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Plot Summary:
Jang Geu Rim (Kim So Hyun) is a student at an arts high school who dreams of becoming a pop singer. At school she gets a new roommate, Irene (Sun Woong) who’s actually a boy. Irene’s persona is a pretty Female CF star and his actual name is Hyun Woo.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, humorous, entertaining
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Sprout (2012)
Plot Summary:
Miku finds out that the most popular guy at school will be living under the same roof as her for the summer. Will a budding summer romance blossom?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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Waterboyy the Series (2017)
Plot Summary:
This series is loosely based on the 2015 movie Waterboyy. Swim captain Waii is forced to step up when the university administration threatens to disband the swim club. But as he struggles with a strained family situation—and his growing feelings for a new teammate—will he be able to focus on saving the team?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, disturbing
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Flower and the Beast (2017)
Plot Summary:
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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When One Day I Will Sleep (2019)
Plot Summary:
Morino Hotaru is a second year high school student who has had an unrequited crush on Otaka Ren since junior high school. One day, while on a school trip with Ren and her good friend Yamamoto Shiori, their bus gets into an accident. When Hotaru wakes up, a young man who is dressed fully in black appears in front of her. He is Kuro, a grim reaper.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating
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Twenty Years Old (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two twenty year olds, Kim Hye Rim and Lee Ki Kwang, who attended the same middle school, meet again coincidentally after many years as a college student and an idol group member. Lee Ki Kwang is a member of popular idol group falls in love with Kim Hye Rim, his old friend from same middle school who has never dated before, as the two try to keep their love a secret from the rest of the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, suspenseful
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This Is Living (2014)
Plot Summary:
Woo Bin and Ji Hyo play best friends who move to Vietnam into a home filled with the coolest Samsung appliances. There is also a bit of drama in store for the friends when feelings and other people get involved.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 7 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, entertaining, disturbing
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Longing Heart (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kang Shin-Woo is a math teacher with a good looking appearance. He has not forgotten his first love Han Ji-Soo for the past 10 years. By an accident, he travels to the past when he was a high school student. There, he meets his younger self. Kang Shin-Woo struggles to make the younger Kang Shin-Woo's love come true.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating, romantic drama
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Adolescence Medley (2013)
Plot Summary:
A teen drama about high school students in a village high school. Jung Woo is a transfer student in Namil High School. After transferring schools 7 times, Jung Woo learns it is easiest not to make friends!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, romantic, touching
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K-POP Extreme Survival (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ji Seung Yeon fails her audition piece for an English music college by severely modernizing it, secretly returning home to South Korea in shame. Hiding out at her painfully shy friend's house, she joins him in auditioning to replace popular members of a boy band who are getting too old. Together, she and her friend make it through to a finalized group of eight competing for the few opening spots. No one but her friend and her uncle (director of the pop music company) and his assistant know she's a girl. The leader of the boy band, not in the know, starts questioning his orientation when finding himself progressively attracted to this "boy.".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, feel good, entertaining
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Transit Girls (2015)
Plot Summary:
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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To the Beautiful You (2012)
Plot Summary:
To The Beautiful You is a 2012 South Korean television drama series starring f(x)'s Sulli, Shinee's Minho, and Lee Hyun-woo. It aired on SBS from August 15 to October 4, 2012 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. It is based on the Japanese shōjo manga series, Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, written by Hisaya Nakajo. The Korean series is the fourth television adaptation of the manga following the Taiwanese Hanazakarino Kimitachihe in 2006, the Japanese Hanazakari no Kimitachi e in 2007 and its remake Hanazakari no Kimitachi e 2011.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: romantic, dorama, romantic comedy, sentimental, touching, twist ending
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One Summer Adventure (2015)
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, touching, disturbing
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The Heirs (2013)
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Heirs follows a group of privileged, elite high school students as they are groomed to take over their families' business empires. These wealthy students seem to have everything under control–except their love lives. Kim Tan is heir to the Empire Group sent to study abroad in the U.S. In reality it's a form of exile, as his elder half-brother back home schemes to takes over the family business. While in the States, Kim Tan bumps into Cha Eun Sung, who's arrived from Korea in search of her older sister. He feels himself falling for her, never realizing that she's the daughter of his family's housekeeper. When his fiancée Rachel Yoo arrives to bring him back to Korea, his heart is torn between love and duty. Meanwhile, Rachel's half-brother Choi Young Do develops his own crush on Eun Sung. Who said being a rich, beautiful high school student was easy?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: dorama, semi serious, social, uplifting, humorous, intense, sitcom, romantic drama, romantic, emotional
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Student Bodies (1997)
Plot Summary:
Student Bodies is a syndicated television comedy program that was produced in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1997 to the end of 1999. While a live-action series, animations are used throughout as thoughts and imaginations. The segments are usually dark and comical. Though the show enjoyed much bigger success in Canada, the show was originally made for the American market under the distribution of 20th Television and aired on many Fox affiliated stations for one year. The show aired in Canada on Global and YTV. It has been called "an imitation of Saved by the Bell" by critics, and featured an ensemble cast of high school students at Thomas A. Edison High School.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, sitcom, realistic
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My Little Lover (2015)
Plot Summary:
Shun'ichi Minami possesses good looks and does well academically in high school. Chiyomi Horikiri is a bright girl who likes dancing. They were childhood friends and also their first loves, but after Shun'ichi Minami's father disappeared they hardly talk. On a storming night, Chiyomi Horikiri has an argument with her parents over her future course and leaves home. While trying to avoid the rain, Chiyomi Horikiri wishes that she go back to her childhood. Suddenly, Chiyomi becomes 15 cm tall. Shun'ichi Minami happens to see tiny Chiyomi Horikiri. She tells him that she doesn't want anyone else to see her, and Shun'ichi Minami takes her his home.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 43 min
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The Black Devil and the White Prince (2015)
Plot Summary:
Yu Akahane moves to a dormitory room after her father's transfer from work. She is excited that she will live in the same dorm as Takumi Shirakawa aka "White Prince." Yet, Haruto Kurosaki aka "Black Devil" kisses her as punishment for going against him. It is Yu Akahane’s first kiss. Since then, she becomes obedient to Haruto Kurosaki.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, suspenseful, disturbing
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Boys Over Flowers (2009)
Plot Summary:
A working class girl winds up at an exclusive prep school. Unassuming high school girl Jan Di stands up to -- and eventually falls for -- a spoiled rich kid who belongs to the school's most powerfu clique.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, touching, sentimental, romantic, sincere, anime, novela, romantic drama, humorous, realistic
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Horimiya (2021)
Plot Summary:
Although admired at school for her amiability and academic prowess, high school student Kyouko Hori has been hiding another side of her. With her parents often away from home due to work, Hori has to look after her younger brother and do the housework, leaving no chance to socialize away from school. Meanwhile, Izumi Miyamura is seen as a brooding, glasses-wearing otaku. However, in reality, he is a gentle person inept at studying. Furthermore, he has nine piercings hidden behind his long hair and a tattoo along his back and left shoulder. By sheer chance, Hori and Miyamura cross paths outside of school—neither looking as the other expects. These seemingly polar opposites become friends, sharing with each other a side they have never shown to anyone else.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, light, touching, humorous
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Daydreamers (2007)
Plot Summary:
“Daydreamers” is the story of four red-hot teenagers that are eager to grow up. Deniz, Aslı, Efe and Mine live in a beach town that is full of colorful people in the summer but deserted in the winter. Deniz wants to detach himself from his happy and dependable family and find his own way. Aslı tries to act tough but is very sensitive inside. Efe tries to hide his pain with his breezy and jokey attitude. And the couch grass, rebellious Mine… Intimate friendships, first loves, pressure of exams, school and family problems that are hard to overcome… Everything we went through as teenagers are all part of this series.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating
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To Be Continued (2015)
Plot Summary:
This web-drama is about a boy group who fall to the past just a day before their debut and getting back in time with the help of a girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Go! Live Your Way (2019)
Plot Summary:
Charismatic Mía gets a scholarship to an elite performing arts school, where she makes close friends but clashes with the owner's popular daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 820
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: light, inspirational, colorful, captivating, entertaining, scenic, humorous, colourful
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Awkward. (2011)
Plot Summary:
An irreverent look at the conflict, chaos and humor that defines teenage life through the eyes of 15-year-old Jenna Hamilton whose life begins to change when a simple accident becomes an epic misunderstanding and is blown way out of proportion. Narration in the first-person voice of Jenna's blog posts captures the humor within the struggles and experiences everyone can relate to from their formative years.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, realistic, sitcom, teen, funny, romantic, captivating, entertaining, independent film
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90210 (2008)
Plot Summary:
90210 revolves around several students at the fictional West Beverly Hills High School, including new Beverly Hills residents Annie Wilson and Dixon Wilson. Their father, Harry Wilson, has returned from Kansas to his Beverly Hills childhood home with his family to care for his mother, former television and theater actress Tabitha Wilson, who has a drinking problem and clashes with his wife Debbie Wilson. Annie and Dixon struggle to adjust to their new lives while making friends and yet adhering to their parents' wishes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, romantic, captivating, teen, humorous, entertaining, serious, sentimental, telenovela, teen comedy
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Life As We Know It (2004)
Plot Summary:
See life through the eyes of Dino, Ben, and Jonathan -- three teens experiencing the joys and pains of growing up. Although different in many ways, these guys have one main thing in common -- women. Together, their attitudes about women are challenged, and they discover there's more to life than meets the eye.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, melancholic, sentimental, romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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He's All That (2021)
Plot Summary:
To get revenge on her ex-boyfriend, an influencer attempts to transform an unpopular classmate into prom king.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, romantic, teen, teen comedy
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Playful Kiss (2010)
Plot Summary:
Playful Kiss is a 2010 South Korean romantic-comedy television series, starring Jung So-min and Kim Hyun-joong. It aired on MBC from September 1 to October 21, 2010 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. It is based on the Japanese manga Itazura Na Kiss written by Tada Kaoru. The Korean series is the third television adaptation of the manga following the Taiwanese It Started With a Kiss in 2005, and its sequel They Kiss Again in 2007. Though Playful Kiss received low ratings in South Korea in the five to seven percent range, it was sold to 12 countries in Asia. Due to its international popularity, a short special edition was aired on YouTube after the series finale.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, semi serious, dorama, captivating, anime, romantic drama, touching, realistic, romantic comedy
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Love Revolution (2020)
Plot Summary:
It's a new concept of comedy romance that captures teenage romance, friendship and dreams centered on a cute and lovely couple who fell in love with Wang Ja-rim, the goddess of information.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, humorous, captivating
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Rebelde Way (2002)
Plot Summary:
Rebelde Way is a Martín Fierro Award—nominated Argentine soap opera created and produced by Cris Morena. It originally aired from 26 May 2002 to 18 December 2003. The series was broadcast in many countries worldwide, including Peru, Germany, Israel, Spain and Uruguay, achieving widespread success. In addition, numerous remakes of Rebelde Way have been made, most notably Rebelde by Mexican Televisa. In 2009, Jennifer Lopez bought the rights for an U.S. adaptation. Rebelde Way is set in the Elite Way School, a prestigious private boarding high school near Buenos Aires. The students of the school are the members of Argentine wealthiest families, as well as gifted students with scholarships. The series follows the lives of Elite Way students, their parents and their professors, and it also features the regular use of English language and phrases by the upper class. Its central characters are Marizza Pía Spirito, Mía Colucci, Pablo Bustamante and Manuel Aguirre, portrayed by, respectively, Camila Bordonaba, Luisana Lopilato, Benjamín Rojas and Felipe Colombo. The four form a band named Erreway, in order to pursue their dreams. The band enjoyed a great success throughout Latin America, Europe and Israel, selling over 3 million records and achieving several Platinum records. Along with spawning a series of merchandising, Cris Morena Group also released a spin–off movie Erreway: 4 Caminos in 2004.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, semi serious, humorous, novela, realistic, sentimental, romantic, feel good, entertaining, telenovela
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Adult Trainee (2021)
Plot Summary:
Three different coming-of-age stories from the point of view of the protagonists about how they deal with their realities in high school at the end of their teenage period as Gen Z.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, dorama
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School 2021 (2021)
Plot Summary:
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