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These coming of age movies are rated by how much focus among children and teenagers, adolescent storyline, situations and issues surrounding the struggle between youth and adulthood. Excluding animated films and film franchises.
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May 25, 2016 · The ultimate guide to coming-of-age movies you haven‘t seen. We take you through a genre that deals explicitly with the alienation, anxiety and drama of adolescence. The coming-of-age genre is a cinema of first times; moments that, once experienced, can never be replicated with the same knotted sensation of yearning, timidity, and joy.
- Michael Ewins
- 3 min
- Ginger Snaps
- Daisies
- The Perks of Being A Wallflower
- Boy
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Aparajito
- Dirty Dancing
- Boyhood
- Marie Antoinette
- Raw
Getting your period is an oft-examined topic in the horror genre. The body bleeds and the body changes, making it the perfect vehicle for body horror. The transformation of the female body has also lent itself to creature features, as what cultural critic Barbara Creed calls “the monstrous-feminine” cannot possibly be perceived in the human body. E...
Sometimes growing up means recognizing just how selfish the world can be. Such is the case for Marie I (Jitka Cerhová) and Marie II (Ivana Karbanová) in Vera Chytilová’s 1966 film, Daisies. Chytilova was a seminal director in the Czech New Wave, an experimental film movement where filmmakers from Czechoslovakia experimented with narrative, particul...
The feeling of the air on your face during a night drive, your license still new enough to burn a hold in your pocket. The magic of hearing a song on the radio that for just a moment feels like it was made for you alone. The brick-by-brick formation of self and community that takes place in high school: a journal all your own there, a spontaneous R...
When you’re a kid, idolizing at least one of your parents is practically the default. This is especially true for Boy (James Rolleston), a Maori pre-teen who elevates his absent father to mythical proportions. When his dad Alamein (writer-director Taika Waititi) finally returns, Boy and his silent younger brother Rocky (Te Aho Aho Eketone-Whitu) ha...
A supernatural mystery, an exploration of adolescent power and obedience, and an unrequited queer love story wrapped up in one ineffable story, Picnic at Hanging Rocklives in its own genre. There are numerous characters to which a young viewer can connect: the beautiful, commanding Miranda (Anne-Louise Lambert); the awkward Edith (Christine Schuler...
Grouped together, the Apu trilogy of films by Indian master filmmaker Satyajit Ray form one of the greatest cinematic coming-of-age narratives of all time. But we can’t really name all three for one slot, and unfortunately, they’re not each popular enough to take up three spots on this list either. The greatest and most famous of the three, Pather ...
Dirty Dancing calls its shot in the coming-of-age canon with Johnny Castle’s famous line “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” The film watches Francis “Baby” Houseman (Jennifer Grey) grow up over the course of a summertime family trip to the Catskills. When she meets dance instructor Johnny, played iconically by Patrick Swayze, Baby realizes just how sm...
Boyhood is one of the few films on this list in which you quite literally watch its characters grow up and come of age. Filmed over a 12 year period by maestro Richard Linklater — a director reputed for his warm, nostalgic depictions of the passage of time — the movie is an astounding documentation of the lapsing years in Mason Evans’ (Ellar Coltra...
It might not be a growing up experience we’ll ever go through, but the playful historical fiction feels supremely relatable in the hands of writer-director Sofia Coppola. She can fashion Kirsten Dunst, her career muse, in extravagant dresses, shower her with ungodly amounts of attention, and drown her in luxury while preserving the well-tread deafe...
The French New Extremity as a subgenre is all about, well, being extreme. Its films are bloody, gory, and nihilistic as the human body seems to fall apart at the seams. They often focus on the torture of the female body and watching a female character writhe in turmoil. Julia Ducournau’s Rawis all of that but more. She takes a borderline exploitati...
- Superbad. It’s a tale as old as time: two unpopular high school boys want their crushes to get drunk so they’ll hook up at the big weekend party. It’s a premise that hasn’t aged well since “Superbad” premiered in 2007, but the earnest and humorous friendship of Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) makes the Rogen-Goldberg flick timeless.
- Lady Bird. Is there a better example of teen melodrama than when Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson hurls her body out of a moving car to escape her nagging, yelling mom (Laurie Metclaf)?
- Dumplin’ From director Anne Fletcher, Jennifer Aniston plays the former beauty pageant queen mom of Willowdean “Dumplin'” Dickson (Danielle Macdonald), a teen who throws the local beauty pageant for a loop when she signs up for her mom’s pageant in protest.
- Cuties. Don’t let the controversy dissuade you. Director Maïmouna Doucouré’s feature debut is a nuanced look at girlhood. Everything changes for 11-year-old Amy (Fathia Youssouf) when she joins the self-titled Cuties, a free-spirited dance clique at school.
company named Azov Films that operated openly and marketed itself as a producer and distributor of “naturist” films, primarily depicting boys engaged in sports and recreational scenes coming of age. 14 The films marketed by Azov Films did not include explicit sexual acts and so
The ultimate coming of age movie list. theskykid.com is the largest site with a focus on the Coming-of-Age genre. Many of the films included in this list are featured on the site - as well as interviews with some of the directors and the actors.
