Top Coming Of Age Movies & TV Shows

WondLa (2024) TV Show

7.4 100 votes

Genre: Animation, Family, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Forced to flee her underground sanctuary for Earth’s surface, Eva discovers a world unlike anything she expected. As she journeys across perilous terrain and unknown civilizations, Eva searches to answer the ultimate question: Is she the last human?

Plot: based on novel or book, civilization, alien, coming of age, robot, 3d animation, joyous

Cast

Maya da Costa

Myra Molloy

Levon Hawke

Zach Braff

Girls Like Girls (2026)

7.4 21 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: Coley, 17, from rural Oregon, navigates intimacy after her mother's passing. Meeting Sonya sparks new feelings, but self-doubt hinders their connection. Sonya, unfamiliar with dating girls, is uncertain. They learn to embrace emotions.

Plot: based on novel or book, coming of age, based on song, poem or rhyme, first love, lgbt, queer, lesbian, ...

Boy Swallows Universe (2024) TV Show

7.4 150 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A young boy growing up in the suburbs of 1980s Brisbane faces the harsh realities of life — and the looming dangers that threaten his family.

Plot: based on novel or book, gangster, coming of age, miniseries, brisbane

Time: 1980s

Eureka Seven (2005) TV Show

7.4 68 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 74

Audience: TV-14

Story: Renton Thurston desires to leave his home behind and join the mercenary group known as Gekkostate, hoping to find some adventure. When a robot crashes through Renton's garage the meeting sparks the beginning of Renton's involvement with Gekkostate as he takes off alongside the young girl Eureka as the co-pilot of the Nirvash.

Style: romantic

Plot: alien, mecha, coming of age, giant robot, military, anime, real robot, interspecies romance, ...

Rushmore (1998)

7.4 2.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.

Plot: lone wolf, private school, theater play, theatre group, theater director, coming of age, precocious child, complex, ...

Cast

Rowan Blanchard

Auliu02bbi Cravalho

Isabella Ferreira

Tyler Alvarez

Crush (2022)

7.4 495 votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Story: When an aspiring young artist is forced to join her high school track team, she uses it as an opportunity to pursue the girl she's been harboring a long-time crush on. But she soon finds herself falling for an unexpected teammate and discovers what real love feels like.

Style: lighthearted, intimate, witty, whimsical

Plot: high school, love triangle, comedian, coming of age, art, high school friends, lgbt athlete, lgbt, ...

Cast

Soma Santoki

Masaki Suda

Ko Shibasaki

Aimyon

The Boy and the Heron (2023)

7.4 2.7K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the "long-awaited one."

Style: suspenseful

Plot: loss of loved one, supernatural, education, coming of age, spirituality, poverty, teenage boy, parallel world, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Craig Roberts

Alexandra Socha

Paul Reiser

Oliver Cooper

Red Oaks (2014) TV Show

7.4 128 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A coming-of-age comedy set in the "go-go" 80s that is equal parts hijinks and heartfelt about a college student enjoying a last hurrah before summer comes to an end--and the future begins.David Myers, an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club in suburban New Jersey in 1985, is both reeling from his father's heart attack and conflicted about what major to declare in the fall. While there, he meets a colorful cast of misfit co-workers and wealthy club members including an alluring art student named Skye and her corporate raider father Getty.

Plot: nostalgia, growing up, family relationships, coming of age

Time: 1980s

Cast

Noah Taylor

Paddy Considine

Craig Roberts

Yasmin Paige

Submarine (2011)

7.4 1.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: 15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar problems arise in his relationship with Jordana.

Plot: friendship, beach, bullying, loss of virginity, coming of age, teenage girl, teenage protagonist, swansea, ...

Place: wales

Cast

Trevante Rhodes

Andru00e9 Holland

Janelle Monu00e1e

Ashton Sanders

Moonlight (2016)

7.4 7.6K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

Plot: drug dealer, high school, drug abuse, miami, florida, parent child relationship, fight, homophobia, ...

Place: florida

Cast

Jodi Benson

Samuel E. Wright

Pat Carroll

Christopher Daniel Barnes

The Little Mermaid (1989)

7.4 8.4K votes

Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 83 min.

Audience: G

Story: This colorful adventure tells the story of an impetuous mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the very human Prince Eric and puts everything on the line for the chance to be with him. Memorable songs and characters -- including the villainous sea witch Ursula.

Plot: witch, princess, sea, daughter, kingdom, fireworks, cartoon, mermaid, ...

Cast

Rosalie Chiang

Sandra Oh

Ava Morse

Hyein Park

Turning Red (2022)

7.3 5.9K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Thirteen-year-old Mei is experiencing the awkwardness of being a teenager with a twist – when she gets too excited, she transforms into a giant red panda.

Plot: friendship, concert, temple, shapeshifting, toronto, canada, coming of age, teenage girl, ...

Place: canada

Cast

Tobey Maguire

Willem Dafoe

Kirsten Dunst

James Franco

Spider-Man (2002)

7.3 20.8K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.

Plot: new york city, adolescence, photographer, loss of loved one, photography, secret identity, hostility, superhero, ...

Frances Ha (2013)

7.3 1.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Brazil, United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: R

Story: An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.

Plot: new york city, friendship, dancer, paris, france, freedom, female friendship, loneliness, ...

Dirty Dancing (1987)

7.3 6.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer—and unexpectedly falling in love.

Plot: hotel, daughter, dancing, secret love, robbery, sibling relationship, summer camp, dancing master, ...

Cast

Annette Bening

Elle Fanning

Greta Gerwig

Billy Crudup

20th Century Women (2016)

7.3 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.

Plot: parent child relationship, balcony, feminism, punk rock, coming of age, feminist, free spirit, single mother, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Jason London

Matthew McConaughey

Joey Lauren Adams

Rory Cochrane

Dazed and Confused (1993)

7.3 2.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.

Plot: high school, coming of age, marijuana, summer, period drama, teen comedy, teenager, stoner comedy, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: texas

Cast

James Van Der Beek

Katie Holmes

Michelle Williams

Joshua Jackson

Dawson's Creek (1998) TV Show

7.3 616 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 128

Audience: TV-14

Story: Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.

Plot: small town, boston, massachusetts, friendship, growing up, coming of age, friends in love, teenage romance, ...

Cast

Austin Abrams

Lili Reinhart

Sarah Jones

Bruce Altman

Chemical Hearts (2020)

7.3 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: When a hopelessly romantic high school senior falls for a mysterious new classmate, it sets them both on an unexpected journey that teaches them about love, loss, and most importantly themselves.

Plot: high school, coming of age, young love, school newspaper, based on young adult novel, teenager, pretentious

Cast

Tobey Maguire

Reese Witherspoon

William H. Macy

Joan Allen

Pleasantville (1998)

7.3 1.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.

Plot: sibling relationship, dystopia, diner, satire, book burning, coming of age, racism, bathtub, ...

Time: 1950s

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