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Plot Summary:
This telenovela is full of secrets. The plot releases love stories, hate, friendship, revenge, friendship, hate and many surprises. The exciting story of Flame of Life shows a love growing interest started in two childhood friends who haven’t seen each other for many years and are bring back together in a tragic moment.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: surprise ending, soap opera, novela, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, psychotronic, telenovela
Best tv shows and movies like Flames of Life (2008):
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Empire (2014)
Plot Summary:
José Alfredo is a man of humble origins who has always strived to do his best and spent his life building an empire. When he is still young, he suffers from a broken heart and from then on, he begins to take advantage of the people and opportunities he encounters. In a twist of fate, José Alfredo finds himself in the midst of the black market for precious stones and becomes a diamond smuggler. In Switzerland, he meets Maria Marta who comes from a traditional but bankrupt family and the two unite forces in a marriage of interests.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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Missing (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Altamira family celebrate Mariuno's birthday. Elisa and her cousins ask for permission to go dancing at a new club in town.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: suspense, novela, scary, rough, sinister, exciting, telenovela
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Passione (2010)
Plot Summary:
The rough efforts of an ambitious young woman of poor origin, a she enters the life of an Italian man, son of a wealthy Brazilian family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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The Favorite (2008)
Plot Summary:
A Favorita is a telenovela, first broadcast in Brazil at Rede Globo from June 2, 2008 to January 17, 2009. A Favorita storylines examine two friends, Donatela and Flora, who became rivals. One of them committed a crime and is lying, so there are two versions of the same story. The series was originally screened as six episodes per week, from Monday to Saturday, with an average running time of one hour. Created by writer João Emanuel Carneiro, A Favorita has remained significant in terms of Globo's success and audience share, and also in Brazilian television drama history, tackling many controversial and taboo issues previously unseen on mainstream television in Brazil. It made history for being the first telenovela where the public did not know who was the villain and who was telling the truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, surprise ending, twisted, telenovela
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Burning for Revenge (2008)
Plot Summary:
Fuego en la sangre is a telenovela that began transmissions on January 21, 2008, through Mexico's Canal de las Estrellas network. Starring Adela Noriega, Eduardo Yáñez, Diana Bracho, and Guillermo García Cantú. It is the Mexican remake of the Colombian soap operas Las Aguas Mansas and Pasion de Gavilanes. The theme song called "Para Siempre" is sung by Vicente Fernández. The telenovela received TVyNovelas Award for Best Telenovela, in 2009.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Action, Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, suspenseful, soap opera, novela, telenovela, period drama
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Stepmother (2005)
Plot Summary:
La Madrastra is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced by Televisa and broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas in Mexico from 7 February 2005 through 29 July 2005. The program became an unexpected success, garnering ratings in excess of 30 points. Starring Victoria Ruffo and César Évora, who last appeared together in 2000's Abrázame muy fuerte, La madrastra tells the story of María, a woman who lost twenty years of her life after being falsely accused of murder and who returns to Mexico to exact revenge on her husband and friends who abandoned her and to see her beloved children once more. La Madrastra is fourth in a series of remakes of the 1981 Chilean production of the same name. The program aired five nights a week, Monday through Friday, at 9 pm for 25 weeks. A follow-up special, La madrastra: años después, aired shortly after the finale on 30 July 2005.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, suspense, hispanic, telenovela
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Trail of Lies (2013)
Plot Summary:
Trail of Lies is a story of love and ambition centered on Paloma (Paolla Oliveira), who lives in conflict with her family. Secretly adopted, she learns the truth from her conniving brother Félix (Mateus Solano), who wishes to eliminate her at any cost in order to become sole heir to the fortune of their parents, doctors who own a hospital. The revelation comes during a trip to the astonishing historic cities of Peru, where Paloma falls in love with the adventurous Ninho (Juliano Cazarré).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, sincere, captivating, humorous, disturbing, telenovela
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Dark Days (2017)
Plot Summary:
The plot brings fiction and reality together to show how a country's political context affects the lives, dreams and paths of ordinary people.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 37 min
Plot tags: psychological, novela, tense, sentimental, sexy, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative
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Celebrity (2003)
Plot Summary:
A successful businesswoman in the music industry sees her life fall apart after a young and mysterious woman starts work as her secretary. The scheming girl is totally obsessed by the famous businesswoman and she tries to steal everything from her, including her career.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, romantic, captivating, suspense, telenovela
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Rules of the Game (2015)
Plot Summary:
Discussing the limits between good and bad, the plot is set in Rio de Janeiro and tells the story of Romero Rômulo (Alexandre Nero), an ex-politician that has a life less obvious then it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, telenovela
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Come and Hug Me (2018)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman who are emotionally scarred due to a murder case that took place in their past has their fates intertwined. Together, they try to overcome the inevitable challenges that life throws at them.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, dorama, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, romantic drama, detective, contemplative
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Return (2018)
Plot Summary:
Choi Ja-Hye is a lawyer and Dokgo Young is a detective with a hot temper. They work together on a murder case where the suspects are children from the elite class.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Broken Angel (2013)
Plot Summary:
Santa Diabla is the story of Santa Martínez, a woman who seeks revenge for the murder of her husband Willy Delgado.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, tense, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, novela, telenovela
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The Debut (2021)
Plot Summary:
Fame decides to audition for the famous idol group "Newtype" to find the truth about the death of her sister Farn, a former member of the group. She need to change herself from a rock girl to fit into Newtype, with the help of Kla. Her investigation led her to witness that many members of the group have violated their own rules. This entire experience also created a conflict with her rocker boyfriend Ble, who does not like the fact that they are in a secret relationship What will Fame do? And what will she choose between her relationship and finding out the truth?.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Innocent (2017)
Plot Summary:
Cevdet, a retired commissioner, and his wife spend their pensions in peace on a farm away from the city. Suddenly the life of the family is destroyed by the sudden arrival of a terrible news from the little son.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective, psychological thriller, surprise ending
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Siren's Song (2013)
Plot Summary:
The mystery surrounding the murder of a seductive and ambitious axé performer during one of her concerts.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, tense, intellectual, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Party (2014)
Plot Summary:
A huge party with guests who are hiding secrets and desires ends with a body floating in the pool: a murder where everyone is a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, novela
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DNA (2019)
Plot Summary:
Five years after his daughter disappeared, a mistake in the National Police's DNA register makes it possible for the officer Rolf to finally find out what happened to her.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, France
Duration: 321 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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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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A Time to Love (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 1927, the urgent and relentless love of Maria Vitória and Inácio is interrupted by the young man's decision to cross the Atlantic in search of work, and his promise to return. Pregnant, Maria Vitória faces the wrath of her father, who decides to send her to a convent while the baby goes for adoption. Filled with courage, she goes after Inácio, hoping that together they could get their daughter back, but the couple ends up following different paths and living new love stories. They will have to face personal obstacles and the deranged jealousy of Inácio's intended until the inevitable moment of their reencounter in this classic story of growth and the immeasurable force of love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, romantic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, soap opera, entertaining, telenovela
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Happily Ever After? (2015)
Plot Summary:
How far would you go to have your desires fulfilled? Directed by Fernando Meirelles, Happily Ever After? tells the story of a couple in crisis. When the mysterious call girl Danny Bond comes on the scene, a crime of passion changes forever the lives of all involved. Who will the victim be? And the villain? After all, in a story so full of secrets and infidelity, who can get away with it to live happily ever after?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, novela
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The Long Night (2020)
Plot Summary:
It was an open shut case with hundred of witnesses seeing the murder suspect trying to dispose of a body and a signed confession from the suspect himself. And yet when the case was ready for court, the prosecutor discovered that the case was not as it appeared. The murder was but a cover for another more shocking injustice. He spent ten years trying to uncover the truth, toiling away his youth, his career, his reputation, his family, and even his life.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 900
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Dark Woods (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1989, the sister of Hamburg's LKA chief Thomas Bethge disappears without a trace. For almost three decades, he investigates the mysterious criminal case, before he gets on the trail of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Murders in Rochefort (2019)
Plot Summary:
Police captains Emma and Adrien look for a killer who would use a silver bullet… on multiple victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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The Lawyer (2018)
Plot Summary:
Frank Nordling is a young and exceptionally promising defense lawyer. When Frank learns the truth behind his parents' death, his whole world unravels. As children, Frank and his sister Sara witnessed their parents die in an explosion caused by a car bomb. As Frank finds out, they were murdered by one of the leaders in Copenhagen's criminal underworld, Thomas Waldman. In order to avenge his parents Frank must infiltrate Waldman's organization and become his personal lawyer and trusted confidant. To avoid putting those close to him in danger, Frank has to keep up appearances and play the game. But can he handle it? Is it worth the price? And who's really tricking whom?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, France, Finland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Zekkyo (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman’s dead body is found in an apartment in Kokubunji, Tokyo. The decayed body seems like a half year has passed since its death and it is damaged by domestic cats that ate the body. The woman's death is thought to be a "lonely death" (someone died naturally without anyone noticing for a long period of time). Detective Ayano has doubts about that conclusion. The cats seemed like they were not house trained, which is odd for domestic cats. Detective Ayano wonders whether the cats were really owned by the dead woman. Detective Ayano then finds Suzuki Yoko’s bankbook in an empty fishbowl. It seems like the dead woman is 36-year-old Yoko.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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Capitani (2019)
Plot Summary:
The body of a teenage girl is found in the forest near the rural village of Manscheid, deep in the North of Luxembourg. Luc Capitani, a gruff detective from the South of the country, is put in charge of the case. Having trouble navigating the closed, communal and protective mentality of the northerners, Capitani finds himself unwillingly dependent on the help of Elsa Ley, a young and intrepid local policewoman. The officers quickly find themselves entangled in a web of secrets and lies.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg
Duration: 312 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
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Crimson Wedding (2018)
Plot Summary:
There is a party atmosphere in Provence: Sandra, the daughter of a couple of renowned local restaurant owners, is getting married, and her sister Alice comes home for the occasion. The family reunion is initially a carefree affair… but then tragedy strikes. A few hours after the ceremony, the bride is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. What at first looks like suicide could well be murder. When Vincent, a family friend, investigates, behind the veil of appearances, he stumbles on some very dark secrets….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Secretos en el Jardín (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1981 a series of crimes hit the city of Viña del Mar in Chile. Fourteen murders and violations frighten all citizens. Inspector Ramiro Opazo, from the Police Department is the responsible to catch the criminals. But what he doesn't suspect is that not only will he risk his life but also his marriage and heart. Journalist Javier Montes has a perfect life, a wonderful girlfriend and a job he loves. But during the investigation Javier meets Sofía Ventura, the only survivor of the attacks. From that moment on his life changes forever. Ten suspects, three confessions and three death row inmates. A spiral of confusion leads to an impressive execution by a firing squad. In a city that never sleeps, where everyone hides secrets, anyone can be guilty.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, telenovela
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Innocent Days (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sasaki Shinichi looks at his childhood friend Tanaka Yukino in court. Yukino is sentenced to death. She went to her ex-boyfriend’s apartment and caused his wife and child to burn to death. Shinichi knows his childhood friend and perceives that she is innocent. He wants to save Yukino and meets people who knew her including her sister and former classmates. ~~Based on the novel "Innocent Days" by Kazumasa Hayami.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative