Shows Like Backstreet Rookie
If you liked Backstreet Rookie (2020), 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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Spirit Fingers (2025)
★ 8.5/10Also comedy and dramaAbout an ordinary high school sophomore, Song Woo-yeon, who joins a drawing club called Spirit Fingers and paints the story of finding her own color, personality, and dream.
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Queen of Tears (2024)
★ 8.4/10Also drama and comedyThe queen of department stores and the prince of supermarkets weather a marital crisis—until love miraculously begins to bloom again.
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Yumi's Cells (2021)
★ 8/10Also comedy and dramaYumi is a 30-year old, ordinary woman who struggles with expressing her feelings. Told from the perspective of the many brain cells in her head, she experiences growth in both her love life, her career, and finds…
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Sold Out on You (2026)
★ 8.4/10Also comedy and dramaA work-obsessed cosmetics CEO and a top home-shopping host struggling with insomnia cross paths, and through an unexpected romance, begin to heal the emptiness in their lives.
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Flower Boy Next Door (2013)
★ 8.1/10Also comedy and dramaGo Dok Mi doesn't spend all day dreaming about her knight in shining armor — she’s too busy spying on her neighbors who all happen to be hot, "flower-boy" types, including cartoon artist Oh Jin Rak. But when Enrique…
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Fated to Love You (2014)
★ 8.3/10Also comedy and dramaAn office worker has an unexpected one-night stand with a wealthy business heir. When she discovers she’s pregnant, will love – or heartbreak – follow?
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Take Charge of My Heart (2026)
★ 8.8/10Also comedy and dramaA corporate heir with an artificial heart meets a woman who's literally electric. They strike a deal that makes his heart beat — in more ways than one.
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Once Upon a Small Town (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and comedyAgainst his wishes a veterinarian from the big city relocates to the countryside, where he meets a policewoman, a town insider with a friendly secret.
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How I Met Your Father (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and dramaIn the near future, Sophie tells her son the story of how she met his father: a story that catapults us back to the year 2021 where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they…
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Hello, My Twenties! (2016)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and dramaWith different personalities, life goals and taste in men, five female college students become housemates in a shared residence called Belle Epoque.
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Tastefully Yours (2025)
★ 8.3/10Also comedy and dramaDriven to claim top culinary honors, an arrogant heir meets a low-profile but stubborn chef whose recipes astonish him — sparking an unlikely romance.
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Love, American Style (1969)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyAn anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories or vignettes within an hour about versions of love and romance.
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Love Your Enemy (2024)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaBorn on the same day and with the same name, Seok Ji-won and Yoon Ji-won have been enemies for generations, and reunite after 18 years.
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Cunning Single Lady (2014)
★ 7.6/10Also comedy and dramaAfter suffering during their marriage, a divorcée hopes to seduce her ex husband into an apology – but he thinks she wants his newfound wealth.
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What's Wrong with Secretary Kim (2018)
★ 8.3/10Also comedy and dramaWhen his secretary unexpectedly quits, an arrogant executive will do anything to bring her back.
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Cuckoo (2012)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and dramaCuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year.
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Tyler Perry's Sistas (2019)
★ 8.4/10Also comedy and dramaThere's nothing that bonds a group of single black women together more than sidestepping the land mines of living, working and dating in Atlanta. In a sea of swipe-lefts, social media drama and unrealistic…
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Gavin & Stacey (2007)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and dramaEssex and Wales collide when Gavin and Stacey fall in love - bringing their friends, family and baggage with them.
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Marry Me, Mary! (2010)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and dramaWi Mae-ri is the cheerful, pragmatic girl who finds herself reluctantly being set up in an arranged marriage by her father. In order to avoid it, she enlists help from an indie rocker Kang Mu-gyul who pretends to be…