Coming Of Age Movies

Striving to be independent, the blind but determined Don Baker moves away from his overprotective mother. After settling into his new San Francisco...

At only fourteen years old, Paula hates her body. In an attempt to express what she feels, Paula creates a blog and becomes part of a large virtual...

An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth.

17-year-old Sara leads a sheltered existence with her family, members of Jehovah’s Witnesses, when she meets the outsider Teis and falls in...

A charming romance develops between a boy with one eye and an overweight girl, though when she loses weight after going to college, their...

In the mid-1960s, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting...

The film follows Grace, a young woman whose irresponsible mother blows her college fund on her younger sister's beauty pageant campaign.

An Indonesian boy and his mother attend a church potluck and lie about their dish.

Teenage boy Tom lives with his single mum in a flat in South London. Into the flat below moves Steve, an anti-social, former Rock God who faked his...

Inspired by true events, two student actresses at Yale delve into dark competition in staging Strindberg's Miss Julie, pushing the envelope of...

Wallace, an obsessive college swimmer, navigates a swimming injury and romantic tensions with a teammate.

Shortly after Muzamil was born, the village's holy man predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil's father can't stand the curse and leaves home....

A teenage girl gets ready to go out to meet her boyfriend, despite her mother's loud verbal disapproval of her clothes. She goes out to a deserted...

A bullied teen experiences a turning point summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.

35-year-old Morris Bliss is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money, he needs a job but has no prospects,...

Sister Marina, a very unorthodox nun, is sent during the summer of 1994 to El Parral, a boarding school for boys threatened to be closed soon. Even...

Set in the midst of World War II and interspersed with beautiful choir music, the horrors of the war unfold when the Germans realized one of the boys...

Teenage problems intertwine during the occupation of a high school in Rome. Silvio—much like his peers desperate to lose his...

Sugihara, a Japanese-born, third-generation Korean teenager struggles to find a place in a society that will not accept him.

Young, Jewish and misunderstood Simon Markowitz gets himself into hot water with his Rabbi when he creates his own recipe for a knish that no one in...