Here we've displayed a list of the best Growing Up films : A Lion in the House(2006), Song of the Road(1955), The Lion King(1994), Terminator 2: Judgment Day(1991), The World of Apu(1959), The Best of Youth(2002), Coco(2017), Once Upon a Time in America(1984), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse(2018), Aparajito(1956), A Peck on the Cheek(2002), Incendies(2010) ... ...
Documentary
USA
2006
229 Minutes
son daughter mother father patient doctor emotional inspiring hospital household cincinnati cancer childhood family illness medicine growing up quest discovery 2000s
Five families struggle with the ups and downs of cancer treatment over the course of six years.
Drama
India
1955
126 Minutes
Kanu Bandyopadhyay Karuna Bannerjee Subir Bannerjee Uma Das Gupta Chunibala Devi Runki Banerjee Reba Devi Aparna Devi Haren Banerjee Tulsi Chakraborty Nibhanoni Devi
priest mother aunt daughter son bleak emotional moving small town bengal poverty abuse growing up sacrifice 1920s
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
Musical, Animation, Kids & Family, Adventure
USA
1994
87 Minutes
Rob Minkoff Sally Dworsky
lion meerkat king prince uncle warthog heartwarming emotional serengeti africa friendship royalty murder justice quest sacrifice growing up prehistoric
Lion prince Simba and his father are targeted by his bitter uncle, who wants to ascend the throne himself.
Sci-Fi, Action
USA|France
1991
136 Minutes
Arnold Schwarzenegger Linda Hamilton Edward Furlong Robert Patrick Earl Boen Joe Morton S. Epatha Merkerson Castulo Guerra Danny Cooksey Jenette Goldstein Xander Berkeley
robot son mother police officer cyborg artificial intelligence gripping incredible rousing thrilling emotional los angeles desert highway on the run big city steel mill running away apocalypse robots
A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from a more advanced and powerful cyborg.
Drama
India
1959
103 Minutes
Alok Chakravarty Soumitra Chatterjee Sharmila Tagore Swapan Mukherjee
writer husband wife friend son emotional touching india calcutta, india marriage aspirations disillusionment grief growing up discovery love transformation 1950s
This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.
Drama
Italy
2002
358 Minutes
Luigi Lo Cascio Alessio Boni Adriana Asti Sonia Bergamasco Fabrizio Gifuni Maya Sansa Valentina Carnelutti Jasmine Trinca Andrea Tidona Lidia Vitale Camilla Filippi
doctor brother mental patient photographer wife mother mellow italy family home mental institution street library family politics class distinctions marriage social change activism growing up transformation
An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers, from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Music
USA
2017
109 Minutes
young boy musician idol dog ghost skeleton dreamy gripping spectacular powerful mexico city apartment villa mansion purgatory music idolization aspirations hope
Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.
Drama, Crime
Italy|USA
1984
139 Minutes
Robert De Niro James Woods Elizabeth McGovern Treat Williams Tuesday Weld Burt Young Joe Pesci Danny Aiello William Forsythe James Hayden Darlanne Fluegel
mafia boss bootlegger gang member police chief girlfriend mobster bleak intense gripping lower east side brooklyn, n.y. buffalo, n.y. street big city organized crime coming of age prohibition corruption america growth
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Comedy, Animation, Fantasy, Kids & Family, Action, Adventure
USA
2018
117 Minutes
Bob Persichetti
spider-man student superhero madman kingpin amusing charming cool intricate hilarious new york city apartment subway bodega park roof alternate reality spider-man super powers mysterious strangers
Teen Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his universe, and must join with five spider-powered individuals from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities.
Drama
India
1956
105 Minutes
Pinaki Sengupta Kanu Bandyopadhyay Karuna Bannerjee Ramani Sengupta Charuprakash Ghosh Smaran Ghosal Santi Gupta Ranibala Sudipta Roy Ajay Mitra Subodh Ganguli
young boy mother father widow sad moving india calcutta, india village mother/child relationship family death school loneliness loss growing up discovery 1950s
Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.
Drama
India
2002
135 Minutes
Madhavan Simran Prakash Raj Nandita Das P.S. Keerthana
adopted daughter young girl cousin writer mother parent raw emotional intense profound india sri lanka family home woods civil war adoption terrorism family search quest
A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her real mother, she begs to be taken to Sri Lanka, where her mother works with a militant group of activists.
Drama
Canada|France
2010
130 Minutes
Lubna Azabal Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin Maxim Gaudette Rémy Girard Allen Altman Mohamed Majd Baya Belal Abdelghafour Elaaziz Nabil Sawalha
mother sister father brother employer lawyer profound tense powerful gripping montreal notary office family home small town middle east family secrets self-discovery journey estrangement twins
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfill their mother's last wishes.
Drama
USA
1997
126 Minutes
Matt Damon Robin Williams Ben Affleck Minnie Driver Stellan Skarsgård Casey Affleck Cole Hauser Rachel Majorowski
genius professor therapist friend thug romantic interest cheeky emotional heartwarming boston massachusetts bar mit abuse aspirations college friendship growing up discovery rise
Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.
Documentary, Drama
USA
1994
174 Minutes
William Gates Arthur Agee Sheila Agee Isiah Thomas Bill Gleason
basketball player teenager mother father coach teacher uplifting powerful gutsy emotional chicago westchester, ill. basketball court family home basketball ambition high school racism class distinctions growing up
A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
1971
137 Minutes
Malcolm McDowell Patrick Magee Michael Bates Warren Clarke John Clive Adrienne Corri Carl Duering Paul Farrell Clive Francis Michael Gover Miriam Karlin
juvenile delinquents politician writer chaplain social worker brutal disturbing intense prison apartment countryside household hospital aimless youth violence retribution politics dystopia transformation growing up
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
Drama
Italy|France
1960
155 Minutes
Alain Delon Renato Salvatori Annie Girardot Katina Paxinou Roger Hanin Paolo Stoppa Suzy Delair Claudia Cardinale Spiros Focas Max Cartier Rocco Vidolazzi
widow son boxer wife prostitute student melodramatic moving sad italy train station milan tenement house church boxing ring city vs. country brother relationship poverty relocation infidelity
Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.
Documentary
USA
2002
72 Minutes
child parent activist soldier survivor sad inspiring germany eastern europe foster home holocaust nazism protection surrogacy family world war ii wretched excess growing up escape 2000s
Through interviews we meet some of the people who risked their lives to hide Jewish children during World War II and how this experience has continued to affect the survivors.
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
India
2013
164 Minutes
Mohanlal Meena Kalabhavan Shajon Siddique Roshan Basheer Irshad Kunchan Baiju V.K. Ansiba Hassan Esther Asha Sarath
cable installer operator wife daughter police officer husband gripping brutal intense incredible thrilling moving india village house police station bus station bus protection family relationships
A man goes to extreme lengths to save his family from punishment after the family commits an accidental crime.
Drama
Soviet Union
1985
142 Minutes
Aleksey Kravchenko Olga Mironova L. Lautsyavichius Vladas Bagdonas Evgeny Tilicheev Aleksandr Berda
son girl peasant nazi mother eerie dreamy disturbing byelorussia forest village war massacre escape dreams survival world war ii growing up metamorphosis transformation
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
USA
2010
102 Minutes
teenager child toy cowboy astronaut bear charming heartwarming thrilling household day-care center dump friendship loyalty deception betrayal abandonment escape growing up revenge
The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home.
Drama
India
2010
137 Minutes
Rajat Barmecha Ronit Roy Aayan Boradia Ram Kapoor Manjot Singh Anand Tiwari
student half brother father uncle emotional moving charming india college bar house hospital dysfunctional family brotherhood dream vs. reality child abuse drinking growing up 2010s
Expelled from his school, a 16-year old boy returns home to his abusive and oppressive father.
Drama
USA
1962
129 Minutes
Gregory Peck Mary Badham Phillip Alford John Megna Brock Peters Robert Duvall Rosemary Murphy Paul Fix Collin Wilcox Paxton Alice Ghostley William Windom
young girl young boy lawyer neighbor defendant drunk emotional heartwarming moving small town alabama courtroom family home racism childhood class distinctions family growing up underdog 1930s
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.
Comedy, Drama
India
2006
160 Minutes
Aamir Khan Soha Ali Khan Alice Patten Sharman Joshi Madhavan Atul Kulkarni
student actor filmmaker revolutionary police officer granddaughter patriotic playful passionate india college new delhi war memorial police brutality government repression filmmaking indian independence movement protest death growing up
The story of six young Indians who assist an English woman to film a documentary on the freedom fighters from their past, and the events that lead them to relive the long-forgotten saga of freedom.
Documentary
France
1994
103 Minutes
gypsy daughter family member dancing girl family patriarch mother fascinating dark moving uplifting gypsy settlement spain india caravan persecution nonconformity gypsy culture family honor traveling nomadic lifestyle
The journey of the Romany people told through musicians and dancers of India, Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and Spain.
Comedy
USA
1979
78 Minutes
richard pryor singer comedian audience cool hilarious fiery raw stage southern california sexual taboo race abuse family dysfunction drugs social change growing up temptation underdog 1970s
Richard Pryor's classic 1979 concert film has him discussing a wide range of topics, including race, the police and his favorite target -- himself.
Drama
UK
1969
60 Minutes
actor actress conservationist wife lion cub fascinating spectacular heartwarming kenya wildlife preserve research station wild animals lions captivity freedom reunion awareness sacrifice discovery
The true life sequel to the movie classic "Born Free". The actors from the film, Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, with the help of their friend, legendary conservationist George Adamson, ... See full summary »
Documentary
USA
2004
77 Minutes
author parent caretaker daughter muslim jew emotional fascinating powerful jerusalem patterson, n.j. new york city jordan italy religious differences cultural differences reunion family homecoming israeli-palestinian conflict
The Personal Story Of An Israeli's Quest To Find Her Palestinian Caregiver
Drama
Yugoslavia|Italy|UK
1989
136 Minutes
Davor Dujmovic Bora Todorovic Ljubica Adzovic Husnija Hasimovic Sinolicka Trpkova Zabit Memedov
teenager teen boy young man dreamer engaging endearing heartwarming emotional lighthearted coming-of-age dreams new life gypsy culture adventure discovery growing up mystery pursuit transformation
In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he loves.
Drama
India
1992
174 Minutes
Aamir Khan Mamik Kulbhushan Kharbanda Ayesha Jhulka Pooja Bedi Deepak Tijori
student rich kid college student brother athlete competitor engaging lighthearted heartwarming amusing playful college competition fighting winning bollywood sports adventure growing up pursuit
A rich brat and a poor chap try to woo a girl, with their rivalry culminating in the most prestigious college event - the marathon cycle race.
Fantasy, Adventure
UK
2011
131 Minutes
Daniel Radcliffe Rupert Grint Emma Watson Ralph Fiennes Alan Rickman Robbie Coltrane Helena Bonham Carter Jim Broadbent Gary Oldman Maggie Smith David Thewlis
wizard student headmaster teacher harry potter lord voldemort dark thrilling inspiring charming hogwarts england bank london countryside hideout showdown good versus evil friendship death
Harry, Ron, and Hermione search for Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes in their effort to destroy the Dark Lord as the final battle rages on at Hogwarts.