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Plot Summary:
With next year's university entrance exams looming, high school senior Yoshiyama Mihane is beginning to feel the blues. She recently joined the school's photography club. As she walks by the science lab one day after school, she smells the aroma of lavender. From that moment on, she acquires the ability to leap freely through time and the days ahead are marked with bizarre occurrences.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, touching, feel good
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Never Let Me Go (2016)
Plot Summary:
30-year-old Kyoko has a "job". The story starts with her looking back 20 years to her boarding school of Yoko Gakuen in the mountains. Tomohiko, Miwa, and Kyoko are all in the same grade. Inspired by the educational philosophy of the principal - Emiko, teacher Tatsuko joins the boarding school staff, but soon finds the school rather strange.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: sentimental, suspense, melancholic, suspenseful
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JK Is a Snow Woman (2015)
Plot Summary:
A love story between Snow Women sisters and a male high school student.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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Zac & Mia (2017)
Plot Summary:
"Zac and Mia", based on the novel by A.J. Betts, about 2 teens battling cancer in the same hospital. In the real world, Zac and Mia would have pretty much nothing in common, but in the hospital, where they're the only 2 teens on the ward, they develop an unbreakable bond. If cancer is the variable that changed everything, the only constant is their ever-deepening need for one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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Unrequited Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
Luo Zhi has a crush on an outstanding boy named Sheng Huainan and follows up his steps to get into the same university. They have to get over problems between themselves and their families, and make progress in their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, romantic drama, entertaining
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This Time (2016)
Plot Summary:
Childhood friends Coby and Ava, who only see each other during summer vacations. As time passes, the characters develop feelings for each other but having a relationship long-distance is a great challenge for both.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, touching, suspenseful
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Best Friends in Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
Aoi Miura (Sota Fukushi) was born and grew up in Toyama Prefecture. He has an indecisive personality and does not like summer. He was the focal member of the high school swimming team, but he now works as an assistant at a small architectural office in Tokyo. One summer day, he meets his childhood friend and first love Akari Serizawa. During their school days they spent everyday hanging out together until the fireworks night in their 3rd year of high school. That night, Akari suddenly disappeared. Now, Akari has a man named Aoi.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing, romantic drama
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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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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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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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Suddenly This Summer (2018)
Plot Summary:
He Luo is a quiet and smart model student who excels in English and dreams of becoming a diplomat. Besides, she has a special hobby: She loves to fantasize and integrates the people and situations around her into manhua plots. This summer, when He Luo goes to a tennis competition and sees the team leader Zhang Yuan, she falls head over heels for this beautiful and proud guy. Fate is on HeLuo’s side as they happen to meet again in English evening classes and confront each other during the school’s debating competition. The two become friends, but in He Luo’s imagination, he’s the main lead in her manhua. When He Luo’s friends find their own love, He Luo and Zhang Yuan finally open up about their true feelings. They agree to apply for the same university, however, Zhang Yuan fails to get in. From being in two different classes in the same school, they end up going to different universities in two different cities, and later even different countries, each making their own experiences while growing up. What will become of these two in the end?.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating
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Q10 (2010)
Plot Summary:
High school senior Heita Fukai doesn't know what to do with his life. Having been seriously ill until recently, he never had the opportunity to think about his future. He leads a mundane existence among his classmates, all of whom are struggling with their own issues. There's the popular guy with secret hang-ups, the boy who can't afford the tuition, the girl with bulimia and the pathologically shy kid. The teachers don't fare much better. The high school is a microcosm of our troubled modern society. One day Fukai stumbles across a mysterious and attractive new girl in school, Q10, whom he soon finds out is actually a robot. Assigned by the principal to be her mentor and told to keep her true identity a secret, Fukai tries to teach Q10 about human feelings. In the process, he becomes aware of his own complex, emotional makeup. Fukai realizes that he is learning about life from an android, and that he may be falling in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Switched (2018)
Plot Summary:
High schooler Ayumi's perfect world evaporates when her envious classmate Zenko somehow steals her body, her boyfriend and her life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: dorama, psychological, tense, romantic, touching, captivating, melancholic, anime, shoujo
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Frozen Love (2017)
Plot Summary:
After being frozen for 33 years, Man Soo finds himself awake in a cold body but he has enormous love in his heart. He meets Ha Da, who has turned into a cold-hearted human being after living in the city. Now that Man Soo is awake from his slumber, he embarks on a search for his long-lost love through time while Ha Da, whom he encountered, is discovering warmth in her heart.Will either of them find love? This TV show aims to weave a beautiful story of romance to uplift viewers who are dealing with a depressed economy and dim job prospects in a harsh society of today. (Source: MBC).
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Outstanding Woman (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young fashion magazine editor is a successful career woman who seems to have everything, but she must learn to balance her work, friends and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, touching, feel good, dorama
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You Always Haunt My Heart (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kyoko Ogawa is a woman in her 20's and she works at an underwear company. Because of her mother, Kyoko Ogawa has suffered from low self-esteem since she was a child. She is also shaken by two men: Kojiro Yoshizaki and Ren Hoshina. Kojiro Yoshizaki works as an editor for a manga magazine. He is bright, funny and a nice person. Ren Hoshina is a guy that Kyoko Ogawa dated when she attended college. Ren Hoshina was able to see her weakness and was controlling over her. At her job at the underwear company, Ren Hoshina appears in front of her as her boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Close Range Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
In high school, Sakurai Haruka, Mirei and Kanata are good friends whom everyone envies. The three of them believed their relationship would remain like this forever. Then Haruka’s stepsister Ririko suddenly returns from overseas. After several years away, she has become beautiful to the extent that classmates call her “goddess”. Although Haruka has often built walls around other people, Ririko deliberately gets close to him. One night, she barges in all of a sudden and starts to cry against his chest. “I have no where to go. You’ll let me stay here, right?” Haruka is baffled by his pushy stepsister, Mirei secretly loves Haruka and Kanata has become aware of Mirei. The distance between Haruka, Mirei and Kanata who had taken it for granted that they would always be close, starts to change little by little.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, shoujo
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Scum's Wish (2017)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Mugi Awaya and Hanabi Yasuraoka appear to be the ideal couple. They are both pretty popular, and they seem to suit each other well. However, outsiders don't know of the secret they share. Both Mugi and Hanabi have hopeless crushes on someone else, and they are only dating each other to soothe their loneliness. Mugi is in love with Akane Minagawa, a young teacher who used to be his home tutor. Hanabi is also in love with a teacher, a young man who has been a family friend since she was little. In each other, they find a place where they can grieve for the ones they cannot have, and they share physical intimacy driven by loneliness. Will things stay like this for them forever?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime, psychological, romantic, unusual plot structure, captivating, disturbing, visually appealing, dorama, shoujo
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Boys Over Flowers 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
Hana Yori Dango Returns is a Japanese television drama series, broadcast on TBS in 2007. It is the sequel to 2005 Hana Yori Dango TV series, based on Japanese shōjo manga series, Boys Over Flowers, written by Yoko Kamio, and followed by movie adaptation Hana Yori Dango Final.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, romantic, humorous, cynical, shoujo, anime, comic
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Riley Rewind (2013)
Plot Summary:
A high school girl named Riley has the ability to travel back in time and uses this power to save her friend who commits suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, offbeat
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Young Hearts (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two young neighbors embark on a first love relationship in which they struggle to remain kids amid the complexities of modern adolescence.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful, romantic comedy
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Star-Crossed (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Emery was 6 years old, an alien spacecraft crash-landed in her small town. Whether they came in peace or with more sinister intentions didn't matter: a fierce battle erupted as humans fought for control over their new rivals, an alien species called the Atrians. In the midst of the conflict, Roman, a 6-year-old Atrian boy, found his way to a shed behind Emery's house, where she temporarily protected him from harm, bringing him food, comfort - and friendship. Ten years later, the Atrians have been acclimated to life on Earth, but they are interned in a heavily-guarded camp known as the Sector to keep them separate from humans. Now, for the first time, a group of Atrian teens will enroll in a suburban human high school, with the goal of testing the feasibility of human/alien integration. Emery and Roman find each other again in a school and a society that distrusts everything about the Atrians. While the world around them rages with anger and prejudice, their bond becomes increasingly strong and increasingly dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: touching, exciting, sentimental, serious
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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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Ugly Duckling (2015)
Plot Summary:
After confessing her love in elementary school to her crush, Maewnam is literally crushed when he rejects her in front of all his friends. He calls her ugly and it's at that moment that she decides to wear a box on her head. Maewnam is really damaged by those events and she hides behind the box, truly believing that she's ugly. Forced to return to school, Maewnam meets Minton and Zero. Minton is sweet, friendly, and new to the school while Zero is a notorious troublemaker who uses his fists to solve his problems. The question is: who's the boy that called her ugly all of those years ago? Is it Minton? Is it Zero? Is it another person?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Young Americans (2000)
Plot Summary:
Young Americans is an American television drama created by Steven Antin. The show debuted on July 12, 2000 on The WB network as a summer replacement for, and spin-off from, another Columbia TriStar Television production, Dawson's Creek. The series was originally ordered for the fall 1999-2000 season but was delayed due to unresolved matters between the ColumbiaTriStar and The WB. The main character, Will Krudski, was introduced late in season three of Dawson's Creek as a childhood friend of the group who has kept in contact with Pacey Witter. Will goes to Capeside to visit with old friends while on spring break. After briefly dating Andie McPhee he returns to Raleigh. The show explores themes of forbidden love, morality, social classes and gender roles.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, queer cinema
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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
Plot tags:
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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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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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Class (2016)
Plot Summary:
Coal Hill School has been a feature of Doctor Who since the first episode, but now we get to see the day-to-day adventures of the students coping with intrusions from space and time.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021)
Plot Summary:
Senior year of high school takes center stage as Lara Jean returns from a family trip to Korea and considers her college plans — with and without Peter.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic comedy, humorous, disturbing, romantic, uplifting, anamorphic, teen, sentimental, teen comedy
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Time Freak (2018)
Plot Summary:
Stillman, a heartbroken physics student builds a time machine when his girlfriend Debbie breaks up with him. Going back in time, Stillman attempts to fix every mistake he made to save their relationship, while dragging his best friend, Evan, along in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, psychological, family comedy, romantic comedy, surprise ending, light, feel good