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Plot Summary:
The web drama tells the story of a popular orthopedic surgeon, Oh Kyung Hwi, who used to be a loner and a bullying victim during his highschool days. In order to save his first love, who committed suicide, Kyung Hwi goes back in time to when he was 18 years old.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Short, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, sweet, entertaining, semi serious
Best tv shows and movies like Somehow 18 (2017):
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Love, Timeless (2017)
Plot Summary:
A time traveling romance about a man who gets a second chance to fix his life, but still has no clue what he needs to do.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Big (2012)
Plot Summary:
18-year-old Kang Gyung-Joon's spirit suddenly becomes transplanted in the body of 30-year-old Seo Yoon Jae. Seo-Yon-Jae is a successful doctor and engaged to high school teacher Gil Da-Ran. Gil Da-Ran just so happens to be the teacher of 18-year old Kang Gyung-Joon. More problems ensue when 30-year-old Seo Yoon Jae falls in love with another woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: dorama, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, novela
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Splash Splash Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
Danbi, a senior in high school, is whisked back in time to the Joseon Era. There she is mistaken for a servant and begins her life anew as the confidante of King Lee Do; her knowledge of mathematics and sciences, however, begins to cause controversies to arise.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, captivating, novela, entertaining, period drama
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Goodbye Mr. Loser (2015)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged loser travels back in time to his high scool years to put his life on the right track.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous
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Tinted With You (2021)
Plot Summary:
In Korea’s feudal past, the deposed Crown Prince Lee Heon has been forced into a lonely exile by his cruel older brother, who has usurped the throne. Lee Heon fears for his life at every moment, as his brother plans to secure his place on the royal seat by killing him. Assassins and other schemes are a constant threat for Lee Heon, whose only true ally is his faithful and kind-hearted bodyguard Geum. Meanwhile, in modern times, a high school student named Eun Ho loves paintings. In fact, art is his whole world. And when he is tasked with completing a mysterious painting, he is unexpectedly drawn back into the distant past, where he meets Lee Heon. The duo starts to form a close, romantic, and tender bond. But as the acting king grows restless, hoping to kill the exiled Crown Prince as soon as possible, Eun Ho begins to understand that he may be Lee Heon’s best – or perhaps only – chance of survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky, historical drama, historical romance
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Waiting for You in the Future (2019)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged man time travels to the past to become a teacher to his 17-year-old classmates. Hao Hui Gui is a 36-year-old high school teacher who is still single. During a gathering, he gets into a huge disagreement with everyone present and even gets into a fistfight with his best friend. Upon returning home, he mindlessly flips through his personal diary from 20 years ago and starts to recall many memories from the past. He falls asleep eventually and meets with his younger self in his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, entertaining, nostalgic
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Familiar Wife (2018)
Plot Summary:
One unexpected choice can change everything about your life. Cha Joo Hyuk works at a bank and has been married to Seo Woo Jin for five years. When a strange incident happens one day, Joo Hyuk makes a decision that impacts his life and those around him in unexpected ways. Suddenly, the life he had with Woo Jin and his best friend, Yoon Joong Hoo, are gone and he is leading a very different life. How will his first love, Lee Hee Won, factor into his new life? And will it be possible to get his old life back?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, thought provoking, sweet, contemplative, feel good, nostalgic
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Closer to You (2020)
Plot Summary:
A surgeon suddenly returns to eighteen years ago and meets his classmate Han Fei, and helps her put down her guard and untie the knot in her heart.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: light, sweet, entertaining, semi serious, dorama
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Operation Love (2007)
Plot Summary:
A missed confession of love haunts a young man on his best girl friend's wedding day. Sudden appearance of a mysterious Angel enables him to go back in time to regain the love of his life. Will he succeed? A romantic comedy of young Ken who missed a chance to confess his love in the past and ended up attending the wedding of his childhood love. Deep with regret as he helplessly watches the wedding party proceed, suddenly time stops and an Angel appears asking him whether he would like to just start over. Astounded as he is, Ken asks to do so, thereby embarking on a journey that will supposedly change everything. All does not go well however, as fate seems to be a resilient force that refuses to change.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, light, feel good, sweet, entertaining, romantic
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Queen In Hyun's Man (2012)
Plot Summary:
Kim Boong Do is a scholar who had supported the reinstatement of Queen In Hyun when Jang heebin's schemes resulted in her being deposed and replaced as King Sukjong's queen consort. He travels 300 years into the future of modern Seoul and meets Choi Hee Jin, a no-name actress who is expecting a career renaissance through her role as Queen In Hyun in a TV drama.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, captivating, suspenseful, semi serious, novela, romantic drama, period drama
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Go Back Couple (2017)
Plot Summary:
Choi Ban Do and Ma Jin Joo are both 38-years-old and a married couple. Choi Ban Do has been burdened with being the breadwinner and Ma Jin Joo is a housewife with low self-esteem. Even though they loved each other when they married, they now hate each other. They both regret marrying at such a young age. The couple travel through time and find themselves as 20-year-old university students, when they met for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, semi serious, dorama, nostalgic
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Total Eclipse (2018)
Plot Summary:
Cassie, a typical high school girl, is ditched by her childhood friends. Now she has to fight to get them back.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Do Over (2002)
Plot Summary:
Do Over is an American comedy-drama/fantasy series created by Kenny Schwartz and Rick Wiener about a man who gets a chance to relive his childhood. The series, which was originally broadcast on The WB in 2002, stars Penn Badgley.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, captivating, retro, offbeat
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Dead Gorgeous (2010)
Plot Summary:
Dead Gorgeous is an Australian–British children's television show which premiered on 15 March 2010 in Britain and 5 April 2010 in Australia. It is produced by Burberry Productions and Coolabi Productions with funding from Screen Australia. It was previously known as Dead Normal, however the name was changed. It was thought that Dead Gorgeous would air a "Halloween Special", though this was a publicity stunt.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, sentimental, sincere, captivating
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Faith (2012)
Plot Summary:
Faith is a 2012 South Korean fusion fantasy-historical-medical television series broadcast by SBS from August 13 to October 30, 2012 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 24 episodes. It is about a modern-day plastic surgeon who gets kidnapped and travels back in time to the Goryeo period, 700 years in the past. There, she meets and falls in love with a warrior who is the leader of the royal guard.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, romantic, semi serious, dorama, anime, medical drama, period drama
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The Beauty Inside (2018)
Plot Summary:
It is a love story of Han Se-gye who is an A-list actress. She is known as a troublemaker and the object of many rumors. Her life is a mystery, but, in reality, she suffers from an unusual phenomenon. At a certain point every month, her appearance changes to a different person. She lives one week out of every month with a different appearance, and Seo Do-jae who is an executive director of an airline company. He seems perfect with an attractive appearance and intelligence but, he suffers from prosopagnosia. He hides this disability and tries hard to memorize people by their habits and mannerisms. The only face that he is able to recognize is Han Se-gye’s.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, light, feel good, sweet, romantic drama
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Seven First Kisses (2016)
Plot Summary:
Min Soo Jin meets a goddess who allows her to choose one guy among seven as her first kiss.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Short, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 13 min
Plot tags: dorama, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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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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Waiting for Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
A drama about love and relationships, centers on a college student Joo Yeon Ae (BoA) who has both good looks and personality, but she′s actually a novice in relationships, and always fails at getting her man. Meanwhile, Cha Ki Dae (Choi Daniel) is a skilled dating coach who expert at reading women′s minds. He comes to coach Yeon Ae over SNS, but despite the experience he boasts about, however, he also always fails at getting his own girl. The drama also depicts what happens when four youths with completely different views toward love start dating each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Rooftop Prince (2012)
Plot Summary:
Rooftop Prince is a 2012 South Korean fantasy romantic comedy television drama, starring Park Yuchun, Han Ji-min, Jeong Yu-mi, Lee Tae-sung, Lee Min-ho, Jung Suk-won and Choi Woo-shik. It is about a Joseon crown prince who, after his wife dies mysteriously, time travels to the future where he encounters familiar faces, modern-day devices, and corporate intrigue. It aired on SBS from March 21 to May 24, 2012 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, semi serious, romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama
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Operation Proposal (2012)
Plot Summary:
Kang Baek-ho and Ham Yi-seul have been best friends since elementary school. Baek-ho has never acknowledged his attraction to her, unaware that Yi-seul has been in love with him for more than 20 years. Finally, at the wedding ceremony where Yi-seul is about to marry another man, Baek-ho regrets that he never confessed his love for the bride. A mysterious conductor suddenly appears and offers him a second chance to win Yi-seul's heart. Baek-ho travels back in time to various events of their lives hoping to change the outcome of their relationship. But changing the future is not as easy as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Grachi (2011)
Plot Summary:
Grachi is a Nickelodeon Latin America fantasy television series written by Mariela Romero, Catharina Ledeboer and Mariana Palos that focuses on the life and love experiences of Graciela "Grachi" Alonso, a teenage witch. It premiered in Latin America on May 2, 2011. The series stars Isabella Castillo as Grachi, Andrés Mercado as Daniel and Kimberly Dos Ramos as Matilda; also featuring Mauricio Henao, Sol Rodríguez and Lance Dos Ramos in supporting roles. In June 2011 it was confirmed that the series was renewed for a second season, which began airing on February 27, 2012. The second season features a rogue teen witch named Mía, portrayed by María Gabriela de Faría, and a new rival for Daniel, Leo, portrayed by Willy Martin. In June 2012 the series was renewed for a third and last season of 50 episodes, which aired from March 4, 2012 to May 10, 2013: the third season features two new wizards, Axel and Manú, while Lance Dos Ramos leave. The series has been dubbed to English and is currently being aired through Nickelodeon Philippines since January 2012. Season 2 will air on May 6, 2013.Season 3 will aired 2014.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, sweet, not serious
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18 Again (2020)
Plot Summary:
Jung Da-Jung is married to 37-year-old Hong Dae-Young. They have an 18-year-old son and daughter. Jung Da-Jung works hard as a rookie announcer and she has a warm heart. She becomes completely fed up with her husband and is unable to deal with him anymore. Hong Dae-Young gets fired from his job and is looked down upon by his family. Jung Da-Jung hands him divorce papers.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, dorama
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A Love So Beautiful (2017)
Plot Summary:
The ups and downs of school, family and growing up test the affection between a budding artist and her handsome but indifferent classmate and neighbor.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: dorama, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Moment at Eighteen (2019)
Plot Summary:
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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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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13 Going on 30 (2004)
Plot Summary:
After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. With a little magic, her wish is granted, but it turns out that being thirty isn't as always as awesome as she thought it would be!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 210000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, light, funny, romantic comedy, sentimental, cute, teen, entertaining, sweet
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17 Again (2009)
Plot Summary:
On the brink of a midlife crisis, 30-something Mike O'Donnell wishes he could have a "do-over." And that's exactly what he gets when he wakes up one morning to find he's 17 years old again. With his adult mind stuck inside the body of a teenager, Mike actually has the chance to reverse some decisions he wishes he'd never made. But maybe they weren't so bad after all.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 213000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, entertaining, funny, light, teen, romantic comedy, cute, humorous, heartbreaking
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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