Coming of age movies

last update 19.02.2013

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Coming Of Age Movies: Growing up on screen

 

““Indeed, the best coming-of-age movies are almost always fish-out-of-water films; the water is our youth, and coming of age is how we acclimate ourselves to it “

It is a movie where the central plot revolves around a person suddenly facing a life changing experience, trial or tribulation.That person once was naive or childish or pre-pubescent is now suddenly older and wiser because of the experience. They see life and their place in the universe for the first time.  The title list below have been updated alphabetically

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1900

 

15 Amore

 

100 Days Before The Command

 

 

August Rush  * A painted house *  AI  * Acla *  A perfect world *  Anton

A Swarm in May #   A Letter of Fire #   Agnes Browne  # A Cool, Dry Place #  Asylum  # A dream in Hanoi

Alan & Naomi    * A boy and his dog   * Au Revoir Les Enfants * About a boy   * Al otro lado

At’ ziji duchove!  *  Abel, Twoj Brat * Afraid of the dark * Abuse * A Dog of Flanders Aparajito

 

All things fair   *   Air Bud   *  A bronx tale   * Abeltje   * Across the sea of time   *

Arturo’s Island * A child went fourth * Amities particulieres * Anoche Libero va bene * Anoche Sone Contigo

 

Agostino *A Little Comfort*All my loved ones*Alexander*Adventures de Pinocchio

 

 

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Black Stallion Birth Billy Elliot  Beshekmpir    Blode Mutze

Boys of lost island   Born Into Brothels Burning Secret Benny´s gym Bad Education Bridge to Terabithia

Ben 10   Beautiful thing    Blauvogel Bench Warmers Burning Secret Beat the Drum

Barnens O Beethoven’s Nephew Bad   Boy from Lebanon Body Without Soul

 

Buitenspel

 

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Castelo Ra-Tim-Bum   Carol’s Journey Carlitos y el campo de los suenos  Carrie’s War Captain Johnno

Ce que savait Maisie Crisscross Crazy Chop Shop Children on their Birthdays

Chronicle of A Boy C’est la vie C’est la tangente Central Station Carmen Babyface Careful, He Might Hear You

Captains Courageous    Cafe com leite Captain Gallant C’Est Pas Moi, Je Le Jure ! Capitan January

Catch That Kid Canvas Cachorro CAMERON’S CLOSET   Child I never was

 

Casey’s Shadow  Children in The Crossfire

Chasing the Dragon Cloak & Dagger Cotolay  Cilveka Berns

Captain Alatriste Cobrades Cider with Rosie Casper Ce que savait Maisie

CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO DIE Chiquidracula Cheesecake (2008) Ciske de Rat Carmen Babyface

Camp Nowhere      Clownhouse Children’s Story    Cesta z Mesta Count Me Out

Class Trip  Cartouches Gauloises Cinema Paradiso  Chippendiddys Children of Heaven

Cirkus Ildebrand  C’est pas ma faute Critter Gitters  C’est pour la bonne cause! Caravaggio

Casanova — Childhood and Adolescence  Cavka Carl Gustav Gjengen  Clément Clay Farmers

Czarne Stopy  , Children on Their Birthdays, Cinema Paradiso , Circle of Two, Carrie’s War

Chance (2009),    City of God (2002),  Crossroads (1986) ,  Cooper & The Castle Hills Gang (2011),    Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975),  Cooley High (1975)

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DreszczeDO YOU REMEMBER DOLLY BELL  Dorm De Kleine

Blonde Dood The Devil’s Backbone David Copperfield

Durango Kids     De Fortabte sjaeles o Devil’s Playground De Brief voor de koning

Drengene fra Sankt Petri   Dreaming about you Duma Don’t Torture A Duckling  De Nieuwe Avonturen Van Dik Trom

Dog days of Summer Do You Know The Muffin Man  De Witte Van SichemDecember BoysDear Frankie

 

Delivering Milo  Den Magiska Bollen De 5 og Spionerne  Da Lotte Blev Usynlig

Der Schatz Der Weissen Falken Das Fliegende Klassenzimmer

 

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End of the spear El Nino Y El Muro Eternity and A Day Equus Escape from Sobibor  Earthling

Everyone Loves Mel   El Nino de Barro En Tu Ausencia Elaville Ja Kuolleille

El Color De Las Nubes    El Ultimo Tren El Topo    El caballo blanco – Joselito Empire of the Sun

Explorers Education of Little Tree Edges of the Lord Entrusted Elephant

Ek Chhotist Love Story    Eclair au chocolat Edelweiss Pirates  Eternal Summer Edward II

Experimentator ***Emmett*** Emil und die Detektive ***El nino de barro***El Maestro*** Eartling

 

Espérame mucho*Eres mi heroe * Emporte-Moi*Eralash *Eugene

Ekko ,   ELVIS! ELVIS! ,  Eros, O Deus do Amor ,   En Karlekshistoria ,  Elysium

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• Fan chan
• Fanny and Alexander
• Fat Girl
• Fatty Finn
• Feathers in My Head
• Finding Neverland
• Firehouse Dog
• Flipper

 

• Flying Classroom
• For a Good Cause
• For a Lost Soldier
• For the Living and the Dead
• Forbidden Games
• Frantsuz
• Freeze Die Come to Life
• Fresh

 

 

 

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• Gabriel & Me
• Ghost World
• Gilles
• Ginostra
• Glen and Randa
• Glut
• Godsend
• Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

 

• Good Boy!
• Good Sam
• Goodnight, Mister Tom
• Gotcha (1991 Short Film)
• Green Is Red
• Gritta vom Rattenschloß
• Gummo
• Gutta Boys

 

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• Handel’s Last Chance
• Hansel and Gretel
• Happythankyoumoreplease
• Hearts in Atlantis
• Heck’s Way Home
• Henry & Verlin
• Hereafter
• Himalaya
• Home Alone

• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
• Home Alone 3
• Honkytonk Man
• Hosszú vágta
• Hugo
• How to Eat Fried Worms
• Hänsel und Gretel
• Héroes

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• I Am
• I Am David
• I Am Gabriel
• I Know My First Name Is Steven
• I Remember Mama
• I Want to Be a Soldier
• I’ll Remember April
• I’ll Wave Back

 

• I’m Not Scared
• If….
• In Orange
• In Your Absence
• Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano
• Innocent Voices
• Isdraken
• It’s Not Me, I Swear!
• Ivan`s Childhood

 

 

 

Joe the king * Jet Boy *Je suis le seigneur du château * Jestem * Jacquot de Nantes

 

John John in the Sky * Journey to the Centre of the Earth * Jack the Bear *Jag Ar Din Krigare*Jammx Kids

Jaime *  Jr. Detective Agency  *   Jake’s Closet  *   Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard  *  Jermal

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Kes (Ken Loach)

 

Kolya

Koktebel

Ken Park Kids

King of the Hill

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Lord of the Flies Les Diables L´ENFANCE – NUE  Local Boys Les Choristes

Love Actually  Los Ninos Invisibles Le Dernier Des Fous   Le Grand chemin Leolo

Le Clan L’argent de poche Libero La Mala educacionLittle Criminals

Le Grand Chemin *Le.Chateau.De.Ma.mere  * LA.GLOIRE.DE.MON.PERE * L’Annee de l’eveil   * Let the right one in

Lokas *Les Textiles*  Ласковый Май *Little Fugitive * Les Allumettes Suedoises

L.I.E. Lessons at the end of thespring * La Revolte des enfants * Looking For Miracles*  *Lakki.

Life is a long quiet river * Love Me If You Dare * Luminous Motion * La Copa de los Suenos * La Halfaouine

Le Petit Nicolas *  La lengua de las mariposas *Love Child *  Last stand * Life Is Hot in Cracktown

Little Manhattan — Les Aiguilles Rouges — La Cité des Enfants Perdus — Little Man Tate — Little Man Tate — La Vie devant soi

 

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Mysterious Skin My Life As A Dog Mickybo and Me Monsieur Ibrahim Malena

MOON CHILD Machuca Montreal MainMa vie en roseMy Dog Skip

Maximum Ride Motorama Mother of Mine Martian Child MeanCreek My Father’s Glory

Marvin and Tige Mirakel Mon FilsMy friend Joe My name is Ivan

Monsieur Ibrahim Max und Moritz ReloadedMás pena que Gloria Me and You and Everyone We Know  Mandraora

My magic ***Mutum***Maharac ****Mentito portera ***Magna Aura

Mirage ***Most ***Matching Jack***Moritz***Magic Rock

Monsieur Lazhur

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Nachttocht * Nico And Dani * Nobody Knows *No place like home * Nanhe Jaisalmer

Nimmermeer *Nicholas and Alexandra *  Nightmare Room  *  Nobody’s Daughter * Northfork

 

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Ole Dole Doff

Oliver Twist (2005)

Our Lady of the Assassins

Olivier, Olivier

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Pour Elle***Pulse***Possessed***Pargon Gola   ***Put the camera on me ***Private Lessons

 

 

Pelle the Conqueror *** Passage to Zarahamelia *** Pinocchio   ***Pedrl oder Pica  ***Perfect game  ***Pinocchio

Play  *    Postales de Leningrado*   Poslednja trka     *  Prijela K Nam Pout     *Promis… juré!

Peter Pan

Popi Promises

Pietje Bell (Nederlands)

Poche d’Argent

 

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• Radio flyer

• Rails & Ties
• Ready? OK!
• Red Like the Sky
• Respiro
• Return to Innocence
• Road to Perdition
• Roads to Koktebel
• Robby
• Rose’s Songs

 

 

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Sin Destino Someone like Hodder SkyKids Sztuczki Sacred Silence Savrseni krug

Skipped Parts Storm Boy Summer of 42 Svolochi Sling Blade Song for a raggy boy

Secretos del corazon Son of Rambow Second Best Skellig Sweet Mud Son of the shark

Second Hand Child *  Second Hand Lions  *  Swim Zack Swim *   Skyrunners

Super 8 — Shoeshine — Simon Birch — Stand by me — Say Uncle

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Sharkboy and Lavagirl

Smiley

Sommerstorm

Stand by me

Small change

Six

STOLEN SUMMER

STONE BOY

Saint Ralph

Separate Peace

Sommerjubel.(1986)

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• Tendres cousines
• That’s What I Am
• The 400 Blows
• The Abduction of Zack Butterfield
• The Adopted Son
• The Adventures of Pinocchio
• The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D
• The Art of Getting By

• The Assault
• The Benchwarmers
• The Black Stallion
• The Boy with Green Hair
• The Boys of St. Vincent
• The Browning Version
• The Champ
• The Child I Never Was

• The Chippendiddys
• The Chorus
• The City of Lost Children
• The Color of Milk
• The Color of the Clouds
• The Cure
• The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
• The Devil’s Backbone

• The Devils
• The Earthling
• The Edelweiss Pirates
• The Education of Little Tree
• The Eighth Color of the Rainbow
• The Emerald Forest
• The Fire That Burns
• The Flight of the Innocent

• The Fruit Machine
• The Gate
• The Genesis Children
• The Good Son
• The Grand Highway
• The Greenhouse Effect
• The Heart Is Deceitful above all things
• The Interrogation of Michael Crowe

• The Invasion
• The Invincible
• The Invisible Children
• The Italian
• The JammX Kids
• The Junior Olsen Gang and the Silver Mine Mystery
• The Keys to the House
• The Kite Runner

• The Last Train
• The Learning Tree
• The Maldonado Miracle
• The Man Without a Face
• The Mighty
• The Mudboy
• The Nature of Nicholas
• The NeverEnding Story

 

• The Nightmare Room
• The Number 23
• The Odd Life of Timothy Green
• The Perfect Circle
• The Perfect Game
• The Reflecting Skin
• The Return
• The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising

• The Sixth Sense
• The Slingshot
• The Son of the Shark
• The Spanish Gardener
• The Spiderwick Chronicles
• The Squid and the Whale
• The Stolen Children
• The Stone Boy

• The Story of Net
• The Taste of Wheat
• The Thief
• The Tin Drum
• The White Horse
• The Wild Child
• The Wind Will Carry Us
• Thicker Than Water

• Things I Don’t Remember
• This Is England
• This Special Friendship
• Time of the Gypsies
• Toast
• Tom Brown’s School Days
• Tom Sawyer
• Tomboy

• Toto the Hero
• Trevor
• Tricks
• Twelve and Holding

 

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Uranya

 

Un Hilito de Sangre

Undertow

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Venice (2010)
• Vivir para siempre (2010)
• Volando voy (2006)
• Viva Cuba (2005)
• Vitus (2006)
• Vito e gli altri (1991)

• Village of Dreams (1996)
• Venner for livet (2005)
• Vipère au poing (2004)
• Vida de Menina (2003)
• Valo (2005)

 

 

• Walkabout
• War of the Buttons 1962
• War of the Buttons 2011
• War of the Buttons 1994
• War of the Buttons 2011
• Warden of the Dead
• When Andrew Came Home
• When Father Was Away on Business

 

• Where Eskimos Live
• Whisper
• Whole New Thing
• Wide Awake
• Wild Tigers I Have Known

 

Y

You Are Not Alone (Du Er Ikke Alene)

 

Zmory	Zero de Conduite	Zucht

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The list of coming of age movies will be constantly updated .