Recommendations

- strong, independent women
- one of the female characters is highly skilled in fighting
- sex and "dating around" portrayed as a normal thing (from both male and female perspectives in both shows)
- famous actor/"normal" girl relationships (Search: www - second leads)
- male chases female first

Both Male Leads are in their fourties and become jobless. They experience mid life crisis and try to get rich but end up realizing it doesn’t work that way. Both dramas are short and hyper realistic comedy dramas.

Another short film, with a similar storyline, in that two schoolboys plan a trip but something happens before the date of departure.

2 ML - one cop with calm persona and one non-cop witty and fun person , cooperate together to crack the case.

In both, the MLs are doctors and the FLs meet them when the pair save a person who collapsed on the street, inspiring the FL to follow him by becoming a nurse. The two then meet at the hospital on the FL's first day but the ML is different than she remembers.

Both have a nostalgic, bittersweet feel of past school days and the unlikely friendship between a group of kids to adults.

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Both dark gritty vibes, fighting, crime, underdogs fighting many people. They will both have you feeling anxious and also has a very sad part that will break your heart.

Same ML and FL.
Gu Xi Xi is a fashion shopper, who runs a small online shop from home, and buys Alex's couture wedding dresses for her clients. During a private reception, she gets acquainted with Yin Si Chen, the black-bellied president who came to discuss business cooperation with Alex. An incident occurs leading to them to temporarily maintain a contract cooperative marriage relationship for a win-win situation pertaining to Alex. The two with opposite personalities gradually find love in this contract marriage.

Both Filipino dramas are made by the same company. They have a light vibe but unexpectedly deal with heavy topics.

These shows don't have much in common but I feel if you like one, you would like the other. I didn't really care for either one, but I preferred Squid Game to Sweet Home, while my mom loved both but preferred Sweet Home to Squid Game. Sweet Home is a bit more brutal and gory on screen while Squid Game is a bit more mentally gruesome. If you enjoy Thriller/Mystery dramas, you will prefer Squid Game. If you prefer Horror/Apocalyptic dramas, you will prefer Sweet Home.

Tag, like As The Gods Will, is and out there horror film featuring a large bit of gore. Both are about high school students. At some points, As The Gods Will feels like a fever dream while pretty much the whole of Tag feels like a fever dream.

Hyakuman Kai leba Yokatta is basically the straight version of Eien no Kinou. Both involve the main love interest dying. bother are bitter sweet romantic stories told between a ghost and a still living human. Hyakuman Kai leba Yokatta includes a true crime/mystery plotline while Eien no Kinou is mainly a romance/life drama.

Another musical bl: here there are soldier and his boyfriend bursting into song, not cookies...A little less weird but just as fun!.

School and bullying, revenge, etc..

Homicide mystery in both.