The Best Coming-of-Age Movies of the 1970s

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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

1971    Mel Stuart    Rated G

Adventure    Coming-of-Age    Family

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Harold and Maude

1971    Hal Ashby    Rated PG

Black Comedy    Comedy    Coming-of-Age

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Mean Streets

1973    Martin Scorsese    Rated R

Coming-of-Age    Crime    Crime Drama

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The Last Picture Show

1971    Peter Bogdanovich    Rated R

Americana    Coming-of-Age    Drama

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American Graffiti

1973    George Lucas    Rated PG

Americana    Comedy Drama    Coming-of-Age

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Amarcord

1973    Federico Fellini    Rated R

Comedy Drama    Coming-of-Age    Drama

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Picnic at Hanging Rock

1975    Peter Weir    Rated PG

Australian New Wave    Coming-of-Age    Drama

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Breaking Away

1979    Peter Yates    Rated PG

Comedy Drama    Coming-of-Age    Drama

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Quadrophenia

1979    Franc Roddam    Rated R

Coming-of-Age    Drama    Musical

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Murmur of the Heart

1971    Louis Malle    Rated R

Comedy    Coming-of-Age    Foreign Language Film

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Pretty Baby

1978    Louis Malle    Rated R

Coming-of-Age    Drama    Erotic Drama

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The Wanderers

1979    Philip Kaufman    Rated R

Comedy Drama    Coming-of-Age    Drama

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Bed & Board

1970    François Truffaut    Rated PG

Comedy    Comedy of Manners    Coming-of-Age

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Summer of '42

1971    Robert Mulligan    Rated R

Americana    Coming-of-Age    Drama

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The Paper Chase

1973    James Bridges    Rated PG

Comedy Drama    Coming-of-Age    Drama

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Sounder

1972    Martin Ritt    Rated G

Animal Picture    Coming-of-Age    Drama

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Love on the Run

1979    François Truffaut    Rated PG

Comedy    Coming-of-Age    Drama

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My Uncle Antoine

1971    Claude Jutra    Not Rated

Comedy Drama    Coming-of-Age    Drama

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Lacombe Lucien

1974    Louis Malle    Rated R

Coming-of-Age    Drama    Foreign Language Film

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