Story Structure
Rite of Passage
Painful transition through a universal life experience
54
Films
5.2
Avg Arcplot Score
125 min
Avg Runtime
1952-2023
Year Range
Films with Rite of Passage Structure
7.7
Asteroid City
2023 • Wes Anderson
6.7
Barbie
2023 • Greta Gerwig
4.6
The Fabelmans
2022 • Steven Spielberg
4.1
White Noise
2022 • Noah Baumbach
4.4
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2020 • Charlie Kaufman
5.6
The Father
2020 • Florian Zeller
4.2
Joker
2019 • Todd Phillips
5.9
Little Women
2019 • Greta Gerwig
6.8
Marriage Story
2019 • Noah Baumbach
4.2
Capernaum
2018 • Nadine Labaki
5.3
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 • Coen Brothers
5.8
Lady Bird
2017 • Greta Gerwig
5.9
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
2017 • Noah Baumbach
4.9
Anomalisa
2015 • Duke Johnson
5.9
While We're Young
2014 • Noah Baumbach
3.1
12 Years a Slave
2013 • Steve McQueen
4.8
Inside Llewyn Davis
2013 • Coen Brothers
4.5
The Wind Rises
2013 • Hayao Miyazaki
6.7
Frances Ha
2012 • Noah Baumbach
4
A Separation
2011 • Asghar Farhadi
5.2
From Up on Poppy Hill
2011 • Goro Miyazaki
3.6
Warrior
2011 • Gavin O'Connor
7.8
Greenberg
2010 • Noah Baumbach
4
A Serious Man
2009 • Coen Brothers
5
Synecdoche, New York
2008 • Charlie Kaufman
3.1
There Will Be Blood
2007 • Paul Thomas Anderson
8.3
Stranger Than Fiction
2006 • Marc Forster
8
The Squid and the Whale
2005 • Noah Baumbach
7.6
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004 • Michel Gondry
7.1
The Best of Youth
2003 • Marco Tullio Giugliani
3.7
Adaptation
2002 • Spike Jonze
5.4
A Beautiful Mind
2001 • Ron Howard
7.6
Spirited Away
2001 • Hayao Miyazaki
5.6
The Royal Tenenbaums
2001 • Wes Anderson
4.4
Requiem for a Dream
2000 • Darren Aronofsky
3.7
American Beauty
1999 • Sam Mendes
3.8
American History X
1998 • Tony Kaye
4
Rushmore
1998 • Wes Anderson
3.5
Good Will Hunting
1997 • Gus Van Sant
3
Trainspotting
1996 • Danny Boyle
5
Schindler's List
1993 • Steven Spielberg
4.4
Porco Rosso
1992 • Hayao Miyazaki
7.6
Hook
1991 • Steven Spielberg
5.5
Kiki's Delivery Service
1989 • Hayao Miyazaki
5.5
My Neighbor Totoro
1988 • Hayao Miyazaki
6
Empire of the Sun
1987 • Steven Spielberg
6.4
Come and See
1985 • Elem Klimov
5.8
The Color Purple
1985 • Steven Spielberg
3.7
Raging Bull
1980 • Martin Scorsese
4.3
The Elephant Man
1980 • David Lynch
4.3
Taxi Driver
1976 • Martin Scorsese
5
American Graffiti
1973 • George Lucas
3.4
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962 • Robert Mulligan
3.1
Ikiru
1952 • Akira Kurosawa