20 Coming-Of-Age Movies That Are Totally Flawless
7. The Breakfast Club (1985)
Taking place in a Saturday detention, The Breakfast Club follows five radically different high school students as they slowly help each other confront themselves.
Soaring thanks to its young cast - particularly a scene-stealing Judd Nelson and Molly Ringwald - John Hughes' drama is elegantly paced and amusing, using frequent ad-libs and its sparse setting to tell a story that's entirely about character.
Though it's easy to see each student as a walking, talking stereotype, the very brilliance of The Breakfast Club subverts them all, peeling back the layers of their perfectly cultivated images to create relatable, struggling kids with troubles to spare.
A personal odyssey that reminds us not to judge others and accept ourselves, The Breakfast Club is a quintessential 80s masterclass that gets better every year.