It's time to grow up! Coming-of-age
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1. Eighth Grade (2018)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.
Director: Bo Burnham | Stars: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan
Votes: 82,492 | Gross: $13.54M
2. Thirteen (2003)
R | 100 min | Drama
A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.
Director: Catherine Hardwicke | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Holly Hunter, Nikki Reed, Vanessa Hudgens
Votes: 98,042 | Gross: $4.60M
3. Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
NC-17 | 180 min | Drama, Romance
Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, Aurélien Recoing
Votes: 163,093 | Gross: $2.20M
4. And Your Mother Too (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life and each other.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ana López Mercado
Votes: 128,900 | Gross: $13.62M
5. The Squid and the Whale (2005)
R | 81 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
Director: Noah Baumbach | Stars: Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg
Votes: 90,450 | Gross: $7.36M
6. Boyhood (I) (2014)
R | 165 min | Drama
The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.
Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Elijah Smith
Votes: 367,193 | Gross: $25.38M
7. Gretchen (2005)
98 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Gretchen has bigger problems than abysmal fashion sense: She's 17, painfully awkward and stuck in the most unforgiving place on earth - high school. When her obsession with school bad boy ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Collins | Stars: Courtney Davis, John Merriman, Macon Blair, Becky Ann Baker
Votes: 287
8. The Party's Just Beginning (2018)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
When her best friend takes his own life, Liusaidh has to deal with stresses of such a situation.
Director: Karen Gillan | Stars: Karen Gillan, Lee Pace, Matthew Beard, Paul Higgins
Votes: 2,445
9. Big Time Adolescence (2019)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
A suburban teenager comes of age under the destructive guidance of his best friend, an aimless college dropout.
Director: Jason Orley | Stars: Griffin Gluck, Larry John Meyers, Michael Devine, John Villanueva
Votes: 16,022
10. Permanent (2017)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy
Permanent is a comedy about bad hair, adolescence, and socially awkward family members. It involves life-altering permanents and poorly-made toupees. Obstacles to daily survival ensue.
Director: Colette Burson | Stars: Alexis Leggett, Kaleigh Jo Keller, Kira McLean, Patricia Arquette
Votes: 2,611 | Gross: $0.01M
11. Excision (2012)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A disturbed, delusional high-school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother.
Director: Richard Bates Jr. | Stars: AnnaLynne McCord, Roger Bart, Ariel Winter, Traci Lords
Votes: 24,618
12. Bad Hair (2013)
93 min | Drama
A nine-year-old boy's preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother.
Director: Mariana Rondón | Stars: Samuel Lange Zambrano, Samantha Castillo, Beto Benites, Nelly Ramos
Votes: 2,435
13. My So-Called Life (1994–1995)
TV-14 | 912 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A 15-year-old girl and her trials and tribulations of being a teenager and dealing with friends, guys, parents, and school.
Stars: Bess Armstrong, Wilson Cruz, Claire Danes, Devon Gummersall
Votes: 21,978
14. Seventh Grade (2014)
12 min | Short, Drama
Everyone is growing up except Patrice. But when a raunchy rumor threatens her best friend Laura's reputation, she's forced to join the party and embrace adolescence.
Director: Stefani Saintonge | Stars: Eric Bassant, Ashe Davis, Gioianna DiGiorgio, Kristine Gordon
Votes: 31
15. The Big Chop (2016)
TV-PG | 15 min | Short, Comedy
The Big Chop follows 10 year old Kris on her natural hair journey of self love and acceptance. Once a die hard lover of her big afro, negative hints from her mom and teasing on the ... See full summary »
Director: Derek D. Dow | Stars: Simone Missick, Chinedu Unaka, McKenzie Franklin, Seaniece Bolden
Votes: 42
16. A Different Tree (2013)
TV-14 | 15 min | Short, Drama, Family
A Different Tree tells the story of one eight year old girl's journey to build a relationship with her absent father, through a class assigned family tree.
Director: Steven Caple Jr. | Stars: Wes Armstrong, Morgan Ashley, Janet Caple, Austin Nash Chase
Votes: 64
17. Tyler (2020)
15 min | Short, Comedy
Tyler is a hyper-intelligent 9-year-old boy, who has no shame on being himself. On an ordinary lunch, he talks about his new crush, causing an unexpected reaction on his older brother, Daniel.
Director: Joel Junior | Stars: Caden Andrews, Teon Kelley, Sarah Bellini, Carolina Romero
Votes: 123
18. Tea Party (2017)
13 min | Short, Comedy, Drama | Completed
Girls having a sleepover decide to play a game of Truth or Dare, which involves drinking, smoking and sexual curiosity.
Director: Emily Shesh | Stars: Taylor Chavez, Khaleesa Alexander, Lizzie White, Kira McLean
Votes: 29
19. Youngblood (1978)
R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A gang war/drug story set in a Los Angeles ghetto about the coming of age of a 15-year-old black youth.
Director: Noel Nosseck | Stars: Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Bryan O'Dell, Renn Woods, Tony Allen
Votes: 351
20. Summer '03 (2018)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A 16-year-old girl and her extended family are left reeling after her calculating grandmother unveils an array of secrets on her deathbed.
Director: Becca Gleason | Stars: Joey King, Paul Scheer, Andrea Savage, Jack Kilmer
Votes: 3,895 | Gross: $17.52M
21. Clueless (1995)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other.
Director: Amy Heckerling | Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd
Votes: 245,944 | Gross: $56.63M
22. Light It Up (1999)
R | 99 min | Drama, Thriller
A group of teens are bent on improving the run-down conditions of their high-school.
Director: Craig Bolotin | Stars: Usher, Forest Whitaker, Rosario Dawson, Robert Ri'chard
Votes: 3,947 | Gross: $5.87M
23. Liza Liza: Skies Are Grey (2015)
86 min | Drama
A coming-of-age California motorcycle road trip set in the 60's, combining elements of "Romeo & Juliet" and "The Odyssey".
Director: Terry Sanders | Stars: Madison Iseman, Mikey Madison, Kristin Minter, John-Paul Lavoisier
Votes: 95
24. Theeb (2014)
Not Rated | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.
Director: Naji Abu Nowar | Stars: Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat, Hussein Salameh Al-Sweilhiyeen, Hassan Mutlag Al-Maraiyeh, Jack Fox
Votes: 11,518 | Gross: $0.28M
25. Clementine (2019)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Reeling from a one-sided breakup, heartbroken Karen breaks into her ex's lake house. There, she strikes up a complicated relationship with provocative younger woman Lana.
Director: Lara Gallagher | Stars: Sonya Walger, Otmara Marrero, Ramsey, Sydney Sweeney
Votes: 967
26. Who Am I Now? (2021)
92 min | Drama, Romance
New friends Erin and Alex discover a mutual attraction that neither of them have ever felt before. While Alex tries to navigate her feelings, Erin refuses to acknowledge that she might be ... See full summary »
Director: Louise E. Lathey | Stars: Barbara Beall, Joanna Gaskell, Alethea Sholomenko, Alicia c. Snee
Votes: 217
27. Honey Cigar (2020)
100 min | Drama
Selma, 17, who lives in a bourgeois and secular Berber family. When she meets Julien in college, she realizes for the first time the impact of patriarchal rules on her intimacy.
Director: Kamir Aïnouz | Stars: Zoé Adjani, Amira Casar, Lyès Salem, Louis Peres
Votes: 660
28. I Killed My Mother (2009)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A semi-autobiographical story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds with his mother.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, François Arnaud, Suzanne Clément
Votes: 31,422
29. Menarca (2020)
22 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
In a Brazilian village infested with piranhas, Nanã and Mel are fast growing into adolescence as they dream of ways of protecting themselves against a seemingly inescapable violence.
Director: Lillah Halla | Stars: Aldo Bueno, Amanda Dourado, Nathally Fonseca, Micheline Lemos
Votes: 206
30. My Golden Days (2015)
R | 123 min | Drama, Romance
Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother's madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who betrayed him and the love of his life.
Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Quentin Dolmaire, Lou Roy-Lecollinet, Mathieu Amalric, Dinara Drukarova
Votes: 3,800 | Gross: $0.27M
31. Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
In the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond the town's understanding.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Morgan Jones, Eva Birthistle, Liam Neeson
Votes: 24,544 | Gross: $0.83M
32. Cooley High (1975)
PG | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1964 on Chicago's Near-North Side, the lives of four carefree high school seniors and best friends, including an aspiring playwright and an all-city basketball champion, takes a tragic turn.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis
Votes: 5,548
33. The Dead and the Others (2018)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama
Drama about a boy who denies the call of his culture to become a shaman, when he hears his dead father's voice asking him to celebrate the funerary feast, so his spirit can depart to the village of the dead.
Directors: Renée Nader Messora, João Salaviza | Stars: Henrique Ihjãc Krahô, Raene Kôtô Krahô, Douglas Tiepre Krahô, Iasmin Kropej Krahô
Votes: 840
34. The Unspeakable Act (2012)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
17-year-old Jackie is in distress as her older brother Matthew gets his first girlfriend and prepares for college. Though Matthew does not share her incestuous desire, Jackie fights the intrusion of reality on her idyllic childhood world.
Director: Dan Sallitt | Stars: Tallie Medel, Sky Hirschkron, Aundrea Fares, Kati Schwartz
Votes: 648
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