Movies and TV shows like How Not to Live Your Life

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How Not to Live Your Life (2007)
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How Not to Live Your Life (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: How Not to Live Your Life is a British sitcom, written by and starring Dan Clark that aired between 27 September 2007 and 22 December 2011, about a neurotic twenty-nine-year-old man who is trying to navigate his way through life but is not helped by his bad instincts. On 27 May 2011 it was announced by the new BBC Three controller Zai Bennett that the show has been cancelled.
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, light, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic
Plot: down on your luck, lifestyle, financial problem, roommate, love and romance, debt, crush, unfulfillment, failed attempt, nothing goes right, humour, comedy of errors, romantic relationship, love affair, escapades, silly humor, tv show, single, neighbor, life is a bitch, singleness, couples, unfulfilled love, boyfriend, twentysomething life ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: england

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, sitcom, realistic and captivating films and TV series with plots about lifestyle, family relations, couples, british humour, couple relations, friends and humour mostly in Comedy, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like How Not to Live Your Life: Him & Her (2010), Peep Show (2003), Drifters (2013), New Girl (2011), Crashing (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Him & Her (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: An acutely observed, forensically honest, warts-and-all look at a working-class couple in their mid-20s.
Style: sitcom, humorous, sincere, light, feel good ...
Plot: couples, slacker, couple relations, everyday life, boyfriend, neighbor, friends, lifestyle, engaged, working class, bbc, realism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
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Peep Show (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Peep Show is an award-winning British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The television programme is written by Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, with additional material by Mitchell and Webb amongst others. It has been broadcast on Channel ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, funny, feel good, not serious ...
Plot: slacker, roommate, point of view, odd couple, satire, humour, neighbor, everyday life, socially awkward, unlikely friendships, lifestyle, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe, england
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Drifters (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
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Story: Comedy series about three young women living in Leeds who've graduated, had a year out, and are now struggling to find a job they're passionate about, a place to live that is half decent and a boyfriend they actually like. A sitcom about ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lifestyle, adolescence vs adulthood, roommate, female friendship, friendship, friends, best friends, twentysomething life, women, young adult, strong female presence, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, northern england, yorkshire
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100%
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New Girl (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's ...
Style: feel good, light, sitcom, buddy comedy, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: roommate, friends, couples, group of friends, couple relations, lifestyle, optimism, ex couple relations, singleness, love and romance, teenager, women ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, california, los angeles, usa
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Crashing (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A comedy drama that crashes straight into the lives and loves of six twenty-something adults living together as Property Guardians in a disused hospital.
Style: ironic, humorous, funny, sweet, sitcom ...
Plot: twenty something, lgbt, friendship, lgbtq, gay, gay lead character, roommate, neighbor neighbor relationship, couple relations, love and romance, closeted homosexual, jealousy ...
Place: england, london
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Uncle (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Andy is a dissolute out-of work musician who forges an unlikely alliance with his 12-year-old nephew Errol after being morally blackmailed into looking after him by his chaotic sister Sam - all on the day Andy was planning to kill himself. Not a ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, captivating, light ...
Plot: responsibility, uncle nephew relationship, family relations, comedy of errors, musician, youth, nothing goes right, escapades, gay, mental health, child care, disorder ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
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Lovesick (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: After finding out he has an STI, Dylan must get back in touch with every girl he has ever had sex with to let them know the bad news.
Style: sitcom, feel good, humorous, not serious, entertaining ...
Plot: friendship, sexually transmitted disease, buddies, down on your luck, friends in love, disorder, farce, humour, satire, fighting illness, sexual relations, male female relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, glasgow scotland
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32%
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Threesome (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Alice lives with her boyfriend Mitch and their gay best friend Richie. Together they form three points of an unlikely triangle, living, laughing and larging it together. After one particularly big night out, they end up having an unplanned threesome ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, feel good, light ...
Plot: friendship, couples, lifestyle, homosexual, responsibility, boyfriend, lgbt, love triangle, gay, roommate, gay lead character, lgbtq ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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32%
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The Worst Week of My Life (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: The Worst Week of My Life is a British comedy television series, first broadcast on BBC One between March and April 2004. A second series was aired between November and December 2005 and a three-part Christmas special, The Worst Christmas of My Life ...
Style: sitcom, witty, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wedding, comedy of errors, couple relations, relationships, engaged, disorder, family life, family gatherings, nothing goes right, couples, disagreement, friendship ...
Time: future, 21st century
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31%
Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: As Cooper Barrett struggles to survive each of life’s many challenges, he guides us through the often-messy, always-hilarious ordeal, so that our lives don’t have to be nearly the entertaining disaster that Cooper’s is turning out to be.
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, captivating, funny ...
Plot: roommate, neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, romantic friendship, girl next door, relationships, life, living together, humour, romantic relationship, lifestyle, group of friends ...
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Hebburn (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Hebburn is a warm and affectionate tale of north east family life. It tells the tale of the Pearson family and their impetuous and ambitious son, Jack, who has left Tyneside for the bright lights and glamour of Manchester. He has secretly married a ...
Style: sentimental, sitcom, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, meet the parents, parents and children, couples, lifestyle, love and romance, secret marriage, husband wife relationship, middle class, friendship, parents son relationship
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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27%
The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Comedy about an inept American placed in charge of sales at his company's London branch. He has no experience with British culture, knows nothing about sales, and has only one employee, Dave. Each episode begins with a scene of Margaret ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Plot: fish out of water, nothing goes right, disorder, farce, workplace, workplace situations, misfit, office, boss and employee, manager, salesman, satire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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26%
House of Fools (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Surreal sitcom with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. A series of anarchic affairs featuring the uninvited lodgers and guests that cause chaos and disruption in their home.
Style: sitcom, surreal, not serious, humorous, realistic
Plot: disorder, nothing goes right, guest, silly humor, domestic disturbance, uninvited guest, british humour, bug, indoor
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Catastrophe (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan write and star in a comedy that follows an American man and an Irish woman who make a bloody mess as they struggle to fall in love in London.
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: thirtysomething life, life turned upside down, couples, fall in love, disorder, love and romance, pregnancy, couple relations, unplanned pregnancy, male female relationship, family relations, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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Life of Riley (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Life of Riley is a British comedy television series, shown on BBC One and BBC HD. The show stars Caroline Quentin and Neil Dudgeon, who are recently married, and is set around their dysfunctional family. The show also features the couple's four ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, light, funny, feel good ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, family life, parents and children, family problems, couple relations, couples, marriage, husband wife relationship, children, baby, newlyweds ...
Time: 21st century
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25%
Friday Night Dinner (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Two siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something always goes wrong.
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family dinner, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children, comedy of errors, socially awkward, marriage, disorder, couple relations, family gatherings, grandparent and grandchild, jewish ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
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25%
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We Are Men (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: We Are Men is about four single guys living in a short-term apartment complex who unexpectedly find camaraderie over their many missteps in love.
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhood, friends, friendship between men, silly humor, buddies, singleness, twentysomething life, lifestyle, couples, social relations, camaraderie, divorce ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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24%
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PhoneShop (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: PhoneShop is a British sitcom that was first broadcast on Channel 4 as a television pilot on 13 November 2009, as part of the channel's Comedy Showcase season of comedy pilots. It was then followed by a six-episode series that was commissioned ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, entertaining, feel good ...
Plot: boss and employee, workplace situations, workplace, salesman, store, friendship, friends, escapades, rivalry, bbc, college graduate, verbal byplay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
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24%
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Warren (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Warren Thompson just wants an easy life, but thanks to his naturally difficult personality, he’s constantly finding himself in sticky situations.
Style: sitcom, funny, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Plot: driving instructor, driving school, lifestyle, family relations, humour, family problems, social problems, life, teenager, partner
Time: future
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Whites (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Whites was a BBC sitcom, written by Oliver Lansley and Matt King, directed by David Kerr, and starring Alan Davies as the executive chef at a country house hotel. BBC Two gave the go ahead for the show to go into production in August 2009 with the ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, captivating, light ...
Plot: cooking and food, chef, workplace, workplace situations, lifestyle, friendship, society, rivalry, food, bbc, hotel, waiter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em is a BBC situation comedy, written by Raymond Allen and starring Michael Crawford and Michele Dotrice. It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for three series, ending in 1978. The series follows the accident-prone ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, realistic, humorous, melancholic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: goofy hero, nothing goes right, workplace, job seeking, supportive spouse, misfit, couple relations, family relations, couples, disorder, comedy of errors, workplace situations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, europe
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23%
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Yes, Dear (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A comedy about two young couples and their outrageously contrasting views on parenting. Greg and Kim Warner struggle on a daily basis to become perfect at the job. Kim is a neurotic, stay-at-home mother, and although her husband, Greg, is a success ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, humorous, not serious, entertaining ...
Plot: family life, couples, parents and children, housewife, family relations, couple relations, irresponsible, siblings relations, husband wife relationship, kids and family, father son relationship, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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23%
Life with Bonnie (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The host of the local morning talk show Morning Chicago creatively balances family commitment—to her husband John, a hard-working family practice doctor, and their three young children— and career obligations.
Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, funny, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: family relations, ambition, relationship vs career, parents and children, tv show, family life, large family, eccentric family, lifestyle, humour, talk show, couples ...
Time: 21st century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: $#*! My Dad Says is an American television sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Television that aired on CBS. It was based on the Twitter feed Shit My Dad Says, created by Justin Halpern and consisting of quotations from his father, Sam. The show ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic, talky ...
Plot: living with parents, parents and children, eccentric family, generation gap, overbearing parent, oldtimer, family relations, lifestyle, writer's life, elderly, twentysomething life, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Dads (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Dads is an American sitcom which premiered on September 17, 2013 and airs Tuesdays at 8:00/7:00c on Fox. The series was created by Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild, and follows Warner and Eli, two successful video game developers whose lives are ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: parents and children, friends, family relations, life turned upside down, thirtysomething life, grownups, video game, disorder, politically correct, lifestyle, father and son, ambition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Lead Balloon (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
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Story: Lead Balloon is a British television series produced by Open Mike Productions for BBC Four. The series was created and is co-written by comedian Jack Dee and Pete Sinclair. It stars Dee as Rick Spleen, a cynical and misanthropic comedian whose life ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, cynical, funny ...
Plot: comedian, everyday life, nothing goes right, socially awkward, career, struggle, artists and showbiz, alienation, antisocial behavior, self involved, backstage, frustration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
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22%
Friends with Better Lives (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, lifestyle, group of friends, friends, buddies, model, husband wife relationship, social satire, satire, humour, best friends, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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22%
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Chewing Gum (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: The life of Tracey, a religious, Beyoncé-obsessed 22-year-old living in an estate in Tower Hamlets, and the mishaps of her neighbourhood, friends and family. Oh, and obvs her boyfriend!
Style: sitcom, entertaining, feel good, funny, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, strong female lead, neighbor, family relations, couple relations, lifestyle, relationships, friends, humour, male female relationship, best friends, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
Place: london
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22%
Better With You (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Better with You is an American romantic sitcom TV show starring Joanna Garcia Swisher and Jennifer Finnigan. The series aired on Wednesdays at 8:30 pm Eastern/7:30 pm Central on ABC and ran from September 22, 2010 to May 11, 2011. The series was ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, feel good, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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22%
Pete versus Life (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Pete versus Life is a Channel 4 sitcom created by George Jeffrie and Bert Tyler-Moore. It stars Rafe Spall and the first episode was aired on 6 August 2010. It was recommissioned for a second series after averaging 1.6 million viewers and a young ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, surreal, not serious, light ...
Plot: media, journalist, soccer, lifestyle, disorder, life, teenage life, everyday life, sportscaster, commentator, society, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
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