IMO the best coming of age and sexuaity problem movie list

Thomas believed he was switched at birth with Alfred. Feeling cheated, Thomas spent his life plotting revenge against Alfred, his perceived lifelong adversary who he felt stole the privileged life that should have been his.

When Adam and Eve, having succumbed to Lucifer's temptation, are expelled from the Garden of Eden, Adam makes Lucifer keep his promise. Lucifer then grants Adam a dream of the world to come.

Benoit turns 13 and develops an intense crush on his godmother, Marion. As they lie on beaches in the summer, she humors him by talking about the mysteries of women

A former Nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man's disturbing past.

A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 13-year-old boy who learns to cope with his newfound sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool kid in school.

As France is nearing the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself torn between a rebellious urge to discover love, and the ever-present, almost dominating affection of his beloved mother.

Set in The Netherlands at the end of WW II, this touching story, told in flashbacks, explores the complex and romantic relationship between an adult soldier and a displaced, lonely adolescent boy.

A disturbed young woman returns to the US after combat as an American mercenary in Iraq and abducts a 14 year old boy, holding him prisoner in her isolated country home as a bizarre relationship develops.

A drug dealer finds an unlikely traveling companion in a runaway kid trying to dodge social services.

After his mother's death, 17-year-old Sven moves in with his dad Achim, a taxi driver who had divorced his mother several years earlier. It is not easy for Achim to get used to an adolescent around the house, especially since Sven hardly speaks to him. But Sven does well in school, and Achim hopes that time will bring them closer together. It is Achim's girlfriend Julia who first senses that something is wrong with Sven. Why, she wonders, does he always hang around with younger boys? Why does he not have any friends his own age? She suspects that he is gay. The truth, however, is more nuanced--and chilling: Sven has pedophile tendencies. Proof is soon found on videos that shocks and sickens Achim. Sven himself is shattered and regrets his actions. Julia suggests therapy, but Achim is convinced that he and Sven can handle this together. But he is wrong. Though Sven practically begs his father to lock him up in his room, Achim has confidence in his son--a confidence that soon turns out to be ill placed.

Toto and Quique bike around spying on maid. Toto's cousin Azucena visits, attracting Toto. Her visit leads to an unforgettable experience for Toto.

Harry Voss' life spans three pivotal days: his carefree youth, high school graduation, and lonely middle age, exploring life's fleeting moments and unfulfilled dreams.

A man explores the process of formation of sexuality and is looking for a woman that does not exist.

In 1937, in São Paulo, 12-year-old Hugo comes from Santa Catarina. His grandmother is returning him to his mother, Anna, who is now with Osmar, the most influential politician in the state.

A tale of the tender relationship between a 12-year-old boy and the upperclassman who is the object of his desire in the rigid atmosphere of their Jesuit-run school.

As Italy enters WWII, a teenage boy in a small, narrow-minded Sicilian town becomes obsessed with a young woman.

An aspiring tennis player is taken under the wing of an established player as his family life falls apart.

Lorenzo, a handsome first-year professor in an isolated Italian village, falls under the spell of his most beguiling pupil, a dark-haired, starry-eyed 12-year-old named Duilio. As Lorenzo's relationship with his heartless girlfriend deteriorates, he finds himself walking the fields with his loving student. When their idyllic friendship is questioned by Duilio's suspicious stepmother, Lorenzo is brought to a crisis of conscience.

The story of two brother-like friends facing the possibility of separation.

When 21-year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+ family bonds are tested. The family decides that 11-year-old Marcel, the youngest, is too young to understand, and the family agrees to keep the unsettling news from him. Marcel overhears enough to understand that something amiss with Leo and when the two travel to Paris together, Marcel confronts Leo with what he suspects.

Martin (14) is forced to deal with confused sexuality and the loss of a mother in a provincial setting in the mid-seventies, where the famed Danish liberation of porn has had its influence on the grownups.

The true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland.

The story of a young Canadian boy who tries to escape mentally from his disturbed family thanks to his fantasy and imagination.

Seven-year-old Jeremiah is pulled from his foster home and thrown into a troubled life on the road with his teenage mother, Sarah.

A teenage boy's search for love finds him fixated on a boy who lives nearby.