Movies and TvShows featuring "college-town" theme.

Charmed (2018) follows the lives of three half-sisters, Macy, Mel, and Maggie, who discover they are witches with unique powers. As they navigate their newfound abilities, they also face various supernatural threats, including demons and dark magic. Together, they must learn to harness their powers and work as a team to protect their loved ones and the world from evil.

October Road follows the life of Nick Garrett, a successful author in New York City who is forced to return to his hometown of Knights Ridge, Massachusetts, after his best-selling novel is revealed to be based on the people from his hometown. As Nick reconnects with his old high school friends, he must confront the past, deal with the consequences of his actions, and find a way to regain the trust of the people he left behind.

Jack & Bobby is a coming-of-age drama set in a college town in the year 2049. The show explores the liberal-conservative conflict, friendship between boys, and the life story of two brothers. It is told in flashback and follows their journey as one of them goes on to become the president of the United States.

Breaking Away is a coming-of-age movie set in Indiana in the 1970s. It follows the story of a teenager who finds his passion for cycling and his dream of becoming a professional cyclist. The movie explores themes of class differences, college life, and the challenges of growing up. As the teenager trains and competes in a bicycle race, he learns valuable life lessons and discovers his true potential.

Breaking Away is a 1980 American comedy-drama television series that was based on the 1979 film of the same name. It was created by Steve Tesich, who wrote the original film, and the film's director Peter Yates served as Executive Producer. As a prequel, the series was set during the year prior to the events of the film. Shaun Cassidy took over the role of Dave Stohler, a young man mad about bicycle racing and all things Italian. Barbara Barrie, Jackie Earle Haley and John Ashton reprised their roles from the film. The television series was set in Bloomington, Indiana, but was actually shot in Athens, Georgia. The show was caught up in the 1980 Screen Actors Guild Strike and did not begin production until that fall. While heavily promoted by ABC, it was overlooked by TV audiences once it got on the air and suffered low ratings. It was cancelled after eight episodes were filmed, though only seven episodes aired during its original run. ABC showed reruns of the show during the summer of 1981, and it was also rerun by the Arts & Entertainment cable channel during 1985–1987.

Secrets of Midland Heights is a short-lived American nighttime soap opera which ran on CBS from December 6, 1980 to January 24, 1981 for eight episodes. Produced after the enormous success of Dallas, Lorimar Productions likewise produced the new serial for CBS. Secrets of Midland Heights was aimed at the teen audience, and featured romantic triangles and secrets among the teens and their parents who populated a fictional midwestern college town called Midland Heights. Aired on Saturday night at 10 PM EST/9 PM Central, the series never found an audience and was canceled after eight episodes. The show resembled a dark, 1980s-style Peyton Place, both dealing with hidden secrets and scandalous affairs in a small town. Lisa Rogers carried on with college jock Burt Carroll while also seeing fraternity jerk Mark; good girl heiress Ann Dulles secretly dated high school dropout John; Holly Wheeler wanted to lose her virginity to her boyfriend Teddy Welsh, but the teens were shocked to discover her mother Dorothy was having an affair with Teddy's father Nathan.

Young Warriors is a 1983 action thriller film about a group of college students who form a vigilante group to seek revenge after one of their own is raped and murdered. They embark on a mission to take down a gang responsible for the crime, leading to a series of intense confrontations and moral dilemmas. The film explores themes of justice, vigilantism, and the consequences of violence.

A college freshman who trains in martial arts is beaten up at work by a racist gang. His co-worker, a Chinese cook, beats the gang up and trains the young man in Kung Fu. When a tournament is to be held, the teacher tells the student that he will not teach him for money. However, when the gang beats up the student's best friend, the student now must make the choice of entering the tournament or keeping the promise to his teacher.

Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude. He is there to visit his wife, who is a mental patient at the university, and she is there visiting her son, who is a student, after discovering her husband's infidelity.

In the college town of Oaksville, music student Tony looks for inspiration in the local rock scene. When he joins an up-and-coming band, he quickly becomes the lead singer and gains popularity. However, Tony soon discovers that he is a werewolf and that the band has a dark secret - they are followers of an ancient evil. As Tony's life spirals out of control, he must fight his inner beast and stop the evil before it consumes him and everyone he loves.

The story of two young lovers...

Sameer and Sheena's marriage was fixed when they were children, but now she has decided to marry him only on the condition that he will abduct her and take her to Mumbai.

Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment and keep the school from having to shut down.

An NFL veteran who's become a college-town drug kingpin takes in a protégé, but eventually the relationship turns volatile and deadly.