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Plot Summary:
For Janus his friend Tore is his big ideal: pretty, intelligent and self-confident. Janus is grateful for his friendship even though he is considered the court jester. When Tore falls in love with the beautiful and sweet girl Helle, Janus accepts his role as their highly loved third party. Helle's fashionable mother, however, is a bit too interested in Tore. Written by Allan Simonsen.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min
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Where Have All the Good Men Gone (2016)
Plot Summary:
Realizing that her unknown biological father is probably alive, Sofia leaves behind a degrading and humiliating life and embarks on a journey with her naive half-sister Olivia, both girls hoping to find the caring father figure they so desperately need.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, psychological, touching, captivating
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Dreams of Glass (1970)
Plot Summary:
Dreams of Glass is a Drama starring Danny DeVito.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
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Agnus Dei (1997)
Plot Summary:
The young girl Johanne is left by her mother at a solemn convent school. The school is a strange world to her, and when she feels unable to comply with the demands of faith she faces a difficult decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
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Wanna See My Beautiful Navel? (1978)
Plot Summary:
Coming of age, summer camp and first love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min
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Team Hurricane (2017)
Plot Summary:
A punk chick flick about teen girls that mixes highly stylized fictional elements with documentary material: loneliness, pussy-power, Kawaii, electric green, hentai, graffiti, vibrators, friendship, teddy bears, resting bitch face, ART, fire, fear, bubble-gum, mom & dad, anorexia, cactuses, homemade piercings, nail art, cherries, cutting, dolphins, Lolita, secret diaries and daydreaming. Radical girls in an ordinary world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min
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A Sort of Homecoming (2015)
Plot Summary:
A Sort of Homecoming tells the story of Amy, a New York news producer who thought she left her high school experiences long in the past. She unexpectedly returns to Louisiana at the request of her high school debate coach. Their strained reunion brings back memories of her tumultuous senior year of high school.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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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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The Evening Dress (2009)
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Like many of her classmates, 12 year old tomboy Juliette has a crush on Mrs. Solenska, a teacher distinguished by stylish attire and an uninhibited, provocative classroom demeanor. Juliette's fascination turns into all-consuming obsession, forcing revelations from both the girl and her teacher.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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While We Live (2017)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by true events, "While We Live" follows four people in Northern Denmark and how their fates intertwine in a tragic accident.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, tense, rough, suspense
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A Friend's Betrayal (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two childhood friends grow up. One has a family and the other has a career. One relationship may make or break a family. Paul, the teenage son, must decide what he wants for his future. While family would like to make that decision for him. Watch as all the truth unravels in this drama/ romance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, ridiculous
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A Swedish Love Story (1970)
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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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Hala (2019)
Plot Summary:
Meet 17-year-old Hala, who struggles to balance being a suburban teenager with her traditional Muslim upbringing. As she comes into her own, Hala finds herself grappling with a secret that threatens to unravel her family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, inspirational
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My Good Enemy (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sensitive 12-year-old Alf is the low man on his class' totem pole, and he's sick of it. Forming a secret, Machiavellian alliance with another student who also has grown weary of being bullied, he hatches a plan to throw a wrench into the well-oiled gears of the school social order. Everything seems to go according to plan, until Alf discovers that turning the tables on his tormentors has its own dire consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, contemplative
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Boys (1977)
Plot Summary:
This non-narrative film unveils three episodes in the psychosexual life of a neurotic man, beginning with a trip he took to the countryside over the holidays as a small boy, to visit a cousin. Later, he is shown as a high-school boy (Mads Ole Erhadsen). Finally, he is shown as a young man, busily engaged in the amorous pursuit of a trainee nurse.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: no music
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32A (2007)
Plot Summary:
This story is set in the "in-between" time of a girl's life, when she is no longer a child and not yet a woman. We open with our heroine, Maeve, putting on her new snow white bra, and stepping out into the world as a young woman. She has an obsession with breasts and bras and can't help but stare at other girls and women, even the head nun doesn't escape her gaze. Otherwise, her world revolves around her three friends, Ruth, Claire and Orla, who are more experienced in the ways of the world. They wear bras already (except Claire the feminist) and they've all had boyfriends. The new bra is a start but they really hope Maeve can find a fella, even offering kissing lessons to prepare her. What no one expects, least of all Maeve, is that she should snare the local sixteen-year old heartthrob. Maeve is so smitten with him that she lets her friends down when they need her the most.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Red and the Blue (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story of a teacher and his students, set in an Italian high school.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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One for All (2020)
Plot Summary:
A substitute teacher takes on a job as a year 6 class teacher in a village he does not know. He has to help a student adjust back into school, although none of his classmates want him there.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, social
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Hold Me Tight (2010)
Plot Summary:
I skoletimerne sender Mikkel prøvende blikke til klassens stille og indelukkede pige, Sara, der er smigret over opmærksomheden. Da Mikkel og hans ven Hassan leger flirtende med hende i et frikvarter, bliver Hassans kæreste, Louise, jaloux og begynder at sprede ondsindede rygter om Sara. Louises hævn udvikler sig hurtigt til mobning og det, der er værre.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: crying
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Stolen Spring (1993)
Plot Summary:
At their 25th high-school anniversary some bourgeois citizens remember their time in school as a happy one. In reality it was quite the contrary. The school was a madhouse in which the teachers, especially Blomme, tormented the students. As a result one of them became a murderer.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, serious, realistic
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100% Coco (2017)
Plot Summary:
13 year old Coco loves fashion and has her own unique style. She dreams of becoming a famous fashion icon. But on her first day of school she is made fun of and everyone calls her 'Coco the Clown'. Devastated, she decides to leave her vintage dresses, panther boots and striped socks at home and to dress herself more unnoticeable. Her anonymously kept fashion vlog as Style Tiger is a huge hit however. Is there still a chance that she will become a style icon? And does Bruno, that quirky boy she knows from school and secretly likes, finally notice her? Slowly Coco learns that she just has to be 100% herself!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Tree of Knowledge (1981)
Plot Summary:
As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: cult classic, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual, crying, sexy
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Adrift (2009)
Plot Summary:
A 1980s-set drama about a teenage girl undergoing her sexual awakening when she learns about her father's infidelities.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, touching, serious, realistic, teen, spectacular, stylized, gloomy, sexual
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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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Rebounce (2011)
Plot Summary:
REBOUNCE is a colorful, tough and powerful film featuring Frederikke Dahl Hansen in the leading role. She plays opposite Anne Sofie Espersen and Dar Salim, and despite being only 16 years old she portrays toughness, charm, and vulnerability admirably. REBOUNCE is an intense drama. Louise's mother is just out of prison and in the eyes of a teenager she's cool, tough and enchanting. To win her love, Louise follows her lead and enters a world of partying, drugs, fast cash and men. Meanwhile, everyone seems to forget that she is just a teenager.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: realistic, rough, captivating, emotional, psychological, tense, serious
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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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A Gentle Breeze in the Village (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on a popular manga, the film is a tender coming-of-age love story set deep in Japan's countryside. When eighth grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small elementary/middle school with only six kids enrolled, wholesome and honest Soyo becomes enthralled with his sophisticated world.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing, romantic
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Scratch (2003)
Plot Summary:
A story of young love and early life choices.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, realistic, semi serious, humorous
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Juze (2017)
Plot Summary:
Growing up tale of a young boy in the context of changing labour patterns and exploitation in Goa.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: India, France, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, sexy, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Natasha (2015)
Plot Summary:
Natasha takes place over the course of one summer. It is the story of Mark Berman, 16, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants living in the suburbs north of Toronto. When his uncle enters into an arranged marriage with woman from Moscow, the woman arrives in Canada with her fourteen year-old daughter, Natasha. Mark, a slacker, is conscripted by his parents to take responsibility for the strange girl. He learns that, in Moscow, she’d led a troubled and promiscuous life. A secret and forbidden romance begins between the two of them that has bizarre and tragic consequences for everyone involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, touching, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative
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Odd Girl Out (2005)
Plot Summary:
A mother and her daughter confront the intimidation of teen peer pressure and the emotionally brutalizing social rituals of high school.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, exciting, captivating, touching, suspenseful, sad, teen