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Plot Summary:
Modern students experience considerable stress during their school years; there is a strong focus on positive presentation and personality, as well as achieving good grades and encouraging athleticism. These demands are made without considering each student's individuality and strengths. This school-centered drama discusses the central theme outlined above and depicts the lives and relationships of six high school students— Moon Seung-jae, Oh Soo-ah, Park Doo-hyun, Cha Ah-rang, Yoon Se-in, Seo Jin-woo — each of whom has different dreams and goals which they struggle to achieve, despite trials and tribulations.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
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Everything and Nothing (2019)
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“We are neither kids nor adults. When do we become adults then?” Min Jae and Seo Yeon are no different from ordinary 17-year-old high school students. Min Jae is silent and sensitive, yet a good student. Seo Yeon who plays the piano wished to enter an arts high school but failed. As they grow into adults, their surroundings and the reality they face get harsher. These two somehow similar but different friends get closer as they overcome their growing pains together.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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BITCH X RICH (2023)
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Baek Je-na is a third-generation conglomerate and a gold spoon of the highest class at Cheongdam International High School. Kim Hye-in grew up in poverty and is offered a chance to study at the Cheongdam International High School in exchange for her silence on a murder she witnessed. Cheongdam International High School is a homicide mystery that follows Je-na’s rivalry with Kim Hye-in as they are pitted against each other in mental warfare.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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Alice, the Final Weapon (2022)
Plot Summary:
A youth action romance about the bloody high school lives of mysterious transfer student and killer Gyeo Wool and traumatized high school student Yeo Reum as they meet and get chased down by a criminal organization.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
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Stage Fright (2020)
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Lizzy is the stage manager for Crown Lake's latest production: Phantom. But when the show's lead and Lizzy's biggest crush, Noah, is put in a coma by a tragic accident during dress rehearsal, she must unite unlikely allies to get to the bottom of this whodunnit mystery.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration:
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Heart Beats (2021)
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When Tsukasa was a middle school student, she had a crush on transfer student Hayato and even confessed her feelings to him. She was turned down by Hayato. Now, Tsukasa and Hayato are classmates in high school. Hayato treats Tsukasa as just a friend, but Tsukasa still has feelings for him. Meanwhile, Hayato becomes attracted to Tsukasa.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
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Strula (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follow Ella and Nadia who are in high school. They get to know different circles of friends, are faced with different dilemmas of love and the pressure to be able to stand up to peer pressure.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration:
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All About Secrets (2017)
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Duan Bo Wen is a popular student who also is a basketball star. Despite having everything going for him, he is dealing with family problems compounded by the constant bickering between his father and his much-younger stepmother. Yu Chi Zi and her friend Si Jia Li both try to support Bo Wen through his personal turmoils. Jia Li is jealous of Chi Zi’s close relationship with Bo Wen but can’t seem to endear herself to him despite all her efforts. As a new young teacher gets Bo Wen’s attention, can he and his friends survive their many secrets to make it to college?.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
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Parfait Tic! (2018)
Plot Summary:
Fuko Kameyama is a first grade high school student and she has a bright personality. One day, cousins Daiya Shinpo and Ichi Shinpo move into an apartment upstairs from Fuko. Daiya has a bright smile. Ichi doesn't talk that much, but he has a warm heart. Fuko wavers between Daiya and Ichi.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: shoujo, romantic comedy
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Goldfish Club (2011)
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Irie plays Hiiragi Haru, a third-year high school student with no real interest in women or higher education, instead choosing to live his life idly. When he notices a first-year student named Harukawa Koto being bullied, he lends her a hand, and the two form a “goldfish club” just for themselves. While love begins to bloom between them, the bullying against Koto continues to escalate. --- Tokyograph.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 29 min
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Lesson of the Evil: Prologue (2012)
Plot Summary:
Follows high school teacher Seiji Hasumi's background history and in the process depicts the horror inherent in daily life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
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Jungle Fish 2 (2010)
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A beautiful high school student, who is the top student of her class, mysteriously dies. Six of her friends who graduated from the same elementary school attempts to track down the reasons for her death by communicating in real time. While the six friends dig for the truth behind her death, they face difficulties in their studies, dropping out of school, bullying and boyfriend troubles.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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Up on High Ground (2014)
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A likable college psychology student is tested daily with his roomies, one in friendship, and the other on patience as a third wheel freeloader. A contemporary life effort in the psychological, even pathological, and pretty typical day of students who make this school of no fools and broken rules.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min
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School 2013 (1999)
Plot Summary:
School 2013 is a 2012 South Korean television series starring Jang Nara, Choi Daniel, Lee Jong-suk and Kim Woo-bin. The teen drama depicts the struggles and dilemmas that modern-day Korean youth face, such as bullying, student suicides, school violence, deteriorating teacher-student relations, private tutoring and other real-life high school issues, all within the confines of one small classroom at Seung Ri High School. It is the fifth installment of KBS's "School" series which aired from 1999 through 2002. It aired on KBS2 from December 3, 2012 to January 28, 2013 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama
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Vampire Flower (2014)
Plot Summary:
Louis is a centuries old vampire who appears to be a teenager. He has fallen in love with Seo-young, a high school student with extraordinary blood. Together, they trek through the land of the vampires to retrieve a long lost flower.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: captivating, sentimental, atmospheric, emotional, psychotronic
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Homeroom (2020)
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Aida Rintaro is a handsome teacher who is popular among the female students. Rintaro is the homeroom teacher of a class that has a student called Sakurai Sachiko, who constantly gets bullied by her classmates. With strong sense of justice, Rintaro is always there helping Sachiko whenever she gets bullied. To Sachiko, Rintaro is like a "hero" and she starts liking him. However, unlike what's being shown, Rintaro is actually the person who planned all the bullying pranks. He pretended to be a "hero" and save Sachiko repeatedly in order to get liked by her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Just Dance (2018)
Plot Summary:
In a Girls' Vocational High School in Geoje, six students dream to win a dance sports competition.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
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The Flatterer (2015)
Plot Summary:
Story about Park Gun, who starts attending a high school full of troublemakers and former dropouts. ~~ Based on a webtoon of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 15 min
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School 2017 (2017)
Plot Summary:
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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Who Are You: School 2015 (2015)
Plot Summary:
After losing her memory in an accident, a bullied high school orphan finds herself in the place of an identical-looking girl who's gone missing.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, sincere, sentimental, light, visually appealing, romantic, heartfelt
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Live On (2020)
Plot Summary:
Baek Ho-rang is a high school student. Due to her pretty appearance, she is popular on social media and at her school. Yet, Baek Ho-rang only has one friend, due to her condescending personality. Baek Ho-rang encounters a problem. She learns that someone is trying to unveil her secret. To find that anonymous person, Baek Ho-rang joins her high school's broadcasting club. Go Eun-taek is the chief of the broadcasting club. He is a perfectionist and respected by the club members.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating
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From Me to You: Kimi ni Todoke (2023)
Plot Summary:
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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Girls' Generation 1979 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Story is set in Daegu, South Korea during the 1970's. Lee Jung-Hee is in the 2nd grade of high school. She has a bright personality and is the second daughter of a family who runs a toy factory. She and her friends go through adolescence.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Sunny Days (2018)
Plot Summary:
After being fired from her job at a TV home shopping channel, Ha-Nee decides to start her own fashion company and soon becomes involved with Han-Kyul, a merchandiser for the shopping channel.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Shadow Beauty (2021)
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Because of her looks, Koo Ae-jin is bullied at school and even insulted by strangers. But after school, she leads a secret life: with heavy makeup and hours of photo editing, she lives as Genie, a social media star with 770K followers.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Eva Lasting (2023)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious teen girl arrives at an all-boys school in 1970s Colombia, breaking stereotypes, rules... and a few hearts.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Colombia
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: emotional, heartfelt
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White Christmas (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kim Yo Han is a psychiatrist who gets involved in a serial murder when his car broke down on Christmas Eve during a sudden storm and he is forced to take shelter at a private high school. Seven students and a teacher are also there over the winter break, but they are gradually murdered one by one as they receive letters from a killer who wants revenge for the death of his mother and sister.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, psychological, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, slasher
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Melancholia (2021)
Plot Summary:
A sexual scandal between a math teacher and a student in a prestigious high school ended in tragedy. 4 years later they meet again, now as adults, to reveal the corruptions in school and to regain one's reputation as a teacher.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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The Heirs (2013)
Plot Summary:
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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Harlan Coben's Shelter (2023)
Plot Summary:
The story of Mickey Bolitar and his new life with a mom in rehab, a dead father, an annoying aunt, and a new school in New Jersey.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
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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