Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Euphoria follows a group of high school students through a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media, with drug-addicted Rue Bennett — an unreliable narrator — at its centre. The show signals a taste for work that doesn't flinch from the way young people actually experience crisis: raw and sensory, fragmented by trauma, and threaded through with intimacy both tender and destructive. Across media, that taste runs toward coming-of-age stories that treat adolescent pain as complex adult subject matter, not cautionary spectacle.
Euphoria is an American psychological teen drama television series created and written by Sam Levinson for HBO. Based on the Israeli miniseries of the same name created by Ron Leshem, the series stars Zendaya as drug-addicted teenager Rue Bennett, who also serves as an unreliable narrator. The ensemble cast includes Maude Apatow, Angus Cloud, Eric Dane, Alexa Demie, Jacob Elordi, Barbie Ferreira, Nika King, Storm Reid, Hunter Schafer, Algee Smith, Sydney Sweeney, Colman Domingo, Javon "Wanna" Walton, and Austin Abrams. Dominic Fike, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Martha Kelly, Chloe Cherry, and Toby Wallace join later in the series.
From the Wikipedia article Euphoria_(American_TV_series), available under CC BY-SA.
Film
Euphoria
A young woman and her family seek justice after she is assaulted by men from powerful, influential backgrounds.
Film
Euphoria
Two sisters on a difficult journey together wrestle with reconciliation and life's hardest questions.
Film
Candy
A relationship built on mutual heroin addiction cycles between oblivion and self-destruction, love and ruin.
Film
Cracks
A headmistress at an elite girls' boarding school becomes dangerously obsessed with a new student.
Film
Chemical Hearts
A romantic high school senior and a guarded new classmate discover themselves through love and loss.
Film
Girl
A teenage dancer pursues her ambition while navigating the profound tension of gender dysphoria.
Book
Love drugged
A fifteen-year-old keeping a major secret navigates the social survival pressures of high school.
Book
Not Otherwise Specified
A teenager who fits no single label auditions for art school as her only escape from social exclusion.
Book
Pushed
A boy who stops his medication to feel like himself again finds the consequences spiral out of control.
Book
Toxic Beauty
A teenager's desperate need for acceptance leads her toward something a mysterious stranger offers.
Book
Empress of the World
Intense, gifted teenagers at a summer programme form charged friendships and fall into unexpected love.
Book
Lucy in the Sky
A sixteen-year-old's diary traces a good girl's slide into drug use and the life that follows.
Series
Euphoria
A bold, troubling portrait of teenagers in the nineties and what unfolds behind closed doors.
Series
Addicted
Two high school students tangle in a conflicted emotional relationship upended by a sudden family connection.
Series
Hormones
Bangkok high schoolers confront drugs, teen pregnancy, and family turmoil with unflinching directness.
Series
Chastity High
At an ultra-elite school with a strict no-romance rule, one student secretly helps expelled classmates for cash.
Series
School 2017
Eighteen-year-olds ranked and sorted by school performance search for their own path through a rigid system.
Series
Love Playlist
Young love unfolds on a university campus in this slice-of-life web drama.
If you want more raw teen drama with drugs and identity at the center, Hormones follows Bangkok high schoolers through sex, addiction, and family fallout with a similarly unsparing lens. Chemical Hearts is a quieter but emotionally bruising pick.
Lucy in the Sky is a strong match — a teenager's diary charting her slide into drug use from a seemingly stable life, told with the same intimacy and slow unraveling that defines the show.
It refuses to sanitize teenage experience — trauma, queerness, addiction, and social media anxiety all collide without easy resolution. The books Not Otherwise Specified and Empress of the World capture that same refusal to let teens fit a single neat label.