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The Fosters (2013)
 8.0
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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 lives are disrupted in unexpected ways when Lena meets Callie, a hardened teen with an abusive past who has spent her life in and out of foster homes. Lena and Stef welcome Callie and her brother, Jude, into their home thinking it's just for a few weeks, until a more permanent placement can be found. But life has something else in store for the Fosters.
Style: sentimental, realistic, melancholic, teen, sincere, sex comedy, anime, hispanic, controversial, semi serious ...
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 life, family problems, supportive parent, step siblings, adolescence, blended family, parenthood, mother daughter relationship, gay, siblings relations, lesbian couple, lgbtq, teenager, high school student, teenage boy, foster parent ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: san diego california, usa, california
Keyword: latin

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, teen, queer cinema and touching films and TV series with plots about teenager, family relations, high school, teenage life, youth, gay and teenage girl mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Fosters: Life Unexpected (2010), Finding Carter (2014), Switched at Birth (2011), Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001), Degrassi: Next Class (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Life Unexpected (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Life Unexpected is a coming-of-age family drama that centers around 16-year-old Lux, who was given up for adoption at birth but never adopted. When she is put back into the custody of her estranged-since-high-school birth parents, Cate and Baze, the ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, foster child, adolescence, adolescence vs adulthood, foster home, teenage life, parents and children, teenage girl, immature, adopted daughter, proposal, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Finding Carter (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A teenager finds out she was abducted as a toddler and returns to her biological family.
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: family reunited, life turned upside down, parents and children, teenage life, missing child, introspection, starting over, uncover truth, family secret, self discovery, dysfunctional family, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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 ⇓
83%
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 ⇓
86%
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Degrassi: Next Class (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Follow a group of high school freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors from Degrassi Community School, a fictional school in Toronto, Ontario, as they encounter some of the typical issues and challenges common to a teenager's life.
Style: realistic, uplifting, sentimental, emotional, sweet
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, high school, gay relationship, teenage protagonist, friendship, gay lead character, gays and lesbians, rivalry, teenage life, parent child relationship, feud, high school student ...
Time: 2010s
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.7
 158K
This Is Us (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, touching, thought provoking, saga ...
Audience: teens
Plot: adoption, childhood memory, childhood, husband wife relationship, parenthood, father son relationship, depression, teenage angst, family relations, siblings, brother brother relationship, self esteem ...
Time: 90s, 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: syria, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.6
 38K
Skam (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a young teenager group, born 1999, and a pupil on Hartvig Nissens upper secondary school in Oslo, and her friends and their life, troubles, scandals and every day life. Which of the members represented changes per season.
Style: emotional, dramatic, realistic, sweet, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, teenage sexuality, friendship, gay relationship, teenage protagonist, teenage boy, teenager, high school student, high school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship between girls ...
Place: oslo norway, scandinavia
⇓ 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 ⇓
71%
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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 ⇓
100%
 8.3
 37K
Parenthood (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Parenthood is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Jason Katims. Loosely based on the 1989 film of the same title, Parenthood tells of the Braverman clan which consists of an older couple, their four children and their families.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family drama, family life, parenthood, teenage pregnancy, responsibility, autism, family relations, large family, couple relations, adolescence, marital problem, supportive parent ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 29K
The L Word (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A group of lesbian friends struggle with romance and careers in Los Angeles.
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, erotic, grindhouse ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian couple, sexual activity, gays and lesbians, lesbianism, female protagonist, cafe, friendship, lesbian mother, lesbian sex ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, indiana, idaho, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Heartbreak High (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A fresh look at Hartley High over 20 years on. With her new friends - outsiders Quinni and Darren - Amerie must repair her reputation, while navigating love, sex, and heartbreak.
Style: queer cinema
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay, lgbt, lesbian, pain, lgbtqi, lgbtq, mental illness, school, sex education, friendship, teacher, teen romance ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.5
 22K
Queer as Folk (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: Brash humor and genuine emotion make up this original series revolving around the lives, loves, ambitions, careers and friendships of a group of gay men and women living on Liberty Avenue in contemporary Pittsburgh, PA. The show offers an ...
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, sincere, sexual ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lgbt, gay, gays and lesbians, gay relationship, homosexual, gay love, friendship, homosexuality, gay lead character, lesbian, lifestyle, sexual activity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, idaho, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ...
Style: touching, soap opera, witty, teen, entertaining ...
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 ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 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 ⇓
67%
 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%
 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 ⇓
50%
 5.6
 10K
How to Deal (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Mandy Moore stars as Halley, a young hip high school student who's convinced true love doesn't exist based on the crazy relationships around her. Her mother is divorcing her father who is dating a younger woman Halley can't stand. Her ...
Style: romantic, sweet, semi serious, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, teenage love, teenage pregnancy, wedding, true love, coming of age, pregnancy, bullying, love and romance, youth, family problems ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.3
 15K
Faking It (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: A romantic comedy about two best friends who love each other -- in slightly different ways. After numerous failed attempts to become popular, the girls are mistakenly outed as lesbians, which launches them to instant celebrity status. Seduced by ...
Style: humorous, realistic, teen, sitcom, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, high school, high school life, youth, teenage life, popularity, lesbian relationship, homosexual, gossip and rumors, pretense, sexual identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: idaho, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
26%
 7.7
 4K
Sugar Rush (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Sugar Rush is an Emmy Award–winning British television comedy drama series developed by Shine Limited and broadcast by Channel 4, based on the Julie Burchill novel of the same name. It is centred around the life of a 15 year old lesbian Kim ...
Style: sexy, realistic, semi serious, romantic, teen ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, lesbian sex, teenage girl, swinger party, coming of age, love and romance, lesbianism, sexuality, sexual relations, sexual attraction ...
Place: england, europe, london, brighton
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.2
 751
SKAM Austin (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
TV show
Story: SKAM Austin follows the lives of students at Bouldin High.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, lgbt, gay, youth, teenage life, teenage love, adolescence, lifestyle, everyday life, schoolboy, romantic friendship, slice of life ...
Place: austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 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 ⇓
25%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Venice the Series (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: Venice: The Series is a web series co-produced by and starring American actress Crystal Chappell, and is inspired in part by the "Otalia" storyline on the daytime drama Guiding Light. The series has been broadcast since 2009, and is ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbianism, gender, family relations, love and romance, gays and lesbians, lifestyle, family life, parents and children, strong female presence, lesbian love, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.6
 6K
Neighbours (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 18 March 1985. It was created by TV executive Reg Watson, who proposed the idea of making a show that focused on realistic stories and portrayed adults ...
Style: soap opera, serious, realistic, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: girl, gay, lesbian, women, lgbtq, sapphic, family relations, infidelity, friendship, cafe, suburbs, wedding ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 2010s ...
Place: australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.4
 1K
Skam Spain (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: The series accompanies a group of 16-year-olds on the journey of their life following their day to day in real time. Dependence on social media, how they face sex, love and ruptures, religion, the search of their identity and the need to fit in.
Style: realistic, sincere, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenage sexuality, gay, real life, feminist, sapphic, lgbt, teenager, friendship, high school, love, urban setting, adolescence ...
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 8.3
 347K
Sex Education (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 1755 min.
TV show
Story: Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
Style: sexy, sex comedy, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, lgbt teen, teenage sexuality, sex education, youth, classmate, school, teenage life, sex therapy, teenage sex, couples ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 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 ⇓
24%
 8.6
 75K
Heartstopper (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Charlie, a highly strung, openly gay over-thinker, and Nick, a cheerful soft-hearted rugby player, meet at a British all-boys grammar school. Friendship blooms quickly, but could there be something more...? Based on Alice Oseman's bestselling ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, cute, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay relationship, gay love, lgbtq, lgbt teen, gay lead character, gay interest, gay couple, teenage love, gay teenager, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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