Highest-Rated Movies about 'Coming Of Age'

Spirited Away (2001), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Autumn Spring (2002), Amanda (2018), Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998), My Skinny Sister (2015), Flirting (1990), Sister (2012) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Coming Of Age movies.

#1. Spirited Away (2001)

Storyline: 10-year-old Chihiro (Daveigh Chase) moves with her parents to a new home in the Japanese countryside. After taking a wrong turn down a wooded path, Chihiro and her parents discover an amusement park with a stall containing an assortment of food. To her surprise, Chihiro's parents begin eating and then transform into pigs. In this supernatural realm, Chihiro encounters a host of characters and endures labor in a bathhouse for spirits, awaiting a reunion with her parents.

Plot Keywords: fantasy, animation, adventure, japanese, magic, coming of age, spirits ...

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#9. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

Storyline: In an allegory of life after Gen. Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, life in a remote village in the 1940s is calm and uneventful. Two little girls see a "Frankenstein" movie, and one of them starts wandering the countryside in search of this kind creature.

Plot Keywords: spanish cinema, child's perspective, symbolism, rural life, loneliness, classic film, coming of age ...

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#10. Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)

Storyline: During the Cultural Revolution in China, Mao Zadong's regime sends countless adolescents, including a bright young girl named Xiu Xiu (Lu Lu), to rural lands in order to participate in various kinds of physical labor. Xiu Xiu is torn away from her caring relatives and close friends to live and work with Lao Jin (Lopsang), a rancher. Though he treats Xiu Xiu kindly, she yearns for her old life and eventually turns to a degrading life of prostitution in hopes of earning the means to return home.

Plot Keywords: drama, historical, cultural revolution, youth, coming of age, tragedy, female ...

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#11. Love Letter (1995)

Storyline: Despite the years that have passed, Hiroko Watanabe (Miho Nakayama) is still grieving the death of her fiancé, who died unexpectedly while climbing a mountain. When Hiroko discovers her deceased lover's childhood address, she impulsively writes to him, and is shocked to receive a letter in reply. However, the note's author is Itsuki Fujii (also Nakayama), a young woman who shares the same name as Hiroko's late boyfriend. As the two women exchange letters, they begin an unusual relationship.

Plot Keywords: romance, youth, letters, memories, death, healing, 1990s ...

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#14. My Father My Lord (2007)

Storyline: The leader of a small ultra-orthodox community in Tel Aviv, Rabbi Abraham Edelman (Assi Dayan) is absolutely inflexible about doctrine. It's a trait that has won him no shortage of respect from his peers, but it's beginning to cause conflict with his son (Ilan Griff). Little Menahem has a growing fascination with the natural world, and simply can't understand why his father must shoo a mother bird from her nest, or insist that dogs have no souls.

Plot Keywords: family, faith, conflict, father-son relationship, religious extremism, tradition, modernity ...

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