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Plot Summary:
Anna Millman is a portuguese teacher, she falls for Joaquim Martinho, an actor. Both meet in Europe and travel to Brazil together with the future princess of Brazil, Leopoldina from Austria. The romance between the teacher and the actor evolves during a time of revolution, the independence of Brazil.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 41 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, historical drama, telenovela
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The Enchanted Tale (2011)
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Cordel Encantando is an epic telenovela encircled by castles, kings and outlaws that tells a majestic love story between Azucena and Jesuino: two noble spirited young people who are unaware of their true origins. Beautiful Azucena and her hero Jesuíno go through many adventures in their determination to stay together.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, fairy tale, psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera
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Orphans of a Nation (2019)
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Victim of a devastating bombing, a young Syrian woman agrees to marry a powerful sheikh in exchange for the money needed to save her agonizing brother. But everything changes when the boy dies and the girl must flee with her family to start a new life. Enraged, the sheikh sends his right-hand man after the bride and they fall for each other, living a forbidden love. Their relationship is put to the test when the sheikh's daughter decides to take vengeance on the couple after her father's mysterious death. From Emmy Award winners Thelma Guedes and Duca Rachid, Orphans of a Nation is a story of empathy and love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, sincere, realistic, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Paradise City (2009)
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, psychological, suspense, disturbing
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Seven Sins (2007)
Plot Summary:
Sete Pecados is a Brazilian telenovela airing at 7:00 pm, which replaced Pé na Jaca of Carlos Lombardi. The telenovela was written by Walcyr Carrasco, with the collaboration of Claudia Soto and Andre Ryoki. The directors were Jorge Fernando, Pedro Vasconcelos and Fred Mayrink. Jorge worked with the same directing cast on his previous telenovelas Chocolate com Pimenta and Alma Gêmea. Seven Sins debuted on June 18, 2007. and last aired on February 15, 2008, with 209 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, humorous, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Written in the stars (2010)
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Ricardo Aguillar, a powerful physician, loses the only and beloved son, the young Daniel, in an accident. After some time he discovers that the boy had frozen the semen before he died. From there he decides to go hunting for the "ideal woman", worthy of being inseminated and become the mother of his grandson. Only fate is about to play a part. When the insemination is finally done and the young woman chosen - the young Viviane - becomes pregnant, the man discovers himself hopelessly in love with her. From then on an unusual and surprising situation will give an electrifying direction to the story: the boy's spirit begins to prowl the family and, although they are in different plans, father and son will dispute the love of the same woman. It will be a clash between the impossible love, therefore idealized, and the realizable love, carnal, with all that it brings of joy and fulfillment, but also of hurts and uncertainties.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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These Women (2005)
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The plot takes place in 1880, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, following the lives of three strong and determined women. Aurélia, Maria da Glória and Mila are great friends who attend etiquette classes together, but life doesn't take long to put them in completely different directions.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Terra esperanza (2002)
Plot Summary:
Esperança is a Brazilian telenovela produced and aired by TV Globo between June 17, 2002 and February 15, 2003. With Reynaldo Gianecchini, Priscila Fantin, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Ana Paula Arósio, Raul Cortez, Antonio Fagundes, José Mayer and Fernanda Montenegro interpreted their main roles.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, telenovela
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Time After Time (2015)
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Lívia and Felipe are in a forbidden love story doomed to end tragically. A century later, they both have a new chance to make their love real again. “Time After Time” is an innovative romance set in two different eras in which characters hold the opportunity to make up for their mistakes, come to terms with the past and write themselves another story.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, sincere, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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The Slave Isaura (2004)
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Isaura was born in 1835, in the farm of Commender Almeida. She is the daughter of the slave Juliana and the tenant of the farm, Miguel. Juliana dies right after the birth, because she denied going to bed with the Commender. He whips her to death in revenge. So, Isaura is raised and educated by Gertrudes, wife of the Commender, who always wanted to have a daughter. In spite of her excellent education and the white skin, Isaura, as a daughter of a slave,will always be treated as a slave.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: sexy, novela, sentimental, romantic, touching, suspense, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Wounded Past (2016)
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When she was a young girl, Heloisa was harshly torn apart from the love of her life: Pedro, a straightforward romantic young man whose powerful family strongly believes the ends always do justify the means. Because she comes from a very humble background, Pedro's parents set up all kinds of intrigues in order to prevent the couple from fulfilling their seemingly predestined love story. Twenty years later, all it takes is a casual encounter to spark that feeling again and have them fighting against not only Pedro's family tricks, but also Heloisa's mighty and unscrupulous husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Port of Miracles (2001)
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Porto dos Milagres is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and aired by TV Globo from 5 February to 29 September 2001, totaling 203 chapters. It was written by Aguinaldo Silva and Ricardo Linhares and loosely based on two works written by Jorge Amado - The Dead Sea and the discovery of America by the Turks. Had Philip collaboration Miguez, Maria Elisa Berredo, Nadotti Nelson and Gloria Baker, directed by Fabricio Mamberti and Luciano Sabino. Director general Mark and Robert Paul Naar, co-directed by Fabricio Mamberti and Luciano Sabino. Had the direction of core Marcos Paulo.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Little Missy (2006)
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Monarchists and republicans meet in Araruna, a small fictional town in the interior of São Paulo, in 1886. The novel portrays the love story of the beautiful and wealthy Sinhá Moça - daughter of the slave, Barão Ferreira de Araruna, and sweet and submissive Mother Candida - , with the young abolitionist lawyer Dr. Rodolfo Fontes - son of Dr. Fontes, and the housewife Inêz. Together, they face the difficulties in the campaign for the abolition of slaves.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Side by Side (2012)
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Lado a Lado is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by Rede Globo from September 10, 2012 to March 8, 2013. Written by Claudia Lage and João Ximenes Braga, with collaborations by Chico Soares, Douglas Tourinho, Fernando Rebello, Vellego Jackie, Nina Crintzs and Maria Camargo, script supervision by Gilberto Braga, directed by Dennis Carvalho and core general direction of Vinicius Coimbra, it starrs Camila Pitanga and Marjorie Estiano as the main characters.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, psychological, captivating, disturbing, 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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Praomook (2021)
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As part of a superstitious marriage to ward of bad luck, teenagers Praomook and Chalantorn are temporary married to help Chalantorn's luck. Chalantorn has always thought of Praomook as an ugly duckling and a nuisance, while she has always been in love with him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Loving You a Thousand Times (2009)
Plot Summary:
Loving You a Thousand Times is a South Korean television drama starring Lee Soo-kyung, Jung Gyu-woon, Go Eun-mi, Ryu Jin and Lee Si-young. It aired on SBS from August 29, 2009 to March 7, 2010 on Saturdays and Sundays at 20:50 for 55 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, novela
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Wedding Agreement: The Series (2022)
Plot Summary:
Tari and Bian sign a wedding agreement ending their marriage after one year.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Women in Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
Mulheres Apaixonadas is a Brazilian soap opera which originally aired on Rede Globo from February 17, 2003 to October 11, 2003. A total of 203 episodes were created for the series.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, serious, captivating, realistic, romantic, telenovela
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Wild Heart (2009)
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Corazon Salvaje - Maria del Rosario and Juan de Dios are profoundly in love and are to be married. But Rodrigo Montes de Oca and Leonarda are able to stop the wedding, separate them and fake Juans death. From their love Juan del Diablo is born, then taken from his mom at birth and grows up away from his real family. Many years later he return where he meets Aimee and Regina, twin sisters identical on the outside but very different inside. Juan falls in love with Aimee but her treachery and ambition ends that love. Some time later destiny reunites Juan and Regina both disappointed in those they chose to love and refusing the opportunity to open up to new love.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Curse by the Sea (2009)
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Mar de Amor is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux with protagonists Zuria Vega, Mario Cimarro and Mariana Seoane and antagonists Ninel Conde, Marcelo Córdoba and Manuel Landeta. This is a remake of the 1978 Venezuelan telenovela María del Mar.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, telenovela
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The Life We Lead (2011)
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Ana is a promising tennis player with a collection of titles and trophies to flaunt. She finds out she is pregnant by her loving boyfriend Rodrigo. Her controlling mother, Eva, forces her to break up with Rodrigo and compels her to stay out of town until the baby is born. Eva’s biggest concern is that she doesn’t lose any of her sponsorship deals. Later, Ana returns home and is eager to resume her athletic career, raise her baby Julia, and tell Rodrigo the truth.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, captivating, telenovela
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Los Herederos del Monte (2011)
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Los Herederos Del Monte is a Spanish-language telenovela to be produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia, with Colombia as location. It is a remake of Chilean telenovela Hijos del Monte produced by TVN in 2008.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, tense, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Boogie Oogie (2014)
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Set in 1978 in the "disco era," the series depicts the meeting between humble, hardworking Sandra (Ísis Valverde) and rich, spoiled Vitória (Bianca Bin). They meet because of a tragic accident and start fighting for the love of the same man. What they don't know is that their paths have crossed before, when they were switched at birth.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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A Time to Love (2017)
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In 1927, the urgent and relentless love of Maria Vitória and Inácio is interrupted by the young man's decision to cross the Atlantic in search of work, and his promise to return. Pregnant, Maria Vitória faces the wrath of her father, who decides to send her to a convent while the baby goes for adoption. Filled with courage, she goes after Inácio, hoping that together they could get their daughter back, but the couple ends up following different paths and living new love stories. They will have to face personal obstacles and the deranged jealousy of Inácio's intended until the inevitable moment of their reencounter in this classic story of growth and the immeasurable force of love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, romantic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, soap opera, entertaining, telenovela
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What Life Took From Me (2013)
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"What Life Took From Me" is a Mexican telenovela produced by Angelli Nesma Medina for Televisa. It is a remake of Bodas de odio, produced by Ernesto Alonso in 1983. In 2003, "True Love", the first remake, was produced by Carla Estrada. Unlike Bodas de odio and "True Love", "What Life Took From Me" has been adapted to the present time.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, novela, romantic drama, telenovela
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Shades of Sin (2004)
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Da Cor do Pecado is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and aired by TV Globo in the traditional schedule of 19 hours between January 26 and August 28, 2004 with 185 chapters.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, telenovela
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Red Scarf (2011)
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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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Eva Luna (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young woman’s quest for happiness is marred by the secrets and deceptions perpetuated by an evil family. Eva González (Blanca Soto) came to Los Angeles with her father and sister in search of a better life. She goes to work as the personal attendant to Julio Arismendi, the ailing founder of Publicidad Arismendi, unknowingly becoming a pawn to kill him by his wife, Marcela (Susana Dosamantes). When the beautiful Eva catches the eye of Julio’s son, Leonardo Arismendi (Julian Gil), and his best friend, Daniel Villanueva (Guy Ecker), she becomes the target of Victoria (Vanessa Villela), who is Leonardo’s sister and Daniel’s girlfriend. But Daniel leaves Victoria for Eva, and on the day of Eva and Daniel’s wedding, Eva’s father is killed in a hit-and-run accident. Can her future husband be responsible? “Eva Luna” is a 2010 telenovela produced by Venevisión International in collaboration with Univision Studios. It is a remake of the 1997 Telemundo telenovela “Aquamarina.”.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Forever and Ever (2014)
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Dame Chocolate (2007)
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Dame Chocolate is a 2007 Spanish-language telenovela, which was produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and aired from March 5 until October 5, 2007. This limited-run serial stars Génesis Rodríguez as a sweet, simple girl who leaves rural Mexico for Miami in the US to fulfill her destiny in the chocolate business. Elements of this romantic soap opera resemble Ugly Betty, the Tammy films, The Beverly Hillbillies and No Holds Barred. Lionsgate Home Entertainment and Xenon Pictures released a four-disc DVD set of Dame Chocolate in the US on November 27, 2007. The abridged version runs over 13 hours. It includes English subtitles and carries a TV-PG rating.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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