Top Coming Of Age Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Nicholas Hoult

Lily Collins

Colm Meaney

Derek Jacobi

Tolkien (2019)

6.9 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) and three of his schoolmates create a strong bond between them as they share the same passion for literature and art, a true fellowship that strengthens as they grow up, but the outbreak of World War I threatens to shatter it.

Plot: male friendship, biography, based on true story, coming of age, mentor protégé relationship, boys' school, troubled relationship, oxford university, ...

Time: world war i, 1900s

Cast

Yonas Kibreab

Remy Edgerly

Zoe Saldau00f1a

Brad Garrett

Elio (2025)

6.9 1.0K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.

Plot: villain, alien, coming of age, computer animation, eye patch, social outcast, aftercreditsstinger, beforecreditsstinger, ...

Cast

Rishi Kapoor

Paresh Rawal

Juhi Chawla Mehta

Satish Kaushik

Sharmaji Namkeen (2022)

6.9 31 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 119 min.

Story: Late Rishi Kapoor in his swansong plays B. G. Sharma, a 58-year old middle-class widower living in West Delhi. After being laid off from the company he has worked for his entire life, Sharmaji struggles to deal with the beast called retirement. His struggle to stay relevant in front of his two sons finally ends when he rekindles his love for cooking through a kitty party. A bunch of merry women rekindle in Sharma, a passion for cooking and chutzpah in general, that help him find his true calling.

Plot: coming of age

Cast

Laila Lockhart Kraner

Gloria Estefan

Kristen Wiig

Logan Bailey

Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie (2025)

6.9 86 votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: G

Story: Gabby heads out on a road trip with her Grandma Gigi to the urban wonderland of Cat Francisco. But when Gabby's dollhouse, her most prized possession, ends up in the hands of an eccentric cat lady named Vera, Gabby sets off on an adventure through the real world to get the Gabby Cats back together and save the dollhouse before it's too late.

Plot: friendship, magic, cat, mermaid, musical, coming of age, growing up, breaking the fourth wall, ...

Cast

John Cleese

Troye Sivan

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Sven Ruygrok

Byron Langley

Spud 2: The Madness Continues (2013)

6.9 32 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: South Africa

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: The year is 1991, and Spud Milton's long walk to manhood is still creeping along at an unnervingly slow pace. Approaching the ripe old age of fifteen and still no signs of the much anticipated ball-drop, Spud is coming to terms with the fact that he may well be a freak of nature. With a mother hell-bent on emigrating, a father making a killing out of selling homemade moonshine, and a demented grandmother called Wombat, the new year seems to offer little except extreme embarrassment and more mortifying Milton madness. But Spud is returning to a boarding school where he is no longer the youngest or the smallest. His dormitory mates, known as the Crazy Eight, have an unusual new member and his house has a new clutch of first years (the Normal Seven). If Spud thinks his second year will be a breeze, however, he is seriously mistaken.

Plot: boarding school, coming of age, school

Cast

Leo Fitzpatrick

Justin Pierce

Chlou00eb Sevigny

Rosario Dawson

Kids (1995)

6.9 1.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: A group of bored, disaffected New York City teenagers spend a day skating, smoking, drinking, partying, deflowering virgins, and getting into fights.

Plot: puberty, first time, new york city, drug abuse, coming of age, hiv, juvenile delinquent, shoplifting, ...

Cast

Cooper Hoffman

David Jonsson

Ben Wang

Tut Nyuot

The Long Walk (2025)

6.9 1.7K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a dystopian 1970s America, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: suicide, based on novel or book, male friendship, bullying, coming of age, survival, teenage boy, survival horror, ...

Cast

Taito Ban

Mariya Ise

Minako Kotobuki

Haruka Shiraishi

Flavors of Youth (2018)

6.9 589 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance

Country: China, Japan

Duration: 74 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The rigorous city life of China, while bustling and unforgiving, contains the everlasting memories of days past. Three stories told in three different cities, follow the loss of youth and the daunting realization of adulthood. Though reality may seem ever changing, unchangeable are the short-lived moments of one's childhood days. A plentiful bowl of noodles, the beauty of family and the trials of first love endure the inevitable flow of time, as three different characters explore the strength of bonds and the warmth of cherished memories. Within the disorder of the present world, witness these quaint stories recognize the comfort of the past, and attempt to revive the neglected flavors of youth.

Plot: friendship, anthology, coming of age, modern china, young love, anime, guangzhou, working life, ...

Place: shanghai

Cast

Dane DeHaan

Alex Russell

Michael B. Jordan

Michael Kelly

Chronicle (2012)

6.9 5.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 84 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over.

Style: intense

Plot: friendship, flying, seattle, washington, telekinesis, coming of age, outcast, loneliness, ...

Cast

Monique van de Ven

Rutger Hauer

Tonny Huurdeman

Wim van den Brink

Turkish Delight (1973)

6.8 216 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Netherlands

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Gifted but hot-headed sculptor Eric has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young woman named Olga.

Plot: adultery, brain tumor, bad mother-in-law, coming of age, love, hitchhiker, domestic violence, marital rape, ...

Now Apocalypse (2019) TV Show

6.8 73 votes

Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: This surreal, coming-of-age comedy series follows Ulysses and his friends Carly, Ford, and Severine, who are on various quests pursuing love, sex and fame. Between sexual and romantic dating-app adventures, Ulysses grows increasingly troubled as foreboding premonitory dreams make him wonder if some kind of dark and monstrous conspiracy is going on, or if he is just smoking too much weed.

Style: surreal

Plot: coming of age

Cast

Adepero Oduye

Pernell Walker

Aasha Davis

Charles Parnell

Pariah (2011)

6.8 166 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Story: A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

Plot: identity, coming of age, female homosexuality, dyje, teenage sexuality, lgbt, lgbt teen, woman director, ...

7G Rainbow Colony (2004)

6.8 29 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 185 min.

Story: Kathir is a young underachiever who frequently vents his frustrations through public outbursts. When Anitha, a North Indian girl whose family has fallen on hard times, moves into his housing colony, he soon decides to pursue her with his love, but she keeps rejecting his advances.

Plot: tragic love, late coming of age

Cast

Emma Stone

Penn Badgley

Amanda Bynes

Dan Byrd

Easy A (2010)

6.8 7.4K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor. With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents and a little help from a long-time crush, Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.

Plot: high school, small town, lie, loss of virginity, coming of age, teen movie, school, female protagonist, ...

I'm a Virgo (2023) TV Show

6.8 65 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-14

Story: A coming-of-age joyride about Cootie, a 13ft tall young Black man in Oakland, CA. Having grown up hidden away, Cootie soon experiences the beauty and contradictions of the world for the first time. He forms friendships, finds love, navigates awkward situations, and encounters his idol, a real life superhero named The Hero.

Style: absurdist

Plot: race politics, cult, oakland, california, superhero, surrealism, coming of age, social satire, ...

Cast

Jude Law

Ravi Cabot-Conyers

Ryan Kiera Armstrong

Kyriana Kratter

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (2024) TV Show

6.8 456 votes

Genre: Action, Family, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Four ordinary kids search for their home planet after getting lost in the Star Wars galaxy.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: self-discovery, coming of age, miniseries, based on movie, globetrotting

Cast

Hio Miyazawa

Ai Hashimoto

Kimiko Yo

Maki Mizuno

To Every You I've Loved Before (2022)

6.8 51 votes

Genre: Animation, Romance, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: While struggling to make friends after his parents’ divorce, Koyomi Takasaki meets Kazune Takigawa, but apparently, they already have. Kazune reveals that she’s from World Line 85, an alternate universe in which she and Koyomi are lovers. But in a reality where moving between dimensions is natural, could Koyomi be the one from another world?

Plot: based on novel or book, time travel, coming of age, parallel world, anime

Cast

Rachel Sennott

Ayo Edebiri

Ruby Cruz

Havana Rose Liu

Bottoms (2023)

6.8 878 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school self-defense club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon find themselves in over their heads when the most popular students start beating each other up in the name of self-defense.

Style: provocative, witty

Plot: high school, cheerleader, female friendship, bullying, coming of age, teenage girl, school assembly, high school student, ...

Cast

Kalki Koechlin

Revathi

Sayani Gupta

Hussain Dalal

Margarita with a Straw (2015)

6.8 85 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: India

Duration: 100 min.

Story: A rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves India to study in New York. On her journey of self-discovery, she unexpectedly falls in love.

Plot: new york city, self-discovery, bisexuality, wheelchair, coming of age, lesbian relationship, lgbt, cerebral palsy, ...

Cast

Maisy Stella

Aubrey Plaza

Percy Hynes White

Maddie Ziegler

My Old Ass (2024)

6.8 496 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: R

Story: An 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self. But when Elliott’s "old ass" starts handing out warnings about what her younger self should and shouldn't do, Elliott realizes she has to rethink everything about family, love, and what's becoming a transformative summer.

Plot: women's sexual identity, time travel, romcom, time, coming of age, magic mushroom, drug trip, lgbt teen, ...

Place: canada

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