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Shows Like Love in Sadness

For those captivated by Love in Sadness, will enjoy these picks that questions the purpose and weight of our choices while maintaining targets the intellect with complex, multi-layered ideas. Carefully balances character depth with narrative flow makes this a solid addition to your watchlist.

Mood Breakdown
Runtime Cluster

Standard feature-length experiences.

Viewer Fit

Best for fans of who appreciate concise storytelling.

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Nip/Tuck
7.2

Nip/Tuck

2003

Hotshot plastic surgeons Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy experience full-blown midlife crises as they confront career, family and romance problems.

Good Girls
7.8

Good Girls

2018

Three "good girl" suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.

Why Women Kill
7.9

Why Women Kill

2019

Three 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.

The Art of Sarah
7.5

The Art of Sarah

2026

A body found in the middle of town. A luxe label on the rise. A detective tests every stitch of a woman's story that keeps changing. What really happened?

Hustle
7.7

Hustle

2004

A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.

Imposters
7.2

Imposters

2017

Maddie, a persona shifting con-artist who is as beautiful as she is dangerous, leaves her unwitting victims tormented when they realize they have been used and robbed of everything – including their hearts. But things get complicated when her former targets, Ezra, Richard, and Jules team up to track her down.

My Mister
8.6

My Mister

2018

In a world that is less than kind, a young woman and a middle-aged man develop a sense of kinship as they find warmth and comfort in one another.

BEEF
7.7

BEEF

2023

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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The Penthouse
8.4

The Penthouse

2020

A woman puts everything on the line to achieve her goal of being able to move into a luxury penthouse in the Gangnam District. In the process, she gradually finds herself turning into a monster.

The Company You Keep
7.2

The Company You Keep

2023

A night of passion leads to love between con man Charlie and undercover CIA officer Emma, who are unknowingly on a collision course professionally. While Charlie ramps up the ‘family business’ so he can get out for good, Emma’s closing in on the vengeful criminal who holds Charlie’s family debts in-hand — forcing them to reckon with the lies they’ve told so they can save themselves and their families from disastrous consequences.

Nowhere Man
7.8

Nowhere Man

1995

Thomas Veil is a documentary photographer who, in the course of one evening, seemingly has his whole existence erased...

Tell Me a Story
7.1

Tell Me a Story

2018

The world's most beloved fairy tales reimagined as a dark and twisted psychological thriller.

Empire
7.1

Empire

2015

A powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne.

The Staircase
6.8

The Staircase

2022

An exploration of the life of Michael Peterson, his sprawling North Carolina family, and the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen Peterson.

Secret Garden
7.5

Secret Garden

2010

A wealthy young man and a poor stunt woman fall for each other, but when their souls swap they soon learn how different their two worlds are.

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.

Revenge
7.6

Revenge

2011

When Emily Thorne moves to the Hamptons, everyone wonders about the new girl, but she knows everything about them, including what they did to her family. Years ago, they took everything from her. Now, one by one, she's going to make them pay.

Reunited Worlds
7.6

Reunited Worlds

2017

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 Hyeon Soo is a 31-year-old woman but Sung Hae Sung is still a 18-year-old boy. Cha Won Yooung is a chef also interested in Eom Hyeon Soo.

Transparent
6.4

Transparent

2014

An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.

Tastefully Yours
8.4

Tastefully Yours

2025

Driven to claim top culinary honors, an arrogant heir meets a low-profile but stubborn chef whose recipes astonish him — sparking an unlikely romance.

Why These Shows Are Similar

These recommendations share core qualities with Love in Sadness (2019): 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 Love in Sadness.

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