Coming Of Age Bucket List

A bullied boy and a vampire girl in a Stockholm suburb in the snow.

A foster kid and his grumpy uncle on the run in the New Zealand bush; Taika Waititi before Marvel.

Brie Larson at a foster-care facility for teenagers; the small film that launched a cast.

A schoolgirl and a blue-haired art student in Lille; the Palme d'Or given to the actresses too.

Two friends, a fake ID called McLovin and one night before college.

Four boys walk the tracks to find a body; Rob Reiner's Stephen King coming-of-age.

Max Fischer, the worst student at the best school, and Bill Murray as his rival in love.

Robin Williams tells his boys to seize the day; "O Captain! My Captain!"

A janitor at MIT who is a maths genius, and Robin Williams saying "it's not your fault".

Five teenagers in Saturday detention; the John Hughes film that named a generation.

Satyajit Ray's first film: a boy and his sister in a Bengal village, and a train through the kash field.

Benjamin, Mrs Robinson and the bus at the end, to Simon and Garfunkel.

Truffaut's own childhood as Antoine Doinel, ending with the freeze frame on the beach.

A 15-year-old is sent on tour by Rolling Stone and grows up on the bus.

Two boys grow up in a Rio favela; one takes a camera, the other a gun.

A summer in northern Italy, a visiting graduate student, and a father's speech.

A 15-year-old on an Essex estate dances alone until her mother brings a man home.

Two teenagers and an older woman drive to a beach that may not exist.

Spielberg's own childhood, and the moment a camera becomes a way to see.

Tiffany Aching, a frying pan and the Nac Mac Feegle against the Queen of the Fairies.

Tiffany goes to learn witchcraft and something invisible follows her.

A sexually transmitted plague mutates 1970s Seattle teenagers; Charles Burns in ink black.

Maya Angelou's childhood in Arkansas and the years of silence after the rape; the first of seven memoirs.

Marjane Satrapi grows up through the Iranian revolution, in black and white.

A first love and a fundamentalist childhood in a Wisconsin winter; Craig Thompson's 600 pages.

Enid and Rebecca after high school in a suburb of nowhere; Clowes' teenage bible.

Toru, Naoko and Midori in 1960s Tokyo; the Murakami without magic that made him famous.

Ged learns the true names of things and hunts his own shadow; the Earthsea cycle begins.

A 17-year-old on the Riviera destroys her father's engagement; Sagan wrote it at 18.

A girl raised alone in the North Carolina marsh and a murder trial; the bestseller of the 2010s.