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Plot Summary:
Willy, a middle-aged divorcee, decides to take his 15 year-old son, Thomas, on holiday to Ibiza, staying at an isolated villa on the unspoilt part of the coast. Thomas insists on bringing his friend Juliette, a girl of his own age with whom he enjoys a close platonic relationship. When it comes to physical love, Juliette is wise beyond her years. She will only sleep with men older than herself and has no intention of committing herself to a long-term relationship. As the holiday progresses, Juliette realises that Willy is attracted to her. She confides in Thomas that she will seduce his father and then reject him, in the hope that she can rid herself of his unwelcome attentions. Unaware of this subterfuge, Willy is torn between his physical attraction towards the teenage girl and his love for his son.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Unexpected Summer (1965)
Plot Summary:
The aging and divorced writer Johannes Mørk relives intoxicating infatuation of his youth when his teenage daughter Eva, along with two young girlfriends, sweeps into his lazy southern home. Mørk has long revolved around his own problems with feelings of guilt for the failed marriage. Lone, one of his daughter's friends, makes a strong impression on him, and soon something will begin to develop between them. This awakening leads him to resume his relationship with his ex-wife. This especially affects his daughter Eva, who has been afraid to commit because she is a child of divorced parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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A Summer's Tale (1996)
Plot Summary:
A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: art house, artsy, anthology, cute, sincere, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, talky
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A Swedish Love Story (1970)
Plot Summary:
The youngsters puppy love is set against a backdrop of adults that struggle with their own lives. Her fathers feeling of misery and failure at work, her aunts unhappiness as an unmarried woman without kids of her own. His father work at the paintshop-business and his worries about the mentally ill grandfather. Against the adults the young couples love is so sweet and sensual, so innocent and beautiful. As a couple in love, they don't care about anything but themselves and seems totally unaware about everything that surrounds them.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: erotic, sentimental, powerful, aesthetic, cult film
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Keeper (2015)
Plot Summary:
Maxime and Mélanie are a typical teenage couple. Like most lovestruck fifteen-year-olds, they can't get enough of each other and they think they'll be together forever. But when Mélanie becomes pregnant, their worlds are rocked.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Switzerland, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, tense, sentimental, captivating, contemplative, unusual plot structure
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Fresh Horses (1988)
Plot Summary:
A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a party. She says she's 20, but he finds out she's 16 and married to an abusive husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Red Kiss (1985)
Plot Summary:
1952, Paris. Nadia, a Red Diaper baby, has a sister, Polish parents, and at 15 is an active Communist. When cops beat her during an anti-American demonstration, she's rescued by a "Match" photographer. As the friendship becomes a love affair and her slogans are tested by new knowledge and emotion, some of the Red youth want to expel her. When she goes with Stéphane to a seaside photo shoot, her father goes to the police. Stéphane faces charges, so leaving to cover the war in Indochina looks appealing. In a parallel story, Nadia's mother meets again her prewar lover, released from Siberia, who challenges the French Reds with very real scars and word of Stalin's anti-Semitism.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Molly Maxwell (2013)
Plot Summary:
At Phoenix Progressive School, students take notes lying on parlor couches and are encouraged to explore their gifts through electives like break-dancing and graphic-novel writing. In the midst of all this liberal pedagogy and budding talent, Molly Maxwell feels unexceptional, until she embarks on a photography independent study under the tutelage of her attractive English teacher, Ben. Their relationship quickly evolves beyond the darkroom, introducing Molly to the throes of a first love, and putting Ben’s job in jeopardy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, independent film
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Cheerleader (2016)
Plot Summary:
Cheerleader dives into the mind of a teenager as she tries desperately to win her boyfriend back.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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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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To Our Loves (1983)
Plot Summary:
A portrait of youth in bloom; a tale of one family's dissolution; a reflection upon the danger and the mystery in living. Sandrine Bonnaire plays Suzanne, a free spirit and the vessel for an almost Brontëan choler. She's 16, and men exist — diverse lovers, an overbearing brother, and the father portrayed by director Maurice Pialat himself in an unforgettable turn that displays the full magnitude of the cinema giant's tenderness, force-of-will, and presence of being.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic, retro, anthology, art house, sensual, crying, psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film follows Victor, a Lower East Side teenager, as he deals with his eccentric family, including his strict grandmother, his bratty sister, and a younger brother who completely idolizes him. Along the way he tries to win the affections of Judy, who is very careful and calculating when it comes to how she deals with men.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, harsh, cynical, stylized, semi serious, humorous, realistic, crying, sexy
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Stepfather (1981)
Plot Summary:
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, psychological, sensual, serious, talky, controversial, anthology, stylized, sexual
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White Wedding (1989)
Plot Summary:
The plot centres around moody 17 year old Mathilde (Paradis) who has no parents. Her philosophy teacher François (Cremer), happens to stumble across her path and is eager to help her learn more. He starts to come over to her house everyday going over her homework, and teaching her the art of the study. Eventually, Mathilde starts placing little hints that she finds the 47 year old François attractive. He tries to resist her, but he finds himself falling for her as well. They soon blossom into a passionate love, but they must keep their affair a secret from his wife (Mikaël) and the school.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, sexual, sentimental, emotional, realistic, retro, neo noir, art house, deep, poetic
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Laura (1979)
Plot Summary:
A blinded French sculptor completes a statue of a friend's daughter by using his sense of touch.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexy, controversial, serious, realistic, sexual, beautiful
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All Summers End (2017)
Plot Summary:
A teenager tries to deal with his guilty conscience after his role in a prank that causes the death of his girlfriend's older brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, rough, touching, romantic, independent film, family comedy, romantic comedy, contemplative
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JJ+E (2021)
Plot Summary:
Elisabeth and John-John live in the same city, but they inhabit different worlds.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, teen
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Dangerous Liaisons (2022)
Plot Summary:
The innocent Célène might be falling in love with popular surfer Tristan at her new school. But she has no idea that, in actuality, she’s the object of a cruel bet between Tristan and Instagram influencer Vanessa.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Summer '03 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A 16-year-old girl and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, humorous, sexy, teen, captivating
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The Man in the Moon (1991)
Plot Summary:
Maureen Trant and her younger sibling Dani share a strong connection, but local boy Court Foster threatens to throw their bond off balance. Dani and Court meet first and have a flirtatious rapport -- but when he meets Maureen, he falls hard and they begin a passionate affair. The new couple try to keep their love hidden from Dani, but she soon learns the truth, disavowing her sister. But a heartbreaking accident later reunites the girls.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: emotional, romantic, cute, sad, tear jerker, period piece, sentimental, touching, gothic, feel good
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Summer of '42 (1971)
Plot Summary:
Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in love with the older Dorothy, who's married to an army pilot. When her husband returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her. Written by Bob Dawson.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, touching, sad, serious, captivating, realistic, crying, weeping, romantic drama
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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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Tanner Hall (2009)
Plot Summary:
Tanner Hall is a vivid peek into the private world of an all-girls boarding school. In a cozy, but run down New England, the knot of adolescent complexity is unraveled through the coming of age stories of four teen-age girls.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, atmospheric, realistic, independent film, captivating, deep, teen, gloomy
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Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two high school students become stranded on a tropical island and must rely on each other for survival. They learn more about themselves and each other while falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, touching, teen, sexual, romantic comedy, feel good, sensual, thrilling, serious
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Now Is Good (2012)
Plot Summary:
A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sad, emotional, romantic, heartbreaking, teen, sentimental, tear jerker, realistic, romantic drama, intense
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Along for the Ride (2022)
Plot Summary:
The summer before college, Auden meets the mysterious Eli, a fellow insomniac. While the seaside town of Colby sleeps, the two embark on nightly quests to help Auden experience the fun, carefree teen life she never knew she wanted.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, disturbing, psychological, romantic comedy, teen
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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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Lolita (1997)
Plot Summary:
Urbane professor Humbert Humbert marries a New England widow to be near her nymphet daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, sexual, sexy, melancholic, disturbing, cynical, sensual, romantic, intellectual
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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
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Water Lilies (2007)
Plot Summary:
Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: romantic, serious, realistic, sexy, psychological, sexual, erotic, sad, anthology, art house
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After (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young woman falls for a guy with a dark secret and the two embark on a rocky relationship.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, emotional, light, atmospheric, touching, lyrical, erotic, saga, scenic