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Soramame leaves the countryside for Tokyo in pursuit of a childhood friend and fiancé, but instead he meets a scrappy young musician, Oto. By some odd circumstance, the two end up living under the same roof. Influenced by Oto, Soramame awakens to the world of fashion while Soramame becomes Oto's muse, reviving his forsaken dream of becoming a musician. As they chase their dreams, love is sure to germinate, but it struggles to take off for these two dreamers unwittingly caught in the world's most beautiful love story.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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Youth Should be Early (2021)
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With graduation looming, university student Cheng Xin is convinced her graduation ceremony would be the perfect time to propose to her boyfriend, Zheng Qian. Mustering up the courage to do just that, Cheng Xin proposes but in an unexpected move, Zheng Qian rejects her. Feeling that he hasn’t made any real accomplishments in his life or career, Zheng Qian doesn’t think the time is right to even consider marriage. Understanding where Zheng Qian is coming from, Cheng Xin offers to help him get a job at her family’s company, but Zheng Qian's pride refuses to allow him to accept. Rejected a second time, Cheng Xin has no choice but to sit back and watch as Zheng Qian struggles to find a job. Just another face, lost in the overwhelming swarm of new graduates clamoring for a job, Zheng Qian can’t seem to catch a break. Hating to see her love suffer, Cheng Xin works behind the scenes, setting up an opportunity that’s guaranteed to land Zheng Qian an ideal job.
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Genere: Romance
Country: China
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The Villain of Romance (2023)
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A coming-of-age story and realistic romance about young college “villains” who are still learning about love. Kang Hee Jae desperately wants to appear cool to others, but secretly feels smaller than plankton on the inside. While struggling to forgive his girlfriend, Yoo Jin, for her “savage” behavior, he winds up gradually transforming into an obsessive monster. Meanwhile, Ban Yoo Jin is a highly intelligent older student at Kang Hee Jae’s college. Because Yoo Jin can never seem to keep a relationship going for longer than 100 days, she starts to worry that she’ll wind up living a lonely life alone. So when younger student Hee Jae boldly shoots his shot, she decides to put him through some intense “training” as they date.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
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About Youth (2022)
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The coolest, most self-centered kid in high school meets a quiet kid who is an instant rock star on-stage. Despite their differences in background and beliefs, they are set on the same goal––becoming a head student. Together, they are to sing a song about youth as they engage in a fierce campaign battle. Guang is the most popular kid in school and an idol to his peers. Chang is the successor to his family noodle stand and a guitarist/singer with endless potential. During the campaign, Guang finds himself drawn to Chang’s secret identity, and the two lonely souls soon begin to develop a mutually healing relationship dependent on each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 25 min
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In a Good Way (2013)
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In the summer of 1995, childhood friends Zheng Ren Wei and Lin Jia En took their college entrance exam. Zheng got into a college in Taipei and was ready to start an exciting life in the big city. Lin, unfortunately, failed the test and was stuck in the countryside. Bored out of her mind, Lin decided to go find Zheng and spend her 4th year of high school in Taipei as well.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
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Shining Like You (2021)
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Story of a girl named Lu Qi Yi, who bravely works toward her dreams of entering the entertainment industry and transforms into a confident person.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Romance
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
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The Red Apple (2023)
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The story happens in the near future of Japan, where sexual activity is forbidden by law. Inuda Hikaru is an honor student whose father is an executive at Setori (Sexual Misconduct Control Bureau of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare). Hikaru aspires to become like his father and finds sex unpleasant. Minase Yu is Hikaru's childhood friend who has a sharp tongue but excels in her grades. Yu is also a big fan of nationally known actress Uchu Misora, commonly known as Uchura. One day, Hikaru is invited by a classmate to a shady members-only club where he witnesses men and women engaging in illegal sexual acts. He is also surprised to see Uchura, who claims to be "pure" there with a man. Before he realised, Hikaru finds himself being caught in an "underworld organization" where sexual activity is performed.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
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Takara-kun and Amagi-kun (2022)
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Takara Shun, a high school student who belongs to a popular group in the class, and Taichi Amagi, a pure boy who is not a conspicuous type but is liked by people, realize their love for each other. Even though they start dating in secret, it is difficult for them to be honest.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Fifteen Years to Wait for Migratory Birds (2016)
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On the first day of junior high, 13 year old Li Li meets the handsome but cynical Pei Shang Xuan. A homely girl and a handsome boy, an academic achiever and a poor student - they would never be the kind of enviable match made in heaven. For the next 15 years, Li Li was Pei Shang Xuan's one, unchanging friend, and Pei Shang Xuan was the one and only person Li Li loved. As the years pass by, Shang Xuan begins to realize how important Li Li is in his life. But their love isn't something that can continue in this lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Romance
Country: China
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Plot tags: tear jerker, tearjerker
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Hidden Agenda (2023)
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For the first time, university student Zo resolves to date someone and he sets his sights on popular girl Nita. In order to woo her, he approaches Joke, Nita's ex, for dating advice. Joke agrees to help him in exchange for help with his studies. Or, at least, that's what he tells Zo.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Romance
Country: Thailand
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Hope or Dope (2022)
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A story about an 18-year-old Da Jung who discovered a field of marijuana as a teenager, and her friends who desperately look for their lost, ordinary life. A human drama about growing up, experiencing love and wounds, as Da Jung who was used by her parents to transport drugs, meets Yoon Tak, a rural man and his friends in the countryside.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
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Full House Take 2 (2012)
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Full House Take 2 is a 2012 South Korean television series that was jointly produced by Korean, Chinese and Japanese companies. It aired on Japan's TBS-cable affiliate TBS Channel 2, and South Korean cable channel SBS Plus. The term "sequel" is used loosely, since the series only shares the same premise as Won Soo-yeon's manhwa and the original 2004 hit Full House, but has a completely different set of characters and plot.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 30 min
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To Love You (2020)
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The plot revolves around 4 friends of different ages football fans who have a small team, in addition to this the 4 are non-conventional parents who will have to assume their role as parents.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Romance
Country: Colombia
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Twenty Your Life On (2020)
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Being someone with no power nor looks nor money, Jiang Xiaoguo has always envied her three roommates. Duan Jiabao who comes from a wealthy family has simple desires. She is carefree and only cares about chasing after celebrities and eating good food. Luo Yan may despise her mother's tendency to become too overbearing, but at least she can rest assured that her future is in good hands. Liang Shuang is beautiful and a go-getter. Even though she is only a college senior, she has already proven herself more than capable to adapt to society. However, she does not know that every person will have their own crosses to bear. Duang Jiabao gets a taste of first love only to realize that she and her friend have fallen for the same man. In trying to understand her mother, Luo Yan learns her mother's long-kept secret. Meanwhile, Liang Shuang still needs to learn how not to hurt the people who care for her. In one year, the four ladies gradually become closer.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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I Cannot Hug You (2017)
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The plot revolves around an inexplicable pull between two people and the romance that ensues between them. The main protagonist is the modern-day vampire who is apathetic towards everything in life until he showed up as her next-door neighbor (he's a germophobe, like in the webtoon). Her world changes as she feels the desperate need to get close to him. Will she finally be able to hug him? ~~ Based on the "unTouchable" Line webtoon created by Massstar.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Romance
Country: China
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing, dorama
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Tokyo Alice (2017)
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Four former classmates share an apartment in Daikanyama, Tokyo and pursue their own happiness. Arisugawa Fuu works for a design production company and spends most of her salary on fashion, Hada Mizuhois a budding manga artist, Sakuragawa Rio practices psychosomatic medicine, and Enjoji Sayuri works for a Ginza art gallery.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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My Gear and Your Gown (2020)
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Pai is a clever medical student. He goes from being the thick glasses president of his school's academic club to a college freshmen regarded as the beau of the faculty of medicine. He has never been confident about how he looks. He has never believed in love. Itt is a handsome engineering student who is an ex-president of his school's sports club. He has always been in a spotlight. Fate brings him back to his enemy who always wears a dust grey medical gown earring.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, emotional, talky
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My Goddess (2018)
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Yan Dong Ming used to be on the top of his career, a well-established music producer that's known for his love songs. However, the public has now completely lost interest in him. To extend his music dream, he ends up in Yun Hai Village under strange circumstances, a land isolated from the city and there, he met the "Planting Goddess" Tian Li Yun. Yan Dong Ming, a neat freak and a guy that has "city cancer" – obsessed with city living can't get used to the natural habitat of Yun Hai Village. However, under the guidance of Li Yun, not only he fell in love with this self-sufficient cute village, he also fell in love with the strong and determined Li Yun. When faced with the crisis of eradication of the village, will Dong Min choose to stand by Li Yun or will he return to the city and regain his long-lost music dream? How will Plant Goddess Li Yun defend her village and her beloved man?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, touching, talky
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Ru: Taiwan Express (2020)
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In 1999, a general trading company in Tokyo celebrates because Shinkansen of Japan wins priority negotiating rights for the Taiwan High Speed Rail. Haruka Tada (Haru) has been working at the general trading company for 4 years and she is sent to Taiwan for work. When Haruka Tada was a university student, she visited Taiwan for the first time during the summer. During that time, she happened to meet young Taiwanese man Eric and he showed her Taiwan for a day. She lost contact with him after that and she could not find him again. She then sealed away her thoughts about him in her mind. 6 years later, Haruka Tada arrives in Taiwan again.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan, Taiwan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, emotional, melancholic, talky
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Rush to the Dead Summer (2017)
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When Li Xia and her best friend enroll into the arts specialized Qian Chuan secondary school, they meet the legendary Fu Xiao Si and Lu Zhi Ang. Together, the group of youths officially begin their beautiful high school life. After graduation, the friends part with everyone going their separate ways, but everyone continues to fight for their dreams. However, they're all gradually changing and thus become doubtful about the origin of their friendship. A span of ten years makes them realize that other than memories, nothing can be eternal, but they learnt to love and grow.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, uplifting, touching, sweet
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From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke (2023)
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With her gloomy demeanor, Sawako has a hard time fitting in. But when an outgoing classmate approaches her, life takes a turn for the better.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, shoujo, romantic comedy, romantic drama, heartfelt
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Flower and the Beast (2017)
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Kumi (Yurika Nakamura) is a transfer student at a prestigious high school. She meets Hyo (Yosuke Sugino) who is handsome and kind. Kumi falls in love with him and has her first kiss with him, but Hyo is famous for being a womanizer at school. After she discovers his true side, she gets hurts, but her feelings for him doesn't go away.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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Love Sick (2014)
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This series follows two 17 years old high school boys who eventually fall in love after a deal brought them closer together. Phun has a girlfriend (Aim) but his father wants him to date his friend's daughter. Phun's little sister, Pang, is obsessed with YAOI. Phun needs to convince Pang that he has a boyfriend so that she can help talk their father around the idea of dating his friend's daughter. So he asked Noh to become his fake boyfriend in exchange for helping Noh raising fund for his Music Club.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Transit Girls (2015)
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High School student Sayuri is falling in love with Yui, the daughter of her father's fiancee.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing, yuri, queer cinema
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Good Morning Call (2016)
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A high school girl finally gets her own apartment, but she has to share it with the most popular boy in school. No one can know they're living together.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: dorama, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, romantic drama, stylized
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Senior Secret Love (2016)
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Senior Secret Love (Thai: รุ่นพี่ Secret Love) is a Thai television series produced by GMM Grammy and GMMTV. It was broadcast every Sunday from 3:00 PM until 4:00 PM (Thailand time), starting on February 7, 2016 on One Channel.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Çilek Kokusu (2015)
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A hardworking girl and a reckless boy.. Although their major differences, fate on the other hand has other plans for them.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, emotional, light, entertaining, captivating
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SKAM Austin (2018)
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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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Hana Nochi Hare: HanaDan Next Season (2018)
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The setting of the drama takes place 10 years after the F4 graduated from Eitoku Academy. Edogawa Oto is the daughter of a former company president. Her life completely changed after their family business went bankrupt. Her fiance is Hase Tenma, the popular student council president of the rival school. With declining enrollment due to a recession and the rise of a rival school, Eitoku Academy is now ruled by the Correct5 whose leader is Kakuragi Haruto. The group seeks out, then runs out, any students whose families haven’t made appropriate donations to the school. When Haruto and Oto discover each other’s secrets — that Haruto buys self-help items to get stronger, and that Oto is poor and works at a convenience store – they promise to keep each other’s secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Moment at Eighteen (2019)
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Coming-of-age drama about 18-year-olds, taking a realistic look into the moments of their lives, moments that all of us might have experienced at one time or another. Ong Seong Woo plays Choi Jun Woo, for whom loneliness has become a habit. Though Choi Jun Woo appears to lack empathy at first glance, it’s just that he has always been alone and isn’t practiced in expressing his emotions. Underneath his withdrawn exterior is a goofy and cute young man. “At Eigteen” is about the events that unfold when Jun Woo transfers schools and is thrown into a new environment.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: dorama, psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic, romantic drama, heartfelt
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School 2021 (2021)
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The story of students attending a specialized high school and pursuing their own dreams rather than go off to college. It will delve into how these students learn about love, friendship, the things they like versus the things they’re good at, and growing up in an intense environment. Gong Ki Joon is a hardworking student who takes on work and school at the same time and achieves his dream job after learning about love and friendship. Jeong Young Joo is a transfer student with a hidden story and a past connection to Gong Ki Joon.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious