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Plot Summary:
In the near future, Sophie tells her son the story of how she met his father: a story that catapults us back to the year 2021 where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless options.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: sitcom, romantic, psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
Best tv shows and movies like How I Met Your Father (2022):
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My Little Friend (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two friends reunite in after ten years and one has a secret waiting to come out.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, independent film
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Sex & More (2005)
Plot Summary:
Alles außer Sex was a German "dramedy" television series which aired on the TV station ProSieben between 2005 and 2006. The German television premiered on 9 November 2005 with an audience of 2.9 million viewers. Thematically, it is similar to the American television series Sex and the City and the British series Coupling.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sex comedy
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In Between Men (2010)
Plot Summary:
All-American guys feel caught between two worlds, not truly knowing where they fit in.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, queer cinema
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XYX (2019)
Plot Summary:
Nikky, Farah, Binny- Three Friends, flatmates, and colleagues. The confusion starts when a question arises about who loves whom? Will they be able to straighten out their friendship or the love triangle that is twisted in all means.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Life & Beth (2022)
Plot Summary:
After an unexpected incident, Beth starts having flashbacks to her teen self and learns how she became who she is and who she wants to become.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, dark comedy
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Northern Lights (2006)
Plot Summary:
Northern Lights is a 2006 comedy-drama. It is a spin-off of the 2004 Christmas special Christmas Lights. A sequel, City Lights, was broadcast in 2007. Also a Christmas special, Clash of the Santas, was broadcast in December 2008. It featured Colin and Howie taking a trip to Lithuania to represent the United Kingdom in a Santa convention. The main problem with this is that miserable Howie is picked as Santa, while true Christmas believer Colin is relegated to the role of cheerleading elf.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Bridge and Tunnel (2021)
Plot Summary:
This dramedy series set in 1980 revolves around a group of recent college grads setting out to pursue their dreams in Manhattan while still clinging to the familiarity of their working-class Long Island home town.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 859
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, period piece, indie film
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Relationship Status (2016)
Plot Summary:
Split between Los Angeles and New York, the series follows a group of 20- and 30-somethings over the course of a year as they navigate love and relationships in a world propelled by social media.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 10 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love Is The Drug (2004)
Plot Summary:
The relationships of the Kirwan family in Drogheda, Ireland.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Fourplay (2018)
Plot Summary:
A story of friendship, love, marriage, secrets, lies that unfolds between two couples in one apartment during a Sunday brunch that will affect their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Train Man (2005)
Plot Summary:
With the help of an online community, a nerdy and socially awkward man gathers the courage to start dating an attractive lady he met on a train.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: romantic, dorama, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Love Actually (2017)
Plot Summary:
It’s a story about the eras of the 70s, 80s and 90s; about the rapid development of the great era of love and how to deal with the success and failure of life, self-growth and self-transformation. It’s a drama genre of modern day city life; about singles’ rigid pursuit of love; about the lives of a group of ordinary people. It avoids dramatic negative energy. Instead, it’ll bring forth positive energy to encourage men and women to move positively forward in life and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Imperfect: The Series (2021)
Plot Summary:
This series takes place a year before the film Imperfect. At that time Dika had not yet met Rara, and was working on a photography project outside the city. The common thread of conflict is in Neti's love story.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Jack & Jill (1999)
Plot Summary:
A lighthearted romantic comedy about post-collegiate life, love and career in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, talky, sexual
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As We See It (2022)
Plot Summary:
Finding love, making friends, getting a job, adulting. Watch as three roommates on the autism spectrum navigate their early 20s with all its joy, tears and laughter. With the help of their families, aide, and sometimes even each other, these roommates experience setbacks and celebrate triumphs on their own unique journeys towards independence and acceptance.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Fragile Sex (2003)
Plot Summary:
Alex, Edu, Fred and Beto are four friends who live torn between the role of man in society and the need to be more sensitive. They try to understand the female head and put themselves in the place of the opposite sex. They appear to be very safe, but feel totally lost around safe, independent women.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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We Get Married (2013)
Plot Summary:
Yang Tao and Guo Ran meet each other on a blind date. Unexpectedly, they develop feelings towards each other. However, when Yang Tao is ready to share her whole life with him, she finds out that Guo Ran is scared of marrying her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Work Later, Drink Now (2021)
Plot Summary:
Three single women in 30s gather and talk about everyday life from work to love. Nothing is more important to them than enjoying a drink after work.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Run the World (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story of a group of Black women who work, live, and play in Harlem as they strive for world domination. They're not only surviving – but thriving together.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Friends with Better Lives (2014)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about six friends at different stages in their lives – married, divorced, newly engaged and single – who are outwardly happy, but secretly questioning if their friends have it better. Andi and Bobby are happily married with two kids but at times long for the days they had less responsibility and more fun; Will is newly single and preaching the bachelor lifestyle, but still pining for his ex-wife; Jules and Lowell are high on their passionate new relationship; and Kate has a successful career but may take a swan dive into the L.A. River when she finds out her last remaining single friend, Jules, just got engaged. When it comes to relationships, these six friends are finding it a challenge to look at each other without wondering… who really has the better life?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, captivating, funny, feel good, entertaining, satirical, offbeat
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The Reason I Can't Find My Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
More than half of women in their 20's to 30's admit to "currently lacking a boyfriend." Men, love, sex, work, marriage... All the issues women face today are revealed in truth through this generation, an "ice age of love." "The reason I can't find my love" highlights the lives of three women, Fujii Emi, Ogura Saki and Hanzawa Mako. Emi works for a lighting company as a lighting technician, where she is surrounded by men due to the nature of the profession. She has a straight-forward and generous personality, but is unconcerned about general feminine interests such as fashion. She is often treated like another man by her boss and colleagues, and feels that being in love is tiresome. However, she cannot forget about her ex-boyfriend and hopes to someday fall truly in love. Saki is prideful and determined, but fails in landing a desirable job. As a result, she starts to work at a bar as a hostess, keeping the fact a secret from her parents. Mako is the youngest of all, having attended the same high school following Emi and Saki. She is earnest and responsible, but on the other hand, rather clumsy and afraid of taking chances on a romantic relationship. The three women end up living under the same roof by coincidence, and it is there that they share each other's experiences, bitter or sweet, desperately struggling with their love life. A life-sized unconventional love story ever to air on Fuji TV's prime 9 Monday drama slot! -- Fuji TV.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Harlem (2021)
Plot Summary:
Four stylish and ambitious best girlfriends in Harlem, New York City: a rising star professor struggling to make space for her love life; a savvy tech entrepreneur always dating someone new; a no-filter singer; and a hopeless romantic fashion designer. Together, they level up into the next phase of their careers, relationships, and big city dreams.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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Grown Folks (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two blue-collar couples share a duplex while navigating life, marriage and friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sitcom, semi serious
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Master of None (2015)
Plot Summary:
30-year-old New York actor Dev takes on such pillars of maturity as the first big job, a serious relationship, and busting sex offenders on the subway.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, entertaining, sitcom, psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, comedy drama, dorama
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The Time We Were Not in Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jang Ha Na and Choi Won are incredibly close platonic friends: throughout 20 years, they've braved it all through thick and thin. As Ha Na's 30th birthday approaches, Won extols the virtues of aging as a man—like a wine—while explaining that women are like grapes that shrivel into raisins. Determined to prove him wrong, Ha Na strikes a bet on which of the two will marry before turning 35. Can these two friends make the ultimate leap?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Dating & New York (2021)
Plot Summary:
After an electric one-night stand, two New York millennials draw up a friends-with-benefits contract to avoid the pitfalls of their past relationships.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Rental a Girlfriend (2022)
Plot Summary:
In today’s Japan, “rental” services can deliver an afternoon with a “friend,” a “parent,” even a fake girlfriend! After a staggering betrayal by his girlfriend, hapless freshman Kazuya gets just desperate enough to give it a try. But he quickly discovers how complicated it can be to “rent” an emotional connection, and his new “girlfriend,” who’s trying to keep her side hustle secret, will panic when she finds out her real life and Kazuya’s are intertwined in surprising ways! Family, school, and life all start to go wrong, too… It’s sweet but naïve boy meets cute but ruthless girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Shooting Stars (2022)
Plot Summary:
Sh**ting Stars is about people in the entertainment industry who take care of everything of top stars. They bleed, sweat, and shed tears to make their celebrities shine. A romance appears between the perfect and flawless top star and the head of the promotion team, who is at the forefront of the star management. This is about the sparkling stories of the two main characters and others surrounding them.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Grownups (2006)
Plot Summary:
Grownups is a BBC Three sitcom written by Susan Nickson, who also created hit BBC Three sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. It follows the trials and tribulations of a group of twentysomething friends in Manchester, facing the decision to either settle down or carrying on partying. The first episode aired on 7 May 2006 on BBC Three and appeared at number eight on the Broadcasters' Audience Research Board top ten of most watched BBC Three programmes for that week. The show made only one more entry on the chart for the rest of the first series, when it reached number nine, some two weeks later. A second series was produced, with studio recordings taking place between May and July 2007. The first two episodes aired back-to-back on BBC Three on Sunday 5 August. Unlike the first series, the second series displayed more adult humour, including more intense sexual references. The first episode of the second series appeared at number eight in the BARB weekly top ten for BBC Three, with the second episode which aired immediately afterward, at number nine. A third series was commissioned by the BBC and tickets to see live filming went on sale on the official BBC Tickets website in September 2008. The first episode of the third series aired 13 January 2009.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Florida Girls (2019)
Plot Summary:
Four girls living in Small Town, Florida re-examine their lives after their only ambitious friend moves away to follow her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious