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Plot Summary:
As a last resort to afford her son’s cancer treatment, a widowed mother asks her manager for money, but the latter poses one condition: she must spend the night with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Lebanon
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: children's story
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Detective Didi (2017)
Plot Summary:
Detective Didi serial is based on character name Bunty Sharma, who is also known as Detective Didi. Bunty is a feisty woman, who uses her attention to detail to solve puzzling crimes along with Bhim, who is an honest policeman. Both of them take on serial killers, crime lords, gangsters and all, both employing desperate measures in desperate situations. Detective Didi is a popular Indian television serial Detective and Drama serial, which premiered on December 9, 2017 on Zee TV and produced by Trilogy Krikos Production. The serial is starring Manish Goplani and Sonia Balani in lead roles. Detective Didi is directed by Vikram Ghai and Mohit Jha, and the written by Ila Bedi Dutta, Sanjay Kumar, Malavika Asthana, and Styam K. Tripathi.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags:
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The Bay (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Bay follows the affluent, yet dysfunctional Bay City residents living in a town cursed by the spirit of Senator Red Garrett, the grandfather of socialite Sara Garrett. Their lives are riddled with sex, lies, & never-ending scandals.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, dramatic
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Love's Secret (2001)
Plot Summary:
Secreto de Amor is an American telenovela produced by Venevisión International in 2001. The telenovela was filmed in Miami, Florida and it starred Scarlet Ortiz and Jorge Aravena as the main protagonists while Colombian actress Aura Cristina Geithner and Venezuelan actress Astrid Gruber starred as the main antagonists.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Venezuela, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Amor Fati (2021)
Plot Summary:
A divorcee with cancer and a penniless single father meet and heal their wounds with the help of each other. Do Yeon-Hee (Choi Jung-Yoon) is the only daughter-in-law of a family, who runs the Rara Group. She has a perfect life, but her husband cheats on her. Due to the other woman, Do Yeon-Hee’s life changes completely. Han Jae-Kyeong (Ahn Jae-Mo) used to be a professional golfer. To let his wife achieve her dream and support her while she studies abroad, he quit playing golf and became a golfing instructor at a practice facility. He raises his son by himself, while his wife is away. When his wife returns to South Korea, she asks him for a divorce.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: dorama, soap opera
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The Three Sides of Ana (2016)
Plot Summary:
Over a road trip, triplets Ana Laura, Ana Leticia, and Ana Lucía, along with their parents, suffer a dramatic accident crashing by the side of a river. The consequences of this event are catastrophic: Both parents die, Ana Laura loses one leg, and Ana Lucía, unconscious, is dragged by the river’s flow. Only Ana Leticia, who actually caused the accident, emerges unscathed. Soledad, a woman who was seriously hurt after her daughter’s death, helps Ana Lucía, whom she finds agonizing. Although Soledad discovers who the girl is, she takes advantage of her memory loss regarding the accident and her family and decides to keep her, making her believe she is her mother. Despite everyone declares Ana Lucía is death, Ernestina, the triplets' grandmother, and Ramiro, their uncle, don’t give up and do everything they can to find Ana Lucía. But years go by, the same as their wishful.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, thought provoking, captivating, psychological, telenovela
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Wonderful Mama (2013)
Plot Summary:
Wonderful Mama is a 2013 South Korean television series starring Bae Jong-ok, Jeong Yu-mi and Jung Gyu-woon. It premiered on April 13, 2013, and ended on September 22, 2013, airing on SBS every Saturday and Sunday at 20:40 for 48 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Twinkle Twinkle (2011)
Plot Summary:
This drama tells the success story of Han Jung Won, a workaholic careerwoman who is determined to make her own way in life without the help of her family, which has garnered considerable wealth from their publishing company. Her life is turned upside down due to someone's mistake, and she faces numerous setbacks on the road to recovery.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Hello, Joann (2016)
Plot Summary:
This story's heroine is Qiao An but told modly through the eyes of her friend, Ni Hao. Qiao An used to be from a wealthy family but then something happened, her dad ran away, and now she's working from the bottom up. She's a real power woman, cold on the outside. She goes to apply for a job at Lu Yuan Yang's company but because he once worked for her father and knows of her position, refuses her.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The First Half of My Life (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of city dwellers who have to make choices about love and career. Based on Hong Kong novelist Yi Shu's novel of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: romantic, dorama, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, disturbing
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Brilliant Heritage (2020)
Plot Summary:
A stepmother takes revenge on four spoiled brothers. The father feels betrayed by his sons who are always after his money. This twisted family shows conflict and the true meaning of being a family. The story revolves around Buruna Noodles and the owner of the restaurant. Each son and their wives have different dreams, but they all want one thing.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: dorama
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Pyarey Afzal (2013)
Plot Summary:
Young man confronts his forbidden love and situation changes dramatically as things starts to unfold.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Pakistan
Duration:
Plot tags:
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On the Way to the Airport (2016)
Plot Summary:
Can women and men stay just as friends? Both Choi Sua and Seo Dou are married, but not to each other. The relationship between the two is interesting. They are definitely not a couple. They are not friends, either. Yet, they are involved in each other's life.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, emotional, melancholic
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Love & Life & Lie (2017)
Plot Summary:
Liu Xin Tong is a positive girl, living in a poor household. There was nothing out of the ordinary until she got into an accident that moved her and her mother into a rich businessman's house. There, she meets Li Yao Nan, her fated love along with two siblings that play important roles in her new life. She is met with multiple obstacles that she must overcome to ultimately keep her lover and friends, in addition to finding out the real truth about her birth.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Noblewoman (2014)
Plot Summary:
A drama about the friendship of two girls from incredibly different background; one the daughter of a maid and the other the daughter of a wealthy family.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Cook of Castamar (2021)
Plot Summary:
Set in early 18th-century Madrid, the plot follows the love story between an agoraphobic cook and a widowed nobleman.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: costume drama, captivating, historical drama, epic, period drama
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Hear Me (2022)
Plot Summary:
The life of high school student Ekim, who lives in a humble neighborhood, is shaken by a tragic event that takes place in front of her eyes: her best friend Leyla is injured in a hit-and-run accident. The car disappears inside a prestigious private school, attended by the richest kids of the city. When the neighbors demand justice, the school tries to bury the news by giving scholarships to three studious teenagers from the neighborhood. Ekim, Bekir and Ayşe are chosen, but they soon realize that their life is about to get harder. Yet, Ekim has no intention of letting this go quietly, and there is one thing she is sure of: the criminal is one of the students. While she tries to uncover this dark secret and ensure justice, she will be troubled by her emotions as her heart is turned upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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A Part of Me (2014)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy family is waiting for their older son to produce an heir. When his wife has difficulties conceiving, they find a surrogate in Elif. The young girl is in desperate need of money and easily deceived by the family. When she discovers that she is actually the baby’s biological mother as well, she fights to claim him back. Things are further complicated by the love that grows between Elif and the older son, while the powerful family fight back and refuse to hand over their heir.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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EVE (2022)
Plot Summary:
The Republic of Korea is overturned by 2 trillion-won divorce scandal of a chaebol caused by one ordinary woman. It is about getting into the truth of the scandal and the top 1% rich couple who made it. Surprisingly, Lee Ra-el, a nobody who's not rich nor famous has caused the divorce. But Ra-el is a charming and intelligent woman who's mastered art, psychology, and even economics. if she wants to, she can get any kind of man with her looks and brain.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Ángel Rebelde (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ángel Rebelde is a 2003 Miami, Florida-based telenovela produced by Fonovideo Productions which aired first on Venevisión in Venezuela. Mexican actors Grettel Valdez and Victor Noriega star as the main ptoragonists while Maritza Rodríguez and Ismael La Rosa star as the main antagonists. The telenovela aired on Univision from February 2 to December 6, 2004. It recently aired on Venevisión Plus in 2012.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Venezuela
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Falcon Crest (1981)
Plot Summary:
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, realistic, serious, captivating, touching, sincere, melancholic, retro, saga, telenovela
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When Hope Calls (2019)
Plot Summary:
The story of sisters Lillian and Grace who open an orphanage in the 1916 Western town of Brookfield. Caught between the traditions of cattle ranchers and the ambitions of a growing town, they strive to find romance and happiness while overcoming the challenges of helping the children in their care.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: light, sincere, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, period drama
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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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Snowdrop (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around the hatred between two step sisters, Nadya & Irina, who are in love with the same man, Igor. Blinded by jealousy and hatred towards Nadya, Irina frames her in a murder and separates her from Igor. However, Nadya returns to expose Irina and win back her love and respect.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Ukraine
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, compassionate, exciting
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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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Prisoner of Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
In order to appease his ailing sister, a rich businessman marries a working class girl for 6 months in exchange for money. The contract marriage turns into a relationship that will have unintended complications down the line.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Fatih Harbiye (2013)
Plot Summary:
The main character is a girl who lives in the suburbs of Istanbul. All her thoughts together about how to get out of poverty and miserable life and enter the socialite. Girl walking.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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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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The Story of a Noble Family (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Story of a Noble Family (Chinese: 金粉世家) is a 2003 Chinese television series based on Zhang Henshui's novel Jinfen Shijia, directed by Li Dawei. The series was first broadcast in 2003 on China Central Television in mainland China.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Fatmagul (2010)
Plot Summary:
Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne? is a Turkish television drama series produced by Ay Yapım and broadcast on Kanal D. The series is based on Vedat Türkali's novel, Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne?, which was made into a film in 1986. The series is written by duo Ece Yörenç and Melek Gençoğlu. The soundtrack was done by Toygar Işıklı.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, sincere, soap opera, novela, sentimental
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White Lies (2008)
Plot Summary:
White Lies is a South Korean television series starring Shin Eun-kyung, Kim Hae-sook, Kim Yoo-suk, Kim Tae-hyun and Im Ji-eun. The morning daily drama aired on MBC on Mondays to Fridays at 7:50 a.m. from December 1, 2008 to July 10, 2009 for 159 episodes. White Lies recorded ratings of over 20% — unusually popular for a morning show. It was also shortlisted for Best Telenovela at the International Emmys.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing