Phoenix's work encompassed 24 films and television appearances, including the science fiction adventure film Explorers, the coming-of-age film Stand By Me, the action sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and the independent adult drama My Own Private Idaho.

In 2011, Lerman signed to star in The Only Living Boy in New York, an independent film written by Allan Loeb, and to be directed by Marc Webb ; the story is a coming-of-age drama in which Lerman's character's father has an affair.

Sam's Son was a 1984 coming-of-age feature film written and directed by Landon and loosely based on his early life.

In January 2012, Probst was announced as director of his second feature film, coming-of-age story Kiss Me, starring John Corbett and Sarah Bolger, with production scheduled to begin in Los Angeles, California, the following month.

His first feature film was Airborne, a coming-of-age story involving teenage rollerbladers.

In 2010, Ayoade released his debut directorial feature, Submarine, a coming-of-age comedy-drama film adapted from the 2008 novel of the same name by Joe Dunthorne.

The genre translates fairly directly into cinematic form, the coming-of-age film.

Howard played Steve Bolander in George Lucas's coming-of-age film American Graffiti in 1973.

In 1981, Scott appeared alongside Timothy Hutton and rising stars Sean Penn and Tom Cruise in the coming-of-age film Taps.

Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen, who adapted the comic Garfield into a similar-style live-action / CG hybrid family film, will pen the script for the coming-of-age story which is set in the present day.

The film is " a 1970 coming-of-age story set in the shadow of Kent State.

* Stephen Chbosky, novelist, screenwriter, and film director best known for the coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower

* Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman ( 2009 ): a " stylized and lyrical coming-of-age " short film combining narrative and documentary elements directed by Matthew Mishory depicting Jarman's " artistic, sexual, and political awakening in postwar England ".

Baby Boy is a 2001 American coming-of-age urban drama film written, produced, and directed by John Singleton.

He appeared in diverse roles, making his first notable appearance in the 1986 film Stand by Me, a hugely popular coming-of-age film based on a novella by Stephen King.

The film is a coming-of-age story about two teenage boys taking a road trip with a woman in her late 20s ; it stars Mexican actors Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal and Spanish actress Maribel Verdú in the leading roles.

After Casper, she starred in Now and Then, a coming-of-age film about four 12-year-old girls and their friendship during the 1970s to the 1990s.

Similar stories told in film are called coming-of-age films.

Amarcord is a 1973 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale about Titta, an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the village of Borgo San Giuliano ( situated near the ancient walls of Rimini ) in 1930s Fascist Italy.

Thomas received his first major film roles, appearing in Winning ( 1969 ) with Paul Newman, about auto racing, and Last Summer ( also 1969 ) with Barbara Hershey, a summer coming-of-age movie.

After honing his skills as a stand-up comic in New York City, he had a breakout film role in 1982 when he appeared in Diner, a coming-of-age film by Barry Levinson.

* Dummy ( 2009 film ), a 2009 coming-of-age drama starring Emma Catherwood

* All I Want ( film ), a 2002 coming-of-age dramedy

* The Tollbooth, a 2004 coming-of-age film

Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American coming-of-age teen comedy film written by Cameron Crowe and adapted from his 1981 book of the same name.

As such the film reflects many tendencies of first-time filmmaking in France ( which makes up around 40 % of all French cinema each year ), notably in its focus on very intimate rites-of-passage, and quite ambivalently recounted coming-of-age moments.

The 1901 coming-of-age historical fiction novel " The Bears of Blue River " by Indianapolis's Charles Major is set in present-day Shelbyville and according to Major's descriptions in the text occurred near the now-aptly named Bear Chase Golf Club.

The 2007 coming-of-age romance movie Greetings from the Shore was set and shot in Lavallette.

Old Enough is an earnest take on the coming-of-age story, set in New York City.

The narrative is a coming-of-age story, set against the backdrop of World War II.

No Crystal Stair is a coming-of-age story set in the Little Burgundy district of Montreal during the 1940s.

The story is a coming-of-age tale set during the early 1980s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Like its predecessor, All the Pretty Horses, it is a coming-of-age novel set on the border between the southwest United States and Mexico.

Marino wrote the screenplay for Diggers ( 2007 ), a coming-of-age film set in mid-1970s Long Island, as well as and co-writing / producing The Ten and Role Models with David Wain.

There are also similarities between Summer of ' 42 and 2000's Malèna, another coming-of-age film set in the context of World War II, and starring Monica Bellucci and Giuseppe Sulfaro.

In many ways atypical of director Miike's work, Sabu is a coming-of-age period drama set in the Edo period involving a friendship between two boys.

Noriega came to prominence as a teenager, starring in teen-oriented coming-of-age telenovelas in the late 1980s.

In the New York City of his youth in the late 1930s to a rooftop overlooking Times Square on New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with his remembrances and anecdotes, inserting his memories of urban legends of the radio stars, and is told in constantly changing plot points and vignettes.

Rita Mae Brown wrote and published her path-breaking lesbian coming-of-age novel Rubyfruit Jungle while on the staff in the 1970s.

It amalgamated scenes from another early 1970s coming-of-age film, American Graffiti ( both acknowledged in the DVD commentary for the episode ).

It follows the coming-of-age of two children, Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, as they wander through a series of parallel universes against a backdrop of epic events.

Empire Records is a 1995 American coming-of-age film that follows a group of record store employees over the course of one exceptional day.