The Internet Movie Database has "coming of age" or "coming of age drama" as one of the keywords describing the films below.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Star Wars | 1977 | George Lucas | 4 |
| 2 | The Wizard of Oz | 1939 | Victor Fleming | 9 |
| 3 | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial | 1982 | Steven Spielberg | 27 |
| 4 | Back to the Future | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis | 30 |
| 5 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | 32 |
| 6 | A Clockwork Orange | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick | 36 |
| 7 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | 57 |
| 8 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | François Truffaut | 70 |
| 9 | The Graduate | 1967 | Mike Nichols | 73 |
| 10 | Pan's Labyrinth | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro | 82 |
| 11 | The Lion King | 1994 | Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff | 92 |
| 12 | Titanic | 1997 | James Cameron | 96 |
| 13 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles | 103 |
| 14 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Robert Mulligan | 109 |
| 15 | Up | 2009 | Pete Docter | 112 |
| 16 | Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | 136 |
| 17 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee | 140 |
| 18 | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray | 155 |
| 19 | Clueless | 1995 | Amy Heckerling | 156 |
| 20 | Once Upon a Time in America | 1984 | Sergio Leone | 157 |
| 21 | Carrie | 1976 | Brian De Palma | 159 |
| 22 | Toy Story 3 | 2010 | Lee Unkrich | 169 |
| 23 | Lost in Translation | 2003 | Sofia Coppola | 172 |
| 24 | The Iron Giant | 1999 | Brad Bird | 173 |
| 25 | Moonlight | 2016 | Barry Jenkins | 176 |
| 26 | Harold and Maude | 1971 | Hal Ashby | 185 |
| 27 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | 2018 | Bob Persichett, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman | 189 |
| 28 | Edward Scissorhands | 1990 | Tim Burton | 199 |
| 29 | American Beauty | 1999 | Sam Mendes | 218 |
| 30 | Pinocchio | 1940 | Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen | 224 |
| 31 | Rebel without a Cause | 1955 | Nicholas Ray | 252 |
| 32 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | 253 |
| 33 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | 1986 | John Hughes | 270 |
| 34 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | 275 |
| 35 | Inside Out | 2015 | Pete Docter | 276 |
| 36 | Ratatouille | 2007 | Brad Bird | 285 |
| 37 | Let the Right One in | 2008 | Tomas Alfredson | 290 |
| 38 | Dead Poets Society | 1989 | Peter Weir | 291 |
| 39 | The Last Picture Show | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich | 294 |
| 40 | Coco | 2017 | Lee Unkrich | 304 |
| 41 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | 2004 | Alfonso Cuarón | 305 |
| 42 | Stand by Me | 1986 | Rob Reiner | 307 |
| 43 | Boogie Nights | 1997 | Paul Thomas Anderson | 318 |
| 44 | Rushmore | 1998 | Wes Anderson | 330 |
| 45 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | 2001 | Chris Columbus | 333 |
| 46 | Persepolis | 2007 | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi | 334 |
| 47 | Good Will Hunting | 1997 | Gus Van Sant | 339 |
| 48 | Bambi | 1942 | David Hand | 342 |
| 49 | How to Train Your Dragon | 2010 | Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders | 347 |
| 50 | Grease | 1978 | Randal Kleiser | 355 |
| 51 | Call Me by Your Name | 2017 | Luca Guadagnino | 361 |
| 52 | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | 1971 | Mel Stuart | 364 |
| 53 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 | 2011 | David Yates | 375 |
| 54 | Dazed and Confused | 1993 | Richard Linklater | 379 |
| 55 | Batman Begins | 2005 | Christopher Nolan | 384 |
| 56 | The Spirit of the Beehive | 1973 | Víctor Erice | 390 |
| 57 | American Graffiti | 1973 | George Lucas | 395 |
| 58 | Slumdog Millionaire | 2008 | Danny Boyle | 403 |
| 59 | Lady Bird | 2017 | Greta Gerwig | 416 |
| 60 | The Breakfast Club | 1985 | John Hughes | 418 |
| 61 | Dirty Dancing | 1987 | Emile Ardolino | 423 |
| 62 | Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock | 425 |
| 63 | The Notebook | 2004 | Nick Cassavetes | 439 |
| 64 | Hate | 1995 | Mathieu Kassovitz | 442 |
| 65 | Spider-Man 2 | 2004 | Sam Raimi | 459 |
| 66 | Y tu mamá también | 2001 | Alfonso Cuarón | 462 |
| 67 | Juno | 2007 | Jason Reitman | 468 |
| 68 | Animal House | 1978 | John Landis | 489 |
| 69 | Almost Famous | 2000 | Cameron Crowe | 494 |
| 70 | Boyz N the Hood | 1991 | John Singleton | 497 |
| 71 | The Little Mermaid | 1989 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 505 |
| 72 | Big | 1988 | Penny Marshall | 515 |
| 73 | Spider-Man | 2002 | Sam Raimi | 516 |
| 74 | The Karate Kid | 1984 | John G. Avildsen | 521 |
| 75 | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | 2005 | Mike Newell | 534 |
| 76 | Boyhood | 2014 | Richard Linklater | 536 |
| 77 | A Separation | 2011 | Asghar Farhadi | 548 |
| 78 | 10 Things I Hate about You | 1999 | Gil Junger | 557 |
| 79 | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens | 2015 | J.J. Abrams | 565 |
| 80 | Kes | 1969 | Ken Loach | 576 |
| 81 | Late Spring | 1949 | Yasujirô Ozu | 593 |
| 82 | The Mirror | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 597 |
| 83 | Love & Basketball | 2000 | Gina Prince-Bythewood | 602 |
| 84 | Superbad | 2007 | Greg Mottola | 610 |
| 85 | Labyrinth | 1986 | Jim Henson | 611 |
| 86 | Say Anything… | 1989 | Cameron Crowe | 615 |
| 87 | A Christmas Story | 1983 | Bob Clark | 624 |
| 88 | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | 2007 | David Yates | 635 |
| 89 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | 1982 | Amy Heckerling | 640 |
| 90 | Wonder Woman | 2017 | Patty Jenkins | 643 |
| 91 | Babe | 1995 | Chris Noonan | 650 |
| 92 | Aparajito | 1956 | Satyajit Ray | 651 |
| 93 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | 2009 | David Yates | 653 |
| 94 | Breaking Away | 1979 | Peter Yates | 660 |
| 95 | Little Women | 2019 | Greta Gerwig | 661 |
| 96 | Boys Don't Cry | 1999 | Kimberly Peirce | 663 |
| 97 | Bend It Like Beckham | 2002 | Gurinder Chadha | 676 |
| 98 | The Virgin Suicides | 1999 | Sofia Coppola | 677 |
| 99 | Dead Man | 1995 | Jim Jarmusch | 679 |
| 100 | True Grit | 2010 | Ethan and Joel Coen | 685 |
| 101 | Scott Pilgrim vs. the World | 2010 | Edgar Wright | 691 |
| 102 | A Prophet | 2009 | Jacques Audiard | 692 |
| 103 | Gran Torino | 2008 | Clint Eastwood | 699 |
| 104 | Moana | 2016 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 702 |
| 105 | Blue Is the Warmest Color | 2013 | Abdellatif Kechiche | 708 |
| 106 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | 2010 | David Yates | 718 |
| 107 | My Own Private Idaho | 1991 | Gus Van Sant | 728 |
| 108 | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 2002 | Chris Columbus | 731 |
| 109 | Catch Me If You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | 733 |
| 110 | Kiki’s Delivery Service | 1989 | Hayao Miyazaki | 740 |
| 111 | Into the Wild | 2007 | Sean Penn | 749 |
| 112 | Moonrise Kingdom | 2012 | Wes Anderson | 757 |
| 113 | The Tree of Life | 2011 | Terrence Malick | 773 |
| 114 | Saturday Night Fever | 1977 | John Badham | 780 |
| 115 | Big Hero 6 | 2014 | Don Hall and Chris Williams | 804 |
| 116 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | 2008 | David Fincher | 824 |
| 117 | Sleeping Beauty | 1959 | Clyde Geronimi | 847 |
| 118 | If.... | 1968 | Lindsay Anderson | 850 |
| 119 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | 1975 | Peter Weir | 851 |
| 120 | Daisies | 1966 | Vera Chytilová | 859 |
| 121 | Captain America: Civil War | 2016 | Anthony and Joe Russo | 867 |
| 122 | Booksmart | 2019 | Olivia Wilde | 868 |
| 123 | The Devil's Backbone | 2001 | Guillermo del Toro | 873 |
| 124 | Empire of the Sun | 1987 | Steven Spielberg | 876 |
| 125 | How Green Was My Valley | 1941 | John Ford | 895 |
| 126 | The Jerk | 1979 | Carl Reiner | 899 |
| 127 | The Sandlot | 1993 | David Mickey Evans | 913 |
| 128 | Mulan | 1998 | Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook | 917 |
| 129 | Closely Watched Trains | 1966 | Jirí Menzel | 947 |
| 130 | Tangled | 2010 | Nathan Greno and Byron Howard | 952 |
| 131 | Ghost World | 2001 | Terry Zwigoff | 970 |
| 132 | Walkabout | 1971 | Nicolas Roeg | 981 |
| 133 | Creed | 2015 | Ryan Coogler | 985 |
| 134 | Pretty in Pink | 1986 | Howard Deutch | 986 |
| 135 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower | 2012 | Stephen Chbosky | 991 |
| 136 | Mary and Max | 2009 | Adam Elliot | 1019 |
| 137 | Ivan's Childhood | 1962 | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1025 |
| 138 | Hud | 1963 | Martin Ritt | 1037 |
| 139 | Dune | 2021 | Denis Villeneuve | 1062 |
| 140 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring | 2003 | Kim Ki-duk | 1064 |
| 141 | Kids | 1995 | Larry Clark | 1080 |
| 142 | Heavenly Creatures | 1994 | Peter Jackson | 1086 |
| 143 | Rudy | 1993 | David Anspaugh | 1096 |
| 144 | Gregory's Girl | 1980 | Bill Forsyth | 1131 |
| 145 | Back to the Future Part II | 1989 | Robert Zemeckis | 1133 |
| 146 | Baby Driver | 2017 | Edgar Wright | 1146 |
| 147 | The Tale of Princess Kaguya | 2013 | Isao Takahata | 1148 |
| 148 | Fish Tank | 2009 | Andrea Arnold | 1158 |
| 149 | Spider-Man: Homecoming | 2017 | Jon Watts | 1159 |
| 150 | Cape Fear | 1991 | Martin Scorsese | 1160 |
| 151 | Garden State | 2004 | Zach Braff | 1164 |
| 152 | Splendor in the Grass | 1961 | Elia Kazan | 1189 |
| 153 | Pariah | 2011 | Dee Rees | 1194 |
| 154 | American Pie | 1999 | Paul Weitz | 1196 |
| 155 | The Kids Are All Right | 2010 | Lisa Cholodenko | 1201 |
| 156 | But I'm a Cheerleader | 1999 | Jamie Babbit | 1208 |
| 157 | Billy Elliot | 2000 | Stephen Daldry | 1215 |
| 158 | Gigi | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli | 1218 |
| 159 | This Is England | 2006 | Shane Meadows | 1225 |
| 160 | The Shootist | 1976 | Don Siegel | 1226 |
| 161 | 21 Up | 1977 | Michael Apted | 1232 |
| 162 | Ordinary People | 1980 | Robert Redford | 1249 |
| 163 | Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire | 2009 | Lee Daniels | 1251 |
| 164 | The Outsiders | 1983 | Francis Ford Coppola | 1255 |
| 165 | It | 2017 | Andy Muschietti | 1264 |
| 166 | Peter Pan | 1953 | Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske | 1290 |
| 167 | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse | 2023 | Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson | 1292 |
| 168 | A Bronx Tale | 1993 | Robert De Niro | 1297 |
| 169 | Raw | 2016 | Julia Ducournau | 1323 |
| 170 | Hairspray | 1988 | John Waters | 1341 |
| 171 | Show Me Love | 1998 | Lukas Moodysson | 1373 |
| 172 | Little Women | 1994 | Gillian Armstrong | 1377 |
| 173 | The Big Parade | 1925 | King Vidor | 1382 |
| 174 | Sixteen Candles | 1984 | John Hughes | 1389 |
| 175 | Mouchette | 1967 | Robert Bresson | 1393 |
| 176 | House | 1977 | Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | 1398 |
| 177 | Mysterious Skin | 2004 | Gregg Araki | 1401 |
| 178 | Wings | 1927 | William A. Wellman | 1419 |
| 179 | Old Yeller | 1957 | Robert Stevenson | 1450 |
| 180 | Elephant | 2003 | Gus Van Sant | 1457 |
| 181 | Only Yesterday | 1991 | Isao Takahata | 1477 |
| 182 | Spider-Man: No Way Home | 2021 | Jon Watts | 1494 |
| 183 | Back to the Future Part III | 1990 | Robert Zemeckis | 1502 |
| 184 | Hercules | 1997 | Ron Clements and John Musker | 1524 |
| 185 | What's Eating Gilbert Grape | 1993 | Lasse Hallström | 1540 |
| 186 | Lilja 4-ever | 2002 | Lukas Moodysson | 1544 |
| 187 | He Got Game | 1998 | Spike Lee | 1549 |
| 188 | The Heiress | 1949 | William Wyler | 1557 |
| 189 | Jumanji | 1995 | Joe Johnston | 1567 |
| 190 | Song of the Sea | 2014 | Tomm Moore | 1570 |
| 191 | Scent of a Woman | 1992 | Martin Brest | 1572 |
| 192 | To Live | 1994 | Yimou Zhang | 1584 |
| 193 | The River | 1951 | Jean Renoir | 1589 |
| 194 | Love, Simon | 2018 | Greg Berlanti | 1604 |
| 195 | 35 Shots of Rum | 2008 | Claire Denis | 1611 |
| 196 | A Walk to Remember | 2002 | Adam Shankman | 1619 |
| 197 | Dune: Part Two | 2024 | Denis Villeneuve | 1629 |
| 198 | Fame | 1980 | Alan Parker | 1641 |
| 199 | My Life as a Dog | 1985 | Lasse Hallström | 1651 |
| 200 | Stardust | 2007 | Matthew Vaughn | 1667 |
