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The Best Coming-of-Age Movies

Growing up on screen: the coming-of-age canon ranked by our composite score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls.

The coming-of-age film is world cinema's shared language — every national canon has one at its heart: Truffaut's The 400 Blows launched the French New Wave with a boy's flight to the sea, Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali did the same for India, and Louis Malle, Mike Nichols and George Lucas each fixed a generation's adolescence on film. The modern line runs through Linklater's twelve-year experiment Boyhood and Moonlight's triptych — the sub-genre where cinema's time-capturing power is most literal.

Spirited Away (2001) leads with a composite score of 4.98. Top 100 of 167 films in our library.

Masters of the genre

  1. 1
    Spirited Away2001 · Hayao Miyazaki · Japan · fantasy, animation, drama
    4.98

    Berlin Golden Bear winner 2002 · Japan Academy Prize winner 2002 · Kehr's annual top 10 2002 #1

  2. 2
    The Tree of Life2011 · Terrence Malick · United States · sci-fi, fantasy, drama
    4.26

    Palme d'Or winner 2011 · Film Comment year-end poll 2011 #1 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2011 #2

  3. 3
    Moonlight2016 · Barry Jenkins · United States · drama
    4.15

    Oscar Best Picture winner 2016 · Rolling Stone 100 Best of the 21st Century #3 · Film Comment year-end poll 2016 #2

  4. 4
    The Graduate1967 · Mike Nichols · United States · comedy, drama, romance
    3.92

    BAFTA Best Film winner 1969 · AFI 100 (1998) #7 · AFI 100 (2007) #17

  5. 5
    Boyhood2014 · Richard Linklater · United States · drama
    3.66

    BAFTA Best Film winner 2015 · Film Comment year-end poll 2014 #1 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2014 #2

  6. 6
    Pather Panchali1955 · Satyajit Ray · India · drama
    3.61

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1966 #1 · Sight & Sound 2022 directors' poll #22 · Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #35

  7. 7
    Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope1977 · George Lucas · United States · sci-fi, action, adventure
    3.58

    AFI 100 (2007) #13 · Oscar Best Picture nominee 1977 · Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #225

  8. 8
    Forrest Gump1994 · Robert Zemeckis · United States · comedy, drama, romance
    3.45

    Oscar Best Picture winner 1994 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1995 #4 · AFI 100 (2007) #76

  9. 9
    The Last Picture Show1971 · Peter Bogdanovich · United States · drama
    3.35

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1972 #1 · Ebert's annual top 10 1971 #1 · Oscar Best Picture nominee 1971

  10. 10
    If....1968 · Lindsay Anderson · United Kingdom · drama
    3.22

    Palme d'Or winner 1969 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1969 #3 · BFI Top 100 British films #12

  11. 11
    Slumdog Millionaire2008 · Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan · United Kingdom · romance, drama, crime
    2.65

    Oscar Best Picture winner 2008 · BAFTA Best Film winner 2009 · TIFF People's Choice winner 2008

  12. 12
    Amarcord1973 · Federico Fellini · France / Italy · comedy, drama
    2.45

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1974 #1 · Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #157 · Siskel's annual top 10 1974 #3

  13. 13
    Blue Is the Warmest Colour2013 · Abdellatif Kechiche · France / Belgium / Spain · drama, romance
    2.43

    Palme d'Or winner 2013 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2013 #3 · Film Comment year-end poll 2013 #12

  14. 14
    Au revoir les enfants1987 · Louis Malle · France / Italy / Germany · drama, war
    2.43

    Venice Golden Lion winner 1987 · César Best Film winner 1988 · Vatican film list

  15. 15
    The Fabelmans2022 · Steven Spielberg · United States · drama
    2.27

    TIFF People's Choice winner 2022 · Oscar Best Picture nominee 2022 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2023 #4

  16. 16
    City of God2002 · Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund · Brazil / France · drama, crime
    2.13

    Letterboxd Top 250 #10 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2003 #6 · Ebert's annual top 10 2002 #2

  17. 17
    The River1951 · Jean Renoir · United States / France · drama, romance
    2.12

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1951 #1 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1952 #4 · Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #185

  18. 18
    When Father Was Away on Business1985 · Emir Kusturica · Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia · comedy, drama
    2.06

    Palme d'Or winner 1985 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1986 #5 · Kurosawa's 100 favorite films

  19. 19
    American Graffiti1973 · George Lucas · United States · comedy, romance, drama
    2.03

    Oscar Best Picture nominee 1973 · AFI 100 (2007) #62 · AFI 100 (1998) #77

  20. 20
    Y tu mamá también2001 · Alfonso Cuarón · Mexico · drama, comedy, romance
    1.99

    Rolling Stone 100 Best of the 21st Century #5 · Film Comment year-end poll 2002 #3 · Ebert's annual top 10 2002 #6

  21. 21
    Lacombe, Lucien1974 · Louis Malle · France / Italy · drama, war, romance
    1.99

    BAFTA Best Film winner 1975 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1975 #7 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

  22. 22
    Princess Mononoke1997 · Hayao Miyazaki · Japan · fantasy, animation, action
    1.97

    Japan Academy Prize winner 1998 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 1997 #2 · Letterboxd Top 250 #72

  23. 23
    Pelle the Conqueror1987 · Bille August · Sweden / Denmark · drama
    1.97

    Palme d'Or winner 1988 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1989 #9 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

  24. 24
    Licorice Pizza2021 · Paul Thomas Anderson · United States · drama, comedy
    1.95

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2022 #1 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2022 #2 · Oscar Best Picture nominee 2021

  25. 25
    Rebel Without a Cause1955 · Nicholas Ray · United States · drama
    1.67

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1956 #3 · AFI 100 (1998) #59 · National Film Registry (inducted 1990)

  26. 26
    Dead Poets Society1989 · Peter Weir · United States · drama
    1.67

    BAFTA Best Film winner 1990 · Oscar Best Picture nominee 1989 · Letterboxd Top 250 #112

  27. 27
    Cinema Paradiso1988 · Giuseppe Tornatore · France / Italy · drama
    1.64

    Cannes Grand Prix winner 1989 · Letterboxd Top 250 #16 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1989 #7

  28. 28
    Aparajito1956 · Satyajit Ray · India · drama
    1.60

    Venice Golden Lion winner 1957 · Letterboxd Top 250 #204 · Criterion Collection spine #784

  29. 29
    Good Will Hunting1997 · Gus Van Sant · United States · romance, drama
    1.48

    Oscar Best Picture nominee 1997 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1998 #7 · Letterboxd Top 250 #83

  30. 30
    Rushmore1998 · Wes Anderson · United States · comedy, drama
    1.48

    Kehr's annual top 10 1998 #1 · National Film Registry (inducted 2016) · Empire 500 (2008) #175

  31. 31
    Ghost World2001 · Terry Zwigoff · United States / Germany / United Kingdom · comedy, drama
    1.46

    Film Comment year-end poll 2001 #4 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2001 #9 · Ebert's annual top 10 2001 #4

  32. 32
    Kes1969 · Ken Loach · United Kingdom · comedy, drama
    1.45

    BFI Top 100 British films #7 · Sight & Sound 2022 directors' poll #72 · Letterboxd Top 250 #222

  33. 33
    Welcome to the Dollhouse1995 · Todd Solondz · United States · drama
    1.41

    Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner 1996 · Ebert's annual top 10 1996 #5 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

  34. 34
    Almost Famous2000 · Cameron Crowe · United States · musical, drama, comedy
    1.33

    Ebert's annual top 10 2000 #1 · Film Comment year-end poll 2000 #7 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2001 #10

  35. 35
    Breaking Away1979 · Peter Yates · United States · comedy, drama
    1.31

    Oscar Best Picture nominee 1979 · Ebert's annual top 10 1979 #2 · Siskel's annual top 10 1979 #4

  36. 36
    The Reader2008 · Stephen Daldry · Germany / United States · romance, drama
    1.25

    Oscar Best Picture nominee 2008 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2009 #6 · BAFTA Best Film nominee 2009

  37. 37
    Grave of the Fireflies1988 · Isao Takahata · Japan · drama, animation, war
    1.19

    Sight & Sound 2022 critics' poll #225 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 1988 #6 · Letterboxd Top 250 #26

  38. 38
    Juno2007 · Jason Reitman · United States · drama, comedy, romance
    1.12

    Ebert's annual top 10 2007 #1 · Oscar Best Picture nominee 2007 · Empire 500 (2008) #463

  39. 39
    Whale Rider2002 · Niki Caro · Germany / New Zealand · drama
    1.08

    TIFF People's Choice winner 2002 · Film Comment year-end poll 2003 #50 · Ebert's annual top 10 2003 #9

  40. 40
    Cría Cuervos1976 · Carlos Saura · Spain · drama
    1.06

    Cannes Grand Prix winner 1976 · Criterion Collection spine #403 · Sarris's annual top 10 1977 #9

  41. 41
    Go2001 · Isao Yukisada · Japan · drama
    1.00

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 2001 #1

  42. 42
    Road to Perdition2002 · Sam Mendes · United States · crime, drama
    1.00

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2002 #1

  43. 43
    The Squid and the Whale2005 · Noah Baumbach · United States · drama, comedy
    0.98

    Film Comment year-end poll 2005 #6 · Sarris's annual top 10 2005 #2 · Criterion Collection spine #845

  44. 44
    Boyz n the Hood1991 · John Singleton · United States · romance, crime, drama
    0.96

    Ebert's annual top 10 1991 #2 · Siskel's annual top 10 1991 #3 · National Film Registry (inducted 2002)

  45. 45
    An Education2009 · Lone Scherfig · United Kingdom / United States · drama
    0.92

    Oscar Best Picture nominee 2009 · Ebert's annual top 10 2009 #3 · Film Comment year-end poll 2009 #24

  46. 46
    Smooth Talk1985 · Joyce Chopra · United States · drama, romance
    0.91

    Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner 1986 · Criterion Collection spine #1068

  47. 47
    Say Anything...1989 · Cameron Crowe · United States · comedy, romance, drama
    0.91

    Kehr's annual top 10 1989 #2 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Siskel's annual top 10 1989 #9

  48. 48
    Slam1998 · Marc Levin · United States · musical, drama
    0.91

    Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner 1998 · Sarris's annual top 10 1998 #8

  49. 49
    George Washington2000 · David Gordon Green · United States · drama
    0.91

    Film Comment year-end poll 2000 #13 · Ebert's annual top 10 2000 #5 · Kehr's annual top 10 2000 #6

  50. 50
    The Wind Rises2013 · Hayao Miyazaki · Japan · drama, biography, animation
    0.90

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2014 #5 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 2013 #7 · Film Comment year-end poll 2013 #42

  51. 51
    Pinocchio1940 · Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske, Norm Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts · United States · fantasy, musical, animation
    0.90

    TIME All-TIME 100 · National Film Registry (inducted 1994) · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

  52. 52
    Risky Business1983 · Paul Brickman · United States · comedy, drama, romance
    0.89

    NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Criterion Collection spine #1227 · Kehr's annual top 10 1983 #8

  53. 53
    Fat Girl2001 · Catherine Breillat · France / Italy · drama
    0.89

    Film Comment year-end poll 2001 #6 · Hoberman's annual top 10 2001 #5 · Kehr's annual top 10 2001 #6

  54. 54
    The Motorcycle Diaries2004 · Walter Salles · France / Germany / United Kingdom · biography, drama, adventure
    0.83

    Sarris's annual top 10 2004 #1 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2004 #7

  55. 55
    Empire of the Sun1987 · Steven Spielberg · United States / United Kingdom · war, drama
    0.82

    Sarris's annual top 10 1987 #1 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Sarris's annual top 10 1989 #8

  56. 56
    The Virgin Suicides1999 · Sofia Coppola · United States · drama
    0.79

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2000 #7 · Empire 500 (2008) #262 · Criterion Collection spine #920

  57. 57
    Shoeshine1946 · Vittorio De Sica · Italy · crime, drama
    0.77

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1950 #7 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Criterion Collection spine #1272

  58. 58
    Lilika1970 · Branko Pleša · Yugoslavia · drama
    0.75

    Locarno Golden Leopard winner 1970

  59. 59
    The Believer2001 · Henry Bean · United States · drama
    0.75

    Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner 2001

  60. 60
    Neds2010 · Peter Mullan · United Kingdom / Italy / France · drama
    0.75

    San Sebastián Golden Shell winner 2010

  61. 61
    In the Summers2024 · Alessandra Lacorazza · United States · drama
    0.75

    Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner 2024

  62. 62
    Stand by Me1986 · Rob Reiner · United States · adventure, comedy, drama
    0.74

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1987 #5 · Empire 500 (2008) #70 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

  63. 63
    The Breakfast Club1985 · John Hughes · United States · comedy, drama
    0.73

    National Film Registry (inducted 2016) · Empire 500 (2008) #369 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

  64. 64
    Bambi1942 · David Hand, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Norman Wright, Samuel Armstrong, Paul Satterfield, Graham Heid · United States · musical, fantasy, drama
    0.73

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1951 #7 · National Film Registry (inducted 2011) · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

  65. 65
    Saturday Night Fever1977 · John Badham · United States · drama
    0.72

    National Film Registry (inducted 2010) · Siskel's annual top 10 1977 #5 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

  66. 66
    Call Me by Your Name2017 · Luca Guadagnino · Italy / United States / Brazil · drama, romance
    0.71

    Oscar Best Picture nominee 2017 · Rolling Stone 100 Best of the 21st Century #56

  67. 67
    Heavenly Creatures1994 · Peter Jackson · New Zealand / Germany · drama, crime, biography
    0.64

    Sarris's annual top 10 1994 #2 · Hoberman's annual top 10 1994 #4 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

  68. 68
    Apur Sansar1959 · Satyajit Ray · India · drama
    0.64

    Letterboxd Top 250 #85 · Criterion Collection spine #785 · Roger Ebert's Great Movies

  69. 69
    Regular Lovers2005 · Philippe Garrel · France · drama
    0.63

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2005 #2

  70. 70
    Clueless1995 · Amy Heckerling · United States · comedy, romance
    0.61

    National Film Registry (inducted 2025) · Sarris's annual top 10 1995 #4 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

  71. 71
    The Diary of Anne Frank1959 · George Stevens · United States · drama, biography, war
    0.60

    Oscar Best Picture nominee 1959 · Sarris's annual top 10 1959 #9

  72. 72
    Gregory's Girl1981 · Bill Forsyth · United Kingdom · comedy, romance
    0.58

    BFI Top 100 British films #30 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

  73. 73
    Frances Ha2012 · Noah Baumbach · United States · comedy, drama
    0.57

    Film Comment year-end poll 2013 #9 · Criterion Collection spine #681 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

  74. 74
    Carrie1976 · Brian De Palma · United States · horror, thriller, drama
    0.57

    Empire 500 (2008) #86 · National Film Registry (inducted 2022) · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

  75. 75
    Ferris Bueller's Day Off1986 · John Hughes · United States · comedy
    0.57

    Empire 500 (2008) #88 · National Film Registry (inducted 2014) · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

  76. 76
    What's Eating Gilbert Grape1993 · Lasse Hallström · United States · drama, comedy
    0.55

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1994 #5 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

  77. 77
    Monster2023 · Hirokazu Koreeda · Japan · drama, thriller
    0.55

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 2023 #7 · Letterboxd Top 250 #120

  78. 78
    Murmur of the Heart1971 · Louis Malle · France / Italy / Germany · comedy, drama
    0.54

    Ebert's annual top 10 1972 #4 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Criterion Collection spine #328

  79. 79
    Europa Europa1990 · Agnieszka Holland · France / Germany / Poland · drama, war, biography
    0.54

    Hoberman's annual top 10 1991 #4 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Criterion Collection spine #985

  80. 80
    Look Back2024 · Kiyotaka Oshiyama · Japan · drama, animation
    0.53

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (Japanese) 2024 #7 · Letterboxd Top 250 #198

  81. 81
    Deep End1970 · Jerzy Skolimowski · United Kingdom / Germany / Poland · drama
    0.53

    Sarris's annual top 10 1971 #3 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

  82. 82
    A River Runs Through It1992 · Robert Redford · United States · biography, drama
    0.53

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1993 #7 · Sarris's annual top 10 1992 #5

  83. 83
    Sweet Sixteen2002 · Ken Loach · United Kingdom / Germany / Spain · drama, crime
    0.52

    Sarris's annual top 10 2003 #4 · Film Comment year-end poll 2003 #33 · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

  84. 84
    Metropolitan1990 · Whit Stillman · United States · comedy, drama
    0.52

    Sarris's annual top 10 1990 #5 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Criterion Collection spine #326

  85. 85
    I Vitelloni1953 · Federico Fellini · France / Italy · comedy, drama
    0.52

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1954 #6 · Criterion Collection spine #246

  86. 86
    Quadrophenia1979 · Franc Roddam · United Kingdom / Australia · drama, crime
    0.51

    Kehr's annual top 10 1980 #6 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Criterion Collection spine #624

  87. 87
    Billy Elliot2000 · Stephen Daldry · United Kingdom · comedy, drama
    0.50

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2001 #3

  88. 88
    Carnal Knowledge1971 · Mike Nichols · United States · comedy, drama
    0.50

    NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Ebert's annual top 10 1971 #7 · Criterion Collection spine #1270

  89. 89
    Time of the Gypsies1988 · Emir Kusturica · Yugoslavia / Italy / United Kingdom · drama, fantasy
    0.48

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1989 #10 · Letterboxd Top 250 #246

  90. 90
    Big Wednesday1978 · John Milius · United States · comedy, drama
    0.47

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1979 #8 · Kehr's annual top 10 1978 #8

  91. 91
    King of the Hill1993 · Steven Soderbergh · United States · drama
    0.47

    Criterion Collection spine #698 · Sarris's annual top 10 1993 #8 · Siskel's annual top 10 1993 #9

  92. 92
    Splendor in the Grass1961 · Elia Kazan · United States · romance, drama
    0.47

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1961 #9 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies

  93. 93
    Dazed and Confused1993 · Richard Linklater · United States · comedy, drama
    0.46

    Empire 500 (2008) #244 · Criterion Collection spine #336 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

  94. 94
    Heathers1988 · Michael Lehmann · United States · comedy, mystery
    0.45

    Empire 500 (2008) #412 · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies

  95. 95
    Scent of a Woman1992 · Martin Brest · United States · drama
    0.45

    Oscar Best Picture nominee 1992

  96. 96
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close2011 · Stephen Daldry · United States · drama
    0.45

    Oscar Best Picture nominee 2011

  97. 97
    Look at Me2004 · Agnès Jaoui · France / Italy · comedy, romance, drama
    0.43

    Sarris's annual top 10 2005 #3 · Film Comment year-end poll 2005 #42

  98. 98
    Mon oncle Antoine1971 · Claude Jutra · Canada · drama, comedy
    0.43

    Criterion Collection spine #438 · Sarris's annual top 10 1972 #11 · Roger Ebert's Great Movies

  99. 99
    Ratcatcher1999 · Lynne Ramsay · United Kingdom · drama
    0.43

    Film Comment year-end poll 2000 #12 · Criterion Collection spine #162

  100. 100
    The Smell of Us2014 · Larry Clark · France · drama
    0.43

    Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 2015 #4

The coming-of-age film is the direct screen heir of the bildungsroman — the German "novel of formation" traced to Goethe, whose subject is a young protagonist's moral and psychological growth toward adulthood. It translates almost frictionlessly into cinema, and the list below ranks that translation by composite score. Because the score, not reputation, sets the order, the films at the top are not the ones a critic would name first.

What the composite rewards

The highest entry here is Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away (2001) at #22 — with Princess Mononoke (1997) further down at #399, both stories of a child forced into an adult reckoning. Close behind come the titles the sub-genre is usually argued over: Barry Jenkins's Moonlight (2016) at #53, its three-act portrait of a boy becoming a man; Mike Nichols's The Graduate (1967) at #64; and Richard Linklater's Boyhood (2014) at #76, filmed across twelve years so that growing up is not performed but recorded — the one case where the genre's time-capturing ambition is literal. Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire (2008) — a quiz-show frame wrapped around a Mumbai childhood — sits at #214, score 2.65: awards weight alone, the composite suggests, no longer outranks the genre's core canon.

The bildungsroman goes global

No national cinema lacks its own version, and the list bears that out. Satyajit Ray appears twice — Pather Panchali (1955) at #81 and Aparajito (1956) at #546. Louis Malle's wartime Au revoir les enfants (1987) lands at #250; Emir Kusturica's When Father Was Away on Business (1985) at #361; and the Italian memory-films — Federico Fellini's Amarcord (1973) at #246 and Cinema Paradiso (1988) at #528 — sit beside Alfonso Cuarón's Y tu mamá también (2001) at #392. The American adolescence is well represented too: Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971) at #112, George Lucas's American Graffiti (1973) at #374, and Rebel Without a Cause (1955) at #510.

How to read our list

Membership is drawn from Wikidata's coming-of-age genre tag, then re-ranked by our composite — so the tag, not our judgment, decides who enters. That reach runs both ways. It pulls in guests the label would not obviously claim: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) at #85 and Forrest Gump (1994) at #100 both carry the tag. And it drops films the genre plainly owns — The 400 Blows, named in this page's own introduction as the sub-genre's founding text, does not carry the tag and so never appears below. Read the top as the canon the data ratifies and the tail as the tag's honest, imperfect reach; the number we vouch for is the score, not the sort.