Genre "Coming-of-Age" Movies
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| 101. The Cider House Rules (year: 1999) |
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John Irving scripted this screen adaptation of his 1985 novel. Set during World War II, The Cider House Rules concerns Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire), an ...
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| 102. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (year: 2002) |
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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys brings Chris Fuhrman's well-received, posthumously published teen novel to the screen. Set in the 1970s, the film co ...
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| 103. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (year: 2006) |
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When a typical young high school girl discovers that she has the unique ability to traverse space and time, her efforts to use the power as a means of ...
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| 104. The Graduate (year: 1967) |
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"Just one word: plastic." "Are you here for an affair?" These lines and others became cultural touchstones, as 1960s youth rebelli ...
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| 105. The History Boys (year: 2006) |
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An unruly collection of clever but crass Thatcher-era English high-school students seek to earn the scores needed to enroll in Oxford and Cambridge in ...
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| 106. The Invisible Circus (year: 2001) |
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A young woman trying to better understand the fate of her sister finds herself following in her footsteps in this emotional drama. 18-year-old Phoebe ...
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| 107. The Journey of Natty Gann (year: 1985) |
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Disney's The Journey of Natty Gann stars Meredith Salenger in the title role. During the Depression, Natty's father (Ray Wise) takes a job in a Northw ...
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| 108. The Jungle Book (year: 1967) |
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The final animated feature produced under the supervision of Walt Disney is a lively neo-swing musical, loosely based upon the tales of Rudyard Kiplin ...
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| 109. The Lover (year: 1992) |
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The Lover is director Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of Marguerite Duras' minimalist 1984 novel. Set in French Indochina in 1929, the film explores ...
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| 110. The Man in the Moon (year: 1991) |
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In its elegiac nostalgia for the days of childhood innocence, Robert Mulligan's The Man in the Moon recalls another of Mulligan's earlier films, To Ki ...
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| 111. The Motorcycle Diaries (year: 2003) |
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Brazilian director Walter Salles Jr. follows up the Golden Globe-nominated Behind the Sun with this filmed adaptation of Argentinian-born Cuban revolu ...
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| 112. The Outsiders (year: 1983) |
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Teen rivalry in a small Southern town sets the stage for this dramatic interpretation of the novel by S.E. Hinton. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, T ...
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| 113. The Sandlot (year: 1993) |
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The Sandlot is sparsely narrated by the main character (now an adult) who occasionally drops in on the action to comment on events or help move the st ...
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| 114. The Squid and the Whale (year: 2005) |
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Two boys learn the hard way about how a marriage falls apart in this independent comedy drama. Bernard (Jeff Daniels) is a novelist whose career has g ...
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| 115. The Sure Thing (year: 1985) |
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Director Rob Reiner's The Sure Thing is essentially It Happened One Night for the 1980s, but its lack of surprise in no way impedes its entertainment ...
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| 116. The United States of Leland (year: 2002) |
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Produced by Kevin Spacey, The United States of Leland is a psychological drama concerning the aftereffects of a brutal murder. It's also the first big ...
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| 117. The Virgin Suicides (year: 1999) |
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A dark comedy punctuated by moments of drama, The Virgin Suicides explores the emotional underpinnings of a family starting to come apart at the seams ...
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| 118. The Yearling (year: 1946) |
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| 119. This Boy's Life (year: 1993) |
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A single mother and her difficult son find family life isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be in this drama adapted from writer and professor Tob ...
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| 120. This is England (year: 2006) |
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British filmmaker Shane Meadows looks back at his own youth in this semi-autobiographical comedy drama which examines skinhead culture in the U.K. It' ...
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| 121. Water Lilies (year: 2007) |
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Three 15-year-old girls living in the ultra-modern Paris suburb of Cergy-Pontoise find the dynamics of their relationships gradually beginning to shif ...
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| 122. Welcome to the Dollhouse (year: 1995) |
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Twelve-year-old Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo) is perhaps the most put-upon adolescent in film history in Todd Solondz's bitterly hilarious black com ...
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| 123. Whisper of the Heart (year: 1995) |
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Written by animation master Hayao Miyazaki and directed by his protégé Yoshifumi Kondo, this film is a simple tale about a young girl who falls in lov ...
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| 124. Wonder Boys (year: 2000) |
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In this comedy, a middle-aged man juggles his problems with women, literature, and a career, while a younger man chases the artifact of his dreams. Pi ...
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| 125. XXY (year: 2007) |
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Lucia Puenzo's drama XXY probes the psychological aftereffects that adolescent transsexuality can yield. With a name easily applicable to either gende ...
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| 126. Yellow (year: 1997) |
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