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Plot Summary:
A high school track star's wedding plans are capsized by venereal disease and a bad, beautiful new girl in town. His coach and a physician steer him into the light again.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Susan Slade (1961)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant teen allows her mother to pass the baby off as her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: soap opera, cult film
Similar in 84%
Lifeguard (1976)
Plot Summary:
Rick is a Los Angeles County lifeguard who is in his thirties. At his 15-year high school reunion, he sees his old girlfriend who is now a divorced mother. After falling in love with her, Rick considers changing his career and lifestyle.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, talky, semi serious
Similar in 88%
Love Finds You in Charm (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young Amish woman, who isn't satisfied with her path at home, visits a cousin for the summer. Over the summer, she is exposed to another world, finds friendship and more. Soon she must choose and come to terms with the life she wants.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, sincere, touching, contemplative
Similar in 81%
Only Once (1998)
Plot Summary:
Greg and Kellie are two well adjusted and highly-motivated teenagers, from happy homes with loving parents. They find they have much in common, including their future college goals, their love of family and the Lord. They fall in love and into temptation "Only Once." Their love and their faith are put to the test. Can they find the courage and inner strength to do what is right.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film
Similar in 89%
Sweet Temptation (1996)
Plot Summary:
Jade is a sixteen year old girl with all the problems a teenager faces. Moreover, her parents are divorced and she lives with her mother Jesse. Jesse falls in love with Billy, a much younger man who is also divorced and has two little kids. When Billy comes to live with her mother, Jade feels really uncomfortable; and maybe she is attracted to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, touching
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Garden of Children (1981)
Plot Summary:
Two people deal with their problems.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: crying, freeze frame
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Family Film (2015)
Plot Summary:
A couple embark on an early vacation. Left alone, their children cut loose until the boy gets caught for skipping school and things take an unexpected turn. Boasting exquisite camera work, the film is also unforgettable for its wholly original ending.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovenia, France, Slovakia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, captivating, melancholic, sad, suspenseful, poignant, crying
Similar in 79%
The Young Lovers (1964)
Plot Summary:
A carefree college student has to face up to responsibility when his girlfriend announces she's pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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A Smell of Honey, a Swallow of Brine (1966)
Plot Summary:
Sharon is a young office worker who sexually teases, seduces and then cries 'rape' on various men just to see them emotionally suffer for her own man-hating, twisted amusement leading to one lovestruck boyfriend being sent to prison, the financial ruin of another, and the meltdown and death of a third victim.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, weird, cult film
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The Starling Girl (2023)
Plot Summary:
17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: crying
Similar in 82%
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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For My Daughter's Honor (1996)
Plot Summary:
In Tate, Oklahoma a popular coach, Pete Nash, is accused of having a sexual relation with 14 years old Amy, one of his school's pupils.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: emotional, sincere, touching, serious, realistic
Similar in 77%
The Hard Road (1973)
Plot Summary:
A cautionary tale. At 17, Sherman Oaks high schooler Pam Banner has a baby out of wedlock. The baby is adopted, but Pam's too embarrassed to go back to school, so her dad gets her a job as the receptionist for a talent agent. A rock star takes her to a party, seduces and abandons her; that starts a spiral of partying, free love, and drug use. Pam becomes friends with Jeannie, a hooker who supports Jimmy, a useless druggie. Soon the three of them are living together, and Jimmy seems appealing to Pam. She's missing work more and more often, Jeannie wants out of the life, Jimmy is going through withdrawal, and Pam is in the middle of a maelstrom. Is there any exit for Pam?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychedelic, psychotronic, tragic ending, independent film, cult film
Similar in 78%
Tape (2001)
Plot Summary:
A three-character ensemble piece set within the confines of a tawdry motor lodge in Lansing, Michigan. After 10 years apart, three disparate people come together to play out the unresolved drama of their final days in high school. Intrigued, we watch as layers of denial are slowly peeled away. Suspense builds as each character is provoked into revealing his or her true nature and motivation. Mesmerized, we are drawn into their lives as they choose which cards to play and which cards to hold.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, minimal cast, independent film, cerebral, sincere, suspenseful, entirely dialogue, clever, realistic
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Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life (2005)
Plot Summary:
A high school kid (Sumpter) develops an addiction to Internet porn so intense that it begins to destroy his life and tear his family apart.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, sexual, christian film, sexy, ridiculous
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It Felt Like Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
Fourteen-year-old Lila is experiencing an ennui-filled Brooklyn summer. She awkwardly wears a Kabuki-esque mask of sunscreen at the beach and plays third wheel to Chiara, her more experienced friend, and Chiara’s boyfriend, Patrick. Determined to have a love interest of her own, a bravado-filled Lila pursues Sammy, a tough but handsome older boy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, realistic, erotic, sexy, captivating, underground film, psychological, social, sincere
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Cruel Intentions 2 (2000)
Plot Summary:
This takes place several years before Cruel Intentions, back to when Kathryn first meets Sebastian, their sexual attraction to each other and their enjoyment in destroying the lives of their peers.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, cynical, semi serious, erotic, sexual, sensual, suspense, sex comedy, romantic drama, twisted
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Melissa P. (2005)
Plot Summary:
An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, sensual, tense, sincere, rough, realistic, erotic, sexual, psychological, romantic
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Ask Me Anything (2014)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful, wild, funny, and lost, Katie Kampenfelt takes a year off before college to find herself, all the while chronicling her adventures in an anonymous blog into which she pours her innermost secrets. Eventually, Katie's fearless narrative begins to crack, and dark pieces of her past emerge.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, sexy, psychological, touching, dramatic, intense, independent film, sexual
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Stephanie Daley (2006)
Plot Summary:
Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon afterward, the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. Despite Stephanie's insistence that her child was stillborn and that she had no idea that she was pregnant, she is arrested for the murder of the child.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, serious, rough, suspense, cult classic, tense, sincere, clever, bleak
Similar in 87%
The Alley Tramp (1968)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl sets out on a sexual odyssey of having affairs with various men including her mother's secret boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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She's Too Young (2004)
Plot Summary:
A mother/daughter relationship is thrown off balance when the mother (Marcia Gay Harden) discovers that her "good girl" daughter (Alexis Dziena) is part of a group who are engaging in sexual activities with multiple partners. Such activity results in an outbreak of sexually transmitted diseases.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, teen, sexual, crying, sexy, ridiculous
Similar in 88%
Blame (2017)
Plot Summary:
A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high school that draws parallels to 'The Crucible'.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, talky, atmospheric, touching, thought provoking, stylized, teen, double entendre
Similar in 87%
Jack (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jack, in full puberty, not only has to deal with his parents' divorce, but also feels his world is falling apart when his dad tells him he is living with a man. He slowly comes to terms with his own feelings when the girl he has a crush on turn out to have a gay dad as well and his best friend's parents end up not having the perfect marriage Jack thought they had.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, sincere, touching, emotional, semi serious, melancholic, clever, queer cinema
Similar in 82%
Kids (1995)
Plot Summary:
A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as he can. When Jenny, a girl who has had sex only once, tests positive for HIV, she knows she contracted the disease from Telly. When Jenny discovers that Telly's idea of "safe sex" is to only have sex with virgins, and is continuing to pass the disease onto other unsuspecting girls, Jenny makes it her business to try to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: disturbing, depressing, psychedelic, independent film, bleak, teen, rough, erotic, sexy, realistic
Similar in 86%
Palo Alto (2013)
Plot Summary:
Palo Alto weaves together three stories of teenage lust, boredom, and self-destruction: shy, sensitive April, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy; Emily, who offers sexual favors to any boy to cross her path; and the increasingly dangerous exploits of Teddy and his best friend Fred, whose behavior may or may not be sociopathic.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: melancholic, atmospheric, serious, teen, realistic, indie film, aesthetic, erotic, mumblecore, artsy
Similar in 76%
The Spectacular Now (2013)
Plot Summary:
A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl.".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 160000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, emotional, independent film, romantic, feel good, sweet, heartbreaking
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the unforgettable friends that help us through life.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 539000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, teen, melancholic, romantic, emotional, realistic, feel good, heartbreaking, independent film
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White Oleander (2002)
Plot Summary:
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: emotional, intense, touching, disturbing, serious, realistic, erotic, sentimental, gothic, social
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Thirteen (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before Tracy's new world and attitude finally takes a toll on her, her family, and old friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: teen, sincere, realistic, tense, disturbing, emotional, intense, serious, depressing, bleak