Growing Up is Hard to Do

By: Jon

These are the films that, to me, best exemplify the myriad pains, triumphs, frustrations, eccentricities, joys, and confusions of what it’s like to go through perhaps the biggest personal transition in one’s life: growing up.

• 01
  Thumbsucker
  Mike Mills
• 02
  Where the Wild Things Are
  Spike Jonze
• 03
  The 400 Blows
  François Truffaut
• 04
  Let the Right One In
  Tomas Alfredson
• 05
  My Life as a Dog
  Lasse Hallström
• 06
  Murmur of the Heart
  Louis Malle
• 07
  Kes
  Ken Loach
• 08
  Breaking Away
  Peter Yates
• 09
  I Was Born, But...
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 10
  Toy Story 3
  Lee Unkrich
• 11
  Stand by Me
  Rob Reiner
• 12
  Au revoir les enfants
  Louis Malle
• 13
  The Last Picture Show
  Peter Bogdanovich
• 14
  I vitelloni
  Federico Fellini
• 15
  Forbidden Games
  René Clément
• 16
  The Children Are Watching Us
  Vittorio De Sica
• 17
  The Graduate
  Mike Nichols
• 18
  C.R.A.Z.Y.
  Jean-Marc Vallée
• 19
  The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  Stephen Chbosky
• 20
  Rebel Without a Cause
  Nicholas Ray
• 21
  Where Is the Friend's Home?
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 22
  Moonrise Kingdom
  Wes Anderson
• 23
  Il posto
  Ermanno Olmi
• 24
  Shoeshine
  Vittorio De Sica