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Léon: The Professional (originally titled The Professional in the United States and Leon outside the United States) is a 1994 English-language French action-thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson ...
Release date: 14 September 1994
Genre:
Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
12-year-old Mathilda is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes ...
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Stand by Me
1986 American coming-of-age film directed by Rob Reiner
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Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Rob Reiner. Based on Stephen King's 1982 novella The Body, with the title deriving from the song of the same name by Ben E. King, the ...
Release date: 8 August 1986
Genre:
Adventure, Drama
After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.
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Roll Bounce
2005 American comedy-drama film by Norman Vance Jr.
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Roll Bounce is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written by Norman Vance Jr. and directed by Malcolm D. Lee. The film stars hip hop artist Bow Wow as the leader of a roller skating crew in 1970s Chicago ...
Release date: 20 September 2005
Genre:
Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
In the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit ...
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Pretty Baby is a 1978 American historical drama film directed by Louis Malle, written by Polly Platt, and starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, and Susan Sarandon. Set in 1917, it focuses on a 12- ...
Release date: 5 April 1978
Genre:
Drama, History
A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.
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Boogie Nights is a 1997 American period drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher ...
Release date: 11 September 1997
Genre:
Drama
Back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, an idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he d ...
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Training Day is a 2001 American crime thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Ayer. It stars Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris and Ethan Hawke as Jake Hoyt, two LAPD narcotics officers ...
Release date: 5 October 2001
Genre:
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A rookie cop spends his first day as a Los Angeles narcotics officer with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.
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This Is England is a 2006 British Independent drama film written and directed by Shane Meadows. The story centres on young skinheads in England in 1983. The film illustrates how their subculture, which ...
Release date: 12 September 2006
Genre:
Drama, Crime
A young boy becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. Friends soon become like family, and relationships will be pushed to the very limit.
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The Last American Virgin is a 1982 American coming-of-age sex comedy film written and directed by Boaz Davidson, and starring Lawrence Monoson, Diane Franklin, Steve Antin, Joe Rubbo, and Louisa Moritz ...
Release date: 26 June 1982
Genre:
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Pizza delivery boy Gary, loudmouth David and hunky Rick are three high school students out to lose their virginity any way they can. Gary falls for transfer ...
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Scent of a Woman is a 1992 American drama film produced and directed by Martin Brest that tells the story of a preparatory school student who takes a short-term job near Thanksgiving as a companion/as ...
Release date: 23 December 1992
Genre:
Drama
A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.
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Pleasantville
1998 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Gary Ross
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Pleasantville is a 1998 American teen fantasy comedy-drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Gary Ross (in his directorial debut). It stars Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H ...
Release date: 17 September 1998
Genre:
Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
Two 1990s teenage siblings find themselves in a 1950s sitcom, where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.
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Platoon
1986 war film directed by Oliver Stone
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Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Forest Whitaker, and Johnny Depp ...
Release date: 19 December 1986
Genre:
Action, Drama, War
Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd ex ...
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Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay he co-wrote with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 autobiographical novel ...
Release date: 17 June 1987
Genre:
Action, Drama, War
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody ...
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Amy Heckerling (in her feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Cameron Crowe, based on his 1981 book Fast Times ...
Release date: 13 August 1982
A group of Southern California high school students are enjoying their most important subjects: sex, drugs and rock n' roll.
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Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 American period romantic drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on his 1985 play Les Liaisons dangereuses, itself adapted from ...
Release date: 16 December 1988
Genre:
Drama, Romance
A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.
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American Graffiti is a 1973 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by George Lucas, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, written by Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz and Lucas, and starring Richard D ...
Release date: 1 August 1973
Genre:
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A group of teenagers in California's central valley spend one final night after their 1962 high school graduation cruising the strip with their buddies ...
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Almost Famous is a 2000 American comedy drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe, starring Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Patrick Fugit, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. It tells the ...
Release date: 8 September 2000
Genre:
Drama, Music, Adventure, Romance
A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies ...
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White Oleander is a 2002 American drama film directed by Peter Kosminsky. The film stars Alison Lohman in the central role of Astrid Magnussen and Michelle Pfeiffer as her manipulative mother, Ingrid ...
Release date: 6 September 2002
Genre:
Drama
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
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Wassup Rockers is a 2005 American drama film, written, produced, and directed by Larry Clark.
Release date: 12 September 2005
Genre:
Comedy, Drama
A group of teenage boys opt to form their own identity by riding skateboards, wearing tight pants.
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Tuck Everlasting is a 2002 American romantic fantasy drama film directed by Jay Russell and written by Jeffrey Lieber and James V. Hart, based on Natalie Babbitt's 1975 book of the same name. Narrated ...
Release date: 8 September 2002
Genre:
Drama, Romance, Family, Fantasy
A young woman meets and falls in love with a young man who is part of a family of immortals.
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The Virgin Suicides is a 1999 American psychological romantic drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola in her feature directorial debut, and co-produced by her father, Francis Ford Coppola. It ...
Release date: 19 May 1999
Genre:
Drama, Mystery, Romance
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid ...
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