Love Alarm
Love Alarm is an app that tells you if someone within a 10-meter radius has a crush on you. It quickly becomes a social phenomenon. While everyone talks about it and uses it to tes…
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Series Like Start Up
If you liked Start Up, this Cinento mix gives you more titles with a similar feeling, rhythm, tension, comfort level, and after-watch taste. Start with 16 picks, then load more when you want a wider path.
Series Like Start Up
DTF St. Louis
A love triangle among three adults experiencing middle-age malaise leads to one of them ending up dead.…
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Crash Course in Romance
The series follows the bittersweet relationship between a banchan shop owner whose daughter enters the war of Korea's college entrance exams, and a top hagwon instructor.…
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UnREAL
Set against the backdrop of a hit dating competition show, Rachel is a young staffer whose sole job is to manipulate her relationships with and among the contestants to get the vit…
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Crazy Love
No Go Jin is the most popular mathematics instructor in the private education field and the CEO of GOTOP Education. Even though he has only a high school level education, he has ac…
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No Gain No Love
Son 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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The Heirs
After a chance encounter in LA, two teens from different social backgrounds reunite at an exclusive high school attended by Korea's über rich.…
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Jealousy Incarnate
A weather girl reunites with her old crush, a haughty reporter at her TV station. But this time, she has her eyes on someone else -- his best friend.…
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Like Flowers in Sand
Struggling to find success, a former wrestling prodigy finds himself ready to quit until he reencounters an old friend who reignites his passion.…
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At Eighteen
A misunderstood loner is drawn out of his shell after transferring to another high school, where he comes across new ordeals -- and first love.…
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Be Melodramatic
At the start of their 30s, three friends navigate the demanding entertainment industry while juggling love, careers and dreams.…
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High Fidelity
Rob 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 …
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Strong Woman Do Bong-Soon
Born with supernatural strength, Bong-soon fights evil and procures justice while getting tangled in a love triangle with her CEO boss and cop crush.…
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My Dearest Nemesis
Baek Su-jeong leads a planning team at a renowned department store. She meets her new boss, Ban Ju-yeon, her first love from an online game 16 years ago, stirring up memories of wh…
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One Tree Hill
In Tree Hill, North Carolina two half brothers share a last name and nothing else. Brooding, blue-collar Lucas is a talented street-side basketball player, but his skills are appre…
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Welcome to Waikiki
Kang 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 ju…
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Dynamite Kiss
A passionate fling in Jeju ends abruptly — until fate reunites an heir and a young woman when she joins his company, disguised as a married mother.…
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Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo
A competitive swimmer crosses paths with his childhood friend, a rising weight lifting star, and realizes that she has a secret crush on his cousin.…
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Nice to Not Meet You
A 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…
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Princess Hours
Love, tradition, and politics collide when a spirited young art student is betrothed to the crown prince of South Korea.…
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Cinderella and Four Knights
Catching the eye of a wealthy gentleman, spunky Ha-won gets hired to live with his three immature grandsons so she can whip them into shape.…
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Love to Hate You
For an attorney who despises losing to men and an A-list actor who distrusts women, love means nothing — until they're forced to date each other.…
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Love with Flaws
A romantic comedy about a woman that hates men with pretty face, a man that is obsessed with his looks, and how the people with flaws get over their prejudice! Lee Kang-Woo has st…
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So I Married an Anti-Fan
The romance between top star Hoo Joon and his anti-fan reporter Lee Geun-young who end up living together.…
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I Am Not a Robot
Kim Min Gyu has wealth and success, but lives an isolated life due to his allergy of people. He then meets and falls in love with a girl who is pretending to be a robot for her ex-…
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Hyde, Jekyll, Me
A chaebol executive with a split personality spars with a circus leader determined to save her troupe, which he’s trying to eject from his theme park.…
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Record of Youth
In a cutthroat world where the life you’re born into decides your success, three aspiring youths are determined to change that perception as they fight for their dreams.…
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Surely Tomorrow
In their twenties, Lee Kyeong-do and Seo Ji-woo part ways after two passionate relationships. A decade later, they meet again as a reporter who covers an adultery scandal and the w…
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Reunited Worlds
Although born in the same year, two childhood friends end up being 13 years apart because they have aged surprisingly at different places (worlds) for some strange reason. Now Eom …
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Love in Contract
Contract 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 S…
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Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse
Follow 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 par…
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See You in My 19th Life
Ban Ji-eum can endlessly reincarnate. But when her 18th life gets cut short, she dedicates the next one to finding her now grown-up childhood love.…
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My Holo Love
Unexpected love finds a lonely woman when she forms a connection with a humanlike hologram who looks exactly like his prickly creator.…
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Pump Up the Healthy Love
Do Hyeon-joong, a health-obsessed gym manager, helps his members transform their lives while balancing the struggles of self-employment, and forms a passionate connection with Lee …
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Love All Play
The hottest sports romance between Park Tae-yang, a passionate professional badminton player, and Park Tae-joon, who treats playing badminton as a job!…
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BEEF
A road rage incident between two strangers — a failing contractor and an unfulfilled entrepreneur — sparks a feud that brings out their darkest impulses.…
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Queen of Tears
The queen of department stores and the prince of supermarkets weather a marital crisis—until love miraculously begins to bloom again.…
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King the Land
Amid a tense inheritance fight, a charming heir clashes with his hardworking employee who's known for her irresistible smile — which he cannot stand.…
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Temperature of Love
An aspiring screenwriter's online romance with a French chef turns complicated when a persistent business partner vies for her attention.…
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Togetherness
Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.…
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How should I use Series Like Start Up?
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Why do these picks belong together?
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Is this mix only for people who already know the main title?
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