Growing Pains
Coming of age isn’t easy—especially in the Criterion catalog.
| Spine # | Title | Director | Country | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1238 |
|
Gummo | Harmony Korine | United States, | 1997 |
|
Tótem | Lila Avilés | Mexico, | 2023 | |
| 1233 |
|
Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy | |||
| 1227 |
|
Risky Business | Paul Brickman | United States, | 1983 |
| 977 |
|
Blue Velvet | David Lynch | United States, | 1986 |
| 1216 |
|
Dogfight | Nancy Savoca | United States, | 1991 |
| 381 |
|
La haine | Mathieu Kassovitz | France, | 1995 |
| 1211 |
|
The Runner | Amir Naderi | Iran, | 1984 |
| 782 |
|
The Apu Trilogy | |||
| 1201 |
|
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio | Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson | Mexico, | 2022 |
|
The Red Balloon | Albert Lamorisse | France, | 1956 | |
|
White Mane | Albert Lamorisse | France, | 1953 | |
|
The Eight Mountains | Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch | Italy, | 2022 | |
|
Tori and Lokita | Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne | Belgium, | 2022 | |
| 549 |
|
The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich | United States, | 1971 |
| 10 |
|
Walkabout | Nicolas Roeg | United Kingdom, | 1971 |
| 1190 |
|
Drylongso | Cauleen Smith | United States, | 1998 |
|
Ådalen 31 | Bo Widerberg | Sweden, | 1969 | |
| 1181 |
|
Petite maman | Céline Sciamma | France, | 2021 |
| 1177 |
|
Small Axe | |||
| 336 |
|
Dazed and Confused | Richard Linklater | United States, | 1993 |
| 1165 |
|
Cooley High | Michael Schultz | United States, | 1975 |
| 1154 |
|
Eve’s Bayou | Kasi Lemmons | United States, | 1997 |
| 920 |
|
The Virgin Suicides | Sofia Coppola | United States, | 1999 |
| 1107 |
|
The Learning Tree | Gordon Parks | United States, | 1969 |
| 1105 |
|
Menace II Society | Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes | United States, | 1993 |
| 162 |
|
Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay | United Kingdom, | 1999 |
| 1061 |
|
Minding the Gap | Bing Liu | United States, | 2018 |
| 1083 |
|
Pariah | Dee Rees | United States, | 2011 |
|
Jacquot de Nantes | Agnès Varda | France, | 1991 | |
| 990 |
|
Where Is the Friend’s House? | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran, | 1987 |
| 944 |
|
Cold Water | Olivier Assayas | France, | 1994 |
| 839 |
|
Boyhood | Richard Linklater | United States, | 2014 |
| 5 |
|
The 400 Blows | François Truffaut | France, | 1959 |
| 927 |
|
El Sur | Víctor Erice | Spain, | 1983 |
| 351 |
|
The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor Erice | Spain, | 1973 |
| 403 |
|
Cría cuervos . . . | Carlos Saura | Spain, | 1976 |
| 263 |
|
Fanny and Alexander: Theatrical Version | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden, | 1982 |
| 761 |
|
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Jaromil Jireš | Czechoslovakia, | 1970 |
| 152 |
|
George Washington | David Gordon Green | United States, | 2000 |
| 84 |
|
Good Morning | Yasujiro Ozu | Japan, | 1959 |
|
I Was Born, But . . . | Yasujiro Ozu | Japan, | 1932 | |
| 804 |
|
A Brighter Summer Day | Edward Yang | Taiwan, | 1991 |
| 339 |
|
Yi Yi | Edward Yang | Taiwan, | 2000 |
| 905 |
|
The Breakfast Club | John Hughes | United States, | 1985 |
| 1075 |
|
Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Amy Heckerling | United States, | 1982 |
| 872 |
|
Ghost World | Terry Zwigoff | United States, | 2001 |
| 608 |
|
Harold and Maude | Hal Ashby | United States, | 1971 |
| 776 |
|
Moonrise Kingdom | Wes Anderson | United States, | 2012 |
| 65 |
|
Rushmore | Wes Anderson | United States, | 1998 |
| 869 |
|
Rumble Fish | Francis Ford Coppola | United States, | 1983 |
| 289 |
|
Hoop Dreams | Steve James | United States, | 1994 |
| 426 |
|
The Ice Storm | Ang Lee | United States, | 1997 |
| 620 |
|
La promesse | Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne | Belgium, | 1996 |
| 553 |
|
Fish Tank | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom, | 2009 |
| 337 |
|
À nos amours | Maurice Pialat | France, | 1983 |
| 259 |
|
Fat Girl | Catherine Breillat | France, | 2001 |
| 829 |
|
A Taste of Honey | Tony Richardson | United Kingdom, | 1961 |
| 695 |
|
Blue Is the Warmest Color | Abdellatif Kechiche | France, | 2013 |
| 374 |
|
Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica | Italy, | 1948 |
| 499 |
|
Germany Year Zero | Roberto Rossellini | Italy, | 1948 |
| 397 |
|
Ivan’s Childhood | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union, | 1962 |
| 330 |
|
Au revoir les enfants | Louis Malle | France, | 1987 |
| 329 |
|
Lacombe, Lucien | Louis Malle | France, | 1974 |
| 234 |
|
The Tin Drum | Volker Schlöndorff | Germany, | 1979 |
| 283 |
|
A Generation | Andrzej Wajda | Poland, | 1955 |
| 628 |
|
The Forgiveness of Blood | Joshua Marston | United States, | 2011 |
| 43 |
|
Lord of the Flies | Peter Brook | United Kingdom, | 1963 |
| 391 |
|
If.... | Lindsay Anderson | United Kingdom, | 1969 |
| 694 |
|
The Long Day Closes | Terence Davies | United Kingdom, | 1992 |
| 561 |
|
Kes | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, | 1970 |
| 766 |
|
Here Is Your Life | Jan Troell | Sweden, | 1966 |
| 178 |
|
My Life as a Dog | Lasse Hallström | Sweden, | 1985 |
| 698 |
|
King of the Hill | Steven Soderbergh | United States, | 1993 |
| 438 |
|
Mon oncle Antoine | Claude Jutra | Canada, | 1971 |
| 279 |
|
Young Törless | Volker Schlöndorff | Germany, | 1966 |
| 534 |
|
L’enfance nue | Maurice Pialat | France, | 1968 |
| 194 |
|
Il posto | Ermanno Olmi | Italy, | 1961 |
| 276 |
|
The River | Jean Renoir | France, | 1951 |
| 697 |
|
Tess | Roman Polanski | United Kingdom, | 1979 |
| 31 |
|
Great Expectations | David Lean | United Kingdom, | 1946 |
| 32 |
|
Oliver Twist | David Lean | United Kingdom, | 1948 |
| 363 |
|
Mouchette | Robert Bresson | France, | 1967 |
|
Zéro de conduite | Jean Vigo | France, | 1933 | |
| 328 |
|
Murmur of the Heart | Louis Malle | France, | 1971 |
| 323 |
|
The Children Are Watching Us | Vittorio De Sica | Italy, | 1944 |
| 269 |
|
Fighting Elegy | Seijun Suzuki | Japan, | 1966 |
|
Poil de carotte | Julien Duvivier | France, | 1932 | |
|
Come On Children | Allan King | Canada, | 1972 | |
|
Warrendale | Allan King | Canada, | 1967 |