The best coming of age films
'Stand By Me prepared me for reality': readers' favourite coming of age films
From Stand By Me to Mean Girls – your responses to our series celebrating the greatest teen films ever
How the coming-of-age film came of age with Boyhood
Its portrait of a young man is gripping – but the heart of the film is assigned to Patricia Arquette’s long-suffering mother
Carrie: the film that captured the true horror of being a teenager
Some coming-of-age films may feature happy endings, but Brian De Palma’s film depicts a bloody world of shame and unwanted power
Fetch happens: why Mean Girls is the perfect teen movie
Tina Fey’s gag-filled wheeze is not enamoured with the internal politics of high school, but proves that everyone sucks the same
She’s Gotta Have It: why Spike Lee's sex-positive debut is a coming-of-age classic
The radical film was closer to French new wave than anything that had passed as ‘black’ cinema before – and it still resonates today
'When you grow up your heart dies': how the coming-of-age film got smart
