Comedy Drama Coming of Age Movies (Used, New, Hard-to-Find)


IN MOVIES: NEW RELEASES \| BROWSE ALL GENRES \| MOVIES BASED ON BOOKS \| BARGAINS

search all sellers in

by title / UPC

by song title

by director

by actor

by genre

browse MOVIES

Page 1 of 20

sort by

1	The Jungle Book (1967) more movies like this directed by Wolfgang Reitherman featuring Bruce Reitherman, Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima, George Sanders, Sterling Holloway, J. Pat O'Malley The final animated feature produced under the supervision of Walt Disney is a lively neo-swing musical, loosely based upon the tales of Rudyard Kipling. The story takes place in a tropical jungle where people are conspicuously absent. But one day Bagheera the Panther (voice of Sebastian Cabot) discovers a baby in the wreck of a boat. Feeling pity ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99!
2	Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) more movies like this directed by Mel Stuart featuring Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Julie Dawn Cole, Aubrey Woods Promoted as a family musical by Paramount Pictures, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is more of a black comedy, perversely faithful to the spirit of Roald Dahl's original book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Enigmatic candy manufacturer Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) stages a contest by hiding five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.49!
3	Anne of Green Gables (1985) more movies like this directed by Kevin Sullivan featuring Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth, Jonathan Crombie, Schuyler Grant Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel Anne of Green Gables, previously filmed in 1934, was afforded a TV-movie treatment in 1985. Megan Follows stars as 13-year-old Anne Shirley, an orphan girl sent to live with a foster family on Canada's Prince Edward Island. Though she has great difficulty controlling her temper, impulsiveness and vivid imagination, ... see all copies from $6.10! new only from $16.69!
4	Dirty Dancing (1987) more movies like this directed by Emile Ardolino featuring Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Jack Weston A teenage girl learns about love, adult responsibility, and how to do The Dirty Boogie in this romantic drama. In 1963, "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is a 17-year-old spending the summer with her family at a resort hotel in the Catskills; she plans on being in the Peace Corps next summer, so this is expected to be her last summer as a carefree ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.43!
5	Good Will Hunting (1997) more movies like this directed by Gus Van Sant featuring Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgård Matt Damon and Ben Affleck co-scripted and star in this drama, set in Boston and Cambridge, about rebellious 20-year-old MIT janitor Will Hunting (Damon), gifted with a photographic memory, who hangs out with his South Boston bar buddies, his best friend Chuckie (Affleck), and his affluent British girlfriend Skylar (Minnie Driver). After MIT ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.59!
6	October Sky (1999) more movies like this directed by Joe Johnston featuring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen, William Lee Scott NASA engineer Homer H. Hickam, Jr.'s autobiography provided the basis for this drama about a teenager coming of age at the dawn of the space race. In 1957, Homer Hickam (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a high school student in Coalwood, West Virginia when the Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the first man-made satellite. While most of his friends and neighbors ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.89!
7	The Sandlot (1993) more movies like this directed by David Mickey Evans featuring Daniel Zacapa, Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Patrick Renna, Chauncey Leopardi, Karen Allen, Marty York The Sandlot is sparsely narrated by the main character (now an adult) who occasionally drops in on the action to comment on events or help move the story along. Tom Guiry plays Scotty Smalls, the shy new kid on the block who wants to join the rowdy pickup baseball team that plays every day in the neighborhood sandlot. But he doesn't know how to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.23!
8	The Outsiders (1983) more movies like this directed by Francis Ford Coppola featuring C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe Teen rivalry in a small Southern town sets the stage for this dramatic interpretation of the novel by S.E. Hinton. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, The Outsiders tells the story of the ongoing conflict between the Greasers and the Socs in rural Oklahoma. C. Thomas Howell stars as Ponyboy, the youngest of three orphaned boys who pal around with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.84!
9	American Graffiti (1973) more movies like this directed by George Lucas featuring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark It's the last night of summer 1962, and the teenagers of Modesto, California, want to have some fun before adult responsibilities close in. Among them are Steve (Ron Howard) and Curt (Richard Dreyfuss), college-bound with mixed feelings about leaving home; nerdy Terry "The Toad" (Charles Martin Smith), who scores a dream date with blonde Debbie ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95!
10	Harold and Maude (1971) more movies like this directed by Hal Ashby featuring Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner A young man with a death wish and a 79-year-old high on life find love in Hal Ashby's cult black comedy. Deadpan rich boy Harold (Bud Cort) keeps staging elaborate suicide tableaux to get the attention of his mother (Vivian Pickles), but she keeps planning his brilliant future for him instead. Obsessed with the trappings of death, Harold freaks ... see all copies from $2.98! new only from $10.19!
11 view cover	American Beauty (1999) more movies like this directed by Sam Mendes featuring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Chris Cooper Noted theater director Sam Mendes, who was responsible for the acclaimed 1998 revival of Cabaret and Nicole Kidman's turn in The Blue Room, made his motion picture debut with this film about the dark side of an American family, and about the nature and price of beauty in a culture obsessed with outward appearances. Kevin Spacey plays Lester ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.94!
12 view cover	Secondhand Lions (2003) more movies like this directed by Tim McCanlies featuring Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment, Kyra Sedgwick, Nicky Katt In this family-friendly comedy drama, Walter (Haley Joel Osment) is a shy and bookish boy just short of his teens whose mother impulsively decides to leave him for the summer with his eccentric grand-uncles, Hub (Robert Duvall) and Garth (Michael Caine). Walter isn't especially happy about being left in the middle of Texas with two old men, while ... see all copies from $5.04! new only from $5.04!
13 view cover	The Breakfast Club (1985) more movies like this directed by John Hughes featuring Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, Paul Gleason John Hughes wrote and directed this quintessential 1980s high school drama featuring the hottest young stars of the decade. Trapped in a day-long Saturday detention in a prison-like school library are Claire, the princess (Molly Ringwald); Andrew, the jock (Emilio Estevez); John, the criminal (Judd Nelson); Brian, the brain (Anthony Michael Hall); ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.06!
14 view cover	The Paper Chase (1973) more movies like this directed by James Bridges featuring Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman, Graham Beckel, Edward Herrmann This filmization of John Jay Osborn Jr.'s novel Paper Chase ended up one of the surprise hits of the 1973-74 movie season. Timothy Bottoms stars as the Minnesotan Hart, a brilliant but naive first-year student at the Harvard Law School. Like most of his fellow aspiring attorneys, Hart is in fearful awe of his demanding, ego-deflating instructor, ... see all copies from $6.53! new only from $6.53!
15 view cover	Drumline (2002) more movies like this directed by Charles Stone III featuring Nick Cannon, Zoe Saldana, Orlando Jones, Leonard Roberts, GQ Drumline brings the world of "show-style" marching bands (popular at traditionally black, Southern colleges) to the big screen for the first time. The story, by Shawn Schepps, was inspired by the high school drumline experiences of executive producer/executive music producer Dallas Austin. Devon (Nick Cannon of Nickelodeon's The Nick Cannon Show) ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.49!
16 view cover	Crossroads (1986) more movies like this directed by Walter Hill featuring Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca, Jami Gertz, Joe Morton, Robert Judd A passion for blues music is evident in this drama based on a contest-winning script by former blues musician John Fusco -- and featuring one of the decade's best-received motion picture soundtracks, written and performed by Ry Cooder. Eugene Martone Ralph Macchio is a classically trained guitarist who desperately wants to locate a long-lost blues ... see all copies from $3.68! new only from $6.50!
17 view cover	Real Genius (1985) more movies like this directed by Martha Coolidge featuring Val Kilmer, Gabe Jarret, Michelle Meyrink, William Atherton, Jon Gries, Patti D'Arbanville Martha Coolidge directed this comedy taking place at Cal Tech, concerning incoming freshman Mitch (Gabe Jarret), a high school student whose Science Fair project made important inroads into laser beam technology. Mitch has been recruited by famed physics professor Hathaway (William Atherton), who asks Mitch to work in his laboratory. On campus, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.53!
18 view cover	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) more movies like this directed by Elia Kazan featuring Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Ann Garner One-time movie song-and-dance man James Dunn won an Academy Award for his "comeback" performance in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Based on the best-selling novel by Betty Smith, the film relates the trials and tribulations of a turn-of-the-century Brooklyn tenement family. The father, Dunn, is a likable but irresponsible alcoholic whose dreams of ... see all copies from $34.64! new only from $68.89!
19 view cover	Dead Poets Society (1989) more movies like this directed by Peter Weir featuring Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen Robin Williams toned down his usually manic comic approach in this successful period drama. In 1959, the Welton Academy is a staid but well-respected prep school where education is a pragmatic and rather dull affair. Several of the students, however, have their thoughts on the learning process (and life itself) changed when a new teacher comes to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.61!
20 view cover	A Bronx Tale (1993) more movies like this directed by Robert De Niro featuring Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Francis Capra, Taral Hicks Robert De Niro made his directorial debut with this expanded adaptation of Chazz Palminteri's one-character play. DeNiro's role of Lorenzo Anello, an Italian-America bus driver, is secondary to the part of his son Calogero, played by young Francis Capra. The top dog in Calogero's Bronx neighborhood is flashy "wiseguy" Sonny (Chazz Palminteri). ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $5.94!
21 view cover	Rushmore (1998) more movies like this directed by Wes Anderson featuring Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Seymour Cassel, Brian Cox After the highly acclaimed independent film Bottle Rocket, director Wes Anderson followed up with a quirky Touchstone Studios film entitled Rushmore. Written by Anderson and friend Owen Wilson (an actor in Armageddon and Anaconda), they created the story of Max Fischer, a highly eccentric 15-year-old boy who attends the tenth grade at Rushmore ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.78!
22 view cover	Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (1987) more movies like this directed by Kevin Sullivan featuring Megan Follows An Emmy-winning adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel by the same name, this is a Canadian TV production which follows the life of a feisty young girl who is adopted by a bachelor farmer and his sister who have decided to adopt a boy and have several surprises due them when Anne arrives. Part of a series that goes through her winning a place ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $7.25!
23 view cover	Love & Basketball (2000) more movies like this directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood featuring Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Alfre Woodard, Dennis Haysbert, Debbi Morgan A young African-American couple navigates the tricky paths of romance and athletics in this drama. Quincy McCall (Omar Epps) and Monica Wright (Sanaa Lathan) grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. They ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.98!
24 view cover	Garden State (2004) more movies like this directed by Zach Braff featuring Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm, Jean Smart In the wake of his success on the hit NBC sitcom Scrubs, actor Zach Braff made his debut behind the camera writing, directing, and starring in this bittersweet romantic comedy. Braff plays Andrew Largeman, a young man who has just received word of his mother's passing. With this news, Andrew returns to the town in which he grew up, where he is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.45!
25 view cover	Bottle Rocket (1996) more movies like this directed by Wes Anderson featuring Andrew Wilson, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Robert Musgrave, Lumi Cavazos, James Caan A bright, optimistic caper comedy from first-time director Wes Anderson, Bottle Rocket focuses on a group of young Texans aspiring to become master thieves. Their leader is Dignan (Owen C. Wilson, who also co-wrote the screenplay), an upbeat if naive charmer who convinces his friends Anthony (Wilson's brother Luke Wilson) and Bob Mapplethorpe ... see all copies from $3.19! new only from $6.53!

Page 1 of 20: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next>

Browse actors

Browse genres

Our Money-Back Guarantee

We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.

		You'll find it at Alibris! Log in here. Over 60 million used, new, and out-of-print books!
		YOUR CART 0 items \| ACCOUNT \| WISHLIST \| HELP