Movies and TV shows like Dream High

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Dream High (2011)
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Dream High (2011)
Original name: 드림하이
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: Dream High is a South Korean television series broadcast by KBS in 2011. It features miss A's Suzy, Kim Soo-hyun, T-ara's Eunjung, IU and 2PM. The drama was popular among teenagers, and brought in viewership ratings in the 18 to 20 percent range during its two-month run. A special episode, where the cast of the show performed the Dream High Special Concert on a stage near Seoul, was aired on March 1, 2011, the day after the series ended. Its sequel Dream High Season 2 aired a year later with a different cast.
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, dorama, romantic, realistic
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenage life, high school, youth, music industry, music, ambition, friendship, love triangle, follow your dream, musician's life, against the odds, prodigy, teenage love, loser, shyness, teenager, audition, bullying, school, teacher, singer, dream, entrepreneurship, education, asian ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: korea
Keyword: korean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, romantic and semi serious films and TV series with plots about high school, friendship, teenage life, teenager, love and romance, youth and teenage love mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Dream High: You Are Beautiful (2009), The Heirs (2013), Sassy, Go Go (2015), Student of the Year (2012), Monstar (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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You Are Beautiful (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: You're Beautiful is a 2009 South Korean romantic comedy television drama series, starring Park Shin-hye, Jang Keun-suk, Lee Hong-ki of F.T. Island and Jung Yong-hwa of CN Blue. It is about a fictional boy band A.N.Jell and the relationship ...
Style: sentimental, dorama, humorous, novela, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: friendship, cross dressing, friends, love and romance, gender bending, fall in love, rising to stardom, music band, hidden identity, unrequited love, celebrity, singing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
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The Heirs (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Heirs follows a group of privileged, elite high school students as they are groomed to take over their families' business empires. These wealthy students seem to have everything under control–except their love lives. Kim Tan is heir to the ...
Style: dorama, semi serious, social, uplifting, intense ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: high school, rich and poor, love and romance, teenage love, heir, family business, social differences, rich man poor woman, high school life, bullying, poverty, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
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Sassy, Go Go (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Despite their harsh educational environment, the cheerleading club has to keep it together for the students' sakes, and their own.
Style: captivating, light, humorous, exciting, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: high school, friendship, love and romance, confidence, rivalry, couple relations, school, dancing, jealousy, boarding school, cheerleading, teenager ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Student of the Year (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Several alumni reminisce about their final year at St. Theresa's College and the events that shaped their lives.
Style: sentimental, realistic, semi serious, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: love triangle, high school, friendship, teenage life, teenage love, fall in love, lifestyle, contests and competitions, youth, rivalry, friends, competition ...
Time: year 2012
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Monstar (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Monstar is a 2013 South Korean television series starring Yong Jun-hyung, Ha Yeon-soo, and Kang Ha-neul. It aired on music channel Mnet from May 17 to August 2, 2013 every Friday at 21:50 for 12 episodes. The drama is about how a group of teenagers ...
Style: captivating, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: love triangle, friendship, musician, high school, teenage boy, teacher, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, singer, music band, fame, scandal, fictional band ...
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Boys Over Flowers (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: A working class girl winds up at an exclusive prep school. Unassuming high school girl Jan Di stands up to -- and eventually falls for -- a spoiled rich kid who belongs to the school's most powerfu clique.
Style: dorama, touching, sentimental, romantic, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, opposites attract, cinderella story, teenage life, teenage love, friendship, love triangle, school, high school hunk, rich man poor woman, teen romance, social differences ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, south korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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True Beauty (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: Lim Ju-kyung is a high school student. Since she was little, she has had a complex about her appearance. To hide her bare face, Ju-kyung always wears make-up. Her excellent make-up skills make her pretty and she hides her bare face in front of ...
Style: dorama, touching, sincere, romantic, romantic comedy ...
Plot: love triangle, bullying, friendship, fame, teen romance, ugly duckling, teenage love, teenage life, love, makeup artist, asian, opposites attract ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Shut Up Flower Boy Band (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Shut Up Flower Boy Band is a 2012 South Korean television series starring Sung Joon, Jo Bo-ah, Kim Myung-soo, Jung Eui-chul, Lee Hyun-jae, Yoo Min-kyu, and Kim Min-suk. It is a coming-of-age story about a high school rock band dealing with ...
Style: light, captivating, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: music, friendship, boy band, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love triangle, music industry, jealousy, youth, bromance, tragedy, neighbor ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
67%
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 4K
Playful Kiss (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 66 min.
TV show
Story: Playful Kiss is a 2010 South Korean romantic-comedy television series, starring Jung So-min and Kim Hyun-joong. It aired on MBC from September 1 to October 21, 2010 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. It is based on the Japanese ...
Style: feel good, light, semi serious, dorama, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: teenage love, unlikely couple, first love, school, teenage life, unfulfilled love, love and romance, japanese teenager, opposites attract, fall in love, brother brother relationship, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Boys Over Flowers (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Hana Yori Dango is a Japanese television drama series, broadcast on TBS in 2005. It is based on Japanese shōjo manga series, Boys Over Flowers, written by Yoko Kamio. The series is the third television adaptation of the manga following Meteor ...
Style: touching, dorama, humorous, semi serious, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: high school, youth, opposites attract, rich man poor woman, teenage love, cinderella story, rich and poor, love and romance, social differences, friendship, teenage life, heir ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 ⇓
32%
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Awkward. (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: An irreverent look at the conflict, chaos and humor that defines teenage life through the eyes of 15-year-old Jenna Hamilton whose life begins to change when a simple accident becomes an epic misunderstanding and is blown way out of proportion. ...
Style: humorous, light, realistic, sitcom, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot: high school, teenager, teenage girl, popularity, teenage life, shyness, youth, high school life, friendship, self esteem, classmate, teenage love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.3
 15K
Bandslam (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A high school social outcast and the popular girl bond through a shared love of music.
Style: romantic, teen, humorous, semi serious, light ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, music, teenage love, friends, love and romance, rock and roll, hopes, rock, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, adolescence ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.0
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Austin & Ally (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: A comedy about the unique relationship between a young songwriter, Ally Dawson, and Austin Moon, the overnight internet sensation who gains sudden notoriety after performing one of Ally's songs. Austin and Ally struggle with how to maintain and ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, novela, realistic, humorous
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: teenage life, rising to stardom, friendship, artists and showbiz, youth, shyness, music, conservative, singer, friends, group of friends, best friend ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: miami, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
High School Musical 2 (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The East High Wildcats are ready to have the time of their lives. Troy (Zac Efron) is thrilled when he’s offered a job in a country club, but it’s all part of Sharpay’s (Ashley Tisdale) plot to lure him away from Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens). ...
Style: teen, melancholic, sentimental, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: teenage love, high school life, teenager, teenage girl, music, dancing, youth, love and romance, ambition, country club, talent show, dance ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Alex & Co. (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: Italy
TV show
Story: A group of friends studying in secondary school find their love for music after stumbling upon a banned room in their school.
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sincere
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: teenager, music, music band, musician's life, teenage life, friends, musician, school club, friendship, high school life, group of friends, teenage love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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 ⇓
29%
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High School Musical (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Troy (Zac Efron), the popular captain of the basketball team, and Gabriella (Vanessa Anne Hudgens), the brainy and beautiful member of the academic club, break all the rules of East High society when they secretly audition for the leads in the ...
Style: romantic, teen, feel good, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: high school, music, teenage life, high school life, teenage love, basketball, friendship, happy ending, love and romance, couple relations, teenager, dancing ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, albuquerque new mexico, new mexico, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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SLiDE (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The exploits of five 17-year-olds smashing their way into adulthood.
Style: sincere, captivating, humorous, psychological, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, friendship, teenage love, best friend, teenage life, jealousy, party, youth, high school, shallowness, crush ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.5
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School 2017 (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: A coming-of-age story about the lives of 18-year-old high school students who are valued according to their ranking in school. Despite their frustrations, they find out how to make their own way in this world that seems to be a stagnant cycle of ...
Style: romantic, emotional, buddy comedy, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenage life, friends, friendship, spoken inner thoughts, teenage girl, teenage boy, twists and turns, love affair, stereotypes, rivalry ...
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.9
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Reply 1997 (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the 1990's, the drama centers around a female high school student Shi Won, who idolizes boyband H.O.T and her 5 high school friends in Busan. As the timeline moves back and forth between their past as 18-year-old high schoolers in 1997 ...
Style: dorama, sincere, not serious, light, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, friends to lovers, first love, love, family relations, fall in love, ambition, teenage life, family problems, parents and children, lifestyle, past ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: seoul, thailand, busan
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: It's almost graduation day for high school seniors Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Chad, Ryan and Taylor ― and the thought of heading off in separate directions after leaving East High has these Wildcats thinking they need to do something ...
Style: feel good, teen, humorous, semi serious, romantic ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot: high school, prom, teenage love, teenager, friendship, high school life, high school hunk, love and romance, music, teenage girl, buddies, dancing ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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School 2021 (2021)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 63 min.
TV show
Story: The story of students attending a specialized high school and pursuing their own dreams rather than go off to college. It will delve into how these students learn about love, friendship, the things they like versus the things they’re good at, and ...
Style: entertaining, semi serious, captivating
Plot: teen romance, schoolboy, high school life, teenager, adolescence, teenage love, youth, student, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ambitious, friendship, love affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The Musical (2011)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Musical is a 2011 South Korean television series starring Ku Hye-sun, Choi Daniel, Park Ki-woong, Ock Joo-hyun and Kim Eun-se. It aired on SBS from September 2 to December 23, 2011 on Fridays at 22:00 for 15 episodes. Filming began in July ...
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, touching
Plot: follow your dream, lifestyle, ambition, love triangle, actor's life, showbiz, musician's life, couples, love and romance, hopes, friends, artists and showbiz
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Adolescence Medley (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: A teen drama about high school students in a village high school. Jung Woo is a transfer student in Namil High School. After transferring schools 7 times, Jung Woo learns it is easiest not to make friends!
Style: dorama, romantic, touching, sentimental
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: school, friendship, first love, unrequited love, true love, high school, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, love and romance, boy girl friendship, friendship between boys ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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 ⇓
28%
A Love So Beautiful (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The ups and downs of school, family and growing up test the affection between a budding artist and her handsome but indifferent classmate and neighbor.
Style: dorama, romantic, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, teenager, friends, love and romance, relationships, love story, love affair, teenage life, teenage love, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.3
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Hannah Montana (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: At home and school, she's Miley Stewart, a typical teenager, but when the lights go down and the curtain goes up, she emerges as the glamorous and talented Hannah Montana. Having the "Best of Both Worlds" is a complicated proposition, ...
Style: humorous, feel good, sitcom, touching, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: teenage life, teenage girl, high school, female protagonist, secret identity, friendship, double life, love and romance, music, musician's life, siblings relations, high school life ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: tennessee, malibu california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 31 min.
TV show
Story: A group of East High students countdown to the opening night of their school’s first-ever production of “High School Musical.” Showmances blossom; friendships are tested while new ones are made; rivalries flare and lives are changed forever as ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, romantic, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
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Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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