Your top 5 childhood/friendship/coming of age films?
 

Can you guys recommend great childhood/friendship/coming of age films? I'm listing them down as such.

1. Super 8

In 1979 Ohio, several kids are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no accident, as a series of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows.

2. The Goonies

When two brothers find out they might lose their house they are desperate to find a way to keep their home. They find a treasure map and bring some friends along to find it. They are all out looking for the "X" and trying to get away from a group of bad guys who also want the treasure.

3. Stand By Me

After learning that a stranger has been accidentally killed by a train near their rural homes, four Oregon boys decide to go see the body. On the way, the boys learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.

And I gotta say, I'd never discover this film if it wasn't for Pokemon Go.

4. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1971 & 2005 versions)

The last of five coveted "golden tickets" falls into the hands of a sweet but very poor boy. He and his grandpa then get a tour of the strangest chocolate factory in the world. The owner leads five young winners on a thrilling and often dangerous tour of his factory.

5. Attack the Block

A group of British teenage punks on the downward slide to outright thugdom. Once a horde of neon-toothed aliens starts falling from the sky, however, the kids find themselves appointed the unlikely protectors of their grotty South London housing complex.

Honorable mention:

• Home Alone 1 & 2.
• The Wizard of Oz.

I can agree with 2 and 3 but would move both up a notch. Chockolate Factory maybe but rather than Super 8 and Attack the Block I'd include My Girl and Bridge to Terebithia(the original one). Possibly The Outsiders as well.

In no particular order my picks are and I second the honorable mention to Home Alone.

The Breakfast Club


Stephen King's It


Empire of The Sun


Ferris Bueller's Day Off



Peter Pan

Yeah I totally forgot The Breakfast Club! I should be tarred and feathered for that gaffe lol! And Ferris Beuller too. I am ashamed.....

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Goonies
Any of Jackie Chan's early films
A Bronx Tale

I dunno, I can't think right now.

The Warriors
Waynes World
Bill and Ted
E.T
The Truman Show

These count, right?

Does Toy Story 3 count? I mean... it kind of is a 'coming of age' story both on the side of the toys and Andy.

Home Alone 1
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Home Alone 3
Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House
Home Alone 5: Holiday Heist

You probably shoulda branched out with other films after the first 2.

Angels in the Outfield
Casper
The Lion King
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (not coming of age but a childhood favorite)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Back to the Future Trilogy

I count it.

I thought about The Warriors, but it just missed the cut with the five film limit.

There is a fifth Home Alone film? It should have stopped at 2. 3 was a different family and he was left at home sick while they are at work. Not the same thing. 4,a TV movie that fqiled to recapture the first two as the actors are completely different and the storyline did not make sense in continuity with the first two.

Covering the coming of age side of things...

1. Whale Rider
2. Dirty Dancing
3. Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
4. Hope and Glory
5. The Breakfast Club

Honorable mentions: Brave, My Girl, My Girl 2, Last Starfighter, The Karate Kid (2010), Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, Slumdog Millionaire

Does The Phantom Menace count?

Also, more honorable mentions go to
Spy Kids
Atlantis the Lost Empire
Spider-Man (2002)

Not a movie, but for me the ultimate show to express pretty much everything about childhood will always be Pete & Pete. Also for a video game entry, Earthbound.

For me, there is only one. And I am being dead serious.

Duuuuude I still have that movie! it was awesome. And long. I liked the ending

American Pie
American Pie II
American Wedding
American Reunion

All nice coming of age stories in their own right. It's what I find most endearing about the series. As raunchy and over the top the movies got, they always treated their characters with a respectful sweetness.