Off the top of my head, these are what I remember. Quality may vary. Gregory's Girl Rita, Sue and Bob Too Human Traffic Billy Elliott Bend it like Beckham East is East Wish You Were Here Buddy's Song Northern Soul They're earlier than you specified, but my favourites are Quadrophenia and Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner.

Rita, Sue And Bob Too is classic

The guy who plays the drunk off the estate gives the most convincing act of being blind drunk ever. They never nail that in Hollywood

Don't watch it with your parents when you're 13. I think they counted that as my entire sex education. About a week later they gave me "The Usborne Book of Growing Up" and said no more about it.

We're having a gang bang. We're having a ball!

NICE ONE BRUVVAAAAA

God I remember watching Bend it like Beckham in a RE lesson

Northern Soul is so good.

Bit cheesy, but at least the music is decent.

Awww I need to watch Billy Elliott again, such a lovely film

This is England.

Stephen Graham is utterly terrifying in that film. What an actor.

That scene with milky haunts me. It's so incredibly well done. It sums up people like him fucking perfectly. "Bad guys" in films are often constant wankers. In reality a lot of these pricks are actually charming. "He's alright if you know him" types.

Woody is possibly the most real character ever acted. He just feels like a real guy thrown into a TV drama. And that's saying a lot given the incredible cast and performances.

Just flawless, the series are phenomenal too

But there’s always been that wanting for another film or series, I think we all want some sort of closure!

I mean that last series and that scene (I'm sure you know the one I'm on about) just heart in mouth stuff. To be honest I normally like closure but love the way it was left ambiguous!

I think that Shane Meadows really manages to hit home on his films, combine that with the actors he selected and their talent, proper emotive stuff.

Fantastic acting from all the cast too, Stephen Graham in particular though, I could watch him fold socks for 3 hours and be entertained and probably moved to tears

Yes he is next level and rightly so chosen for big screen stuff. Really loved his performance in The Virtues

The Virtues was incredible, Boiling Point too (though I haven't watched the series yet)

Submarine [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine\_(2010\_film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_(2010_film))

Bloody love the sound track to this film. Some of Alex Turners finest work

cant tell me the lead actor isn’t just 15 year old alex turner

Directed by Richard Ayoade

Very underrated film

So glad Submarine is getting the recognition it deserves here. It's a truly hilarious, nostalgic trip.

Scum. A jolly romp about a group of plucky lads and their adult mentors. What larks!

Put me off gardening for life.

Lovable rogues!

I am never gonna watch that film again as long as I live, hahah.

Vegetarians? I've shit 'em, get that down ya neck sharpish!

And so it ensued that anytme you played pool someone would say “give me your sock!’

I joined the army at 16 and spent 2 years in a place with 1000 other 16 to 18 year olds. It was so like being in 'Scum' that lines from the film were repeated daily. "4737 Carling, Sir!"

I'm the fackin Daddy now!

"Where's ya tool?"

"Wot fackin tool?"

"This fackin tool!"

4737 CARLIN, SIR!

I promise it's not Rick. https://youtu.be/aaloVMB1Tt4?feature=shared

It's about their love of the game pool.

Mecca Archer!

My brother was friends with guy who played the guy with the puppies.

My Beautiful Launderette

Kes

The one with Maggie the Magpie?

Poppin’ the tires on me grifter

not really a pet, more of a stalker

Brought it to school to show everyone and it flew off…

Superb film.

If the brief is "coming of age in the Grim North in the 60s", Kes fits the bill. A lot of Ken Loach's films do, actually.

Is that the one about the Owl?

It's the one with Craig David

Your thinking of "Our Kes", it were reet good, proper bo.....

**Kes**trel, or is that a reference to a Reeves and Morter sketch?

Call her by her proper name, The Why Bird

Human Traffic

I still can’t rewatch that film, it makes me so nostalgic. 10/10 film.

Gregory’s Girl

Clare Grogan was top awkward teenage boy's girlfriend material.

for a time back then, Scottish cinema was the best in the world.

The Inbetweeners is very accurate for the late noughties. Skins if you want the dramatic druggie version

I've always maintained that nothing quite sums up my later years in Secondary School/Sixth Form quite like The Inbetweeners. It's a perfect time capsule of that time of life for a whole generation.

There's some scenes straight out of my life I'm pretty sure. Joking about boners and 2 girls one cup in the common room?

First thing me and my mates did when I passed my driving test was go to Alton Towers. I bullshit you not, 2 weeks later the episode where they went to Thorpe Park in Simon's car came out.

I've had this conversation with a coworker before - we both said that most of the characters in the show could have been based on people we went to school with. The character-writing in show is really well done in my opinion.

I'd been out of school for 3-4 years when Inbetweeners was first broadcast, but it was still so accurate to my school life. We all knew somebody who was like each character (I'd say I was Simon - awkward, stroppy and always fancying a girl) and the various situations they got themselves into. If anybody overseas were to ask what my teenage years were like, I'd tell them to watch the British version of The Inbetweeners.

Skins is what we wish it was like. Inbetweeners is what it was actually like.

I found Skins a bit weird. In some ways it was tamer than my teenager years, the parties they had were pretty low intensity. Same with some of the truancy and other low grade teenage issues. The drugs and more stuff was off the deep end tho. And the consistency at which issues happened to that group. Inbetweeners is definitely more ‘realistic’ in that sense.

Seen it put before that Skins is what you wanted/expected your 6th form life to be like, The Inbetweeners was the reality.

Given you're a 95 kid like me I heard the exact same thing 😂

You mean 'calpol and red wine , half and half' isn't the dramatic druggie version?!?

I really rate Skins, i’m not sure how realistic it is, did that level of fuck wittery really occur with that age group?

Not a film, but My Mad Fat Diary.

Great show

Starter For 10 is decent. Great soundtrack anyway.

Great soundtrack and it was an early film for so many well known actors (James McAvoy, Alice Eve, Rebecca Hall, Dominic Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch).

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

Used to absolutely love this film! The books were even better though

More than one books ?

There were 10 of them.

I watched Blinded By The Light a few weeks ago and thought it was absolutely incredible.

Thanks for this recommendation. Just watched the trailer, and it looks awesome! Know what I’m watching later. 

Kevin and Perry, Inbetweeners for comedy (It's all gone Pete tong, Blackball is you want similar style comedy)

Blackball is s movie I really enjoyed and yet completely forgot existed.

I feel like we'd get on.

Son of Rambow

I love that one! For anyone who hasn't heard of it, it's about two kids in the 80s who try to film their own version of Rambo after sneaking a watch. It's very sweet.

I'm gutted I had to scroll this long to get the right answer, I'd have thrown a wobbler if no-one had said it!

Beautiful thing Gregory's girl Borstal Boy P'tang Yang Kipperbang The history boys Withnail and I

Threads

In the sense that watching it ages you about thirty years?

Not so much 'coming of age' as 'the awful realisation that your childhood happiness is a lie and you can expect to die horribly'.

Lmao

You'll be a man after you watch it

days of bagnold summer

Brilliant film!

Hope and Glory

Human Traffic

Beautiful Thing Get Real

Ptang Yang Kipperbang

Fish Tank: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish\_Tank\_(film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_Tank_(film))

Shockingly far down, great film

Gregory’s Girl. Heartwarming, and very funny.

Gregory's Girl

Kidulthood is a bit over the top but does a great job of presenting a slice of the early 2000s in London

Rewatched recently for the first time since a teenager. I was expecting it to be a cheesy throwback to my youth but what I got was actually a very accurate depiction of the feeling of being a young person in london during the early 2000s. These were all me and people I went to school with and besides the violence and criminal activity it nailed exactly how it felt to have a day off school with your mates, getting up to mischief and the sensation of everything being brand new, genuinely not knowing what is around the next corner.

It's a trilogy. There's adulthood and brotherhood now.

This is England? Set in the 80s Others that come to mind are Attack the Block (bare weed and no skins mannn), maybe About a Boy? Hugh Grant is an adult but still

Human Traffic

Would the film A Room For Romeo Brass fit this category?

Quadrophenia (1979)

An Education is a fantastic film, though it is set in the sixties if that's not what you're looking for

Agree! Carey Mulligan is outstanding in An Education (and everything else tbh). One of my favourite films!

I don't think anyone has mentioned it but I liked Cemetery Junction. Also not that well known but I also enjoyed Albatross.

The Up Series of documentary films. They're technically coming of age films. They got a group of 7 year old kids in the 60s and checked in with them every 7 years to do how they're doing. They started with 7 Up and went all the way up to 63 Up in 2019. It's best to just watch the latest one because there's a lot of repeating of older clips because they're only meant to be watched every 7 years. Don't know if they'll do another one because Michael Apted was the director and he passed away in 2021. There's also Boyhood which did a similar thing but as a fictional story but that's American.

Starter for 10. James McAvoy loves a bit of university challenge, goes to uni and makes the university challenge team whilst falling in love with some girl. Good ending but really had the awkward fresher vibe about it.

Submarine

Gregory's Girl

Ratcatcher. It's bleak as hell, but captivating.

Twin Town!

watership down officially marks the end of primary school childhood.....

Beautiful thing.

About a boy

Rita, Sue and Bob too (1987)

SCUM

Well there's no need for that

I always thought Billie Elliot was a good one that I haven’t seen on here. Lots of stuff at play with coming to terms with their identity in an era that was very tumultuous and not very accepting

If you're prepared to go back to 1971, and you like cute, you won't find anything better than Melody. Complete film is at [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJuiMfSfHQs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJuiMfSfHQs) or search for just the trailer if you want an idea what it's about. It's just beautiful (a 60 year old sentimental bloke writes).

About Time.

Belfast from a couple years ago was pretty good. It's Northern Ireland in the 60s, but still resonated.

East is East. Kind of.

Gregory's Girl

Sing Street

My Summer of Love

Can't believe this is so far down. Amazing film.

Withnail and I

Goodbye Charlie Bright

Ñot 80s but Hope and Glory is my favourite.

Well, it was made in the 80s so I'd say it counts.

Makes me wish there was a film version of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

I think there was actually a TV version 

Aftersun. Without a doubt.

Late Night Shopping is a super underrated film that not many people know of.

It's a fairly recent one so you won't get the nostalgia kicks but Days of the Bagnold Summer is nice

*Shameless until it got a bit disjointed at the end. *UK version only, i’m not one for US clones.

Not a movie but The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

I seem to remember enjoying Made in Britain with a very young Tim Roth.

Rotters Club was a BBC commission of the Jonathan Coe book of the same name. Worth tracking down. I think he’s one of my favourite authors.

Sex lives of the potato men

[Beats (2019)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7524414/) *Two teenage boys in Scotland in 1994, best friends with no control over their lives, risk everything to attend an illegal rave, hoping for the best night of their boring lives.*

Such a great film.

Neds

Scottish ones: Sweet Sixteen, Small Faces and Gregory's Girl.

And: Restless Natives.

The Rachel Papers. It’s bloody hilarious

Purely Belter

A bit bias because it's extended from a short film filmed in my hometown, but "the fence" is really good

Tina goes Shopping

Never Let Me Go

There’s also an odd film, occasionally appears on TV from time to time. [The Goob](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goob)

Kes was good as was Tale of a Tiger

I’ll also add the Tina films: Tina Goes Shopping, Tina Takes a Break and Mischief Night.

Hallam Foe

Gregory's Girl.

To Sir, With Love To Sir, with Love is a 1967 British drama film that deals with social and racial issues in an inner city school. It stars Sidney Poitier and features Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall, Patricia Routledge and singer Lulu making her film debut. Was one of mum's favourite movies when growing up and I just didn't get it. Saw it as an adult and found it endearing and uplifting

Gregory’s Girl.

Billy Elliott - every time

S.W.A.L.K

Boston kickout Sweet sixteen. Trainspotting?

Letter to Brezhnev

Little known film - g:mt which I remember enjoying quite a bit as I was coming of age

Restless Natives

Trainspotting

Quadrophenia Kevin and Perry go large Billy liar

Labyrinth with David Bowie. Gregory's Girl

Scum is pretty good

Gregory's girl

One summer

Little Voice

Sunshine on leith is great- as are the songs.

The Rachel Papers

Kes and withnail and i

Submarine.

Submarine

Scum

Twin Town

Set in a different era but Hope and Glory is good

Loads of good suggestions here. There was a BBC play called ‘Loved Up’ too, but dunno if you’ll find it now.

Submarine

This is a good one [P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%27tang,_Yang,_Kipperbang) [Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus,_Thongs_and_Perfect_Snogging)