The Nostalgic Files
Movies that take you back to simpler times.
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Breaking Bad
2008·Created by Vince Gilligan·★ 9.5Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.
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Chernobyl
2019·Created by Craig Mazin·★ 9.3The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
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Bluey
2018·Created by Joe Brumm·★ 9.3Bluey is an inexhaustible six year-old Blue Heeler dog, who loves to play and turns everyday family life into extraordinary adventures, developing her imagination as well as her mental, physical and emotional resilience.
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Reply 1988
2015·Created by Shin Won-ho·★ 9.0Take a nostalgic trip back to the late 1980s through the lives of five families and their five teenage kids living in a small neighbourhood in Seoul.
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Gravity Falls
2012·Created by Alex Hirsch·★ 8.9Twin brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines are in for an unexpected adventure when they spend the summer helping their great uncle Stan run a tourist trap in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls, Oregon.
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Always Home
2025·★ 8.8Chen Huan’er, along with her friends Jing Xichi and Song Cong, navigates the journey from high school to adulthood. Together, they experience love, loss, family struggles, and personal growth. As life takes them in unexpected directions, their enduring friendship remains a constant through every challenge.
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When They See Us
2019·Created by Ava DuVernay·★ 8.8Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park.
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Haikyu!!
2014·★ 8.7Inspired by a small-statured pro volleyball player, Hinata creates a volleyball team in his last year of middle school. Unfortunately the team is matched up against the "King of the Court" Tobio Kageyama’s team in their first tournament and inevitably lose. After the crushing defeat, Hinata vows to surpass Kageyama After entering high school, Hinata joins the volleyball team only to find that Tobio has also joined.
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Freaks and Geeks
1999·Created by Paul Feig·★ 8.7High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social universe with his nerdy friends (the "geeks").
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1 Litre of Tears
2005·Created by Takao Kinoshita·★ 8.71 Rittoru no Namida is a Japanese television drama for Fuji Television about a girl who was diagnosed with an incurable degenerative disease at 15, but was able to continue her life until her death at the age of 25.
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I Told Sunset About You
2020·Created by Naruebet Kuno·★ 8.7Tender emotions and new yearnings awaken in childhood friends Teh and Oh-aew when they cross paths in a Chinese language class during senior year.
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This Is Us
2016·Created by Dan Fogelman·★ 8.7Follows 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 birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.
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Romeo's Blue Skies
1995·★ 8.7Romeo, a poor kid living in a Swiss village, bravely sells himself into servitude as a chimney sweep in order to save his family. On his way to Milan he meets a mysterious boy named Alfredo, and they become fast friends. Life as a chimney sweep is hard and dangerous. But together, and with the help of some new friends, Romeo and Alfredo find themselves striving for a better life.
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Friday Night Lights
2006·Created by Brian Grazer·★ 8.7The trials and triumphs of life in the small town of Dillon, Texas, where high school football is everything.
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Slam Dunk
1993·★ 8.7Sakuragi Hanamichi is a junior high punk used to getting into fights and being rejected by girls but upon entering high school he meets the girl of his dreams, Haruko Akagi. He will do anything in order to win her heart including joining the school basketball team that is aiming to conquer the nation lead by Haruko's brother. The problem is that Sakuragi has never played basketball before and a freshman sensation is stealing the spotlight and Haruko's affection from him.
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Narcos
2015·Created by Chris Brancato·★ 8.7A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
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Bad Buddy
2021·Created by Pitchaya Sukphat·★ 8.7At university, two young men raised to hate each other find music and love instead, forcing them to question family legacies and choose their own path.
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Dopesick
2021·Created by Danny Strong·★ 8.6The story of how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. Look into the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA, and to the opulence of "one percenter" Big Pharma Manhattan.
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The On1y One
2024·Created by Mu Suli·★ 8.6When their parents marry, two high school students become stepbrothers and navigate their relationship, turning from enemies into something more special.
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Twenty Five Twenty One
2022·Created by Jung Jee-hyun·★ 8.6In a time when dreams seem out of reach, a teen fencer pursues big ambitions and meets a hardworking young man who seeks to rebuild his life.
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Regular Show
2010·Created by J.G. Quintel·★ 8.6The surreal misadventures of two best friends - a blue jay and a raccoon - as they seek to liven up their mundane jobs as groundskeepers at the local park.
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POSE
2018·Created by Brad Falchuk·★ 8.6A dance musical that explores the juxtaposition of several segments of 1980s life and society in New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe and the downtown social and literary scene.
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Ping Pong the Animation
2014·★ 8.6Makoto 'Smile' Tsukimoto and his friend Yutaka 'Peco' Hoshino have been playing table tennis together since they were kids, but as they enter high school, they find that the game, and how they see it, has changed. Peco, brimming with confidence and energy, wants to be the best in the world, but the reserved Smile has little fighting spirit and doesn't want to sacrifice others' happiness just to win, despite his innate talent. As the two grow, and experience the ups and downs of the sport – and life – they try to figure out exactly who they really are and what drives them to play.
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Our Blues
2022·Created by Noh Hee-kyung·★ 8.6Romance is sweet and bitter — and life riddled with ups and downs — in multiple stories about people who live and work on bustling Jeju island.
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Anne with an E
2017·Created by Moira Walley-Beckett·★ 8.6A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890s, who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly woman and her aging brother. Over time, 13-year-old Anne will transform their lives and eventually the small town in which they live with her unique spirit, fierce intellect and brilliant imagination.
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
2017·Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino·★ 8.6It’s 1958 Manhattan and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she’s ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a turn and Midge must start over, she discovers a previously unknown talent - one that will take her all the way from the comedy clubs of Greenwich Village to a spot on Johnny Carson’s couch.
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Merlí
2015·Created by Héctor Lozano·★ 8.6He’s surly, unorthodox, unapologetically blunt, and he’s about to change your life. Meet the new philosophy teacher, Merlí, who will help his students view the world in a whole new light, both in and out of the classroom.
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Stranger Things
2016·Created by Ross Duffer·★ 8.6When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
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Hidden Love
2023·Created by Zhu Yi·★ 8.6Since high school, Sang Zhi has had a crush on Duan Jiaxu. When fate brings them together again, they find a chance to embark on a sweet relationship.
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It's a Sin
2021·Created by Russell T Davies·★ 8.6A chronicle of five friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.
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It's Okay to Not Be Okay
2020·Created by Park Shin-woo·★ 8.6Desperate to escape from his emotional baggage and the heavy responsibility he’s had all his life, a psychiatric ward worker begins to heal with help from the unexpected – a woman who writes fairy tales but doesn’t believe in them.
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Call the Midwife
2012·Created by Heidi Thomas·★ 8.6Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
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Mr. Robot
2015·Created by Sam Esmail·★ 8.5A young programmer, Elliot, suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot finds himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.
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The Queen's Gambit
2020·Created by Scott Frank·★ 8.5In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.
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Romanzo Criminale: The Series
2008·Created by Stefano Sollima·★ 8.5Love, business, anxieties, friendships, feuds, and resentments paint the picture of the main story, that of a group of criminals who for nearly fifteen years, from 1977 to 1992, cherished an illusion: that of conquering Rome. The Lebanese, Freddo, Dandi, Patrizia, and Commissioner Scialoja are some of the characters inspired by the true story of the Magliana gang. As stated by Aldo Grasso, the first season of the series gives more space to the crime scene, that is, the criminal exploits of the Magliana gang, while the second season delves deeper into the "behind the scenes" of the crime: thus, the gang's repositioning after a key plot event, and the effects and questions this has provoked in the protagonists' consciences.
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War
2019·★ 8.5Considered a genius due to having the highest grades in the country, Miyuki Shirogane leads the prestigious Shuchiin Academy's student council as its president, working alongside the beautiful and wealthy vice president Kaguya Shinomiya. The two are often regarded as the perfect couple by students despite them not being in any sort of romantic relationship.
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Heartstopper
2022·Created by Alice Oseman·★ 8.5Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.
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Rebooting
2023·Created by Bakarhythm·★ 8.5A comedy focusing on Kondo Asami, a 33-year-old single woman who lives with her parents and works at the local city hall, and suddenly finds herself starting her life over from scratch.
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Fruits Basket
2019·★ 8.5After a family tragedy turns her life upside down, 16-year-old high school student Tohru Honda takes matters into her own hands and moves out… into a tent! Unfortunately for her, she pitches her new home on private land belonging to the mysterious Soma clan, and it isn't long before the owners discover her secret. But, as Tohru quickly finds out when the family offers to take her in, the Somas have a secret of their own—when hugged by the opposite sex, they turn into the animals of the Chinese Zodiac!
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NANA
2006·Created by Ai Yazawa·★ 8.5Nana Osaki and Nana Komatsu meet while traveling to Tokyo in pursuit of their respective dreams, and decide to be roommates. Although drastically different people, the two become very close and together they find out if their biggest dreams have room for their best friend.
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