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March Comes In Like a Lion (2016) TV Show

8.0 141 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 44

Audience: TV-PG

Story: This is a gentle tale about people trying to regain something. And it is a tale of battle. Rei Kiriyama had lost his family in an accident when he was young. Now he is a 17-year-old pro shogi player who is burdened with deep loneliness. Rei lives alone in an old town in Tokyo, but after becoming acquainted with three sisters, Akari, Hinata and Momo, he begins to change little by little...

Plot: competition, depression, child prodigy, sports, high school, bullying, slice of life, dysfunctional family, ...

Cast

Ailsa Davidson

Simon Gordon

Maddison Firth

Vivian Panka

Heathers: The Musical (2023)

7.9 46 votes

Genre: Comedy, Music, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: R

Story: A teenage girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" meets a dashing rebel who teaches her a more sinister way to play social politics.

Plot: suicide, funeral, dark comedy, bullying, based on play or musical, paternalism, ohio, coming of age, ...

Time: 1980s

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Cast

Daniel Radcliffe

Rupert Grint

Emma Watson

Richard Harris

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)

7.9 29.8K votes

Genre: Adventure, Fantasy

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 152 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame.

Plot: witch, school friend, friendship, london, england, based on novel or book, magic, boarding school, ...

Cast

Wu Nien-jen

Issey Ogata

Elaine Jin Yan-Ling

Kelly Lee

Yi Yi (2000)

7.9 678 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Taiwan, Japan

Duration: 174 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A Taipei family faces personal and moral uncertainty as everyday events test their relationships and sense of purpose.

Plot: daughter, love triangle, businessman, photography, bullying, middle class, wedding, family, ...

Place: taiwan, taipei

Cast

Sakura Ando

Soya Kurokawa

Hinata Hiiragi

Eita Nagayama

Monster (2023)

7.9 910 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Japan

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.

Style: witty

Plot: friendship, bullying, elementary school, coming of age, school, teacher student relationship, childhood, lgbt, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Mirai Shida

Natsuki Hanae

Koichi Yamadera

Hiroaki Ogi

A Whisker Away (2020)

7.9 1.5K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A peculiar girl transforms into a cat to catch her crush's attention. But before she realizes it, the line between human and animal starts to blur.

Plot: mask, secret love, magic, cat, shapeshifting, supernatural, bullying, anthropomorphism, ...

Cast

Toni Collette

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Barry Humphries

Eric Bana

Mary and Max (2009)

7.9 2.3K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Australia

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

Plot: chocolate, suicide attempt, approach, letter, birthmark, only child, bullying, friendship bracelet, ...

Place: australia

Sing Street (2016)

7.9 2.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: Ireland, United Kingdom

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

Style: irreverent

Plot: friendship, london, england, sibling relationship, dublin, ireland, music video, prom, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: ireland

Cast

Wil Wheaton

River Phoenix

Corey Feldman

Jerry O'Connell

Stand by Me (1986)

7.8 6.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: R

Story: After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys decide to go see the body. Gordie, Vern, Chris, and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, but they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.

Plot: friendship, based on novel or book, leech, dark comedy, bullying, road trip, oregon, usa, ...

Time: 1950s

Adolescence (2025) TV Show

7.8 1.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 4

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, therapist and the detective in charge are all left asking: what really happened?

Style: shocking

Plot: sexism, violence against women, patriarchy, bullying, murder, family relationships, miniseries, parenting, ...

Place: england

Cast

Ariella Glaser

Orlando Schwerdt

Bryce Gheisar

Gillian Anderson

White Bird (2023)

7.8 241 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own story of courage of her youth in Nazi-occupied France, where a classmate shelters her from mortal danger.

Plot: nazi, holocaust (shoah), private school, bullying, hitler youth, coming of age, german occupation of france, kindness, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Place: france

Cast

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Nobuko Miyamoto

Ken Watanabe

Koji Yakusho

Tampopo (1985)

7.8 438 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: Japan

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: NR

Story: In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

Style: whimsical

Plot: widow, restaurant, business woman, restaurant owner, bullying, sensei, food, truck driver, ...

Cast

Eden Dambrine

Gustav De Waele

u00c9milie Dequenne

Lu00e9a Drucker

Close (2022)

7.8 1.0K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Belgium, France

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Two 13-year-old boys spend an idyllic summer together, but their connection is put to the test when they become the subject of speculation at school.

Plot: friendship, suicide, forgiveness, male friendship, bullying, ice hockey, coming of age, grief, ...

Cast

Park Shin-hye

Lee Min-ho

Kim Woo-bin

Kim Ji-won

The Heirs (2013) TV Show

7.8 670 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 20

Story: After a chance encounter in LA, two teens from different social backgrounds reunite at an exclusive high school attended by Korea's über rich.

Plot: love triangle, friendship, high school, bullying, romance, school, sibling rivalry, childhood friends, ...

Cast

Ginnifer Goodwin

Jason Bateman

Idris Elba

Jenny Slate

Zootopia (2016)

7.8 18.3K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.

Plot: sheep, allegory, lion, hippopotamus, cartoon, villain, bullying, polar bear, ...

Kakegurui (2018) TV Show

7.8 182 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 15

Story: Children from influential families in politics and businesses attend the Hyakkaou Private Academy. There, the hierarchy of the students are classified by a series of games. Students that win the games are on the ruling side and the students who lose become slaves. One day, a mysterious girl, Yumeko Jabami (Minami Hamabe), is transferred to Hyakkaou Private Academy. She looks pure and pretty, but she is actually a compulsive gambler and seeks out the thrill of taking calculated risks.

Style: psychological

Plot: gambling, friendship, debt, based on manga, japanese high school, girls' love (gl), blood, youth, ...

Cast

Lily Gladstone

Riley Keough

Vritika Gupta

Chloe Guidry

Under the Bridge (2024) TV Show

7.8 228 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Fourteen-year old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home. Through the eyes of Rebecca Godfrey and a local police officer, learn the hidden world of the young girls accused of the murder — revealing startling truths about the unlikely killer.

Plot: based on novel or book, children's home, bullying, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, miniseries, true crime, murder investigation, ...

Cast

Debby Ryan

Dallas Roberts

Kimmy Shields

Christopher Gorham

Insatiable (2018) TV Show

7.8 1.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 22

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A bullied teenager turns to beauty pageants as a way to exact her revenge, with the help of a disgraced coach who soon realizes he's in over his head.

Plot: beauty contest, high school, bullying, revenge, murder, dark comedy, pageant, teenage girl, ...

Cast

Natsuki Hanae

Ayaka Ohashi

Inori Minase

Suzuko Mimori

Masamune-kun's Revenge (2017) TV Show

7.7 374 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: "I've returned to this town for revenge!" Eight years ago, Makabe Masamune, a weak and chubby boy, was harshly rejected by the beautiful Adagaki Aki. Now, he's lost a ton of weight, changed his name, and returned as a handsome teenage boy... all to make the "Brutal Princess" Aki fall in love with him so that he can reject her just as harshly as she did.

Plot: high school, bullying, harem, revenge, romcom, rivalry, romance, school, ...

Cast

Yang Tianxiang

Zhao Shuang

Nie Xiying

Ajie

Spare Me, Great Lord! (2021) TV Show

7.6 26 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: China

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Lü Shu is a frail teenager with an iron will. After losing his parents, he enrolls in a prestigious high school while working for a living and looking after his adoptive sister, Lü Xiaoyu. However, Lü Shu's quiet life abruptly changes when a car accident awakens his latent cultivation superpowers. Now cured of his physical weakness, he decides to hide his newfound abilities, as the art of cultivation is still shrouded in mystery—and the fate of cultivators uncertain.Meanwhile, Tian Luo Di Wang, the international foundation responsible for monitoring the cultivators, sets its plans in motion. Under the impetus of their member Xi Fei, a special cultivation training group is established in Lü Shu's high school. Although Lü Shu is forced to join the program, he is determined to hide the nature of his fearsome power, for his cultivation draws from an unlimited resource: the negative emotions of others brought about by his actions.

Plot: martial arts, swordplay, anti hero, magic, bullying, urban, coming of age, school, ...

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