Movies and TV shows like The Red Band Society

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The Red Band Society (2015)
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The Red Band Society (2015)
Original name: Club der roten Bänder
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Based upon the Catalan drama series Polseres vermelles, the series focuses on a group of teenagers living together as patients in a hospital's pediatric ward.
Style: thought provoking, touching, sweet, melancholic, meditative, talky
Plot: hospital, friendship, medical, best friend, teenage life, fighting illness, supportive friend, youth, jealousy, love and romance, self discovery, adolescence, patient, human nature, bittersweet, lgbtq, lgbtqi, teenager

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, captivating, realistic and serious films and TV series with plots about friendship, youth, teenager, love and romance, teenage life, friends and family relations mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Red Band Society: Red Bracelets: The Beginning (2019), Fujoshi, Ukkari Gei ni Kokuru (2019), Attaway General (2020), Zac & Mia (2017), The Red Bracelets (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Red Band Society (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: Polseres vermelles and Pulseras Rojas in Spanish, is a Catalan television show. The first season aired on TV3 in 2011, with a second season planned for 2013. The show was created by Albert Espinosa and draws on his childhood experiences as a ...
Style: serious, touching, humorous, medical drama, rough ...
Plot: cancer, illness, terminal illness, fighting illness, overcoming, child cancer, youth, teenage life, anorexia, patient, friendship, doctors and patients ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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Red Bracelets: The Beginning (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In this prequel to the TV series, the individual fates of the members of the later "Red Bracelets" and how they came together are told.
Style: captivating, sentimental, compassionate, melancholic, touching ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: wedding ceremony, teenage boy, teenage girl, hospital, death of mother, brother brother relationship, soccer match, bulimia, grandfather grandson relationship, death of loved one, best man, cancer patient ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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Fujoshi, Ukkari Gei ni Kokuru (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 29 min.
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Story: Jun, a closeted gay teenager who loves Queen, starts a relationship after bumping into his classmate, Sae, and sees her buying "yaoi" manga. However, Jun suffers a lot when he tries to learn to be straight.
Style: feel good, sweet, light, touching
Plot: gay, gay man straight woman relationship, gay teenager, friends, friendship, fall in love, blind date, looking for love, human nature, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples ...
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Attaway General (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story: When four very different teens arrive at Attaway General Hospital’s prestigious volunteer program, they must learn to work together to survive the program and make a difference in the lives of their patients. With breakout performances from Dixie ...
Style: dramatic, captivating, exciting, witty
Plot: hospital, teenager, doctor, teenage girl, volunteer, youth, relationships, patient, teenage life, friendship, society
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The Red Band Society (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
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Story: Braccialetti Rossi is a story of friendship, values and life, a modern tale about the power of sharing, where protagonists are six young guys that the destiny brings together within a hospital. While laughing, playing, crying and gets excited, as ...
Style: captivating, psychological, sincere, disturbing
Plot: hospital, doctors and patients, medicine, sick child, friendship, friends, physician, teenage life, social problems, lifestyle, medical, sick ...
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The Red Band Society (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
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Style: captivating, satirical, psychological, disturbing
Plot: sick child, friendship, hospital, child illness, fighting illness, adolescence, teenage boy, juvenile delinquency, best friend, teenager, satire, lifestyle ...
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Zac & Mia (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 12 min.
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Story: "Zac and Mia", based on the novel by A.J. Betts, about 2 teens battling cancer in the same hospital. In the real world, Zac and Mia would have pretty much nothing in common, but in the hospital, where they're the only 2 teens on the ...
Style: sincere, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: cancer, boy girl friendship, teen romance, young love, father daughter relationship, love, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, illness, tragic love, teenage boy, teenage love ...
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The Red Bracelets (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine, Russia
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Story: Children's unit in the hospital occurs as a model of the world, where teenagers accept the real life challenges, make difficult decisions, become friends and fall in love with each other. There is no pathetic drama in the story of young ...
Style: sincere, touching, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, hospital, teenager, grownups, coming of age, escapades, family relations, youth, adaptation, love and romance, society, mentor ...
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Red Band Society (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story: Children and teenagers become friends in a hospital where they are all patients. Together they try to escape the sad reality to create their own world with their own codes , while the nursing staff do their best to bring them a little happiness ...
Style: touching, captivating, compassionate, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, medical, doctors and patients, teenager, friendship, sick child, medicine, anorexia, child cancer, youth, hospital, friends ...
Time: 21st century
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East Los High (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min.
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Story: East Los High is not your typical high school. Dance, sex, romance, and mystery are at the heart of this inner city school in East LA where two teenage cousins—Jessie, a 16-year-old virgin and Maya, a troubled runaway with a violent past —fall ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, melancholic, exciting ...
Audience: teens
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Czech Republic, Italy
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Six teenagers fight for their dream of happiness and freedom, leaving behind all the problems with parents, teachers and others. Christiane, Stella, Babsi, Benno, Axel and Michi throw themselves into the heady nights of Berlin, without limits or ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thought provoking
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Place: berlin germany
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Duration: 30 min.
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Style: touching, melancholic, sentimental, captivating, sincere
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Story: The life of a disabled guy changes dramatically after a family from a small town comes to Istanbul. How will Seher behave after she learns that her mother-in-law has agreed with Agah Karacay? What will Ceren do when she learns that she is supposed ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 30 min.
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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
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