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Coming of Age
see all genres ›Few things have been more inspirational to filmmakers over the years than that period of life when childhood innocence turns to adolescent hunger and adult knowingness.
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Genres / Drama / Coming of Age
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Il ferroviere
Later famed internationally for such exportable comedies as DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE and THE BIRDS, THE BEES AND THE ITALIANS, Pietro Germi was still strongly identified with postwar Italy's neo-realist vogue when he wrote, directed and starred in this potent seriocomedy. He plays a railroad engineer perpetually raging over the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Getting of Wisdom
In THE GETTING OF WISDOM, Oscar®-nominated director Bruce Beresford crafts a tender coming-of-age tale that introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters to the screen, Laura Tweedle Rambotham. Chronicling her stormy passage through the sedate halls of an expensive Melbourne finishing...Start your free trial to watch
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Going Back
In 1964 two high school friends, Brice and Cleveland, leave their suburban neighborhood in Michigan to spend the summer in the countryside before going off to college. The boys meet a lonely farmer named Jack Bodell. Jack offers them a place to stay. As days pass, Cleveland helps Jack around the farm and finds in him the...Start your free trial to watch
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Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces
Noura (Selim Boughedir, the director's nephew) is an inquisitive thirteen-year-old whose eyes are opened to his own sexual desires when he visits the local Turkish bathhouse with his mother. Gazing upon the spectacular array of unclothed women and girls, Noura begins to experience his first pangs of...Start your free trial to watch
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Helen
An 18 year old girl named Joy has gone missing. Another girl named Helen is a few weeks away from leaving her care home. Helen is asked to "play" Joy in a police reconstruction that will retrace Joy's last known movements. Joy had everything. A loving family, a boyfriend, a bright future. Helen, parentless, has lived in...Start your free trial to watch
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Hollow City
HOLLOW CITY is set in Angola, the civil war-torn country in the southern west coast of Africa that had been colonized by Portugal until independence in 1975. In the tribal village of Bie, eleven year old N'dala (Roldan Pinto João) sees his family massacred by soldiers. He and other orphans are rescued by a missionary nun (Ana...Start your free trial to watch
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Home Run
Chapman To (ISABELLA) and China's top actress Fan Bing-Bing (A CHINESE TALL STORY) are the leads in this poignant drama. To boost the sagging ratings of her reality TV show, producer/host Tien (Fan) decides to bring 5-year-old Lu (newcomer Zou Yanwen) to the studio and sends him off to find his way home alone. Lu finds help...Start your free trial to watch
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I Love Budapest
Aniko, a nineteen year old country girl, moves to the city to fulfill her dream of a better life. Guided by her friend, Moni, she gets work at a factory and starts hanging out with Moni's friends, including Miki, a handsome security guard. Moni's boyfriend Krisztian seems to have it all and when he offers Miki a job, he...Start your free trial to watch
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I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse
Arrabal's second film, I WILL WALK LIKE A CRAZY HORSE (aka. J'IRAI COMME UN CHEVAL FOU) forsakes the political allegory present in VIVA LA MUERTE! for a dramatic discovery of faith and rejection of organized religion. The story follows a man, Aden, played by the American George Shannon, who flees society...Start your free trial to watch
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If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle
Silviu has only two weeks left before his release from a hostile juvenile detention center. But when his mother, who abandoned him long ago, returns to take his younger brother away, those two weeks become an eternity. While his outcries for help fall on deaf ears, he finds himself mercilessly taunted and...Start your free trial to watch
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In Between Days
IN BETWEEN DAYS intimately portrays the joys and risks of first love and burgeoning adulthood with bracing and undeniable honesty. Aimie (Jiseon Kim) is a teenager recently transplanted from her native South Korea to a snowbound North American city. Disconnected from her single mother and bored at school, she struggles to...Start your free trial to watch
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In the Border States
A little girl for the Union shelters a Confederate soldier, thereby initiating a chain of events that symbolically repairs the damages wrought by the Civil War. D.W. Griffith takes advantage of pictorial landscapes to stage his battle scenes and his famous parallel editing works here not only to create...Start your free trial to watch
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Island Etude
A film about an aurally handicapped college student who grabs his bike, backpack and guitar and goes on a 7-day, 6-night round-the-island tour. On the way he discovers the natural and cultural beauty of Taiwan and during his encounters with different people he is exposed to local arts, folk customs, approaches to...Start your free trial to watch
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The Jazzman
THE JAZZMAN is a journey through the life of John Kadly. From his early childhood and throughout his youth, to his romantic life and his struggles to fulfill his calling as a jazz drummer. THE JAZZMAN examines the hardship that he faces while living in the shadow of his local jazz legend father. As John struggles to cope with...Start your free trial to watch
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The Joy
THE JOY is a fairy tale about youth and courage. THE JOY tells the story of sixteen year old Luiza. She is tired of hearing about the end of the world. On Christmas Eve, her cousin João is shot in a poor neighborhood and disappears in the middle of the night. A few weeks later, while alone in her apartment in a middle class...Start your free trial to watch