Coming-of-Age Movies

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Escape From The 21st Century poster

2025
Limited

Escape From The 21st C...

The story follows three friends who discover they have the power to travel back and forth 20 years with a sneeze. However, the future is not as good as they hoped, and they need to take on the responsibility of saving the world.
Completed Action Adventure Coming-of-Age Found-Footage Hostage Live-Action/CGI Sci-Fi Spin-off Spoof
Release Date:
June 9, 2025
Limited
White Bird poster

2025
Nationwide
Starz
VOD / Digital

White Bird PG-13

In White Bird, we follow Julian (Bryce Gheisar), who has struggled to belong ever since he was expelled from his former school for his treatment of Auggie Pullman. To transform his life, Julian’s grandmother (Helen Mirren) finally reveals to Julian her own story of courage — during her youth in Nazi-occupied France, a boy shelters her from mortal danger. They find first love in a stunning, magical world of their own creation, while the boy’s mother (Gillian Anderson) risks everything to keep her safe.
Completed Coming-of-Age Drama Family Period Spin-off
Release Date:
March 30, 2025
In Theaters
Starz
VOD / Digital

The Absolutely True Dia...

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.
Development Adaptation Comedy Coming-of-Age Drama
My Old Ass poster

2024
Limited

My Old Ass R

In this fresh coming-of-age story, an 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott (Maisy Stella) face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza). But when Elliott’s “old ass” starts handing out warnings about what her younger self should and shouldn’t do, Elliott realizes she has to rethink everything about family, love, and what’s becoming a transformative summer.
Completed Comedy Coming-of-Age
Release Date:
September 13, 2024
Limited
Hard Miles poster

2024
Nationwide

Hard Miles PG-13

The uplifting true story of the bicycling team at Rite of Passage’s RidgeView Academy, a medium-security correctional school in Colorado. The film follows beleaguered coach Greg Townsend (Matthew Modine) as he rounds up an unlikely crew of incarcerated students for a seemingly impossible bike ride from Denver to the Grand Canyon.
Completed Coming-of-Age Sports
Release Date:
April 19, 2024
In Theaters
The Edge of Seventeen poster

2016
Nationwide

The Edge of Seventeen R

A look at what it’s like to grow up as a young woman in today’s modern world. Everyone knows that growing up is hard, and life is no easier for high school junior Nadine, who is already at peak awkwardness when her all-star older brother Darian starts dating her best friend Krista. All at once, Nadine feels more alone than ever, until the unexpected friendship of a thoughtful boy gives her a glimmer of hope that things just might not be so terrible after all.
Completed Comedy Coming-of-Age Teen
Release Date:
November 18, 2016
In Theaters
Mid90s poster

2018
Limited

Mid90s

Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 90s-era LA who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.
Completed Comedy Coming-of-Age
Release Date:
October 19, 2018
Limited
Honor Society poster

2022
Paramount+

Honor Society NR

Honor is an ambitious high school senior whose sole focus is getting into an Ivy League college ... assuming she can first score the coveted recommendation from her guidance counselor, Mr. Calvin. Willing to do whatever it takes, Honor concocts a Machiavellian plan to take down her top three student competitors, until things take a turn when she unexpectedly falls for her biggest competition, Michael.
Completed Comedy Coming-of-Age Teen
Release Date:
July 29, 2022
Paramount+
Ten Thousand Saints poster

2015
Limited

VOD / Digital

Ten Thousand Saints R

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.
Completed Adaptation Coming-of-Age Drama
Release Date:
August 14, 2015
Limited
VOD / Digital
First Love poster

2022
Limited

VOD / Digital

First Love

First Love follows Jim (Fiennes Tiffin), a senior in high school experiencing the highs and lows of his first love with Ann (Park) as they navigate their pending departure to college. At the same time, Jim’s parents (Kruger and Donovan) are dealing with the familial fallout of a financial crisis.
Completed Coming-of-Age Teen
Release Date:
June 17, 2022
Limited
VOD / Digital
The Tender Bar poster

2022
Nationwide
New York / Los Angeles
Prime Video

The Tender Bar R

The Tender Bar tells the story of J.R. (Sheridan), a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie (Affleck), is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother (Rabe) struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father (Christopher Lloyd) — J.R. begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams — with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar.
Completed Biography Coming-of-Age Drama True Story
Release Date:
January 17, 2022
In Theaters
New York / Los Angeles
Prime Video

1990

A high school student transfers to a new school for his senior year, which sees him become best friends with classmate Kali. Though both harbor romantic feelings for one another, their timing never seems to be quite right.
Pre-Production Coming-of-Age Drama Romance
The Exchange poster

2021
Limited
VOD / Digital

The Exchange NR

A socially awkward but highly enterprising teenager decides to acquire a "mail order best friend"; a sophisticated exchange student from France. Instead, he ends up importing his personal nightmare, a cologne-soaked, chain-smoking, sex-obsessed youth who quickly becomes the hero of his new community.
Completed Comedy Coming-of-Age
Release Date:
July 30, 2021
Limited
VOD / Digital

Big Time Adolescence

Story of a teenage boy coming of age in his dull suburban town under the destructive guidance of his best friend, a charismatic college dropout.
Post-Production Comedy Coming-of-Age