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The Tree of Life (film)
The Tree of Life is Terrence Malick's 2011 American drama starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain, following a 1950s Texas family alongside cosmic imagery; it won the 2011 Cannes Palme d'Or and runs 138 minutes.
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 Way, Way Back
The Way, Way Back is a 2013 American coming-of-age comedy-drama, the directorial debut of Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, starring Liam James, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, and Sam Rockwell; filmed at Water Wizz in Wareham, Massachusetts, it premiered at Sundance 2013 and grossed $21.4 million.
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 Parents Went on Vacation
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (O Ano em que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias) is a 2006 Brazilian drama by Cao Hamburger about 12-year-old Mauro, left by parents fleeing the 1970 military dictatorship, raised by a Jewish neighbor in São Paulo's Bom Retiro during Brazil's World Cup win.
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.
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble is a 2000 British comedy-drama-sport film directed by John Hay, starring Lewis McKenzie as a shy Manchester City fan whose confidence grows via supposedly magic football boots; it won the 2001 Berlin Crystal Bear.
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.
This Is England
This Is England (2006) is a British drama by Shane Meadows, semi-autobiographical, about 12-year-old Shaun and racist skinhead Combo in 1983; BAFTA and BIFA winner, later Channel 4 series '86, '88, '90.
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.
Tomboy (2011 film)
Tomboy (2011) is a French drama by Céline Sciamma, her second feature, in which ten-year-old Laure (Zoé Héran) passes as a boy named Michaël after a family move; it won the Berlin Teddy Jury Award and was re-edited by Sciamma in 2026.
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.
Twenty (스물) (film)
Twenty (스물, Seumool) is a 2015 South Korean coming-of-age comedy-drama by Lee Byeong-heon starring Kim Woo-bin, Lee Jun-ho, and Kang Ha-neul as three 20-year-old friends; it opened No. 1 in Korea with over 3 million admissions.
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.
Wadjda (وجدة)
Wadjda (وجدة), 2012 comedy-drama by Haifaa Al Mansour; first feature shot entirely in Saudi Arabia and first by a Saudi woman director; a Riyadh girl enters a Quran recitation contest to buy a green bicycle; Venice premiere, BAFTA-nominated.
Waiting for Happiness (等待幸福)
Waiting for Happiness (等待幸福), also titled Heremakono, is a 2002 drama film by Abderrahmane Sissako, a French-Mauritanian co-production that won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes.
Water Lilies (2007 film)
Water Lilies (Naissance des pieuvres) is Céline Sciamma's 2007 debut feature, a French drama about three teenage girls' first desires around a synchronized swimming team in Cergy; it premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard and won the 2007 Prix Louis-Delluc for first film.
We Are Little Zombies (WE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES)
We Are Little Zombies (WE ARE LITTLE ZOMBIES) is Makoto Nagahisa's 2019 Japanese feature debut: four 13-year-old orphans who cannot cry form a band at a crematorium. It won Sundance 2019's World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Originality and a Berlinale Generation special mention.
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.
Wildflower (2022 film)
Wildflower (2022) is Matt Smukler's feature-directorial-debut coming-of-age comedy-drama, starring Kiernan Shipka as Bea Johnson, a teen raised by intellectually disabled parents; based on his niece's story and his 2020 documentary, released March 2023.
Winds of September (九降风)
Winds of September (九降風) is Tom Lin Shu-yu's 2008 Taiwanese debut feature, a Hsinchu coming-of-age drama set in 1996 during the baseball match-fixing scandal; first of an Eric Tsang-produced Taiwan-Hong Kong-China trilogy, Golden Horse Best Original Screenplay winner.
Winter's Bone
Winter's Bone is a 2010 Debra Granik film adapted from Daniel Woodrell's 2006 Ozarks novel, starring Jennifer Lawrence as Ree Dolly, who searches for her missing father to save the family home; it won Sundance's Grand Jury Prize and earned two Oscar nominations.
Y tu mamá también
Y tu mamá también (And Your Mother Too) is a 2001 Mexican road movie by Alfonso Cuarón starring Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna, and Maribel Verdú, about two teenagers and an older woman traveling to the invented beach Boca del Cielo; Venice award winner and Oscar-nominated screenplay.
Yes, God, Yes
Yes, God, Yes: 2020 American coming-of-age comedy, Karen Maine's directorial debut, expanded from her 2017 short. Natalia Dyer plays Alice, a Catholic teen in early-2000s Iowa; SXSW 2019 premiere, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.