Top Coming Of Age Movies & TV Shows

Cast

John Lennon

Paul McCartney

George Harrison

Ringo Starr

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

7.3 746 votes

Genre: Comedy, Music

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: G

Story: Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.

Style: psychotronic

Plot: adolescence, culture clash, pop culture, press conference, musical, mockumentary, behind the scenes, fame, ...

Place: great britain

Cast

Kenji Mizuhashi

Yoshimi Kondou

Satomi Hanamura

Risa Mizuno

5 Centimeters per Second (2007)

7.3 2.2K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance

Country: Japan

Duration: 63 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and disappointments of adulthood, an unhappy life in a cold city.

Plot: coming of age, slice of life, surf, train, motorcycle, separation, childhood friends, anime, ...

Cast

Alicia Silverstone

Stacey Dash

Brittany Murphy

Paul Rudd

Clueless (1995)

7.3 4.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 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. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.

Plot: puberty, high school, based on novel or book, make a match, spoiled child, coming of age, matchmaking, conflict, ...

Cast

Mei Kayama

Misuzu Kanno

Shunsuke Daitoh

Makiko Watanabe

37 Seconds (2019)

7.3 110 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Yuma, a 23-year-old comic book artist with profound cerebral palsy, has been emotionally stunted by her well-meaning but overprotective mother. As she begins to seek independence and sexual awakening on her own terms, she discovers an unexpected path to love and forgiveness.

Style: melancholy, philosophical

Plot: virgin, prostitute, sexuality, twin sister, bodily disabled person, artist, wheelchair, disabled child, ...

Place: japan, thailand

Cast

Dylan O'Brien

Jessica Henwick

Michael Rooker

Dan Ewing

Love and Monsters (2020)

7.3 4.5K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Seven years since the Monsterpocalypse began, Joel Dawson has been living underground in order to survive. But after reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, Joel decides to venture out to reunite with her, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way.

Style: psychotronic

Plot: monster, bunker, post-apocalyptic future, coming of age, love, mutant animal, inspirational, teenager

Cast

Bruce Reitherman

Phil Harris

Sebastian Cabot

George Sanders

The Jungle Book (1967)

7.3 6.7K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 78 min.

Audience: G

Story: The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera, the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie, the hypnotic snake Kaa and the lovable, happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, who teaches Mowgli "The Bare Necessities" of life and the true meaning of friendship.

Plot: based on novel or book, narration, human animal relationship, cartoon, villain, musical, feral child, coming of age, ...

Place: india

Cast

Tom Hiddleston

Benjamin Pajak

Nick Offerman

Chiwetel Ejiofor

The Life of Chuck (2025)

7.3 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.

Plot: life and death, brain tumor, coming of age, dying man, slice of life, cancer, death, based on short story, ...

Cast

David Bowie

Jennifer Connelly

Toby Froud

Shelley Thompson

Labyrinth (1986)

7.3 2.8K votes

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Frustrated with babysitting on yet another weekend night, Sarah, a teenager with an active imagination, summons the Goblins to take her baby stepbrother away. When little Toby actually disappears, Sarah must follow him into a fantastical world to rescue him from the Goblin King. Guarding his castle is the labyrinth itself, a twisted maze of deception, populated with outrageous characters and unknown dangers.

Plot: rescue, race against time, maze, castle, musical, puppet, babysitter, surrealism, ...

Cast

Jun Shison

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Alice Hirose

Mamoru Miyano

Bubble (2022)

7.3 483 votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In an abandoned Tokyo overrun by bubbles and gravitational abnormalities, one gifted young man has a fateful meeting with a mysterious girl.

Plot: adolescence, parkour, romance, disaster, tokyo, japan, battle, gravity, ...

Time: post-apocalyptic

Cast

Holly Robinson Peete

Michael Bendetti

Peter DeLuise

Steven Williams

21 Jump Street (1987) TV Show

7.3 198 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 103

Audience: TV-14

Story: 21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults.

Plot: undercover, undercover agent, police, coming of age, police detective, police procedural

Cast

Jonah Hill

Michael Cera

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Bill Hader

Superbad (2007)

7.3 8.2K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.

Plot: high school, police, alcohol, chaos, nerd, coming of age, school, los angeles, ...

Gangsta. (2015) TV Show

7.3 132 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Crime

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In the crime-ridden, mafia-governed city of Ergastulum, Worick and Nicolas are two “handymen” known as “Benriya” who would take any dirty job from either police or mafia, for a good price. After an assignment from police the two met and later joined by Alex, a former prostitute who got interested in the mysterious background of the team, in particular of Nicolas’ abilities.

Plot: child abuse, underground, swordplay, kidnapping, gangster, secret organization, dystopia, police, ...

Cast

Saoirse Ronan

Laurie Metcalf

Tracy Letts

Lucas Hedges

Lady Bird (2017)

7.3 9.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.

Plot: friendship, loss of virginity, coming of age, teen angst, high school graduation, teenage girl, best friend, loss of job, ...

Time: 2000s

Cast

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Thomas McHugh

Constance Shulman

Doug Preis

Alice Playten

Doug (1991) TV Show

7.2 245 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Country: France, United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 166

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Doug Funnie experiences common predicaments while attending school in his new hometown of Bluffington, Virginia.

Plot: narration, coming of age, best friend, suburb, dog, new town, new school, older sister, ...

Cast

Ronit Roy

Rajat Barmecha

Aayan Boradia

Ram Kapoor

Udaan (2010)

7.2 231 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: India

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: R

Story: Upon returning to his industrial hometown, a young man must decide whether to follow his own dreams or acquiesce to his father's plans for his future.

Style: provocative

Plot: coming of age, inspirational, hopeful

Cast

Jaeden Martell

Jeremy Ray Taylor

Sophia Lillis

Finn Wolfhard

It (2017)

7.2 20.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

Plot: small town, based on novel or book, haunted house, clown, bullying, abandoned house, coming of age, flashback, ...

Time: 1980s

Mean Girls (2004)

7.2 9.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

Plot: based on novel or book, illinois, female friendship, bullying, coming of age, prom, teenage girl, fish out of water, ...

School 2017 (2017) TV Show

7.2 66 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Story: A coming-of-age story about the lives of 18-year-old high school students who are valued according to their ranking in school. Despite their frustrations, they find out how to make their own way in this world that seems to be a stagnant cycle of school and home.

Plot: high school, romance, coming of age

Cast

Ranbir Kapoor

Konkona Sen Sharma

Rahul Khanna

Anupam Kher

Wake Up Sid (2009)

7.2 188 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Wake Up Sid! is the story of a lazy Mumbai college student who does absolutely nothing, with a turn of events will Sid realize his potential in this world and become a success in the fast-paced life of Mumbai.

Plot: coming of age, spoilt brat, inspirational