Top Coming Of Age Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Asa Butterfield

Gillian Anderson

Ncuti Gatwa

Emma Mackey

Sex Education (2019) TV Show

8.2 7.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 32

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.

Style: bittersweet, absurd, witty

Plot: small town, sex therapy, high school, coming of age, school, teenage sexuality, lgbt, lgbt teen, ...

Place: england

Captain Tsubasa (2018) TV Show

8.2 739 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 91

Audience: TV-G

Story: The passionate story of an elementary school student whose thoughts and dreams revolve almost entirely around the love of soccer. 11-year-old Tsubasa Oozora started playing football at a very young age, and while it was mostly just a recreational sport for his friends, for him, it developed into something of an obsession. In order to pursue his dream to the best of his elementary school abilities, Tsubasa moves with his mother to Nankatsu city, which is well-known for its excellent elementary school soccer teams. But although he was easily the best in his old town, Nankatsu has a lot more competition, and he will need all of his skill and talent in order to stand out from this new crowd.

Plot: competition, child prodigy, sports, remake, coming of age, tournament, football (soccer), based on manga, ...

Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day (2011) TV Show

8.2 449 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 11

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Jinta Yadomi and his group of childhood friends have become estranged after a tragic accident split them apart. Now in their high school years, a sudden surprise forces each of them to confront their guilt over what happened that day and come to terms with the ghosts of their past.

Plot: love triangle, friendship, supernatural, friends, growing up, romance, slice of life, unrequited love, ...

Cast

Tetsuya Kakihara

Katsuyuki Konishi

Marina Inoue

Kiyoyuki Yanada

Gurren Lagann (2007) TV Show

8.2 601 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 27

Audience: TV-14

Story: When a young laborer escapes to the world aboveground, he discovers a violent land in which humans battle robots controlled by a power-hungry noble.

Plot: space battle, dystopia, romance, travel, mecha, coming of age, giant robot, military, ...

Cast

Rie Kugimiya

Junji Majima

Yui Horie

Eri Kitamura

Toradora! (2008) TV Show

8.2 669 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 25

Audience: TV-14

Story: Menacing in appearance but gentle at heart, second year high school student Ryuuji forms an unlikely friendship with classmate Taiga, a tiny girl with a sharp tongue and a tough attitude.

Style: slow burn

Plot: delinquent, friendship, high school, love, romcom, growing up, romance, slice of life, ...

Cast

Lee Min-ki

Jung So-min

Park Byung-eun

Esom

Because This Is My First Life (2017) TV Show

8.2 187 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Story: Two housemates get married for financial convenience, but discover nothing is simple when it comes to demanding in-laws — or facing their growing bond.

Style: charming

Plot: marriage of convenience, romance, coming of age, housemates, cohabitation, heartfelt

Cast

John Francis Daley

Linda Cardellini

James Franco

Samm Levine

Freaks and Geeks (1999) TV Show

8.2 899 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-14

Story: High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social universe with his nerdy friends (the "geeks").

Plot: high school, coming of age, teen drama, empathetic, sincere

Time: 1980s

Ping Pong the Animation (2014) TV Show

8.2 133 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 11

Audience: TV-14

Story: Makoto 'Smile' Tsukimoto and his friend Yutaka 'Peco' Hoshino have been playing table tennis together since they were kids, but as they enter high school, they find that the game, and how they see it, has changed. Peco, brimming with confidence and energy, wants to be the best in the world, but the reserved Smile has little fighting spirit and doesn't want to sacrifice others' happiness just to win, despite his innate talent. As the two grow, and experience the ups and downs of the sport – and life – they try to figure out exactly who they really are and what drives them to play.

Plot: ping pong, sports, high school, coming of age, spirituality, bromance, based on manga, seinen, ...

High School of the Dead (2010) TV Show

8.1 993 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A small group of students at Fujimi High are fighting for their lives after surviving a zombie outbreak. It is up to Takashi to unite the survivors and escape the horrors that surround them. In this new world of the living dead...will they escape?

Style: erotic

Plot: swordplay, post-apocalyptic future, end of the world, gore, survival, coming of age, gunfight, zombie, ...

Cast

Manaka Iwami

Miyu Irino

Yuuki Sakurai

Ai Kayano

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (2018)

8.1 713 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Fleeing the war, the immortal Machia, graced with eternal youth, finds a baby abandoned in the forest and decides to raise it as her own child, sparking a moving story between a mortal and a being who does not age.

Plot: family relationships, coming of age, tragedy, dragon, military, anime, high fantasy, josei, ...

Cast

Paul Mescal

Daisy Edgar-Jones

Normal People (2020) TV Show

8.1 1.4K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Ireland

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other's lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved.

Style: bittersweet

Plot: based on novel or book, small town, dublin, ireland, high school, rich woman poor man, romance, coming of age, ...

Place: ireland

Cast

Caleb McLaughlin

Gabrielle Union

Stephen Curry

Aaron Pierre

GOAT (2026)

8.1 903 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A small goat with big dreams gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarball, a high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world.

Style: heartwarming

Plot: underdog, friendship, sports, allies, ambition, bullying, challenge, basketball, ...

Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) TV Show

8.1 70 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 39

Audience: TV-14

Story: "Never lose that strength or nobility, even when you grow up." When Utena was just a child and in the depths of sorrow, she found salvation in those words. They were the words of a prince, who bestowed upon her both a ring and the promise that it would lead her to him again. She never forgot the encounter. Now a teenager, Utena attends the prestigious Ohtori Academy; however, her strong sense of chivalry soon places her at odds with the student council and thrusts her into a series of mysterious and dangerous duels against its members.

Style: philosophical, psychological, lighthearted, provocative, absurd, ...

Plot: sibling relationship, sexual identity, adolescence, swordplay, symbolism, role reversal, surrealism, role playing, ...

Cast

Lola Tung

Christopher Briney

Gavin Casalegno

Sean Kaufman

The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022) TV Show

8.1 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-14

Story: Every summer, Belly and her family head to the Fishers’ beach house in Cousins. Every summer is the same ... until Belly turns sixteen. Relationships will be tested, painful truths will be revealed, and Belly will be forever changed. It’s a summer of first love, first heartbreak and growing up — it's the summer she turns pretty.

Plot: love triangle, based on novel or book, affectation, friendship, romance, cancer, coming of age, female protagonist, ...

Cast

Timothu00e9e Chalamet

Armie Hammer

Michael Stuhlbarg

Amira Casar

Call Me by Your Name (2017)

8.1 12.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Brazil, France

Duration: 132 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.

Plot: based on novel or book, upper class, swimming pool, coming of age, love, breaking the fourth wall, summer, teenage boy, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: italy

Cast

Jun Fukuyama

Maaya Uchida

Azumi Asakura

Chinatsu Akasaki

Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! (2012) TV Show

8.1 424 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: As one of the thousands of Japanese students afflicted with "chunibyo," a state where they're so desperate to stand out that they've convinced themselves that they have secret knowledge and hidden powers, Yuta spent most of his middle school years living in a complete fantasy world. He's finally managing to overcome his delusions but his chunibyo have attracted the attentions of another sufferer, and she's decided that this makes him her soul mate.

Plot: adolescence, romance, slice of life, school, anime, school club, japanese high school, based on light novel, ...

Cast

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan

Darren Barnet

Poorna Jagannathan

Jaren Lewison

Never Have I Ever (2020) TV Show

8.1 1.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 40

Audience: TV-14

Story: After a traumatic year, all an Indian-American teen wants is to go from pariah to popular -- but friends, family and feeling won't make it easy on her.

Plot: friendship, high school, romance, coming of age, teen comedy, lgbt, teenager, hilarious, ...

Cast

Iain Armitage

Zoe Perry

Lance Barber

Montana Jordan

Young Sheldon (2017) TV Show

8.0 3.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 141

Audience: TV-PG

Story: The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.

Style: nostalgic, lighthearted

Plot: prequel, family relationships, coming of age, school, sibling, family, sitcom, knowledge, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Keir Gilchrist

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jack Haven

Michael Rapaport

Atypical (2017) TV Show

8.0 1.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 38

Audience: TV-14

Story: Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, takes a funny, yet painful, journey of self-discovery for love and independence and upends his family.

Style: lighthearted

Plot: autism, high school, connecticut, family relationships, coming of age, parenthood, lgbt, curious, ...

The End of the F***ing World (2017) TV Show

8.0 3.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: James is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a darkly comedic road trip in search of her real father.

Style: provocative

Plot: psychopath, road trip, dark comedy, coming of age, rebellion, burlesque, teen drama, deadpan, ...

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