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Plot Summary:
When three teenage boys from Bavaria try to lose their innocence in the neighboring Czech Republic, they get themselves and a young pregnant Ukrainian immigrant into trouble with local pimps.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Satyricon (1969)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Petronius' satire about the decadent life in ancient Rome. "If you like the Fellini version, you should definitely see this one, too. It's every bit as good and in some ways better.".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Once Upon A Time In Indian Country (2017)
Plot Summary:
A wild genre mix between a boxer film, urban western, road movie and music video, set at end of the summer holidays in a drab neighborhood in the outskirts of Hamburg suburbia. Young boxing talent Mauser is preparing for a pivotal competition when his father kills his step-mother and flees. Trying to find his father, Mauser embarks on a journey through the world of music, psychedelia, violence, love and a biblical thunderstorm. And what is with the Native American? "Once upon a time in Indian country" is a story that radiates both, heat and poetry.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
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Schoßgebete (2014)
Plot Summary:
A comedy centered on a sexually adventurous young woman who is trying to be the perfect wife, mother, and lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neurotic, serious, captivating, humorous
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Love and Other Cults (2017)
Plot Summary:
Born in a small town in Japan, a young girl named Ai is sent to a cult commune by her religious maniac mother and lives there for seven long years. After the cult is exposed by the police, Ai starts a new stage of life, going to a normal school for the first time, but she can’t find her place to fit in there. Ai drops out from the school and society, spending her life living with a rock-bottom delinquent family full of gangsters and call girls. In a strange twist of fate she finds herself back in a new and normal life, living with a middle-class family, but her troubled life continues to follow her into more deep and seedy paths.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, horror comedy, weird
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Better than nothing (2014)
Plot Summary:
The 17-year-old Tom filled out a questionnaire for the Employment Agency at a vocational guidance office in his school. He falls in love with the trainee, which distributed the questionnaires. In the evaluation he gets out a job as an apprentice at a funeral home as a funeral professional.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Wedding Waltz (1988)
Plot Summary:
Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of a newborn son. A perfect escape from family responsibilities is having to get his old Hillman Minx repaired and inspected for road-worthiness, with a little help from an eccentric bunch of friends who never seem to have grown up either.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, enigmatic, depressing, bleak, humorous, melancholic, ironic, sad, suspenseful
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Ciao Ciao (2017)
Plot Summary:
A free and wild young woman has to come back from the big city to her village in the mountains.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, China
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Live Is Life (2021)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1985. As every year, Rodri travels from Catalonia to Galicia and is reunited with his four friends. As real-world problems begin to undermine their friendship, the five of them embark on a nighttime adventure in search of a mythical object.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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We Need a Vacation (2002)
Plot Summary:
It is the end of the school year for the children of a dormitory town. Most of them leave the place for a vacation with their parents but not Lucien and Adama whose parents can't afford the expense. While the big brothers of the housing estate are busy breaking the law Lulu and Adama manage to sneak into their neighbors' trailer. The two stowaways are elated until they reach their destination: a nudist camp...!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
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The Year of the First Kiss (2002)
Plot Summary:
31 year-old Tristan remembers the time when he was 15 and had just hit puberty. But he is not alone in this, he is with a large group of friends: Specki, a fat kid who is always stuffing himself, Streusel, a cheeky boy covered with spots, Tümai, a pretty Turkish girl, Kerstin, best friend of Tümai and very sporty, Elrond, with a heavy stutter, but regardless extremely popular and good looking, Lars and Simone, so far the only couple in the class who spend most of their time smooching and Long Jana, a girl who is at least 6 foot tall and extremely skinny.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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The French Kissers (2009)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age tale about an adolescent boy and his efforts to fit in amongst a varied cast of characters.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, realistic, not serious, sex comedy, hot, campy
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Wetlands (2013)
Plot Summary:
Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Hanging out most of her time with her friend Corinna, with whom she breaks one social taboo after another, she uses sex as a way to rebel and break the conventional bourgeois ethic. After an intimate shaving accident, Helen ends up in the hospital where it doesn’t take long before she makes waves. But there she finds Robin, a male nurse who will sweep her off her feet.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, sexy, erotic, controversial, intense, humorous, cynical, semi serious, surreal, art house
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Duck Season (2004)
Plot Summary:
Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, videogames, porn magazines, soft drinks and pizza delivery.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, meditative, stylized, humorous, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, contemplative, biting, light
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Losin' It (1982)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1965, four Los Angeles school friends -- Woody, Dave, Spider and Wendell -- go on a series of misadventures when they head to Tijuana, Mexico, for a night of cruisin', causing trouble, and to lose their virginity.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, funny, cult classic, independent film, surprise ending, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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So Long Suburbia (2016)
Plot Summary:
So Long Suburbia is a campy queer coming of age teen film. Can be watched here: https://vimeo.com/195164161 (Offical).
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: sexy, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, indie film, queer cinema, campy
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Identity Card (2010)
Plot Summary:
Hořká komedie režiséra Ondřeje Trojana Občanský průkaz na motivy stejnojmenné knihy Petra Šabacha sleduje osudy čtveřice dospívajících mladíků, jejich přátel, lásek a rodičů od okamžiku, kdy v patnácti letech dostanou občanský průkaz, až do chvíle, kdy se v osmnácti snaží uniknout vojně a pokoušejí se získat modrou knížku.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sincere, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative
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Come as You Are (2011)
Plot Summary:
Three young guys like wine and women. They tested wine with pleasure, but the second they have never been able to taste. Under the guise of a wine tour, the three plans a trip to Spain to finally have sex. Nothing will stop them. Certainly not the fact that the first guy is blind, the second is in a wheelchair and the third is completely paralyzed.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, sincere, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy, iconic, tragic
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These Girls (2005)
Plot Summary:
Based on the humorously edgy play by Vivienne Laxdal, These Girls is the story of three teenage girls who, in turn, seduce and then attempt to share Keith, an older married man. It is a tale of innocence, jealousy and friendship told as a provocative coming-of-age story.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy
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Cougars Inc. (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Sam learns his mother cannot afford to send him to another school after he is kicked out, he and his friends start their own escort service for mature women to pay for his tuition.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, semi serious, captivating, realistic, independent film, sexy, sexual, hot
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Funeral Kings (2012)
Plot Summary:
It's always a good day for a funeral at St. Mark's Middle School. Andy and Charlie, two altar servers, don't just get to miss class anytime a parishioner kicks the bucket, they cut out early and play hooky as soon as the service is over. Eventually their irreverent personalities will put them in a situation that is too big for them to handle.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, semi serious, independent film
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All I Want (2002)
Plot Summary:
Teenager Jones has opted not to go to college and is instead renting a room in a boarding house to work on his writing skills. Soon, Jones finds himself dividing his time between two women: a young actress named Lisa and a photographer named Jane. After Jane's ex-boyfriend arrives to help her recover from a car accident, Jones begins to understand just how much he cares for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, light, romantic, sweet, humorous, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, clever, enigmatic
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Kisses for Everyone (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three students are sent by their families to Cadiz in 1965, his last chance to pass and become what is expected of them. The appearance of some dancers disrupts their commitments: boys lose the course and girls, their work. But together they learn to decide their future.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, touching, manga, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Come As You Are (2019)
Plot Summary:
Three young men with disabilities embark on a road trip to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs to lose their virginity and embrace their independence. Inspired by a true story and remake of the Belgian film Hasta La Vista.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sincere, road movie, humorous, semi serious, cute
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Little Darlings (1980)
Plot Summary:
Two 15-year old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cult classic, sex comedy, teen sex comedy, funny, deep, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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The Be All and End All (2009)
Plot Summary:
At fifteen Robbie has only one thing on his mind - losing his virginity. The problem is that he's in hospital with a fatal heart condition. And who has to overcome the odds and help him fulfil his final wish? His best friend Ziggy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, captivating, sex comedy, sentimental, offbeat, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Short Skin (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ever since he was a child, the seventeen-yearold Edoardo has suffered from a malformation of the foreskin that stops him from masturbating and makes him insecure and ill at ease with girls. Shut up in his sexless microcosm, Edoardo reacts with irritation to the pressures of the outside world, which do nothing but exacerbate his insecurity.Forced against his will to emerge from the shadows in which he has hidden for years, Edoardo will initially try to solve his problem by clumsy stratagems before finding, at last, the courage to face his own fears.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, touching, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, sexy
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Spud (2010)
Plot Summary:
It's South Africa 1990. Two major events are about to happen: The release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, it's Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private boarding school. John Milton is a boy from an ordinary background who wins a scholarship to a private school in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. Surrounded by boys with nicknames like Gecko, Rambo, Rain Man and Mad Dog, Spud has his hands full trying to adapt to his new home. Along the way Spud takes his first tentative steps along the path to manhood. (The path it seems could be a rather long road). Spud is an only child. He is cursed with parents from well beyond the lunatic fringe and a senile granny. His dad is a fervent anti-communist who is paranoid that the family domestic worker is running a shebeen from her room at the back of the family home. His mom is a free spirit and a teenager's worst nightmare, whether it's shopping for Spud's underwear in the local supermarket.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, realistic, feel good, parody, serious, emotional, independent film
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Kick'n Rush (2003)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around Jakob, Bo and Mikkel - three friends who spend their days lusting over unattainable women and engaging in a variety of illegal activities (i.e. they'll rent a movie and then break into a house to watch it). After he's assigned to work with Mathilde on a school project, Jakob finds himself falling for the girl - despite the fact that Mikkel has been secretly lusting after her for years.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious
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You're My Hero (2003)
Plot Summary:
Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. But he soon learns it's all about survival. Like Ramon, Spain is in transition (President Francisco Franco is about to die); it's a time of social upheaval marked by change, illusion and struggle.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, semi serious, captivating, humorous
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Staten Island Summer (2015)
Plot Summary:
Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, romantic, semi serious, sex comedy, realistic, sexy, feel good, melancholic