A Matter of Size (2009), Me, Myself and Mum (2013), Now, Voyager (1942), The Breakfast Club (1985), Tadpole (2002), I Am Sam (2001), Submarine (2010), Eighth Grade (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Psychological Growth movies.
Storyline: 17-year- old ASHER has always been the impulsive troublemaker, from primary school, all through junior high and high school. It's hard for him to concentrate in class, and he is compelled by a lot of rage and violence; yet he is also endowed with a considerable amount of charm and street wisdom. While his strict father sees him as a natural successor to the family's scaffolding business, Asher finds a different masculine role model in his gentle literature teacher Rami and forges a special connection with him. Torn between the two worlds, Asher looks for a chance for a new life and new identity. When a sudden tragedy occurs, he has to take the ultimate test of maturity.
Plot Keywords: drama, coming of age, education, father-son relationship, youth, social issues, school life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms out and gets caught smoking a cigar in the boys' room. Spence's crush on a white classmate goes nowhere because of her father's attitude toward blacks. His outspoken grandmother seems the only one who understands his angry growing pains, at the early stages of the U.S.'s Civil Rights Era.—David Stevens
Plot Keywords: drama, family, coming of age, race, social issues, teenager, identity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, adolescence, sexual awakening, female perspective, mother-daughter relationship, san francisco, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After Portland slacker John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) nearly loses his life in a car accident, the last thing he intends to do is give up drinking. But when he reluctantly enters treatment - with encouragement from his girlfriend (Rooney Mara) and a charismatic sponsor (Jonah Hill) - Callahan discovers a gift for drawing edgy, irreverent newspaper cartoons that develop a national following and grant him a new lease on life. Based on a true story, this poignant, insightful and often funny drama about the healing power of art is adapted from Callahan's autobiography and directed by two-time Oscar® nominee Gus Van Sant. Jack Black, Carrie Brownstein, Beth Ditto and Kim Gordon also star.
Plot Keywords: drama, biography, comedy, inspirational, true story, disability, recovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Shot over a three-year period with unparalleled intimacy and access, ALL THIS PANIC is a feature length documentary that takes an intimate look at the interior lives of a group of teenage girls as they come of age in Brooklyn. A potent mix of vivid portraiture and vérité, we follow the girls as they navigate the ephemeral and fleeting transition between childhood and adulthood.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: youth, coming of age, documentary, female, friendship, family, new york ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Henry Orient (Peter Sellers) is a madly egocentric and overly amorous avant-garde concert pianist who is hilariously pursued all around New York City by two fourteen-year-old fans. The girls, Valarie "Val" Campbell Boyd (Tippy Walker) and Marian "Gil" Gilbert (Merrie Spaeth) chase a harassed Henry all over the city, thwarting his afternoon liaisons with a married woman and leaving utter chaos behind them - until Val's sexually promiscuous mother, Isabel (Dame Angela Lansbury), appears on the scene to put a stop to the girls' shenanigans.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: comedy, youth, coming of age, new york, 1960s, musician, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alfred Byrne (Albert Finney) is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin, Ireland in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.—Michael C. Berch <mcb@postmodern.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, lgbt, musical, ireland, theater, self-discovery, social pressure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An overweight freshman (Charlie Talbert) who pines for a pretty cheerleader is the target of a high-school quarterback's cruel prank.
Plot Keywords: high school life, bullying, self-acceptance, first love, family dynamics, single parent family, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A person of high intelligence struggles to make sense of the world as it relates to morality, relationships, sex, and leaving her apartment.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, romance, coming of age, new york, genius, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lianna and her husband Dick have been married for a few years but the marriage isn't a happy one, since Dick treats her with arrogance. One day Lianna falls in love - with Ruth, a teacher. The people who know them act different: her husband with feelings of sexual betrayal, her children with curiosity and Lianna's friends with ambivalence.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: women, lesbian, self-discovery, marital crisis, teacher-student relationship, sexual awakening, independence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the vein of CLUELESS and NAPOLEON DYNAMITE, FREAK SHOW tells the moving, heartwarming, and hilarious story of Billy Bloom, a boldly confident, wildly eccentric teenager, who faces intolerance and persecution at his ultra conservative high school, and decides to fight back on behalf of all the misunderstood freaks of the world by running for the title of homecoming queen.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, lgbtq+, high school life, bullying, social prejudice, family conflict, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his extremely powerful intellect is harboured in the body and emotions of a child.
Plot Keywords: single parent family, mother-son relationship, education, psychological growth, emotional conflict, growing pains, family drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When aspiring filmmaker David is mandated by a judge to attend a social program at the Jewish Community Center, he is sure of one thing: he doesn't belong there. But when he's assigned to visit the Brooklyn Bridge with the vivacious Sarah, sparks fly and his convictions are tested. Their budding relationship must weather Sarah's romantic past, David's judgmental mother, and their own pre-conceptions of what love is supposed to look like.—AnonymousB
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, autism, new york, independent film, romantic comedy, disability ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Oscar-nominated director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies) crafts a tender coming-of-age tale that introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters to the screen, Laura Tweedle Rambotham (Susannah Fowle).—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: education, coming of age, school, female, australia, literary adaptation, adolescence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Megan's approaching 30 with a good degree and a boyfriend in hand, but when he proposes at her friend's wedding and everyone seems to think that the best way to advance in her career is to take a seminar where you find out what animal you are, Megan's understandably feeling lost. After meeting teenagers who want her to buy them beer, Megan is drawn into 16-year-old Annika's simpler life. She ends up moving in with Annika and her single father, juggling the life of a teen and that of an adult, two romantic interests, and the feeling of lagging behind.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, comedy, romance, drama, growth, confusion, friendship ...
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