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Plot Summary:
The love story of Zuleyha, who grew up without a father and works with Yilmaz as an auxiliary weaver in order to earn money for her brother, a gambler. The lives of these two young people blinded by the love of one ordinary night will turn into a dark nightmare. This nightmare will take them first from Istanbul and far away, and later to the estate of the Yaman family. In the first episode of the series, Yilmaz and Zuleyha set out to work on the Yaman estate. However, because of one of Zuleyha's lies - the lives of all of them will change radically.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, touching, captivating
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The Kindness of Strangers (2019)
Plot Summary:
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, uplifting, touching, sweet, powerful
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Perdona Nuestros Pecados (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of a powerful family of the Chilean high aristocracy in the decade of the 50's. A clan led by the fearsome Armando Quiroga, where intrigue, suspense and romance build a story of passion in times of hypocrisy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, sexy, touching, suspense, suspenseful, telenovela
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Mother (2016)
Plot Summary:
A child being scolded rescued by her teacher after falsifying her death.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, sentimental
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Sen Anlat Karadeniz (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the past, the impossible love of Tahir has been told, with Nefes escaping from the persecution of the man whose money was sold in the past and taking refuge in the Black Sea with his child, and his family's great reaction because he protected him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: captivating, rough, touching, sentimental
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Mrs. Fazilet and Her Daughters (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of Fazilet, mother of Hazan and Ece, eager to make money using the modeling skills of her younger daughter, Ece. While Hazan pursues a career as a coach in sports, far from her mother's wishes and falls in love with a rich spoiled man.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, emotional, realistic, talky
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I Don't Trust Men Anymore (2014)
Plot Summary:
Yo no creo en los hombres (I don't trust men anymore) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Giselle González for Televisa. It is based on Yo no creo en los hombres (1991), produced in México.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, emotional, talky, telenovela
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The Ambassador's Daughter (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sancar has always & Nare has always yearned for love. When they meet and fall in love as children, they know they are meant to be; they just have to wait to be old enough to marry. On the night of their wedding, a startling revelation by Nare forever changes their lives and puts their love on hold until the night of another wedding many years later.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, sentimental, romantic, sweet
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La Piloto (2017)
Plot Summary:
Yolanda dreamed her entire life of being a pilot. She found a stewardess job, and an unexpected role in drug smuggling.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sexy, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, touching, soap opera, telenovela
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Tales of Innocence (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of an accident, a naive girl finds herself torn between an unscrupulous prosecutor, and a vindictive plaintiff.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, romantic, uplifting, touching, sweet, captivating
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The Road to Calvary (2017)
Plot Summary:
Swept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 900
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, uplifting, touching
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VIP (2019)
Plot Summary:
The staff in charge of catering to the desires of a department store's top clientele try to keep their not-so-luxurious personal lives afloat.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, sweet, captivating, disturbing
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Child (2019)
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Being the daughter of a prostitute mother, Akca gives up her motherhood in order to give her child a better future. The bride of a wealthy family, Sule promises to be a mother to Akca's baby for a lifetime. She looks at the baby she named Efe and raises him. Things change with the birth of Sule's own child.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, realistic
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Pretty Li Hui Zhen (2017)
Plot Summary:
Li Huizhen used to be gorgeous, but years of declining family fortune added much pain to her life, and her looks slowly drifted away. Her friend Bai Haoyu, on the other hand, was once an ordinary looking guy and grew up to be suave, successful, and immensely likable. So when she comes across him years later and witnesses their reversal of fortune, Li Huizhen is too embarrassed to even meet him and instead asks her stylish friend and roommate Xia Qiao to assume her identity. But when Huizhen lands an internship at a company that she has been trying to break into, she is shocked to find out that Haoyu is her new boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, uplifting, touching, feel good, sweet
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Fi (2017)
Plot Summary:
Can Manay (Ozan Güven) is a celebrated psychologist, famed for his expertise in his field. A consummate bachelor he beds women but rarely falls in love. And yet, following his first encounter with Duru (Serenay Sarikaya), he is immediately besotted, to the extent that he buys the house nextdoor to her’s, determined to get closer to her. Until her new neighbour moves in, Duru has lived happily with her musician boyfriend, Deniz (Mehmet Gunsur). Can’s mindgames ensure that she starts to question their relationship however, though she is not aware of the full extent of Can’s scheming. Meanwhile a cast of characters - Bilge, a student of Can’s; Özge (Berrak Tuzunatac), a journalist working on an exposé of the celebrity psychologist; and of course Deniz - will find their lives changed forever, by Manay’s crazed pursuit of love.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological thriller, sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, telenovela
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A Crazy Wind (2018)
Plot Summary:
Melike Candan a star in the 80s, now cleans toilets at a bar where one days he meets Gökçe Yücel, who has big hopes for the future.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sexy, touching, emotional, melancholic, talky
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Inconstant Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
The hatred of Miran Aslanbey against the man guilty of the death of his parents unleashes his desire for revenge by taking him to seduce his daughter Reyyan. Reyyan falls madly in love in Miran's arms. But what will happen when he finds out the truth? What is stronger love or revenge?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, touching, sweet, romantic
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Never Give Up (2015)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful and intense tv show about finding and holding on to love. Nur, a simple woman from countryside goes to Istanbul and finds what she expected the least; love.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, romantic, captivating, soap opera
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The Secrets of Life (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Secrets of Life centers the heartwarming, intense and a bit thrilling story of Kuzgun family whose happiness was wrecked when the secrets of family members comes out one after another. While the audience is captured by the heart breaking and passionate love story of Burak and Seher.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Ruthless City (2019)
Plot Summary:
The life of a disabled guy changes dramatically after a family from a small town comes to Istanbul. How will Seher behave after she learns that her mother-in-law has agreed with Agah Karacay? What will Ceren do when she learns that she is supposed to get married to disabled Nedim instead of Cenk? Will Cemre manage to save Nedim’s life with her care and treatment? Will Seniz manage to keep her secrets? Will Ceren eventually fulfill her dreams of becoming rich? Will Cenk eventually find a true love? How will the life of Karacay family change after the arrival of Seher and her children? Will Nedim become healthy again?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sweet, uplifting, touching, sentimental, romantic
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I Dare You to Leave (2015)
Plot Summary:
A heartbreaking story in which power, obsession, and desire will tragically mark the love between Paulina and Adrián who will fight for their love against all odds, even if it takes their life.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Sila (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young woman's forced marriage to the agha of a tribe in Southeastern Turkey leads to tragedy and social change.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
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1001 Nights (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sehrazat, a young widow who is financially unable to treat her terminally ill young son, is forced to address to her charming boss, asking for help. The proposal by her boss changes her life forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, touching, realistic, captivating, disturbing, fairy tale, telenovela
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My Home My Destiny (2019)
Plot Summary:
The house where you were born even decides who you love and who you marry. First the mothers take the pen in his hand and start writing.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Stiletto Vendetta (2017)
Plot Summary:
Three girls in high school made a prank on the fourth girl and caused her to be expelled from the high school with her teacher. After 20 years they got together in a high society environment.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, enigmatic, psychological, tense
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Red Roses (2006)
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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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Forbidden Apple (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three things in life can not be hidden "love, smoke and lack of money". The social society and the events behind the business world are told.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, captivating, psychological, serious, realistic
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Chrysalis (2021)
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Nalan is a beautiful young woman who earns everyone's love at first sight with her warmth. As the only child of the family enlarged hand baby, baby roses, lived in the existence of life and Nalan graduated with honors the best schools, Turkey finds's largest hotel chain, which Koroglu company as an architect at running than himself Sedat Koroglu' with marriage Eve. Although Nalan and Sedat began to walk hand in hand in this tale with hope, thinking that they are moving away from the dark secrets they have kept in their past; Soon their lives will sink into real darkness.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Howards End (2017)
Plot Summary:
The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: costume drama, psychological, sentimental, romantic, captivating, period piece, historical drama, sincere, touching, disturbing
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Drama Festa: Hello Dracula (2020)
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Three neighbors face problems they want to avoid, but they grow facing their dilemmas. Anna lives with her mother and lives her life following her mother's wishes, but she has a secret she can't tell anyone. Yoo Ra and her family need to leave their neighborhood due to a reurbanization project in the area where they live. Seo Yeon is the vocalist of an indie band. She's very superstitious, and she can't get over her ex-boyfriend, who broke up with her a year ago.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
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The Pigeon (2019)
Plot Summary:
The series tells the story of Zulf, who was thrown into a well in a deserted place where there are not even birds flying .. While she was waiting for her death, she was rescued by a young man named Kinan who appeared in front of her as a miracle, but when she discovers who Kanan is, she will be shocked by the shock of her life .. Kinan who saw Zalf The one who talks about her beauty being thrown into the well will turn his world ... The crime that was committed fifteen years ago will return, and the blood that was shed with her will affect the two families until love comes and all that is erased.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sweet, captivating, realistic