The Virgin Suicides (1999), Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970), Gregory's Girl (1981), The Member of the Wedding (1952), Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986), Now and Then (1995), Ginger Snaps (2000), Monster House (2006) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Puberty movies.
Storyline: A man about forty years of age tells the story from when he was a teenager in upscale suburban Detroit of his and three of his friends' fascination with the mysterious and doomed Lisbon sisters. In 1974, the sisters were seventeen year old Therese, sixteen year old Mary, fifteen year old Bonnie, fourteen year old Lux, and thirteen year old Cecilia. Their fascination still remains as they try to piece together the entire story. The sisters were mysteries if only because of having a strict and overprotective upbringing by their father, who taught math at the girls' private co-ed school, and overly devout Catholic mother, who largely dictated the household rules. The story focuses primarily on two incidents and the resulting situations on the girls' lives. The first was an action by Cecilia to deal with her emotions over her life. And the second was the relationship between Lux - the sister who pushed the boundaries of the household rules most overtly in doing what most teenagers want to...
Plot Keywords: sister, teen girl, teenager, father, religious person, emotional, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A thief awakens Valerie, just 13, taking earrings left to her by her mother. By morning, the earrings have been returned, Valerie's first period has begun, and a troupe and a missionary have arrived in her 19th century town. The thief is Orick; he reports to a cloaked constable who may also be the missionary. Attention to sexuality is everywhere: Valerie's grandmother's puritanical nature, the missionary's sermon to the town's virgins, the parish priest's attempt to seduce Valerie, and lusty adults at play. Valerie's nascent sexuality puts her in great danger. Can she navigate the passage from innocence to experience, a route teaming with vampires, a murderer, and an obscure family tree?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: teen girl, grandmother, priest, young man, vampire, carnival worker, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In his warm, Scottish coming-of-age film, gangly teen Gregory and his school-mates are starting to find out about girls. He fancies Dorothy, not least because she has got on to the football team (and is a better player than he). He finally asks her out, but it is obviously the females in control of matters here, and that very much includes Gregory's younger sister.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: teenager, friend, sister, soccer player, quirky, winsome, scotland ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A mixture of a psychological study of a ten-year-old boy, an English domestic comedy and a satire on psychologists finds young Johnny Brent, the only child of a pair of psychologists, trading an "invisible watch" to a much-younger child for a large magnet. His nurse/nanny accuses him of stealing and scolds him and he runs away. He soon convinces himself that the police are after him and following several unsuccessful attempts to get rid of the magnet, he presents it to an organizer of a fund-raising campaign for acquiring an iron-lung for the local hospital. The magnet is one of the auction items and finally is mounted on the iron-lung as a tribute to the unknown donor. Meanwhile, the father makes a completely inaccurate diagnosis for the mother of the boy's worries. In the end the boy meets the child he thought had died as a result of losing the magnet, and trades the boy back for the return of his "invisible watch" the gold medal the town mayor had given him for his part in the hospital campaign.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: girl, cousin, maid, brother, girlfriend, dark, family home ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.—Jason Ihle <jrihl@conncoll.edu>
Plot Keywords: teenager, older brother, mother, father, aunt, cousin, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Roberta, Teeny, Samantha and Chrissy have been busy growing up, but they always remembered the promise they made to be there for each other. Now they're together again to relive the greatest summer of their lives.
Plot Keywords: tomboy, young girl, best friend, orphan, mother, bully, uplifting ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Is becoming a woman analogous, in some deep psychological way, to becoming a werewolf? Ginger is 16, edgy, tough, and, with her younger sister, into staging and photographing scenes of death. They've made a pact about dying together. In early October, on the night she has her first period, which is also the night of a full moon, a werewolf bites Ginger. Within a few days, some serious changes happen to her body and her temperament. Her sister Brigitte, 15, tries to find a cure with the help of Sam, a local doper. As Brigitte races against the clock, Halloween and another full moon approach, Ginger gets scarier, and it isn't just local dogs that begin to die.
Plot Keywords: sister, outcast, werewolf, teenager, teacher, mother, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 13-year-old DJ is observing his neighbor Nebbercracker on the other side of the street in the suburb that destroys tricycles of children that trespass his lawn. When DJ's parents travel on the eve of Halloween and the abusive nanny Zee stays with him, he calls his clumsy best friend Chowder to play basketball. But when the ball falls in Nebbercracker's lawn, the old man has a heart attack, and soon they find that the house is a monster. Later the boys rescue the smart Jenny from the house and the trio unsuccessfully tries to convince the babysitter, her boyfriend Bones and two police officers that the haunted house is a monster, but nobody believes them. The teenagers ask their video-game addicted acquaintance Skull how to destroy the house, and they disclose its secret on the Halloween night.
Plot Keywords: teenager, nanny, friend, monster, police officer, suspenseful, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Naïma16, daughter of a cleaning lady, is about to join an audition with her best friend Dodo in Cannes. The school year is over. It was then that her 22-year-old cousin Sofia arrives from Paris to spend the holidays with her. She is a young woman with a liberated sexuality and does not hesitate to take advantage of her charms. "Catch the moment" is her main motto. Inseparable, foaming beaches and nightclubs, the two accomplices are quick to meet Andres and Philippe, an art collector and his regular matchmaker. Two rich men invite them to their yacht. Sofia then turns Naïm from her everyday reality to the world of luxury, opulence, haute couture, great restaurants, sumptuous Mediterranean villas. This world where everything seems possible.
Plot Keywords: teen girl, cousin, teen boy, mother, intense, inspiring, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Perfect gentleman and psychiatric therapist Peter Newmans is assumed gay by his doting patients, female neighbors and profiteering male playmates who envy his slick way with women. Then he's diagnosed with and operated for a rare, non-aggressive brain tumor, which suppressed his pituitary gland, the hormonal trigger of puberty. To the delight of his father, who always waited for normal 'teen rebellion' and knavish womanizing, Peter now rushes trough phases of 'growing up' sexually, with the benefits of adult body and income but without normal experience, confusing him, his crushes and his male friends.—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: man, co-worker, neighbor, mother, father, boss, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: For years, the ordinary teenager, Florian, has been neglecting his needs, and above all, an impatient but important part of his anatomy. However, his world will turn upside down, when, much to his surprise, Flo wakes up one morning, only to realise that his "best friend" can speak to him. Now, with the talkative "pal" making his existence known on the most unsuitable of circumstances, Flo has no other choice but to enlist the help of his friends who only think about women--Schumi, Dirk, and Red Bull--to be in control of the embarrassing situation. Will Florian manage to impress the school's diva, Leonie?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: teen boy, father, mother, friend, girl, amusing, cool ...
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