Coming Of Age Movies Bucket List

A sixteen-year-old and his mother tear at each other; Dolan wrote it at seventeen and starred.

Shot with the same cast over twelve years, so the boy actually grows up on screen.

A Sacramento senior year, and a mother-daughter argument that never quite ends.

Three chapters in the life of a boy growing up black and gay in Miami.

A nineteen-year-old DiCaprio opposite Johnny Depp in a small Iowa town nobody leaves.

Apu leaves the village for school in Benares and then Calcutta, while his mother waits.

Five young men idle away their twenties in a seaside town; the film Scorsese keeps remaking.

Three skateboarding friends in Rockford, Illinois, filmed over twelve years by one of them.

Two Chicago teenagers chase the NBA over five years; the documentary that changed what documentaries could be.

Four Native teenagers in Oklahoma trying to get to California; the first all-Indigenous writers' room.

One year at a Michigan high school in 1980; eighteen episodes and every future star.

A rich boy and a poor boy at a Santiago school in the months before the 1973 coup.

A miner's son in the 1984 strike wants to dance ballet; Jamie Bell's furious tap.

A girl claims the chiefdom her grandfather refuses her; Keisha Castle-Hughes at 13.

A vegetarian vet student develops a taste for flesh; Ducournau's coming-of-age horror.

Two English children lost in the outback are saved by an Aboriginal boy on his walkabout; Roeg.

A 12-year-old joins a skinhead gang in 1983; Shane Meadows' Midlands.

A boy sent to a Swedish village in the 1950s compares himself to Laika; Hallstrom's breakthrough.

Sorrentino's Naples teenage years, the family and the arrival of Maradona.

A Yorkshire boy trains a kestrel; Loach's 1969 masterpiece and the football lesson.

Four hours of Taipei teenagers in 1960 and a murder; Edward Yang's masterpiece.

A former bully seeks out the deaf girl he tormented; Kyoto Animation on guilt.

A Saudi girl saves for a bicycle she is not supposed to ride; the first film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia.

Three engineering students against a pressure-cooker college; the most watched Indian film of its time.

Marjane Satrapi's comic-book childhood in revolutionary Iran, animated in black and white.

The last week of middle school for an anxious girl who makes YouTube videos; Bo Burnham's debut.

Two overachievers try to cram four years of partying into the night before graduation.

A 15-year-old actor and a 25-year-old in the San Fernando Valley of 1973; PTA's hang-out film.

Branagh's childhood in 1969 Belfast in black and white, with Van Morrison.

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