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Plot Summary:
Set in Paris during the 1960s, a group of stylish teenagers hang out at a club called the Drugstore. Shy Philippe wants to meet a girl but he doesn't know how to go about it. Experienced Nathalie invites him and his friend Marc to the birthday party of the also quite shy Charlotte. Philippe and Charlotte develop a strong interest in each other, but neither one seems to know what to do about it. Philippe also tries to pick up girls with his friend Pierre, while Nathalie finds herself attracted to Charlotte's father.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Mushroom Man (1976)
Plot Summary:
Plantation-owner feels so cavalierly toward his peons that he grants himself the privilege of letting them die to gratify his whims. One of them has lived since childhood in the mansion and has become "almost like" a family member... which ends up causing considerable problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, southern gothic
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Romance for Bugle (1967)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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My Golden Days (2015)
Plot Summary:
Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother's madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: captivating, sentimental, sincere, suspense, erotic, sexy, stylized, sensual
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Beauty and the Beast (1983)
Plot Summary:
When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at the disco or skating, and the father does not mind until he discovers that young Jønne has taken some semi-nude photos of Mette and clearly is intending to go further in their relationship. Suddenly the father starts hanging out with Mette and her friends as they practice winter sports together - and there is hardly anything stranger, or more embarrassing, as far as Mette is concerned. It is clear that father and daughter are heading toward a change in their relationship as both have to adjust to her "growing up.".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Falcon Lake (2022)
Plot Summary:
A shy teenager on a summer vacation experiences the joy and pain of young adulthood when he forges an unlikely bond with an older girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 100 min
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Private Passions (1984)
Plot Summary:
When Mark goes to visit his cousin Toni in Austria for the summer, he develops a serious crush on Toni's pretty stepsister Clair and at the same time tries to fend off Toni's efforts to get him set up with prostitutes. As much as he likes Clair, Mark cannot bring himself to start a sexual relationship with her and ultimately goes to Clair's mother Katherine to vent his feelings. It is that meeting that ultimately sends Mark home more experienced than when he arrived.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, France, Austria
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Children's Island (1980)
Plot Summary:
Reine is supposed to go to a summercamp called 'Childrens island' but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hotel. She thinks he is at the camp and he tells her he his. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounter on the path of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Spring Blossom (2020)
Plot Summary:
A 16-year-old girl, bored with her own age group, becomes involved with an older man at a theater she passes.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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Royalteen: Princess Margrethe (2023)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of her prom scandal, Princess Margrethe longs for normalcy as she struggles to maintain her perfect facade while dealing with family drama.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 98 min
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Inga (1968)
Plot Summary:
Inga, a 17 year-old, is sent to live with a scheming aunt who wants her to become mistress of her rich neighbour. She falls for a common young man instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic, sensual, psychotronic, sexploitation film
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Summer Affair (1971)
Plot Summary:
A very young Ornella Muti plays a rich girl who falls for an older hippie boy. Her parents don't approve and try to stop her from seeing him so they run away to a villa (Her parents') by the sea. Later they are shipwrecked on a deserted island. The plot focuses on the efforts of the police to figure out where the girl is, which is set against the developing relationship between the two young people.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, ambiguous ending, freeze frame
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Love to Eternity (1972)
Plot Summary:
Liza slowly replaces Melampo, Giorgio's dog. While she accepts it, Giorgio forces her to wear collars and leashes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, grotesque
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Royalteen (2022)
Plot Summary:
A teenager struggles to keep her scandal-ridden past and a big secret from getting out when she strikes up an unlikely romance with the crown prince.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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All the Way (2021)
Plot Summary:
15-year-old Solange lives in a little town in the French Alps. When her parents get divorced, she discovers her femininity and has her first sexual experiences.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
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36 fillette (1988)
Plot Summary:
Lili, a pouty and voluptuous 14-year-old, is caravan camping with her family in Biarritz. She's self-aware and holds her own in a café conversation with a concert pianist she meets, but she has a wild streak and she's testing her powers over men, finding that she doesn't always control her moods or actions, and she's impatient with being a virgin. She sets off with her brother to a disco, latching onto an aging playboy who is himself hot and cold to her. She is ambivalent about losing her virginity that night, willing the next, and determined by the third. The playboy's mix of depression and misogyny ends their unconsummated affair, so Lili has to hunt elsewhere.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, controversial, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative, sexual, sexy, masterpiece
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The Diary 2 (1999)
Plot Summary:
A sequel movie to The Diary (1999). The movie succeed to replicate the 30's, between the two world war, between Paris and London. Anna (Lila Baumann) arranges Dr. Cristina Inger, a female physician for her paralyzed husband's treatment and she joins the shows at nightclubs as a stripteaser and prostitute to pay her. Husband is cured but fell in love with Dr. Cristina.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Porcupine Lake (2017)
Plot Summary:
During a hot and hazy summertime in northern Ontario, 13-year-old Bea wants a best friend more than anything else, but when she meets boisterous Kate, she gets more than she imagined. A story of bravery, small-town summer love, and the secret world of girls.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, captivating, contemplative, unusual plot structure, queer cinema
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Late August, Early September (1998)
Plot Summary:
A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a lover that no longer loves you: a film about grown-ups growing up.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: emotional, talky, melancholic, ironic, meditative, lyrical, psychological, serious, depressing, tense
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Aching Hearts (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in the early 1960s, the story evolves around highschool sweethearts Jonas and Agnete, their friendships and families, trials and tribulations. Jonas fails to give Agnete the kind of attention she craves, and when she decides to start a new romance, he feels for the first time a cold stab of jealousy. Their rocky relationship takes Jonas through the spectrum of emotions that arises with an aching heart. »Aching Hearts« is shot over a period of three years, taking into account the development of the young actors, some of whom are amateurs from the actual milieus Malmros is depicting.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Flirting (1991)
Plot Summary:
The year is 1965 and Danny Embling, is an awkward, underdeveloped teen suffering from occasional bouts of stuttering, attends an all-male boarding school in New South Wales, Australia. it has been some time since Danny has had any romantic relationship with a girl. He slowly becomes interested in Thandiwe Adjewa, a Ugandan-Kenyan-British girl attending the all-girls school across the lake.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, romantic, disturbing, sentimental, sincere, serious, teen, atmospheric, independent film
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Forbidden Love (1990)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age drama from the fall of the Berlin Wall era.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: East Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: controversial
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Stop Calling Me Baby! (1977)
Plot Summary:
A man hires a P.I. to find a sexy woman he fell in love with. The woman lives with her underage teen sister who dreams about having sex for the first time, but wants a real man. That's when the P.I. shows up and stirs up the household.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Full Speed (1996)
Plot Summary:
A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling in love with Quentin's very best friend Jimmy, who is kind of stuck in his unability of self-expression and grown up under bad social circumstances. And there is the shy boy Samir, exiled from Algeria, who lost his "brother" and only friend some time ago. Samir heavily falls in love with Quentin, but he can't handle it.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, sexy, gay cinema, queer cinema
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First Desires (1983)
Plot Summary:
Three teenage girls decide to visit a romantic island and find love. They get shipwrecked and end up on different sides of the island. Each girl begins her own romantic adventure either with a man, a boy or even another girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexual, controversial, serious, realistic, sexy, eighties
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Bang Gang: A Modern Love Story (2015)
Plot Summary:
Biarritz. 16 year-old George, the high-school hottie, falls in love with Alex. To get his attention, she initiates a group game with Alex, Nikita, Laetitia and Gabriel. They will discover, test, and push the limits of their sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tense, captivating, eros, sensual, steamy, erotic, unusual plot structure, hot
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Bilitis (1977)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sexual, manga, sensual, sentimental, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
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Lies (1999)
Plot Summary:
A story about the bizarre sexual relations of 38-year-old married man J and 18-year-old student Y. After an initial encounter, they embark on a sexual odyssey that visits the realms of obsession and sadomasochism.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, controversial, sensual, erotic drama, psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual
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Young & Beautiful (2013)
Plot Summary:
Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexual, sexy, atmospheric, sensual, controversial, art house, romantic, harsh, intellectual
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Summer of 85 (2020)
Plot Summary:
What do you dream of when you're 16 years old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on adventures on a boat or a motorbike? Living life at breakneck speed? No. You dream of death. Because you can't get a bigger kick than dying. And that's why you save it till the very end. The summer holidays are just beginning, and this story recounts how Alexis grew into himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, thought provoking, captivating, sincere, aesthetic, stylized, novela, cute, sexy, independent film
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Very Good Girls (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, teen, exciting, captivating, touching, sad, independent film, happy