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Plot Summary:
Coal Hill School has been a feature of Doctor Who since the first episode, but now we get to see the day-to-day adventures of the students coping with intrusions from space and time.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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Someday or One Day (2019)
Plot Summary:
Yu-Hsuan lost her boyfriend Chuan-Sheng in plane accident. She then discovered Chuan-Sheng and a girl look alike Yu-Hsuan both appeared in a photo taken in 1998. Accidentally, she had backed to 1998 and met a boy looked alike Chuan-Sheng.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 78%
Totally Doctor Who (2006)
Plot Summary:
A look at everything Doctor Who, with exclusive behind-the-scenes clips, interviews with the programme's stars and competitions.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, futuristic, disturbing
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The Obituary of Tunde Johnson (2019)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy, Nigerian-American teenager is pulled over by police, shot to death, and immediately awakens, trapped in a terrifying time loop that forces him to confront difficult truths about his life and himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, queer cinema
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Lovely Us (2020)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age story of a group of youths who grew up together. The story takes place in 2007; four children from Shu De Faculty and Staff Family Hospital entered high school together, welcoming their sixteenth year of life. They form their own clique named "No. 1992", and embark on a journey filled with dreams, growth and warmth.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: light, sincere, captivating
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Nitiman (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jinake Saman is the university moon in the engineering faculty, known across the whole campus as the hottest moon. There was the saying among the campus “Nothing and no one was hotter than Mr. Jin!” One day when he broke up with his girlfriend, Aim, he fell apart in despair. He later discovered that the girl who broke his heart was the cousin of law student Be Bomb. Jin misunderstands that Bom and his cousin were flirting when actually he likes Jin. Bom has liked Jin since he was a freshman one year ago after Jin exchanged Bom’s lunchbox (because he couldn’t eat anything spicy) with his own food and rice. As feelings grow between them, can Jin understand Bom’s true intentions and come to see Bom as more than just a junior?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2016)
Plot Summary:
With next year's university entrance exams looming, high school senior Yoshiyama Mihane is beginning to feel the blues. She recently joined the school's photography club. As she walks by the science lab one day after school, she smells the aroma of lavender. From that moment on, she acquires the ability to leap freely through time and the days ahead are marked with bizarre occurrences.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, touching, feel good
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So Awkward (2015)
Plot Summary:
A sitcom about three very academically bright, but socially awkward 13 year old girls, trying to make sense of life, boys and fitting in. While other girls their age are going to parties, netball practice and sleepovers, Lily, Martha and Jas are busy with chess club, homework and Friday nights in watching documentaries.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining, sitcom, comedy drama
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Degrassi: Next Class (2016)
Plot Summary:
Follow a group of high school freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors from Degrassi Community School, a fictional school in Toronto, Ontario, as they encounter some of the typical issues and challenges common to a teenager's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, uplifting, emotional, sweet
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Backstage (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of “very talented” teenagers sing, dance, and perform their way to the top at the famous Keaton School of the Arts! From the disappointments of failure, to the new friendships and crowning achievements, being a student at Keaton means you're on the path to becoming a star!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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The Rotters' Club (2005)
Plot Summary:
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' adaptation of Jonathon Coe's novel follow a group of Birmingham teenagers, and their families, through the 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 172 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Out With Dad (2010)
Plot Summary:
Here we have a look into the life of a teenage girl along with her single father. The two share a close relationship. Rose is coming of age, coming out of the closet, and hoping to avoid having a spotlight put on her life. Her dad, Nathan, is struggling to help. Maybe he’s even pushing her out? Exploring themes of love and orientation, Out With Dad is a tender look at growing up regardless of your age, experience, or sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, tense, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, disturbing, contemplative, sensual
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Night and Day (2001)
Plot Summary:
Night and Day is a British soap opera which was produced by Granada Television for LWT and ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003. Its theme-song, "Always & Forever", was sung by Kylie Minogue.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sitcom, psychological, sincere, captivating, soap opera
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Heartstopper (2022)
Plot Summary:
Charlie, a highly strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more...? Based on Alice Oseman's bestselling graphic novel series HEARTSTOPPER.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, disturbing, cute, teen, feel good, queer cinema, gay cinema, fun
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The Time Traveler's Wife (2022)
Plot Summary:
The intricate and magical love story of Clare and Henry, and a marriage with a problem… time travel.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing, non-linear, romantic drama
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SKAM Austin (2018)
Plot Summary:
SKAM Austin follows the lives of students at Bouldin High.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 745
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Paper Girls (2022)
Plot Summary:
It's the day after Halloween in 1988 when four young friends accidentally stumble into an intergalactic battle and find themselves inexplicably transported to the year 2019. When they come face-to-face with their adult selves, each girl discovers her own strengths as together they try to find a way back to the past while saving the world of the future.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, exciting, thrilling, retro, queer cinema
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The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British science fiction television series, produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC, created by Russell T Davies and starring Elisabeth Sladen. The programme is a spin-off of the long-running BBC science fiction programme Doctor Who and focuses on the adventures of Sarah Jane Smith, a middle-aged investigative journalist who, in her youth, had numerous adventures across time and space. The series debuted on BBC One with a 60-minute special, entitled "Invasion of the Bane", on 1 January 2007. A full series of ten 25-minute episodes followed, beginning on 24 September 2007. The first series consisted of five two-part stories, and a second series, comprising six two-part stories, began airing on 29 September 2008. A third series, once again comprising six two-part stories to make a total of twelve episodes, with Russell T Davies serving as executive producer, aired from 15 October 2009 to 20 November 2009. The fourth series aired from 11 October 2010. An episode of another spin-off series, Sarah Jane's Alien Files, was shown immediately after each of the first episodes of the stories. Filming for three of six two-part serials planned for the fifth series was completed prior to Elisabeth Sladen's death on 19 April 2011. Although some UK media, including the Sun, reported in early May 2011 that production of the series was to continue, the BBC has stated explicitly that no further episodes will be filmed. The fifth series was broadcast starting 3 October 2011 on Mondays and Tuesdays. It finished just two weeks later on 18 October 2011.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, tense, futuristic, suspenseful, semi serious, nostalgic
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A Monster Calls (2016)
Plot Summary:
A boy imagines a monster that helps him deal with his difficult life and see the world in a different way.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Spain, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, dark fantasy, emotional, compassionate, fairy tale, poignant, sad, depressing, psychotronic, thought provoking
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School 2013 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Go Nam-soon, a young boy, constantly gets bullied by a group in his class. Later, one of his old rivals joins his school. Eventually, they are able to sort out their differences.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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It's a Sin (2021)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of four friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 239 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, humorous, emotional, entertaining, social, sad, saga, anthology, crying
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Grand Army (2020)
Plot Summary:
Five students at the largest public high school in Brooklyn take on a chaotic world as they fight to succeed, survive, break free and seize the future.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, cute, emotional, entertaining, queer cinema
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The Crossing (2018)
Plot Summary:
Refugees from a war-torn country start showing up to seek asylum in an American town. Only the country these people are from is America and the war they are fleeing is 250 years in the future. The local sheriff with a past, a federal agent and a mother in search of her missing refugee daughter drive this allegory with a surprising conspiracy at the center.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, non-linear, spiritual
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Marvel's Runaways (2017)
Plot Summary:
Every teenager thinks their parents are evil. What if you found out they actually were? Six diverse teenagers who can barely stand each other must unite against a common foe – their parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, tense, futuristic, queer cinema
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DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016)
Plot Summary:
When heroes alone are not enough ... the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: captivating, humorous, exciting, sad, absurd, entertaining, stylized, queer cinema, campy
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Plan B (2017)
Plot Summary:
Et si c'était possible de faire marche arrière dans le temps pour modifier le cours des événements et changer sa destinée? Et si une deuxième chance nous était offerte? Et si c'était possible grâce à Plan B - Le jour où Philippe perd l'amour de sa vie, Evelyne, il découvre une invraisemblable compagnie du nom de Plan B qui offre la possibilité de revenir dans le passé. Après un premier essai fructueux, Philippe réalise l'immense pouvoir que lui donne ce stratagème. Il voudra donc aussi s'en servir au profit de son cabinet d'avocats qu'il possède avec son associé/ami/beau-frère Patrice et pour remettre son frère André sur le droit chemin. Mais Philippe réalisera qu'un choix nouveau, aussi minime soit-il, a des répercussions aussi incontrôlables qu'insoupçonnées sur sa vie et celle des autres. Plus rien ne sera sans conséquence. Le jeu en vaut-il la chandelle? Valait-il mieux accepter son véritable destin?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anthology
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Skins (2007)
Plot Summary:
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: captivating, cynical, realistic, semi serious, teen, sexy, erotic, dark, controversial, sexual
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Misfits (2009)
Plot Summary:
When five young outsiders on Community Service get caught in a strange storm, they discover that they have developed superpowers.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, witty, cynical, humorous, semi serious, surreal, feel good, social, sitcom, erotic
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Torchwood (2006)
Plot Summary:
Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from the 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. Torchwood follows the exploits of a small team of alien hunters, who make up the Cardiff branch of the fictional Torchwood Institute, which deals mainly with incidents involving extraterrestrials.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, captivating, detective, sexy, apocalyptic, thrilling, exciting, odd
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I Am Not Okay with This (2020)
Plot Summary:
Sydney is a teenage girl navigating the trials and tribulations of high school while dealing with the complexities of her family, her budding sexuality, and mysterious superpowers just beginning to awaken deep within her.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, light, humorous, psychological, controversial, anime, existential, queer cinema, teen comedy
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The Society (2019)
Plot Summary:
When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: suspense, ambiguous ending, mysterious, captivating, emotional, apocalyptic, sitcom, anime, teen, queer cinema