My best comming-of-age movies
... or similar - 101 movies from 40 different countries, most of them are comming from France, Spain and Russia.
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- DirectorSvetozar RistovskiStarsVlado JovanovskiMarko KovacevicJordanco CevrevskiAs Macedonia faces its difficult transition, a boy escapes into a world of his own creation.
- DirectorRobert GlinskiStarsFilip GarbaczBogdan KocaDorota Wierzbicka-Matarrelli14-year-old Tomek falls in love with Marta. Being poor he seeks ways of earning money so as to please her. He approaches a man who was seeking people for work. Not realizing the man is a pimp, Tomek has no idea of what awaits him.
- DirectorTaika WaititiStarsJames RollestonTe Aho Eketone-WhituTaika WaititiBoy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.
- DirectorAisling WalshStarsAidan QuinnIain GlenMarc WarrenThe true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland.
- DirectorErnesto DaranasStarsAlina RodríguezYuliet CruzArmando Miguel GómezAging teacher Carmela has a special heart for pupils from broken homes and is challenged by the headmaster to follow up 12 year old Chala which is infatuated in Yeni. They are both poor, and has severe home troubles.
- DirectorDorota KedzierzawskaStarsOleg RybaYevgeniy RybaAkhmed SardalovThree young boys, who live on the mean streets of Ukraine, embark on an journey to cross the border into Poland.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsDavid BradleyBrian GloverFreddie FletcherA working-class English boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet kestrel.
- DirectorDmitriy AstrakhanStarsPavel ChernyavskiyAndrey DushechkinVladimir KabalinRussia. Our, days, general lawlessness, corruption and inaction of the authorities. But suddenly, in a small town start getting killed. The victims - drug traffickers, corrupt officials bribed the judge ... Someone has clearly decided to purge the city from evil. Who are these people's avengers?
- DirectorHorst FlickStarsMichael KarnowskyPeter SeumAnita LochnerIn this 1984 West German film, a 12 year-old street kid in a slum of Berlin struggles to stay afloat through a commitment to his compassionate teacher and ambivalent classmates, aged 11-14, who also bear the harsh marks of impoverishment, which manifest themselves in peer ruthlessness and disrespect of adults. Movie does not, however, end in a tragic manner.
- DirectorAamir KhanAmole GupteStarsDarsheel SafaryAamir KhanTisca ChopraAn eight-year-old boy is thought to be a lazy trouble-maker, until the new art teacher has the patience and compassion to discover the real problem behind his struggles in school.
- DirectorAntonio CuadriStarsManuel LozanoFélix LópezAlfonso MenaEveryday coming-of-age issues mirror the political goings on in the days before Franco's 1975 demise.
- DirectorKarola HattopStarsFrederick LauMichael von AuAntje WestermannFatherless schoolboy Tobias is neglected by his mother and her abusive boyfriend and bullied at school. To become popular, he borrows an iguana to stage the lie that his father is an adventurer in South America.
- DirectorIván NoelStarsValentina SartorelliJuan Ignacio MolinaLauro VeronThe return of three disappeared children create violent ripples in their small town.
- DirectorAndrey ZvyagintsevStarsVladimir GarinIvan DobronravovKonstantin LavronenkoIn the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.
- DirectorAntonio MerceroStarsJuan José BallestaLuis Ángel PriegoGorka MorenoGrowing up together. All emotions pass the review. Friendship and hope survive all.
- DirectorPavel ChukhrayStarsVladimir MashkovYekaterina RednikovaMikhail FilipchukA woman meets a man who isn't the right man for her - but she hasn't realised it yet...
- DirectorLuis MandokiStarsCarlos PadillaLeonor VarelaXuna PrimusA young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.
- DirectorAgnès MerletStarsLudovic VandendaeleEric da SilvaSandrine BlanckeBrothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find each other in a seacoast town of Lignan, where their destructive behavior is infamous. (It may date to their mother's leaving the family.) Martin is philosophical, romantic, and poetic: he dreams of being the son of a shark; he holds tight to a book about goldfish his mother gave him. In both halting and wild ways, he tries to court Marie, a neighbor girl. Simon, with a pocketknife and an intractable will, seems more dangerous to others. What, on earth, is there for these children-becoming-men?
- DirectorGuido PietersStarsDanny de MunkWilleke van AmmelrooyHerman van VeenA poor 11-year-old schoolboy with a heart of gold grows up in 1930s Amsterdam.
- DirectorPhilippe ClaudelStarsAlexi MathieuAngelica SarrePierre DeladonchampsAs summer drags by, 13-year-old Jimmy, forced by circumstance to become an adult too soon, runs up against the limits of his small hometown and his turbulent life, caught between a mother on the slide and a stepfather who keeps her down.
- DirectorIván NoelStarsDaniel AimettaMaria Dolores AlbarezIsaias AriasLimbo is a secluded colony of children all victims of shameless adult vampires. They have new plans for humanity.
- DirectorIván NoelStarsRenzo SabelliRomina PintoGuillermo TassaraA visual incursion into the troubles psyche of a young boy whose unstable and manipulative mother committed suicide in front of him.
- DirectorTomas AlfredsonStarsKåre HedebrantLina LeanderssonPer RagnarOskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
- DirectorRégis WargnierStarsJean RochefortDominique BlancRégis ArpinThomas is the 12-year-old son of a millionaire who lives in a big mansion surrounded by woods in France. When his mother dies, his father hires a widowed maid to take care of everything while he is away. The woman brings her only son, Charles, to live with them and, hopefully, be company to lonesome Thomas. The rich boy and the poor one become enemies from the very first encounter. Moved essentially by jealousy and fear, Thomas decides to turn Charles' life into a hell on Earth, especially after their parents eventually fall in love. As the title suggests, he wants to make it clear to the invader who is the lord of the castle.
- DirectorChristophe RuggiaStarsVincent RottiersAdèle HaenelRochdy LabidiOrphaned 12-year-old twins Joseph and Chloé have been on the run together. Chloé is autistic, non-verbal and fears being touched. Joseph dearly loves her and dreams she will recover if they find their parents and fight the system.