Heartbreak High

Series Similar to Heartbreak High

If you enjoyed Heartbreak High, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Queer As Folk

   2000 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Brash humor and genuine emotion make up this original series revolving around the lives, loves, ambitions, careers and friendships of a group of gay men and women living on Liberty Avenue in contemporary Pittsburgh, PA. The show offers an unapologetic look at modern, urban gay and lesbian lives while addressing the most critical health and political issues affecting the community. Sometimes racy, sometimes sensitive and always straight to the heart, Queer As Folk is groundbreaking television at its best.

2. Sex Education

   2019 · Drama, Comedy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on Netflix.

   Insecure Otis has all the answers when it comes to sex advice, thanks to his therapist mom. So rebel Maeve proposes a school sex-therapy clinic.

3. Only Friends

   2023 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Only Friends will depict a story among a group of friends who bet their hearts to win this secret love game. Alcohol, nicotine, pheromones, night lights, and music bring Sand, Ray, Top, Mew, Boston, and Nick to meet and begin their relationship filled with love, heat, and secrets that eventually lead to the end of their friendship. How will these "friends" who should have stayed "only friends" handle their relationship issues?

4. Mr. Plankton

   2024 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on Netflix.

   Lee Yoo Mi stars as a bride-to-be whose medical conditions threatens her marriage to a family obsessed with continuing their grand lineage.

5. Indian Summers

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Set against the sweeping grandeur of the Himalayas and tea plantations of Northern India, the drama tells the rich and explosive story of the decline of the British Empire and the birth of modern India, from both sides of the experience. But at the heart of the story lie the implications and ramifications of the tangled web of passions, rivalries and clashes that define the lives of those brought together in this summer which will change everything.

6. Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

   2023 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem, also on Netflix.

   Betrothed to the mysterious King of England against her will, Charlotte arrives in London only to realise she was not exactly what the royals were expecting. As she learns to navigate the palace, the 'ton, and her unpredictable husband, she grows into one of Europe's most unforgettable monarchs.

7. Looking for Alaska

   2019 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Looking for Alaska thrusts us into the perspective of Miles "Pudge" Halter who is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave "the Great Perhaps" even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . After. Nothing is ever the same.

8. Love Alarm

   2019 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem, also on Netflix.

   In a world where an app alerts people if someone in the vicinity likes them, Kim Jo Jo experiences young love while coping with personal adversities.

9. From Scratch

   2022 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on Netflix.

   From Scratch is an autobiographical romance that follows an American woman as she falls in love with a Sicilian man while studying abroad in Italy then builds a life with him in the United States. When she unexpectedly loses him to illness, she is challenged to pull herself through grief so she can raise their daughter as they would have raised her together: with hope, joy and infinite love.

10. Young Royals

    2021 · Drama, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem, also on Netflix.

    Prince Wilhelm adjusts to life at his prestigious new boarding school, Hillerska, but following his heart proves more challenging than anticipated.