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These coming of age movies are rated by how much focus among children and teenagers, adolescent storyline, situations and issues surrounding the struggle between youth and adulthood. Excluding animated films and film franchises.
- Stand By Me. For a genre that’s all about young people, death is absolutely everywhere in coming-of-age movies. Its shadow is all over Stand By Me: when we meet 12-year-old Gordie, he’s lost his brother and his parents are too deep in grief to notice, and he and his three pals go on a quest to find the corpse of a boy their age.
- Boyhood. For most coming-of-age movies, the coming-of-age thing is a shorthand. It’s a rough outline of where you’re heading, not a promise. But Richard Linklater’s 12-year project is not most coming-of-age movies.
- Moonlight. In Barry Jenkins’ Best Picture-winner, we follow the protagonist through three stages of his life – as a child, Little (Alex Hibbert), taken under the wing of local drug dealer Juan (Mahershala Ali); as a teenager, Chiron (Ashley Sanders), isolated at school and tentatively experimenting with his burgeoning sexuality; and as an adult, Black (Trevante Rhodes), who hides his desire for tenderness under exaggerated trappings of traditional masculinity.
- The Graduate. At his audition to play post-college drifter Benjamin Braddock, Dustin Hoffman was uncertain. He’d never done a love scene, for one thing, and doubted very much whether anyone would buy that a woman like Katherine Ross would ever fancy him.
theskykid.com is the largest site with a focus on the Coming-of-Age genre. Many of the films included in this list are featured on the site - as well as interviews with some of the directors and the actors.
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- 'Almost Famous' (2000) Director: Cameron Crowe. Almost Famous helped the 21st century get off to a great start, as it was one of the best movies released in 2000.
- 'Y Tu Mamá También' (2001) Director: Alfonso Cuarón. Before he directed a Harry Potter movie and incredible works of science fiction like Children of Men and Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón also made one of the 21st century's best coming-of-age movies.
- 'American Graffiti' (1973) Director: George Lucas. Perhaps most well-known for being a Harrison Ford film directed by George Lucas before they became synonymous with the most famous sci-fi movie ever, American Graffiti also happens to be a coming-of-age classic.
- 'The Graduate' (1967) Director: Mike Nichols. Any young people living today who struggle with the early stages of adulthood may take some comfort in watching 1967's The Graduate.
6 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 100 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Rebel Without a Cause. 1955 1h 51m PG-13. 7.6 (98K) Rate. 89 Metascore. A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies. Director Nicholas Ray Stars James Dean Natalie Wood Sal Mineo. 2. Cooley High.
Dec 28, 2020 · From classics like The Breakfast Club, Clueless, and Boyz n the Hood to newer fare like Call Me by Your Name and Booksmart, we love them all. Take a trip down nostalgia lane with the best coming...
Apr 19, 2022 · Genèse/Genesis (2018) Written and directed by Philippe Lesage, Genesis is an unofficial sequel to his 2015 film The Demons. Édouard Tremblay-Grenier reprises his role as Félix in the final third of Genesis, which deviates from the story of siblings Charlotte (Noée Abita) and Guillaume (Théodore Pellerin) that takes up most of the film’s runtime.
