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Plot Summary:
Maria da Paz is a committed baker who becomes a wealthy businesswoman twenty years after a tragedy strikes on the day of her wedding to Amadeu. From this broken union a baby is born, Jô, who seeks power and despises her mother's humble origins. Afraid that her parents' reunion might spoil her plans, Jô starts an alliance with the charming Régis to convince Maria to marry him and, together, they plan to steal all of Maria's fortune. In this exciting telenovela written by Emmy Awards winner Walcyr Carrasco, Maria's optimism must be stronger than Jô's ambition when the baker finds out about the betrayal and her own daughter's dangerous secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy, telenovela
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Lying Heart (2016)
Plot Summary:
Mariela Salvatierra is an orphan and was only 11 when her grandfather Manuel died because of Demián Ferrer. Being left on her own, destiny pushed her to leave the country under the care of Leonardo Del Río. 15 years have passed since they left, but now Mariela and Leonardo have returned to face Demián Ferrer. Demián is a fairly powerful and unscrupulous business man who doesn’t even honor his own family. He disregards Santiago, his youngest son, and manipulates and deceives his oldest son, Alonso. This attitude affects Mariela too, since Alonso doesn’t dare to turn his back on his father, which tinges their relationship with love and hatred at once. To make things worse, Renata, a luscious and dishonest girl, moves in to the Ferrer’s home and becomes obsessed with Alonso, doing everything she can to separate him from Mariela and making her come closer to another man who is in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, suspense, telenovela
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Contra viento y marea (2005)
Plot Summary:
Contra viento y marea is a Mexican telenovela aired from April 25 until November 4, 2005. This was also the last acting role of Beatriz Sheridan, who died in 2006 of a heart attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining, fairy tale, soap opera, novela, exciting, telenovela
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Baker King, Kim Tak Goo (2010)
Plot Summary:
It tells the story of how a determined young baker overcomes many trials towards his goal of becoming the best baker in Korea. This story takes place in the 1970s to 1990s, starting after his conception and finishing when he reaches his mid-20s.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dorama, tense, captivating, novela
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Total Dreamer (2015)
Plot Summary:
Eliza lived in the interior of Rio de Janeiro with her family, but after getting involved in a mess with her stepfather, she fled to the capital and started to live on the streets of the city. Despite her careless appearance, she draws attention for her beauty. Eliza takes risks in the streets and Jonatas is the one who realizes the danger and proposes to protect her. During the week, the boy makes a living selling bullets and guarding cars. To save money, he only returns to the family home, who lives far away, on weekends. In a very different world live the powerful director of the magazine Totalmente Demais, Carolina, and the bon vivant and owner of the modeling agency Excalibur, Arthur. Longtime friends and lovers in their spare time, they carry in this intimate relationship the same competitive behavior as legal life. The duo's combination is explosive: she is capable of anything to get what she wants, and he just wants to have fun without measuring the consequences of his actions.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, uplifting, touching, feel good, sweet, captivating, soap opera, fairy tale, romantic comedy, telenovela
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The Good Side of Life! (2016)
Plot Summary:
The telenovela tells the story of a naïve young man from the countryside who was abandoned as a newborn against the will of his mother, and who goes to the big city to look for her. There he will also have the chance to meet the love of his life once again. Candinho‘s optimism and good humor are his allies against life‘s difficulties, including the plots of two scoundrels that cross his path.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, soap opera, family comedy, romantic comedy, telenovela
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Pepper Chocolate (2003)
Plot Summary:
Chocolate com Pimenta is a Brazilian novela, cast in the roaring 1920s, starring Mariana Ximenes and Murilo Benício. It was produced and broadcast by Rede Globo in 2003. It was written by Walcyr Carrasco and directed by Jorge Fernando.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Romance, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, telenovela
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A Life Worth Living (2019)
Plot Summary:
A dreamy seamstress and mother of three's life is turned upside down when she's wrongly diagnosed with a terminal disease along with an actually terminally ill wealthy book publisher.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 41 min
Plot tags: novela, romantic, uplifting, humorous, captivating, romantic comedy, telenovela
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Pega Pega (2017)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy about a robbery in a luxurious Rio de Janeiro hotel and the repercussions this event has on the lives of each person involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: novela, sincere, romantic, serious, captivating, soap opera, romantic comedy, telenovela
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Precious Pearl (2013)
Plot Summary:
In 1934 two supposed brothers survived an avalanche in the Himalayas: the millionaire Franz Hauser (Bruno Gagliasso), who is saved by Buddhist monks, and Manfred (Carmo Dalla Vecchia), rescued by a team of climbers. Manfred returns to Brazil with a terrible secret: he sabotaged Franz’s equipment in order to take his place in the family business. After an exhaustive search, Ernest Hauser gives his son up for dead and appoints his bastard son as the director of the Hauser Group.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: novela, tense, captivating, soap opera, telenovela
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Pride and Passion (2018)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the 20th century, a mother dreams of marrying her five daughters to eligible bachelors but marriage is not a priority in Elisabeta Benedito's life. More than finding true love, the strong-willed dreamer and her sisters want to live according to their own choices and to do so they must go against traditional rules and customs. Inspired by Jane Austen's works, this romantic comedy retells classic novels from the point of view of modern and empowered women.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, romantic comedy, period drama, telenovela
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A Girl and Three Sweethearts (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sakurai Misaki has not dated in a long time. She has focused on her work as a pâtissier to eventually run her own business. One day, she gets fired from work. She then meets her first love from high school Shibasaki Chiaki. Misaki works part-time at Chiaki's restaurant and also stays there. While she lives with Chiaki at his restaurant, she realizes that Chiaki's two younger brothers Touma and Kanata also live there.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 926
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama, shoujo, romantic drama
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My Heart Beats for Lola Volcán (2011)
Plot Summary:
Mi Corazón Insiste… en Lola Volcán is a Spanish language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. Telemundo aired the serial from May 23 to November 28, 2011 at 8pm central. As with most of its other telenovelas, the network broadcasts English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. It is a remake of Colombian telenovela of 1998-1999 Yo amo a Paquita Gallego by Julio Jimenez.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, romantic, captivating, entertaining, telenovela
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Young Lady and Gentleman (2021)
Plot Summary:
Lee Young Kook is a widower with three children. He still hasn’t gotten over the death of his wife. He decides to hire Park Dan Dan as a live-in tutor for his kids and he becomes attracted to her. Meanwhile, Park Dan Dan has bright and positive personality despite her harsh situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: entertaining, light, sincere, feel good, captivating, dramatic
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Burning Hearts (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tancinha is a charming fruit seller known for her hot temper who gets torn between an explosive relationship with passionate truck driver Apolo, her neighbor and childhood sweetheart, and an irresistible attraction for Beto, a lady-killer who will not take no for an answer. The girl ends up being caught up in a family feud over the disappearance of her father whom she believed to be dead. Tancinha will leave a path of turmoil along her way to unveil this mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating, contemplative, soap opera, romantic comedy, telenovela
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Cornered (2007)
Plot Summary:
Acorralada is an American telenovela produced by Venevisión. Univision aired Acorralada from January 2007 to October 2007 on weekday afternoons at 2 pm central. It was rebroadcast in late 2011 through April 2012 on Univision's sister network, Telefutura. It was filmed in Miami, Florida, and lasted about 187 episodes. It is the second long-running telenovela that Venevisión Productions has produced without its former co-producer Fonovideo. It began airing in Venezuela on December 10, 2008 in the 11 pm timeslot on Venevisión and finished on July 25, 2009 with seven months of airing and being the most successful telenovela for its timeslot since La Fea Más Bella. Venevision International released Acorralada on DVD in the United States on December 2, 2008, a week before its debut on Venezuelan television. The DVD set consists of three discs, and has a running time of 596 minutes. The show is heavily edited in order to fit into three discs. Neither Venevision nor Univision have plans to offer a more complete version.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Father Is Strange (2017)
Plot Summary:
Mi Yeong, Hye Yeong, Ra Yeong, and Joon Yeong are the kids of Yeong Sil and Han Soo. They seem like the average Seoul family, with the typical Seoul problems, but that all changes when Jung Hui, an actor, and former K-Pop idol, ends up in their doorstep claiming that Han Soo is his biological father. The family goes through thick and thin, one marriage after the other, trying to figure out why their father happens to be strange.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, captivating, entertaining, funny, light, dorama, humorous
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Eco moda (2001)
Plot Summary:
The continued story of Betty and Armando. The couple is now married and raise their daughter Camila. Betty is also the president of her own fashion company called Ecomoda. Armando is the vice president.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Colombia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Tangled Hearts (2013)
Plot Summary:
This Brazilian soap opera is about three orphans and a girl who spent part of their childhood together, reunite after years when they're already grown. Old feelings will arise and new discoveries will happen about these kids' pasts and futures.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, soap opera, telenovela
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Ojakgyo Brothers (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story of a family with four sons who live together with their relatives on a farm near Seoul. Hwang Tae Hee is the third son and a policeman who falls in love with a girl named Baek Ja Eun. Baek Ja Eun is a haughty young woman who only believes in her pretty looks and is quick to flare up in anger.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama, romantic drama
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Sugar Daddy (2019)
Plot Summary:
The protagonist of the story was the forgotten elderly actor, whose only "capital" was debts for the apartment and savings for the funeral. Tired of a dull life, his grandfather wants to part with it beautifully, so before he dies, he looks into a barbershop. Having got a stylish hairstyle and a beard of a hipster, a pensioner goes to a nightclub, where he meets a spectacular girl. The hunter for the "daddy" takes him for a millionaire and decides to tame.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, romantic
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My Story For You (2018)
Plot Summary:
It’s 1998, and Zhang Chang Gong gets his first taste of success as a developer in an IT company. At the same time, he meets and falls in love with Li Mu Zi, a kind and intelligent university student. Unfortunately the IT bubble soon bursts, and Zhang Chang Gong is left unemployed. With the help of his friends and family, Chang Gong faces the challenges head on, and eventually becomes a top-selling author.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, inspirational, romantic comedy
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Student's Hearts (2002)
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, soap opera
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We Love You, Mr. Jin (2012)
Plot Summary:
When your parents don’t approve of your spouse, is a happy life possible? Mi Xiao Mi is a reporter for a Beijing news agency who meets and falls in love with Jin Liang, a gynecologist. When Xiao Mi insists on marrying Liang, a “bei piao” (a non-native Beijing resident), Xiao Mi’s single mother, Wang Shu Hua, nearly has a heart attack but is forced to accept the relationship. But when living with Liang’s father, Jin Tai Zhu, turns out to be more difficult than imagined, Xiao Mi’s mother refuses to just stand by and just watch. “We Love You, Mr. Jin,” also known as “Jin Tai Lang’s Happy Life,” is a 2012 Chinese drama series directed by Yu Chun.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: China
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Rising Sun (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two childhood friends from very distinct families are bound together by a complicity that spans generations. Alice is an independent woman who was raised in a Japanese family; Mario is an immature guy of Italian origin. When Alice decides to live abroad, Mario begins to see her as more than a friend, and he goes out of his way to bring this unlikely love story to life in this romantic comedy tied by friendship.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, novela, psychological, funny, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, soap opera
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Lie to Me (2011)
Plot Summary:
Gong Ah-jung, a level 5 Ministry of Culture official, gets entangled in a web of lies when she mistakenly lies that she's married to Hyun Ki-joon, a hotel manager from an affluent family. Their relationship is further complicated when Ki-joon's ex-fiancée and a close friend of his brother's, Oh Yoon-joo, reappears in his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, novela, romantic comedy
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Sweet Revenge (2016)
Plot Summary:
Pelin is left behind in her wedding. While trying to get over this bad experience, she comes across a fortuneteller who tells her that the only way she could get rid of her pain is by asking for forgiveness from the guy whose heart she has broken. She and her friends start to search for this guy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy
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Wild at Heart (2013)
Plot Summary:
Corazón indomable is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is a remake of Marimar, produced in 1994, and starring Thalía and Eduardo Capetillo. Ana Brenda Contreras and Daniel Arenas star as the protagonists, while Ingrid Martz, Elizabeth Álvarez, Carlos de la Mota and René Strickler star as the antagonists.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: novela, romantic, captivating, entertaining, telenovela
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Wonderful Life (2005)
Plot Summary:
Han Seung Wan and Jung Se Jin bumps into each other at the airport and accidentally take each other's passports. They meet again and Seung Wan and Se Jin end up spending the day together. Both having to deal with love complications, they end up drunk and having a one night stand. Back in Korea, Se Jin discovers she is pregnant and leaves to have the baby alone. A year later, Se Jin's clueless sister ends up spilling the secret to Seung-Wan at his engagement party, showing up with his baby daughter. Seung-wan and Se Jin are then forced to marry by their respective families. Complicated love takes place between Do Hyun, Se Jin, Chae Young and Seung-Wan. The rest of the story revolves around the family's journey in learning to take responsibility, and learning to love each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, romantic, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, dorama, novela
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My Girl (2005)
Plot Summary:
Gong Chan is the wealthy, unattached heir to a large company. Having lost both his parents, he is devoted to what remains of his family, particularly his ailing grandfather. After deciding to cut off his only daughter after disapproving of her marriage, the old man is plagued with guilt since the couple was killed soon after he lost touch. By chance, Gong Chan meets a woman who resembles his lost aunt and is inspired to use her to fulfill his grandfather's last wish. The woman, Yoo Rin is the daughter of a compulsive gambler and is constantly on the run, so when Gong Chan offers her this opportunity, she cannot afford to refuse. After Yoo Rin moves in with the family, Gong Chan finds himself drawn to her and a forbidden attraction springs up between them.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, light, humorous, sweet, captivating, novela
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Sweet Stranger and Me (2016)
Plot Summary:
Hong Na-Ri works as a flight attendant. Her mother passed away 3 years ago and she doesn't have any other immediate family members. Hong Na-Ri returns to her hometown to visit her mother's grave during her death anniversary. There, she sees a young man at her mother's grave. The man, Go Nan-Gil, introduces himself as her father. Before Hong Na-Ri's mother died, she married Go Nan-Gil. He now lives at her mother's house and runs the small dumpling restaurant that her mother ran.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining