My Love from the Star

Series Similar to My Love from the Star

If you enjoyed My Love from the Star, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Twinkling Watermelon

   2023 · Fantasy, Music, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Twinkling Watermelon follows a story about CODA, (a deaf child born under deaf parents) a boy born of natural talent for music, and Eun Gyul, crash-landing into an unfamiliar space through a suspicious musical instrument store. Eun Gyul forms the band Watermelon Sugar with the youth he met there and communicates with them through music.

2. City Hunter

   2011 · Action, Romance, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / Thriller profile, highly rated (8), also on SBS.

   Not long after his birth in October 9, 1983, the same day as the notorious bombing at Aung San in Myanmar, Lee Yoon Sung is kidnapped and raised by Jin Pyo believing Jin Pyo is his father. Trained like a special military agent spending years in deadly places like the Golden Triangle, deserts and battlefields, Yoon Sung becomes the most capable man who can survive in any situation anywhere.

3. Destined with You

   2023 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   The irresistible romance between a civil servant who obtains a forbidden book that was thoroughly sealed 300 years ago and a popular lawyer who becomes a victim of the forbidden book.

4. The Master's Sun

   2013 · Fantasy, Romance, Mystery · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, also on SBS.

   The story revolves around a woman who can see ghosts and a man who tries to protect her, and is described as a drama with horror and romantic elements infused together. So Ji Sub plays the miserly, greedy, and conceited CEO Joo Joong Won, who measures all human relationships through money. Gong Hyo Jin will play the melancholy and tearful assistant Tae Gong Shil, who is able to see ghosts after an accident and thus suffers from insomnia. She lives a very reclusive and closed-off life due to her ability. The story is being touted as "soul healing" drama that brings together very different types of people: one who can see and hear things that no one else in the world can and another who only hears and see things he wants too. As Joo Joong Won starts to believe in Tae Gong Shil's claim of being able to see ghosts, these two people will grow together in faith and in character.

5. Secret Love

   2013 · Drama, Romance, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / Thriller profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Everyone has their own secrets. Secrets can help people succeed and even fall in love; but secrets can also destroy people. Secrets can sometimes make us happy, worried, or even blind us to reality. This drama is about secrets. It is an exploration into the trials and tribulations of people who live with secrets. These secrets drive the four characters desire to find love and exact revenge.

6. W

   2016 · Drama, Romance, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / Thriller profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   After being pulled into the webtoon world created by her father, a surgical resident gets entangled in a murder mystery involving the story's hero.

7. Healer

   2014 · Action, Romance, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / Thriller profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   A mysterious messenger, an online newspaper reporter who only concerns her own interests, a popular reporter who agonizes over the truth and reality.When these three people meet, a passionate romance starts and the truths from the past and present reveal themselves to the world. This drama features young people and how they grow into real reporters.

8. Flower of Evil

   2020 · Crime, Romance, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance / Thriller profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Flower of Evil is a suspenseful drama about a psychopath who changes his identity to conceal his cruel past and his homicide detective wife who tries to track down the truth. This thriller will draw the extremes of this couple, from their harmonious family life to crime scenes. 

9. Mother

   2018 · Drama · ended

   Recommended for highly rated (8.5).

   This is the story of a woman becoming a mother. Soo Jin is a teacher at an elementary school. She plans to go abroad to study and teaching is just a temporary job. However, she notices that one of her student, Hye Na, is being abused by her mother and uncle at home. Soo Jin or the police cannot do anything because Hye Na doesn't know that she is being abused and says it's all good to people. As Soo Jin meets Ja Young and Seol Ak, the mother and uncle, she decides to save her from those horrible people. She makes an impulsive but sincere decision to become Hye Na's mother. Their story begins unexpectedly, but as Soo Jin and Hye Na start to believe and depend on each other, they become a real mother and daughter.

10. Through the Darkness

    2022 · Drama, Thriller, Mystery · ended

    Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on SBS.

    Through the Darkness is about a criminal profiler who struggles to read the minds of serial killers. Song Ha Young is a criminal profiler. He is calm and has charisma. He digs up cases and looks deeply into the human mind.