Shows Like Because This Is My First Life
If you liked Because This Is My First Life (2017), a comedy and drama series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse (2011)
★ 7.3/10Also comedyFollow the ups-and-downs of Angela Williams, the owner of a successful beauty salon, and her husband of 13 years, Marcus, a former professional football player who has recently partnered with Richard Ellington and…
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Why Women Kill (2019)
★ 7.9/10Also comedy and dramaThree women living in three different decades: a housewife in the '60s, a socialite in the '80s and a lawyer in 2018, deal with infidelity in their marriages.
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Welcome to Waikiki (2018)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and comedyKang Dong-Goo dreams of becoming a movie director, but he is cynical due to bad luck. Cheon Joon-Ki wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and become an actor, but he is now just a minor actor. Bong-Doo-Sik came to…
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You're the Worst (2014)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and dramaNarcissistic, brash, and self-destructive Jimmy Shive-Overly thinks all relationships are doomed. Cynical, people-pleasing, and stubborn Gretchen Cutler knows that relationships aren't for her. So when they meet at a…
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Love in Contract (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and comedyContract marriage master Choi Sang-eun's alternate day romance with a long-term mystery client on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and a new superstar client on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
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Togetherness (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and dramaFour adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.
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No Gain No Love (2024)
★ 8.5/10Also drama and comedySon Hae-yeong seeks out a fake wedding with her neighbourhood convenience store employee, Kim Ji-uk, to avoid missing out on a promotion.
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Would You Marry Me? (2025)
★ 8.2/10Also comedy and dramaA couple who pretend to be newlyweds, find themselves developing genuine feelings for each other as they navigate their fake marriage.
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With Love (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaThe Diaz siblings, Lily and Jorge, are on a mission to find love and purpose. They cross paths with seemingly unrelated residents during some of the most heightened days of the year—the holidays.
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Love (2016)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and dramaRebellious Mickey and good-natured Gus navigate the thrills and agonies of modern relationships.
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Forever (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaJune and Oscar live a comfortable but very predictable wedded life when suddenly they find themselves in a completely unexpected situation, raising questions about love and marriage.
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A Love So Beautiful (2020)
★ 8.3/10Also drama and comedyLove is as tough as it is sweet for a lovestruck teenager, whose relationship with her next-door neighbor transforms as they grow into adulthood.
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Tyler Perry's If Loving You Is Wrong (2014)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaFollow the relationships of a group of husbands and wives that live and love on the same street. While the neighbors come from very different backgrounds, their lives are similar – raising children, dealing with exes…
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Our Sticky Love (2026)
★ 8.7/10Also drama and comedyAn ambitious prosecutor loses her memory and moves in with a boxing coach who claims to be her boyfriend. Can this sticky situation turn into real love?
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High Fidelity (2020)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy and dramaRob Brooks, a female record store owner in the rapidly gentrified neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn revisit past relationships through music and pop culture, while trying to get over her one true love.
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Ally McBeal (1997)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and comedyAlly McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!
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Divorce (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and dramaA middle-aged couple experience the pain, the relief and the trials and tribulations of a divorce in this dry, witty comedy.
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Nice to Not Meet You (2025)
★ 7.7/10Also comedy and dramaA hateful romance between a professional detective actor who wants to become a melodrama master and a female reporter who was demoted from a political reporter who won the Reporter of the Year award to the…
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Peep Show (2003)
★ 8/10Also comedyTwo dysfunctional flatmates reveal all their inner thoughts - whether dark, stupid or embarrassing. Or, occasionally, all three...
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Girls (2012)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and comedyThe assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.