Movies and TV shows like Class of '96

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Class of '96 (1993)
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Class of '96 (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Class of '96 is an American drama series that aired on Fox from January to May 1993. The series was created by John Romano and filmed mostly at the University of Toronto.
Style: sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: college, university, college life, friendship, youth, friends, studying, teachers and students, love and romance, best friend, student life, follow your dream, lifestyle, social relations, disorder, fish out of water, college graduate, bittersweet, buddies, hopes, power relations, professor, exam, dormitory, campus ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sentimental and touching films and TV series with plots about youth, friends, lifestyle, love and romance, friendship, teenage life and hopes mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Class of '96: The Paper Chase (1978), The Heights (1992), Hillside (1990), Felicity (1998), Recovery Road (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Paper Chase (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering contract-law professor named Charles Kingsfield, who alternately inspires and terrifies the students.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, talky, witty ...
Plot: education, lawyer, law, court, school, law school, college, youth, legal, coming of age, ambition, power relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
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95%
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The Heights (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Heights is an American musical drama series that aired on the Fox network from August to November 1992.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, sentimental
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, suburbs, bittersweet, suburban life, friends, teenage life, rock, buddies, artists and showbiz, follow your dream, lifestyle, music band ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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82%
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Hillside (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 25 min.
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Story: Hillside (known as Fifteen in the United States) is a Canadian-American teen drama that aired on YTV in Canada from 1991 to 1993. Created and produced by John T. Binkley, the series was Nickelodeon's only teenage soap opera. The show was shot ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, soap opera, realistic, touching ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, high school life, teenager, teen social issues, love and romance, rebelliousness, buddies, teenage love, childhood sweetheart, friendship, youth, high school hunk ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada
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80%
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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 ⇓
78%
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Recovery Road (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Maddie is a teenage girl dealing with addiction who has a reputation as a party girl who doesn’t think she has a problem, until she’s confronted one day by her school guidance counselor and is forced to choose between expulsion and rehab. Maddie ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school life, addiction, youth, best friend, hopes, recovery, teenage life, drug abuse, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Fame L.A. (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Fame L.A. is an American drama series that aired in syndication from 1997-1998. It told the story of a drama/dance school in Los Angeles where students honed their talents while overcoming various personal problems. It starred Christian Kane, ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, sincere, serious, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: ambition, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, music, performer's life, hopes, desire for fame, follow your dream, performance art, student, mentor, female student
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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The Best Years (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Best Years is a Canadian teen drama series set in Boston, Massachusetts. The series was created by producer and writer of Degrassi: The Next Generation, Aaron Martin. The first season was shown on Global in Canada and The N in the United States. ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, sincere, sexual
Plot: college, social differences, student life, lifestyle, teenage life, foster child, friends, college life, youth, upscale, young adult, studying ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston
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Summerland (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Summerland is an American drama television series created by Stephen Tolkin and Lori Loughlin. It is centered on a clothing designer in her 30s, Ava Gregory, raising her niece and nephews after their parents die in a tragic accident. They live in ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, emotional
Audience: teens
Plot: surfing, family relations, love and romance, teenage life, siblings relations, family problems, life turned upside down, parents and children, high school, beach, childhood, young adult ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Underemployed (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Five friends learn to deal with the harsh realities of life after college.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, best friend, friendship, youth, lifestyle, unfulfillment, workplace, society, living together, teenager, lesbian, women ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
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Vanished Empire (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with ...
Style: atmospheric, sentimental, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: love triangle, friendship, youth, politics, society, lifestyle, university, young lovers, hopes, idealism, revolution, political unrest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia
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61%
Hollywood Heights (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Loren (Brittany Underwood) a smart, shy and independent high school senior who has ambitions of being a songwriter, secretly sends her song lyrics to her celebrity crush, rock superstar Eddie Duran (Cody Longo). Loren's wildest dreams come true ...
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cinderella story, follow your dream, musician, best friend, audition, ambition, fame, fall in love, talented, fan, student, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Prom Queen (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 1 min.
TV show
Story: Prom Queen is the first web television series produced by former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner's new production company Vuguru and veteran web television production company Big Fantastic, the creators of Sam Has 7 Friends. The series, ...
Style: serious, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: friendship, teenage life, contests and competitions, love and romance, ambition, youth, danger, woman in danger, high school life, teenage love, friends, first sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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Beyond the Break (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Beyond the Break is an American drama series set in Hawaii, that debuted on The N in June 2006.
Style: sexy, touching, realistic, serious, exciting
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: surfing, rise to the top, teenage love, friendship, ambition, contests and competitions, overcoming, teenage life, youth, rivalry, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Nordrand (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Austria ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, sentimental
Audience: girls' night
Plot: immigrant, friendship, bittersweet, deadend life, friends, social relations, fish out of water, gender, society, misfit, life is a bitch, youth ...
Time: 90s
Place: austria, europe
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Harrison Montgomery (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a rundown apartment complex in San Francisco's Tenderloin, a septuagenarian seer is waiting for his final message. For decades the eccentric recluse has chronicled the phrases of the Wheel of Fortune and deciphered their hidden meaning - the ...
Style: serious, emotional, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Plot: elderly, lifestyle, friendship, follow your dream, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, buddies, love and romance, danger, poverty, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
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Relativity (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Relativity is an American drama television series which followed a twenty-something couple, Isabel Lukens and Leo Roth, and the lives and loves of their friends and siblings in Los Angeles. The short-lived ABC series was the product of ...
Style: serious, realistic, talky, sentimental
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: twenty something, family relations, best friend, buddies, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, couples, friends, twentysomething life, friendship, bittersweet ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
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51%
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Paradise Beach (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: Paradise Beach is an Australian television series made by Village Roadshow Pictures. It is associated with New World Television for the Nine Network that aired between 1993 and 1994. The series is set around characters living and working on ...
Style: soap opera, serious, sentimental, realistic
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: small town, beach, family relations, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love, love affair, teenage life, family problems, looking for love, small town life, couples ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.7
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The Tic Code (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A 10 year old gifted boy wants to be a jazz pianist much to the chagrin of his more classical oriented piano instructor. With his mother's help, he is an underage regular at a local nightspot, where he is teamed up with a sax superstar. Both ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, independent film, serious ...
Plot: disability, jazz, youth, music, illness, musician's life, fall in love, hopes, coming of age, love and romance, prodigy, misfit ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Young Americans (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Young Americans is an American television drama created by Steven Antin. The show debuted on July 12, 2000 on The WB network as a summer replacement for, and spin-off from, another Columbia TriStar Television production, Dawson's Creek. The ...
Style: touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, queer cinema
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage life, cross dressing, teenage love, fall in love, love and romance, coming of age, lifestyle, high school, friends, youth, student life, cheating ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, maryland, baltimore
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47%
Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Moyher's good boy Benny Silman from Brooklyn becomes an economics student at Arizona State University for the sun and sexy girls- and the proximity of gambling paradise Las Vegas. Benny aces his studies, being a mathematical genius, but the one ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, captivating
Plot: gambling, bookies, friendship, lifestyle, ambition, couples, culture clash, college life, youth, follow your dream, buddies, fall in love ...
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Mentor (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, power relations, dishonesty, university, friendship, college, unfulfillment, ambition, manipulation, power, mentor, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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46%
Resurrection Blvd. (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Santiagos are a proud East Los Angeles Latino family whose hopes and dreams are rooted in the world of professional boxing.
Style: serious, rough, emotional, sentimental, crime drama ...
Plot: family drama, human spirit, ambition, lifestyle, society, athlete's life, youth, family life, coming of age, parents and children, family relations, boxing ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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46%
The Manions of America (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 290 min.
TV show
Story: Film starring David Soul, Kate Mulgrew, Pierce Brosnan
Style: serious, sentimental, captivating, realistic, emotional
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: 007, american civil war, immigrant, love and romance, couples, hopes, starvation, follow your dream, ambition, renewed love, lovers reunited, society ...
Time: 19th century
Place: ireland, usa, philadelphia
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45%
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Sweet Valley High (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Sweet Valley High is an American comedy-drama series very loosely based on Francine Pascal's book series of the same name. The series ran from September 5, 1994 to October 14, 1997, and was produced by Saban Entertainment. The rights are now ...
Style: sweet, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous
Audience: kids, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, occupation, sister sister relationship, twin sister, teenage life, friendship, best friend, friends, family relations, disorder, shopping ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, southern california, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Hellcats (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Pre-law student Marti Perkins' world is flipped upside down when she loses her scholarship, and realizes the only way she can stay in school is by reigniting her dormant teen gymnastic skills to win a place on Lancer University's legendary ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: college, cheerleading, student life, cheerleader, campus, friends, team, social relations, love and romance, youth, lifestyle, teenage life ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: southern usa, usa, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.9
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Happy Days (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: The movie revolves around eight youngsters, who become good friends in their freshman years when they join the college for their Bachelors in Engineering (B.E.). The life of these young minds, be it personal or that in college, is dealt with aplomb. ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic, romantic ...
Plot: friendship, college, graduation, student life, couples, university, teachers and students, buddies, lifestyle, couple relations, coming of age, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Ricochet River (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: hree teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this coming-of-age drama. High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, culture clash, interracial relations, teenage life, love and romance, self discovery, small town, on the road, youth, lifestyle, society, social misfits ...
Time: 60s, 90s
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Party Never Stops: Diary of a Binge Drinker (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A promising track star, 18 year old Jesse Brenner struggles with binge drinking during her freshman year of college.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, twisted
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: college, family relations, lifestyle, best friend, life is a bitch, youth, parents and children, college life, alcohol abuse, underage drinking, teen social issues, recovery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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C.P.W. (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Central Park West is an American prime time television soap opera that ran from September 1995 to June 1996 on CBS. The series was created and executive produced by Melrose Place's Darren Star. As the title suggests, CPW was set in New York, in ...
Style: soap opera, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: couples, power relations, lifestyle, couple relations, boss and employee, workplace, rivalry, workplace situations, workplace intrigue, city life, intern, urban ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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My Generation (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A documentary crew follows the stories of nine classmates during their high school years in Austin, Texas, and then revisits them ten years later to examine how far they have come.
Style: sincere, sentimental, humorous, realistic, serious ...
Plot: childhood sweetheart, high school, youth, friendship, lifestyle, adulthood, self fulfillment, friends, hopes, teenage life, social relations, videotaping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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