TV series about a difficult childhood

TV series about a difficult childhood
List of the best TV series about a difficult childhood according to viewers: Anne with an E, Patrick Melrose, Mouse, Broken, It's a Sin, Ragnarok, 13 Reasons Why, We Children from Bahnhof Zoo, Awkward., Jane by Design.

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Markimdb: 8.7
Genredrama, family
CountryCanada
Duration01:58

A 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 1890’s, 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.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:05

A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist’s harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.

Markimdb: 8.7
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea

A psychopath’s ruthless serial murders have left the entire nation gripped with fear and chaos. A honest and justice-seeking rookie police officer and a veteran detective with tragic past, face against the killer. After the encounter with the psychopath, their lives totally change.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom

Father Michael, a Catholic priest presiding over a Northern urban parish who is Modern, maverick, and reassuringly flawed; must be confidante, counselor and confessor to a congregation struggling to reconcile its beliefs with the challenges of daily life.

Markimdb: 8.7
Genrecomedy, drama, history
CountryUnited Kingdom

A chronicle of four friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryNorway, Denmark

A small Norwegian town experiencing warm winters and violent downpours seems to be headed for another Ragnarök -- unless someone intervenes in time.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:04

After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate receives a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama
CountryGermany, Czech Republic, Italy

The series follows six teenagers who fight for their dream of happiness and freedom, leaving behind all the problems with parents, teachers and others. Christiane, Stella, Babsi, Benno, Axel and Michi throw themselves into the heady nights of Berlin, without limits or rules, and celebrate life, love and temptation - until they have to realize that this rush will not only destroy their friendship, but can drive them into the abyss.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration00:20

An irreverent look at the conflict, chaos and humor that defines teenage life through the eyes of 15-year-old Jenna Hamilton whose life begins to change when a simple accident becomes an epic misunderstanding and is blown way out of proportion. Narration in the first-person voice of Jenna's blog posts captures the humor within the struggles and experiences everyone can relate to from their formative years.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

Jane by Design is an American comedy-drama television series on ABC Family. The series followed the life of Jane Quimby, a teenager who had to be mistaken for an adult to finally get her fashion dream job and work with a world-famous designer, Gray Chandler Murray. She has to juggle between two secret lives: one in high school, and one in high fashion. The network green-lighted the series in April 2011. The series premiered on January 3, 2012, following Switched at Birth. On February 29, 2012, the series was given an 8-episode back order. It premiered in the summer on June 5, 2012 and ended on July 31, 2012. On August 17, 2012, ABC Family announced that the show was canceled.

Markimdb: 8.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryNorway
Duration01:03

The story of a young teenager group, born 1999, and a pupil on Hartvig Nissens upper secondary school in Oslo, and her friends and their life, troubles, scandals and every day life. Which of the members represented changes per season.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration00:51

A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

Before she was a fashion icon, before her column in the New York Star, before Mr. Big, Carrie Bradshaw was an innocent 16-year-old girl living in suburban Connecticut.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

Scott McCall, a high school student living in the town of Beacon Hills has his life drastically changed when he's bitten by a werewolf, becoming one himself. He must henceforth learn to balance his problematic new identity with his day-to-day teenage life. The following characters are instrumental to his struggle: Stiles, his best friend; Allison, his love interest who comes from a family of werewolf hunters; and Derek, a mysterious werewolf with a dark past. Throughout the series, he strives to keep his loved ones safe while maintaining normal relationships with them.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, cartoon
CountryUSA, South Korea
Duration00:22

After moving to a new town with her stressed-out parents and relentlessly popular little sister, Daria uses her acerbic wit and keen powers of observation to contend with the mind-numbingly ridiculous world of Lawndale High.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan

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Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:10

    Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genreaction, comedy
    CountryUSA

    In this gritty and sometimes bloody tale, sixteen year-old Wayne sets out on a dirt bike with his new crush Del to take back the 1978 Pontiac Trans Am that was stolen from his father before he died. It is Wayne and Del against the world.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:08

    A new arrival at a boarding school falls in love with a beguiling female student.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:43

    Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.

    Markimdb: 8.7
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration02:13

    A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.

    Markimdb: 8.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:09

    When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:47

    Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:36

    As her 16th birthday nears, Sabrina must choose between the witch world of her family and the human world of her friends. Based on the Archie comic.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

    A true-crime satire that explores the aftermath of a costly high school prank that left twenty-seven faculty cars vandalized with phallic images.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, short
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:45

    Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    A grieving teen finds an unexpected connection with two classmates at her new high school after they all land in the same Shoplifters Anonymous group.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySpain
    Duration02:33

    When three working class kids enroll in the most exclusive school in Spain, the clash between the wealthy and the poor students leads to tragedy.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    A teen navigates the complexities of high school, family and her sexuality while dealing with new superpowers. Based on Charles Forsman's graphic novel.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama
    CountryItaly
    Duration01:42

    Fed up with their families and classmates, two teen girls from a wealthy part of Rome are drawn to the city's underworld and start leading double lives.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:28

    James is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a darkly comedic road trip in search of her real father.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    In the near future, an undercover Detective Inspector gunned down and killed during a botched sting is brought back via an experimental Artificial Intelligence project. Full of glitches, he’s got to track down the person who shot him, prove himself as a cop so as not to get shut down, and save his marriage and his friendship, all with his partner Carver to boot.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA

    After a traumatic year, all an Indian-American teen wants is to go from pariah to popular -- but friends, family and feeling won't make it easy on her.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    In the last years of Victoria's reign, London is beset by the "Touched": people — mostly women — who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities, some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True, a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance Adair, a brilliant young inventor. They are the champions of this new underclass, making a home for the Touched, while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the forces — to make room for those whom history as we know it has no place.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:30

    The three-part series centres on the close and often fraught relationship between sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa’s sexually complicated alliance with gay artist Duncan Grant as they, and their group of like-minded friends, navigate their way through love, sex and artistic life through the first half of the 20th century.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration00:30

    The black sheep of the Argyll family, Jack Argyll, was accused of murdering their matriarch a year ago, but now a man shows up on their doorstep claiming Jack’s innocence. The family must come to terms with this news and the fact that the real killer might still be among them.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, USA
    Duration05:00

    A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    Nessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination. Now an adult, Nessa inherits her father's company and changes course from supplying arms to laying data cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank. Her efforts to reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians lands her an appointment to the House of Lords and creates an international political maelstrom.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrefantastic, action, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:40

    In Edwardian England, George and his partner Amy attempt to defy society and start a life together as they face the escalating terror of an alien invasion, fighting for their lives against an enemy beyond their comprehension.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration03:48

    "A.D. The Bible Continues" picks up where the smash hit miniseries "The Bible" left off, continuing the greatest story ever told and exploring the exciting and inspiring events that followed the Crucifixion of Christ. The immediate aftermath of Christ's death had a massive impact on his disciples, his mother, Mary, and key political and religious leaders of the era, completely altering the entire world in an instant. Beginning at that fateful moment of the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, "A.D. The Bible Continues" will focus on the disciples who had to go forward and spread the teachings of Christ to a world dominated by political unrest, and the start of a whole new religion that would dramatically reshape the history of the world.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A Welsh community devastated by tragedy is forced to confront difficult truths amid the search for justice.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:55

    Robyn, the sharp and witty publicity maven, is an expert at her craft but a complete self-saboteur when it comes to her personal life. Robyn’s work as a crisis PR strategist is fast-paced and unpredictable, as she counsels high-profile personalities in entertainment, fashion and sports.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:30

    The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrefantasy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:17

    The coastal town of Bristol Cove is known for its legend of once being home to mermaids. When the arrival of a mysterious girl proves this folklore all too true, the battle between man and sea takes a very vicious turn as these predatory beings return to reclaim their right to the ocean.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryMexico

    Hell-bent on exacting revenge and proving he was framed for his sister's murder, Álex sets out to unearth much more than the crime's real culprit.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    Two federal agents from two different continents, and two different mindsets, must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA

    On a perilous adventure across a post-apocalyptic world, a lovable boy who's half-human and half-deer searches for a new beginning with a gruff protector.




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