Why don't you grow up?

By: Catheri​ne Krummey

Coming-of-age films, ranked. (A work in progress.)

My favorite genre, thanks to John Hughes (in my childhood years), Cameron Crowe (high school) and Noah Baumbach (college and post-college).

• 01
  Reality Bites
  Ben Stiller
• 02
  Kicking and Screaming
  Noah Baumbach
• 03
  Almost Famous
  Cameron Crowe
• 04
  Harold and Maude
  Hal Ashby
• 05
  Shopgirl
  Anand Tucker
• 06
  High Fidelity
  Stephen Frears
• 07
  Rushmore
  Wes Anderson
• 08
  The Graduate
  Mike Nichols
• 09
  Amélie
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• 10
  Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  John Hughes
• 11
  Frances Ha
  Noah Baumbach
• 12
  American Beauty
  Sam Mendes
• 13
  Never Been Kissed
  Raja Gosnell
• 14
  Say Anything...
  Cameron Crowe
• 15
  Good Will Hunting
  Gus Van Sant
• 16
  Juno
  Jason Reitman
• 17
  Pretty in Pink
  Howard Deutch
• 18
  Mermaids
  Richard Benjamin
• 19
  Me Without You
  Sandra Goldbacher
• 20
  Splendor in the Grass
  Elia Kazan
• 21
  The Best of Youth (Part 1)
  Marco Tullio Giordana
• 22
  The Best of Youth (Part 2)
  Marco Tullio Giordana
• 23
  Garden State
  Zach Braff
• 24
  Marie Antoinette
  Sofia Coppola
• 25
  Metropolitan
  Whit Stillman
• 26
  What's Eating Gilbert Grape
  Lasse Hallström
• 27
  The Breakfast Club
  John Hughes
• 28
  Cinema Paradiso
  Giuseppe Tornatore
• 29
  The Motorcycle Diaries
  Walter Salles
• 30
  Submarine
  Richard Ayoade
• 31
  It's Kind of a Funny Story
  Anna Boden
• 32
  Stoker
  Park Chan-wook
• 33
  The Spectacular Now
  James Ponsoldt
• 34
  Bend It Like Beckham
  Gurinder Chadha
• 35
  The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  Stephen Chbosky
• 36
  One Day
  Lone Scherfig
• 37
  Restless
  Gus Van Sant
• 38
  The Go-Getter
  Martin Hynes
• 39
  Girl in Progress
  Patricia Riggen
• 40
  Goats
  Christopher Neil
• 41
  Cemetery Junction
  Ricky Gervais
• 42
  Flipped
  Rob Reiner
• 43
  Trust
  David Schwimmer
• 44
  I'm Reed Fish
  Zackary Adler