Movies and TV shows like Extracurricular
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Extracurricular (2020)
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Original name: μΈκ°μμ
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Determined to escape a dead-end life, a gifted high school student turns to a world of serious crime to ensure he can pay for college.
Style:
dorama, serious, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, controversial
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
secret life, criminal, high school life, friendship, undercover, danger, hidden identity, life is a bitch, double life, social problems, financial problem, secret, money problems, secret revealed, teenager, youth, entertainment, bullying, teenage boy, student, high school, school, dual identity, mystery, school life ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and tense films and TV series with plots about high school, teenager, school, friendship, secret, high school life and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Extracurricular: Girl From Nowhere (2018), My Name (2021), A Model Family (2022), The King of Pigs (2022), Weak Hero (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
A mysterious, clever girl named Nanno transfers to different schools, exposing the lies and misdeeds of the students and faculty at every turn.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min.
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Yoon Ji-woo's father dies suddenly. She wants to desperately take revenge on whoever is responsible for her father's death. Yoon Ji-woo works for drug crime group Dongcheonpa. Choi Moo-jin is the boss of the drug gang. With the help of ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
south korea, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
After unwittingly stealing money from a cartel, a cash-strapped professor finds the only way to save his broken family is by working as a drug courier.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min.
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Two friends in the past were victims of serious school bulling. One could not resist his trauma, and becomes a serial killer, walking in the path of revenge. Another one tries his best to overcome the trauma and becomes a police detective. He now ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Yeon Shi-eun is a model student, who ranks at the top at his school. Physically, he appears like a weak boy, but, by using his smarts, tools, and psychology, he fights against violence that takes place inside and outside of his school.
Style:
action drama, smart, psychological, captivating, thrilling
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
violence, fight, high school life, bullying, school, friendship, school bullying, male friendship, high school student, heroes, wit, student ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After transferring to a new school, a teenage girl finds her troubled past exposed when she innocently signs up for a singing club.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenage rape, gang rape, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, coming of age, estrangement, investigation, confronting the past, family secret, uncover truth, crime solving ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea
Similarity:
50%
172
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Yoon Jae moves to a new high school and starts hanging out with Se Joon, a mysterious student. Needing money for his sickly mother, Yoon Jae accepts a job offer by Se Joon. However, he doesn't exactly know what it is.
Style:
enigmatic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
school, investigation, student, high school, gay, lgbt, uncover truth, teenager, unsolved crime, secret revealed, cold case, secret ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story:
Because of her looks, Koo Ae-jin is bullied at school and even insulted by strangers. But after school, she leads a secret life: with heavy makeup and hours of photo editing, she lives as Genie, a social media star with 770K followers.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, disturbing
Plot:
school bullying, social media, secret, high school student, relationships, relationship problems, social issues, social problems, identity crisis, life is a bitch, social outcast, hidden identity ...
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
The Soviet Union is dying, and along with a premonition of change, freedom of speech, music and prices, freedom from conscience appears, bordering on lawlessness. A schoolboy, Andrey transforms from an outsider into a cruel gang member.
Style:
thrilling, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
music school, crime investigation, best friend, troubled youth, teenage boy, friend, romancing a criminal, young man, crime boss, teenager, group of friends, friendship between boys ...
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37%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Tommy Egan leaves New York behind and plans to take on Chicago, using his outsider status to break all the local rules and rewrite them on his quest to become the biggest drug dealer in the city.
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, psychological
Plot:
criminal, crime boss, husband and wife, organized crime, life is a bitch, male protagonist, criminal underworld, criminal gang, gang, sex scene, black ops, drug ...
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story:
From the creator of Projek: Anchor SPM comes High Council. The story of troubled student Fakhri on a mission to end bullying and injustices in his elite boarding school by dismantling the High Council.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, school, secret, student, teenager, problem, adolescence, teenage protagonist, high school life, conspiracy, teenage life, schoolboy ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
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Story:
Campus bullying is a serious issue that every school try to root out. When the bullying manifests to outside of the school, who is responsible to stop it?
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, tense ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, high school, school, bullying, teenage life, adolescence, teenage protagonist, troubled youth, rebellious youth, teen romance, schoolboy, high school life ...
Time:
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Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
There are a lot of dark secrets at Seonam Girls High School, but nothing is too difficult to solve for the school's Sherlockian group of private investigators. Mentored by their teacher Ha Yeon Joon, these beautiful and intelligent sleuths use ...
Style:
detective, dorama, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
private investigation, amateur sleuth, school, investigator, investigation, teenager, crime solving, uncover truth, problem solving, teenage life, secret revealed, teenage girl ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Haruna Wakagusa is a high school student who lives with her mother. Ichiro Yamada is gay and Harunaβs classmate. He is bullied at school, but Haruna sticks up for Ichiro. They become intimate and Ichiro tells Haruna his secret. He found a dead ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
closeted homosexual, bullying, classmate, school bullying, japanese schoolgirl, secret, lgbt, gay, high school life, social problems, life is a bitch, high school student ...
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Similarity:
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Country: Egypt
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, social, psychological ...
Plot:
social issues, private vs public, privacy invasion, secret life, society, undercover, social problems, social worker, life is a bitch, problem, lifestyle, family secret ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Reeling from tragedy, a nondescript house cleaner embarks on a murderous streak as she searches for her missing husband and reckons with old wounds.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
serial killer, murder, murderer, cleaning lady, killing, dark past, confronting the past, murder mystery, social problems, secret past, criminal, secret identity ...
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2020s
Similarity:
35%
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Country: South Korea
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Story:
βWe are neither kids nor adults. When do we become adults then?β Min Jae and Seo Yeon are no different from ordinary 17-year-old high school students. Min Jae is silent and sensitive, yet a good student. Seo Yeon who plays the piano wished to ...
Style:
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Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Battling from the try out ranks to break into first place, Kaliypso Dirgantari must face the top four throne-holders at Bina Indonesia High School: Re Dirgantara, Kenan Aditya, Adinda Aletheia and Aurora Calista. Each propelled by their own ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Beneath the tranquillity of her home town, a detective uncovers dark secrets that threaten everything she thought she knew about consent β and her own life.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, thrilling, bleak, captivating ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
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Story:
Kang Chul Soo (Lee Joon Hyuk) is an enthusiastic fireman. He poses as a nude model to make money for his sick friend. He is then targeted as the criminal of an arson-murder case that took place 10 years. Kang Chul Soo and mysterious heiress Han Jin ...
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, dramatic ...
Plot:
firefighter, investigation, arson, private investigation, money problems, murder investigation, crime solving, murder, assistant, model, unsolved crime, nude model ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
korea
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Go Nam-soon, a young boy, constantly gets bullied by a group in his class. Later, one of his old rivals joins his school. Eventually, they are able to sort out their differences.
Style:
feel good, disturbing, dorama, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
34%
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Country: Thailand
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Story:
Akeanan is an outstanding school in all aspects: education, sports⦠and secrets.
Traffic comes to Akeanan to look for his sister Fah, who disappeared months prior and with neither the police nor the school finding any trace of her. In the course ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
investigation, student, youth, danger, friendship, rivalry, fall in love, family problems, society, fighting crime, twists and turns, escapades ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The Queen's Classroom is a live-action Japanese television drama about Maya Akutsu, a new teacher at Hanzaki Elementary School who strives for perfection and punishes her students in unorthodox manners. A 12 year old student, Kazumi Kanda, has ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
school, female protagonist, elementary school, female teacher, teacher, bullying, peer pressure, relationships, teachers and students, life is a bitch, high school life, relationship problems ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
A secret exits surrounding two women. One woman is the successor to a cosmetics company and the other woman lives her life for the female succors.
Style:
suspense, serious, psychological, dramatic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
secrets, inheritance, woman, female protagonist, heir, secret, family business, life is a bitch, undercover, secret past, betrayal, manipulation ...
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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Story:
Otomen is a Japanese romantic comedy manga by manga artist Aya Kanno, which began in Bessatsu Hana to Yume in late 2006 and concluded on November 26, 2012. The series has been adapted into a live action TV drama. The series has been one of the ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, dorama
Plot:
high school, friendship, love, gender issues, friends in love, couples, classmate, gender roles, in love, adolescence, schoolboy, gender ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
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45
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
After ten years behind the bars in Taiwan, Kong Sai-Hao finally returns to Hong Kong. Besides hoping to find his daughter Yau-Yau to mend their relationship, he also plans for revenge. On one hand, he pretends to surrender to triad boss To Yik-Tin, ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, crime drama ...
Plot:
revenge, daughter, undercover, triad, problem, bandit, fighting crime, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, father and daughter, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
33%
31
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Lee Ok Rim is 15 years old. She likes imaging and has bright personality. She is very frank about her feelings. She also knows that she is pretty and uses that. At home she is the second child who is placed between an older sister who studies well ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, adolescence, high school life, high school, love triangle, coming of age, schoolboy, children, teenage protagonist, school, teenage life, teenager ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
Joo Ah-Ran and Shin Hyun-Woo have an elaborate wedding at a luxurious hotel. Shin Hyun-Woo sincerely loves Joo Ah-Ran, but Joo Ah-Ran has ulterior motives for the marriage. Joo Ah-Rans family was destroyed by Shin Hyun-Woo's parents and, ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, male protagonist, betrayal, deception, life is a bitch, personality change, new identity, marital problem, secret, relationship problems, plastic surgery ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Live-action drama series that takes place before the events that begin the story of Detective Conan, the anime series.
Style:
detective, tense, disturbing, captivating, twisted ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
high school, investigation, private detective, friend, teenager, crime investigation, deduction, schoolboy, private investigation, teenage life, sleuth, whodunit ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
Ki Moo-Hyeok, a lawyer with a high winning rate, only cares about money. Due to a murder case at a high school which he deals with, his reputation as a lawyer hits rock bottom. To regain his good name as a lawyer, he sneaks into the high school and ...
Style:
dorama, psychological, tense, slasher, suspense
Plot:
investigation, dual identity, teacher, law enforcement, justice, chase, dark secret, hidden identity, twists and turns, society, lawyer, high school ...
Place:
korea
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33%
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