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Plot Summary:
A teenager in an English town struggles to come of age, braving sexual awakening and fighting her controlling parents by refusing to eat...until a nightmarish ghost appears that may be real, or may be a deadly creation of her starving body.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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The Channel (2016)
Plot Summary:
After surviving a near-death experience, a teenager discovers that she's become a channel for an evil spirit's entry into her life.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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To Kill the Beast (2021)
Plot Summary:
Emilia arrives at her Aunt Inés' hostel located on the Argentina-Brazil border, looking for her missing brother. In this lush jungle a dangerous beast which takes the form of different animals seems to be roaming around.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Brazil, Chile
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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Fistful of Flies (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sixteen-year-old Mars wants more from her life than just a fistful of flies which, to her, is a fistful of nothing. Stifled and dominated by her family, Mars just wants to be free. Denied relationships with the people who truly understand her, Mars battles her family on her own, and in her quest to be treated as a grown-up she gives her mother the courage to act and forces her father to make the choice of his life. A story about how a young girl finally finds the courage to have faith in herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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An Appointment with Mr. Vield (2017)
Plot Summary:
Samantha Anthony is a teenage girl who has been forced to deal with situations, which have made her wise far beyond her years. She's had to watch her mother spiral out-of-control while addicted to the drug meth. Lost a baby brother to CPS as a result. And blames Mr. Vield for both. As a result, she turns to a rather unusual solution for how to eradicate him from her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Rough Winds (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three devastating teenage stories fuse beneath the calm of a quiet, average neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: teen
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Spring (1971)
Plot Summary:
One of four Hanoun films that take their titles from the seasons of the year, SPRING tells two parallel stories: a man, fleeing the forces of order, takes refuge in the forest, while a young girl living with her grandmother in a nearby village approaches the threshold of adolescence, and begins to discover both the world and herself. - Anthology Film Archive.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 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
Plot tags:
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Dying to Dance (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young man must teach a woman to dance - at any cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: inspirational, thought provoking
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Maramao (1987)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age story in which a young boy resists the adult world and the inevitable loss of the joys of childhood.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Mean Dreams (2016)
Plot Summary:
When two youngsters meet and fall for each other, they must go on the run from the girl's corrupt father, who is also the sheriff of the town.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, cliffhanger, dark, crime drama, cult classic
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Time of Her Life (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two ghosts, separated by time, who have roamed the grounds of a historic English mansion, searching for each other are brought together by Ally (LAURA PENNEYCARD), a photography student who is experiencing dreams she can't explain and Emmett (GEOFF SHAW), the son of a wealthy industrialist. Emmett befriends Ally and together they unravel the truth behind the disappearance of his long lost love, Catherine a beautiful servant girl. However, Ally must first overcome her fears of his ghostly appearance before she can help Emmett find Catherine and reunite their love. Shot in the beautiful location of Hylands House, this lavish drama with a supernatural theme, leads you through past and present in a series of spine-chilling nightmares, ghostly appearances and suspenseful chase sequences, which moves into a beautiful romance tale, drawing on all your senses from the outset.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, period drama
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The Oyster and the Wind (1997)
Plot Summary:
A young girl named Marcela lives with her dad, Jose, a lighthouse keeper, and old Daniel on an island. The only contact the girl has with the world outside her home is by a boat with four sailors that pays a visit to the island in order to take them supplies. Daniel, who not only protects her from her dad's strictness but also teaches her how to be literate, is her source of tenderness. Her dad thinks she should be away from the world - though she wishes she could spend a few days in town. Then one day, as she has her first period and becomes a woman, she starts feeling sexuality through the blowing wind, which she talks to.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Fantasy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic drama
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Little Miss Perfect (2016)
Plot Summary:
An overambitious high school freshman tries to control her life by controlling her weight.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, thought provoking, suspense
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Before the Rooster Crows (2016)
Plot Summary:
Teenager Carmín lives in a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico with her tough and conservative grandmother. Her mother left for the US without her. The arrival of her father, after long years in prison, eases Carmín’s profound sadness. The relationship with him, however, brings its own ambiguousness and complexities and as Carmín moves into womanhood this causes great confusion, mostly for her.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Don't Knock Twice (2016)
Plot Summary:
A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, mystical, suspense, spooky, enigmatic, bleak, suspenseful, tense, rough, disturbing
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One and Two (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two siblings discover a supernatural escape from a troubled home, but find their bond tested when reality threatens to tear their family apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy, suspense, dark, stylized, gloomy
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Backtrack (2015)
Plot Summary:
Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers a horrifying secret that all of his patients share, he is put on a course that takes him back to the small hometown he fled years ago. There he confronts his demons and unravels a mystery 20 years in the making.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological thriller, bleak, touching, suspenseful, tense, scary, psychological, psychedelic, suspense thriller
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In Dreams (1999)
Plot Summary:
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing, intense, serious, atmospheric, spiritual, mystical
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Before I Wake (2016)
Plot Summary:
About an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological, spooky, atmospheric, suspense, post-horror, psychological thriller, inspirational
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Make Up (2019)
Plot Summary:
After Ruth moves in with her boyfriend in a remote holiday park, tensions rise as she makes an unsettling discovery that lures her into a spiral of obsession.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, psychological thriller, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, suspense thriller, queer cinema
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When Friendship Kills (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two friends keep their vomiting a secret until one friend almost dies.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional
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My Skinny Sister (2015)
Plot Summary:
Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. The disease slowly tears the family apart. A story about jealousy, love and betrayal told with warmth, depth and laughter - on and off the ice.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, realistic, captivating, sexy, neurotic
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Blaze (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a young girl witnesses a violent crime, she summons an imaginary dragon to help process her anger and protect her on her journey into womanhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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I Kill Giants (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sophia, a new high school student, tries to make friends with Barbara, who tells her that “she kills giants,” protecting this way her hometown and its inhabitants, who do not understand her strange behavior.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, Belgium, Denmark, UK, Sweden, China
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sad, psychological, atmospheric, rough, surprise ending, heartbreaking, dramatic, stylized, motivational, psychedelic
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The Invisible (2002)
Plot Summary:
A teenager is assaulted and killed, but returns as a ghost to find his killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, tense, esoteric, bleak, serious, psychotronic
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The Invisible (2007)
Plot Summary:
After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, South Africa, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, teen, sad, scary, psychological thriller, teen horror, horror comedy
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The Woman in Black (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 191000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Sweden
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, scary, atmospheric, terrifying, suspenseful, twist ending, dark, creepy
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Fear (1996)
Plot Summary:
A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexual, psychological, suspenseful, sexy, suspense, psychological thriller, teen, neo noir, serious, erotic
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The Lovely Bones (2009)
Plot Summary:
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: emotional, dark, psychological, suspense, surreal, serious, tense, scary, visual, visually stunning
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Ginger Snaps (2000)
Plot Summary:
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: gothic, scary, dark comedy, dark, suspense, psychological, slasher, cult classic, teen, rough