Coming of Age DVDs

There is a legend that Paikea rode on the back of a whale and led his people to New Zealand. Since that time tradition has decreed that the first-born male descendant will become chief of the tribe. Then Pai is born...and she is a girl. She grows up within a close-knit village which retains the trib...

An adaptation of the novel The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. The movie is set in a small southern beach town where an estranged father gets a chance to spend the summer with his reluctant and rebellious teenaged daughter, who’d rather be home in New York. He tries to reconnect with her through...

Coming of Age Adventure based on Ann Brashares' best-selling novel about a special 16th summer in the lives of four lifelong friends who are separated for the first time. On a shopping trip, the girls find a pair of thrift-shop jeans that fits each of them perfectly and they decide to use these &quo...

As Daniel's home life becomes increasingly difficult he has to deal with the return of an elderly aunt who was removed from the mission when she was a young child. Daniel watches her as she struggles to reconnect and find her place in the community. Daniel moves in with his gang and is well on his w...

Eleven-year old Lous life was turned upside down when her father walked out on her mother and two sisters ten months ago. But things become even more chaotic when her estranged grandfather Doyle (John Hurt) moves in to the familys rickety, rented home. Doyle turns the household upside-down with his ...

Two young men set out to conquer Paris, the last frontier for the oversexed American hero. Along the way they encounter a bevy of beautiful women and enjoy a most bohemian lifestyle.

Set in 1965… Andy Nichol, 12, like most kids his age, will do anything to avoid conflict in fear of suffering overwhelming ridicule and punishment from his peers. Unfortunately for Andy, that’s all about to change. Andy is put to the test when his English teacher, Mr. Simon (Ed Harris),...

When second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet Juli knows it's love. But Bryce isn't so sure... Girl-phobic and easily embarrassed young Bryce does everything he can to keep his outspoken wannabe girlfriend at arm's length... for the next six years which isn't easy since they go to the same school...

Inspired by Taika Waititi’s Oscar®-nominated short Two Cars, One Night, Boy is a heartfelt and hilarious coming of age tale about heroes, magic and Michael Jackson. It’s 1984 and Michael Jackson’s Thriller is changing lives on the rural East Coast of New Zealand. Boy is a d...

Ari is a handsome young man of Greek descent who finds himself torn between his traditional upbringing and conservative community, and his sexual identity. Ari careens between hanging out with his friends, bickering with his family, and several heterosexual and homosexual encounters, always trying t...

With their father away fighting in the Civil War, Joe, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, men friends start to become a part of the household. ...

Set on the sexy beaches of Malibu and Santa Cruz, Beautiful Wave is a film that will take you to an exhilarating summer ride all the way to surf-packed Baja, Mexico. A New York City teenager; Nicole is sent to spend a summer with her estranged grandmother in Santa Cruz. When Nicole is given an old 1...

Based on the true-life, award-winning book by Toby Wolff, two free spirits flee an abusive relationship to settle in the hopeful plains of the Pacific Northwest. Instead of the bright future he was promised, Tobias (DiCaprio) must endure the tyrannical and often brutal rule of his new stepfather Dwi...

In his head, 15-year-old Welsh schoolboy Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is a cool literary genius. In reality, he’s socially inept and unpopular. Oliver has set himself two tasks for the summer: to lose his virginity (before it becomes legal) and save his parents' marriage. Suspecting that his mother (...

Have you ever felt like an outsider? Terri has. Living at home with his ailing Uncle James, Terri is morbidly obese, friendless and wears pajamas to school. But after forming a friendship with his school principal, Mr Fitzgerald (John C. Reilly), Terri’s world starts to look noticeably brighter, and...

Seventeen-year-old Caroline Wexler is facing a teenager’s nightmare: her widower father has moved them from the big city to a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. When Caroline realizes she has nothing in common with the burnout losers in her new school, she pursues the one person who excites her int...

Sixteen-year-old Michael escapes the realities of his small-town life by immersing himself within a world of maps. Yet his seemingly happy isolation is broken by the serendipitous arrival of two young women into his life. Mary is twenty and blind from birth, on the verge of voyaging into the world o...

The film tells the autobiographical story about two boys, Norman (Craig Sheffer) and Paul (Brad Pitt), growing up in 1920s Missoula, Montana under the watchful eye of their father, a Presbyterian minister. Their mornings are spent in school and religious study, while their afternoons are devoted to ...

There Are No Rules. It's the mid-1980's at Camden College. Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek) is the younger brother of psychotic Wall Street broker Patrick Bateman. Sean's a drug dealer, owes a lot of money to "fellow" dealer Rupert Guest (Clifton Collins, Jr.), and sleeps with nearly h...

The film follows two friends, Joan Jett (KRISTEN STEWART) and Cherie Currie (DAKOTA FANNING), as they rise from rebellious Southern California kids to rock stars of the now legendary group that paved the way for future generations of girl bands. They fall under the Svengali-like influence of roc...

The Shock By Shock Confessions Of A Sorority Girl... From Roger Corman, the master of exploitation cinema come the twisted machinations of Sorority Girl, a masterful and disturbing journey into the harrowing world of teenage delinquency and fragile mental states. When poor-little-rich-girl Sab...

A Shocking True Story of Delinquent Girls! When teenager Donna Price hooks up with the wrong crowd she finds herself facing a judge after Vince, a boy she likes, kills an innocent bystander with a stolen car. Threatening to kill her if she gives up his name Vince forces Donna into taking the wrap...

Mako (Taungaroa Emile - Once Were Warriors, No 2) a young Maori boy on the verge of a criminal future, unwillingly returns to his idyllic island home off the coast of New Zealand to live with his mother and her new husband. Sarah (Julia Brendler - Moondance), a promising young musician from Germany ...

One summer can change everything Tobi and Achim have been best friends for years. As cox and oarsman, they have helped their team win several rowing cups in the past and are now looking forward to the big regatta in the countryside. But, this trip is no summer camp and the first problems soon arise....

It's the weekend, and five students have weekend detention. There's a jock, a princess, a misfit, a nerd, and a lout. Not much in common, except for having to give up their day, sit in the school library, and write an essay for the principal. Being from such widely different backgrounds and having s...

After that summer nothing would ever be the same Based on the classic Michael Noonan novel, December Boys is a story of four orphan teenagers - all born in the same month - growing up behind the closed doors of a Catholic convent in outback Australia. For years, the boys watch younger kids leave ...

Set in a small Oregon town, where secrets are hard to keep and lies even harder, Mean Creek flows with a simple elegance of its truth and consequences as it follows a crisis in the lives of its teen characters. The journey begins as a plot for playful payback on a local troublemaker; the journey ...

TOAST is the ultimate nostalgia trip through everything edible in 1960’s Britain. Based on the heart-wrenchingly bittersweet story of food writer, Nigel Slater’s childhood, and set to the songs of Dusty Springfield, TOAST is a delicious love letter to the tastes and smells that a young boy associate...

Jess, age 18 and Moss, age 12, are second cousins who have spent their summers together since either of them can remember. Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age, all they have is each other. ‘Jess + Moss’ recounts the events of the last summer they sha...

Acclaimed filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show) directs this heartwarming and inspirational film based on the true story of Rocky Dennis (Eric Stolz, Pulp Fiction), a disfigured but sensitive and intelligent teenager. Motivated by his loving mother, Rusty (Cher, Aacdemy Award® ...

January 1945. During the last winter of WWII, Nazi occupied Holland lies under a blanket of snow. Food is scarce with many people heading east in a desperate attempt to find sustenance. When Michiel (13) becomes involved in the Resistance, he learns that good and evil often sit side by side witho...

Make believe. Not war. Imagination, fantasy, and the irreplaceable bonds of childhood friendship highlight this comedy that's full of heart. Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is looking for an escape from his family's stifling home life when he encounters Lee Carter (Will Poulter), the school bully...

It's a story of two love affairs. A father's love for his five sons. And one son's love for his father, a love so strong it compels him to live a lie. That son is Zac Beaulieu, born on the Christmas day 1960, different from all his brothers, but desperate to fit in. During the next 20 years, life ta...

In a small woodsy Oregon town, a group of friends- sensitive Gordie, tough-guy Chris, and flamboyant Teddy are in search of a missing teenager's body. Wanting to be heroes in each others' and their hometown's eyes, they set out on an unforgettable two-day trek that turns into an odyssey of self-disc...

"You will go to sleep: you will wake up. It will be as if those hours never existed." Death-haunted, quietly reckless, Lucy is a young university student who takes a job as a Sleeping Beauty. In the Sleeping Beauty Chamber old men seek an erotic experience that requires Lucy's absolute submission. T...

The Long Day Closes follows a few months in the life of 12-year-old Bud, in impressionistic snatches of his everyday existence growing up in the Liverpool of 1956. Bud is a lonely and quiet child whose moments of solace occur when he sits in rapture at the local cinema, watching towering and iconic ...

Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbour. Beneath the town placid god-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets involving sexual attraction and repression, illegitimacy, rape, gossip, intolerance, and class snobbery. No won...

Tanner Hall is a vivid peek into the private world of an all-girls boarding school. In a cozy but run-down New England town, the knot of adolescent complexity is unraveled through the coming-of-age stores of four teenage girls. When the bond of close-knit friendship is jeopardized by the arrival of ...

TJ is a mad bastard, and his estranged 13-year-old son Bullet is on the fast track to becoming one, too. After being turned away from his mother’s house, TJ sets off across the country to the Kimberly region of north western Australia to make things right with his son. Grandpa Tex has lived a to...

Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at a new public high school run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likability positions him as the resident "psychiatrist" dishing out ...