Best tv shows like Arde Madrid
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Plot Summary:
Madrid, 1961. Ana Mari is single, lame, Francoist and instructor of the Sección Femenina. By order of the dictator Franco, she must go to work as a maid to Ava Gardner's house and spy on her, pretending to be married to Manolo, a hustler who will become the driver of the American actress.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, black and white
Best tv shows and movies like Arde Madrid (2018):
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Countrymen (2021)
Plot Summary:
Four men with dubious plans move to a farm in the countryside. More or less against their will, they end up as the founders of Norway's first halal dairy farm.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sound & Fury (2009)
Plot Summary:
The lives of a Shakespearian theatre group and their personal struggles to organize the production of 'Hamlet'.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Two Faces (2007)
Plot Summary:
Duas Caras is a Brazilian television drama that was broadcast by Rede Globo in 2007 and 2008.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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A Family Tale (2018)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Dafne and the Rest (2021)
Plot Summary:
Dafne and her friends are a bunch of thirty-somethings living dissatisfied lives. Frustrated in love and sex, they work in lousy jobs, trying to find themselves, and some love, in Madrid.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, tragicomedy, disturbing, semi serious
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Suite 7 (2010)
Plot Summary:
An anthology series set inside a single suite of a fictional Los Angeles hotel. Each episode tells a standalone story from a different genre, writer and director that focuses on the relationship between two characters.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, anthology
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Pros and Cons (2018)
Plot Summary:
A married couple must dust off the skills of their youth when they are forced to carry out one final million-euro con. Can they save their marriage, secure the money and pick up their eight-year-old in time for curling practice?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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The Velvet Collection (2017)
Plot Summary:
It is the year 1967. After five happy years of marriage in New York with Alberto and their young son, Anna Ribera returns to Spain to take her project Velvet to the next level. She and Alberto had been managing all things Velvet from across the ocean and, together with their best friends and partners, had made a name for Velvet as the number one address in the world of fashion and innovation. Now they decide to take the next step and turn their reputation into a franchise, first at home, then abroad. The first step is opening shop in the other great Spanish city, Barcelona, on its world famous promenade, the Passeig de Gracia. There, the second Velvet Fashion Store is about to open its gates, managed by Ana's good friend Clara who had made it up the career ladder from seamstress to directorial assistant in the Madrid Velvet years.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, humorous, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Lie to Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
Li Zeiliang, the sunny and carefree heir to a conglomerate, meets the bright and bubbly Su Xieyi. They are swept into a passionate romance to spend the most unforgettable moments of their lives together. With so many entanglements, are they destined to be together or are they destined to part? An unexpected development has left the life that Su Xieyi has come to know in shambles and has destroyed her family. All clues point to her lover Li Zeliang as the instigator. In order to investigate the truth, Su Xieyi pretends to have amnesia to return to Li Zeliang's arms. In the dangerous game of love, she treads every step carefully while Li Zeliang hits rock bottom. As the truth is revealed little by little, Su Xieyi is surprised to learn that she has wrongfully blamed Li Zeliang all this time and tries desperately to save their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Perfect Life (2019)
Plot Summary:
After getting dumped by her long-term boyfriend and pregnant by a one-night stand, María’s meticulous life plan begins to slip into disarray – but her sister Esther and best friend Cristina are determined to see her through.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Pørni (2021)
Plot Summary:
Pørni is about the dilemmas that you end up in when you, to the best of your abilities, try to do the right thing for your loved ones, and yourself. In that order. Pørni has two daughters with a jerk of an ex who has moved to Copenhagen, who focuses mainly on himself.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Hiccups and Hookups (2021)
Plot Summary:
A recently separated single mother, her commitment-phobic and successful younger brother, and her smart but confused teenaged daughter - all of whom make a sweet, unconventional family of three try their best to handle dating, relationships, and life.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, sitcom, semi serious
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Daytime Divas (2017)
Plot Summary:
Every weekday at noon, Maxine, Mo, Heather, Kibby, and Nina—hosts of The Lunch Hour, the long-running women’s talk show—gather around the table to discuss life, love, politics, and juicy gossip. But behind the scenes, it’s even juicier — a backstage world filled with power struggles, diva fits, and steamy affairs. Inspired by the book “Satan’s Sisters” by Star Jones, television personality, lawyer and journalist.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, soap opera
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Paris etc. (2017)
Plot Summary:
Five women and Paris. Five ways of being, crying, screaming and laughing, missing the bus, grinding teeth, enjoying, not enjoying, drinking too much, growing up, resisting, making a child or not, do not wanting to go home... Five ways to love. Five everyday heroines across Paris, from the start of the school year to the Christmas holidays.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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La Desalmada (2021)
Plot Summary:
Fernanda Linares (Livia Brito) is a woman thirsty for revenge after the murder of her husband on their wedding night, where in addition, Fernanda was a victim of rape after the event occurred. However, Fernanda's life will change when she meets Rafael Toscano (José Ron), a handsome young man who recently just received his university degree with whom she will empathize and return to Fernanda the opportunity to love again.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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The Glorious Era (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set in the period before and after the founding of PRC, it is a story that follows the first generation of People's Public Security. CCP undercover agent, Zheng Chao Yang, engages in a battle of wits and will against KMT operatives. Before the battle of Liaoshen, Communist operative CCP undercover agent, Zheng Chao Yang (Zhang Yi), infiltrates and lurks in the Peiping police station. Zheng Chao Yang's identity is discovered by a traitor, forcing him to evacuate the police station immediately. In his escape, he is able to take with him a secret list of KMT spies that can deal a detrimental blow to the KMT. After the liberation of Peiping, Zheng Chao Yang returns to the city. However, waiting for him is a new battlefield. The KMT has dispatched a team of elite spies operating under the codename "Tao Yuan". Tao Yuan is led by the elite spy codenamed "Phoenix" and who is actually Chao Yang's older brother, Zheng Chao Shan (Huang Zhizhong), who is a famous doctor.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sultan of My Heart (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mahmud brings Anna to his palace to teach his children French. The Russian ambassador also sends him there with the pressure to 'spy on his country'.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Turkey, Russia
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sincere, captivating, tense, suspense
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Different Dreams (2019)
Plot Summary:
During the Japanese colonial rule of Korea, a Korean surgeon who was raised by a Japanese family becomes a spy for the Korean government.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Club (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dealing with the pressure of his father and his need to be someone, Pablo decides to start a new shady, tricky business that will lead him to some happy but tragic experiences.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 962
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, sex comedy
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Northern Lights (2006)
Plot Summary:
Northern Lights is a 2006 comedy-drama. It is a spin-off of the 2004 Christmas special Christmas Lights. A sequel, City Lights, was broadcast in 2007. Also a Christmas special, Clash of the Santas, was broadcast in December 2008. It featured Colin and Howie taking a trip to Lithuania to represent the United Kingdom in a Santa convention. The main problem with this is that miserable Howie is picked as Santa, while true Christmas believer Colin is relegated to the role of cheerleading elf.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Irma Vep (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mira is an American movie star disillusioned by her career and a recent breakup, who comes to France to star as “Irma Vep” in a remake of the French silent film classic, “Les Vampires.” Set against the backdrop of a lurid crime thriller, Mira struggles as the distinctions between herself and the character she plays begin to blur and merge.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 428 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, humorous
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Mixte (2021)
Plot Summary:
It’s the first day of the 1963 school year at Voltaire High! And for the first time, girls and boys will mingle. This first year of coeducation is full of surprises, both for teachers and students.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, humorous, captivating, disturbing, queer cinema
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The Enemy Within (2019)
Plot Summary:
Erica Shepherd is a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history serving life in a Supermax prison. Against every fiber of his being but with nowhere else to turn, FBI Agent Will Keaton enlists Shepherd to help track down a fiercely dangerous and elusive criminal she knows all too well. While Shepherd and Keaton have different motivations for bringing the enemy to justice, they both know that to catch a spy… they must think like one.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, disturbing, suspense, captivating, detective, action adventure, suspenseful
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Simply María (2015)
Plot Summary:
Will Maria marry Christoper.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, telenovela
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Aftertaste (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story of Easton West, an internationally-renowned yet volatile celebrity chef who has a spectacular fall from grace and returns to his hometown in the Adelaide Hills, Australia.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, funny
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I Do, I Do (2012)
Plot Summary:
I Do, I Do is a 2012 South Korean romantic-comedy television series, starring Kim Sun-a, Lee Jang-woo, Park Gun-hyung and Im Soo-hyang. It is about a successful shoe designer in her late 30s whose career is sidetracked when she accidentally gets knocked up. The series aired on MBC from May 30 to July 19, 2012 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious, dorama
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The Lady from Vendaval (2012)
Plot Summary:
La Mujer Del Vendaval is a 2012 Mexican telenovela produced by Mapat L. de Zatarain for Televisa. It is a remake of the Venezuelan telenovela Un Esposo para Estela. Ariadne Díaz and José Ron star as the main protagonists, while Chantal Andere, Marco Muñoz, Manuel Flaco Ibañez and Florencia del Saracho as the main antagonists.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing, telenovela
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Work Later, Drink Now (2021)
Plot Summary:
Three single women in 30s gather and talk about everyday life from work to love. Nothing is more important to them than enjoying a drink after work.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Odd weeks (2021)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Wednesdays Don't Exist (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three men and three women cross each others' paths at different times and places in Madrid during their daily life and amorous pursuits.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, satirical, disturbing