Left to their own devices by their absent mother, Laura and her two sisters revel in the excitement of freedom, letting their days unfold without the constraints of adult supervision. However, when Laura receives a call that threatens to place them in foster care, she frantically searches for a substitute mother to avoid this fate.

Don't Grow Up

2015

English

4.6

♡ 14

30%

Thierry Poiraud Director

Maykol Hernandez as Antoine

Fergus Riordan as Bastian

Victor Solé as Bastian's Father

Sol de la Barreda as Bastian's Mother

Teenage delinquents who are living in an island youth center wake up to find themselves alone with no one to watch over them. After much partying, they realize the island has been deserted and the adults have been infected by a mysterious epidemic.

The Last Tree

2019

English

6.5

♡ 11

98%

Shola Amoo Director

Layo-Christina Akinlude as Bimpe

Denise Black as Mary

Nicholas Pinnock as Mr. Williams

Gbemisola Ikumelo as Yinka

Femi is a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after being fostered in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner-city London to live with his birth mother. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to figure out which path to adulthood he wants to take.

A Trip to the Moon

2017

Spanish

5.7

♡ 10

44%

Joaquín Cambre Director

Germán Palacios as

Luis Machín as

Tiziano Duarte as Coco

Julián Ponce as novio de Juliana

At fourteen years of age, Tomás is entering adolescence, that time in your life in which not only do you have to face physical and emotional changes, but in which there are also memories that start taking more traumatic forms. That is why he continuously visits a psychiatrist, why he acts a bit weird. He is a bit of a hermit, bearing, as much as he can, the extreme normalcy of his family, who are dying for summer to arrive so they can go to a time share at the beach, while Tomás wants to escape… to the moon.

Transhood

2020

English

5.6

♡ 3

86%

Sharon Liese Director

Marci Bowers as Self

Avery Jackson as Self

Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this documentary follows four transgender kids – beginning at ages 4, 7, 12, and 15 – as they redefine “coming of age.” These kids and their families show us the intimate realities of how gender is re-shaping the family next door in a unique and unprecedented chronicle of growing up transgender in the heartland.

Rites of Passage

2013

English

6.6

♡ 1

Gemma Parsons Director

Chaise Barbaric as Chaise

Skie Carlson as Skie

Taylor Mason as Student in Poetry Class Story who Does First Poem in Drama Class

Tiran Dingle as Thief

Made with a message of hope, Rites of Passage is a raw, uncensored and honest film inspired by the life experiences of the young people involved in the making of this powerful feature-length drama. Six interwoven stories show these teenagers negotiating the dangers and discoveries of their age and because the cast were also the crew what emerges is a self portrait of resilient kids responding to the challenges surrounding them. They might live in public housing and come from families that have seen disadvantage and hardship. But with frankness and courage, these young people have dipped below the surface of their often tough exteriors to reveal what’s going on inside their lives.

Dom Hemingway

2013

English

6.1

♡ 25

58%

Richard Shepard Director

Jude Law as Dom Hemingway

Emilia Clarke as Evelyn

Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Hugh

Kerry Condon as Melody

After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.

Grandview, U.S.A.

1984

English

5.5

♡ 7

38%

parent child relationship

revenge

small town

Randal Kleiser Director

Jennifer Jason Leigh as Candy Webster

Robert Swan as Fire Chief

Joan Cusack as Mary

Jamie Lee Curtis as Michelle 'Mike' Cody

Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" Webster is one of the drivers in the derby whose wife is cheating on him and wants to later on be with Mike. Tim falls for Mike and a big love triangle is about to happen.

Celia

1989

English

6.8

♡ 4

85%

Ann Turner Director

John Arnold as Detective

William Zappa as Inspector John Burke

Deborra-Lee Furness as Miss Greenway

David Ashton as Pet Shop Owner

In 1950s Australia, young Celia is growing up with a sense of isolation and mistrust of the world that surrounds her. Her mother and father won't let her play with the kids next door because their parents are communists. Then her pet bunny is taken away because of rabbit overpopulation. And, more traumatizing yet, when her grandmother dies, she's the one to discover the corpse. To cope, she retreats into elaborate fantasies.

Natural Disasters

2020

English

4.8

♡ 3

los angeles, california

waitress

Dakota Gorman Director

James Hyde as Andrew

Natalee Linez as Casey

Graham Outerbridge as Daniel

Sterling Sulieman as Jared

Three friends in their mid-20s struggle to navigate their professional and personal lives, colliding head on with the messy, hilarious and dreadful growing pangs of adulthood.

Beauty and the Beast

1983

Danish

7.0

♡ 1

Nils Malmros Director

Carsten Jørgensen as Jønne / Father

Michael Nørgaard as Jønnes ven / Jønne's friend

Ib Tardini as Mand udenfor en bar

Svend Schmidt-Nielsen as (uncredited)

When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays, he starts feeling increasingly rejected and jealous, as his adolescent daughter starts looking for real beaus.

Wadjda

2012

Arabic

7.5

♡ 28

99%

Haifaa Al-Mansour Director

Abdullrahman Al Gohani as Abdullah

Reem Abdullah as Mother Ahd

Ahd as Ms. Hussa

Waad Mohammed as Wadjda

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Quran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

Small Deaths

1996

English

6.7

♡ 1

59%

Lynne Ramsay Director

Billy Fitzpatrick as Boy

Andrew Rae as Boy

Steven O'Rourke as Boy / Boy In Kitchen

Danny Hamilton as Boyfriend

Based on personal memories and experiences of childhood, set in and around a Glasgow housing scheme. A triptych of moments of reflection and loss in one girl's childhood and adolescence.

Almost Adults

2016

English

5.6

♡ 10

80%

Sarah Rotella Director

Rose Lagacé as Background Performer

Alys Crocker as Elliot's New Girlfriend

Stephanie D'Abruzzo as Hairdresser

Elise Bauman as Mackenzie

A film about growing apart when growing up. Two best friends relationship strains when one deals with her newfound sexuality and the other with breaking up with her long term boyfriend.

The Brave Little Toaster

1987

English

7.2

♡ 11

79%

inanimate objects coming to life

musical

Musical

toaster

Jerry Rees Director

Danny Mann as Taxi Car / Washing Machine / Flashlight

Bill Farmer as Various

Billy Idol as Various

Pat Fraley as Various

A group of dated appliances, finding themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to seek out their eight year old 'master'.

Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat

2002

English

5.4

♡ 10

38%

David Raynr Director

Nancy O'Dell as Entertainment Insider Anchor #1

Paul Keeley as Fine Print Anchor #1

Martin Lawrence as Himself

Kevin Carter as TV Newscaster

The controversial bad-boy of comedy delivers a piercing look at his life, lifting the metaphorical smokescreen that he feels has clouded the public view, commenting on everything from the dangers of smoking to the trials of relationships, and unleashing a nonstop litany of raucous anecdotes, stinging social commentary and very personal reflections about life.

Sophie Jones

2020

English

5.3

♡ 8

100%

Jessie Barr Director

Claire Manning as Claire

Katie Prentiss as Denise Elle

Elle as Lily

Jessica Barr as Sophie Jones

Inspired by true experiences of grief, girlhood, and growing up, Jessie Barr’s SOPHIE JONES provides a stirring portrait of a sixteen-year-old. Stunned by the untimely death of her mother and struggling with the myriad challenges of teendom, Sophie (played with striking immediacy by the director’s cousin Jessica Barr) tries everything she can to feel something again, while holding herself together, in this sensitive, acutely realized, and utterly relatable coming-of-age story.

Oliverio y la piscina

2021

Spanish

6.0

♡ 2

Arcadi Palerm-Artis Director

Gabriela S. Estrada Hernández as Margarita

Camila Calónico as Marianita

Daniela Morales Pérez as Marta

Viridiana Olvera as Woman with Binoculars

When something unexpected happens in Oliverio’s family, all he wants to do is walk away. He settles on a deckchair by the pool and decides there is no reason to move. Life swirls around him, revealing secrets and presenting new challenges. Through moments of death, excrement and basic physics, Oliverio learns that some truths cannot be ignored.

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.

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Don't Grow Up

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A Trip to the Moon

Transhood

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Dom Hemingway

Grandview, U.S.A.

Celia

Natural Disasters

Beauty and the Beast

Wadjda

Small Deaths

Almost Adults

The Brave Little Toaster

Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat

Sophie Jones

Oliverio y la piscina

Summering