Coming-of-Age Movies

Kinora's catalogue lists 42 films about coming of age, spanning 1939–2023. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.

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• 1991

  A Brighter Summer Day

  Taipei — 1950s · 1960s
  Urbandir. Edward Yang
• 2000

  Almost Famous

  San Diego · San Francisco · New York City — 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Cameron Crowe
• 2016

  American Honey

  Kansas City — 2010s
  Rural · Suburbandir. Andrea Arnold
• 2000

  Billy Elliot

  London — 1980s
  Urbandir. Stephen Daldry
• 2014

  Boyhood

  Texas — 2000s · 2010s
  Suburban · Urbandir. Richard Linklater
• 2005

  C.R.A.Z.Y.

  Quebec — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Jean-Marc Vallée
• 2017

  Call Me by Your Name

  Italy — 1980s
  Ruraldir. Luca Guadagnino
• 1988

  Cinema Paradiso

  Rome · Sicily — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1980s
  Rural · Urbandir. Giuseppe Tornatore
• 2002

  City of God

  Rio de Janeiro — 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Fernando Meirelles
• 1993

  Dazed and Confused

  1970s
  Suburbandir. Richard Linklater
• 2007

  Juno

  Elk River · Saint Cloud — 2000s
  Suburbandir. Jason Reitman
• 2017

  Lady Bird

  Sacramento — 2000s
  Suburbandir. Greta Gerwig
• 1949

  Late Spring

  Tokyo · Kyoto — 1940s
  Urbandir. Yasujirō Ozu
• 2008

  Let the Right One In

  1980s
  Suburbandir. Tomas Alfredson
• 2021

  Licorice Pizza

  Los Angeles — 1970s
  Suburbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson
• 2006

  Little Miss Sunshine

  Albuquerque · Redondo Beach · Scottsdale — 2000s
  Suburban · Desertdir. Jonathan Dayton
• 2023

  Monster

  2020s
  Urbandir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 2016

  Moonlight

  Miami · Atlanta — 2000s · 2010s
  Urbandir. Barry Jenkins
• 2012

  Moonrise Kingdom

  1960s
  Island · Wildernessdir. Wes Anderson
• 2013

  Mud

  Arkansas — 2010s
  Rural · Islanddir. Jeff Nichols
• 1988

  My Neighbor Totoro

  Japan — 1950s
  Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki
• 2004

  Napoleon Dynamite

  Preston — 2000s
  Ruraldir. Jared Hess
• 2006

  Pan's Labyrinth

  Spain — 1940s
  Rural · Undergrounddir. Guillermo del Toro
• 2007

  Persepolis

  Tehran · Paris · Vienna — 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Vincent Paronnaud
• 1980

  Pixote

  Rio de Janeiro — 1980s
  Urbandir. Héctor Babenco
• 2023

  Poor Things

  London · Lisbon · Alexandria · Paris — 1800s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Yorgos Lanthimos
• 1999

  Ratcatcher

  Glasgow — 1970s
  Urbandir. Lynne Ramsay
• 1998

  Rushmore

  Houston — 1990s
  Urbandir. Wes Anderson
• 2018

  Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

  New York City — 2010s
  Urbandir. Bob Persichetti
• 2001

  Spirited Away

  Timeless
  Urbandir. Hayao Miyazaki
• 1959

  The 400 Blows

  Paris — 1950s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. François Truffaut
• 2023

  The Boy and the Heron

  Tokyo — 1940s
  Rural · Undergrounddir. Hayao Miyazaki
• 2017

  The Florida Project

  Kissimmee — 2010s
  Suburbandir. Sean Baker
• 1967

  The Graduate

  Los Angeles — 1960s
  Suburbandir. Mike Nichols
• 1971

  The Last Picture Show

  Texas — 1950s
  Ruraldir. Peter Bogdanovich
• 1939

  The Wizard of Oz

  1930s
  Ruraldir. Victor Fleming
• 1959

  The World of Apu

  Kolkata — 1930s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Satyajit Ray
• 2007

  This Is England

  England — 1980s
  Suburban · Coastal Seadir. Shane Meadows
• 2012

  Wadjda

  Riyadh — 2000s
  Urbandir. Haifaa al-Mansour
• 1971

  Walkabout

  Australia — 1970s
  Desert · Wilderness · Urbandir. Nicolas Roeg
• 2018

  Wildlife

  Montana — 1960s
  Suburbandir. Paul Dano
• 2001

  Y Tu Mamá También

  Mexico — 1990s
  Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Alfonso Cuarón