Movies and TV shows like The O.C.

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The O.C. (2003)
 7.6
 96K
The O.C. (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The series centers on Ryan Atwood, a troubled youth from a broken home who is adopted by the wealthy and philanthropic Sandy and Kirsten Cohen. Ryan and his surrogate brother Seth, a socially awkward yet quick-witted teenager, deal with life as outsiders in the high-class world of Newport Beach. Ryan and Seth spend much time navigating their relationships with girl-next-door Marissa Cooper, Seth's childhood crush Summer Roberts, and the fast-talking loner Taylor Townsend. Story lines deal with the culture clash between the idealistic Cohen family and the shallow, materialistic, and closed-minded community in which they reside. The series includes elements of postmodernism, and functions as a mixture of melodrama and comedy.
Style: touching, soap opera, witty, teen, exciting, entertaining, sad, anime, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: couples, sexual activity, high school life, classmate, teenage life, coming of age, youth, teenager, teenage love, troubled teen, first love, college, dating, love and romance, rich and poor, lawyer, family relations, lifestyle, friendship, divorce, parents and children, social differences, teen romance, parenthood, buddies ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: california, usa, los angeles, hawaii
Keyword: oldies, jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, teen, serious and sentimental films and TV series with plots about teenager, high school, youth, teenage life, friendship, family relations and high school life mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The O.C.: Gossip Girl (2007), One Tree Hill (2003), 90210 (2008), Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990), Dawson's Creek (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.5
 192K
Gossip Girl (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, originally ran on The CW for six seasons from September 19, ...
Style: romantic, soap opera, stylized, talky, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, popularity, gossip and rumors, friends, teenage love, youth, high school life, love triangle, lifestyle, adolescence, couples, coming of age ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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91%
 7.8
 87K
One Tree Hill (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the fictional small town of Tree Hill, North Carolina, this teen-driven drama tells the story of two half brothers, who share a last name and nothing else. Brooding, blue-collar Lucas is a talented street-side basketball player, but his ...
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school life, couples, high school, couple relations, girlfriend, friendship, teenage life, youth, teenage love, friends, basketball, family relations ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 6.2
 46K
90210 (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 90210 revolves around several students at the fictional West Beverly Hills High School, including new Beverly Hills residents Annie Wilson and Dixon Wilson. Their father, Harry Wilson, has returned from Kansas to his Beverly Hills childhood home ...
Style: realistic, romantic, captivating, teen, humorous ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, rich kid, teenager, high school hunk, teenage life, family relations, high school student, teen romance, friends, teenage love, social relations, siblings relations ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: beverly hills, california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Beverly Hills, 90210 followed the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, soap opera, realistic, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, teenage love, friendship, teenage life, first sex, social issues, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, social relations, up and down relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: beverly hills, usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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 6.8
 44K
Dawson's Creek (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series created by Kevin Williamson which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB and was produced by Sony Pictures Television. Filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, at EUE/Screen Gems studios ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, teen, soap opera ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: couples, coming of age, teenage life, friendship, high school life, small town, love triangle, couple relations, self discovery, teenager, true love, high school ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Boy Meets World (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Boy Meets World is an American television sitcom that chronicles the coming of age events and everyday life-lessons of Cory Matthews, a Philadelphian who grows up from a young boy to a married man. The show aired for seven seasons from 1993 to 2000 ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot: high school, family relations, coming of age, college, teachers and students, teenage life, high school life, supportive parent, siblings relations, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, school ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Spectacular Now (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Style: touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, teenage life, youth, first love, couples, teenage love, high school, family relations, love, classmate, drinking problem ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, key west florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 147K
Gilmore Girls (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience: teens, family outing, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: small town, teenager, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend, friends, female protagonist, small town life, teenage life, looking for love, single mother, first love, everyday life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: yale university, connecticut, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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The Carrie Diaries (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Before she was a fashion icon, before her column in the New York Star, before Mr. Big, Carrie Bradshaw was an innocent 16-year-old girl living in suburban Connecticut.
Style: exciting, captivating, semi serious, humorous, erotic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: high school, youth, teenage girl, high school life, teenage life, boyfriend, friends, prom, first love, first sex, teenage boy, high school hunk ...
Time: 20th century, year 1984, 80s
Place: new york, usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Secret Life of the American Teenager (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Amy and her friends at Grant High learn to define themselves while they navigate the perilous waters of contemporary adolescence. Between their love triangles, secrets, drama, accusations, gossip, confusion, and scandalous rumors, there's never ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, teen, suspenseful ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage pregnancy, teenager, high school, teenage life, family relations, cheerleader, parents and children, youth, teenage mother, high school hunk, step siblings, teenage boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 17K
Love 101 (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: While trying to make their teacher fall for a basketball coach, four misfits and a model student find friendship, love and the courage to be themselves.
Style: romantic, touching, feel good, captivating, visually appealing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teenager, schoolgirl, first love, high school sweetheart, love, school, student, love and romance, drunk, unlikely friendships, male female relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 13K
Felicity (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Felicity Porter decides to follow her long time crush to college in New York City.
Style: touching, sentimental, talky, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: college, couples, coming of age, love triangle, love and romance, adulthood, looking for love, college life, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle, youth, teenager ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.5
 154K
Riverdale (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, tense, biting, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, investigation, small town, friendship, youth, school, friends, danger, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mysterious death ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.6
 4K
Hollyoaks (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The daily soap that follows the loves, lives and misdemeanours of a group of people living in the Chester village of Hollyoaks where anything could, and frequently does, happen...
Style: soap opera, realistic, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: family relations, teenage love, college, family problems, love and romance, youth, college life, teenage life, couple relations, adolescence vs adulthood, family life, student life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2010s, 2020s, 2000s ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 4K
Hidden Palms (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Hidden Palms is an American teen drama television series that ran from May 30 until July 4, 2007, on The CW in the United States. It was canceled after eight first-run episodes. The series, created by Kevin Williamson, portrays the fictional lives ...
Style: realistic, sexy, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: social relations, starting over, parents and children, youth, therapy, love, high school, rich kid, interracial couple, black american, rich, mysterious death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, palm springs california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 15K
Everwood (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly as he raises his talented but ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: small town life, doctor, small town, father son estrangement, first love, crush, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, friends in love, widower, love and romance ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 7K
Popular (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Brooke McQueen, a popular cheerleader at Jacqueline Kennedy High School, and Sam McPherson, the editor of the school paper, are polar opposites. When their single parents unexpectedly meet and get engaged, Brooke and Sam have to deal with their new ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: popularity, high school, cheerleader, peer pressure, high school life, homosexual, friendship, rise to the top, lifestyle, youth, misfit, leadership ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 30K
The Fosters (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and their adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. Their ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, melancholic, teen, sincere ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, adoption, teenage life, foster child, foster home, gays and lesbians, troubled teen, teenage girl, lesbian mother, family problems, family life, supportive parent ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: san diego california, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 6.8
 155K
Glee (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Glee is an American teen musical comedy-drama television series that airs on the Fox network in the United States. It focuses on the reconstituted William McKinley High School glee club, New Directions, which competes on the show choir competition ...
Style: feel good, stylized, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot: high school, gay, coach, teenage life, youth, cheerleader, friendship, contests and competitions, outcast, teenage girl, gay teenager, music band ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: ohio, idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Life As We Know It (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: See life through the eyes of Dino, Ben, and Jonathan -- three teens experiencing the joys and pains of growing up. Although different in many ways, these guys have one main thing in common -- women. Together, their attitudes about women are ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, melancholic, light ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenage love, teenage life, teachers and students, youth, infidelity, masturbation, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, parents and children, sexual relations ...
Place: usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
My So-Called Life (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 912 min.
TV show
Story: The life of a 15 year-old high school student, whose angst-ridden journey through adolescence, friendship, parents, and life teaches her what it means to grow up.
Style: sentimental, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: high school, female protagonist, first love, teenage daughter, teenager, coming of age, teenage girl, high school hunk, teen angst, adolescence, girl next door, friendship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Degrassi Junior High (1987)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Degrassi Junior High is a Canadian CBC Television teen drama series that was produced from 1987-1989 as part of the Degrassi series. The show followed the lives of a group of students attending the titular fictional school. Many episodes tackled ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, sincere, touching ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: teenage love, high school life, high school, looking for love, friendship, family relations, friends, youth, teenage life, social relations, love and romance, society ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The life of a group of adolescents going through the trials and tribulations of teendom at Degrassi Community School.
Style: teen, realistic, sentimental, serious, touching ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, couples, teenage girl, lesbian, friendship, lgbt, teacher, family relations, life is a bitch, teachers and students, teenage love ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 5.3
 27K
7th Heaven (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 7th Heaven is an American family drama television series, created and produced by Brenda Hampton. The series premiered on August 26, 1996, on The WB, the first time that the network aired Monday night programming, and was originally broadcast from ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: child's point of view, family life, suburbs, suburban life, parents and children, society, religion, parenthood, family relations, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 92K
Skins (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
Style: captivating, cynical, realistic, semi serious, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: youth, teenage life, high school, sexual relations, friendship, high school life, friends, underage drinking, homosexual, looking for sex, party, gay ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Pretty Little Liars (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, teen, soap opera ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: high school, lesbian, high school life, blackmail, gossip and rumors, threat, haunted by the past, teenage life, mysterious character, friendship, youth, friends ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style: touching, sincere, teen, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, mental illness, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Switched at Birth (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case ...
Style: touching, serious, sentimental, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: deaf, sign language, mute or deaf, relatives, social relations, teenage girl, teenage life, school, switched at birth, youth, mother daughter relationship, family relations ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, kansas city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 8.5
 478K
Modern Family (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 5378 min.
TV show
Story: The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.
Style: sitcom, humorous, funny, mockumentary, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, everyday life, family relations, generation gap, family life, adolescence, gay adoption, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, couple relations, blended family, gay couple ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, southern california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.4
 58K
LOL (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a world connected by YouTube, iTunes, and Facebook, Lola and her friends navigate the peer pressures of high school romance and friendship while dodging their sometimes overbearing and confused parents. When Lola's mom, Anne, ...
Style: romantic, light, feel good, teen, realistic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teen romance, teenage life, teenage love, high school life, youth, love and romance, high school, mother daughter relationship, high school romance, coming of age, happy ending, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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