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Plot Summary:
Ruby is a woman who wants to be loved but can't seem to find the right man. She loses faith in love but then meets Derek. With him, she learns to appreciate herself and those people that are important to her and begins to have faith in love again.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
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Step Dave (2014)
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Dave, a 24-year-old ordinary kiwi slacker, finds his life turned upside down when he meets the girl of his dreams Cara - and her three kids. Step Dave is a light-hearted, feel-good family drama which demonstrates one of the realities of modern life that families come in all different shapes and sizes.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 43 min
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Tokyo Juliet (2006)
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Tokyo Juliet is a 2006 Taiwanese drama starring Ariel Lin, Wu Chun of Fahrenheit and Simon Yam. It is based on Japanese manga series Tokyo Juliet, 東京ジュリエット, written by Miyuki Kitagawa. It was produced by Comic Productions and directed by Mingtai Wang. It was broadcast on cable TV Gala Television Variety Show/CH 28 on 3 June 2006 to 23 September 2006. At the time the drama was filmed, Wu Chun was a relatively new actor and spoke unsatisfactory Mandarin, so producers had his voice dubbed over by Julian Yang.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 70 min
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The Perfect Match (2017)
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What do netizens know? Ting En (Chris Wu) is a celebrated chef whose fine-dining restaurant is a destination for food lovers from all over the world. When Ting En stumbles upon comments on the Internet from people who can’t afford to eat at his high-priced restaurant, they blow his mind. Netizens claim that the culinary creations made by Fen Qing (Ivy Shao) at the night market are just as satisfying as Ting En’s Michelin-worthy food. Determined to debunk such preposterous claims, Ting En goes to the night market to find Fen Qing and show her what true culinary talent really is. Whose cuisine will reign supreme? “The Perfect Match” is a 2017 Taiwanese drama series.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
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Dear Mom (2014)
Plot Summary:
Feng-Yi (Hsueh-Feng Lu) is a self-sacrificing mother who works tirelessly to support her four grown daughters in their life endeavors.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 50 min
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Oops! Mr.Superstar Hit on Me (2022)
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40-year-old Ton Narubase is a very popular celebrity, dubbed as "The Heart of Asia" and draped in fame and admiration even to this day. He is also Cake's mum's most favourite star. So when Cake gets a job as an intern in his entertainment company, Cake's mum makes a point to ask her daughter to get an autograph from her idol. But how does Cake go from getting an autograph for her mum to waking up the next morning, naked and in bed with her mum's idol? Can loving someone who is not only 20 years older than you but also a bigshot celebrity, actually work out?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration:
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Drama Go Go Go (2012)
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Drama Go Go Go is a 2012 Chinese romance drama produced by Ruby Lin and directed by Deng An Ning. It stars Ruby Lin, Jiro Wang and Lin Gengxin as the main characters. Shooting started on 10 October 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan and It was first aired on Hunan Satellite TV on 3 November 2012.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration:
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Shining Like You (2021)
Plot Summary:
Story of a girl named Lu Qi Yi, who bravely works toward her dreams of entering the entertainment industry and transforms into a confident person.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Romance
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
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It Was Sudden, Like a Storm (2004)
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Kozue Ogawa is a housewife and has been married to Hideo for seven years. They don't have any children, but as they live with her parents at their flower shop, every day is still lively. She is happy with her life and her husband, but she wonders if it is enough. From time to time, she is gripped by this doubt that she cannot raise with anyone. Kozue starts a part-time job in the editing department of the magazine where she used to work. Her former colleague is now working hard as the editor-in-chief. One rainy day, Kozue meets a young man. He is Takuma Fukazawa, a high school student. He seems somehow shrouded in sadness. He is a dance teacher. In the dance studio, there is just the two of them. Takuma curls his hands around Kozue's body, and his dance instruction begins. Their unexpected closeness causes Kozue to hesitate. With her heart pounding, she pushes Takuma's hands away and runs home. But the throbbing in her chest continues. It can't be. But what is this feeling?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Winter Sakura (2011)
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"Fuyu no Sakura" is described as a pure love story with similarities to the popular Korean drama "Winter Sonata" (titled "Fuyu no Sonata" in Japan). Kusanagi plays a gentle glass craftsman in Yamagata who has no experience in love. Imai plays an older housewife with a husband and daughter who goes on a trip alone to Yamagata, hoping to see sakura trees blooming in winter. She gets into an accident, but is saved by Kusanagi. He ends up tending to her, and the two are soon drawn to each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
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Falling Into You (2022)
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Duan Yucheng is a high-spirited young man who loves high jump but is limited by his height, met his talent scout, the experienced athletics assistant Luo Na. In order to get more professional guidance and help, Duan Yucheng made every effort to enroll at the university where Luo Na coaches, and became a member of Luo Na's team, started to pursue his dream of high jumping. Pursuing dream is a very cruel thing, you have to experience injuries, failures, and loneliness that none can understand. But pursuing dream is also very sweet, because every bit of joy of improvement can transcend the pain of the body and the doubts of others. Starting from the school-level competition, then to the municipal, provincial, National University Games, and the National Athletics Championships, Duan Yucheng climbed step by step. No matter how far he goes, there is only one thing that will never change - the blazing track is his only belief.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: China
Duration:
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She and Her Perfect Husband (2022)
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Elite lawyer Qin Shi and resident homebody Yang Hua who got "married" for their own purposes unexpectedly find true love in each other. Together, they walk hand in hand towards a happy and fruitful life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Find Yourself (2020)
Plot Summary:
A determined entrepreneur navigates a love triangle between a young charmer and an older executive, leading her down an unconventional path to love.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, feel good, semi serious, dorama, scenic
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The Last Cinderella (2013)
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Sakura is a single 39-year-old woman who works as the assistant manager at a beauty salon. She spends her days making her customers look beautiful but doesn’t pay much attention to her own appearance. All of that changes when she goes to a party and meets Hiroto, a much younger man who is a biker. Will Sakura revel in the attention of the handsome but dangerous Hiroto or notice the constant interest of her hard-talking and hard-drinking salon manager, Rintaro?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, touching, feel good, captivating, sexy, shoujo, romantic comedy
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Love, Timeless (2017)
Plot Summary:
A time traveling romance about a man who gets a second chance to fix his life, but still has no clue what he needs to do.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Lovely Writer (2021)
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Gene, a writer by profession, is one day given a request by his publisher to try his hand at a new type of genre, which is Boys' Love. Accepting this new challenge, Gene writes and publishes a Y novel that is well received and becomes incredibly successful. So successful that it even gets made into a BL drama. This is the story of how Gene, a popular writer, gets deceived by the 20-year-old guy, Nubsib, who comes to audition for the lead role—pretending to be polite and good-natured when he is a wolf in reality through and through.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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Dark Blue and Moonlight (2017)
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Yan Fei has a boyfriend, Jimmy. Hai Qing is still single. When Hai Qing spots Yan Fei at a local swimming pool, he secretly takes a picture of the pretty young man. Through a series of unfortunate events the two end up talking to each other and Yan Fei decides to give Hai Qing his number, hoping theywould meet again—the chemistry between them is instantaneous. But as chance or fate would have it, Hai Qing drops his phone in the swimming pool and he never gets the chance to call Yan Fei. Not long after, Hai Qing meets Ping Jun and the two start dating. However, this is only the beginning. Hai Qing can't forget Yan Fei. And Yan Fei can't forget him either.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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To the Dearest Intruder (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sometimes best friends like all the same things. But what happens when one of those things is the same man? The friendship of two college friends – Jia-en and Shao-qing – falls apart when they fall in love with the same man, Yan Hao. After a devastating family accident, it seems there is a resolution in the love triangle; Jia-an and Yan Hao get married. But ten years later, when they reunite once more, Yan Hao realizes that he is with the wrong woman and tries to make things right.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dorama, captivating, disturbing
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The Diary of the 38-year-old Divorcee who has tried a Dating App (2020)
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Matsumoto Chiaki is a 38-year-old woman who got married at 24 and divorced at 35. As she's almost 40, she decides to try a dating app and meet various types of men to recover the youth she lost from her early marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, emotional, melancholic, talky
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My Goddess (2018)
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Yan Dong Ming used to be on the top of his career, a well-established music producer that's known for his love songs. However, the public has now completely lost interest in him. To extend his music dream, he ends up in Yun Hai Village under strange circumstances, a land isolated from the city and there, he met the "Planting Goddess" Tian Li Yun. Yan Dong Ming, a neat freak and a guy that has "city cancer" – obsessed with city living can't get used to the natural habitat of Yun Hai Village. However, under the guidance of Li Yun, not only he fell in love with this self-sufficient cute village, he also fell in love with the strong and determined Li Yun. When faced with the crisis of eradication of the village, will Dong Min choose to stand by Li Yun or will he return to the city and regain his long-lost music dream? How will Plant Goddess Li Yun defend her village and her beloved man?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, touching, talky
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Never Die (2015)
Plot Summary:
200-year-old Min Se Yeon has managed to conceal her immortality, up until she meets Lee Jung Hoon, a social worker she saves from a traffic accident. Despite her wizened age, Se Yeon is fresh, beautiful and forever in her prime, but with immortality comes a price. Can Se Yeon and Jung Hoon defy time in the name of romance?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 10 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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Beauty and the Beast (2014)
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France, late 1700s. Leon Dalville is a prince who has it all - good looks, love and wealth. One mysterious night, however, he loses everything. His young wife passes away in a fire and the prince’s face is permanently marred. To hide his disfigurement, he wears a silver mask that only partially covers his face, turning him into a mysterious and cruel man who is tormented by his past and hated and feared by all. Innocent and naive Bella Dubois comes to Leon’s castle to offer her services as a maid, to pay back the debts her father has with the prince. Leon’s cousin Helene, who has always been in love with him, challenges the prince: he must seduce and abandon Bella. But, despite Helene’s cruel and deceitful tricks, Leon falls in love with Bella.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 190 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, stylized, lyrical, fairy tale, period drama
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I Bought Boyfriend with Loan (2018)
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Tae Ukishima works at the front desk for a company. Her dream is to marry a competent man and live as a housewife. Her boyfriend is Shunpei Shiraishi and he works at the same company. They have dated for the past year. To marry him, Tae Ukishima pretends to act like a naive and shy person in front of him. Her real personality though is to speak frankly and making sharp remarks. Tae Ukishima wants to relieve her stress and she decides to purchase Jun Setsuna as her boyfriend. To pay off his debt, Jun Setsuna becomes an obedient boyfriend to Tae Ukishima.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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I Love You So Much (2012)
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Xia Ledi was an arrogant, self-absorbed socialite before her father's bankruptcy left her penniless. She believed that it happened because his competitor stole "Mona Lisa," a revolutionary makeup technology that his company developed. She vowed to get it back. She went undercover at JEALOUS, the rival company, working as an assistant to Chang Yujie, the heartless operation manager/lead makeup artist. While she focused her investigation on him, her romantic interest wandered to his charming half-brother Chang Shaofeng. But unbeknownst to her, the half-brother was the real culprit behind the theft.
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Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy
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Is this Love Checkmate!? (2018)
Plot Summary:
A love story between a 24-year-old office worker who has neither love experience nor communication skills and a 32-year-old female shōgi player he meets on his daily commute.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Vacation of Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
Around the age of 30, celebrity agent Xu Keyi fights her way in the entertainment industry and gained solid reputation. The day before new year, she brought her artist Gao Junyu to a vacation resort to perform and thinking that her 10-year relationship would reap in a happy ending but sadly it didn't. When she drinks down sorrow at the seaside, Hou Hao, who has been watching and worrying her breaks into her life accidentally. It seems that only Hou Hao, who has a the slow-lived lifestyle, can bring her a new beginning in this unexpected vacation that thwarted her career and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Melancholia (2021)
Plot Summary:
A sexual scandal between a math teacher and a student in a prestigious high school ended in tragedy. 4 years later they meet again, now as adults, to reveal the corruptions in school and to regain one's reputation as a teacher.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Material Queen (2011)
Plot Summary:
Material Queen is a Taiwanese romance drama co-production between Next TV's producer Chen Yu San and CTS. It stars Vanness Wu as the male lead and Lynn Hung as the female lead, it is scheduled to premiere on June 17, 2011 on CTS. The drama was filmed with locations in Taiwan and France.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Younger (2015)
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Based on the novel by Pamela Redmond Satran, "Younger" follows 40-year old Liza, a suddenly single mother who tries to get back into the working world, only to find it’s nearly impossible to start at the bottom at her age. When a chance encounter with a young guy at a bar convinces her she looks younger than she is, Liza tries to pass herself off as 26 – with the help of a makeover, courtesy of her best friend Maggie. Armed with new confidence, she lands a job as an assistant to the temperamental Diana and teams up with her new co-worker and twentysomething Kelsey to make it in the career of her dreams. Now she just has to make sure no one finds out the secret only she and Maggie share.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, captivating, semi serious, light, entertaining, funny, family comedy, light hearted, realistic
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My Queen (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sparks begin to fly when a successful 33-year-old single woman and a 25-year-old romantic with few prospects navigate love and differences.chi.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Baby Faced Beauty (2011)
Plot Summary:
Baby Faced Beauty is a 2011 South Korean television series starring Jang Na-ra, Choi Daniel, Ryu Jin, and Kim Min-seo. It aired on KBS2 from May 2 to July 5, 2011 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes. The drama is about an aspiring 34-year-old fashion designer who fakes her age to get a job in a fashion company. The romantic comedy had kicked off with a viewership rating of around 6 percent, but gradually rose and surpassed the 15 percent mark. Originally slated for 18 episodes, it was extended by 2 more episodes due to its popularity. It ranked number one in its primetime timeslot for five consecutive weeks.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious