Films like Palm Trees and Power Lines
Seventeen-year-old Lea spends her summer break tanning in her backyard, and drifting between tiptoeing around her needy mother, and aimlessly trailing her best friend and boys from school. This monotony is interrupted by a chance encounter with Tom, a seductive man twice her age...
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Thirteen
Film · 2003 · also dramaWhen 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money. But it...
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The Souvenir
Film · 2019 · also drama and romanceA shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
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Smooth Talk
Film · 1985 · also drama and romanceConnie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered by an encounter with...
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Tuesday
Film · 2024 · also dramaA mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
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The Short History of the Long Road
Film · 2019 · also dramaNola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning...
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According to Greta
Film · 2009 · also drama and romanceDumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive teenager Greta disrupts the elderly couple's staid life on the Jersey Sh...
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Newness
Film · 2017 · also drama and romanceIn contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.
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The Souvenir: Part II
Film · 2021 · also drama and romanceIn the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation...
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Pariah
Film · 2011 · also dramaA Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.
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Palo Alto
Film · 2014 · also dramaA lack of parental guidance encourages teens in an affluent California town to rebel with substance abuse and casual sex.
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