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Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life (2019) TV Show

7.3 65 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 26

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Since the graduation of the senior members of the club, Takezou ends up being the sole member of the "Koto" (traditional Japanese string instrument) club. Now that the new school year has begun, Takezou will have to seek out new members into the club, or the club will become terminated. Out of nowhere, a new member barges into the near-abandoned club room, demanding to join the club. How will Takezou be able to keep his club alive and deal with this rascal of a new member?

Plot: competition, friendship, romance, slice of life, school, based on manga, child abandonment, school life, ...

Cast

Jonah Hill

Michael Cera

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Bill Hader

Superbad (2007)

7.3 8.2K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.

Plot: high school, police, alcohol, chaos, nerd, coming of age, school, los angeles, ...

Cast

Saoirse Ronan

Laurie Metcalf

Tracy Letts

Lucas Hedges

Lady Bird (2017)

7.3 9.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.

Plot: friendship, loss of virginity, coming of age, teen angst, high school graduation, teenage girl, best friend, loss of job, ...

Time: 2000s

My Friend's Little Sister Has It In for Me!

Cast

Haruki Ishiya

Sayumi Suzushiro

Tomori Kusunoki

Soma Saito

My Friend's Little Sister Has It In for Me! (2025) TV Show

7.3 20 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: For high schooler Akiteru Oboshi, the whole youthful experience thing—like fun, friendships, and even having a girlfriend—is a complete waste of time. So when his best friend’s sister, Iroha Kohinata, keeps teasing him, Akiteru naturally finds it annoying. She practically lives in his room, she’s always on his bed, she’s just a raging storm of clinginess! Why is she only annoying around him?!

Plot: harem, romance, slice of life, school, anime, based on light novel

Cast

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Thomas McHugh

Constance Shulman

Doug Preis

Alice Playten

Doug (1991) TV Show

7.2 245 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Country: France, United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 166

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Doug Funnie experiences common predicaments while attending school in his new hometown of Bluffington, Virginia.

Plot: narration, coming of age, best friend, suburb, dog, new town, new school, older sister, ...

Girlfriend, Girlfriend (2021) TV Show

7.2 80 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: Naoya Mukai has loved Saki Saki since grade school, and when she finally accepts his feelings, he's at his happiest. But one day, a cute girl named Nagisa Minase confesses to him! Not wishing to choose only one over another, Naoya chooses to go out with both of them!! What will be of this love triangle that challenges morality itself?

Plot: love triangle, polygamy, romcom, slice of life, school, based on manga, school life, shounen, ...

Cast

Fabrice Luchini

Ernst Umhauer

Kristin Scott Thomas

Emmanuelle Seigner

In the House (2012)

7.2 917 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Country: France

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.

Plot: high school, teacher, teen angst, male homosexuality, school, writer, teacher student relationship, lgbt, ...

Cast

Jaeden Martell

Jeremy Ray Taylor

Sophia Lillis

Finn Wolfhard

It (2017)

7.2 20.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

Plot: small town, based on novel or book, haunted house, clown, bullying, abandoned house, coming of age, flashback, ...

Time: 1980s

Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (2014) TV Show

7.2 142 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: High school student Chiyo Sakura has a crush on schoolmate Umetarō Nozaki, but when she confesses her love to him, he mistakes her for a fan and gives her an autograph. When she says that she always wants to be with him, he invites her to his house and has her help on some drawings. Chiyo discovers that Nozaki is actually a renowned shōjo manga artist named Sakiko Yumeno. She then agrees to be his assistant in order to get closer to him. As they work on his manga Let's Fall in Love (恋しよっ), they encounter other schoolmates who assist them or serve as inspirations for characters in the stories.

Plot: romcom, romance, slice of life, school, based on manga, school life, anime, school club, ...

Cast

Ralph Macchio

Pat Morita

Elisabeth Shue

William Zabka

The Karate Kid (1984)

7.2 4.8K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: PG

Story: New Jersey teen Daniel LaRusso moves to Los Angeles with his mother, and soon strikes up a relationship with Ali. He quickly finds himself the target of bullying by a group of thugs, led by Ali's ex-boyfriend Johnny, who study karate at the Cobra Kai dojo under ruthless sensei John Kreese. Fortunately, Daniel befriends Mr. Miyagi, an unassuming repairman who just happens to be a martial arts master himself. Miyagi takes Daniel under his wing, training him in a more compassionate form of karate for self-defense and, later, preparing him to compete against the brutal Cobra Kai.

Style: philosophical

Plot: high school, friendship, martial arts, fight, painting, karate, bullying, sensei, ...

Mean Girls (2004)

7.2 9.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

Plot: based on novel or book, illinois, female friendship, bullying, coming of age, prom, teenage girl, fish out of water, ...

Cast

Noah Hathaway

Barret Oliver

Tami Stronach

Alan Oppenheimer

The NeverEnding Story (1984)

7.2 4.4K votes

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Country: Germany

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG

Story: While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.

Plot: based on novel or book, wolf, magic, fairy tale, horse, mythology, child hero, anthropomorphism, ...

Cast

Kazato Tomizawa

Akina Minami

Aoi Miyazaki

Jingi Irie

Colorful (2010)

7.2 315 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Family

Country: Japan

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is lucky and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Kobayashi Makoto, who has just committed suicide. Watched over by a neutral spirit named Purapura, the soul must figure out what his greatest sin and mistake in his former life was, before his time limit in Makoto's body runs out. He also has a number of other lesser duties he must complete, such as understanding what led Makoto to commit suicide in the first place and learning how to enjoy his second chance at life.

Plot: suicide, based on novel or book, slice of life, adult animation, school life, rebirth, anime, first person view

Cast

Kaito Ishikawa

Akari Kito

Nao Toyama

Konomi Kohara

A Couple of Cuckoos (2022) TV Show

7.2 73 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 36

Audience: TV-14

Story: 16-year-old super-studier Nagi Umino, second-year student at the Megurogawa Academy high school, was switched at birth. On his way to a dinner to meet his birth parents, he accidentally meets the brash, outspoken, Erika Amano, who is determined to make Nagi her fake boyfriend as she never wants to actually marry. But once Nagi makes it to dinner, he finds his parents have decided to resolve the hospital switch by conveniently having him marry the daughter his birth parents raised...who turns out to be none other than Erika herself!

Plot: love triangle, based on comic, romcom, slice of life, school, anime

Cast

Mara Wilson

Danny DeVito

Rhea Perlman

Embeth Davidtz

Matilda (1996)

7.2 4.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Matilda Wormwood is an brilliant and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia, fail to see that fact. As time passes, she finally starts school and has a kind teacher, loyal friends, and a terrifying, sadistic headmistress. As she becomes fed up with the constant cruelty, she discovers she has a special gift that she just might be able to use to outwit the unruly adults around her.

Plot: based on novel or book, parent child relationship, classroom, difficult childhood, child prodigy, childhood trauma, dysfunctional family, telekinesis, ...

Cast

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Adam Eiberg Kastaniegaard

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Augusta Ru00f8nsborg-Andersen

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Klassen (2016) TV Show

7.2 6 votes

Genre: Family

Country: Denmark

Seasons: 20

Episodes: 1099

Audience: NR

Story: What is happening in the class? Who are friends, who are enemies - and who has had a mishap? The pupils have yet another day ahead of them.

Plot: school, social life

Awaara (1951)

7.2 65 votes

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 168 min.

Story: A petty thief is put on trial for the attempted murder of a lawyer. Through a series of flashbacks, the intertwining lives of the thief, the lawyer, and the thief's defense lawyer are illustrated.

Plot: prison, slum, judge, anti hero, flashback, love, prejudice, school, ...

Cast

China Anne McClain

Sierra McCormick

Jake Short

Stefanie Scott

A.N.T. Farm (2011) TV Show

7.2 142 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 65

Audience: TV-G

Story: Chyna Parks, an 11 year old musical prodigy, gets into a gifted program called Advanced Natural Talents at the local high school. Along with her fellow elementary school-aged 'ANTs', she must navigate the halls of a new school of older kids who are not particularly fond of grade-skipping newbies.

Plot: san francisco, california, one-sided love, child prodigy, school

Vermeil in Gold (2022) TV Show

7.2 107 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: Rather than take a more sensible approach to salvaging his grades in time for graduation, Alto summons a bit of otherworldly help. Only after does he learn he’s bound the legendary she-devil Vermeil into service as his familiar!

Plot: love triangle, magic, harem, romance, school, based on manga, demon, succubus, ...

Cast

Partho A. Gupte

Amole Gupte

Divya Dutta

Raj Zutshi

Stanley Ka Dabba (2011)

7.2 56 votes

Genre: Comedy, Family

Country: India

Duration: 96 min.

Story: School boy Stanley does not carry lunch, which is noticed by a teacher who forces kids to share their food with him. He soon warns Stanley that he must get a lunch box if he wants to attend school.

Plot: child labour, lunch break, school

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