Coming Of Age Movies Bucket List

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

A pregnant sixteen-year-old with a hamburger phone finds adoptive parents; Diablo Cody's script.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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