Best Coming Of Age Movies & TV Shows

Stranger Things: Tales from ’85

Welcome back to Hawkins in the stark winter of 1985, where the original characters must fight new monsters and unravel a paranormal mystery terrorizing their town.

Stars: Benjamin Plessala Braxton Quinney Brett Gipson Brooklyn Davey Norstedt Elisha Williams Jeremy Jordan Jolie Hoang-Rappaport Luca Diaz Odessa A'zion

Young Sheldon

The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.

Stars: Annie Potts Emily Osment Iain Armitage Jim Parsons Lance Barber Montana Jordan Raegan Revord Zoe Perry

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Returning for his fifth year at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of motivated students to defend themselves against the Dark Arts.

Run time: 138m Tagline: The rebellion begins. Release: 2007-07-08

Stars: Alan Rickman Daniel Radcliffe Emma Watson Gary Oldman Helena Bonham Carter Imelda Staunton Michael Gambon Ralph Fiennes Robbie Coltrane Rupert Grint

Euphoria

A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.

Stars: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Alexa Demie Chloe Cherry Eric Dane Hunter Schafer Jacob Elordi Martha Kelly Maude Apatow Sydney Sweeney Zendaya

Stranger Things

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

Stars: Caleb McLaughlin Charlie Heaton David Harbour Finn Wolfhard Gaten Matarazzo Joe Keery Millie Bobby Brown Natalia Dyer Sadie Sink Winona Ryder

The Summer I Turned Pretty

Every summer, Belly and her family head to the Fishers’ beach house in Cousins. Every summer is the same ... until Belly turns sixteen. Relationships will be tested, painful truths will be revealed, and Belly will be forever changed. It’s a summer of first love, first heartbreak and growing up — it's the summer she turns pretty.

Stars: Christopher Briney Gavin Casalegno Isabella Briggs Jackie Chung Kristen Connolly Lola Tung Rain Spencer Sean Kaufman

Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train

Tanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, boards the Infinity Train on a new mission with the Fire Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, to defeat a demon who has been tormenting the people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it!

Run time: 117m Tagline: With your blade, bring an end to the nightmare. Release: 2020-10-16

Stars: Akari Kito Hiro Shimono Katsuyuki Konishi Kenichi Suzumura Natsuki Hanae Saori Hayami Satoshi Hino Takahiro Sakurai Tomokazu Seki Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Descendants

A present-day idyllic kingdom where the benevolent teenage son of King Adam and Queen Belle offers a chance of redemption for the troublemaking offspring of Disney's classic villains: Cruella De Vil (Carlos), Maleficent (Mal), the Evil Queen (Evie) and Jafar (Jay).

Run time: 112m Tagline: They're not bad. They're just born that way. Release: 2015-07-31

Stars: Booboo Stewart Brenna D'Amico Cameron Boyce Dove Cameron Jedidiah Goodacre Melanie Paxson Mitchell Hope Sarah Jeffery Sofia Carson Zachary Gibson

Moana

In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain's daughter's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the demigod to set things right.

Run time: 107m Tagline: The ocean is calling. Release: 2016-10-13

Stars: Alan Tudyk Auliʻi Cravalho Dwayne Johnson Jemaine Clement Louise Bush Nicole Scherzinger Oscar Kightley Rachel House Temuera Morrison Troy Polamalu

Bluey

Bluey is an inexhaustible six year-old Blue Heeler dog, who loves to play and turns everyday family life into extraordinary adventures, developing her imagination as well as her mental, physical and emotional resilience.

Stars: Dave McCormack Melanie Zanetti

Ms. Marvel

A great student, avid gamer, and voracious fan-fic scribe, Kamala Khan has a special affinity for superheroes, particularly Captain Marvel. However, she struggles to fit in at home and at school — that is, until she gets superpowers like the heroes she’s always looked up to. Life is easier with superpowers, right?

Stars: Iman Vellani Matt Lintz Mohan Kapur Rish Shah Saagar Shaikh Yasmeen Fletcher Zenobia Shroff

The Virgin of the Quarry Lake

One hot summer at the beginning of the new millennium and on the eve of the great economic crisis of the year 2001, a group of adolescent girls falls madly in love with a boy called Diego. The romance is interrupted when Diego starts hanging out with Silvia, a 30-year-old woman he met in a chat room. Then Natalia, one of the teenagers, decides to turn to the knowledge of her grandmother Rita, and thus ward off the disappointment by using an ancient dark power.

Run time: 95m Release: 2026-01-15

Stars: Agustín Sosa Candela Flores Dady Brieva Dolores Oliverio Fernanda Echevarría del Rivero Isabel Bracamonte Luisa Merelas Víctor López