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Plot Summary:
A woman works as a special makeup artist. Because her heart was broken in the past, she finds it hard to love again and has a cold heart full of sadness. She unexpectedly falls in love with a humanoid robot programmed to be the perfect boyfriend and all the while a top star is competing for her affections as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful, dorama
Best tv shows and movies like My Absolute Boyfriend (2019):
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Perfect World (2019)
Plot Summary:
Tsugumi, who works at an interior design firm, has an unexpected encounter with her first love from high school, Itsuki, at a dinner with her client’s whole comp any, an architectural firm. Seeing Itsuki, who is a registered architect with a first-class license and is quite charming, brings back the faint memories from high school. In the middle of dinner, he quietly slips away and begins to head home, getting into a wheelchair. “You didn’t know? Itsuki was in an accident in college, and he can’t walk.” Tsugumi, her pulse racing, takes a step back and thinks to herself, “I can’t love someone in a wheelchair. It’s just not possible to date someone like that.” But when she accepts the reality of the situation and interacts with Itsuki, who struggles but fights to survive each day, she becomes overwhelmed with emotions that she has kept since her youth.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Never Gone (2018)
Plot Summary:
The romance between failing student Su Yun Jin and high school genius Cheng Zheng is broken apart due to clashing personalities and a huge difference in social status. Coincidentally, they meet each other again in the workforce, and get entangled in each other’s lives once again.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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My Shining Girl (2012)
Plot Summary:
The drama is about the events that happen in a broadcasting company. This drama also focus on the love triangel between the three main characters, Kang Min (Kim Hyung Joon), a top star in the Korean entertainment buisness who a is bit temperametal. No Yong Woo (Park Kwang Hyun), a well know producer. and Jun Ji Hyun (So E Hyun), a newly minted scriptwritter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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Face Off (2017)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from comic 'Please! Make Me Beautiful!'. The candid and straightforward Chen Zhen works as a salesgirl for cosmetics. She meets Wang Yi, a leading prosthetic makeup artist, at a fashion show by chance. And thus, commences her pursuit in the field of prosthetic makeup, while romance blossoms between the two.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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The Wallflower (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sunako is very happy living her life in the darkness of her room, with her skeleton friends and her horror movies to keep her company. The darkness she so loves is pierced brightly by four dazzling young men, who come to live in the same mansion as her, and she soon realizes that they have orders from her aunt to do anything to turn her into a prim and proper lady.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful, dorama, anime
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Love Cells (2014)
Plot Summary:
A fantasy, romantic comedy about a ′love cell′ cat that looks like a human, Navi teaching love to Ma Dae Choong, who is determined to revive his dying love cells with an extraordinary romance, particularly with top star, Seo Rin.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, suspenseful, romantic comedy
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Evergreen (2018)
Plot Summary:
Oh Soo is a man in his 20's and works as a promising engineer in the IT field, a cafe owner and a barista. He is smart and handsome. He plays cupid for you men and women by using a mysterious pollen. Due to the pollen, he falls in love with Seo Yoo-Ri. She is also in her 20's and works as a police officer. She has a bright personality and supports her family by herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: suspenseful, sentimental, touching, suspense, romantic drama
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Fluttering Warning (2018)
Plot Summary:
Cha Woo-Hyun is a dermatologist. He is an attractive man who is popular with women. He meets Yoon Yoo-Jung who is a popular actress. They get involved in scandal and decide to make a contract. Their contract sets out that they act like they are in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, dorama, touching, suspenseful
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Line Romance (2014)
Plot Summary:
Min Ho, a music producer who is struggling to write a new song because of the lack of inspiration. He is told by his manger that he has to find love so he would have emotions to write a new melody. He then meets a Chinese tourist named Ling Ling. Min Ho is inspired by Ling Ling but due to their language barrier he decides to adds her as a friend onthe mobile messenger app LINE to communicate with one another.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 14 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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All I Want for Love is You (2019)
Plot Summary:
A story full of laughs follows sanda fighter Gu Xiao Man and school genius Zuo An as they chase after love. Graduation is fast approaching for 3rd year high school student Gu Xiao Man. Unlike your average school girl, she is a sanda fighter who wins medals at the sport but not in class. Because she wants to continue to be schoolmates with her idol Zuo An, she decides to give the same effort to academics as she does to sanda. Her hard work combined with Zuo An's efforts to be her personal teacher pays off and they get into the same university. There's nothing sweeter than to have your crush crushing on you and their story continues on.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Best Friends in Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
Aoi Miura (Sota Fukushi) was born and grew up in Toyama Prefecture. He has an indecisive personality and does not like summer. He was the focal member of the high school swimming team, but he now works as an assistant at a small architectural office in Tokyo. One summer day, he meets his childhood friend and first love Akari Serizawa. During their school days they spent everyday hanging out together until the fireworks night in their 3rd year of high school. That night, Akari suddenly disappeared. Now, Akari has a man named Aoi.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing, romantic drama
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The Best of You in My Mind (2020)
Plot Summary:
A story follows two childhood friends, a young woman from a broken family and a conceited archer, as they fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, dorama
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When One Day I Will Sleep (2019)
Plot Summary:
Morino Hotaru is a second year high school student who has had an unrequited crush on Otaka Ren since junior high school. One day, while on a school trip with Ren and her good friend Yamamoto Shiori, their bus gets into an accident. When Hotaru wakes up, a young man who is dressed fully in black appears in front of her. He is Kuro, a grim reaper.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating
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Twenty Years Old (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two twenty year olds, Kim Hye Rim and Lee Ki Kwang, who attended the same middle school, meet again coincidentally after many years as a college student and an idol group member. Lee Ki Kwang is a member of popular idol group falls in love with Kim Hye Rim, his old friend from same middle school who has never dated before, as the two try to keep their love a secret from the rest of the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, suspenseful
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This Is Living (2014)
Plot Summary:
Woo Bin and Ji Hyo play best friends who move to Vietnam into a home filled with the coolest Samsung appliances. There is also a bit of drama in store for the friends when feelings and other people get involved.
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 7 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, entertaining, disturbing
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Longing Heart (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kang Shin-Woo is a math teacher with a good looking appearance. He has not forgotten his first love Han Ji-Soo for the past 10 years. By an accident, he travels to the past when he was a high school student. There, he meets his younger self. Kang Shin-Woo struggles to make the younger Kang Shin-Woo's love come true.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating, romantic drama
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Adolescence Medley (2013)
Plot Summary:
A teen drama about high school students in a village high school. Jung Woo is a transfer student in Namil High School. After transferring schools 7 times, Jung Woo learns it is easiest not to make friends!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, romantic, touching
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You Always Haunt My Heart (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kyoko Ogawa is a woman in her 20's and she works at an underwear company. Because of her mother, Kyoko Ogawa has suffered from low self-esteem since she was a child. She is also shaken by two men: Kojiro Yoshizaki and Ren Hoshina. Kojiro Yoshizaki works as an editor for a manga magazine. He is bright, funny and a nice person. Ren Hoshina is a guy that Kyoko Ogawa dated when she attended college. Ren Hoshina was able to see her weakness and was controlling over her. At her job at the underwear company, Ren Hoshina appears in front of her as her boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Somewhere Only We Know (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ph.D. candidate in Physics Mu Cheng He catches a third-year student in English Xue Tong cheating on an exam. When he even becomes the substitute teacher in her elective course Russian and makes her study with him after classes, her hatred for him only grows. Over time, however, Xue Tong discovers Teacher Mu’s true character and comes to secretly love him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful, romantic drama
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Blessing of the Sea (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sim Chung-Yi has an absolute sense of sight which allows her to identify thousands of colors. She also has a bright personality. Sim Chung-Yi meets Ma Poong-Do who is a pianist. He is highly skilled on the piano, but he receives criticism that he has lack of sensibility. Sim Chung-Yi and Ma Poong-Do develop romantically. Sim Chung-Yi also tries to find a secret of her father.
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, suspenseful
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Ai the Video Girl (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story is set in 2018, 25 years after the original manga's "Video Girl Ai" arc ("Video Girl Len" arc was set seven years after the first arc). Sho Moteuchi (Shuhei Nomura) is a high school student. After his parents divorced, he begins to live with his uncle. At school, he develops feelings for his classmate Nanami, but Nanami likes his friend Tomoaki. One day, he finds an old broken video cassette recorder at his uncle’s house. Sho repairs the video cassette recorder and suddenly a video of girl plays. The girl in the video introduces herself as Video Girl Ai. The girl then steps out of the video and lives with Sho for the next 3 months.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, anime
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Level Up (2019)
Plot Summary:
Cold and precise, An Dan-Te is the no-nonsense director of Yoo Seong CRC, a company which specializes in the restructuring and resurrecting of companies on the brink of failure. Sent to Joybuster, a game company on the brink of bankruptcy, Dan-Te takes on the role of CEO and wastes no time in trying to get this company back on its feet. As head of game development at Joybuster, Shin Yeon-Hwa teams up with her new CEO, in an attempt to save their dying company. Tasked with developing a new game which satisfies all of Dan-Te’s demands, Yeon-Hwa soon finds herself wavering somewhere between having a nervous breakdown and committing murder. Completely at odds with each other, Yeon-Hwa and Dan-Te never seem to stop fighting; but everyone knows opposites always find a way to attract. Can the poker-faced boss with zero emotions and the hot-tempered game developer really find love when they can’t even agree on a way to save their dying company?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Welcome (2020)
Plot Summary:
What if your cat was capable of turning into a charming boy? After taking time off, Sol Ah returns to school as she finds herself a place to live alone. Per her friend’s favor, Sol Ah takes in a cat named Hong Jo, and a story of the life of two housemates unfolds. However, Sol Ah is not aware that the cat, Hong Jo, has the ability to shapeshift into a human. Sol Ah’s friends start to notice weird things about Hong Jo whenever they run into his human form. Things are about to change around the peaceful single-resident complex, and Hong Jo finds it difficult just being a mere cat whenever Sol Ah is too busy with her life to pay attention to him. Will Sol Ah be able to recognize Hong Jo in his human form? Sol Ah and Hong Jo “Welcome!” you into their romance fantasy story.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing, dorama
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Be Arrogant (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hong Hara is a bright, energetic girl with a positive outlook on life. She is a sweet girl who believes that every time she falls in love, it would last forever. Hong Hara is in a relationship with No Cheol, a man no one cannot seem to resist, though he is not mature all the time. He is also the ex-boyfriend of Do Ra Hee, a girl who has spent the last ten years in the fashion business. After dating No Cheol for six years, she is now sick of men and her number one goal is to gain more money. Somehow Hong Hara ends up living and working with Do Ra Hee. The two women decide to launch their own online shopping mall. After struggling to make a living at the fast fashion mecca of Korea, Dongdaemun, they realize the potential in online shopping malls. However, the industry is filled with competitors, and the business partners soon learn about the challenges of running a small business.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, light, dorama, touching, humorous, romantic comedy
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Chocolate (2019)
Plot Summary:
Brought together by meaningful meals in the past and present, a doctor and a chef are reacquainted when they begin working at a hospice ward.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful, romantic drama
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Clean with Passion for Now (2017)
Plot Summary:
Gil Oh-so, an employee at a cleaning company, meets Jang Seon-gyul, the boss of the company. The two are diametric opposite when it comes to cleanliness. With the help of Oh-sol, Seon-gyul faces his mysophobia and falls in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, light, touching
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I Hear You (2019)
Plot Summary:
Bei Er Duo, a girl from an ordinary family, dreams about studying in Japan to be a professional voice actor. However, her mother wants her to marry rich whilst she is young, leading to continuous blind dates which irritate Bei Er Duo. In her desperation to raise funds for studying overseas as well as helping her best friend Tang Li out of a crisis, Bei Er Duo joins a couple reality program, encountering top violin maker Ye Shu Wei.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, suspenseful, romantic
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The Crowned Clown (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story takes place at a time in Joseon history, when upheaval and power struggles surrounding the throne had reached extreme levels. In order to escape those who plan to assassinate him, the king puts a clown, who looks exactly like him, on the throne.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, romantic, epic, romantic drama, political
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The Black Devil and the White Prince (2015)
Plot Summary:
Yu Akahane moves to a dormitory room after her father's transfer from work. She is excited that she will live in the same dorm as Takumi Shirakawa aka "White Prince." Yet, Haruto Kurosaki aka "Black Devil" kisses her as punishment for going against him. It is Yu Akahane’s first kiss. Since then, she becomes obedient to Haruto Kurosaki.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Secret Life of My Secretary (2019)
Plot Summary:
Do Min-Ik works as a director of the mobile media 1 team at T&T. He is smart and excellent at his job. His secretary is Jung Gal-Hee. Do Min-Ik often does childish things like calling Jung Gal-Hee continually. Jung Gal-Hee carries out Do Min-Ik's orders without complaints. She looks soft, but she hides her tough side.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: dorama, feel good, funny, light, romantic, touching, captivating, sentimental, humorous, entertaining