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Plot Summary:
A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoid making bad decisions.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 187000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: sexy, witty, humorous, cynical, erotic, explicit, sexual, dramatic, thought provoking, psychedelic
Best tv shows and movies like Californication (2007):
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Eastbound & Down (2009)
Plot Summary:
Years after he turned his back on his hometown, a burned-out major league ballplayer returns to teach phys ed at his old middle school.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, not serious, realistic, funny, dark comedy, erotic, epic, anime, sensual
Similar in 76%
Sons & Daughters (2006)
Plot Summary:
Family is always unpredictable, so why write a family comedy when you can live dangerously and improvise instead? Like real families, you never know what will happen when you give characters total freedom. Adult siblings Cameron, Sharon and Jenna have many years of shared history in this small town. Like every other family on the planet, their history includes many mistakes. This is proven by the multiple marriages and many children in their close extended clan.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sitcom, light, sexy, feel good, sexual
Similar in 77%
Show Me Yours (2004)
Plot Summary:
Show Me Yours is a Canadian comedy television series originally aired on Showcase between May 26, 2004 and May 31, 2005.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexy, clever, sexual
Similar in 82%
Rescue Me (2004)
Plot Summary:
Rescue Me revolves around the lives of the men in a New York City firehouse, the crew of 62 Truck. Examining the fraternal nature and relationships of firefighters, the series tackles the daily drama of the life-and-death situations associated with being a firefighter, while exploring the ways the men use dark humor to protect their true emotions.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: heroic, psychological, realistic, semi serious, thought provoking, disturbing, entertaining, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous
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Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce (2014)
Plot Summary:
Follows a best-selling author of a self-help book series who is secretly hiding her separation from her husband as she starts to navigate her life as a single woman in her 40's in Los Angeles. She starts to side with and take advice more from her divorced friends rather than her married ones and it leads her to some unexpected and life-changing experiences.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, erotic, captivating, sexy, hilarious
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How to Make It in America (2010)
Plot Summary:
Trying to make a name for themselves in New York's competitive fashion scene, Ben Epstein and his friend and business partner Cam Calderon use their street knowledge and connections to bring their ambitions to fruition. With the help of Cam's cousin Rene, who is trying to market his own high-energy drink, and their well-connected friend Domingo, the burgeoning entrepreneurs set out to make it big, encountering obstacles along the way that will require all their ingenuity to overcome.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: semi serious, stylized, captivating, erotic, entertaining, sitcom, sensual, comedy drama, realistic, independent film
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Entourage (2004)
Plot Summary:
Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 175000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, witty, realistic, not serious, entertaining, erotic, epic, sensual, explicit
Similar in 90%
Nip/Tuck (2003)
Plot Summary:
Hotshot plastic surgeons Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy experience full-blown midlife crises as they confront career, family and romance problems.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: sexy, medical drama, realistic, erotic, sexual, exciting, bloody, entertaining, dramatic, controversial
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You're the Worst (2014)
Plot Summary:
Narcissistic, brash, and self-destructive Jimmy thinks all relationships are doomed. Cynical, people-pleasing, and stubborn Gretchen knows that relationships aren't for her. So when they meet at a wedding, it's only natural that the two of them go home together and, despite their better judgment, begin to find themselves falling for each other.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, realistic, humorous, light, dark comedy, erotic, sexy, dark, sensual, hilarious
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Dream On (1990)
Plot Summary:
The family life, romantic life, and career of Martin Tupper, a divorced New York City book editor. The show distinctively interjected clips from older black and white television series to punctuate Tupper's feelings or thoughts.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, sensual, erotic, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, sexual
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Hung (2009)
Plot Summary:
Desperate times call for desperate measures and Ray Drecker's situation couldn't be much tougher. The former high school sports legend turned middle-aged high school basketball coach is divorced and struggling to provide for his kids when his already run-down house catches fire. Looking to take on a second job, Ray decides to exploit his best asset in a last-ditch attempt to change his fortunes.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: erotic, humorous, sexual, semi serious, realistic, captivating, satirical, sitcom, sensual, hilarious
Similar in 82%
Co-Ed Confidential (2007)
Plot Summary:
Co-Ed Confidential is a softcore pornographic cable program that is Cinemax's erotic remake of National Lampoon's Animal House, it is shown on Cinemax After Dark. The series made its premiere in 2007 and has currently had four seasons and 52 episodes and 6 compilations.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, captivating, disturbing, sexual
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Mozart in the Jungle (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on my Grave" comes an insider’s look into the secret world of classical musicians. From her debut recital at Carnegie Recital Hall to the Broadway pits of "Les Miserables" and "Miss Saigon," Blair Tindall has played with some of the biggest names in classical music for twenty-five years. Now in "Mozart in the Jungle," Tindall exposes the scandalous rock and roll lifestyles of the musicians, conductors, and administrators who inhabit the insular world of classical music.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, sincere, romantic, spiritual, political, sitcom, offbeat, semi serious
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8 Simple Rules (2002)
Plot Summary:
What happens to a loving, rational Dad when his darling, pliable daughters morph into hormonally-challenged, incomprehensible teenagers? If he's Paul Hennessy, he reacts in ways even he finds crazy. Thank God he has a 13-year-old son who still speaks his language.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, touching, realistic, witty, hilarious, not serious, nostalgic
Similar in 79%
Girls (2012)
Plot Summary:
The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, witty, mumblecore, clever, sexy, funny, sitcom, grindhouse
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Gooische Vrouwen (2011)
Plot Summary:
Gooische Vrouwen (Vipers Nest) is based on a very popular Dutch TV series and can be described as a Dutch variation of Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives. The film tells the story of four girlfriends who live in the bourgeois area ‘t Gooi, where life always seems to run smoothly, but dark clouds are gathering on the horizon. A flight seems the only way out….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sexy, humorous, realistic, witty, offbeat, biting, sexual, suspense
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Life on Top (2009)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel by Clara Darling, about a college grad who heads to a big city looking for work and discovers her older sister, who's been living there for years, is a model.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: erotic, humorous, sexy, captivating, emotional, light, feel good, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Sex and the City (1998)
Plot Summary:
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene. .
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 139000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, sexual, erotic, witty, stylized, sexy, humorous, exciting, light, entertaining
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Anyone But Me (2008)
Plot Summary:
Anyone But Me is a live-action, web television drama that first aired in 2008. The show is in serial short-format webisodes, each lasting between six and fifteen minutes, following the lives of a group of teenagers in New York City and Westchester County, New York. Anyone But Me was developed by Tina Cesa Ward and playwright Susan Miller from Ward's original work. Anyone But Me's initial launch and distribution was on Strike.TV. Subsequently it has been offered on its own website and other online video providers such as YouTube and Hulu.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Short, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, sexual, emotional, humorous, realistic, psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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Red Shoe Diaries (1992)
Plot Summary:
Red Shoe Diaries is an erotic drama series that aired on the American cable television network Showtime from 1992 to 1997 and distributed by Playboy Entertainment overseas. Most episodes were directed by either Zalman King, Rafael Eisenman or both.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, realistic, anthology, sexual, sensual, serious
Similar in 81%
Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
Rebellious Mickey and good-natured Gus navigate the thrills and agonies of modern relationships.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, sincere, witty, talky, erotic, funny, thought provoking, sentimental, captivating
Similar in 80%
Shameless (2011)
Plot Summary:
Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. But the kids have found ways to grow up in spite of him. They may not be like any family you know, but they make no apologies for being exactly who they are.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 272000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: offbeat, emotional, entertaining, biting, realistic, humorous, sexy, funny, ironic, thought provoking
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House of Lies (2012)
Plot Summary:
Charming, fast talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants know how to play the corporate game better than anyone, by using every dirty trick in the book to woo powerful CEOs and close huge deals. In the board rooms, barrooms, and bedrooms of the power elite, corruption is business as usual and everyone's out for themselves first. Nothing is sacred in this scathing, irreverent satire of corporate America today.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: cynical, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, talky, sexy, suspense, erotic
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Rake (2010)
Plot Summary:
Rake is an Australian television series, produced by Essential Media and Entertainment, that first aired on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ABC1 in 2010. It stars Richard Roxburgh as rake Cleaver Greene, a brilliant but self-destructive Sydney barrister. The show airs in the United States on DirecTV's Audience Network. The second season began on 6 September 2012. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has also renewed the show for a third season Each episode entails Greene defending a different client. The Fox Network in the USA has commissioned an American version of Rake, starring Greg Kinnear as the lead character, renamed Keegan Deane for American audiences.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, captivating, light, dramatic, crime thriller, clever, realistic, cynical
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Weeds (2005)
Plot Summary:
Weeds is an American dark comedy-drama series created by Jenji Kohan. The central character is Nancy Botwin, a widowed mother of two boys who begins selling cannabis to support her family after her husband dies suddenly of a heart attack. Over the course of the show, she and her family become increasingly entangled in illegal activities.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, sitcom, witty, realistic, cynical, erotic, funny, offbeat, explicit
Similar in 87%
How I Met Your Mother (2005)
Plot Summary:
How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 19, 2005, to March 31, 2014. The series follows the main character, Ted Mosby, and his group of friends in Manhattan. As a framing device, Ted, in the year 2030, recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting their mother.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 717000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 4576 min
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, light, humorous, funny, sexy, entertaining, witty, hilarious, romantic
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How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)
Plot Summary:
The story of Peter McGowan, a chain-smoking, impotent, insomniac playwright who lives in Los Angeles. Once very successful, he is now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production failures. He finds himself bonding with a new neighbor's lonely young daughter who has mild cerebral palsy; and during one of his middle-of-the-night strolls, he encounters his oddball doppelgänger.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, light, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, hilarious
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Love & Other Drugs (2010)
Plot Summary:
Maggie, an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone - or anything - tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serve him well with the ladies and in the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 219000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sexy, romantic, sexual, emotional, funny, sweet, romantic comedy, sex comedy, erotic, cute
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Gilmore Girls (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 143000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: realistic, feel good, humorous, witty, talky, semi serious, light, satirical, deep, comedy drama
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Don Jon (2013)
Plot Summary:
A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 245000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, sexual, humorous, emotional, melancholic, sex comedy, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy, teen