Coming of age movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant coming of age movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, sexy, serious, touching, erotic and emotional films and TV shows about / with coming of age, youth, teenage life, friendship, teenager, family relations, teenage girl, kiss, female nudity and adolescence plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, Italy and other countries.
coming of age movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as coming of age: We Are Who We Are (2020), Almost Famous (2000), Kids (1995), Fat Girl (2001), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), You Are Not Alone (1978), Murmur of the Heart (1971), Thirteen (2003), Sugar (2004), The Cement Garden (1993).

List of coming of age movies

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We Are Who We Are (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Plot unknown.
Style: inspirational, thought provoking, sincere, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, coming of age, forbidden love, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, lesbian mother, lesbian, sexual orientation, lesbian teen, gay, desire for fame, lgbtqi ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, venice
Is relevant?
 7.9
 313K
Almost Famous (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band Stillwater – fronted by lead guitar ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, teen, road movie, semi autobiographical ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: coming of age, journalism, rock and roll, rock music, on the road, musician, musician's life, music, rock, fame, manic pixie dream girl, road trip ...
Time: 70s, 2000s, year 2000, y2k, 20th century ...
Place: california, new york, san francisco, phoenix arizona, seattle ...
Is relevant?
 7.0
 91K
Kids (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as ...
Style: disturbing, independent film, controversial, bleak, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, aids, innocence lost, youth, drug abuse, virginity, underage sex, teenage boy, street kid, puberty, sex, teenager ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, seattle, los angeles, usa, new jersey
Is relevant?
 6.4
 14K
Fat Girl (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, ...
Style: disturbing, sexy, bleak, psychological, tense ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, innocence lost, rape, defloration, virginity, virgin, teenage girl, female nudity, rapist, rape victim, sexuality, first time ...
Time: year 2001, 90s, 2000s
Place: france, rome italy, south of france, paris france
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her ...
Style: sexy, erotic, teen, reflective, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, love affair, older man younger woman relationship, parents and children, youth, sex, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, sex with a minor, sexuality, teenage girl, teenager, older man young girl relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new jersey, usa, san francisco
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You Are Not Alone (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Young teenager Bo (Anders Agensø) is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth (an uncharacteristically grim Ove Sprogøe). Lonely and scared, he finds a soul mate in the ...
Style: sexy, erotic, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, first love, teenage life, gays and lesbians, lgbtq, gay teenager, lgbt teen, nudity, friends, couples ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: denmark, europe
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Murmur of the Heart (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself between the urge to discover love and the ever-present, dominating affection of his mother.
Style: sexy, touching, erotic, sentimental, controversial ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: incest, mother son incest, coming of age, sexual initiation, oedipus complex, mother son relationship, mother and son, self discovery, sex, exploring sexuality, sexuality, childhood ...
Time: 1950s, year 1954, 20th century, 50s, year 1971 ...
Place: france, israel, europe, indochina, paris france ...
Is relevant?
 6.8
 107K
Thirteen (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style: tense, sincere, emotional, teen, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: coming of age, adolescence, friendship, drug addiction, addiction, peer pressure, teenage protagonist, dysfunctional family, underage drinking, teenage girl, teenager, self harm ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, y2k, near future, 2000s ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style: touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, teenage love, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, year 1991, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
Is relevant?
 5.7
 2K
Sugar (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Cliff has just turned 18 and his little sister has a gift for him: booze, a joint, a subway token and the command to have sex. Heading out on the town, Cliff finds friendship -- and more -- in the person of a young hustler named Butch. But ...
Style: touching, sincere, serious, sentimental, sexual ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, gay teenager, gay, male rape, self discovery, fall in love, friendship, innocence lost, lgbt, lifestyle, teenage life, youth ...
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
Is relevant?
The Cement Garden (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially ...
Style: disturbing, sexy, talky, compassionate, art house ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: incest, coming of age, brother sister incest, brother sister sex, forbidden sex, sex with sister, sex, sex with brother, teenage life, sister sister relationship, siblings relations, incestuous relationship ...
Time: 90s, near future, year 1993
Place: england
Is relevant?
In Your Absence (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 13-year-old Pablo is a quiet, lonely boy with a troubled past. His only friend is Julia, a shameless 15-year-old girl who is more than willing to help Pablo with his transition from childhood to adolescence, and give him some advice on sex, love and ...
Style: emotional, serious, captivating, disturbing, art house ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, stranger, teenage girl, boy, nudity, flashback, male nudity, surrogate father, lgbt teen, masturbation, father son relationship, dog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, andalusia
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 7.4
 124K
Malena (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sexual, touching, melancholic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexuality, world war two, hot and sexy, coming of age, longing, older woman younger man relationship, unrequited love, fascism, wartime, older woman younger man, dream girl, women ...
Time: 1940s, ancient times, year 2000, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place: italy, sicily, europe, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
Is relevant?
The Kings of Summer (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank's attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for all, he escapes to a clearing in the woods with his best friend, Patrick, ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, teen, funny ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, runaway, friendship, summer, lifestyle change, friendship between boys, high school, teenage runaway, rebelliousness, teenager, hospital, childhood ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: columbus ohio, usa, california, tokyo
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My Uncle Antoine (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business. Mon Oncle Antoine is Director Claude Jutra's masterpiece: A ...
Style: art house, social, contemplative, emotional, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, small town, christmas, foster child, mining, uncle nephew relationship, youth, countryside, boy, infidelity, loss of son, catholic priest ...
Time: 1940s, year 1971
Place: canada, quebec
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Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
Style: erotic, sexy, sexual, emotional, heartbreaking ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, pre-teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, sexuality, lesbian love, coming of age, lesbian relationship, lovers, lesbian teen, lesbianism, love, sex, gays and lesbians ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, california
Is relevant?
It Felt Like Love (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Fourteen-year-old Lila is experiencing an ennui-filled Brooklyn summer. She awkwardly wears a Kabuki-esque mask of sunscreen at the beach and plays third wheel to Chiara, her more experienced friend, and Chiara’s boyfriend, Patrick. Determined to ...
Style: sexy, erotic, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, obsession, teenage girl, youth, first sex, sexual attraction, sexual desire, self discovery, best friend, friendship, wooing, hot guys ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Is relevant?
 6.7
 15K
Water Lilies (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool's synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, ...
Style: sexy, sexual, erotic, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: lesbian, coming of age, lgbt, teenage girl, lesbian interest, lesbian teen, teenage love, sapphic, teenage sexuality, teenager, lesbian love, forbidden love ...
Place: paris france, indiana, france
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 5.6
 2K
Laura (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A blinded French sculptor completes a statue of a friend's daughter by using his sense of touch.
Style: sexy, sensual, erotic, controversial, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, sex, teenage girl, lolita, may december romance, erotica, nudity, nude model, teenage sexuality, ballet, teenage sex, female nudity ...
Place: france, french riviera, europe
Is relevant?
 5.7
 1K
Puppylove (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Diane is a mysterious and lonely teenager. Sharing special bonds with her father Christian, she takes care of the education of her brother Marc. The arrival of Julia in the neighborhood, a charismatic and liberated young British woman, is going to ...
Style: sexy, realistic, sincere, erotic, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: coming of age, female pubic hair, female nudity, teenage love, teenage sex, underage sex, seduction, sex scene, porn, watching sex, party, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, belgium
Is relevant?
 5.9
 962
Blush (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 84 min.
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, ...
Style: captivating, humorous, romantic, emotional, deep ...
Plot: coming of age, lesbian, lesbian relationship, first lesbian experience, lesbian love, lesbian sex, gay interest, lgbtq, nightclub, school, lgbt, sibling relationship ...
Place: israel, indiana
Is relevant?
 7.3
 101K
Submarine (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy, Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar ...
Style: witty, visually appealing, touching, surreal, sexy ...
Audience: teens, date night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, adolescence, teenage love, teenager, school, high school, virginity, high school life, youth, teen angst, rock, social relations ...
Time: year 2010, 80s, 20th century, 2010s
Place: wales, england, britain
Is relevant?
While the Wolf's Away (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A young teen and his misfit group of friends try to escape from a strict boarding school that holds dangerous secrets.
Style: heartbreaking, atmospheric, psychological, compassionate, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, boarding school, boy, friendship, boyhood, fighting the system, sex with a minor, confined, social relations, bittersweet, society, life is a bitch ...
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The Spectacular Now (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Style: teen, touching, sincere, melancholic, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, youth, couples, teenage love, first love, teenage life, love, teenage girl, family relations, high school student, classmate ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, key west florida, new jersey, california
Is relevant?
 6.7
 40K
Mermaids (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old ...
Style: teen, sweet, touching, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, kids, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, single mother, mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, swimming pool, love story, single parent, loss of virginity, sister sister relationship, young adult, new year's eve party ...
Time: 60s, year 1964, year 1963, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, oklahoma, connecticut, massachusetts ...
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Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, lovely Abbott sisters. Lady-killer Jacey alternates between Eleanor and Alice, wanting simply to break ...
Style: sweet, erotic, sincere, period piece, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: coming of age, obsession, dysfunctional marriage, love, teenage girl, sex scene, adultery, small town, working class, rich and poor, restaurant, library ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place: illinois, usa, philadelphia
Is relevant?
 8.2
 290K
Euphoria (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, realistic, depressing, sexy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, teenager, coming of age, drug addict, high school, mental illness, lgbt, youth, sex, sexuality, school, teenage life ...
Time: september 11 2001, 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: london, brooklyn new york city, italy, california, singapore ...
Is relevant?
 7.0
 465K
American Pie (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all ...
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, funny, humorous, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: coming of age, teenager, party, adolescence, virginity, sex, masturbation, looking for sex, nudity, college, loss of virginity, high school ...
Time: year 1999, y2k, 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place: michigan, usa, north america
Is relevant?
 6.6
 22K
Cracks (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
Style: melancholic, atmospheric, erotic, period piece, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: boarding school, obsession, coming of age, lesbian love, lesbian, sexualized violence, lgbtq, teenage girl, asthma, boarding school life, child abuse, lesbian relationship ...
Time: 1930s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1934
Place: europe, england, spain
Is relevant?
 8.3
 1.3M
American Beauty (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Style: melancholic, thought provoking, sexual, dark comedy, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, existentialism, age difference, obsession, loneliness, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, dysfunctional marriage, youth, adultery, suburbs ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place: usa, america, los angeles, iran
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