Top Coming Of Age Movies & TV Shows

Tsukigakirei (2017) TV Show

8.0 142 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Kotarou Azumi and Akane Mizuno became third year students at junior high school and are classmates for the first time. These two, along with fellow classmates, Chinatsu Nishio and Takumi Hira, relate to their peers through mutual understandings and feelings. As their final year at junior high school progresses, the group overcome their challenges to mature and become aware of changes in themselves.

Plot: romance, slice of life, coming of age, school, middle school, anime, japanese junior high schooler

Cast

Markella Kavenagh

Maiah Stewardson

Edwina Wren

Harvey Zielinski

My First Summer (2020)

8.0 279 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Australia

Duration: 78 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Isolated on a remote property, 16-year-old Claudia finds her world transformed when a spirited girl named Grace wanders into her garden.

Plot: drowning, coming of age, dog, mental illness, novelist, death of mother, first love, lgbt, ...

O Maidens in Your Savage Season (2019) TV Show

8.0 149 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: The girls in a high school literature club do a little icebreaker to get to know each other: answering the question, "What's one thing you want to do before you die?" One of the girls blurts out, "Sex." Little do they know, the whirlwind unleashed by that word pushes each of these girls, with different backgrounds and personalities, onto their own clumsy, funny, painful, and emotional paths toward adulthood.

Plot: jealousy, literature, feminism, delinquent, friendship, high school, bullying, sexual fantasy, ...

Cast

Sophia Lillis

Wyatt Oleff

Sofia Bryant

Kathleen Rose Perkins

I Am Not Okay with This (2020) TV Show

8.0 2.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Angsty Syd navigates high school awkwardness, family drama and an unrequited crush on her best friend while trying to rein in her budding superpowers.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: adolescence, diary, friendship, supernatural, based on comic, romance, dark comedy, coming of age, ...

Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju (2016) TV Show

8.0 62 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 25

Audience: TV-14

Story: When a certain man is released from prison, he knows exactly where he's heading first. After falling in love with a traditional comic storyteller's rendition of the story called "Shinigami," he is determined to become his apprentice. The performer, Yakumo, has never taken an apprentice before, but to everyone's surprise, he accepts the eager ex-prisoner, nicknaming him "Yotaro." As Yotaro happily begins his new life, he meets others in Yakumo's life, including Yakumo's ward Konatsu. Konatsu was the daughter of a famous storyteller, and Yakumo took her in after her father's tragic death. Konatsu loved her father's storytelling, and would love to become a performer in her own right—but that path is not available for women.

Plot: training, friendship, rivalry, coming of age, bromance, based on manga, art, historical, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Dove Cameron

Sofia Carson

Descendants: Wicked World (2015) TV Show

8.0 34 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 36

Audience: TV-G

Story: After Ben's coronation in Descendants, the villain kids Mal, Evie, Carlos and Jay settle in at being good while their villainous parents are still roaming the Isle of the Lost. The story goes deeper at the arrival of new villain kids, Freddie (Dr. Facilier's daughter), CJ (Captain Hook's daughter) and Zevon (Yzma's son).

Plot: adolescence, magic, computer animation, evil, based on movie, superhero kids, children's adventure

Cast

Thiti Mahayotaruk

Nichaphat Chatchaipholrat

Narikun Ketprapakorn

Sananthachat Thanapatpisal

Hormones (2013) TV Show

8.0 20 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Thailand

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 39

Audience: TV-MA

Story: High school students in Bangkok wrestle with issues such as sex, teen pregnancy, drugs, school violence, family turmoil and more in this Thai drama.

Style: romantic

Plot: love triangle, adolescence, infidelity, drug addiction, bangkok, thailand, friendship, high school, ...

3 Idiots (2009)

8.0 2.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 171 min.

Audience: 12A

Story: Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university, Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus upside down—along with the lives of his two newfound best friends. Together, they make life miserable for "Virus," the school’s uptight and heartless dean. But when Rancho catches the eye of the dean's daughter, Virus sets his sights on flunking out the "3 idiots" once and for all.

Plot: challenge, middle class, slapstick comedy, coming of age, flashback, teacher, friends, engineering, ...

Place: delhi

Cast

Miles Heizer

Max Parker

Vera Farmiga

Liam Oh

Boots (2025) TV Show

8.0 210 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: After impulsively joining the U.S. Marine Corps, a bullied teen finds new purpose — and unexpected brotherhood — with his motley team of fellow recruits.

Style: intimate

Plot: based on novel or book, homophobia, affectation, marine corps, bullying, boot camp, coming of age, lgbt, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

Hwang In-youp

Jung Chae-yeon

Bae Hyeon-seong

Choi Won-young

Family by Choice (2024) TV Show

8.0 90 votes

Genre: Drama, Family

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Story: A youth romance about two men and woman who aren't blood related but treated each other as family during their teens and how they meet again after 10 years.

Plot: remake, romance, slice of life, coming of age, healing, growth, found family, youth

Cast

Nick Robinson

Jennifer Garner

Josh Duhamel

Katherine Langford

Love, Simon (2018)

8.0 6.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.

Plot: coming out, sexual identity, high school, based on novel or book, sexuality, class, coming of age, bully, ...

March Comes In Like a Lion (2016) TV Show

8.0 141 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 44

Audience: TV-PG

Story: This is a gentle tale about people trying to regain something. And it is a tale of battle. Rei Kiriyama had lost his family in an accident when he was young. Now he is a 17-year-old pro shogi player who is burdened with deep loneliness. Rei lives alone in an old town in Tokyo, but after becoming acquainted with three sisters, Akari, Hinata and Momo, he begins to change little by little...

Plot: competition, depression, child prodigy, sports, high school, bullying, slice of life, dysfunctional family, ...

Cast

Ghilherme Lobo

Fu00e1bio Audi

Tess Amorim

Lu00facia Romano

The Way He Looks (2014)

7.9 993 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Brazil

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.

Style: intimate

Plot: friendship, sao paulo, brazil, coming of age, lgbt, lgbt teen, blindness, curious, ...

Blue Box (2024) TV Show

7.9 93 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Taiki Inomata loves badminton, but he has a long way to go before he can reach nationals. When Taiki sees upperclassman Chinatsu Kano practicing her heart out on the girls’ basketball team, he falls for her hard. After an unexpected turn of events brings the two closer together, sports might not be the first thing on their minds anymore!

Plot: adolescence, friendship, sports, high school, basketball, romance, slice of life, school, ...

Cast

Ailsa Davidson

Simon Gordon

Maddison Firth

Vivian Panka

Heathers: The Musical (2023)

7.9 46 votes

Genre: Comedy, Music, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: R

Story: A teenage girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" meets a dashing rebel who teaches her a more sinister way to play social politics.

Plot: suicide, funeral, dark comedy, bullying, based on play or musical, paternalism, ohio, coming of age, ...

Time: 1980s

The Boy and the Beast (2015)

7.9 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: Japan

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.

Plot: parent child relationship, runaway, homelessness, training, portal, coming of age, tokyo, japan, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Jun Mizuki

Mayumi Shintani

Izumi Kasagi

FLCL (2000) TV Show

7.9 429 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan, United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: Naota is a normal boy who kills some time with a normal girl by a stream that flows underneath a bridge. Nothing unusual happens in this town. The fact that Haruhara Haruko crashes into the main character with her Vespa a short while later and subsequently hits him over the head with her Rickenbacker 4003 bass guitar doesn’t really make any difference to any other day here. The at first glance unconnected, bizarre events that don’t seem to follow any pattern whatsoever don’t change anything about Naota’s boring life, either – because nothing incredible ever happens in this town.

Style: psychological

Plot: guitar, parody, alien, coming of age, robot, vespa, tomboy, psychedelic, ...

Aparajito (1956)

7.9 293 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: India

Duration: 110 min.

Story: Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As he progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother.

Plot: scholarship, based on novel or book, loss of loved one, varanasi, pneumonia, sequel, coming of age, black and white, ...

Place: india

Cast

Sakura Ando

Soya Kurokawa

Hinata Hiiragi

Eita Nagayama

Monster (2023)

7.9 910 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.

Style: witty

Plot: friendship, bullying, elementary school, coming of age, school, teacher student relationship, childhood, lgbt, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Amandla Stenberg

George MacKay

Abbie Cornish

Christopher Eccleston

Where Hands Touch (2018)

7.9 539 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler Youth whose father is a prominent Nazi soldier, and they form an unlikely connection in this quickly changing world.

Plot: nazi, jew persecution, hitler youth, coming of age, interracial romance, racism

Time: 1940s

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