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Half-brothers Lucas and Nathan Scott trade between kinship and rivalry both on the basketball court and in the hearts of their friends in the small, but not so quiet town of Tree Hill, North Carolina.
One Tree Hill (TV series)
A dramedy centering around the relationship between a thirtysomething single mother and her teen daughter living in Stars Hollow, Connecticut.
Gilmore Girls (TV Series 2000–2007) - IMDb
A young woman with a troubled past is drawn to a small town in Maine where fairy tales are to be believed.
Once Upon a Time
Three South Carolina women, best friends since high school, shepherd one another through the complexities of romance, career and family.
Sweet Magnolias
A young Clark Kent struggles to find his place in the world as he learns to harness his alien powers for good and deals with the typical troubles of teenage life in Smallville, Kansas.
Smallville
After being mistaken for younger than she really is, a single mother decides to take the chance to reboot her career and her love life as a 26-year old.
Younger
Maddie, a teen stuck in the afterlife investigating her own disappearance, goes on a crime-solving mission as she adjusts to high-school purgatory.
School Spirits
Four previously married women live together in Miami, sharing their various experiences together and enjoying themselves despite hard times.
The Golden Girls
A multi-generational saga set in Alberta, Canada and centered on a family getting through life together in both happy and trying times.
Heartland
Carrie Bradshaw is in her junior year of high school in the early 1980s. She asks her first questions about love, sex, friendship and family while navigating the worlds of high school and Manhattan.
The Carrie Diaries
Reba McEntire stars as the titular character in this smash sitcom about a single mom of three, navigating life in a Houston suburb.
Reba (TV series)
A ranch family gives Kris Furillo, a troubled teenager, a second chance at a life.
Wildfire
The lives, loves, dangers and disasters in the town, Mystic Falls, Virginia. Creatures of unspeakable horror lurk beneath this town as a teenage girl is suddenly torn between two vampire brothers
The Vampire Diaries
A vapid aspiring model killed in a car crash gets brought back to life as an intelligent, overweight lawyer, hoping to find the meaning of inner beauty.
Drop Dead Diva (TV Series 2009–2014) ⭐ 7.5 | Comedy, Drama
The life and adventures of the Ingalls family in the nineteenth century American Midwest.
Little House on the Prairie (TV series)
If you love a good laugh this one's a good one
Mama's Family
Set nearly a decade after the finale of the original series, this revival follows Lorelai, Rory and Emily Gilmore through four seasons of change.
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
When a star high school football player from South Central is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High School, two separate worlds collide.
All American (TV series)
A ranching family in Montana faces off against others encroaching on their land
Yellowstone (American TV series)
Follows the political rivalries and romances of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped Britain for the second half of the 20th century.
The Crown (TV series)
An adolescent with two siblings tests his various theories about life as he endures the trials of growing up alongside a good friend
Boy Meets World
A close-knit group of housewives reside in Wisteria Lane. It may appear to be a seemingly perfect neighborhood but it hides many secrets, crimes, forbidden romances and domestic struggles.
Desperate Housewives
Adrian Monk is a brilliant former San Francisco detective, who now consults the police as a private consultant while battling with an obsessive-compulsive disorder
Monk (TV series)
Elizabeth Thatcher, a young schoolteacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.
When Calls the Heart (TV Series 2014– ) - IMDb
Georgie and Mandy navigate the challenges of adulthood, parenting, and marriage while raising their young family in Texas.
Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage - CBS
A comedy revolving around a group of teenage friends, their mishaps, and their coming of age, set in 1970s Wisconsin
That '70s Show
8 of singer/songwriter Dolly Parton's most famous songs are brought to life in 8 different episodes.
Watch Dolly Parton's Heartstrings
Dare Me" is an unflinching exploration of volatile female friendships, jealousy, loyalty and the dynamics of power in a small Midwestern town. Peering behind the all-American facade, the series dives into the cutthroat world of competitive high schoo...
Dare Me (TV Series 2019–2020)
Passions run deep in a small Texas town, as three ranching dynasties fight for their land, their legacies and the people they love.
Ransom Canyon (TV Series 2025
A love triangle between one girl and two brothers. A story about first love, first heartbreak, and the magic of that one perfect summer.
The Summer I Turned Pretty (TV Series 2022–2025)
Neurosurgeon Maggie Sullivan reconnects with her small-town past after a scandal causes her to leave her professional and personal life behind in the city
Sullivan's Crossing (TV Series 2023
A structural engineer installs himself in a prison he helped design, in order to save his falsely accused brother from a death sentence by breaking themselves out from the inside.
Prison Break (TV Series 2005–2017)
Movies
When it comes to movies I love the classics and romance
Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar.
Urban Cowboy
A girl's "sweet" sixteenth birthday is anything but special: her family forgets about it, and she suffers from every embarrassment possible
Sixteen Candles (1984) - IMDb
A poor girl must choose between the affections of dating her childhood sweetheart or a rich but sensitive playboy
Pretty in Pink
Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
Mean Girls
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
Back to the Future
An outcast secretly pays the most popular girl in school one thousand dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month
Can't Buy Me Love (1987) - IMDb
This movie chronicles the life of Lane Frost, 1987 PRCA Bull Riding World Champion, his marriage and his friendships with Tuff Hedeman (three-time World Champion) and Cody Lambert.
8 Seconds
Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance
Grease
An accident puts the consciousness of an elderly dream researcher into the body of a bratty teenager. The problem? The kid prefers dreamworld limbo to real life
Dream a Little Dream
High school misfit Louise, at a loss for romance, discovers magical abilities, but the teenage witch finds that she cannot conjure herself true love, so what?
Teen Witch
Terri Fletcher is a small town girl with the voice of a big-time singer. When personal tragedy interrupts her steady life, Terri defies her father's wishes and secretly heads off to spend a summer at a Los Angeles performing arts academy.
Raise Your Voice
When Zack's famous girlfriend, Taylor, cheats on him with another boy and parts ways with him, he makes a bet with his friends to turn a socially inept Laney into their high school's next prom queen.
She's All That
Nicole and Chase used to be BFFs, then junior high happened. The high school centennial dance is coming but Nicole gets dumped. So does Chase. They stage a relationship to get at their exes
Drive Me Crazy
To save her parents' small-town performing venue, a former big-city dancer decides to stage an all-male, Christmas-themed revue.
The Merry Gentlemen
Sophia and Luke make an unexpected and fateful connection with Ira, a 90-year-old man, when they save him from a car crash. Ira's memories of his own decades-long romance with his beloved wife deeply inspire the young couple.
The Longest Ride (film)
Aspiring songwriter Violet Sanford, after getting a job at a women-run NYC bar that teases its male patrons, comes out of her shell.
Coyote Ugly
In 1971, Virginia high-school football was everything to the people of Alexandria, but when the school board was forced to integrate an all-Black school with an all-white one, the foundation of football's tradition was put to the test.
Remember the Titans
Two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is sentenced to perform community service.
A Walk to Remember
A white midwestern girl moves to Chicago, where her new boyfriend is a black teen from the South Side with a rough, semi-criminal past.
Save the Last Dance
Mia Thermopolis has just found out that she is the heir apparent to the throne of Genovia. With her friends Lilly and Michael Moscovitz in tow, she tries to navigate through the rest of her sixteenth year
The Princess Diaries (film)
A group of suburban biker wannabes looking for adventure hit the open road, but get more than they bargained for when they encounter a New Mexico gang called the Del Fuegos
Wild Hogs
Unpopular schoolgirl Jenna Rink makes an unusual wish on her birthday. Miraculously, her wish comes true and the 13-year-old Jenna wakes up the next day as a 30-year-old woman.
13 Going on 30 (2004) ⭐ 6.3 | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
When a man inadvertently makes Santa fall off his roof on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place
The Santa Clause (1994) ⭐ 6.6 | Comedy, Drama, Family
The life of American music icon Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Elvis (2022) ⭐ 7.3 | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of Priscilla Presley's life with rock and roll star Elvis Presley
Elvis and Me (TV Movie 1988) ⭐ 6.9 | Biography, Drama, Music
A shallow man falls in love with a 300-pound woman because of her inner beauty.
Shallow Hal (2001) - IMDb
Mike O'Donnell is ungrateful for how his life turned out. He gets a chance to rewrite his life when he tried to save a janitor near a bridge and jumped after him into a time vortex
17 Again (2009) - IMDb
An elderly man reads to a woman with dementia the story of two young lovers whose romance is threatened by the difference in their respective social classes
The Notebook
Two disgraced FBI agents go way undercover in an effort to protect hotel heiresses the Wilson sisters from a kidnapping plot.
White Chicks
The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.
Dazed and Confused (1993) - IMDb
With the help of her coach, her mom, and the boy who drives the Zamboni machine, nothing can stop Casey from realizing her dream to be a champion figure skater.
Ice Princess
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.
A Simple Favor (film)
The Top Gun Naval Fighter Weapons School is where the best of the best train to refine their elite flying skills. When hotshot fighter pilot Maverick is sent to the school, his reckless attitude and cocky demeanor put him at odds with the other pilot...
Top Gun (1986) - IMDb
Five high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a great deal more in common than they thought.
The Breakfast Club
Set in the influential New York City music scene of the early 1960s, "A Complete Unknown" follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician Bob Dylan's meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts as his songs and his mystique becom...
A Complete Unknown (2024) - IMDb
Josie Geller, a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her brother, Rob, Josie infiltrates the inner circle of the most popula...
Never Been Kissed (1999)
After Tennessee teen Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman) is left literally barefoot and pregnant in a Wal-Mart parking lot by her no-good boyfriend, Willy Jack Pickens (Dylan Bruno), she manages to live within the mammoth megastore until her baby's abru...
Where the Heart Is (2000)
A high school student is forced to confront her secret crush at a kissing booth
Watch The Kissing Booth | Netflix Official Site
A teenage girl's secret love letters are exposed and wreak havoc on her love life.
Watch To All the Boys I've Loved Before
A high school senior instigates a social pecking order revolution after finding out that she has been labeled the DUFF - Designated Ugly Fat Friend - by her prettier, more popular counterparts.
The DUFF (2015)
The story of singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner.
What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
The fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s.
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Two New Yorkers accused of murder in rural Alabama while on their way back to college call in the help of one of their cousins, a loudmouth lawyer with no trial experience
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship, and welcome her into the fold.
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Janey is new in town and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general and "Dance TV" in particular.
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)
A big city teenager moves to a small town where Rock and Roll music and dancing have been banned by backward local parents and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.
Footloose (1984)
Desperate to improve their social status, four best friends enter into an all-night scavenger hunt against the popular clique in their school.
Sleepover (2004)
When 12 year old Danny Walker moves to his father's hometown in Minnesota, he finds that the town doesn't celebrate Halloween and things aren't quite what they appear to be.
When Good Ghouls Go Bad (TV Movie 2001)