Days of the Bagnold Summer (2019), Submarine (2010), Flammable Children (2018), Mes Petites Amoureuses (1974), Over the Edge (1979), Eighth Grade (2018), Juno (2007), The Ice Storm (1997) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Growing Pains movies.
Storyline: A teenager spends his summer listening to heavy metal music and trying to get along with his librarian mom.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, family, comedy, drama, mother-son relationship, summer, indie film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both brothers blame themselves. Many years later, Nick is out of prison after serving time for an assault. He drinks, lives in a shelter and tries to help an old friend. When their mother dies, Nick meets his brother at the funeral. The brother, who remains nameless, is a single father to a young boy, but also supports a drug habit that is spiraling out of control. When an opportunity presents itself, he becomes a drug dealer to secure his son's future. Eventually, the two brothers meet again.—Peter Brandt Nielsen
Plot Keywords: coming of age, dark comedy, romance, first love, family dynamics, self-discovery, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Local kids get a dose of excitement when a 200-ton blue whale washes up on a beach in 1970s Australia, and their parents find their own good time by drinking and playing games behind closed doors.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, australian film, coming of age, family, adolescence, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A study of minor events in the adolescence of a boy growing up in small towns. Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after one year of high school, has to go to live with his mother in the south of France. She is a seamstress living in a tiny apartment with her lover Jose, a Spanish farm worker. Daniel would like to continue school, but his mother cannot afford it, so she sends him to work as an apprentice in a moped repair shop. Daniel wiles away his time in the shop, and learns about girls from the other boys in town. When he returns to visit his grandmother next year, it is obvious that he has grown up faster than his old friends.—Will Gilbert
Plot Keywords: french film, 1970s, adolescence, first love, rural life, autobiographical, sexual awakening ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.
Plot Keywords: suburban life, social issues, class conflict, violence, 1970s, social alienation, small-town america ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In his feature film directorial debut, comedian Bo Burnham deftly encapsulates the awkwardness, angst, self-loathing and reinvention that a teenage girl goes through on the cusp of high school. Given that the 27-year-old stand-up comic achieved fame as a teenager himself through YouTube by riffing on his insecurities, he is uniquely capable as the film's writer and director to tell the story of Kayla, an anxious girl navigating the final days of her eighth grade year, despite creating a protagonist w female instead of male. Like Burnham did more than a decade ago, 13-year-old Kayla turns to YouTube to express herself, where she makes advice blogs in which she pretends to have it all together. In reality, Kayla is sullen and silent around her single father and her peers at school, carrying out most of her interactions with her classmates on Instagram and Twitter. Her YouTube videos are a clever narrative tool that provide insight into her inner hopes and dreams, much like an ...
Plot Keywords: coming of age, teenager, social media, self-identity, father-daughter relationship, school life, psychological pressure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A tale told over four seasons, starting in autumn when Juno, a 16-year-old high-school junior in Minnesota, discovers she's pregnant after one event in a chair with her best friend, Bleeker. In the waiting room of an abortion clinic, the quirky and whip-sharp Juno decides to give birth and to place the child with an adoptive couple. She finds one in the PennySaver personals, contacts them, tells her dad and step-mother, and carries on with school. The chosen parents, upscale yuppies (one of whom is cool and laid back, the other meticulous and uptight), meet Juno, sign papers, and the year unfolds. Will Juno's plan work, can she improvise, and what about Bleeker?
Plot Keywords: unplanned pregnancy, indie film, black comedy, family dynamics, teen issues, social commentary, emotional journey ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During the 1973 Thanksgiving weekend, the Hoods are - relationship-wise, skidding out-of-control, isolated from each other; Benjamin reels from drink-to-drink, His wife, Elena's losing patience with Ben's incessant lies. Home for the holidays, their son, Paul, heads into Manhattan,in search of a rich girl from his prep school.Wendy, the teenage daughter, roams the neighborhood, exploring the liquor and lingerie of her friends' parents, looking for something - anything - new. Then, an ice storm hits, and their problems seem inconsequential, and nothing will ever be the same.
Plot Keywords: family, drama, american, 1990s, suburban life, marital crisis, emotional alienation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul's flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging along with other idles, while Charles is a plodding, naive and honest man. He fell in love with Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances. But how will Paul react to that attempt to build a real love relationship ? One of the major New Wave films.—Yepok
Plot Keywords: drama, french cinema, family, coming of age, youth, countryside, summer vacation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Enid and Rebecca after they finish the high school. Both have problems relating to people and they spend their time hanging around and bothering creeps. When they meet Seymour who is a social outsider who loves to collect old 78 records, Enid's life will change forever.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, black comedy, independent film, rebellion, alienation, friendship, social satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino is forced into the worst year of her life. Her best friend, Rachel Bruin, has turned against her with all other of Melinda's fellow students looking away; not daring to take a single glance at Melinda. All because of one stupid end-of-summer party.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, bullying, psychological trauma, silence, sexual assault, recovery, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
Plot Keywords: female coming-of-age, family dynamics, sisterhood, social class, female independence, moral dilemmas, historical drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A story of life on a First Nations reserve in Ontario: Silas and Frank are trying to get into college to train to be mechanics but they find themselves having to deal with girls, family ... and murder.—<P.M.Laws@education.leeds.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: canadian film, independent film, comedy, drama, indigenous culture, 1990s, novel adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A girl (Zoé Auclair) arrives at a mysterious boarding school that is isolated from the outside world.
Plot Keywords: drama, mystery, thriller, coming of age, boarding school, dark, surreal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Clifford Peache is the new kid in Lake View High School. Faced with all the stress that role entails he makes his situation worse by insulting Moody, the leader of a group of toughs who extort lunch money from kids. These punks pretend to be bodyguards for the kids to protect them from Linderman who, it is rumored, killed his brother in cold blood. Clifford befriends the sullen Linderman and hires him as his bodyguard. When Moody ups the ante, Linderman must decide whether fighting for what he believes in, with his haunted past and image, is justified.—Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org>
Plot Keywords: social outcasts, psychological trauma, growing pains, unlikely friendship, teen rebellion, moral dilemmas, street smarts ...
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