Coming of Age (To Watch)
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1. Jestem (2005)
93 min | Drama
A self-reliable 11-year-old boy runs away from children's home to be with his dysfunctional mother. She doesn't want him back so he starts living on an old barge.
Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska | Stars: Piotr Jagielski, Agnieszka Nagórzycka, Edyta Jungowska, Barbara Szkaluba
Votes: 1,053
2. The White Ribbon (2009)
R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 77,619 | Gross: $2.22M
3. The Reflecting Skin (1990)
R | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
In the 1950s, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighboring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area.
Director: Philip Ridley | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Lindsay Duncan, Jeremy Cooper, Sheila Moore
Votes: 9,340
4. You're My Hero (2003)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Everyday coming-of-age issues mirror the political goings on in the days before Franco's 1975 demise.
Director: Antonio Cuadri | Stars: Manuel Lozano, Félix López, Alfonso Mena, Pablo Acosta
Votes: 384
5. The Fire That Burns (1997 TV Movie)
91 min | Drama
Two boys in their early adolescence in a strictly-run pre-WWII Catholic school form a firm friendship that is troubled by an abbot who is obsessed with the younger boy.
Director: Christophe Malavoy | Stars: Christophe Malavoy, Michel Aumont, Naël Marandin, Clément van den Bergh
Votes: 476
6. Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
PG-13 | 157 min | Drama
When his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.
Director: Bille August | Stars: Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Björn Granath
Votes: 11,853 | Gross: $2.05M
7. The Grand Highway (1987)
R | 104 min | Drama
Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Loup Hubert | Stars: Anémone, Richard Bohringer, Antoine Hubert, Vanessa Guedj
Votes: 1,768 | Gross: $0.76M
8. Cheesecake (2008 Video)
Unrated | 86 min | Drama, Thriller
Neglected 13 year old Aloysha is cast in a cheesecake commercial and becomes obsessed with the idea of having a "perfect family" of his own, at any cost.
Director: Evgeniy Zvezdakov | Stars: Pavel Melenchuk, Sergey Chonishvili, Olga Lomonosova, Evgeniya Zvezdakova
Votes: 120
9. Pinocchio (2008– )
179 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The enchanted story of Pinocchio.
Stars: Bob Hoskins, Joss Ackland, Robbie Kay, Violante Placido
Votes: 478
10. Close to Leo (2002 TV Movie)
Unrated | 88 min | Drama, Romance
When 21-year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+ family bonds are tested. The family decides that 11-year-old Marcel, the youngest, is ... See full summary »
Director: Christophe Honoré | Stars: Yaniss Lespert, Pierre Mignard, Marie Bunel, Rodolphe Pauly
Votes: 1,123
11. The Butcher Boy (1997)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
The antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Eamonn Owens, Alan Boyle
Votes: 11,462 | Gross: $1.82M
12. The Return (2003)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev | Stars: Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina
Votes: 47,495 | Gross: $0.50M
13. Tender Cousins (1980)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
With Adolf Hitler threatening Europe, against the backdrop of the deceptively peaceful summer of 1939, 14-year-old Julien experiences the intoxicating effects of first love, smitten with his beautiful 16-year-old cousin Julia.
Director: David Hamilton | Stars: Thierry Tevini, Anja Schüte, Valérie Dumas, Évelyne Dandry
Votes: 2,160
14. The Son of the Shark (1993)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama
Brothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find each other in a seacoast town of ... See full summary »
Director: Agnès Merlet | Stars: Ludovic Vandendaele, Eric da Silva, Sandrine Blancke, Maxime Leroux
Votes: 338
15. Where Eskimos Live (2002)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Drama
Sharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of freedom and a better life. They embark upon a strange and enlightening journey through war ... See full summary »
Director: Tomasz Wiszniewski | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Sergiusz Zymelka, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Miroslaw Baka
Votes: 477
16. Mother of Mine (2005)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, War
During World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. From the award-winning Klaus Härö (Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002)), "... See full summary »
Director: Klaus Härö | Stars: Topi Majaniemi, Marjaana Maijala, Maria Lundqvist, Michael Nyqvist
Votes: 4,606
17. Planta 4ª (2003)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Growing up together. All emotions pass the review. Friendship and hope survive all.
Director: Antonio Mercero | Stars: Juan José Ballesta, Luis Ángel Priego, Gorka Moreno, Alejandro Zafra
Votes: 1,632
18. The Other (1972)
PG | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Chris Udvarnoky, Martin Udvarnoky
Votes: 6,982 | Gross: $0.48M
19. Machuca (2004)
Not Rated | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History
Two 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other's world as political tensions in their country increase.
Director: Andrés Wood | Stars: Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, Aline Küppenheim
Votes: 12,656
20. Luminous Motion (1998)
95 min | Drama
A mom and her 10 year son motor around the country as she makes ends meet by turning tricks until her car breaks down. She then temporarily takes up with a hardware store owner until she ... See full summary »
Director: Bette Gordon | Stars: Patrick Fitzgerald, Conn Horgan, Martin Alvin, P.J. Brown
Votes: 353 | Gross: $0.05M
21. CrissCross (1992)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama
A 12-year-old boy comes of age in 1969 Key West against the backdrop of the Apollo moon landing, when he begins to sell cocaine so his mother can stop stripping.
Director: Chris Menges | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Arliss Howard, James Gammon, David Arnott
Votes: 2,185 | Gross: $3.05M
22. Central Station (1998)
R | 110 min | Drama
The emotive journey of a former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
Director: Walter Salles | Stars: Fernanda Montenegro, Vinícius de Oliveira, Marília Pêra, Soia Lira
Votes: 42,300 | Gross: $5.60M
23. Flight of the Innocent (1992)
R | 105 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival ... See full summary »
Director: Carlo Carlei | Stars: Manuel Colao, Federico Pacifici, Sal Borgese, Lucio Zagaria
Votes: 559 | Gross: $0.05M
24. Anche libero va bene (2006)
108 min | Drama
A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.
Director: Kim Rossi Stuart | Stars: Alessandro Morace, Kim Rossi Stuart, Barbora Bobulova, Marta Nobili
Votes: 2,677
25. Mr. Nobody (2009)
R | 141 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible.
Director: Jaco Van Dormael | Stars: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh-Dan Pham
Votes: 245,775 | Gross: $0.00M
26. Too Young to Die? (1990 TV Movie)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama
An abused 15-year-old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty.
Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Michael Tucker, Juliette Lewis, Brad Pitt, Alan Fudge
Votes: 4,264
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