Browse Movies : Coming-of-Age (Page #4)

Teenage boy Marco sails the tranquil seas around Naples with a hardened fisherman. Marco falls love with an enigmatic girl, Caia, whose painful past fuels a ferocious resentment in him, setting off alarm bells.

The film, set in the early 1960s, tells the story of a young woman, Sister Cathleen (Margaret Qualley), who starts to question her Catholic faith as she trains to become a nun.

An 8th grade girl finds social footing by following such ancient tips as: always wear white gloves, use pearls as a fashion accessory, never forget that a girdle can be a girl's best friend and be open, honest & kind. She finds that each social clique is distrustful of the others, and that all of the kids bear similar insecurities. The girl is able to find common ground and feel for the first time like she belongs.

A coming-of-age story about three teenagers in late 1980s New York City—Jude (Asa Butterfield), new to the city from Vermont, “straight-edge” musician Johnny (Emile Hirsch), and troubled, rich uptown girl Eliza (Hailee Steinfeld)—who break away from their messed-up parents (Ethan Hawke and Emily Mortimer) to form their own surrogate family. Set in 1988, a time of great cultural upheaval—against the excesses of the decade, the AIDS epidemic and the gentrification of the city culminating in the infamous Tompkins Square Park riots.

When an aspiring rapper goes viral for all the wrong reasons, he thinks his career is over. But when his best friend gets them into a wild NYC after party, he gets one more chance to make the impossible happen.

Tai, a Vietnamese-American teen, is placed in a rural town after a harrowing encounter with a foster father. His new foster parents provide a nurturing but reclusive lifestyle. The husband, Peter, a knifemaker by trade, introduces Tai to the craft, but as Tai is groomed into a more refined version of himself, being drawn out and shaped by Peter, he quickly discovers the true dangers of becoming the knifemaker’s protégé.

High school senior Sky Baker, openly gay, faces a setback when a homophobic and Islamophobic e-blast goes viral, ruining his promposal plans for his crush, Ali. Despite feeling like leaving town, Sky finds support from his classmates and decides to fight back.

After high school graduation, four teenage friends travel for holiday to the Greek island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea.

A roadie goes on a journey of self-discovery and survival as part of a punk band's convoy, traveling through America circa the 1980s.

A 15-year-old girl vows to have sex with her best male friend if they're still virgins by the time they turn 18.

A coming-of-age film with themes of marriage, divorce and parenting through the lens of adolescence.

A group of young people at a music festival have chance encounters which change their lives forever. A young photo-blogger must navigate the festival's glitterati in order to gain access to the exclusive backstage area and ultimately make it as an artist.

After finding out she is a Princess in an African nation, high school senior Noble travels to her home country on the continent to discover her roots—and to determine if royal is something she really wants to be.

A half-Korean daughter returns to small town Oregon to care for her Korean mother. They learn to see and accept one another through the formative power of music and the vibrant flavors of Korean cooking.

Set in Somerset, England, two teens with different genetic conditions are forced to form a friendship.

Franky Winter (Josh Wiggins) and Ballas Kohl (Darren Mann) have been best friends since childhood. They are high school royalty: handsome, stars of the swim team and popular with girls. They live a perfect teenage life – until the night of Franky's epic 17th birthday party, when Franky and Ballas are involved in an unexpected incident that changes their lives forever.

Simultaneously follows the friendship formed between 13-year-olds Jake (Theo Taplitz) and Tony (Michael Barbieri), and an increasingly tense dispute between their parents - all set against a backdrop of the ever-changing socioeconomic situation in modern New York.

When her parents split and her father Kenichi moves out of their family home, Renko (Tomoko Tabata), a bright and energetic 6th grade girl, is left alone with her mother, Nazuna, in Kyoto. As Nazuna sets out new rules for their life together, Renko makes plans of her own, and sees to it that any changes happening in her family happen on her terms.