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Plot Summary:
The year is 1999 and the storyline is actually a number of sub-plots all revolving around the 13-year old Clara, a girl that can predict the future and has telekinetic powers. The sub-plots include a boy in her class who has a crush on her, his family, her family and her principal that keeps talking French for some strange reason.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, surreal, semi serious, psychotronic
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Turn Left at the End of the World (2004)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a better life in the west. The instinct driven Moroccans patronize the "black" Indians, while the quiet Indians see the Moroccans as Ignorant and coarse. In this cultural war two girls, Moroccan and Indian, discover the sexual revolution of the 60's.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, erotic, sweet, emotional, gloomy
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Man of Steel (1999)
Plot Summary:
A romantic and funny coming-of-age story. Victor, a 13-year-old boy, is desperately looking for his First Kiss. When that First Kiss comes too close, Victor seeks refuge in his imagination, becoming the Man of Steel who has no emotions, because tears will make him rust. But no Man of Steel can resist Fania, a 13-year-old girl, for very long.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, uplifting, touching, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
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The Matchmaker (2010)
Plot Summary:
During the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 859
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sentimental, stylized, humorous, realistic, semi serious, gloomy
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So Young (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the brink of the 90s, 18-year-old Zheng Wei steps into her university life with a hopeful heart for love. She forms a great friendship with her roommates and united as a group, they embark on their university life together. Wei meets Chen Hao-Zheng in a chance encounter, and despite initial reluctance, Chen accepts Wei as his girlfriend and the two become inseparable. Four years of university life pass and Wei looks forward to establishing a life together with Chen. However, Chen is forced into an impossible decision to leave Wei. Devastated, Wei decides to start afresh. A decade later, Wei’s previous lovers Lin and Chen both find their way back into her life and she has to make a choice of her next step in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, realistic
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The Delinquents (1989)
Plot Summary:
A small town in Australia, in the late 1950s: Brownie and Lola are deeply in love. But because they are under-age, their parents are against their relationship and try to separate them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, emotional, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Until We Meet Again (2022)
Plot Summary:
A woman finds her new house is haunted by the ghost of a young pianist.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, tense, sexy, contemplative, romantic, unusual plot structure
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Parsley Days (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young woman mulls how to terminate her unwanted pregnancy and whether to leave her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, experimental, offbeat, humorous, sexual, sexy
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Some Things That Stay (2004)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age story of a teenage girl from a liberal upbringing who moves to a conservative baptist community in rural 1950s America.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual, sexy
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How I Married My High School Crush (2007)
Plot Summary:
A high-school girl makes a wish to marry her crush, the star of the football team who doesn't even know she's alive. Then a solar eclipse magically transports them 17 years into the future to the day of their wedding.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, touching, offbeat, semi serious
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The Dream Prince (1996)
Plot Summary:
14-year old Em likes to hang around in her old play house. One day a boy, Jakob, sets fire to it, and Em catches a brief glimpse of him before he disappears. They meet again a few days later. For the first time in her life, Em falls in love. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: teen, touching, serious, realistic
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Summer Rain (2006)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, stylized
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Alex Is Lovesick (1986)
Plot Summary:
This feature is one of the Israeli cinematography milestones. It displays the atmosphere of the late Israeli 50s from the view of young boy Alex, just becoming 13. His mom is the classic "Polish Mother", his school friends are young hustlers dreaming of nude girls, his schoolmaster is a nervous Russian immigrant. The street speech is full of Polish, Russian, and Farsi slang, full of the small talk that had later entered the everyday speech. The soundtrack, which is quite remarkable, is built solely on the American music of the period. Everyone in the feature finds one's love and happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Yana's Friends (1999)
Plot Summary:
Three parallel stories of immigrants in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War and about coming together while sealed in a room during the Scud attacks.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Go (2001)
Plot Summary:
Isao Yukisada spins this gritty coming-of-age tale about Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean who struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him. The film begins with Sugihara studying at a Korean junior high school that is dedicated to memory of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. His father is a grizzled ex-boxer who recently changed his citizenship from North to South Korea so he and his wife – Sugihara's mom – could visit Hawaii. Though his father regularly gets drunk and thrashes him, he also taught Sugihara the finer point of the sweet science. At one point in the film, Sugihara takes out an entire basketball team that was bent on taking him out. Upon graduation, Sugihara enters a normal Japanese high school where he meets and soon falls for Sakurai – a loose-sock copper-haired damsel who is attracted to Sugihara's restless spirit. As the film progresses, Sugihara struggles to throw off the stigma of his ethnicity and live a quiet, successful life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, sweet, realistic
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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (2010)
Plot Summary:
Diving to save a camera from a fall down a flight of stairs, high school junior Naomi Sukuse wakes with no memory of the last four years. Naomi must remember who she was and figure out who she wants to be in this story of love and second chances.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sentimental, emotional, contemplative, captivating, sincere, psychological, romantic, touching, serious, realistic
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Beautiful Fall (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ninni is sixteen and she lives in a beautiful mansion in the swedish countryside with her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, captivating, freeze frame
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David and Lisa (1998)
Plot Summary:
It was adapted as a stage play in 1967, and was remade as a television movie in 1998 starring Lukas Haas, Sidney Poitier and Brittany Murphy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Lost Islands (2008)
Plot Summary:
A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 664
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, emotional, sentimental, realistic, stylized
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Amy & Isabelle (2001)
Plot Summary:
In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is seduced by her mathematic teacher Peter Robertson, the world of Isabelle falls apart. She becomes lost and loses her confidence on Amy, spoiling their relationship. Their bond gets tied again when Isabelle discloses her inner secrets from the past to Amy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Booky's Crush (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Thomsons - parents Thomas and Francie, and children Willa, Arthur, Beatrice (nicknamed Booky) and Jakey - are a loving working class family living in the Depression era in Toronto. Arthur is showing aptitude in drawing, and although his parents want to support his skill, Thomas in particular wants him to take up a vocation that is a little more stable. Willa, the part time librarian, is attracted to Russell, the medical student she meets at the library. And 11-year old Booky is happy that she has been asked to tutor the new older sixth grade student, Georgie Dunlop, in spelling, since she has a crush on him, her first ever. She just can't wait for him to ask her to the school dance. But she begins to have mixed feelings about Georgie based on a gift he gives to her. Digging a little deeper, Booky begins to understand both the good and bad of Georgie.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Daydream Nation (2010)
Plot Summary:
Forced to move to a boring backwater town, a teenager embarks on affairs with a teacher and a stoner classmate.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: melancholic, witty, teen, sweet, romantic, surreal, atmospheric, semi serious, stylized, sad
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Valley (2014)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of three sensitive teens who are forced to deal with violence at home, violence at school. It is a story of friendship, of love and hate, where the adolescents world is revealed as cruel and beautiful, a world where the desire to die or kill and the will to live are very confused but finally define the fate of the three heroes.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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The Green Chariot (2005)
Plot Summary:
Emigration to Israel challenges Sasha's Jewish identity. Will love help him to go over this crisis?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
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Swann (1996)
Plot Summary:
Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, atmospheric, touching, offbeat, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Beautiful Creatures (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might decide her fate, to be good or evil. A choice which will impact her relationship forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, captivating, emotional, teen, gothic, spooky, scenic, fairy tale, feel good
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Afula Express (1997)
Plot Summary:
David is a garage electrician, who dreamt all of his life of becoming a magician, but had no luck in it. His girlfriend Batya wants an ordinary life, but David is still looking for his dream, so he links up with Romanian immigrant Shimon, who is an expert magician.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Twilight (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest to live with her father, she starts school and meets the reclusive Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated cautions, Bella can't help but fall in love with him, a fatal move that endangers her own life when a coven of bloodsuckers try to challenge the Cullen clan.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 481000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, touching, sentimental, teen, saga, fairy tale, gothic, heartbreaking, gloomy
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Teen's Confessions (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four sisters work together to raise rent money after learning they have to move to another neighborhood in this coming-of-age drama based on the series.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, light, sentimental, sexy, realistic, semi serious
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Cheeky Girls (2008)
Plot Summary:
Three teen-aged girlfriends navigate multiple love triangles.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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White as Milk, Red as Blood (2013)
Plot Summary:
Leo falls in love with Beatrice, a slightly older high-school student who has leukemia.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, semi serious, psychological, humorous