawingcandleswimmingbookurinationcryingphotographcigarette smokingkiss |
In this comedy, Lars Lindstrom is an awkwardly shy young man in a small northern town who finally brings home the girl of his dreams to his brother and sister-in-law's home. The only problem is that she's not real - she's a sex doll Lars ordered off the Internet. But sex is not what Lars has in mind …, but rather a deep, meaningful relationship. His sister-in-law is worried for him, his brother thinks he's nuts, but eventually the entire town goes along with his delusion in support of this sweet natured boy that they've always loved. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | rural settingsmall town |
Characters: | doctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | brushing teethgrowing upheadphonesreadingdollphotographsex |
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence lev …el by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men. On their road to becoming accepted, they encounter many hilarious obstacles, which gives the movie an overall sense of silliness. (Read More)
Subgenre: | coming of age |
Themes: | bullyingfriendship |
Characters: | best friendteenage boyteenage girlhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipteenager |
Story: | 15 year oldpubertythunderstormthunderembarrassmentdollgay slururinationshowerphotographkissmasturbation |
Forty-six year old Diane Despres - "Die" - has been widowed for three years. Considered white trash by many, Die does whatever she needs, including strutting her body in front of male employers who will look, to make an honest living. That bread-winning ability is affected when she makes the decisio …n to remove her only offspring, fifteen year old Steve Despres, from her previously imposed institutionalization, one step below juvenile detention. She institutionalized him shortly following her husband's death due to Steve's attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and his violent outbursts. He was just kicked out of the latest in a long line of facilities for setting fire to the cafeteria, in turn injuring another boy. She made this decision to deinstitutionalize him as she didn't like the alternative, sending him into more restrictive juvenile detention from which he would probably never be rehabilitated. However, with this deinstitutionalization, she has to take care of him which means only being able to do home based work. Despite they always yelling expletives at each other and Steve sometimes demonstrating those violent tendencies toward her, Die and Steve truly do love each other, his emotions which are sometimes manifested as an Oedipus complex especially as he seems to need her complete attention most specifically when it is being directed at possible male suitors. Their lives, both individually and as a family, are affected with the entrance of two of their neig… (Read More)
Themes: | bullyingfriendship |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclebeach |
Characters: | teenage boydoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipteenager |
Story: | drinking from the carton15 year oldheadphonespower outageembarrassmentreadingnecklacegay slurrunningbookcryingphotographcigarette smokingkissmasturbation |