Browse Movies : Coming-of-Age (Page #3)

A homeschooled teenage girl enrolls in an Arizona high school, altering the ecosystem of the student body with her nonconformity.

A teen named Junior, a budding cartoonist, grows up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, he leaves his troubled school on the reservation to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

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.

An awkward teen experiences love, friendship and hard truths during the summer of 2006.

Anything’s Possible is a delightfully modern Gen Z coming-of-age story that follows Kelsa, a confident high school girl who is trans, as she navigates through senior year. When her classmate Khal gets a crush on her, he musters up the courage to ask her out, despite the drama he knows it could cause. What transpires is a romance that showcases the joy, tenderness, and pain of young love.

John (Jack Reynor) lives with his mother, Jean (Toni Collette), in a social housing suburb and ekes out a meager living as a nocturnal taxi driver. John returns home one morning to find his mother unconscious from an alcohol overdose; however this was not the first time. Jean violently rejects John's attempts to help as well as his intentions to unite the family. When Jean is offered an opportunity to recover, and with no savings or insurance, John is forced to offer his services to a petty criminal to help pay for his mother's costly rehab program. John is subsequently faced with a life-changing task that may change him and his family's lives forever.

A twelve year old girl with boundless optimism and a unique view of the world, is inspired by the strange new boy at school and sets out to mend her broken family - whatever it takes.

Two teens, who have just graduated from high school, are heading off in different directions in life. Before they can embark on their new journeys, they take their boards on a final trek across town to witness a hometown skateboarding hero attempt to skate an "unskateable" mountain on his skateboard, as his last attempt to prove he is still the idol he once was.

Jonah, a silver tongued and overweight kid with low self-esteem, meets Hana, a Japanese female janitor at his school – and an ex Sumo wrestler. Along with a pedantic and friendless building manager, the unlikely trio set about building a Dohjo, and training for the US Sumo Open.

Follows an American teenager whose life is uprooted when she unexpectedly moves to Italy to live with a grandfather she never knew existed.

The coming of age romance follows young lovers Kevin and Cody (McKenna, Maxwell) as they navigate their last summer together before life takes them to different colleges. Amongst the beauty of Northern Michigan, the pair discover the depth of their feelings as they’re tested by their conflicting futures.

A high school romance is complicated by the girl's Muslim faith. Her father is prepared to arrange her marriage according to their family’s cultural tradition.

Johana Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a bright, quirky, 16-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life in Wolverhampton and live out her creative fantasies. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and off-beat music review to a group of self-important indie rock critics at a weekly magazine. Despite being brushed off initially, Johana clamors to the top of the '90s rock music scene by reinventing herself as Dolly Wilde – a venerable, impossible-to-please music critic with an insatiable lust for fame, fortune, and men. It isn’t long before the rapid pace at which Johana’s life is changing becomes overwhelming and she runs face-first into a devastatingly real, existential crisis: Is this the type of girl she wants to become? Or does she need to start over and build again from the ground up?

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.

Teenager Miles enrolls in boarding school to try to gain a deeper perspective on life; after an unexpected tragedy, Miles and his friends try to make sense of what they have been through.

Feminist, journalist and activist Gloria Steinem becomes a galvanizing symbol for equality via surprising encounters along the road that help shape her.