Title Recommendations based on Tony Mendez
In Skins, real life begins after dark, when high school students sneak out of the house to attend various parties. There are drugs, mild arson, and late nights out. But the challenge is making sure their parents never find out.
Set in a post-apocalyptic world, young Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow "runners" for a shot at escape.
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
Black Mirror is a contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.
The strongest vocalists from across the United states compete in a blockbusters vocal competition. The show's innovative format features four stages of competition: the blind auditions, the battle rounds, the knockouts and, finally, the live performance shows.
The life of a swinging bachelor, Charlie Harper, gets turned upside down with the sudden intrusion of Alan and Jake. A straight-laced chiropractor (his brother Alan) and an elementary school-aged boy (Jake) don't exactly make great poker buddies. But Alan is broke after his ex-wife Judith divorced him and saddled him with alimony, so Charlie may not get his place back to himself for a long while. Needless to say, Charlie isn't the best role model for young Jake.
After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
Saitama is a hero who only became a hero for fun. After three years of special training, though, he's become so strong that he's practically invincible. In fact, he's too strong. Even his mightiest opponents are taken out with a single punch, and it turns out that being devastatingly powerful is actually kind of a bore. With his passion for being a hero lost along with his hair, yet still faced with new enemies every day, how much longer can he keep it going?
Cross Academy is an elite boarding school with two separate, isolated classes: the Day Class and the Night Class. On the surface, Yuuki Cross and Zero Kiryuu are prefects of the academy, and attempt to keep order between the students as classes rotate in the evenings. As the Night Class is full of utterly gorgeous elites, this can sometimes prove to be a bit difficult. It is completely necessary, however, as those "elites" are actually vampires. Yuuki and Zero act as guardians, protecting the secrets of the Night Class and the safety of their ignorant morning counterparts.
Freaks and Geeks, set in a suburban high school in the 1980s, is a tale of two groups: the "freaks" and the "geeks." Linsey Weir is caught in the middle, as a star member of the Mathletes at McKinley High School before she started to associate with the "freaks." She sums up her dilemma: "All my new friends think I'm some goody-two-shoes, and all my old friends think I'm throwing my life away. What the hell am I supposed to do?"
A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident.
Everything was normal for Clary Fray until she witnessed a group of teenagers murder someone. Now she's seeing things no one else can see. And her mother has vanished, leaving only a cryptic message. Clary joins the Shadowhunters, who are humans infused with angels' blood who use their supernatural abilities to wage a secret war against demons and monsters. They don't seem keen on her joining, but now that she knows what's out there, what else can she do?
Jane Villaneuva is dealing with a completely unforeseeable, life-altering situation.While doing a good job of sticking to the plan and maintaining her virginity, Jane was accidentally inseminated by a distraught and distracted gynecologist. Now Jane is pregnant, and it just so happens that her former crush is the biological father. As Jane grapples with a truly unexpected pregnancy, she realizes that her life is "now the stuff of telenovelas."
It ain't easy bein' green—especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot: a wisecracking donkey.
Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
