Tag: coming of age

  • The Long Walk

    A group of teenage boys compete in an annual contest known as “The Long Walk,” where they must maintain a certain walking speed or get shot.

  • June and John

    John leads an ordinary life with a monotonous routine. One day John runs into a woman on the subway who is as beautiful as she is mysterious named June. His encounter with her finally leads him to have a goal in his bumptious life.

  • How to Tame a Silver Fox

    Harper Reeves is just trying to finish up her senior year of Yale without being a completely friendless loser. However, when her party’s suddenly crashed by her dad’s best friend and mysterious business partner, Chris Collins, she realizes she’d much rather have been busted by the cops. Chris, always in over-protective mode, gets on Harper’s nerves, until she realizes he needs to go. Together with her best friend Maria, she brainstorms Operation Seduction, planning to get Chris to fall in love with her so her dad will kick him out himself. But every time Chris saves Harper from trouble, she gets closer to realizing she may have feelings for him after all.

  • Flat Girls

    Two teen girls grapple with the realities of love, friendship and burgeoning adulthood when one of them has to leave the home where they both grew up.

  • The Unbreakable Boy

    When Scott and Teresa LeRette learn that their son Austin is both autistic and has brittle bone disease, they initially worry for their son’s future. But with Scott’s growing faith and Austin’s incredible spirit, they become ‘unbreakable’, finding joy, gratitude, and courage even in the most trying times.

  • Tokyo Serendipity

    Yui, a college student, moves in to her first own apartment, where she begins her new independent life in a big city. Soon after, the upstairs neighbor Takashi sparks her interest.

  • Wild Chicks in Love

    Five teenage girls navigate the twists and turns of their complicated emotional lives, and learn the secrets of the heart through their friendship.

  • Water Lilies

    Set during a sultry summer in a French suburb, Marie is desperate to join the local pool’s synchronized swimming team, but is her interest solely for the sake of sport or for a chance to get close to Floriane, the bad girl of the team? Sciamma, and the two leads, capture the uncertainty of teenage sexuality with a sympathetic eye in this delicate drama of the angst of coming-of-age.

  • Persepolis

    In 1970s Iran, Marjane ‘Marji’ Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah’s defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.

  • My Brother Is an Only Child

    Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents’ chagrin. After the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite, but his flimsy beliefs are put to test when he falls for Manrico’s like-minded girlfriend.