Genre "Coming-of-Age" Movies
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| 1. 21 (year: 2002) |
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| 2. A Bronx Tale (year: 1993) |
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Robert De Niro made his directorial debut with this expanded adaptation of Chazz Palminteri's one-character play. DeNiro's role of Lorenzo Anello, an ...
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| 3. A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (year: 2006) |
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The harsh realities of life on the street merge with the universal themes of youthful pain and exhilaration in director Dito Montiel's telling tale of ...
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| 4. A River Runs Through It (year: 1992) |
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Robert Redford's lyrical direction sets the tone for this evocative adaptation of author Norman MacLean's memoir of his idyllic Montana youth. The Mac ...
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| 5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (year: 1945) |
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One-time movie song-and-dance man James Dunn won an Academy Award for his "comeback" performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Based on the b ...
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| 6. About a Boy (year: 2002) |
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London's most frequently eligible bachelor gets some lessons in growing up from a maladroit 12-year-old boy in this third big-screen adaptation of a N ...
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| 7. All the Real Girls (year: 2003) |
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David Gordon Green, who in 2000 made a splash on the festival circuit with his independent debut feature, George Washington, directed this drama about ...
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| 8. Almost Famous (year: 2000) |
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Writer and director Cameron Crowe's experiences as a teenage rock journalist — he was a regular contributor to Rolling Stone while still in ...
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| 9. American Graffiti (year: 1973) |
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It's the last night of summer 1962, and the teenagers of Modesto, California, want to have some fun before adult responsibilities close in. Among them ...
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| 10. American Pie (year: 1999) |
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It's said that most American men think about sex once every two or three minutes, but this statistic would seriously underestimate the horniness of Ji ...
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| 11. Aparajito (year: 1956) |
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The Unvanquished is the second of Indian director Satyajit Ray's "Apu Trilogy" (the first was Pather Panchali). Ray's young protagonist Apu ...
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| 12. Armin (year: 2007) |
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Writer-director Ognjen Svilicic's feature Armin - a Bosnian-Croatian-German co-production, in Bosnian, Croatian, German and English - follows the expe ...
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| 13. Baby Boy (year: 2001) |
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Ten years later, writer and director John Singleton returns to the South Central Los Angeles neighborhoods of his debut film Boyz 'N the Hood (1991). ...
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| 14. Beautiful Thing (year: 1996) |
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In this alternately somber and witty coming-of-age drama, a pair of teenage boys growing up in a working-class neighborhood become aware of their homo ...
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| 15. Bend It Like Beckham (year: 2002) |
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An independent-minded young woman discovers the joys of football, much to her family's chagrin, in this upbeat British comedy drama. Jess Bhamra (Parm ...
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| 16. Biker Boyz (year: 2003) |
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Two generations of radical bikers face off in this rubber-burning action drama. Manuel "Smoke" Galloway (Laurence Fishburne) is the leader o ...
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| 17. Billy Elliot (year: 2000) |
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Brassed Off meets My Name Is Joe in this gritty coming-of-age drama about a young son of a poor English coal miner who dreams of being a ballet dancer ...
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| 18. Black Irish (year: 2007) |
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A young man struggles to grow up with principles as his family begins to self-destruct around him in this coming of age drama. Cole McKay (Michael Ang ...
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| 19. Cadet Kelly (year: 2002) |
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Two of the Disney Channel's brightest young sitcom stars, Hilary Duff (Lizzie Maguire) and Christy Romano (Even Stevens), team up for laughs and tears ...
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| 20. Charlie Bartlett (year: 2007) |
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Longtime film editor Jon Poll (Meet the Fockers and Austin Powers in Goldmember) makes his directorial debut with this coming-of-age comedy about a we ...
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| 21. Cinema Paradiso (year: 1988) |
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Cinema Paradiso offers a nostalgic look at films and the effect they have on a young boy who grows up in and around the title village movie theater in ...
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| 22. City of God (year: 2002) |
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Fernando Meirelles' City of God is a sweeping tale of how crime affects the poor population of Rio de Janeiro. Though the narrative skips around in ti ...
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| 23. College Road Trip (year: 2008) |
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A high-school student (Raven Symone) with noble dreams of becoming a public defender sets out to visit potential universities in the unwanted company ...
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| 24. Coyote Ugly (year: 2000) |
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An aspiring musician becomes one of the most famous bartenders in New York in this high-spirited comedy-drama. Small-town girl Violet Sanford (Piper P ...
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| 25. Dazed and Confused (year: 1993) |
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Like George Lucas' American Graffiti, Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused is an affectionate look at the youth culture of a bygone era. While Luca ...
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| 26. Dear Frankie (year: 2004) |
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Directed by Shona Auerbach, Dear Frankie revolves around nine-year-old Frankie (Jack McElhone) and his mother, Lizzie (Emily Mortimer). The mother and ...
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| 27. Deuces Wild (year: 2002) |
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This gang warfare drama is from director Scott Kalvert, whose previous film was the controversial and violent The Basketball Diaries (1995). In the sw ...
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| 28. Dirty Dancing (year: 1987) |
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A teenage girl learns about love, adult responsibility, and how to do The Dirty Boogie in this romantic drama. In 1963, "Baby" Houseman (Jen ...
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| 29. Disco Pigs (year: 2001) |
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A friendship between two young people grows into a dangerous obsession in this drama based on the acclaimed stage play by Enda Walsh. Darren (Cillian ...
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| 30. Donnie Darko (year: 2001) |
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Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a bright and charming high-school student who also has a dark and willfully eccentric side; he does little to mask his con ...
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| 31. Drumline (year: 2002) |
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Drumline brings the world of "show-style" marching bands (popular at traditionally black, Southern colleges) to the big screen for the first ...
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| 32. Edge of Seventeen (year: 1998) |
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A Eurythmics-obsessed, small-town Ohio youth comes to terms with his sexual identity and his New Wave fashion sense in this gentle coming-out drama, w ...
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| 33. Evil (year: 2003) |
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| 34. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (year: 1982) |
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Amy Heckerling's adaptation of Cameron Crowe's Fast Times at Ridgemont High is often considered one of the finest films of a disreputable genre (the t ...
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| 35. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (year: 1986) |
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Teenaged Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a legend in his own time thanks to his uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Inten ...
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| 36. Finding Forrester (year: 2000) |
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In the spirit of his Oscar-winning Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant directs this tale of the unlikely bond that develops between an aging, reclusive no ...
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| 37. Fly Away Home (year: 1996) |
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Inspired by a true story, Fly Away Home is a family drama about Amy Alden (Anna Paquin), a 13-year-old girl who, after the tragic death of her mother, ...
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| 38. Garden State (year: 2004) |
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In the wake of his success on the hit NBC sitcom Scrubs, actor Zach Braff made his debut behind the camera writing, directing, and starring in this bi ...
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| 39. Get Real (year: 1998) |
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This gay coming-of-age drama from Britain was screened at many film festivals including Toronto, Edinburgh, and the 1999 Sundance Film Festival (World ...
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| 40. Ginger Snaps (year: 2000) |
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In the generic Canadian suburb of Bailey Downs live Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), 15-year-old sisters committed to introve ...
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| 41. Girl, Interrupted (year: 1999) |
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In 1967, 19-year-old Susanna (Winona Ryder) feels that "reality is becoming too dense" and is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder ...
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| 42. Glory Daze (year: 1996) |
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"El Rancho," a sort of punk rock Animal House, is the setting for this college drama. Five roommates live in this group house on the cusp of ...
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| 43. Good Will Hunting (year: 1997) |
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck co-scripted and star in this drama, set in Boston and Cambridge, about rebellious 20-year-old MIT janitor Will Hunting (Dam ...
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| 44. Gracie (year: 2007) |
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Inspired by the real-life events that followed the untimely 1988 death of William Shue (brother of cast members Elisabeth and Andrew Shue and executiv ...
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| 45. Hallam Foe (year: 2007) |
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With Hallam Foe, British director Peter MacKenzie and scripter Ed Whitmore adapt the 2002 novel of the same name, a quirky, bittersweet, coming-of-age ...
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| 46. Hoot (year: 2006) |
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Three kids have an unexpected adventure as they try to protect some rare birds in this comedy drama based on a book for young adults by Carl Hiaasen. ...
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| 48. How She Move (year: 2007) |
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An aspiring medical student whose drug-addicted sister has recently died and who may be forced to relocate from her posh private school to the crime-i ...
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| 49. In the Land of Women (year: 2007) |
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A man having trouble with women suddenly finds himself surrounded by them in this independent comedy drama. Carter Webb (Adam Brody) is a successful w ...
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| 50. Juno (year: 2007) |
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When a teenage girl is faced with an unexpected pregnancy, she enlists the aid of her best friend in finding the unborn child a suitable home in this ...
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