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Itaewon Class (2020)
25K
Original name: 이태원 클라쓰
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
In a colorful Seoul neighborhood, an ex-con and his friends fight a mighty foe to make their ambitious dreams for their street bar a reality.
Style:
romantic, captivating, suspense, dorama, touching, thought provoking, disturbing, feel good, uplifting
Plot:
inheritance, revenge, rags to riches, faithfulness, professional, criminal's revenge, restaurant, love, restaurant owner, friendship, asian, vendetta, lgbtq, business, vengeance, family business, co worker co worker relationship, workplace, faith, entrepreneurship, couples, female protagonist, entertainment, strong female character, storytelling ...
Place:
seoul, thailand, south korea
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dorama, romantic, captivating and light films and TV series with plots about couples, asian, friendship, love, love and romance, female protagonist and couple relations mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Itaewon Class: Start-Up (2020), Fight For My Way (2017), It's Okay to Not Be Okay (2020), Search: WWW (2019), Business Proposal (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
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dorama, romantic, uplifting, touching, thought provoking ...
Plot:
pen pal, computers and web, professional, rags to riches, ambition, unrequited love, life philosophy, rise to the top, social relations, corporate world, lifestyle, faithfulness ...
Time:
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Place:
seoul
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88%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
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In their school days, Ko Dong-Man took part in taekwondo. Now, he makes a living by working as a contract employee and also goes after the UFC title.
Choi Ae-Ra hoped to become an announcer, but ...
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light, captivating, sincere, dorama, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
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korea, busan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
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Desperate to escape from his emotional baggage and the heavy responsibility he’s had all his life, a psychiatric ward worker begins to heal with help from the unexpected—a woman who writes fairy tales but doesn’t believe in them.
Style:
dorama, romantic, unusual plot structure, thought provoking, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens
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Place:
thailand
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
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The stories of ambitious career women working at the top of the best portal sites in the IT industry. Paved with wins and losses, their road to success takes a new turn when love comes along the way.
Style:
dorama, romantic, light, sentimental
Plot:
female protagonist, friendship, workplace, media, feminist, internet, love story, love and romance, ceo, career, business, job ...
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21st century
Place:
south korea, korea
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65%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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An ordinary office worker disguises herself and goes on a blind date with her attractive boss in the place of her friend to end this unwanted marriage blind date after her request.
Style:
dorama, romantic, disturbing, captivating, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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When Hye-Jung was young, her life was difficult. She was good at fighting, but also studied well. Overcoming her tough situation, she is now a doctor.
Style:
dorama, medical drama, captivating, sentimental, thought provoking ...
Plot:
strong female lead, medical profession, medical, doctor, coworker, surgeon, doubts and hesitations, fall in love, teacher, hospital, prejudice, wedding ...
Place:
south korea, east asia, korea
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
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It's a love story hotter than the boiling oil in a sizzling hot wok. Across the street of the 6-star Hotel Giant, there stands a small, shabby Chinese restaurant, Hungry Wok. Chil Seong, the owner of the restaurant, originally took over the ...
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Time:
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Place:
south korea
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80%
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
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The Hotel Del Luna, located in Seoul, is not like any other hotel: its client are all ghosts. Jang Man-Wol, stuck in the hotel for the past millennium, meets Koo Chan-Sung, the new manager.
Style:
touching, emotional, romantic drama, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
ghost, hotel, man-woman relation, curse, destiny, hostess, justice, danger, betrayal, supernatural, hotel manager, past life ...
Place:
thailand, seoul
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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Boo Yong Joo was once a famous surgeon at the peak of his career at a major hospital. But he suddenly gives it all up one day to live in seclusion and work as a neighborhood doctor in a small town. He now goes by “Teacher Kim” and refers to ...
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romantic drama, sincere, romantic, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
hospital, doctor, surgery, workplace situations, talented, doctors and patients, treatment, cure, teamwork, obsession, medicine, against the rules ...
Place:
thailand, korea
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100%
15K
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
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In a world that is less than kind, a young woman and a middle-aged man develop a sense of kinship as they find warmth and comfort in one another.
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dorama, sincere, psychological, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
east asia, thailand
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
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dorama, thought provoking, sweet, romantic, compassionate ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
office romance, judge, legal, courtroom drama, courtroom, social justice, justice, couple relations, society, investigation, partner, danger ...
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
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dorama, romantic, feel good, sincere, touching ...
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pretend relationship, engagement, escapades, rivalry, love and romance, ambition, friendship, love triangle, parents and children, inheritance, family relations, lifestyle ...
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korea
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
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Style:
dorama, sincere, not serious, touching, light ...
Plot:
school, friendship, fall in love, love, parents and children, family problems, husband wife relationship, teenage life, friends to lovers, drinking alcohol, drinking, lifestyle ...
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Place:
korea, thailand, seoul
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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girls' night
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korea
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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girls' night
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Place:
korea
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100%
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Country: South Korea
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dorama, romantic, feel good, touching, inspirational ...
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seoul, korea
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
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Style:
psychological, semi serious, romantic, thrilling, captivating
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100%
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Country: South Korea
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Style:
dorama, melancholic, touching, talky, emotional ...
Plot:
couples, love, lovers, young lovers, love and romance, love affair, love story, in love, youth, society, relationships, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
50%
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Country: South Korea
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Style:
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Plot:
joseon dynasty, novelist, female sexism, monarchy, historian, justice, social problems, society, social relations, meeting, female protagonist, sexism ...
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thailand
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
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Audience:
teens
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100%
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Country: South Korea
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romantic, light, humorous, sweet, touching
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Place:
seoul
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
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psychological, disturbing, captivating, romantic, realistic ...
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100%
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
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sincere, captivating, dorama
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korea
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Country: South Korea
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feel good, affectionate, romantic, sweet, funny ...
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100%
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Country: South Korea
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Style:
dorama, humorous, light, thought provoking, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
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female friendship, youth, friendship, love at first sight, house party, inferiority complex, friends who live together, love and romance, female protagonist, couples, college student, coming of age ...
Place:
seoul, korea
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50%
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
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Mo Seok-hee is an only child and her father runs the large company MC Group. She is beautiful, smart and rich. Mo Seok-hee appears like she is arrogant, but she struggles over her mother’s death. Her mother was killed 15 years ago. Meanwhile, Heo ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
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revenge, murder, corruption, heir, heiress, family drama, corporate corruption, family secret, murder mystery, cover up, investigation, power struggle ...
Place:
seoul
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67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
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Two survivors of a building collapse discover support and love in each other as they overcome the pain of loss and reconstruct a hopeful future.
Style:
romantic drama, dorama, suspenseful, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
family tragedy, love and romance, love, young love, traumatic experience, architect, grief, building collapse, corruption, serious illness, asian, poverty ...
Place:
busan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min.
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Set in the 1990's, the drama centers around a female high school student Shi Won, who idolizes boyband H.O.T and her 5 high school friends in Busan. As the timeline moves back and forth between their past as 18-year-old high schoolers in 1997 ...
Style:
dorama, sincere, touching, not serious, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, friends to lovers, first love, love, unrequited love, family relations, parents and children, lifestyle, teenage life, fall in love, family problems, past ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
seoul, thailand, busan, korea
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29%
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