THEME EXPLORATION

coming-of-age

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS

Propeller One-Way Night Coach

Propeller One-Way Night Coach
2026 · John Travolta

Marie of the Port

Marie of the Port
1950 · Marcel Carné

Breezy
1973 · Clint Eastwood

I Could Never Be Your Woman

I Could Never Be Your Woman
2007 · Amy Heckerling

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
1973 · Alan J. Pakula

Love Lesson
2013 · Ko Kyeong-Ah

Flowers of Shanghai

Flowers of Shanghai
1998 · Hou Hsiao-hsien

Let the Right One In

Let the Right One In
2008 · Tomas Alfredson

Blue Is the Warmest Color

Blue Is the Warmest Color
2013 · Abdellatif Kechiche

Great Expectations

Great Expectations
1946 · David Lean

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
1951 · Douglas Sirk

A Brighter Summer Day

A Brighter Summer Day
1991 · Edward Yang

DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS

Catherine Breillat France · Bressuire

Surgical deconstruction of female desire through unapologetic bodily cinema and transgressive aesthetics.

Satyajit Ray British India [now India] · Calcutta

Cinema of quiet observation where meaning emerges from stillness and the unspoken weight of ordinary life.

Amy Heckerling USA

Sharp-edged comedies that satirize American social hierarchies through youthful, witty perspectives.