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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 48.

Newcastle (2008)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Drama, Sport, coming-of-age film

Young surfer Jesse has always been in the shadow of his older brother Victor, who tried to become a champion surfer and failed. Jesse, his friends — Nathan, Andy and Scotty — and his brother Fergus (who has a crush on Andy, which is recipr…

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A Year of School (2025)

coming-of-age film

In September 2007, Fredrika, a 17-year-old Swedish girl freshly arrived in Italy after her father is relocated because of his hatchet man company job, is enrolled in an all-male senior year class of an istituto tecnico tecnologico in Tries…

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American High School (2009)

High School Comedy Film, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film, sex comedy, teen film

It is the final week of senior year at American High School and Gwen Adams considers divorcing her new husband Holden Adams, whom she married because her rival Hilary Weiss is also trying to be his girlfriend. She faces the problems create…

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Star Maps (1997)

LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama

This allegorical tale concerns the gap that exists between East and West Los Angeles as Latino kids try to pursue the American Dream. After five years of living in Mexico, an 18-year-old youth returns to Los Angeles with aspirations of bec…

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The Truth About Spring (1965)

adventure film, coming-of-age film

Spring lives with her father, Tommy Tyler, aboard a run-down sailboat in the Florida Keys. She has lived a simple, carefree, and isolated life. She has never felt desire or love until William Ashton joins them for a zany adventure involvin…

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Her Best Move (2007)

Komödie, association football film, children's film, romantic comedy

High school freshman Sara Davis, a teenage soccer prodigy, joins her school's varsity team as a sophomore. Preened by her father Gil since she was small, he hopes he can get her on the U.S. National Soccer Team as their youngest recruit ev…

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One More Saturday Night (1986)

comedy film, coming-of-age film

On a Saturday night in St. Cloud, Minnesota, Russ Cadwell is ready to have sex with his girlfriend, Diane Lundahl. Doug, a petty thief, decides to become a burglar, and his friend Traci suggests they burglarize a nearby house.

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Going Greek (2001)

comedy film, coming-of-age film

Set in any-college U.S.A., centering on Jake, an embittered ex-high school American football star who is coerced into pledging the "coolest" fraternity on campus. Jake does so in order to protect Gil, his somewhat nerdy, but Greek-obsessed…

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Sweetheart (2021)

Coming Of Age, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, romance film

A socially awkward lesbian teenager falls in love for the first time while vacationing at a British holiday park.

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An American Affair (2008)

Historical drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, independent film

In 1963, in the swirl of glamour and intrigue that turned President John F. Kennedy's Washington into Camelot, a young teenager, Adam Stafford has an inside view of JFK’s torrid affair with Adam's neighbor Catherine and secret CIA assassin…

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Midnight Sun (2014)

Adventure, adventure film, coming-of-age film, drama film, family film, survival film

Luke Mercier, a local teenager, defies nature to reunite an abandoned polar bear cub Nanuk with its mother in the ice fields of Northern Canada.

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Oh, What a Night (1992)

Komödie, teen film

Two teenage boys are growing up in a small Canadian town in the summer of 1955. While their parents go about with their own concerns, the two develop an interest in girls. One tries to impress his crush with his father's cars.

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Billie (1965)

musical film, teen film

Billie Carol is a 15-year-old girl who is not like every other teen. With her bobbed haircut, tomboyish behavior, and passion for track running, she distances herself from her fellow female classmates. Instead, she befriends Mike Benson, t…

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White Irish Drinkers (2010)

Coming Of Age, Social Drama, drama film

Brooklyn, 1975: brothers Brian and Danny Leary are looking for a way out of their working-class neighborhood, so they make a pact to rob a local theater on the night of a Rolling Stones concert.

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Funeral Kings (2012)

coming-of-age film

Two irreverent altar boys, Andy and Charlie, play hooky after every funeral they serve at their school's chapel. One night their friend Bobby drops a trunk to Andy's house to hide out there for period of time. Later they are told at a fune…

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Everywhere and Nowhere (2011)

action film, coming-of-age film, drama film

Young and educated, Ash leads a privileged life but finds himself between two cultures: hedonistic, multi-cultural London with his friends and a traditional Pakistani family upbringing in the middle class suburbs. Tormented by the idea of …

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Rich Kids (1979)

Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film

Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents' lives and their own adolescent feelings.

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Expecting Mary (2010)

Family Comedy, Komödie, comedy drama, coming-of-age film

Mary (Olesya Rulin) is a 16-year-old girl who is 8 months pregnant. She had all the trappings of an upscale life, but ran away from her mother Meg (Cybill Shepherd) and stepfather Phil Cuthbart (Duncan Bravo) who wanted her to get an abort…

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Breathing (2011)

drama film

Roman Kogler is a 19-year old prisoner in an Austrian juvenile detention centre. The story appears to encompass a roughly two week period leading up to his parole hearing, during which time he starts a trial month employed as a mortuary at…

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That Night (1992)

Coming Of Age, Romance Film, romance film, teen film

In 1961 Long Island, 10-year-old Alice Bloom is infatuated with 17-year-old Sheryl O'Connor, who lives across the street. She often watches her from her bedroom window. Alice starts to copy every detail about Sheryl, including her perfume …

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A Better Place (1997)

coming-of-age film, drama film

Barret Michaelson is an unwelcome newcomer in a public high school, often bullied by his new classmates. He has no friends until another misfit with a bad reputation, Ryan, saves him from a beating in the men's locker room. Ryan is a misan…

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Calvin Marshall (2009)

Komödie, comedy drama, coming-of-age film

Calvin Marshall is a charismatic student at Bayford City College. When he tries out for the baseball team for the third straight year, ex-minor leaguer Coach Little is exasperated by Calvin's persistence despite Marshall's lack of baseball…

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