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Goodbye Dear Wife is a 2012 South Korean television series, starring Ryu Si-won, Hong Soo-hyun and Park Ji-yeon. It aired on Channel A from May 7 to July 10, 2012 at 20:50 for 20 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
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Closer to Home (1995)
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Closer to Home weaves a universal, haunting tale of two people inexorably drawn together for vastly different reasons. Dalisay struggles to journey from the Philippine countryside to New York City to marry Dean, a disillusioned ex-merchant marine. She's hoping to buy a cure for her dying sister and, ultimately, a future for her debt-ridden family, while he hopes to escape his disintegrating American family through love and a family of his own. A powerful, controversial film that quietly builds to a shattering collision of aspirations and cultures.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Poisoned Love (2020)
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The story revolves a dubbing genius Fang Yan, who suffers from sleepwalking due to a trauma; and a film producer Shi Meng. Shi Meng helps Fang Yan walk out of her traumatic experience, but Fang Yan recognized the wrong person, and thought his brother Shi Yi was the one who helped her. The three of them grew through misunderstands, and untied the knot in their heart.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: China
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Half Bright and Half Rain (2019)
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When a newspaper intern meets a craftsman, she unintentionally discovers a world full of bizarre oddities. One thousand years in the past, humans, spirits, and demons lived under the same blue sky. Qian Xun is a newspaper intern who returns to her hometown after graduating from college. By chance, she encounters the mysterious Su Mingmou, a craftsman, and Jun Wanglian, a jade spirit. The extraordinary events that follow awaken a memory from her past, a memory that she did not know existed. In this story, every blade of grass, every tree, every drop of sand and every rock has been infused with love under the careful attention of an extraordinary craftsman. They come to life as spirits that embody their master's life's work. They are kind, helpful to humans and continue to live through objects even after their master's death while those that harbor evil intentions evolve into demons.
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Genere: Drama
Country: China
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Indu (2021)
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Huge mansions have heinous secrets. As clandestine family ties, scandals and uncanny deaths spiral around the dark hallways of Indu's home, she leaves no stone unturned to untangle the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration:
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Coffee House (2010)
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Coffee House is a 2010 South Korean television series starring Kang Ji-hwan, Park Si-yeon, Ham Eun-jung, and Jung Woong-in. It aired on SBS from May 17 to July 27, 2010 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 20:45 for 18 episodes. The early working title was Page One.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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Queen of the Game (2006)
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《게임의 여왕》은 2006년 11월 18일부터 2007년 1월 28일까지 20부작으로 방영된 SBS의 텔레비전 드라마이다.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
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Glass Mask (2012)
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Fate brings together two sisters who share a tragic start to their lives under one household.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: novela
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Rishta.com (2010)
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Rishta.com is an Indian television series which broadcast on Sony Entertainment Television on January 3, 2010. The show is produced by Indian producers Aditya Chopra and Yash Chopra of Yash Raj Films under their new production house name YRF Televisions. The show has been conceived, written and directed by Rishab Seth. It aired Sunday nights.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 45 min
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Three Bold Siblings (2022)
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The K-eldest-son and K-eldest-daughter meet while sacrificing themselves in search of happiness and love.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
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No Regrets In Life (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 60 min
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The Brightest Star in the Sky (2019)
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Star Entertainment is the top entertainment agency in China. It was set up by a couple, Cheng Tian Hao and Du Wan Qing, who eventually separated due to differing beliefs in managing the company. Yang Zhen Zhen is an aspiring young girl with a passion for music. She joined Starry Sky Entertainment and was assigned as Zheng Bo Xu's assistant. Bo Xu is a popular idol who is arrogant and unruly. With the help of Zhen Zhen, who helped him correct his flaws and unleash his potential, Bo Xu slowly transforms into a talented singer. In the process, Zhen Zhen also gains experience and becomes a capable idol manager. At the same time, Du Wan Qing is also grooming a singer, Yu Zi Rui, who shapes up to become Bo Xu's biggest competitor yet.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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The Wonder Woman (2020)
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An ace in the world of marketing, Du Ai Sha has spent her entire career fighting her way to the top. Setting her eyes on the goals ahead, she is known for her fierce tenacity and unwavering determination. Never allowing herself to be sidetracked by anything that might come her way, Ai Sha uses whatever means necessary to get the job done.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
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Come Home (2018)
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Greg and Marie have been married for nineteen years, when, seemingly out of the blue, Marie walks out on him and her three children – the last taboo of parenting.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
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Me Too - Hidden Truth (2018)
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Campus couple Tae-ho and Eun-seo join the same graudate school to sit in lectures for the most powerful person in Korean journalism, Lee Hee-hyun. On the first day of school, Lee Hee-hyun takes a liking to pretty and smart Eun-seo and uses his authority to try and seduce her, but fails. Hye-jin realizes what the professor is trying to do and spends a night with him, getting herself to the syposium. Eun-seo questions the result and asks Lee Hee-hyun for an explanation. He asks her for physical pleasure and Eun-seo is just confused.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min
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Modern Marriage (2022)
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A story that follows a full-time mom reentering the workforce and the adjustments that she and her family have to make. Full-time mom Shen Huixing (Bai Baihe) used to be a top student at a top university. After marriage, she has chosen to put her talents towards running the family. Her husband Sheng Jiangchuan (Tong Dawei) is extremely busy at work. He barely has any time for them which is why all the responsibilities have fallen on Shen Huixing's shoulder.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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Beautiful Secret (2015)
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Twenty years ago, singer Wang Xuan spent all her savings trying to treat the illness of her daughter, but to no avail. In the end, she had to give her up for adoption, while hiding the truth from the world. Jiang Mei Li was adopted by Jiang Wei Guo and his wife, and suffers from amnesia after contracting a high fever. Unable to find her daughter, Wang Xuan decided to put all her love into her step daughter Xu Rou Lin. Twenty years later, Ruo Lin enters a singing competition to win back her ex-boyfriends, producer Guan Yi. While coming out to support her sister Jiang Mei Yan, Jiang Mei Li ends up being a competitor in the same competition. During the course of the competition, complicated relationships between love interests and family occur.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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My Cuteness Is About to Expire!? (2022)
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The story features two people who experience their first love late in life. Maruya Kosuke is a 29-year-old employee in the sales department of his family's brewery. Thanks to his good looks he was always popular, receiving many love confessions from women since his youth. However, he experiences a rude awakening the moment he realizes his cuteness has an expiry date. Sanada Izumi is a researcher at the brewery. Past experiences have led her to believe she is inferior to others.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
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Le Jun Kai (2013)
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A man lives his life trying to foster a hatred for his enemy and devising ways to seek revenge. Le Jun Kai decides to marry his enemy's daughter, Ye Zi, and then proceeds to mistreat her and make her life as miserable as possible. But his master plan gets complicated when he falls in love with his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 17 min
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You Complete Me (2020)
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Gao Shan is a dangerous lover scheming revenge for the sake of his father. Lin Wo is his girlfriend with high IQ. Was their meeting due to an ulterior motive or an uncontrollable romance? Gao Shan's father went bankrupt during the 1990's after Qin Sheng Sheng withdrew investment in his company at the most critical moment.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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Eish Ayamak (2004)
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 1350 min
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Best Lover (2016)
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Best Couple's background is set in modern day Korean entertainment industry. The story is about two top stars entering into a fake marriage with their own secret agendas, and through their efforts to defend their fake marriage in public, they learn about about each other's pains and weaknesses and eventually end up together. The male lead comes from a poor background and through hard work becomes a top star. He finds himself emotionally involved with his first love, fake wife and admirer. The female lead comes from a chaebol family and is an arrogant top star. She is neglected by her parents and due to a family feud/conspiracy, she must act strong in order to survive even though she is weak at times. Through a fake marriage, these two people find true love and their true selves.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, China
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: dorama
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My Lecturer, My Husband (2020)
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Inggit's life is perfect with her 5 best friends, a lover named Tristan, and the love of her parents in Jogja. This perfection was reversed when Mr. Inggit was sick and matched him with Mr. Arya.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 40 min
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Married with Senior (2022)
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Mika and Angkasa suddenly got matched by their parents. At school, Angkasa is Mika's senior who has different traits and hates each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration:
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Daam (2010)
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Zara Hidayatullah and Maleeha Sami were two close friends for a span of seven years. Zara belongs to a lower-middle-class family while Maleeha comes from an upper class household. Yet their class difference did not threaten their unbreakable bond. Maleeha had been there for her friend through many hardships, but she never really felt the extent of anguish which plagued Zara's life.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Pakistan
Duration:
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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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Cinderella Man (2009)
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When brash, street-smart orphan Oh Dae San, who makes his living copying designer fashions, and the apathetic grandson of the fashion empire Lee Joon Hee meet by chance one day, the two men realize that they look exactly alike and in that, they see a chance to set each other free.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Angel Eyes (2014)
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Yoon Soo-wan and Park Dong-joo were each other's first loves, but were forced to separate due to painful family circumstances. Soo-wan, who had been blind, eventually undergoes an eye transplant surgery that restores her sight. Twelve years later, Soo-wan now works as an emergency rescue worker, while Dong-joo is a surgeon. They meet each other again. But Soo Wan is engaged to a Neurosurgeon, Kang Ji Woon. Knowing this, Park Dong Joo decided to keep quiet and not reveal his identity to Soo Wan and also decided to go back. Will Soo Wan realize that Doctor Dylan Park is her first love, Park Dong Joo? Will they end up together despite all the obstacles that they are going to face?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, disturbing, dorama, novela
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Temptation of an Angel (2009)
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Joo Ah-Ran and Shin Hyun-Woo have an elaborate wedding at a luxurious hotel. Shin Hyun-Woo sincerely loves Joo Ah-Ran, but Joo Ah-Ran has ulterior motives for the marriage. Joo Ah-Rans family was destroyed by Shin Hyun-Woo's parents and, because of this, she is marrying Shin Hyun-Woo in a secret plan to exact revenge.Sometime after their marriage, Shin Hyun-Woo is involved in a horrible car accident, leaving him in a coma. Once Shin Hyun-Woo awakes from his coma he learns of Joo Ah-Ran's revenge plot and then sets out on his own path for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, dorama
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That Winter, the Wind Blows (2013)
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Circumstances condemn Oh Soo and Oh Young to loveless lives. After the untimely death of his first love, Oh Soo turns to an ambitionless life as a derelict gambler. The gorgeous Oh Young should be leading the perfect life as an heiress, but when her parents’ divorce crumbles the family, she faces the reality of living life alone—particularly in light of her increasingly impaired vision. When these two heavy souls cross paths, fate delivers a chance meeting that will change their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: dorama, psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic, suspenseful, romantic drama
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Swallow the Sun (2009)
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Jung-woo was abandoned by his birth parents when he was a baby and became friends with Soo-hyun, who became his sweetheart. After rescuing Chairman Jang, he is adopted by him and becomes a bodyguard to the chairman’s son. Jung-woo is reunited with Soo-hyun at Tae-hyuk’s school but even though Soo-hyun loves him, she chooses Tae-hyuk who offers to help her achieve her dream career. So both Tae-hyuk and Soo-hyun go to USA for their studies. Jung-woo is eventually betrayed by Chairman Jang but he is called to Las Vegas by Jackson Lee, a military buddy, who offers him an opportunity to rebuild his life. In Las Vegas, Jung-woo meets Soo-hyun and Tae-hyuk by coincidence. In his line of work as a private bodyguard, Jung-woo saves the life of the king of a small African nation and is asked by the king to rescue his son from the rebels in return for rights to a diamond mine. So Jung-woo heads to Africa, risking his life to claim the mine. Meanwhile, Tae-hyuk and Soo-hyun return to Seogwipo city on Jeju island at Chairman Jang’s request. Tae-hyuk is put in charge of managing a hotel there while Soo-hyun becomes the head of event planning. After gaining control of the diamond mine in African, Jung-woo returns to Jeju and engages in a struggle against chairman Jang and Tae-hyuk… He learns a shocking secret that shakes the foundation of his very existence.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing