Top Coming Of Age Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Daisuke Ono

Maaya Sakamoto

Black Butler (2008) TV Show

7.7 275 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan, United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 70

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In Victorian London, 12-year-old business magnate Ciel Phantomhive thwarts dangers to the queen as he's watched over by his demon butler, Sebastian.

Plot: london, england, circus, detective, butler, kidnapping, magic, supernatural, ...

Place: united kingdom

Call of the Night (2022) TV Show

7.7 165 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 25

Audience: TV-14

Story: Ko's new companion, Nazuna, could offer him dark gifts and a vampire's immortality. But there are conditions that Ko must meet before he can sink his teeth into vampirism, and he'll discover just how far he's willing to go to satisfy his desires.

Plot: adolescence, vampire, romance, slice of life, based on manga, shounen, anime, joyful

Cast

Scott Adsit

Ryan Potter

Daniel Henney

T.J. Miller

Big Hero 6 (2014)

7.7 16.7K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.

Plot: friendship, martial arts, hero, sibling relationship, superhero, talent, cartoon, villain, ...

Place: san francisco, california, tokyo, ...

Hikaru no Go (2001) TV Show

7.7 52 votes

Genre: Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 75

Audience: TV-G

Story: Hikaru Shindo is like any sixth-grader in Japan: a pretty normal kid with a two-tone head of hair and a penchant for antics. His life completely changes when he finds an old bloodstained go board in his grandfather's attic. The ghost of an ancient go master named Fujiwara-no-Sai was trapped in the board and soon becomes a part of Hikaru's consciousness. Together Hikaru and Sai make an unstoppable go-playing team!

Plot: rivalry, board game, coming of age, bromance, based on manga, go, yurei, shounen, ...

Cast

Emilio Estevez

Judd Nelson

Molly Ringwald

Anthony Michael Hall

The Breakfast Club (1985)

7.7 8.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.

Plot: high school, coming of age, teen angst, detention, teen comedy, teenage rebellion, stereotype, teenager, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Thiago Cazado

Paulo Sousa

Juliana Zancanaro

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Denis Camargo

Cousins (2019)

7.7 362 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: Brazil

Duration: 83 min.

Story: Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected attraction among the boys.

Plot: coming out, small town, cousin, coming of age, catholic, lgbt, cousin relationship, gay theme

Cast

Jack Dylan Grazer

Jordan Kristine Seamu00f3n

Chlou00eb Sevigny

Kid Cudi

We Are Who We Are (2020) TV Show

7.7 383 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Italy, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Two American kids who live on a U.S. military base in Italy explore friendship, first love, identity, and all the messy exhilaration and anguish of being a teenager.

Plot: venice, italy, military base, us army, romance, coming of age, lgbt, lgbt teen, ...

Cast

Keire Johnson

Zack Mulligan

Bing Liu

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Nina Bowgren

Minding the Gap (2018)

7.7 195 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship.

Plot: friendship, child abuse, skateboarding, dysfunctional family, coming of age, friends, growing up, domestic abuse, ...

From the New World (2012) TV Show

7.7 121 votes

Genre: Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 25

Audience: TV-14

Story: Born into a world 1000 years in our future, Saki and her friends live in utopia. Not only is their idyllic community overflowing with resources, but technology is obsolete, thanks to a magical power that grants the ability to materialize anything. However, when Saki discovers a lost artifact, the facade is shattered! Faced with a startling truth about their town, Saki and her companions face dangers they never knew existed, and their choices may change the fate of everyone.

Style: psychological

Plot: love triangle, based on novel or book, slavery, dystopia, cult, coming of age, school, religion, ...

The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes

Cast

Ouji Suzuka

Marie Iitoyo

Tasuku Hatanaka

Arisa Komiya

The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes (2022)

7.7 290 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 83 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Urashima Tunnel – Once you enter that tunnel, you can get whatever you want, but at a price. Kaoru Tohno, who seems to have an elusive personality and traumatic past, and Anzu Hanashiro, who is struggling to reconcile her ideal image and true-to-heart attitude, team up to investigate the Urashima Tunnel and get what they want. This is an unforgettable summer story of nostalgia and sprinting in a remote countryside.

Plot: high school, adolescence, legend, supernatural, time travel, coming of age, tragedy, school, ...

Cast

Jared Gilman

Kara Hayward

Bruce Willis

Edward Norton

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

7.7 6.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

Plot: camping, hurricane, pen pals, coming of age, camp, orphan, first love, eye patch, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: new england

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Cast

Daniel Radcliffe

Rupert Grint

Emma Watson

Imelda Staunton

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

7.7 20.9K votes

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When a new professor's methods leave Hogwarts unprepared to fight the rising tide of evil, Harry teaches students how to defend against the dark arts.

Plot: witch, dying and death, based on novel or book, court, magic, prophecy, loss of loved one, professor, ...

Cast

Sam Neill

Julian Dennison

Rima Te Wiata

Rachel House

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

7.6 2.3K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Country: New Zealand, United Kingdom

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.

Plot: countryside, based on novel or book, wild boar, delinquent, wilderness, coming of age, dog, foster family, ...

Place: new zealand

Aftersun (2022)

7.6 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.

Style: bittersweet

Plot: hotel, depression, karaoke, tourist, vacation, swimming pool, coming of age, memory, ...

Place: turkey

Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea (2013) TV Show

7.6 69 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-14

Story: Long ago, all humans lived beneath the sea. However, some people preferred the surface and abandoned living underwater permanently. As a consequence, they were stripped of their god-given protection called "Ena" which allowed them to breathe underwater. Over time, the rift between the denizens of the sea and of the surface widened, although contact between the two peoples still existed.This show follows the story of Hikari Sakishima and Manaka Mukaido, along with their childhood friends Chisaki Hiradaira and Kaname Isaki, who are forced to leave the sea and attend a school on the surface. There, the group also meets Tsumugu Kihara, a fellow student and fisherman who loves the sea.Hikari and his friends' lives are bound to change as they have to deal with the deep-seated hatred and discrimination between the people of sea and of the surface, the storms in their personal lives, as well as an impending tempest which may spell doom for all who dwell on the surface.

Plot: ocean, sea, civilization, friendship, supernatural, god, romance, slice of life, ...

Cast

Mark Wahlberg

Burt Reynolds

Julianne Moore

John C. Reilly

Boogie Nights (1997)

7.6 3.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 156 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1977, an idealistic porn producer and his promising protege try to catch up with the end of an era before their never-ending party collides with cold, hard reality.

Style: melancholy

Plot: new year's eve, adultery, pornography, robbery, husband wife relationship, drug abuse, cocaine, porn actor, ...

Time: 1970s, 1980s

Cast

Yang Tianxiang

Zhao Shuang

Nie Xiying

Ajie

Spare Me, Great Lord! (2021) TV Show

7.6 26 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: China

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Lü Shu is a frail teenager with an iron will. After losing his parents, he enrolls in a prestigious high school while working for a living and looking after his adoptive sister, Lü Xiaoyu. However, Lü Shu's quiet life abruptly changes when a car accident awakens his latent cultivation superpowers. Now cured of his physical weakness, he decides to hide his newfound abilities, as the art of cultivation is still shrouded in mystery—and the fate of cultivators uncertain.Meanwhile, Tian Luo Di Wang, the international foundation responsible for monitoring the cultivators, sets its plans in motion. Under the impetus of their member Xi Fei, a special cultivation training group is established in Lü Shu's high school. Although Lü Shu is forced to join the program, he is determined to hide the nature of his fearsome power, for his cultivation draws from an unlimited resource: the negative emotions of others brought about by his actions.

Plot: martial arts, swordplay, anti hero, magic, bullying, urban, coming of age, school, ...

Cast

Elle Fanning

Justice Smith

Alexandra Shipp

Kelli O'Hara

All the Bright Places (2020)

7.6 3.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two teens facing personal struggles form a powerful bond as they embark on a cathartic journey chronicling the wonders of Indiana.

Plot: depression, suicide, indiana, usa, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, loss, coming of age, ...

Welcome to the Ballroom (2017) TV Show

7.6 97 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: Tatara is an average middle school student with no particular dreams until an unexpected incident draws him into the fascinating world of ballroom dancing. “If I can just find one thing to be passionate about...” He dives into the world of dance, believing it's his opportunity to change. “Dance is a passion!”

Plot: competition, dance, sports, high school, romance, slice of life, dance competition, ballroom dancing, ...

Cast

Nick Kroll

John Mulaney

Jessi Klein

Jason Mantzoukas

Big Mouth (2017) TV Show

7.6 1.2K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 8

Episodes: 81

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Teenage friends find their lives upended by the wonders and horrors of puberty in this edgy comedy from real-life pals Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg.

Style: witty

Plot: adolescence, puberty, friendship, cartoon, crude humor, coming of age, adult humor, middle school, ...

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