The title of Love Hard is taken from Love Actually and Die Hard. Natalie and Josh continuously debate the two as the ultimate Christmas movie, and her Grand Romantic Gesture at the end mimics Mark's cue card confession to Juliet.
In You Look Different in Real Life, this was one of Justine's favorite Christmas movies until she realized that both of the main female characters end up miserable and two of the male characters fall in love with their maids. Ian refers to it as "the one with all the English people."
In Leah On The Offbeat the main character's best friend has a secret fanfic about the movie, though he claims to hate the movie. The characters want to find, eventually finding it as a m|m version of the All I Want For Christmas scene.
One of the Christmas episodes of Glee is called "Glee, Actually" in reference to this film.
In the Ted LassoChristmas Episode "Carol of the Bells", Phoebe showing up at her Secret Santa's house with a series of notes on poster board while pretending to be a caroler is an homage to a similar scene in Love Actually where Mark confesses his love to Juliet.
In You (2018), the only joke we ever hear stand-up comedian Henderson make are potshots at Love Actually.
The season 2 finale of Chucky is titled "Chucky Actually" to reflect its Christmas setting and the twist ending.
