Top Coming Of Age Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Marcelo Ribeiro

Vera Fischer

Tarcu00edsio Meira

u00cdris Bruzzi

Love Strange Love (1982)

5.8 71 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Brazil

Duration: 123 min.

Story: A man remembers forty-eight crucial hours in his life when, as a child, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by him, right before some important political changes in 1937 Brazil. In those hours, he discovers his own sexuality.

Plot: brothel, coming of age, prostitution, incest, sexual awakening, memories, brazilian drama, old memories

Place: brazil

Cast

Tobias Schu00e4fer

Cosima Henman

Axel Stein

Diana Amft

Hard Feelings (2023)

5.8 182 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: Germany

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: Teenagers Charly and Paula worry that sex could ruin their friendship, while their suddenly and surprisingly bossy private parts urge them to go for it.

Plot: sexuality, coming of age, teenage girl, teenage boy, teenage sexuality, sexual awakening, teenager

Cast

Kara Hayward

Liana Liberato

Malin u00c5kerman

Shea Whigham

To the Stars (2019)

5.8 76 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: 12

Story: Under small-town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer’s daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.

Plot: high school, homophobia, oklahoma, bullying, coming of age, teenage sexuality, lgbt, lgbt teen, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Mustapha Aarab

Elsa u00d6hrn

Magnus Krepper

Marika Lagercrantz

JJ+E (2021)

5.8 168 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Sweden

Duration: 91 min.

Story: Elisabeth and John John are raised in the same city, yet they live light years apart, separated economically, socially and culturally. That is until the day they start in the same high school class.

Plot: coming of age, cultural difference, young love, teenager

Place: sweden

Cast

Michael Johnston

Hannah Marks

Michael Ian Black

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Burnie Burns

Slash (2016)

5.8 48 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Freshman Neil's Vanguard stories are all he cares about...until he meets the older Julia, who pushes him to put his own fan fic online. When the website's moderator takes a special interest in Neil's work, it opens up a whole new universe.

Plot: sexual identity, pornography, sexuality, bisexuality, coming of age, comic-con, writer, teenage sexuality, ...

Cast

Hannah Rae

Devrim Lingnau

Tobias Menzies

Greg Wise

Carmilla (2020)

5.8 36 votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: NR

Story: In 19th-century Styria, isolated teen Lara's quiet life is upended by the arrival of mysterious, beautiful Carmilla, a female vampire with whom she develops an intense, homoerotic bond. As Lara's life slowly drains, themes of forbidden desire, identity, and the supernatural are explored, culminating in Lara's discovery of Carmilla's vampiric nature and a confrontation with her ancient lineage.

Plot: vampire, bisexuality, coming of age, dead mother, gothic horror, lgbt, left handedness, woman director, ...

Cast

Miles Szanto

Daniel Webber

Anni Finsterer

Shari Sebbens

Teenage Kicks (2016)

5.8 30 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Australia

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Miklós is at the age when everything feels high-stakes. He is coming to terms with his own sexuality, and when his best friend Dan reveals that he has a new girlfriend, this puts an end to their plans to run away together.

Plot: friendship, jealousy, drug abuse, sexuality, runaway, male friendship, loss, crack, ...

Place: australia

Cast

Brent Vermeulen

Alex van Dyk

Juliana Venter

Mornu00e9 Visser

The Harvesters (2018)

5.8 46 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: South Africa, France

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: NR

Story: South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love.

Plot: adoption, coming of age, afrikaans, religion, prostitution, recovering addict, lgbt, cannes

Cast

Phoebe Cates

Betsy Russell

Matthew Modine

Michael Zorek

Private School (1983)

5.7 216 votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: R

Story: Private-school student Christine loves Jim. But her classmate, Jordan, is also vying for Jim's attention and trying to end his relationship with Christine. Meanwhile, Jim's friend Bubba embarks on a series of sexual escapades, including dressing up as a woman to access the girls' locker room. Despite Jim and Christine's efforts to spend some time alone, various shenanigans and schemes interfere.

Plot: high school, private school, coming of age, friends, hijinks, love interest, sex comedy, drag, ...

Cast

Varun Dhawan

Ileana D'Cruz

Nargis Fakhri

Anupam Kher

Main Tera Hero (2014)

5.7 196 votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 128 min.

Story: Seenu loves Sunaina but they're chased by a stalking cop, an infatuated beauty and her mafia don dad - can Seenu's heroics work?

Plot: coming of age

Cast

Aaron Stanford

Sigourney Weaver

John Ritter

Bebe Neuwirth

Tadpole (2002)

5.7 107 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 79 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. On the train home from Chauncey Academy for the Thanksgiving weekend, Oscar confides in his best friend that he has plans for this vacation--he will win the heart of his true love. But there is one major problem--Oscar's true love is his stepmother Eve.

Plot: romcom, stepmother, coming of age, teenage boy, older woman younger man relationship, sexual awakening, voyeurism

Cast

Richard Romanus

David Proval

Jesse Welles

Tina Romanus

Hey Good Lookin' (1982)

5.6 40 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 77 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1953 Brooklyn, charismatic hood and The Stompers leader Vinnie Genzianna, his friend and second-in-command Crazy Shapiro, and their respective girlfriends Roz and Eva get wrapped up in an escalating conflict with the rival Black gang, The Chaplains, lead by Boogaloo Jones.

Plot: prostitute, street gang, cheating, dark comedy, hamburger, musical, surrealism, nostalgia, ...

Time: 50s

Cast

Jade Sakori

Sivan Noam Shimon

Dvir Benedek

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Einav Levi

Blush (2015)

5.6 50 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Israel

Duration: 85 min.

Audience: 18

Story: Na'ama is seventeen. She lives in a sleepy suburbia. She is bored. With detached parents and a rebellious older sister, her life at home is a mess. It all changes when a new girl appears at school. She's introduced to a world of drugs, lesbians and sex. She's thrilled. Her life, at last, becomes exciting. Is it going to last? "Barash" is a coming of age story, planted in the heart of Israeli society, about a young woman who struggles to find her self-identity in an environment that has different ideas about sex, drugs and love.

Plot: coming out, adolescence, sibling relationship, sexuality, dysfunctional family, coming of age, lesbian relationship, family, ...

Cast

John White

Jessy Schram

Steve Talley

Christopher McDonald

American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile (2006)

5.5 2.2K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: R

Story: When Erik Stifler realizes that he's the only Stifler family member who might graduate high school a virgin, he decides to live up to his legacy. After some well-meaning advice from Jim's dad, Erik's ready to take his chances at the annual and infamous Naked Mile race, where his devoted friends and some uninhibited sorority girls will create the most outrageous weekend ever.

Plot: virgin, adolescence, college, road trip, sequel, spin off, masturbation, sex comedy

Cast

Pauline Casteleyn

Aimu00e9 Claeys

Gaia Sofia Cozijn

Axel Daeseleire

We (2018)

5.4 119 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, History

Country: Belgium, Netherlands

Duration: 100 min.

Story: During a scorching summer in a Belgian-Dutch border village, eight teenagers play games of discovery to break the listless monotony. They challenge each other and themselves and pretty soon, their sexual curiosity starts to blur the lines between right and wrong. As innocence is crushed in depraved games and sexual exploitation, the teenagers soon turn into ruthless predators.

Plot: coming of age, sexual exploration, sexual curiosity, teenager, limits

Cast

Anson Boon

Charlie Murphy

Emma Mackey

Michael McElhatton

The Winter Lake (2020)

5.1 59 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: Canada, Ireland

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: NR

Story: When Holly’s dark secret is accidentally uncovered by her new emotionally unstable neighbor Tom, they are pulled into a violent confrontation with her father, who will do anything to keep the secret hidden.

Plot: casino, abusive father, coming of age, neighbor, car accident, walkie talkie, incest, troubled teen, ...

Place: ireland

Cast

Pierre Clu00e9menti

Katya Berger

Ugo Bologna

Bu00e1rbara Rey

Little Lips (1978)

5.1 30 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Spain, Italy

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: 18

Story: A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his genitalia. He contemplates suicide, but recovers after becoming interested in his caretaker's 12 year-old war orphan niece, who now lives in the manor.

Plot: puberty, depression, lolita, war veteran, country estate, forbidden love, coming of age, wounded, ...

Time: world war i

Cast

Anna Raadsveld

Benja Bruijning

Charlie Dagelet

Tom Van Landuyt

LelleBelle (2010)

4.9 83 votes

Genre: Music, Romance

Country: Netherlands

Duration: 90 min.

Story: 19-year old Belle practices playing the violin diligently, but is unable to impart her music with a sensitive undertone. Her life changes when she discovers that sexual desire stimulates passion in her music.

Plot: musician, sexuality, violin, music instrument, violinist, coming of age, love, lesbian relationship, ...

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Jack Baxter

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Lorena Arancibia

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Jed Clarke

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Curtis Dickson

Tan Lines (2005)

4.9 22 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Australia

Duration: 96 min.

Story: Cute teen Midget Hollow wanders through life riding big waves and partying with surfer boys. When Midget's best friend's gay brother Cass arrives on the scene, the two quickly dive head first into a clandestine sea of sexual awakening.

Plot: surfing, ocean, brother, coming of age, male homosexuality, sexual awakening, lgbt teen, seaside town, ...

Cast

Janaina Liesenfeld

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Emily Lau

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Abbie Dutton

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Joy Grant

Yung (2018)

4.7 35 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Germany

Duration: 95 min.

Story: This film follows four young girls into the vibrant, hedonistic subculture of Berlin. Janaina, 17, earns money by making Internet pornography. Her best friend, Emmy, 18, finds the whole city intoxicating, without realizing that she's getting deeper and deeper into a cycle of addiction. Joy muses about love when she doesn't happen to be selling drugs. And Abbie, 16, dreams of escaping to Los Angeles.

Plot: drug dealer, berlin, germany, prostitute, drug use, coming of age

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