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Plot Summary:
Mia Luang is a story about a very wealthy, famous, well-educated, and respected couple. Everyone assumes that they're happily married and live a very good life, while in reality, they have a lot of problems. The problems start with Aniroot, the husband who is a player and has a lot of mistresses. His wife Wiganda is a smart woman who endures his misbehavior and his many women. Among his women, there is only Ornin who seems to openly come in between the couple without shame. Mia Luang literally means Main Wife, while his mistresses are called Mia Noi, literally Small Wife or Minor Wife, in Thai.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
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Mount Royal (1988)
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Mount Royal was a Canadian prime time television soap opera that aired on CTV. It premiered January 3, 1988 with a two-hour episode. The series starred Patrick Bauchau and Domini Blythe. It is said to be Canada's answer to the American soap opera Dynasty.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 52 min
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The Betrayal (2023)
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Dr. Jenphitcha is a successful psychiatrist, a loving wife and mother. Her picture-perfect life is shattered when she suspects her husband Athin of having an affair. As Jane unravel more layers into her devious husband’s secret other life, she is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed with a young college student—Kate. What ensues is a game of cat and mouse with her cheating husband and mistress. She spirals out of control—behaving in ways she never imagined—threatening everyone around her and tearing her family apart.
IMDB Rating: 9.7
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration:
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Lie with Me (2021)
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A British woman and her husband seek a fresh start in Australia after infidelity in their marriage. The couple hire a young nanny, but she isn't the innocent stranger she pretends to be.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
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Crossing Thresholds (2017)
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Main portion of the movie displays an evening out for people from multiple circles having dinner in Charisma restaurant. Many stories are being told by patrons from each table.
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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Partner (2009)
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"Partner" centers around two law firms as they struggle to defend the accused and those around them. Kang Eun-ho, a widowed single mother & attorney, tangles with the charismatic and ruthless attorney Lee Tae-jo. In the first two episodes the attorneys work on cases involving a step-brother chraged with murdering of his step-sister and a lawsuit between a wealthy mother-in-law and her divorced daughter-in-law. Each successive episode will cover provocative cases like these, while also bringing to light the charms of the attorneys and their daily lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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Mi camino es amarte (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Love Matters (1993)
Plot Summary:
Married couple Tom and Julie begin to question the stability of their relationship when an old friend comes to visit... with his latest mistress in tow.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Monarch Cove (2006)
Plot Summary:
Monarch Cove is a prime time telenovela that premiered on Lifetime Television on November 4, 2006. It ran for 14 episodes, ending on December 16, 2006.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic
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Yukionna to Kani wo Kuu (2022)
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A certain summer day, as the cicadas sing loudly. A man with no money and no place to belong tries to end his life, however is unable to take the last step. While wavering between life and death, he sees a gourmet food program on television, and realising he's never once eaten crab in his life decides that "For my last day on this Earth, I'll eat crab". Settings his sights on the wife who lives in a high-class neighbourhood that he happened across in a library, he forces his way into her home. And thus, he demands money from her, however things go in an unexpected direction.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, psychological horror
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Temptation of Wife (2008)
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One night Goo Eun Jae got drunk and Jung Gyo Bin took this opportunity to take advantage of her. Eun Jae and Gyo Bin got married but their marriage is not a very blissful marriage. Eun Jae's best friend, Shin Ae Ri, openly flirts with Gyo Bin in front of Eun Jae. Gyo Bin decided that he did not want to remain married to Eun Jae and tried to kill her. Eun Jae was presumed to have drown and died. Gyo Bin thought he was successful in killing Eun Jae and moved on with Ae Ri. Months later, Eun Jae is back for revenge but she assumes the identity of another woman, Min So Hee, who had killed herself. How will Gyo Bin react to a girl who looks exactly like his presumed dead wife, Eun Jae? Will he be tempted by So Hee?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Machos (2003)
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Set in the city of Viña del Mar, the story focuses on the Mercader family and the conflicts, love and relationships that arise between the patriarch Ángel Mercader and his 7 sons.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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Hatsukoi (2012)
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Midori is a married woman with a happy home life, a child, and a job as a speech therapist. One day, Midori is diagnosed with liver cancer and finds herself face to face with her first love; a man whose betrayal had left her deeply scarred. They are forced to put their past aside and work together to save her life.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
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Anglo Saxon Attitudes (1992)
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Three part miniseries about Gerald Middleton, an aging historian, who reflects on his youth, relationships (especially the one with his best friend's girl), career (shadowed by a scandal), and current issues, like his marriage and kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 229 min
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My Night with Reg (1997)
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A group of English gay men get together to reminisce. They are all coming from a wake for one of their circle who's died of AIDS. It's that terrifying time between the outbreak of AIDS and the development of an AIDS test and as the conversation unfolds it becomes apparent that each man there has had unprotected sex with the deceased.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Plastic Man (1999)
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A seemingly happily married, successful plastic surgeon embarks on a torrid affair with tragic consequences for his marriage and those close to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
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A Married Man (1983)
Plot Summary:
British television movie in which a married lawyer's excursion into adultery leads to murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 240 min
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I Have a Lover (2015)
Plot Summary:
A woman who lost her memory falls in love with the husband she despised.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: tense, light, touching, captivating, visually appealing
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The Scarlet Letter (1979)
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In the 17th century Massachusetts, a married women, whose husband is missing, has a child with the local pastor. The puritanical residents of her town condemn her to carry the Scarlet Letter of shame. Then the husband shows up.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Fall Into Temptation (2017)
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Raquel and Damián are happily married with two children. Destiny leads Damián to meet Carolina and feels an undeniable attraction towards her. Damián did not know that Carolina was already married to Santiago Álvarado, a construction architect with whom she has two children. When Raquel drops off her son Fede at school, she accidentally backs her car to Santiago's truck, and they realize that their sons know each other. Raquel volunteers to pay for the damages but Santiago refuses. Raquel insists and goes to the Álvarado home with Damián. The two couples become great friends. But the desire between Damián and Carolina is stronger than their marriage commitment and both decide to deceive to their spouses. Damián and Carolina have a terrible car accident. Rescuers only find a seriously injured Damián, and Carolina has mysteriously disappeared from the scene. During the investigation by the police, Raquel and Santiago learn that their spouses are lovers.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, telenovela
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Deniz Inside My Heart (2016)
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Deniz has everything a woman can ask for. But when her husband disappeared no trace, this happy life changes. Deniz, who is in a desperate state with her two children and her father, meets Mirat who will be a lover and be a life-saver.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Bitter Tropics (2007)
Plot Summary:
In late 18th-century Martinique, a plantation owner, his irresponsible young aristocratic wife and his beautiful black mistress are drawn into a spiral of violence that reflects all the horror and inhumanity of the perverse relations between masters and slaves.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 312 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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War and Beauty (2004)
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Fifteen years after Qing Emperor Jiaqing was crowned the country appears to be in harmony. However, fights between the imperial concubines escalate. All the imperial concubines including the emperor's beloved Yu-Yue understand this and becomes nervous when the triennial imperial concubine election approaches. Yu-Yue's position is threatened by an imperial descendant, Yuk-ying, a powerful eunuch's adopted daughter, Yi-Sun, and an experienced imperial servant maid On-Seen. They are friends and enemies in the war for the emperor's love. The four beautiful women are either friends or lovers of an imperial physician Sun Bak Yeung and a trooper Kong-Wu. Plots and lies undermine their love and friendships in the palace.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: costume drama, captivating
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Hospital at the End of the City (1977)
Plot Summary:
Hospital at the End of the City is a popular television series first released in Czechoslovakia in 1977, it featured an ensemble cast and received much viewer praise in central Europe. The series ran from 1977 to 1981 for a total of twenty episodes. The success of the series inspired the German television series The Black Forest Clinic.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 60 min
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Mistresses (2008)
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Follows the lives of four female friends and their involvement in an array of marital and extramarital relationships.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, serious, touching, witty, sensual, realistic
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Obsessed with a Married Woman (1985)
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Jane Seymour makes a six-course meal of her starring role as a magazine editor in Obsessed With a Married Woman--indeed, her performance is the only tangible reason for sitting through this artistically bankrupt TV movie. The story contrives to have Seymour, happily married and the mother of a wise-lipped son, fall into the sack with her star reporter Tim Matheson. It seems that Jane has assigned Matheson to do a series of articles on mistresses. He does his homework so well that Jane takes him on as her own "male mistress.".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
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Red Roses (2006)
Plot Summary:
Rote Rosen is a German telenovela produced by Studio Hamburg Serienwerft Lüneburg and broadcast by Das Erste since November 6, 2006. The show is a complex telenovela, who tells one love story every season about women in their forties.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, serious, telenovela
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The Slap (2015)
Plot Summary:
A family drama that explodes from one small incident where a man slaps another couple's misbehaving child. This seemingly minor domestic dispute pulls the family apart, exposes long-held secrets, and ignites a lawsuit that challenges the core values of all who are pulled into it.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating
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Family Practice (2018)
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Simon has a love-hate relationship with his father. When his parents go on holiday, Simon initiates a seductive game of cat-and-mouse with his father’s mistress and gets disastrously tangled up in the sticky family network.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dramatic, psychological, serious, suspenseful
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Double Fantasy (2018)
Plot Summary:
Natsu Takato is a 35-year-old popular screenwriter. She lives with her husband Shogo in the outskirts of Saitama. Shogo used to work as a TV station director, but he now supports Natsu by doing housework and working as her business manager. Natsu doesn't have a lot to complain about in her life, but she has a strong sexual desire that she cannot suppress. She spends nights with theater director Shizawa. Meanwhile, Natsu Takato senses her husband interfering with her script and trying to control her. Natsu Takato leaves her home and begins to live alone in Tokyo. She gets involved with two men.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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You Taught Me All the Precious Things (2011)
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Shuji is a young teacher whose confidence and honesty has made him popular with the students. He is engaged to Natsumi, also a teacher at the same high school. At the morning of the new semester, Shuji wakes up with a hangover and no memory of the night before, and a strange young woman in his bed. He feels terrible about possibility of having cheated on his fiancée, but when it turns out the girl is a student in his class Shuji is wrecked with guilt. Things go from bad to worse when the girl, Hikari, makes it clear that she's in love with him and wants to break him and Natsumi apart. Shuji's honest nature makes him want to come clean to everyone about what has happened, but before he has the chance, the secret is out. As his life starts crumbling around him, Shuji still decides to try and save Hikari from herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing