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Coming of age movies

Explore growing up, changing relationships and entering adulthood.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 1,388 films · Page 33.

The Long Weekend (2005)

Komödie, comedy film, coming-of-age film, sex comedy, teen film

Cooper is an actor who sees life as one big party, while Ed is in advertising and takes life too seriously. When Ed gets stressed over a deadline he has to meet, Cooper works to get his brother hooked up with a girl, thus a long weekend of…

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Hellbender (2021)

Horror, coming-of-age film, folk horror film

Izzy and her mother (who is never named) live a quiet, remote existence in the woods, spending most of their time creating metal music. They eat a strictly vegan, foraged diet, and Izzy is home-schooled and forbidden to have any contact wi…

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In Country (1989)

Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film

Recent high school graduate, 17-year-old Samantha Hughes lives with her Uncle Emmett, a Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, in Kentucky. Samantha's father, Dwayne, was killed in Vietnam after marrying her mother, Irene. Sa…

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The Slaughter Rule (2002)

American football film, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Sport, drama film

Roy Chutney is a high school senior in the fictional Montana town of Blue Springs. Roy does not have an especially close relationship with his mother Evangeline and has not seen his father in years. That does not prevent Roy from feeling e…

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Thrashin' (1986)

Coming Of Age, drama film, teen film

Corey Webster is an amateur skateboarder from out of town who is staying in Los Angeles with friends in hopes of competing and winning a downhill competition for which he has been training. During his stay in LA, he falls for a beautiful b…

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1969 (1988)

Anti-War Film, Family Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, war film

Two boys, Ralph and Scott, hitchhike home from college, arriving on Easter morning and shout their greetings across the glen to their families during a lakeside Easter Sunrise service, much to the amusement of Ralph's younger sister, Beth,…

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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)

Coming Of Age, Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film

Set in the early 1970s in the city of Savannah, Georgia, the film follows the lives of protagonist Francis Doyle, and three of his friends, Tim Sullivan, Wade Scalisi and Joey Anderson. The four boys all attend a private Catholic school na…

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Roger Dodger (2002)

Coming Of Age, Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film, comedy of manners, coming-of-age film, drama film, sex comedy

Cynical New York City advertising copywriter Roger Swanson, a self-styled lothario, is dumped by his on-again/off-again girlfriend, Joyce, who is also his boss. His workday is further complicated by the unexpected arrival of his sixteen-ye…

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The Music Never Stopped (2011)

Drama, Family Drama, drama film

Henry Sawyer (J.K. Simmons) and his wife, Helen (Cara Seymour) learn that their only son, Gabriel (Lou Taylor Pucci) has been hospitalized with a brain tumor. They have not seen Gabriel in nearly twenty years; as a teenager, Gabriel left t…

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Dirty Girl (2010)

Coming Of Age, Dramedy, Family Drama, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film

In 1987 in suburban Oklahoma City, Danielle Edmondston is a troubled and promiscuous high school student. She argues with her mother, Sue-Ann, who is about to marry a Mormon, Ray, and feels out of place in her very conservative small subur…

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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)

Drama, Komödie, comedy film, drama film

Duddy Kravitz is a brash young Jewish man growing up in poverty in Montreal. His cab driver father Max and his rich uncle Benjy are proud of Duddy's older brother Lenny, whom Benjy is putting through medical school. Only his grandfather sh…

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Mad Love (1995)

Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, teen film

In Seattle, Matt Leland is a straight-laced high school senior who lives with his workaholic father and 9-year-old twin siblings. Matt, whose mom had long ago left the family, has assumed the role of a parent for his young brother and sist…

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Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)

Drama, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film

Tim Pearson, a Grandview High School senior, wants to study oceanography in Florida. His father Roger loans him his brand new Cadillac to go to the prom with Bonnie Clark. Later, making out in the car near a stream, it rolls in, so they wa…

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Struck By Lightning (2012)

High School Comedy Film, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, teen film

High school senior Carson Phillips is struck dead by lightning. The film is a flashback of his last months. He plans to go to Northwestern University to become an editor for The New Yorker, but has not made his dreams happen.

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Men Don't Leave (1990)

Drama, Melodrama, comedy drama, coming-of-age film

Weighed down by her late contractor husband's debts in Bingham, Maryland, widowed mother Beth Macauley is compelled to sell her house and move to a less costly locale. She relocates to Baltimore with her sons Chris and Matt and takes a job…

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Prince of Broadway (2008)

Coming Of Age, Drama, Social Drama, Social Study, drama film

Lucky (Adu) is a street-smart hustler working the streets of New York City, selling name brand knock-offs and turning a big profit. However, his life experiences a shake-up when his ex-girlfriend shows up with the son he never knew he had.

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Love & Distrust (2010)

Romance Film, comedy film, drama film, romance film

The Summer House (Obsession & Suspicion) The story follows Jane as she flees from England to France to stay with her aunt after her boyfriend Richard dumps her for another girl. However, he follows her to the summer house to try to win her…

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In The Summers (2024)

Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film

This film centers on two sisters navigating fraught summer visits with their father. In the first act, we see Vicente, their father, greet his two young daughters, Eva and Violeta, and spends good time with them. In the second act, the two…

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That's What I Am (2011)

Coming Of Age, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film

Set in one of the Jefferson Middle Schools of California in 1965, the film follows a story of schoolboy Andrew "Andy" Nichol who is paired up with the school's reject, Stanley "Big G" Minor for a project assigned by a teacher named Mr. Ste…

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The Harrad Experiment (1973)

Coming Of Age, Romance Film, Sex Education, Social Drama, drama film, teen film

The Harrad Experiment is set in Harrad College, an experimental institution where students are encouraged to explore their sexuality and relationships in an open and honest environment. The story follows a group of students as they navigat…

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The Chaperone (2011)

Komödie, comedy film, coming-of-age film

Ray Bradstone, a talented getaway driver, is determined to go straight, be a better parent to his daughter Sally, and make amends with his ex-wife, Lynne. As Ray struggles to find honest work, he agrees to take one last job with his old ba…

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The Education of Charlie Banks (2007)

Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film

As a kid, Charlie Banks both admired and feared the charismatic and violent local Mick Leary; in high school, Charlie witnesses Mick beat two jocks nearly to death at a party. Despite Mick being the buddy of his best friend, Danny, Charlie…

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The Art of Getting By (2011)

Coming Of Age, Romance Film, drama film, romantic comedy, teen film

George Zinavoy is a lonely senior at a Manhattan preparatory school with a penchant for drawing and a nihilistic worldview. Obsessed with the inevitability of death, he never does homework and skips school frequently; as a result, he is pl…

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