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Cast

John Hurt

Hugh Dancy

Dominique Horwitz

Nicola Walker

Shooting Dogs (2006)

7.5 163 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.

Plot: destruction of a civilization, rape, civil war, hutu, tutsi, rwandan genocide, inhumanity, aggression, ...

Cast

Shuichiro Umeda

Hina Youmiya

Makoto Furukawa

SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary (2024) TV Show

7.5 34 votes

Genre: Animation, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 22

Story: Kobato decides to become an honest, humble citizen after enduring a bitter experience known as “wisdom work.” He forms a pact with Osanai, his classmate with the same goal, and they plan to enter high school leading quiet lives. But for some reason, inexplicable events and disasters keep happening around them. Will Kobato and Osanai ever manage to live ordinary, peaceful lives?

Plot: high school, slice of life, school, school life, anime, japanese high school, mysterious events, based on light novel

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (2020) TV Show

7.5 105 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: Wealthy heiress Catarina Claes is hit in the head with a rock and recovers the memories of her past life. It turns out the world she lives in is the world of the game Fortune Lover, an otome game she was obsessed with in her past life... but she's been cast as the villain character who tries to foil the protagonist's romances!

Plot: magic, prince, reincarnation, romance, school, transmigration, anime, past lives, ...

Cast

Yuki Kaji

Sachika Misawa

Ayako Kawasumi

Kenichi Suzumura

Accel World (2012) TV Show

7.5 153 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: A short, overweight student uses the Neuro Link, an evolution of the Nerve Gear, to escape himself from the reality. But his skills in the virtual world brings him to the attention of Kuroyukihime, a popular student who introduces him to the Brain Burst.

Plot: competition, technology, anti hero, virtual reality, virtual fight, friendship, bullying, rivalry, ...

Time: future

Cast

Quinta Brunson

Tyler James Williams

Sheryl Lee Ralph

Lisa Ann Walter

Abbott Elementary (2021) TV Show

7.4 309 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 92

Audience: TV-14

Story: In this workplace comedy, a group of dedicated, passionate teachers — and a slightly tone-deaf principal — are brought together in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed in life. Though these incredible public servants may be outnumbered and underfunded, they love what they do — even if they don’t love the school district’s less-than-stellar attitude toward educating children.

Plot: philadelphia, pennsylvania, elementary school, school, mockumentary, public school, sitcom, thoughtful, ...

Cast

Azul Guaita

Franco Masini

Sergio Mayer Mori

Andrea Chaparro

Rebelde (2022) TV Show

7.4 457 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Argentina

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Head back to Elite Way School as a new generation of students hope to win the Battle of the Bands.

Plot: dancing, secret society, school, female protagonist, singing, lgbt, reboot, teen drama, ...

Lemonade Mouth (2011)

7.4 1.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: G

Story: When five ragtag freshman first meet in detention, it seems they have nothing in common. But, through music, they form an unbreakable bond and discover they have the makings of the greatest high school garage band in history! In the face of incredible odds, Olivia, Stella, Wen, Mohini and Charlie find they can make a real difference when they learn to lean on each other and let go of everything holding back their dreams.

Plot: guitar, parent child relationship, cat, violin, narration, musical, lemonade, detention, ...

Cast

Vivian Sung Yun-hua

Darren Wang

Dino Lee

Dewi Chien

Our Times (2015)

7.4 180 votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: China, Hong Kong

Duration: 133 min.

Story: Office worker Truly Lin goes on a journey through her memories. 20 years ago, she had a crush on the most popular guy in school. Taiyu, a ruffian and a bully, is in love with the campus belle. Truly teams up with Taiyu to tear the golden couple apart and help each other to get the ones they love.

Plot: high school, romance, school

Tada Never Falls in Love (2018) TV Show

7.4 95 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-14

Story: Mitsuyoshi Tada, a boy who has never known love, is taking pictures of the cherry blossoms in full bloom when he meets Teresa Wagner, a transfer student from Luxembourg. Upon arriving in Japan, she got lost, separated from her travel companion. Mitsuyoshi helps her and brings her to his grandfather's coffee shop.

Plot: photography, romance, slice of life, coming of age, school, anime, school club

Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs

Cast

Takeo Otsuka

Kana Ichinose

Fairouz Ai

Ayane Sakura

Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs (2022) TV Show

7.4 92 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: An ordinary office worker is reincarnated as Leon into a particularly punishing dating sim video game, where women reign supreme and only beautiful men have a seat at the table. But Leon has a secret weapon: he remembers everything from his past life, which includes a complete playthrough of the very game in which he is now trapped. Watch Leon spark a revolution to change this new world in order to fulfill his ultimate desire...of living a quiet, easy life in the countryside!

Plot: video game, reincarnation, harem, romcom, slice of life, mecha, school, ecchi, ...

Cast

Dennis Weaver

Jacqueline Scott

Eddie Firestone

Gene Dynarski

Duel (1971)

7.4 2.1K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller, TV Movie

Country: United States of America

Duration: 74 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Traveling businessman David Mann angers the driver of a rusty tanker while crossing the California desert. A simple trip turns deadly, as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.

Plot: panic, chase, gas station, falsely accused, cliff, deputy, car crash, truck, ...

Place: california

The Qwaser of Stigmata (2010) TV Show

7.4 72 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 36

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When Mafuyu Oribe and her adopted sister Tomo rescue a strange wounded man, they have no idea what they’re getting involved with or what the consequences will be. Alexander Nikolaevith Hell is an Iron Qwaser, one of many opposing factions of super-warriors.

Style: erotic

Plot: supernatural, harem, school, based on manga, ecchi, shounen, anime

Cast

Daiki Hamano

Junya Enoki

Shion Wakayama

Yuuichirou Umehara

SSSS.DYNAZENON (2021) TV Show

7.4 70 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: Sequel to the 2018 animated series SSSS.Gridman and the third installment of the Gridman multimedia franchise.When Yomogi Asanaka, a first-year student at Fujiyokidai High School, meets Gauma, he claims to be a "kaiju user." But the appearance of a kaiju followed by the entry of the gigantic robot, Dynazenon, backs up his mysterious words. After ending up in the wrong place at the wrong time; they get dragged into the desperate fight against the kaiju!

Plot: sequel, superhero, mecha, school, giant monster, robot, battle, kaiju, ...

Cast

Wasabi Mizuta

Megumi Oohara

Yumi Kakazu

Subaru Kimura

Stand by Me Doraemon (2014)

7.4 600 votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 94 min.

Story: Sewashi and Doraemon find themselves way back in time and meet Nobita. It is up to Doraemon to take care of Nobita or else he will not return to the present.

Plot: gadget, time travel, school, based on manga, anime, based on anime

Cast

Benjamin Wadsworth

Benedict Wong

Lana Condor

Maru00eda Gabriela de Faru00eda

Deadly Class (2019) TV Show

7.4 334 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Follow a disillusioned teen recruited into a storied high school for assassins. Maintaining his moral code while surviving a ruthless curriculum, vicious social cliques, and his own adolescent uncertainties may prove fatal.

Plot: assassin, training, boarding school, based on comic, murder, dark comedy, school, danger

Time: cold war, 1980s

Cast

Liu Yuxuan

Zhu Jun

Wen Yixiao

Feng Junhua

Full-Time Magister (2016) TV Show

7.4 51 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: China

Seasons: 8

Episodes: 85

Audience: TV-14

Story: After waking up, Mo Fan suddenly finds himself in a world where schools teach magic and monsters eat humans. However, his own situation hasn’t really changed that much. Labelled the loser of his school, he wants to afford a better life for his physical disabled sister, who is in a wheelchair, and his father. To make it possible, he took on the goal to become the best magician and to show everyone that one’s status in society is not important to achieve this.

Plot: based on novel or book, magic, school, magic school

Place: china

Cast

Neve Campbell

Skeet Ulrich

Rose McGowan

Matthew Lillard

Scream (1996)

7.4 8.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

Plot: high school, small town, riddle, killing, halloween, house party, serial killer, school, ...

Place: california

Cast

Fairouz Ai

Yumiri Hanamori

Yui Ishikawa

Asami Seto

Tropical-Rouge! Precure (2021) TV Show

7.4 14 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 46

Story: Manatsu Natsuumi is a first-year junior high school student born and raised on a small island. On the day she moves from the island, She meets Laura, a mermaid girl who has come to the earth alone in search of the legendary warrior, PreCure. Laura's hometown, Grand Ocean, is attacked by a witch who lives in the dark depths of the ocean, and all of their motivational power is taken away. It is said that if the motivational power of humans is also taken away, the world will be in deep trouble. Laura is captured by the witch's servant, and Manatsu transforms into Cure Summer to save her.

Plot: ocean, sea, beach, hero, magic, fairy, villain, mermaid, ...

Cast

Nivin Pauly

Nikki Galrani

Anoop Menon

Joy Mathew

1983 (2014)

7.4 34 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: India

Duration: 134 min.

Story: Rameshan, who has great love for cricket, fails to become a cricketer in his life. However, he tries to fulfil his dreams through his son when he realises that the child too has a passion for it.

Plot: parent child relationship, cricket, school, teenage love, indian cricket team, selection camp

Cast

Ryosuke Tomita

Taito Ban

Fermat Kitchen (2025) TV Show

7.4 13 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan, France

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: The story centers on Gaku Kitada, a talented mathematics scholar, and Kai Asakura, a young but similarly talented chef. After Gaku suffers setbacks on his dream of becoming a mathematician, he meets Kai as he is running his own food business, and joins Kai in an attempt at something new.

Plot: cooking, slice of life, food, school, based on manga, shounen, anime, gastronomy

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