you'll love
2024
Musical Fantasy Drama
Unlikely Friendship Enemies Become Allies
The untold story of the witches of Oz — before Dorothy's arrival. Elphaba, a misunderstood green-skinned girl with extraordinary magic, forms an unlikely friendship with Glinda, th…
Like Nickel Boys, it leans hard into unlikely friendship. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else.
2025
Netflix Original
Drama Action Coming Of Age
Rivals Become Allies Mentor Student
The final season of the beloved Karate Kid sequel series. Johnny Lawrence and Daniel LaRusso must set aside their complicated history to face the greatest threat their Valley has e…
Like Nickel Boys, it leans hard into coming of age. The emotional territory — coming of age — is the same.
2024
Historical Drama Epic Drama Immigration
Immigrant Story Patron Exploitation
Hungarian-Jewish architect László Tóth emigrates to America after WWII, determined to rebuild his life and pursue his visionary architecture. But the American dream proves brutal —…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same devastating energy throughout.
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2025
War Action Drama
Real Time Thriller Unit Cohesion
Based on a true account, Warfare recreates a 2006 Navy SEAL platoon's desperate battle to save their own after an ambush in Ramadi, Iraq. Told in real time with no music, no sentim…
Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. Same devastating energy throughout.
you'll love
2017
27 eps
Drama Coming Of Age Historical
Coming Of Age Found Family
Orphan Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables with a vivid imagination and fierce spirit, fighting to find her place in Prince Edward Island in the late 1800s. A beautifully modern r…
Like Nickel Boys, it leans hard into coming of age. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else.
2025
Paramount+ / Showtime
Thriller Drama Survival
Dual Timeline Dark Secret
As the surviving Yellowjackets' dark present-day secrets grow more dangerous, the mysteries of what happened in the wilderness 25 years ago continue to unfold. The show's dual time…
Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of.
2025
HBO Max
Drama Sci Fi Horror
Father Daughter Dynamic Post Apocalypse
Five years after their harrowing journey, Joel and Ellie's relationship is strained when they are violently pulled back into the brutal world of the Cordyceps pandemic. A new chapt…
Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. Same devastating energy throughout.
2017
Romance Drama
First Love Summer Romance
In 1980s Italy, 17-year-old Elio forms a deep, passionate bond with his father's American graduate assistant Oliver over one sun-drenched summer. A devastatingly beautiful love sto…
Like Nickel Boys, it leans hard into coming of age. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same devastating energy throughout.
2025
Biographical Drama Music Historical Drama
Rise To Fame Tortured Artist
The story of Bob Dylan's meteoric rise in the New York folk music scene of the early 1960s, from his arrival as an unknown 19-year-old to his explosive decision to go electric at t…
Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same intimate energy throughout.
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2025
Horror Drama Historical
Twin Protagonists Supernatural Siege
Twin brothers Smoke and Stack return to their small Mississippi Delta hometown in 1932 to open a juke joint — a place for their community to celebrate, dance, and be free. But on o…
Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of.