5-25-77 (2022)
Rating: ★★★★
Filmmakers Autobiography
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
Rating: ★★★★
Animation/Coming of Age Story/Kid Flies a NASA Moon Mission
Bones and All (2022)
Rating: ★★★½
Young Adult Cannibalism Film
Can’t Be Heaven (1998)
Rating: ★
Coming of Age/Ghostly Saxophonist
Cashback (2006)
Rating: ★★★½
Youth Can Freeze Time
Crater (2023)
Rating: ★★½
Coming of Age Story on The Moon
The Divine Ryans (1999)
Rating: ★★★
Family Saga/Father’s Ghost/Surreal Dreams
E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Rating: ★★★★★
Cute Alien
Earth to Echo (2014)
Rating: ★★
Kids Discover Cute Alien
Eve’s Bayou (1997)
Rating: ★★★★
Backwater Louisiana Childhood/Voodoo
Explorers (1985)
Rating: ★★★½
Teenagers Build Spaceship
The Fields (2011)
Rating: ★★½
Coming of Age Story/Backwoods Happenings
Frankenstein and Me (1996)
Rating: ★★★
Genre Fan Childhood
Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
Rating: ★★
Clairvoyance/Stephen King Adaptation
Heavy Traffic (1973)
Rating: ★★★½
Adult Animation/Growing Up in Brooklyn
How I Live Now (2013)
Rating: ★★
England Invaded/Outbreak of Nuclear War
I Kill Giants (2017)
Rating: ★★★
Girl Believes in Giants
It (1990)
Rating: ★★★½
Stephen King Adaptation/Killer Clown Monster
It (2017)
Rating: ★★
Stephen King Adaptation/Killer Clown Monster
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
Rating: ★★★★★
Anime/Young Witch’s Adventures
Lady in White (1988)
Rating: ★★★★
Ghost Story
Matinee (1993)
Rating: ★★★½
B-Movie Homage/Genre Fandom Childhood
Mr. Harrigan’s Phone (2022)
Rating: ★★★
Text Messages from Beyond the Grave/Stephen King Adaptation
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Rating: ★★★★★
Anime/Children Befriend Mysterious Creature
Onward (2020)
Rating: ★★★
Pixar Animation/Alternate Present Inhabited by Magic Creatures
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Rating: ★★
Time Travel/Housewife Revisists Her Youth
Radio Flyer (1992)
Rating: ★★★
Childhood Abuse/Fantasy of Flight
Red Dawn (1984)
Rating: ★
Communist Invasion of the USA
Red Dawn (2012)
Rating: ★
North Korean Invasion of the USA
The Scarecrow (1982)
Rating: ★★★½
New Zealand Gothic
Slash (2016)
Rating: ★★
The World of Slash Fandom
The Spirit of the Beehive (1974)
Rating: ★★★★★
Spanish Childhood/Ghost of the Frankenstein Monster
Star Wars (1977)
Rating: ★★★★★
Space Opera
Summer of 84 (2018)
Rating: ★★
Retro 80s Film/Teens Believe Neighbour May Be a Serial Killer
Super 8 (2011)
Rating: ★★½
Alien Monster/1980s Coming of Age Tale
Three Wishes (1995)
Rating: ★★½
1950s Coming of Age Tale/Mysterious Stranger
Tomorrow When the War Began (2010)
Rating: ★★
Australia Invaded/Teenagers Fight Back
The Tree of Life (2011)
Rating: ★★★★½
Lost American Childhood/The Evolution of Life on Earth
The Tripods [Season 1] (1984)
Rating: ★★★★
Earth After an Alien Invasion
Village of Dreams (1996)
Rating: ★★
Mischievous Twins’ Childhood/Magical Realism
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999)
Rating: ★★★
Coming of Age Story/Eccentric Psychic Father
When Marnie Was There (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Ghost Story