Tree of Knowledge

1981

Danish

7.2

♡ 2

Nils Malmros Director

Line Arlien-Søborg as Anne-Mette / student

Eva Gram Schjoldager as Elin / student

Erno Müller as Hr. Særlang

Jan Johansen as Niels / student

As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.

Blue

2002

Japanese

6.6

♡ 6

Hiroshi Ando Director

Mikako Ichikawa as Kayako Kirishima

Manami Konishi as Masami Endo

Jun Murakami as Older guy

Kenzô Kawarasaki as Teacher of world history

An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small seaside town in Japan.

Spud 3: Learning to Fly

2014

English

5.7

♡ 16

56%

John Barker Director

Alex McGregor as Christine

Sven Ruygrok as Rambo

Troye Sivan as Spud

John Cleese as The Guv

As Spud Milton continues his awkward stagger through adolescence, he learns one of life's most important lessons: When dealing with women and cretins, nothing is ever quite as it seems. "I'm practically a man in most areas," writes Spud confidently on his sixteenth birthday. The year is 1992 and, in South Africa, radical change is in the air. The country may be on the bumpy road to an uncertain future, but Spud Milton is hoping for a smooth ride as he returns to boarding school as a senior. Instead, he discovers that his vindictive arch enemy is back to taunt him and that a garrulous Malawian has taken residence in his dormitory, along with the regular inmates and misfits he calls friends. Spud's world has never seemed less certain; he attempts to master Shakespeare, wrestles constantly with his God, and the power of negative thinking, and develops an aversion to fried fish after a shocking discovery about his grandmother, Wombat.

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

2008

English

6.3

♡ 9

73%

71%

Action

adolescence

based on novel or book

parent child relationship

puberty

Romance

Gurinder Chadha Director

Georgia Groome as Georgia Nicolson

Eleanor Tomlinson as Jas

Ingrid Oliver as Miss Stamp

Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Robbie

Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around her hilarious journal entries, prepare to be engulfed in the world of the soaring joys and bottomless angst of being a teenager.

The Hole in the Fence

2021

Spanish

6.2

96%

Joaquin del Paso Director

Carlos Morett as El Rata

Valeria Lamm as Jordi

Jacek Poniedzialek as Profesor Sztuhr

Joaquin del Paso as Secretario

As every year, the Los Pinos school, a prestigious school of the confessional type, sends its students on retreat to the countryside. Under the watchful eye of teachers and priests, the children are led on the path of their physical and moral development. Through the gaze of several middle and upper class teenagers, the film shows how their upbringing affects the future of society itself.

A Hard Day's Night

1964

English

7.5

♡ 35

98%

Richard Lester Director

David Langton as Actor

Aileen Lewis as Casino Patron

John Lennon as John

Charlotte Rampling as Nightclub Dancer

Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.

Boys Feels: Stand by Me

2022

English

5.6

♡ 4

Mathias Broe Director

Sebastian Bull Sarning as Anders

Zhi-Xuan Wu as Jia

Jonathan Høgsberg Bandier as Mads

Nils Verkooijen as Older Brother

During tender years, a companion can guide you through awkward moments when the heart rules the head, or be a partner in crime in the face of danger. Follow these young men through the highs and lows of early learning, when all around us is new, and peer pressure is at its most pervasive. The 6 short films are: It Was Dark [Il faisait noir] (2015); Suspendu (2015); Keep Going (2016); Headbutt (2017); Out of the Blue [Ud af det blå] (2016); Mars Colony (2020).

Antoine and Colette

1962

French

♡ 8

88%

parent child relationship

paris, france

Romance

François Truffaut Director

Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel

Marie-France Pisier as Colette

Rosy Varte as Colette's Mother

Patrick Auffay as René - best friend

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

School Life

2019

French

6.5

♡ 5

100%

teacher student relationship

Mehdi Idir Director

Soufiane Guerrab as Messaoud

Aylam Orian as Messaoud

Christopher W. Jones as Redouane

Zita Hanrot as Samia Zibra

In one of the poorest areas of Paris, a school counselor devotes herself to working with disadvantaged students, while facing challenges of her own.

Ninjababy

2021

Norwegian

7.2

♡ 2

100%

based on novel or book

Yngvild Sve Flikke Director

Evelyn Rasmussen Osazuwa as Doctor

Ingar Steen as Metal-Henning

Herman Tømmeraas as Ninjababy

Espen Leite as Stian

When Rakel finds out she's six months pregnant after a one-night stand, her world changes. She is absolutely not ready to be a mother, but since abortion is no longer an option, adoption is the only answer. That's when Ninjababy, an animated character who makes Rakel's life a living hell, turns up.

Summering

2022

English

4.5

♡ 7

34%

James Ponsoldt Director

Madalen Mills as Dina

Ashley Madekwe as Joy

Lake Bell as Laura

Megan Mullally as Stacie

Four best friends, on the brink of starting middle school, realize their lives are about to change forever. So on the last weekend of summer, they set out to make the most of it. Nothing could prepare them, though, for the startling discovery they make while revisiting one of their favorite haunts.

Come on Children

1973

English

6.7

50%

Allan King Director

Alex Lifeson as Self

Noreen McCallum as Self

JoAnne Lye as Self

Lesley Henry as Self

Five boys and five girls ages 13 to 19 live on a farm for ten weeks, to be filmed, and to see what might emerge for each of them personally.

I Am a Girl

2013

English

6.7

♡ 1

75%

Rebecca Barry Director

Breani Saintonge as Breani Habiba

Habiba as Self - Girl from Cameroon

Six girls coming of age, ready to become something extraordinary.

Schoolgirls

2020

Spanish

6.4

♡ 4

90%

goya award for best film

puberty

Pilar Palomero Director

Natalia de Molina as Adela

Zoe Arnao as Brisa

Francesca Piñón as Madre Consuelo

Raffaella Carrà as Self

In early 1990s Spain, eleven-year-old Celia lives with her mother and studies at a convent school in Zaragoza. When Brisa, a confident new classmate from Barcelona, arrives, Celia is drawn into a world that challenges the strict religious teachings and sheltered life she has known. Their friendship pushes her to confront hidden truths at home and the uncertainties of adolescence, leading her to explore questions of identity, independence, and belonging.

Duma

2005

English

7.1

♡ 4

95%

Carroll Ballard Director

Hope Davis as Kristin

Campbell Scott as Peter

Eamonn Walker as Ripkuna

André Stolz as Xan's Teacher

An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.

The Dark

2005

English

5.3

♡ 8

John Fawcett Director

Maria Bello as Adèlle

Maurice Roëves as Dafydd

Sean Bean as James

Mike Keggen as Rib Skipper

In an attempt to pull her family together, Adèlle travels with her young daughter Sarah to Wales to visit her father. The morning after they arrive, Sarah mysteriously vanishes in the ocean. Not long after, a little girl bearing a striking resemblance to their missing daughter reveals that she has retuned from the dead — and that Sarah has been taken to the Welsh underworld.

Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena

1999

Japanese

7.2

♡ 17

Kunihiko Ikuhara Director

Yuriko Fuchizaki as Anthy Himemiya

Satomi Kôrogi as Shadow Girl F-Ko

Takehito Koyasu as Touga Kiryuu

Tomoko Kawakami as Utena Tenjou

In a loose retelling of the Revolutionary Girl Utena TV series, Utena Tenjou arrives at Ohtori Academy, only to be immediately swept up in a series of duels for the hand of her classmate Anthy Himemiya and the power she supposedly holds. At the same time, Utena reunites with Touga Kiryuu, a friend from her childhood who seems to know the secrets behind the duels. Utena must discover those secrets for herself, before the power that rules Ohtori claims her and her friends, new and old.

Just One of the Guys

1985

English

6.5

♡ 32

57%

Lisa Gottlieb Director

William Zabka as Greg Tolan

Robert Fieldsteel as Phil

Sherilyn Fenn as Sandy

Arye Gross as Willie

When Terry Griffith loses her high school's writing competition, she's convinced that it's because she's a girl. So Terry decides to change high schools and pose as a boy to prove her point. Her brother, Buddy, helps her pass as a guy so well that she is soon making friends with the boys at school, including the attractive Rick, who becomes her new best friend. But her gender-swapping makes things difficult when she falls in love with him.

The Tribe

2014

Ukrainian

7.0

♡ 65

87%

Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi Director

Yana Novikova as Anya

Oleksandr Dsiadevych as Gera

Hryhoriy Fesenko as Sergei

Rosa Babiy as Svetka

Deaf-mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for the deaf. In navigating through the school's hierarchy, he encounters a corrupt underbelly of criminality, known as The Tribe. By participating in several robberies, he gets propelled higher into the organization, when he meets one of the Chief’s concubines Anya, and unwittingly breaks all the unwritten rules of the group."