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I Love LA (2025)
12K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A codependent friend group reunites, navigating how the time apart, ambition, and new relationships have changed them.
Style:
emotional, realistic, reflective, melancholic
Plot:
friendship, relationships, ambition, urban, nostalgia, identity, bittersweet, intimate, midlife crisis, reconciliation, slice of life, jealousy, friends, group of friends, assistant, influencer, sex scene, female protagonist, male nudity, gay, gay sex, bare chested male, reunion, kiss, gay kiss
Time:
contemporary
Place:
los angeles
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, emotional, captivating and satirical films and TV series with plots about slice of life, friendship, intimate, bittersweet, urban, identity and relationships mostly in Comedy, Drama and Musical genres. Some movies like I Love LA: Mariliendre (2025), Before You Leave (2005), Hal & Harper (2025), Twenty (2017), Everyone Is Doing Great (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: Spain
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Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
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Story:
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Style:
heartfelt, emotional, melancholic, realistic, satirical
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 8 min.
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Story:
When Danny London, a star PR guy, finds himself without a job due to layoffs, he struggles to adapt to his new life and those around him that just don't understand.
Style:
realistic, emotional, comedy drama, melancholic
Plot:
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Time:
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40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 37 min.
TV show
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Style:
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Plot:
friendship, celebrity culture, showbiz, male friendship, personal growth, bittersweet, behind the scenes, intimate, slice of life, self discovery, ambition, satire ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
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Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 35 min.
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Story:
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Style:
satirical, captivating, semi serious, heartfelt, life affirming ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
balkan
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
satirical, captivating, psychological, semi serious, comedy drama ...
Plot:
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34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 40 min.
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Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, realistic, melancholic, contemplative
Plot:
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Place:
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34%
572
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
sincere, humorous, semi serious, sitcom, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
chicago, illinois, usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, heartfelt, realistic, reflective, melancholic
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, feel good, semi serious, funny, satirical ...
Plot:
friendship, self discovery, lifestyle change, changing lives, middle aged, introspection, satire, middle aged man, male protagonist, midlife crisis, personal growth, character study ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Plot:
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30%
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 12 min.
TV show
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 21 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
light, humorous, captivating, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Times are tough, and Louise Bice, a writer/actress/dog walker/contributor to an obscure dance blog, is forced to take a job that calls for a giant leap out of her comfort zone and into what lurks behind the closed doors of Los Angeles. Like ...
Style:
humorous, independent film, offbeat, satirical, talky ...
Plot:
personal growth, urban, behind the scenes, self discovery, struggling artist, social commentary, modern life, identity crisis, bittersweet, intimate, career change, slice of life ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Breaking & Entering is an independent series about three friends seeking to enter Hollywood by breaking their backs working as assistants. B&E is based on and inspired by the lives of industry assistants who live and work in REAL HOLLYWOOD ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
hollywood, showbiz, workplace, follow your dream, desire for fame, buddies, friends, workplace situations, personal assistant, celebrity, breaking and entering, ambition ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Jealousy overwhelms a group of friends, particularly struggling writer Elliot, as they prepare for the homecoming of their old friend, a wildly successful L.A. producer.
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, melancholic
Plot:
friendship, homecoming, introspection, unfulfilled love, best friend, unfulfillment, hollywood, gay interest, midlife crisis, jealousy, aging, resentment ...
Time:
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Place:
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252
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
When Tom and Ellen are together, things seem to work. It's only in the spaces outside the relationship - the intrusions of real life, and the deadly collaboration of parents, siblings, friends and exes - that the flailing attempts to make good ...
Style:
humorous, sitcom, captivating, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
relationships, couples, couple relations, friends, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family relations, love and romance, male female relationship, romantic relationship, humour, love affair, love story ...
Time:
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Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Four relationship-phobic people are unexpectedly thrust into one another's lives and form an unlikely bond in a townhouse in Queens, NY.
Style:
sitcom, realistic, humorous, not serious, rom com ...
Plot:
friendship, buddies, adolescence vs adulthood, friends, twentysomething life, silly humor, singleness, roommate, social anxiety, urban, self discovery, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Four old friends from high school find themselves at that stage where they realize that their lives didn't turn out exactly the way they'd planned. Over the course of one crazy evening, a series of calamities reunites this hapless brood at ...
Style:
satirical, humorous, funny, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
group of friends, old friend, humour, satire, reunited friends, old friends reunited, ex classmate, ex classmate ex classmate relationship, social satire, midlife crisis, chaos, hospital ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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