Top Coming Of Age Movies & TV Shows

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Ignacio Rogers

Esteban Masturini

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Joaquu00edn Parada

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Blas Finardi Niz

Esteros (2016)

6.6 138 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Argentina

Duration: 83 min.

Story: Childhood friends Matías and Jerónimo reach adolescence and experience sexual attraction to each other, before being separated by circumstances. Later, as young adults, they meet again, and the film follows themes of complicated relationships and sexual tensions, as well as issues of homophobia.

Plot: coming out, friendship, past, love, male homosexuality, memory, lgbt, late coming of age, ...

High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)

6.5 3.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: G

Story: As seniors in high school, Troy and Gabriella struggle with the idea of being separated from one another as college approaches. Along with the rest of the Wildcats, they stage a spring musical to address their experiences, hopes and fears about their future.

Plot: high school, musical, basketball, sequel, coming of age, high school student, duringcreditsstinger, grand

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Olivia Cooke

Mireille Enos

Christopher Abbott

Jim Belushi

Katie Says Goodbye (2018)

6.5 66 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Story: A kindhearted seventeen-year-old in the American Southwest turns to prostitution to fulfill her dream of a new life in San Francisco.

Plot: trailer park, waitress, love at first sight, coming of age, prostitution, repair shop, alcoholic mother, saving money, ...

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Pauline Acquart

Louise Blachu00e8re

Adu00e8le Haenel

Warren Jacquin

Water Lilies (2007)

6.5 472 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: France

Duration: 85 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.

Plot: paris, france, forbidden love, female friendship, loss of virginity, swimming pool, coming of age, locker room, ...

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Zac Efron

Vanessa Hudgens

Ashley French

Lucas Grabeel

High School Musical (2006)

6.5 4.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Family, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: G

Story: A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and develop a friendship that threatens East High's social order.

Style: lighthearted

Plot: high school, becoming an adult, school performance, musical, basketball, high school sports, coming of age, jock, ...

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Rohan Chand

Christian Bale

Cate Blanchett

Benedict Cumberbatch

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)

6.5 2.6K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.

Plot: based on novel or book, hunter, wolf, tiger, coming of age, anthropomorphism, jungle, bear, ...

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Charlene Choi Chuek-Yin

Simon Yam

Ryan Lau Chun-Kong

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Sunadcha Tadrabiab

Sara (2014)

6.4 39 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 95 min.

Story: Journalist Sara has just spent four months completing an in-depth investigation piece. Her editor-in-chief, afraid of offending powerful politicians and business moguls, refuses to run it. Sara’s boyfriend, who works for the same magazine, chooses not to warn her and even sides with the editor-in-chief. In just one moment, Sara is turned off by her work, her love relationship, and even about life.At this low point in her life, Sara exiles herself to Chiang Mai, Thailand. One evening, while at a bar, Sara meets child prostitute Dok-My. During her time getting to know Dok-My and through the process of rescuing her, Sara becomes haunted by the memories of her own past…

Plot: journalist, prostitute, coming of age, childhood sexual abuse, sex tourism

The Perfect Date (2019)

6.4 3.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: No beau? No problem! To earn money for college, a high schooler creates a dating app that lets him act as a stand-in boyfriend.

Plot: adolescence, fake boyfriend, based on young adult novel

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Mayu Matsuoka

Anne Watanabe

Kumiko Aso

Nao Toyama

The Wonderland (2019)

6.4 104 votes

Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 115 min.

Story: The story follows Akane, a girl with no self-confidence. On the day before her birthday, she meets a mysterious alchemist, Hippocrates, and his student, Pipo, who both tell her they're on a mission to save the world. Together, they set out from the basement for "Wonderland," and Akane finds herself labelled Wonderland's savior.

Plot: based on novel or book, magic, coming of age, parallel world, environmental, journey, alchemist, anime, ...

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Dylan McDermott

Charlie Plummer

Samantha Mathis

Madisen Beaty

The Clovehitch Killer (2018)

6.4 817 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A picture-perfect family is torn apart after Tyler finds a cache of disturbing images in his father's possession. He begins to suspect that the man he trusts most in the world may be responsible for the murder of 13 women ten years prior.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: double life, investigation, kentucky, coming of age, serial killer, psychological thriller, church, surveillance, ...

Time: 1990s

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Ananya Panday

Lakshya

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Aastha Singh

Paresh Pahuja

Chand Mera Dil (2026)

6.4 7 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: 12A

Story: Aarav and Chandni's passionate college romance is struck by adulthood far too soon, forcing the two young lovers to balance their ambitions with responsibility and realize the evolved meaning of love.

Plot: ambition, romance, coming of age, adulthood, college romance

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Seth Rogen

Gaten Matarazzo

Steve Buscemi

Glenn Close

Animal Farm (2026)

6.4 93 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A group of farm animals rise up against their neglectful owner, dreaming of equality and freedom. But as the pigs take control, the revolution turns into tyranny, with truth rewritten and dissent crushed.

Plot: sheep, corruption, based on novel or book, pig, horse, dictatorship, coming of age, social satire, ...

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Ruaridh Mollica

Hiftu Quasem

Jonathan Hyde

Ingvar E. Siguru00f0sson

Sebastian (2024)

6.4 51 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Belgium

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: 18

Story: Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting platform. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write, finally seems within reach.

Plot: london, england, prostitute, double life, identity, literature, coming of age, sexual violence, ...

Girls (2012) TV Show

6.4 446 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 62

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.

Style: cynical, irreverent

Plot: new york city, adolescence, roommates, self-discovery, female friendship, friendship, relationship, young woman, ...

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Llorenu00e7 Gonzu00e1lez

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Ricard Farru00e9

Angels of Sex (2012)

6.4 146 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Spain

Duration: 105 min.

Story: Carla and Bruno believe they have answers for everything until Rai appears in their lives, an attractive and mysterious young who lives outsidethe rules. In this story about love and friendship, boundaries dissolve by the rhythm of funkyand break to offer a provocative, exciting and deeply touching vision about romantic relationships.

Plot: infidelity, dancer, love triangle, barcelona, spain, bisexuality, coming of age, sexual attraction, ...

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Natalia Dyer

Timothy Simons

Wolfgang Novogratz

Francesca Reale

Yes, God, Yes (2020)

6.3 601 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Brazil, United States of America

Duration: 78 min.

Audience: R

Story: Alice, a young innocent Catholic girl, is tempted into masturbating after an AOL chat suddenly turns sexual, however is conflicted as the act would be considered a sin.

Plot: high school, coming of age, teenage girl, catholic, masturbation, sexual awakening, woman director, based on short film

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Robin Williams

Diane Lane

Brian Kerwin

Jennifer Lopez

Jack (1996)

6.3 1.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Born with a rare condition that makes him age four times faster than normal, ten-year-old Jack Powell looks like a forty-year-old man. After years of homeschooling, he enters public school for the first time, eager to make friends and live like any other kid—only to discover that growing up too fast means learning some of life’s hardest lessons early.

Plot: genetics, age difference, body exchange, coming of age

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Iman Vellani

Matt Lintz

Yasmeen Fletcher

Zenobia Shroff

Ms. Marvel (2022) TV Show

6.3 1.5K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-14

Story: A great student, avid gamer, and voracious fan-fic scribe, Kamala Khan has a special affinity for superheroes, particularly Captain Marvel. However, she struggles to fit in at home and at school — that is, until she gets superpowers like the heroes she’s always looked up to. Life is easier with superpowers, right?

Plot: parent child relationship, superhero, based on comic, coming of age, teenage girl, miniseries, super power, marvel cinematic universe (mcu), ...

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Mia McKenna-Bruce

Lara Peake

Enva Lewis

Samuel Bottomley

How to Have Sex (2023)

6.2 515 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Greece

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday—drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their lives.

Plot: female friendship, crete, coming of age, teenage girl, female protagonist, summer, woman director, sexual assault, ...

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Leslie Caron

Maurice Chevalier

Louis Jourdan

Hermione Gingold

Gigi (1958)

6.2 350 votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: G

Story: A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.

Plot: paris, france, based on novel or book, jewelry, courtesan, musical, champagne, based on play or musical, ...

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