Top Coming Of Age Movies & TV Shows

Cast

James Wilby

Hugh Grant

Rupert Graves

Denholm Elliott

Maurice (1987)

7.6 616 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: R

Story: After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

Plot: coming out, secret love, based on novel or book, homophobia, forbidden love, coming of age, in the closet, lgbt, ...

Time: 1900s

Place: england

Cast

Mandy Moore

Zachary Levi

Donna Murphy

Ron Perlman

Tangled (2010)

7.6 12.5K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Feisty teenager Rapunzel, who has long and magical hair, wants to go and see sky lanterns on her eighteenth birthday, but she's bound to a tower by her overprotective mother. She strikes a deal with Flynn Rider, a charming wanted thief, and the duo set off on an action-packed escapade.

Plot: princess, magic, hostage, fairy tale, horse, villain, musical, blonde, ...

Cast

Zack Calderon

Alex Fitzalan

Sarah Pidgeon

Sophia Ali

The Wilds (2020) TV Show

7.6 496 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A group of teen girls from different backgrounds must fight for survival after a plane crash strands them on a deserted island. The castaways both clash and bond as they learn more about each other, the secrets they keep, and the traumas they've all endured. But there’s just one twist… these girls did not end up on this island by accident.

Plot: adolescence, island, feminism, flashback, teenage girl, deserted island, lgbt, mental health, ...

Stranger Things: Tales from '85 (2026) TV Show

7.6 93 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Mystery

Country: United States of America, Australia

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Winter. Hawkins. 1985. Welcome back to a town crawling with secrets, where beloved heroes are facing fresh mysteries... and an all-new breed of strange.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: monster, small town, indiana, usa, experiment, supernatural, coming of age, parallel world, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Dustin Hoffman

Anne Bancroft

Katharine Ross

Murray Hamilton

The Graduate (1967)

7.6 3.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.

Plot: love triangle, seduction, college, older woman seduces younger guy, romance, coming of age, los angeles, california, ...

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

7.6 6.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: G

Story: Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

Plot: witch, adolescence, dreams, secret identity, lion, tornado, twister, scarecrow, ...

Cast

Asami Seto

Mamoru Miyano

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Chihayafuru (2011) TV Show

7.6 67 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 74

Audience: TV-14

Story: Chihaya Ayase has spent most of her life supporting her sister’s model career. When she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, he thinks Chihaya has potential to become a great karuta player. As Chihaya dreams of becoming Japan's best karuta player, she is soon separated from her karuta playing friends. Now in high school, Chihaya still plays karuta in the hope that she will one day meet her friends again.

Plot: competition, card game, strong woman, training, high school, growing up, romance, slice of life, ...

Cast

Heath Ledger

Julia Stiles

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Larisa Oleynik

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

7.6 9.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams. The only problem is that Bianca is forbidden to date until her ill-tempered, completely un-dateable older sister Kat goes out, too. In an attempt to solve his problem, Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad boy with a nasty reputation of his own.

Style: lighthearted

Plot: high school, seattle, washington, deception, based on play or musical, coming of age, teen movie, shrew, ...

Cast

Jamie Bell

Gary Lewis

Julie Walters

Jean Heywood

Billy Elliot (2000)

7.6 4.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

Plot: dancing, friendship, dreams, dancing class, northern england, workers' quarter, strike, homophobia, ...

Time: 1980s

The Pet Girl of Sakurasou (2012) TV Show

7.6 140 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: Sorata Kanda, a high school sophomore living in Sakurasou, the den of their academy's problem children, spends his days being dragged around by the strange residents, swearing he's going to escape Sakurasou one day.

Plot: cat, artists' life, dormitory, romance, slice of life, coming of age, school life, anime, ...

Cast

Miyu Irino

Kana Hanazawa

Fumi Hirano

Takeshi Maeda

The Garden of Words (2013)

7.6 2.3K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance

Country: Japan

Duration: 46 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches.

Plot: chocolate, age difference, garden, rain, alcoholism, coming of age, tokyo, japan, ...

Home Movies (1999) TV Show

7.6 116 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 52

Audience: TV-PG

Story: TV series about the life of Brendon Small, an eight-year-old visionary who, using his friends Jason and Melissa as actors, have managed to direct over a thousand homemade films. His parents are divorced, but it doesn't feel strange since so many other kids' parents are divorced. His friend Jason actually feels upset because his parents are still together. At school, he is taught soccer by his coach John McGuirk, or as he calls him, "that weird Irish guy".

Plot: coming of age, improvisation

Cast

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Brian Murray

Emma Thompson

David Hyde Pierce

Treasure Planet (2002)

7.6 4.7K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: PG

Story: When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space storms on their journey to find treasure.

Plot: mutiny, space marine, based on novel or book, cyborg, map, pirate gang, treasure hunt, treasure map, ...

Cast

Matthew Broderick

Alan Ruck

Mia Sara

Jeffrey Jones

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

7.6 5.4K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.

Style: irreverent

Plot: chicago, illinois, high school, independence, coming of age, caper, breaking the fourth wall, teen movie, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Auliu02bbi Cravalho

Dwayne Johnson

Rachel House

Temuera Morrison

Moana (2016)

7.6 13.8K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the demigod to set things right.

Plot: sailboat, sea, island, saving the world, ocean, cartoon, mythology, villain, ...

Place: polynesia

Cast

Ryota Katayose

Rina Kawaei

Honoka Matsumoto

Kentaro Ito

Ride Your Wave (2019)

7.6 377 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love.

Plot: surfing, beach, afterlife, coming of age, slice of life, tragedy, accidental death, mourning, ...

Cast

Michelle Williams

Paul Dano

Seth Rogen

Gabriel LaBelle

The Fabelmans (2022)

7.6 2.8K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America, India

Duration: 151 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Plot: high school, husband wife relationship, arizona, bullying, family relationships, coming of age, teenage boy, filmmaking, ...

Cast

Daniel Kailin

Sindy Lau

Sharmaine Yeoh

Tim Zhang

Bao (2018)

7.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 8 min.

Audience: G

Story: An aging Chinese mother suffering from empty nest syndrome gets another chance at motherhood when one of her dumplings springs to life as a lively, giggly dumpling boy.

Plot: cooking, cartoon, coming of age, chinese, woman director, mother son relationship, dumpling, short film, ...

Cast

Nivin Pauly

Madonna Sebastian

Sai Pallavi

Anupama Parameswaran

Premam (2015)

7.5 117 votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 157 min.

Story: Three stages in George's life, and three girls he encounters in each stage.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: dance, bridge, coming of age, teacher, love, tragic love, teenage love, butterfly, ...

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)

7.5 2.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.

Style: absurd

Plot: high school, tattoo, based on novel or book, parody, leukemia, coming of age, friends, cancer, ...

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