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Shows Like If You Wish Upon Me

If you were moved by If You Wish Upon Me, are likely to find resonance in stories that questions the purpose and weight of our choices while delivering targets the intellect with complex, multi-layered ideas. Carefully balances character depth with narrative flow makes this a perfect follow-up for your next session.

Mood Breakdown
Runtime Cluster

Standard feature-length experiences.

Viewer Fit

Best for fans of who appreciate concise storytelling.

Top Picks

Chocolate
7.8

Chocolate

2019

Brought together by meaningful meals in the past and present, a doctor and a chef are reacquainted when they begin working at a hospice ward.

Dynamite Kiss
8.1

Dynamite Kiss

2025

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.

Thirty-Nine
8.3

Thirty-Nine

2022

Leaning on each other through thick and thin, a trio of best friends stand together as they experience life, love and loss on the brink of turning 40.

Dr. Romantic
8.2

Dr. Romantic

2016

An eccentric, triple board-certified virtuoso surgeon leaves a top job in Seoul and ends up at a provincial hospital, where he mentors young doctors.

Nice to Not Meet You
7.6

Nice to Not Meet You

2025

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 of the Year award to the entertainment department.

Hospital Playlist
8.5

Hospital Playlist

2020

Every day is extraordinary for five doctors and their patients inside a hospital, where birth, death and everything in between coexist.

Because This Is My First Life
8.2

Because This Is My First Life

2017

Two housemates get married for financial convenience, but discover nothing is simple when it comes to demanding in-laws — or facing their growing bond.

My Dearest Nemesis
7.7

My Dearest Nemesis

2025

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 when he confessed his feelings but she rejected him.

More Shows Like If You Wish Upon Me

May I Help You?
7.9

May I Help You?

2022

Baek Dong Joo, a newly hired funeral director, has the uncanny gift, or curse, to momentarily resurrect and talk to the recently deceased. She has to grant their last wishes or have her days be filled with a series of bad luck and accidents. And helping the little boy that first terrified her when he came to life will lead her down a path she never could have expected. Kim Tae Hee works as a man for hire. Employed by his uncle Vincent running the newly opened errand service company “A Dime A Job” he can be hired for any odd (but legal) task. One day, Kim Tae Hee encounters Baek Dong Joo, when he is hired by her boyfriend to break up with her in his stead. After that, their paths continue to cross, and by the virtue of their jobs, their fates get intertwined deeper and deeper in a series of life and death situations, surrounding the wishes of the people who had died, and the painful past it is going to unravel for both of them.

With Love
6.1

With Love

2021

The 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.

Queen of Tears
8.4

Queen of Tears

2024

The queen of department stores and the prince of supermarkets weather a marital crisis—until love miraculously begins to bloom again.

SkyMed
6.9

SkyMed

2022

Life, death and drama at 20,000 feet. The series weaves together intense character journeys and high-stakes medical rescues, as we follow the triumphs, heartbreaks and tribulations of budding nurses and pilots flying air ambulances in remote Northern Canada. They’re all in over their heads, and on their own, with no one to rely on but each other.

The Bear
8.2

The Bear

2022

Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges crew that ultimately reveal themselves as his chosen family.

Beating Again
7.6

Beating Again

2015

After his uncle's unjust takeover of the family company, Kang Min Ho grows up to be a successful, if not cynical investor who only cares about money. But when he undergoes a sudden heart transplant surgery, Min Ho literally has a change of heart when he inherits a warm and compassionate heart. In the midst of seeing the world anew, including falling for the kind Kim Soon Jung, Min Ho must mitigate his newfound personality with the demands of his cutthroat career.

Love in Contract
7.6

Love in Contract

2022

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 Saturday.

Chasing Life
7.2

Chasing Life

2014

April, an aspiring journalist, is balancing her ambitious career with her family and a new office romance. In an unexpected twist of fate, April learns that she has leukemia.

Derek
7.6

Derek

2013

Derek is a loyal nursing home caretaker who sees only the good in his quirky co-workers as they struggle against prejudice and shrinking budgets to care for their elderly residents.

Love Scout
8.0

Love Scout

2025

Yoo Eun-ho, a single dad armed with perfection, becomes the secretary of Kang Ji-yun, the CEO of a popular headhunter company, who doesn't do anything except work.

Mr. Plankton
8.2

Mr. Plankton

2024

A man plagued by misfortune and his ex, the unluckiest bride-to-be, are forced to accompany one another on the final journey of his life.

Medical Top Team
7.5

Medical Top Team

2013

The medical drama focuses on the lives of doctors and nurses who are members of an elite medical team from the fictional Gwang Hae University Hospital.

Why These Shows Are Similar

These recommendations share core qualities with If You Wish Upon Me (2022): Drama themes, similar pacing, and comparable production quality. NoBadPicks uses TMDB collaborative filtering, genre matching, and AI analysis to surface series most likely to resonate with fans of If You Wish Upon Me.

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