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Plot Summary:
When Kang Bok-Soo was a high school student, he was falsely accused of committing violence and kicked out of school. This was caused by his first love Son Soo-Jung and a male student Oh Se-Ho. Kang Bok-Soo is a now an adult, but his life has not gone smoothly. To get revenge on Son Soo-Jung and Oh Se-Ho, he returns to the same high school as a student. The environment at the school has changed and Kang Bok-Soo gets involved in unexpected cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: romantic, thought provoking, feel good, disturbing, humorous, teen comedy
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Angry Mom (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Jo Gang-Ja attended high school, she was notorious for fighting. She gave birth to her daughter A-Ran in her late teens and became more responsible. Her daughter A-Ran is now a high school student, but A-Ran is bullied at school. Jo Gang-Ja decides to go back to high school to protect her daughter. Jo Gang-Ja becomes a high school student again.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Blackout (2018)
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 495 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, romantic, melancholic
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School 2017 (2017)
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A coming-of-age story about the lives of 18-year-old high school students who are valued according to their ranking in school. Despite their frustrations, they find out how to make their own way in this world that seems to be a stagnant cycle of school and home.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, emotional, buddy comedy, humorous, captivating, dorama
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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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Bonus Family (2017)
Plot Summary:
A new couple, their exes and their children navigate the emotional challenges and tricky logistics of blended family life in this Swedish dramedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Daddy's Daughters (2007)
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"Daddy's Daughters" is a Russian TV series produced in 2007—2012. Made by "Kinokonstanta" and "Kostafilm" film companies. It characterized the various aspects of life — there are themes of family, love, work, study, and friendship. The series has very high television ratings and many awards. This is an original sitcom, and is not an adaptation of a foreign show.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, funny, sincere, entertaining, talky, humorous
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Chad (2021)
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A 14-year-old Persian boy desperately tries to fit in, cope with his mother's dating life, and figure out his cultural identity.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, dramatic, funny
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Our Story (2017)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of the world famous series "Shameless".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Love Alarm (2019)
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Love Alarm is an app that tells you if someone within a 10-meter radius has a crush on you. It quickly becomes a social phenomenon. While everyone talks about it and uses it to test their love and popularity, Jojo is one of the few people who have yet to download the app. However, she soon faces a love triangle situation between Sun-oh whom she starts to have feelings for, and Hye-young, who has had a huge crush on her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: touching, sweet, sentimental, uplifting, feel good, dorama
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I Am Not a Robot (2017)
Plot Summary:
Inevitably, everybody gets hurt at some point in their lives. There are different remedies for different types of wounds, and as time elapses, these remedies start to become less effective. This is a story about a man who created a shield for his broken heart. Since the day his heart broke, he has been living inside a shell. One day, he encounters a being unlike any other, and by interacting with her, he slowly learns how to break out of his shell.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, exciting, funny, captivating, dorama, romantic, novela, romantic drama
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Reply 1997 (2012)
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Set in the 1990's, the drama centers around a female high school student Shi Won, who idolizes boyband H.O.T and her 5 high school friends in Busan. As the timeline moves back and forth between their past as 18-year-old high schoolers in 1997 and their present as 33-year-olds at their high school reunion dinner in 2012, where one couple will announce that they're getting married.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: dorama, light, sincere, touching, captivating, not serious, romantic, nostalgic
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Temperature of Love (2017)
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Hyun-Soo is an aspiring drama series writer. She uses "Jane" as her username and begins chatting with username “Chakhan Seupeu” (‘Good Soup’) online. “Chakhan Seupeu” is actually Jung-Sun. He dreams of becoming a French food chef. They meet in real life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, light, thought provoking, touching, sweet, disturbing, dorama
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Cinderella and the Four Knights (2016)
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Eun Ha-Won is a college student. She is a bright girl who wants to be a veterinarian, but at home she is lonely. She is isolated from her family members. Eun Ha-Won lives with father, step-mother and step-sister after her mother died in a car accident. One day, she helps a mysterious old man. The old man suggests to her to live in a mansion and pursue her dream of becoming a veterinarian. Since than, she moves into the mansion and lives with three cousins Kang Ji-Woon, Kang Hyun-Min, Kang Seo-Woo and their bodyguard Lee Yoon-Sung.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, touching, sincere, captivating, dorama, novela, romantic comedy
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Strong Girl Bong-soon (2017)
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She is no ordinary woman. Do Bong Soon is a woman who possesses Herculean strength. She can crush objects in her bare hands when she holds them too tightly. Although Bong Soon longs to be a dainty, elegant woman that men fall in love with, she can’t deny her superhuman strength. Her special attribute allows her to get a job as a bodyguard for Ahn Min Hyuk, the chaebol heir with eccentric tendencies who runs a gaming company. Bong Soon’s childhood friend In Gook Doo has had a secret crush on her since elementary school. How will he react when sparks begin to fly between Bong Soon and her crazy boss?.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: exciting, romantic, touching, sweet, dorama, feel good, romantic drama, humorous
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Intense Love (2020)
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A love story between a genius doctor and an actress who are two people who both refuse to have their marriage arranged by their parents, yet realize that love is destined.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, light, romantic, captivating, melancholic, disturbing, dorama
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High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (2019)
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A group of East High students countdown to the opening night of their school’s first-ever production of “High School Musical.” Showmances blossom; friendships are tested while new ones are made; rivalries flare and lives are changed forever as these young people discover the transformative power that only a high school drama club can provide.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 31 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, romantic, humorous, melancholic, exciting, mockumentary, teen comedy
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No: 309 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Out of pure coincidence, Onur and Lale meet at the same place due to a blind date that is arranged by their mothers.And during the next morning they find themselves in the same bed.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, touching, captivating, melancholic
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Physics or Chemistry (2008)
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Física o Química was a Spanish television series made by Antena 3. The first episode premiered on 4 February 2008. Before its televised broadcast, Física o Química was released on cell phones in Vodafone live! and on the official website of Antena 3. After the success of the first season, which ended on 31 March 2008, Antena 3 announced the filming of a new season which would feature more episodes and few cast changes. The second season premiered on 8 September 2008, with guest appearances by Michel Brown and María Casal, among others; it ended on 8 December 2008. The third season premiered on 13 April 2009 and included new characters portrayed by Óscar Sinela, Sandra Blázquez, Miriam Giovanelli, Adrián Rodríguez, Irene Sánchez and José Manuel Seda, and the entry of character actor Álex Barahona who had already appeared on the show, thus compensating for the departure of Michel Brown, Andrés Cheung, Karim El-Kerem and Xavi Mira. Antena 3 confirmed the filming of the fourth season with Adrián Rodríguez as a regular character and the return of Leonor Martín. Física o Química started its seventh season with the departure of Nuria González, Úrsula Corberó, Angy Fernández and José Manuel Seda. Filming began on 28 February 2011. In May 2011 the series was cancelled due to a fall in viewing figures. On 1 June 2011, the death of a main character caused considerable outcry on the Antena 3 website.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: realistic, erotic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sensual, queer cinema
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In a Relationship (2018)
Plot Summary:
Long-term couple Owen and Hallie are breaking up—or maybe not?—and just as their relationship reaches a turning point, Matt and Willa embark on a romance of their own.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, uplifting, sweet, captivating
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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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Chicken Girls: The Movie (2018)
Plot Summary:
With a new principal in town and the Spring Fling in jeopardy, Rhyme and the Chicken Girls must band together to save the dance.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, unusual plot structure, captivating, entertaining, contemplative
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Andante (2017)
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High school student Lee Shi Kyung suddenly moves out to the countryside and transfers to a mysterious high school. Getting through unfamiliar experiences, he realizes the meaning of life and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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Boys Over Flowers (2009)
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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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Reba (2001)
Plot Summary:
After her dentist husband of 20 years leaves her for his dental hygienist, Reba Hart's seemingly perfect world is turned upside down..
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, inspirational, game show
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University (2008)
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The son of oligarch Sylvestre Sergeev, Sasha, fled from the university in London, where he studied finance, and entered the astronomical department of the physics department of a Moscow university. Sylvester Andreevich wants to return his son to his former life, but he wants to live "among the people" and wants to achieve everything in life himself. In parallel with this, many funny situations happen to the heroes of the series.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, humorous, light, teen comedy
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Nonstop (2000)
Plot Summary:
Nonstop is a South Korean slice-of-life sitcom that broadcast its first season in 2000 on MBC. It continued with 5 more seasons. The series was popular for its cast of teen idols, many who debuted through the show.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Life As We Know It (2004)
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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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To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020)
Plot Summary:
Lara Jean and Peter have just taken their romance from pretend to officially real when another recipient of one of her love letters enters the picture.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: romantic, uplifting, touching, feel good, sweet, teen
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Gilmore Girls (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 143000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: realistic, feel good, humorous, witty, talky, semi serious, light, satirical, deep, comedy drama
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Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008)
Plot Summary:
Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. She would, however, rather be blonde, have a smaller nose and a boyfriend. Revolving around her hilarious journal entries, prepare to be engulfed in the world of the soaring joys and bottomless angst of being a teenager.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, teen, feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, humorous, sexy, realistic, heartbreaking, cute