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Plot Summary:
Go Ya supports her family by doing part-time work. Her father had an affair and left home 10 years ago. She is now looking for a regular full-time job. Ji Seok is a lawyer who specializes in divorces. He is skeptical about marriage, but after he meets Go Ya and gets close to her, they face a difficult situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, soap opera
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Ask God For Forgiveness... Not Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of Renata Flores del Angel, a young woman from a wealthy family who falls for Pablo Ramos, the foreman of her father's estate.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, soap opera, telenovela
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Dei-te Quase Tudo (2005)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, novela
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XYX (2019)
Plot Summary:
Nikky, Farah, Binny- Three Friends, flatmates, and colleagues. The confusion starts when a question arises about who loves whom? Will they be able to straighten out their friendship or the love triangle that is twisted in all means.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Twelve Nights (2018)
Plot Summary:
Yoo Kyung and and Hyun Oh surprisingly keep bumping into each other over the course of three different trips and end up spending 12 nights together. Could this be just coincidence or something much more?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Miss Mermaid (2002)
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Tree of Heaven (2006)
Plot Summary:
Hana is a bright young girl who lost her father at a young age. When her mother returns to Japan, she comes with her new Korean husband and his son Yunsuh. Yunsuh’s mother died during his 10th birthday and after her death, he becomes autistic. While Hana is fond of her new step-brother, he wants nothing to do with her. When their parents leave on their honeymoon, Hana’s mother leaves the children with her deceased husband’s sister who will manage their inn during the trip. While they are gone, the aunt and her daughter Maya abuse Hana and make plans to sell the inn in order to pay for gambling debts and college. Despite all of this, Hana finds comfort in her brother who begins to open up to her and eventually speaks after his 20th Birthday and the day his mother passed away. Yunsuh's mother died on the same day as he was turning 10, 10 years ago. As they start to have feelings for one another, Hana is afraid to love him. She soon leaves with her "senpai", Fujiwara Ryu, who also likes her. Later on, Maya gets jealous, and decides to make Hana's life even more miserable.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, dorama, soap opera
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Amor dividido (2022)
Plot Summary:
April and Max thought they had a made life, until fate decided to radically change it, to unite them in the midst of loneliness and disappointment. Learn about the importance of love for family and how people can learn from their mistakes to get ahead.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Creating Destiny (2009)
Plot Summary:
Han Sang-eun immigrated to Australia with her family at a young age. After graduating from law school, she announces her plans to marry her American boyfriend Alex, a fellow attorney. But her father is strongly opposed to the match, because he has his heart set on her marrying Kim Yeo-joon, the son of his best friend who lives back in Korea. He orders her to meet the bachelor that they picked out for her before she goes ahead and marries Alex. Sang-eun finds herself exiled to Korea, where she reluctantly teams up with Yeo-joon, who is focused on his career and equally uninterested in marriage, to devise a plan that will allow them to avoid their impending wedlock.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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The Scent of Passion (2021)
Plot Summary:
Every year, Gaviota and her mother arrive at Hacienda Casablanca to pick up the coffee from the second harvest of the year, but they hope that their next visit will be their last, because from now on they will be owners of their own land. However, fate has other plans. Octavio Vallejo, the owner of the hacienda, has just died. Gaviota previously had saved him from a kidnapping. Octavio promised as a reward to give her one hectare of land so that she could grow her own coffee. Trying to get the Vallejo family to honor the agreement, Gaviota meets Sebastián, Octavio's son, and an irrepressible attraction is born between them, a heartbreaking, impossible love, becoming two lovers who belong to different worlds.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: soap opera, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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MIOKA –MY LAST DAYS WITH YOU– (2010)
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One day, Taichi, an ordinary university student, meets Mioka, a girl who is like a storm. Taichi finds himself drawn to Mioka, who lives freely as she wishes without holding back, and they eventually fall in love. However, Mioka tells Taichi of her shocking truth. She has an incurable brain disease, with no medicine or treatment that can help her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, sad
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Traces of the Hand (2017)
Plot Summary:
Is there an app to help you get the woman you love? Kim Hong Sik is a shy young man who returns to college after serving his mandatory military service. He discovers an app called T-Scope that helps him to see other people’s secret messages. Can he use it to help him capture the heart of the “Queen of the Engineering College”, whom he has secretly loved for years?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 7 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Spring Has Come (2018)
Plot Summary:
Naoko Kishikawa is a 31 year-old single who works for the undergarment section at a departmental store. She lives with her parents and a younger sister. One day, she meets a Korean photographer, Lee Ji-won. Ji-won's presence gradually changes Naoko and her family.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, shoujo
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A Seven-Faced Man (2017)
Plot Summary:
Bai Xin Xin is a first-year medical intern who crosses paths with Shen Yi Zhen, a man from a wealthy family. When Xin Xin is roped into becoming the personal attending physician for Yi Zhen, she doesn’t understand what she signed up for until it’s too late. As Yi Zhen’s seven different personalities begin to emerge, so too do dark secrets from his cruel family history. Can Xin Xin help the many faces of Yi Zhen recover from his painful past?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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What Happened in Bali (2004)
Plot Summary:
Soo Jung grew up poorly with her brother, Jang Soo who’s a walking disaster, after losing both of her parents at a young age. Meanwhile, Jae Min is the son of a conglomerate family, but he’s always been afraid of living under his father’s shadow. He gets engaged to Young Joo, who’s also a daughter of a rich family like him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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Sangre de mi tierra (2017)
Plot Summary:
American drama series about two rival family wine farmers in Napa, California.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Wounded Heart (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ferit Sancakzade is the cherished heir apparent of one of the well-established families of Antakya. Ayse, on the other hand, is a lively young girl living in Istanbul who has managed to stand on her own feet. Ferit, who is about to marry Hande, the daughter of the Varoglu Family, the choice of his family, confronts the facts before the wedding and his world turns upside down. Shaken by betrayal, Ferit's path crosses with Ayse. The two find themselves in a difficult marriage game after their accidental meeting. The story, which takes place in Antakya, an ancient land that is the cradle of civilizations, turns into a true love story by testing friendship with love, past with the future, and passion with patience.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sacrificio de Mujer (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sacrificio de Mujer is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Venevisión International. Marjorie de Sousa and Juan A. Baptista star as the main protagonists with Mariana Torres and Pablo Azar as co-protagonists. Luis Jose Santander,Flor Núñez, Géraldine Bazán, Arnaldo Pipke and Ximena Duque star as the main villains. Filming took place in Miami, Florida in 2010. From April 18, 2011 to June 17, 2011, Univision aired double episodes weekday afternoons at 12pm/11am central. From June 20, 2011 to July 7, 2011, the remaining episodes aired for one hour weekday afternoons. As of September 21, 2011, Venevisión is currently airing Sacrificio de Mujer at 10pm.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Venezuela, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Snow In Sea Breeze (2015)
Plot Summary:
On a snowy night, little Seon-mi is diagnosed with hemopoietic dysplasia. Years pass and Seon-mi, who has now become an adult, has overcome her pain and is adjusting to the adult world. Having decided to use her talent to become a perfumer, she travels to many different places to collect various scents and spices to help people with their inner pains. She meets Sang-woo at an aquarium and is strongly drawn to his scent which reminds her of her father.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Centimeter of Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
The play tells the story of the Yanxi Hospital doctor Xu Qingfeng on the voyage back from studying abroad, and the captain Guan Yuqing, because of tacit cooperation in helping patients, found that each other's family had hard-to-recited sutras.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Perfect and Casual (2020)
Plot Summary:
This story revolves around the cold and icy "male god" professor Zhang Sinian and the calm and sunny Yun Shu. After a fractious first meeting, where Yun Shu dressed down the especially finicky Sinian, she was shocked to find out that he was her university lecturer. Through a series of coincidental encounters, the two agreed to engage in a contractual marriage. As the feelings between them grow, how will they keep their relationship from those around them?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Red Scarf (2011)
Plot Summary:
Al Yazmalım was a Turkish television series based on the novel The Red Scarf by Chinghiz Aitmatov and 1978 Turkish romantic drama film The Girl with the Red Scarf.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, soap opera
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Wonderful Days (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dong-Suk grew up as a smart young boy, but came from a poor family background. He is now a successful prosecutor and comes back to his hometown for the first time in 14 years. There, he happens to meet his first love Hae-Won and falls in love with her all over again.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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Negotiator (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dou Qiao is a genius negotiator who is the star of the US-China Business Council. Male lead Xie Xiaofei also works as a negotiator, but is actually the sole heir of a wealthy Chinese-American corporation who wants nothing to do with the family business. He vents his frustrations on Dou Qiao, though their bickering relationship soon takes a romantic turn. The couple separates after Dou Qiao discovers the Xie Family had a hand in her parents’ deaths, only to meet several years later as negotiators of rival firms.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Goodbye Solo (2006)
Plot Summary:
Goodbye Solo is a 2006 South Korean television series starring Chun Jung-myung, Yoon So-yi, Kim Min-hee, Bae Jong-ok, Lee Jae-ryong, Kim Nam-gil, and Na Moon-hee. It aired on KBS2 from March 1 to April 20, 2006 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. In the urban melodrama, seven lead characters of different generations and backgrounds are all haunted by loneliness; they gradually interact and form a "family" borne out of emotional connection and mutual understanding. Renowned for her in-depth, realistic portrayals of ordinary lives, writer Noh Hee-kyung said that the drama's theme is that all human beings are beautiful just the way they are, simply by existing in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Black Pearl (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hazal, beautiful young girl is engajed with Kenan, handsome young fisherman. The day before their wedding, Hazal is forced to marry Vural, successful businessman who fall in love with her since the first time he saw her working on his birthday party as a waitress. Vurals first wife, Naz, was just alike Hazal, and thats the reason why Vural fell in love with her so much, since Naz died 2 years ago and now he finds a replacement of her in Hazal. The story is telling us about the love story between Kenan who thought Hazal dumped him just for money and higher society life and who became a successful businessman with the aim of avenging them , and Hazal who tries to forget all she has been through and the way Vural stole her dreams and youth, and of course Vural who is still waiting for Hazal to love him as much as she loves Kenan.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Playing with Fire (2019)
Plot Summary:
Three prosperous women, including a mother and her daughter, fall for a seductive man in Colombia's Coffee Triangle.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, sensual
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A Pharisee (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seung-gi has been living under a strict father, blaming himself everytime when a natural but uncontrollable desire surges from inside of him. However, because he can't spurt that desire in reality, every night Seung-gi shares passionate love with a mystery woman in his dreams. He meets Eun-ji ("Viki") a senior from school and gets provoked by her as well as Soo-jeong who he's had a crush on forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexy, erotic
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Classic Again (2020)
Plot Summary:
In a love triangle that miraculously mirrors her mother's romance years ago, a young woman let's her heart lead.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Bachelor's Vegetable Store (2011)
Plot Summary:
The true story of a young man who turned a tiny vegetable store into a nationwide franchise. Based on a book published in 2003 about Lee Young Suk's life. He started his vegetable stand in 1998 and eventually expanded it to 33 stores around South Korea.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Bad Romance (2016)
Plot Summary:
Yihwa, a single university girl, believes that she doesn’t need boys in her life because she can survive without them, and thinks that boys are like iPhones that are only for decoration purposes. However, when she went to the condominium unit of her best friend Korn, who is celebrating his anniversary with his partner Knock, she met Korn’s friend, Cho, who suddenly fell in love with her at first sight. But Yihwa did not feel it the same way; instead, she thought that Cho is gay and he wants to have a relationship with Knock. After that day, Cho started to pursue Yihwa, however he will be having a hard time to please her and will experience different circumstances before he becomes close to her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, disturbing