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137 films tagged coming of age, showing 50
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2000 · Drama
A fifteen-year-old talks a music magazine into sending him on tour with a rising rock band in 1973, without mentioning how old he is. Warm and funny, and most of it happens on the bus.
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2025 · Fantasy
On an island where Vikings have fought dragons for generations, the chief's inventor son shoots one down and cannot bring himself to kill it. A live-action remake, big and loud, with a boy and a dragon at the centre.
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2025 · Drama
In 1983 a Scottish schoolboy starts swearing uncontrollably in class, years before anyone can tell him why, and his school treats it as bad behaviour. Based on a real life, following him from twelve into his twenties.
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2025 · Animation
The bank takes the farm and plans to sell the animals off, so a pig named Snowball talks the rest into throwing the humans out and running the place themselves. Bright, fast animation over Orwell's story.
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2025 · Horror
A teenager moves to a small Missouri town where the adults blame the local kids for burning down the factory, and someone in the town's clown mascot suit starts killing them off. A straight-ahead slasher.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
A gold-medal student remakes himself as the college troublemaker to impress a girl, drops out with dozens of failed exams, and then lies his way into a job he never earned. Long, and it follows him for years.
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2025 · Drama
A family in Chennai spends years saving for a three-bedroom house of their own, with rents rising faster than the savings. It follows them across many years, and the drama is money, jobs and exams.
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2025 · Drama
In the last weeks of the war, a twelve-year-old on a German island scavenges and barters to feed his family, and to find his mother the white bread and honey she craves. Quiet, small, told at his height.
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2025 · Drama
A Swedish seventeen-year-old joins an all-boys final-year class in Trieste in 2007, where three of them take her in as one of the lads and each quietly wants more. Coming of age, with a friendship under strain.
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2025 · Action
Two young men meet in a juvenile detention centre and become friends, and once out they set about training for a mixed martial arts tournament. Street gangs keep getting in the way.
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2025 · Drama
A fifteen-year-old in a conservative village in rural North Macedonia falls for a girl and decides he wants to be a DJ. It stays small, and most of it is village life and what a teenager there is allowed to do.
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2025 · Drama
A teenager turns his back on what his wealthy parents expect of him and takes an apprenticeship on a building site. He falls for Vlad, a Ukrainian bricklayer weighing up whether to go home and fight.
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2025 · Drama
In 1989 a family moves from town to town running a small theatre company, chasing the father's idea of a bigger stage. One son dreams of the New York theatre, the other just wants to stay put.
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2025 · Drama
Three friends in their early twenties knock about a Slovenian neighbourhood where the local boys treat them as trouble. A young transgender woman named Fantasy arrives, and pulls each of them a different way.
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2025 · Drama
In Taiwan in 1988, a withdrawn girl living in an unhappy house is drawn out by a lively girl her own age. Slow and quiet, and mostly about what home is like.
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2025 · Drama
In Madrid in 1988, a girl preparing for her first communion starts asking questions about death, and befriends a gypsy girl who goes nowhere without her goat. A coming-of-age story told at child height.
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2025 · Drama
A twelve-year-old who is close to her deaf mother starts at a school full of much richer kids and begins to feel ashamed of where she comes from. Quiet and small, and it stays close to her.
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2025 · Action
A kung fu prodigy moves from Beijing to New York with his mother, having promised her he is done with fighting, and lands straight in the way of the local karate champion. It runs on training scenes and a tournament, and it moves fast.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2021 · Drama
A nine-year-old boy's street in 1969 Belfast turns overnight into a place with barricades, and his parents have to decide whether to stay. Black and white, shot at kid height, and mostly family talk.
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2025 · Drama
Writing and swimming are a girl's way out of a house where her father abuses her, and she takes both to college in Texas. What follows is years of drinking, a bad marriage and real loss.
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2025 · Thriller
A twelve-year-old arrives at a water polo summer camp and buys his way into the popular group by joining in on the boy they have decided is diseased. Tense, mean, and all inside the camp.
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2013 · Romance
A French teenager drifting through school meets an older art student with blue hair, and her whole life reorganises around her. It runs three hours and stays very close to her face.
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2025 · Comedy
A high-schooler who hates her curly hair is set on the new salon's straightening treatment and on the popular boy she likes, and ends up becoming friends with the transfer student whose mother owns the salon. It is light and sweet.
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2025 · Drama
A literature student starts seeing a boy from her college, and slowly finds out what he expects of her: who she talks to, how she behaves. It stays with her for the length of the relationship.
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2025 · Comedy
A 22-year-old music critic moves to Montreal in 2011 to write a book about an Alanis Morissette album, and instead falls in with two members of an indie band. Loose and talky, mostly parties and gigs.
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2022 · Horror
Two young cannibals meet in 1980s America and drive its back roads together, keeping clear of towns and of others like them. A road film and a first-love story, with a lot of blood in it.
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2025 · Drama
An eighteen-year-old orphan travels to Vigo to have her name added to her father's death certificate, and spends five days meeting his family for the first time. Conversations, meals and her mother's old diary.
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2019 · Comedy
Two straight-A students find out the night before graduation that the classmates they looked down on got into the same colleges, so they cram four years of fun into one evening. It is one long night, mostly the two of them talking.
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2025 · Drama
The youngest daughter of a French-Algerian family starts university in Paris and finds she is drawn to women, while trying not to let her family down. It stays close to her throughout.
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2023 · Comedy
Two unpopular high school seniors start a self-defense club, mostly as a way to get near the cheerleaders they like. Broad, rude, and set in a version of high school where nothing has consequences.
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2025 · Drama
In 1999 Pamplona, an only child raised strictly by an overprotective mother, and unaware that they are intersex, leaves for Madrid and starts working out who they are. A new version of a Spanish film from 1972.
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2025 · Drama
Fuki is eleven, growing up in Tokyo at the end of the 1980s, with adolescence starting and her family under strain. The film stays with her childhood and the people in the house around her.
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2015 · Drama
A young woman leaves a small Irish town for New York in the 1950s, homesick and alone until she meets someone. Gentle and slow, and mostly about one person working out where she belongs.
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2025 · Drama
A shy sixteen-year-old at a Catholic school joins the girls' choir and attaches herself to the confident Ana-Marija, then finds herself drawn to a man working on the convent they are staying in. It is quiet and close, and mostly set on the retreat.
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2016 · Drama
Three chapters in the life of a quiet boy growing up in Miami: as a child, as a teenager, and as a grown man. Each one turns on who he is willing to be seen as.
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2026 · Musical
The ocean picks a chief's daughter to sail past her island's reef and return a stolen stone to the goddess it was taken from, with the demigod who took it. A live-action version of the animated film, songs and all.
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2017 · Romance
A seventeen-year-old spends the summer at his family's house in northern Italy, where his father's new research assistant comes to stay for six weeks. Long hot days, and nothing happens quickly.
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2026 · Horror
A teenager in a strict evangelical town outs the boy he has been seeing, and both are put through a ritual meant to purge their desire. Then something starts following them, wearing the face each one wants most.
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2026 · Comedy
An introvert hoping to reinvent herself at college picks the friendliest girl at orientation as her roommate, and the year sours from there. A dean tells the whole story to two students who think they have it bad.
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2026 · Drama
In 1975 a nineteen-year-old Anthony Bourdain follows a girl to Provincetown, runs out of money, and talks his way into a dishwashing job at a seafood restaurant. It is one summer in a loud, drug-soaked kitchen.
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2026 · Romance
In the summer of 2006 Coley, seventeen, moves to rural Oregon to live with the father she barely knows, and falls in with a local girl called Sonya. It is a summer of the lake, drink and Sonya's boyfriend.
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2012 · Science fiction
Three high-school boys climb down a hole in a field and come out able to move things with their minds, and at first they mostly mess about. Shot as if one of them is filming the whole time.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2002 · Crime
Two boys grow up in a Rio housing project through the sixties and seventies, one drifting toward photography and the other toward the drug trade. It moves fast and jumps between dozens of lives.
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2022 · Drama
Two thirteen-year-old boys who have been inseparable their whole lives start a new school, where the other children ask what exactly they are to each other. Quiet, slow, and close to their faces.
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2026 · Drama
A girl raised by cult parents and beaten by her father runs away and lands in Tokyo's Kabukicho, where she falls in with the kids living around the square. Rough and loud, and hard in places.
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2021 · Drama
The only hearing member of a deaf fishing family joins the school choir and finds she can sing, just as the family business needs her on the boat. Warm and straightforward, moving between sign and speech.
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2026 · Drama
A teenage girl freezes when a TV audition asks who she is, then goes looking for an answer around her family's failing hotel in the old East Germany. It moves through family, not events.
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2026 · Drama
An 18-year-old has to choose between looking after her mother, who has Alzheimer's, and getting on with her own life. A family drama that sits on that one choice.
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2026 · Drama
A bright middle school student with a demanding father uncovers a long-kept family secret while working on his final school project. It is a coming-of-age story that plays out between home and school.
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2026 · Drama
On the eve of senior year, Callie and Minnie's friendship is upended, and Minnie starts spending her time with Callie's mother instead. A coming-of-age drama that sits with the two of them.
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