Top Coming Of Age Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Jake Gyllenhaal

Dennis Quaid

Jaboukie Young-White

Gabrielle Union

Strange World (2022)

6.2 1.4K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A journey deep into an uncharted and treacherous land, where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades—a family of explorers whose differences threaten to topple their latest, and by far most crucial, mission.

Plot: monster, coming of age, harmony, farmer, explorer, lgbt teen, alternative world, 3d animation, ...

Cast

Mu00e9lissa Boros

Tahar Rahim

Golshifteh Farahani

Emma Mackey

Alpha (2025)

6.2 125 votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: France, Belgium

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: R

Story: Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.

Plot: coming of age, disease, pandemic, mother daughter relationship, body horror, depressing

Rambling Rose (1991)

6.2 82 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the Deep South of the 1930s, Rose is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Her appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and she knows it. She can't help herself from getting into trouble with men.

Plot: seduction, georgia, host family, coming of age, young woman, troubled teen, promiscuous woman, depression era, ...

Time: great depression, 1930s

Cast

Hayden Christensen

Jamie Bell

Samuel L. Jackson

Rachel Bilson

Jumper (2008)

6.2 6.3K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: David Rice is a man who knows no boundaries, a Jumper, born with the uncanny ability to teleport instantly to anywhere on Earth. When he discovers others like himself, David is thrust into a dangerous and bloodthirsty war while being hunted by a sinister and determined group of zealots who have sworn to destroy all Jumpers. Now, David’s extraordinary gift may be his only hope for survival!

Plot: adolescence, based on novel or book, loss of loved one, motherly love, super power, identity conflict, teleportation ability, global chase, ...

Cast

Justice Smith

Jack Haven

Ian Foreman

Helena Howard

I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

6.1 726 votes

Genre: Drama, Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, however, questions begin to arise about why the show sometimes seems more real than their own lives. In the pale glow of the television, their view of reality begins to crack.

Style: intimate

Plot: high school, friendship, loss of sense of reality, sexuality, identity, obsession, surrealism, asthma, ...

Time: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s

Cast

John Boyega

Scott Eastwood

Cailee Spaeny

Jing Tian

Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

6.1 5.4K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.

Plot: mind control, race against time, army, monster, artificial intelligence (a.i.), saving the world, cadet, military officer, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Lukas Steltner

Kai Michael Mu00fcller

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Steven Baade

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Florian Born

Harvest (2011)

6.1 44 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Germany

Duration: 88 min.

Story: Breathtaking in its subtle beauty, Harvest is an achingly romantic tale of an innocent but ever increasingly passionate affair that develops between two simple farmhands. Life on a farm is all that sullen teen Marco knows- leading a perfunctory and quiet life of working, going to school and avoiding the advances of girls. However, his self-imposed solitude ends when curly-haired Jakob, rejecting the banking world for farming, arrives to train on the farm. Although initially cautious and tentative with each other, it is soon obvious that the unspoken sexual tension is becoming increasingly hard to resist - something a spontaneous trip to Berlin. Proving that true love can blossom in even the most unlikely of places, Harvest is as rich and rewarding as it is heart-warming.

Plot: farm, berlin, germany, barn, kiss, apprentice, agriculture, bicycle, ...

Place: germany

Lowlife (2017)

6.1 82 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: 18

Story: The sordid lives of an addict, an ex-con, and a luchador collide when an organ harvesting caper goes very, very wrong.

Plot: swastika, pregnancy, immigration, murder, prostitution, death, quinceanera, luchador, ...

Cast

Naslen K. Gafoor

Roshan Shanavas

Althaf Salim

Sangeeth Prathap

Mollywood Times (2026)

6.1 8 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 167 min.

Audience: 12A

Story: Vineeth Madhavan tries hard to become Malayalam cinema's greatest horror filmmaker, but will the toxic industry affect his dream?

Plot: coming of age, filmmaker, amused, aspiring filmmaker

Cast

Nell Barlow

Ella-Rae Smith

Jo Hartley

Sophia Di Martino

Sweetheart (2021)

6.1 32 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: 15

Story: A socially awkward, environmentally-conscious teenager named AJ is dragged to a coastal holiday park by her painfully 'normal' family, where she becomes unexpectedly captivated by a chlorine smelling, sun-loving lifeguard named Isla.

Plot: holiday, pregnancy, coming of age, lesbian relationship, teenage girl, family, family holiday, lgbt, ...

Cast

Miley Cyrus

Demi Moore

Douglas Booth

Ashley Greene

LOL (2012)

6.1 2.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, "accidentally" reads her teenage daughter's racy journal, she realizes just how wide their communication gap has grown.

Plot: coming of age, teen movie, based on movie, working mom, woman director, mother daughter relationship, teenager

Cast

Chris Penn

Lea Thompson

Eric Stoltz

Jenny Wright

The Wild Life (1984)

6.1 65 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.

Plot: high school, police, strip club, coming of age, drugs, sex comedy, voyeur

Place: california

Cast

Ray Chang

Joseph Chang Hsiao-Chuan

Kate Yeung Kei

Eternal Summer (2006)

6.1 72 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Taiwan

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Three high school students experience the perks and pitfalls of love in director Leste Chen’s sensitive tale of friendship and yearning.

Plot: school friend, friendship, love triangle, sexuality, male friendship, coming of age, loneliness, unrequited love, ...

Cast

Lu00e9a Drucker

Samuel Kircher

Olivier Rabourdin

Clotilde Courau

Last Summer (2023)

6.1 250 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: France

Duration: 104 min.

Story: One summer, a French teenager who has been living with his mother in the city moves in with his estranged father’s family in the countryside, where he clashes with his stepmother.

Style: intimate, provocative, intense

Plot: coming of age, remake, older woman younger man relationship, candid, unfaithful wife, stepmother stepson relationship

Cast

Hio Miyazawa

Aju Makita

Ai Hashimoto

Kimiko Yo

To Me, the One Who Loved You (2022)

6.1 81 votes

Genre: Animation, Romance, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Koyomi Hidaka and Shiori Sato meet at his father’s research center and begin to fall in love, but so do their parents, who eventually marry. To avoid becoming stepsiblings, they decide to run away to a parallel universe. Traveling between dimensions is common in their world, but not without repercussions. Does a universe exist for the young couple, and what will it cost them to find it?

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

Cast

Daniela Bobadilla

Daniel Amerman

Kevin McCorkle

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Mary Gordon Murray

Face 2 Face (2017)

6.0 45 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Story: Over a series of video chats, a teenage outcast reaches out to his childhood friend, but finds that behind the veneer of popularity and a seemingly perfect life, she hides a disturbing secret.

Plot: sexual abuse, bullying, coming of age, lgbt, childhood friends, found footage, screenlife

Cast

Martu00edn Karich

Nicolu00e1s Romeo

Federico Fontu00e1n

Alejandro Paker

Jess & James (2015)

6.0 61 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Argentina

Duration: 92 min.

Story: Jess is a bohemian youth with secrets to hide from his shrewd parents. James feels trapped living with his irritable mother. After meeting for a sexual encounter, the two young men set off on a spontaneous road trip across rural Argentina to reunite with Jess' estranged brother. On their journey, they confront strange occurrences and engage in a ménage à trois affair that brings them closer. Their newly found affection grows, all while discovering a fresh vision of freedom and happiness. JESS & JAMES is a sexually charged road-trip movie, a love story, and a coming-of-age tale, set against the mythical landscape of the Argentinian Pampas.

Plot: coming out, menage a trois, road trip, coming of age, in the closet, threesome, lgbt, ghost, ...

Cast

Jodie Foster

Cherie Currie

Marilyn Kagan

Scott Baio

Foxes (1980)

6.0 102 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley, as set to a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.

Plot: alcohol, coming of age, hollywood, prostitution, drugs, desert, san fernando valley

Time: 1970s

Place: california

Cast

John Cleese

Troye Sivan

Caspar Lee

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Sven Ruygrok

Spud 3: Learning to Fly (2014)

6.0 30 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: South Africa

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: 15

Story: As Spud Milton continues his awkward stagger through adolescence, he learns one of life's most important lessons: When dealing with women and cretins, nothing is ever quite as it seems. "I'm practically a man in most areas," writes Spud confidently on his sixteenth birthday. The year is 1992 and, in South Africa, radical change is in the air. The country may be on the bumpy road to an uncertain future, but Spud Milton is hoping for a smooth ride as he returns to boarding school as a senior. Instead, he discovers that his vindictive arch enemy is back to taunt him and that a garrulous Malawian has taken residence in his dormitory, along with the regular inmates and misfits he calls friends. Spud's world has never seemed less certain; he attempts to master Shakespeare, wrestles constantly with his God, and the power of negative thinking, and develops an aversion to fried fish after a shocking discovery about his grandmother, Wombat.

Plot: adolescence, sexual awakening

Cast

Zach Braff

Garry Marshall

Don Knotts

Amy Sedaris

Chicken Little (2005)

5.9 4.2K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 81 min.

Audience: G

Story: When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chicken Little must hatch a plan to save the planet from alien invasion and prove that the world's biggest hero is a little chicken.

Plot: fish, small town, space marine, superhero, chicken, cartoon, alien, coming of age, ...

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