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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 55.

Gretchen (2006)

coming-of-age film

Gretchen Finkle (Courtney Davis) is a 17-year-old high school student with a romantic obsession over Ricky (John Merriman). Her mother (Becky Ann Baker) becomes so concerned about Gretchen's crush that she sends her daughter to an in-patie…

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Booky's Crush (2009)

drama film

The Thomsons are a working class family living in Toronto during the Great Depression. Parents, Thomas Thomson (Stuart Hughes) and Francie Thomson (Megan Follows) struggle to provide for their children, Willa (Sarah White), Arthur (Dylan E…

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Amy George (2011)

coming-of-age film, drama film

Thirteen-year-old Jesse is assigned a school project: a photographic self-portrait intended to portray one's self without resorting to literal representation. Jesse lives with his parents, Sabi and Tim, in the lefty, middle class Toronto n…

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Stratosphere Girl (2004)

coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film

Teenager Angela (Chloé Winkel), who is skilled at drawing, meets and falls in love with an attractive Japanese DJ. Encouraged by him, she goes to Japan to work at an exclusive club for rich businessmen, who like to meet with young blonde w…

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Coconut Hero (2015)

Coming Of Age, Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film

Mike Tyson (not to be confused with Mike Tyson) is a 16-year-old student living in the Canadian town of Faintville. Tyson attempts suicide, though after surviving he soon finds out that he has a deadly tumor. Initially, the tumor appears a…

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A Very Serious Person (2006)

LGBTQ-related film, drama film, teen film

Jan (Charles Busch), an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A (Polly Bergen), a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old grandson, Gil (PJ Verhoest). Spending the summer by the shore,…

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Life Just Is (2012)

coming-of-age film, drama film

Life Just Is tells the story of Pete, Tom, Claire, David and Jay who are university graduates having trouble making the move into adult life. Amongst the hanging out and their daily routines simmers Pete's desire to find a spiritual answer…

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Poika ja ilves (1998)

Adventure, adventure film

12-year-old Tommy (Konsta Hietanen) moves to Lapland with his zoologist father Olli Oksa (Antti Virmavirta). Father's job is to return the Leevi lynx back to nature, but reindeer herders don't like a beast that threatens their property. Ol…

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Rivers Wash Over Me (2009)

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

The film touches on race relations, incest, drugs, and growing up gay in the American South. A recent New York City transplant, Sequan Greene (Derrick L. Middleton) has been sent to live in Alabama after the recent death of his mother.

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Desire Street (2011)

Dark Comedy, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Melodrama, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, melodrama

The story follows a Mexican immigrant family's life in the United States following a tragic accident. The family's matriarch, Carmen, is a widowed single mother of two, who wants to "fix" her teenage son's "confusion" about his sexuality, …

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Rain (2001)

Coming Of Age, drama film

Janey is on vacation with her brother Jim, mother Kate, and father Ed, at their beach house on the Mahurangi Peninsula in New Zealand. Ed and Kate, who are on the verge of divorce, sit in the backyard all day drinking whisky, leaving their…

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Peacefire (2008)

Coming Of Age, Drama, crime film, drama film

Colin McNally is a troubled teenager being brought up by his widowed mother following his father's death. With his carefree attitude towards the political situation in Northern Ireland, Colin becomes involved in criminal activities. He and…

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The Wooden Camera (2003)

Drama, drama film

The film takes place in and around Cape Town and a nearby township, Khayelitsha. The film centers around two teenage friends, the younger Madiba (Junior Singo) and the elder Sipho (Innocent Msimango). One day, as they are playing alongside…

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Second Chance (1996)

Komödie, Sci-Fi

Three scientists invent a youth serum, but they're forced to flee their lab as a group of mercenaries try to take it for the wealthy old man who hired them, capturing the head of the lab in the process. While hiding, they take some of thei…

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Broken Roads (2012)

coming-of-age film, drama film

A teen's life is shattered by a fatal car crash, leaving his mother dead and him lost from the world. He's forced to move to a small town to live with his grandmother, whom he's never met. After living together, they discover that they're …

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