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Plot Summary:
It's 1955. Lenny is a 14-year old boy who is totally fascinated by sex. He is too scared to "do it," so he dedicates his summer to seeing two other people do it. Easier said than done. Caught in the act of spying, his mother and stepfather ship him off to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in "the country" -- Queens. His plan looks like a bust and his summer seems destined for boredom, until he meets a whole new group of friends -- young teens who have a "sex club.".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, sexual, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, period piece
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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based on Michael Chabon's novel, the film chronicles the defining summer of a recent college graduate who crosses his gangster father and explores love, sexuality, and the enigmas surrounding his life and his city.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Bahrain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, sexy, offbeat, semi serious, sexual
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Kelly & Cal (2014)
Plot Summary:
Punk-rocker turned suburban mom, Kelly, is nostalgic for a life she can no longer have and uncertain of a future she doesn’t yet fit in. Seventeen-year-old Cal is frustrated at his lack of control over the hand he's been dealt. When the two strike up an unlikely friendship, it's the perfect spark needed to thrust them both back to life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, indie film, independent film
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Oh, What a Night (1992)
Plot Summary:
During the summer of 1955, seventeen-year-old Eric Hansen embarks on a journey in his new town, a journey which will change his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, emotional, independent film, touching, realistic
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Sex & the Other Man (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Bill catches his girlfriend and her boss in bed, an unusual cure for impotence is found.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, raunchy, sexy, independent film, hot
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Breast Men (1997)
Plot Summary:
We follow the two Texas doctors who invented the modern breast implant and its surgical procedure. However, when success and money come their way, they split up and follow different paths. One becomes the surgeon of the everyday woman while the other's career freefalls and has to settle with strippers and actresses. The film covers their history, and their invention's, from the sixties until today.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, clever, humorous, captivating, realistic, cynical, semi serious
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Dirty Weekend (2015)
Plot Summary:
During a layover in Albuquerque, work colleagues Les and Natalie discover more about each other than they ever thought possible. Anxious and irritable, Les is drawn back into the city by past experiences he can’t forget (even if he doesn't really remember the particulars of his previous drunken adventure). Natalie, refusing to leave his side, follows along as her own secrets are slowly revealed, leaving her feeling both vulnerable and unbound.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, independent film
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Tadpole (2002)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. On the train home from Chauncey Academy for the Thanksgiving weekend, Oscar confides in his best friend that he has plans for this vacation--he will win the heart of his true love. But there is one major problem--Oscar's true love is his stepmother Eve. Oscar is certain that he could be a better mate to Eve than his work-obsessed father. He fails to win Eve's heart and is consequently dejected. Oscar's path to his true love is further crossed by Diane, Eve's best friend who, one night while wearing Eve's borrowed perfumed scarf, offers him temporary comfort in an unconventional tryst. For Diane, Oscar fills a void in her life. For Oscar, Diane is somewhat of a distraction, as his continued pursuit of Eve leads to an unexpected resolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, funny, sweet, talky, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Cousins in Love (1980)
Plot Summary:
Teenage Julien (Thierry Tevini) loves his teenage cousin Julia (Anja Shute) among flowers in summer of '39 France.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, sensual, romantic, controversial, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere
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The Other Side of Sunday (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Other Side of Sunday, also known in Norwegian as "Søndagsengler", is a movie that criticizes the small, and often tight, church community. We follow the Preacher's Daughter, Maria, on her journey to liberate herself from the stiff church community and her father.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, sexual, sentimental, road movie, sexy, touching
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Lost in Yonkers (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, psychological, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, sexy
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Alex in Wonder (2001)
Plot Summary:
A girl in the 1970s dreams of becoming a ballerina while struggling with the divorce of her kooky parents.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, light, humorous, entertaining, twisted, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, independent film
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The Wild Life (1984)
Plot Summary:
Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, funny, sex comedy, retro, feel good, sexy, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Hot Bubblegum (1981)
Plot Summary:
Momo and Yudale take turns mounting Bentzi's foreign buxom cousin, but Yudale and her get stuck together. Momo raises the bar even further by proving the rumors of an accepting older buxom piano tutor, Fritzi. Bentzi looks for love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, teen sex comedy, humorous, not serious, feel good, sex comedy, sexual, sexy, sentimental, semi serious
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An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sentimental, psychological, touching, humorous, emotional, sincere, semi serious, retro, independent film, romantic comedy
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Easy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Quirky Jamie Harris (Marguerite Moreau) has a big problem: She's a magnet for less-than-kind men as she hops beds. But things start to look up when she becomes the object of affection of two seemingly normal guys, Mick (Brian O'Byrne) and John (Naveen Andrews). Unfortunately, there's the immense problem of her self-imposed 90-day moratorium on sex. Emily Deschanel co-stars as Jamie's sister, Laura.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, witty, erotic, clever, realistic, talky, semi serious, sexual
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Cherry (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ivy League Freshman, Aaron Milton (17) gets a different kind of education when he falls for Linda (34) a vivacious former wild-child who has returned to college to straighten out her life. The curriculum gets more challenging when Aaron meets Linda's sarcastic 14 year-old daughter, Beth - who quickly develops a crush on him. The math doesn't work in either direction but the dysfunctional triangle becomes a learning experience for all involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, independent film, light, feel good, teen, erotic, offbeat, sex comedy, sentimental
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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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Bastards of Young (2013)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to adulthood! When two early-30s couples celebrate their last annual Halloween party in New York, they are confronted with sex, lies, and unspoken drama which tests their relationships and futures.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Class (1983)
Plot Summary:
Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the cocktail lounges of nearby Chicago, where he meets and beds the alluring Ellen, who unfortunately turns out to be Skip's mother. The division between the friends is further deepened when a cheating scandal engulfs the school.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, erotic, sexy, sexual, touching, entertaining, scenic, independent film, sentimental
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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)
Plot Summary:
Nancy Stokes doesn’t know good sex. Whatever it may be, Nancy, a retired schoolteacher, is pretty sure she has never had it, but she is determined to finally do something about that. She even has a plan: It involves an anonymous hotel room, and a young sex worker who calls himself Leo Grande.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: philosophical, humorous, emotional, powerful, independent film, weird
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Private Lessons (1981)
Plot Summary:
Phillip Filmore is a naive, 15-year-old, preoccupied with sex, who develops a crush on Nicole Mallow, the new 30-something, French housekeeper and sitter to look after him when Phillip's father is out of town for the summer on a "business" trip. But Mr. Filmore's unscrupulous chauffeur, Lester Lewis, takes advantage of Phillip's crush on Nicole to hire her to seduce the youth, then draws her into a plot to fake her own death in a blackmail scheme aimed to drain Phillip's trust fund.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, teen sex comedy, humorous, sexual, semi serious, sex comedy, controversial, sensual, realistic
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My Best Friend's Wife (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two friends are about to learn that they are "Grownups.".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, sexy, sensual, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy
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Angie (1994)
Plot Summary:
Angie lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y. and dreams of a better life than everyone she knows. When she finds that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Vinnie, she decides that she will have the baby, but not Vinnie as a husband. This turns the entire neighborhood upside down and starts her on a journey of self discovery. This journey includes her family, a new lover and her life. Even her best friend Tina has trouble understanding Angie. Written by Tony Fontana.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: intense, sentimental, touching, entertaining, anamorphic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, inspirational
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Diggers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as their grandfathers before them. They must cope with and learn to face the changing times in both their personal lives and their neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, realistic, witty, semi serious, period piece, independent film, biting, suspense
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A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988)
Plot Summary:
A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he comes to understand his parents and eventually bonds with his father.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, touching, entertaining, sex comedy, realistic, erotic, romantic, sexy
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Murmur of the Heart (1971)
Plot Summary:
In the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself between the urge to discover love and the ever-present, dominating affection of his mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sexy, disturbing, touching, sentimental, controversial, erotic, art house, sex comedy, funny, inspirational
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Acne (2008)
Plot Summary:
At the age of 13, Rafael Bregman has already lost his virginity, but has never kissed a girl. With his pimple-riddled face, his dysfunctional family, and a lowered self-esteem, getting this much anticipated first kiss proves trickier than expected. It's now time for Rafa to build up some self confidence and attract the attention of his class mate, Nicole.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Spain, Mexico, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, psychological, captivating, sex comedy, touching, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Men, Women & Children (2014)
Plot Summary:
Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: realistic, sexy, bad ending, dramatic, stylized, humorous, serious, semi serious, independent film, touching
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The Girl Next Door (2004)
Plot Summary:
Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor, Danielle. But Matthew's bright future is jeopardized when he finds Danielle was once a porn star. As Danielle's past catches up with her, Matthew's love for her forces him to re-evaluate his goals.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 236000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, teen sex comedy, romantic, teen, sexual, romantic comedy, feel good, funny, hilarious
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The Last American Virgin (1982)
Plot Summary:
The friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy, touching, melancholic, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, erotic