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Summer of '42
Summer of '42 (1971) is a coming-of-age romance directed by Robert Mulligan, written by Herman Raucher from his own wartime summer, starring Gary Grimes and Jennifer O'Neill, with an Oscar-winning Michel Legrand score.
Summer with Monika
Summer with Monika (Sommaren med Monika) is Ingmar Bergman's 1953 Swedish drama starring Harriet Andersson and Lars Ekborg, adapted from Per Anders Fogelström's novel, famous for Monika's direct look into the camera and its influence on the French New Wave.
The 400 Blows
The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups) is François Truffaut's 1959 debut feature about Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud; it won Best Director at Cannes 1959 and founded the French New Wave.
The Blue Lagoon (1980 film)
The Blue Lagoon (1980) is a Randal Kleiser romantic survival drama from Columbia Pictures starring Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins as shipwrecked cousins, adapted from Stacpoole's 1908 novel, filmed in Fiji, a 1980 box-office hit but critical failure.
The Elementary School
The Elementary School (Obecná škola), 1991 Czechoslovak comedy-drama, Jan Svěrák's directorial debut scripted by his father Zdeněk Svěrák; postwar Prague schoolboys, teacher Igor Hnízdo, 1992 Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Escape Artist
The Escape Artist (1982) is Caleb Deschanel's directorial debut, a Zoetrope Studios comedy-drama starring Griffin O'Neal as teenage magician Danny Masters, son of an escape artist second only to Houdini, with Raul Julia, Desi Arnaz, and Ricky Jay as magic advisor.
The Harmonium in My Memory (내 마음의 풍금)
The Harmonium in My Memory (내 마음의 풍금, Nae maeumui punggeum) is a 1999 Korean romantic drama, Lee Young-jae's debut, starring Lee Byung-hun, Jeon Do-yeon, and Lee Mi-yeon; set in 1962 Gangwon, adapted from Ha Geum-chan's 'Yeohaksaeng' and later a musical.
The House of the Angel
The House of the Angel (La casa del ángel) is a 1957 Argentine drama by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, adapted from Beatriz Guido's prize-winning 1954 novel, starring Elsa Daniel and Lautaro Murúa, a Cannes 1957 Palme d'Or nominee and landmark of modern Argentine cinema, restored in 4K for Cannes Classics 2026.
The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show is Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 black-and-white Columbia Pictures drama adapted from Larry McMurtry's 1966 novel, set in fictional Anarene, Texas, 1951-52; shot in Archer City, it earned eight Oscar nominations with wins for Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman.
The Long Day Closes
The Long Day Closes is Terence Davies's 1992 autobiographical British film about eleven-year-old Bud in 1955-56 Liverpool, a mosaic of memory, cinema, song, and Catholic guilt, nominated for the 1992 Palme d'Or.
The Making of Steel (长大成人)
The Making of Steel (长大成人) is Lu Xuechang's 1997 debut drama about Beijing youth Zhou Qing, his mentor Zhu Helai, and How the Steel Was Tempered; a Sixth Generation landmark released after three years of censorship.
The Mighty
The Mighty (1998) is a Peter Chelsom comedy-drama adapted from Rodman Philbrick's novel Freak the Mighty, starring Kieran Culkin, Elden Henson, Sharon Stone, and James Gandolfini, released by Miramax in October 1998.
The Outsiders (film)
The Outsiders (1983) is Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of S.E. Hinton's 1967 novel about Greasers versus Socs in 1960s Tulsa. Released March 25, 1983, 91 minutes, PG; re-cut in 2005 as The Complete Novel.
The River (1951 film)
The River (1951) is Jean Renoir's first color feature, a Technicolor coming-of-age drama adapted from Rumer Godden's novel, shot on the Hooghly River in Calcutta, winner of the 1951 Venice First International Prize.
The Sterile Cuckoo
The Sterile Cuckoo is a 1969 American comedy-drama, Alan J. Pakula's directorial debut, starring Liza Minnelli as eccentric college student Pookie Adams and earning two Oscar nominations.
The Tit and the Moon
The Tit and the Moon (La teta i la lluna) is a 1994 Spanish-French comedy-drama by Bigas Luna, third of his Iberian trilogy, about boy Tete asking the moon for a breast; it won Venice's Best Screenplay Osella d'Oro.
The Virgin Suicides (film)
The Virgin Suicides (1999) is Sofia Coppola's feature debut, adapted from Jeffrey Eugenides's 1993 novel about the Lisbon sisters in 1970s Michigan, starring Kirsten Dunst, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, and Josh Hartnett, with an Air score and Ed Lachman cinematography.
The Wanderers (1979 film)
The Wanderers (1979), Philip Kaufman's comedy-drama adapted from Richard Price's novel, follows an Italian-American Bronx gang in 1963; Ken Wahl, Karen Allen, Orion Pictures, cult classic.
The Wood
The Wood is a 1999 American comedy-drama directed by Rick Famuyiwa, about three lifelong friends in Inglewood, California, whose wedding-day crisis triggers flashbacks to their adolescence, starring Taye Diggs, Omar Epps, and Richard T. Jones.
The Year My Voice Broke
The Year My Voice Broke is John Duigan's 1987 Australian coming-of-age drama, produced by Kennedy Miller, starring Noah Taylor, Loene Carmen, and Ben Mendelsohn; set in 1962 rural NSW, it won five AFI Awards and spawned the sequel Flirting.
The Young Stranger
The Young Stranger is a 1957 American black-and-white drama, John Frankenheimer's first theatrical feature, adapted from his CBS Climax! teleplay "Deal a Blow". James MacArthur plays a producer's son arrested after a theater fight whom neither police nor father believe.
Third Man on the Mountain
Third Man on the Mountain is a 1959 Walt Disney family adventure film directed by Ken Annakin, adapted from James Ramsey Ullman's novel Banner in the Sky, about Rudi Matt climbing the Matterhorn-like Citadel; it inspired Disneyland's Matterhorn Bobsleds.
Thrashin'
Thrashin' is a 1986 American skateboard drama directed by David Winters, starring Josh Brolin, Robert Rusler, and Pamela Gidley, about rival L.A. skate gangs and the dangerous L.A. Massacre downhill race.
Time of the Gypsies
Time of the Gypsies (Dom za vešanje) is a 1988 Yugoslav-British-Italian drama by Emir Kusturica, the first feature filmed entirely in Romani, about teen Perhan drawn into child trafficking; it won Cannes 1989 Best Director.
Times Square (1980 film)
Times Square (1980) is an American drama directed by Allan Moyle, starring Tim Curry, Trini Alvarado, and Robin Johnson as runaway girls who form the punk duo the Sleaze Sisters; an RSO box-office failure turned lesbian cult classic.
Totally F***ed Up
Totally F*ed Up (1993) is Gregg Araki's indie comedy-drama, first of the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, following six queer Los Angeles teens across fifteen episodes; homage to Godard's Masculin féminin, distributed by Strand Releasing.
Typhoon Club (台風クラブ)
Typhoon Club (台風クラブ) is a 1985 Japanese youth drama by Shinji Sōmai: junior high students trapped in a Shinshu school during a typhoon. Tokyo IFF Young Cinema Grand Prize; Kinema Junpo All-Time Best 100 No. 55.
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Welcome to the Dollhouse: 1995 Todd Solondz indie black comedy starring Heather Matarazzo as bullied seventh-grader Dawn Wiener; won the 1996 Sundance Grand Jury Prize, released by Sony Pictures Classics, later continued in Wiener-Dog.
West Beirut (بيروت الغربية)
West Beirut (بيروت الغربية; West Beyrouth, À l'abri les enfants) is Ziad Doueiri's 1998 semi-autobiographical debut film about three teenagers in divided Beirut at the start of the 1975 Lebanese Civil War; it won at Cannes and Toronto and was Lebanon's 1999 Oscar entry.
When Father Was Away on Business
When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na službenom putu) is Emir Kusturica's 1985 Yugoslav drama, written by Abdulah Sidran, about a boy told his imprisoned father is away on business; it won the 1985 Cannes Palme d'Or.