The Top 100 Coming-of-Age Movies of All Time

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The Top 100 Coming-of-Age Movies of All Time
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
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70 Bicycle Thieves 1948 Vittorio De Sica NR -
74 Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 John Hughes PG13 -
77 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov NR -
83 The 400 Blows 1959 François Truffaut NR -
96 The Professional 1994 Luc Besson R -
118 Good Will Hunting 1997 Gus Van Sant R -
119 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick PG -
137 Stand by Me 1986 Rob Reiner R -
148 The Breakfast Club 1985 John Hughes R -
186 The Graduate 1967 Mike Nichols PG -
187 City of God 2002 Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund R -
190 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971 Mel Stuart G -
206 American Beauty 1999 Sam Mendes R -
232 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984 Hayao Miyazaki PG -
259 The Last Picture Show 1971 Peter Bogdanovich R -
296 Let the Right One In 2008 Tomas Alfredson R -
301 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese R -
302 Harold and Maude 1971 Hal Ashby PG -
333 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly R -
339 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018 Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman PG -
352 Rebel Without a Cause 1955 Nicholas Ray PG13 -
354 Dead Poets Society 1989 Peter Weir PG -
413 Almost Famous 2000 Cameron Crowe R -
430 Moonrise Kingdom 2012 Wes Anderson PG13 -
448 Your Name 2016 Makoto Shinkai NR -
452 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Giuseppe Tornatore PG -
467 Big 1988 Penny Marshall PG -
503 Rushmore 1998 Wes Anderson R -
523 Amarcord 1973 Federico Fellini R -
551 Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater R -
558 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir PG -
562 Au Revoir Les Enfants 1987 Louis Malle NR -
618 Moonlight 2016 Barry Jenkins R -
658 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg PG -
661 Heathers 1988 Michael Lehmann R -
684 Say Anything... 1989 Cameron Crowe PG13 -
690 The Karate Kid 1984 John G. Avildsen PG -
694 Boyhood 2014 Richard Linklater R -
704 American Graffiti 1973 George Lucas PG -
711 Breaking Away 1979 Peter Yates PG -
769 Juno 2007 Jason Reitman PG13 -
772 Lady Bird 2017 Greta Gerwig NR -
779 Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1982 Amy Heckerling R -
869 The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012 Stephen Chbosky PG13 -
873 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma R -
910 Whisper of the Heart 1995 Yoshifumi Kondo G -
928 Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion 1997 Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki NR -
929 Little Women 2019 Greta Gerwig PG -
952 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Peter Jackson R -
955 The Sandlot 1993 David Mickey Evans PG -
981 Boyz 'N the Hood 1991 John Singleton R -
990 Call Me by Your Name 2017 Luca Guadagnino R -
993 Bottle Rocket 1996 Wes Anderson R -
997 Los olvidados 1950 Luis Buñuel NR -
1029 Kes 1969 Ken Loach PG -
1059 Y Tu Mamá También 2001 Alfonso Cuarón NR -
1080 A Bronx Tale 1993 Robert De Niro R -
1105 Sixteen Candles 1984 John Hughes PG -
1151 What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 Lasse Hallström PG13 -
1152 Real Genius 1985 Martha Coolidge PG -
1177 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 2006 Mamoru Hosoda NR -
1188 How Green Was My Valley 1941 John Ford NR -
1200 This Is England 2006 Shane Meadows NR -
1211 Mud 2012 Jeff Nichols PG13 -
1216 Diner 1982 Barry Levinson R -
1231 Persepolis 2007 Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi PG13 -
1234 Mysterious Skin 2004 Gregg Araki NC17 -
1236 Garden State 2004 Zach Braff R -
1264 Life of Pi 2012 Ang Lee PG13 -
1309 Radio Days 1987 Woody Allen PG -
1313 Mean Girls 2004 Mark Waters PG13 -
1376 If.... 1968 Lindsay Anderson NR -
1380 My Life as a Dog 1985 Lasse Hallström NR -
1392 Splendor in the Grass 1961 Elia Kazan NR -
1399 Blue Is the Warmest Color 2013 Abdellatif Kechiche NC17 -
1405 The Squid and the Whale 2005 Noah Baumbach R -
1437 Aparajito 1956 Satyajit Ray NR -
1465 The Outsiders 1983 Francis Ford Coppola PG -
1480 Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff R -
1496 Mr. Nobody 2009 Jaco van Dormael NR -
1522 Submarine 2010 Richard Ayoade R -
1555 The Holdovers 2023 Alexander Payne R -
1568 It 2017 Andy Muschietti R -
1596 Animal Kingdom 2010 David Michôd R -
1601 Super 8 2011 J.J. Abrams PG13 -
1602 Metropolitan 1990 Whit Stillman PG13 -
1606 An Education 2009 Lone Scherfig PG13 -
1621 Wonder Boys 2000 Curtis Hanson R -
1630 Booksmart 2019 Olivia Wilde R -
1640 Good Bye Lenin! 2003 Wolfgang Becker R -
1665 The World According to Garp 1982 George Roy Hill R -
1673 Napoleon Dynamite 2004 Jared Hess PG -
1682 Pump up the Volume 1990 Allan Moyle R -
1691 Risky Business 1983 Paul Brickman R -
1699 Eighth Grade 2018 Bo Burnham NR -
1724 The Way, Way Back 2013 Nat Faxon, Jim Rash PG13 -
1731 Welcome to the Dollhouse 1996 Todd Solondz R -
1756 Pretty in Pink 1986 Howard Deutch PG13 -
1775 The Edge of Seventeen 2016 Kelly Fremon Craig R -
1788 The Virgin Suicides 1999 Sofia Coppola R -

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