Best tv shows like Bad Papa
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Plot Summary:
Yoo Ji-Cheol used to be a top boxer, but he lost everything in a moment. All of his money and fame vanished and his life was ruined. He decides to gain control of his life through mixed martial arts.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Yeditepe Istanbul (2001)
Plot Summary:
When Olcay's husband commits suicide and leaves a huge debt behind, Olcay and her teenage daughter, Duru, are forced to move to a slum in Istanbul. They find themselves financially dependent on Olcay's only remaining friend, so Olcay starts to look for a job. Without any degree or experience, she tries to survive doing all sorts of odd jobs. Meanwhile, her neighbors, who are completely different from the people in Olcay's old world, begin to get to like the mother and daughter. Some even fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Turkey
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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His Excellency (2014)
Plot Summary:
After his retirement, Bahgat constantly runs into trouble with his family, thanks to his wife’s intense jealousy, his issues with his children and their spouses, and the generational gap between him and his grandchildren.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 878
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Egypt
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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All Kinds of Daughters-in-Law (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hwang Eun Byul, a ghostwriter for a publishing company, and Hwang Geum Byul, a leader for the PR department at a fashion company, are fraternal twin sisters, but their mother has always favored Geum Byul. The sisters end up marrying into rivaling families, and the story follows them as they try to work through their conflicts with communication and a positive attitude.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Man Who Sets The Table (2017)
Plot Summary:
Lee Roo-Ri tries to get a job at big company, but she gives up. She doesn't have a good relationship with her strict father. Lee Roo-Ri decides to travel to a foreign country to get away. There, she meets Jung Tae-Yang who goes by the YOLO motto. He wanders around the world and places priority on his happiness, but he also carries an emotional wound.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Precious Family (2004)
Plot Summary:
Precious Family is a South Korean television series starring Kim Hee-ae, Hur Joon-ho, Song Jae-ho, Kim Hae-sook, Jang Hyun-sung, Lee Dong-wook, and Lee Yoo-ri. It aired on KBS2 from October 16, 2004 to July 5, 2005 on Saturdays and Sundays at 19:55 for 68 episodes. Shedding light on the importance of family and marriage through the realistic portrayal of one woman who experiences many trials in her life including her husband's infidelity, friction with difficult in-laws, and the hardship of raising an autistic son, the drama received solid ratings and critical approval.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Once We Were Six (2019)
Plot Summary:
The plot tells the history and daily life of the Lemos Family between the 1920s and 1940s. Júlio works in a fabric store and has the ambition of getting rich to offer his family a good life. His wife, Lola, does everything she can to keep her family together, because she believes that this way they can move on.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Stand Strong (2011)
Plot Summary:
Matt Webster measures his success by his possessions. Though he appears to have it all, pride of ownership does little to fill the void of a purposeless life. Brokern relationships, isolation and pain for himself and his family, are the result of his pride and selfishness. Through a series of financial and family crises, Matt and his family are stripped of all they own and are humbled enough to learn what success is really all about.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, christian film
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Northern Rescue (2019)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his wife, Sarah, John West, packs up his three children and moves from their hectic urban life to his small northern hometown to take command of the local search-and-rescue service. Once there, the family struggles with their new surroundings, new friends and accepting Sarah's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Tracy Beaker Returns (2010)
Plot Summary:
Tracy Beaker Returns is a BAFTA-winning British children's television series, which premiered on 8 January 2010 on CBBC and BBC HD. Based upon the novels by Jacqueline Wilson, it is the spin-off series to The Story of Tracy Beaker. The series stars Dani Harmer as protagonist Tracy Beaker. The final third series ended on 23 March 2012. The series will continue as The Dumping Ground which started airing on 4 January 2013.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Bidding Farewell (2007)
Plot Summary:
A mother who learns she has a deadly illness must find a new mother for her children.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera
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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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Naked Fireman (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kang Chul Soo (Lee Joon Hyuk) is an enthusiastic fireman. He poses as a nude model to make money for his sick friend. He is then targeted as the criminal of an arson-murder case that took place 10 years. Kang Chul Soo and mysterious heiress Han Jin Ah (Jung In Sun) try to find the real culprit.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Auntie Duohe (2009)
Plot Summary:
After losing her kin in the wake of the Second Sino-Japanese War, a Japanese girl in China stays to live with a traditional Chinese family.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Man Who Dies to Live (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the late 1970's, Jang Dal-Goo went to the Middle East and settled down in the small kingdom. He became Count Souad Fahd Ali and found success there, but he returns to South Korea to find his daughter. He appears in front his daughter Lee Ji-Young and his son-in-law Kang Ho-Rim. Lee Ji-Young has a positive personality and her dream is to have a happy family and become a writer. Kang Ho-Rim has a great looking appearance and works as an ordinary salaryman.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Drama Special (2010)
Plot Summary:
Forget the existing one-act dramas! Short but impactive! KBS Drama Special presents high quality single episode dramas. Dramas are the broadcast content with the widest public appeal. KBS Drama Special will produce short dramas of far-reaching impact involving at times a serious social message, unique emotions or perspectives. It will stay abreast of modern viewership.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Elite Short Stories: Samuel Omar (2021)
Plot Summary:
Away from school, during the winter holidays, three stories take place while the Las Encinas students celebrate Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Golden Rainbow (2013)
Plot Summary:
A drama about seven siblings, all of them are orphans and not blood-related, love each other more than real siblings. They will go through many hardships together. Baek Won is the leader of seven orphans who band together to make their own family. Meanwhile, Do Young is the prosecutor who falls in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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What's Wrong, Poong-Sang (2019)
Plot Summary:
Poong Sang is a lonely, pitiful middle-aged man, who has never lived his life for himself. Up until now, he took care of his four younger siblings and supported them financially. Will he ever get to find happiness for himself?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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Wounded Birds (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Story of a brother, sister and her love, protecting them from every evil. Every character have wounded feeling. How life give them suffering and the solution itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Glass Home (2010)
Plot Summary:
Glass Home is a Bulgarian drama series created by bTV. It's a family drama and the executive producers are Dimityr Mitovski and Dimityr Gochev from "Camera OOD". It airs in bTV's primetime. Some of Bulgaria's most famous actors star in the series, which is directed by Viktor Bojinov and Petar Rusev.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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EXIT (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kang Soo is a loan shark that tries to get by day to day in his depressing reality. His father's abuse lead to his mother running away from home. Thanks to his father's crippling debt, he began to work under Hwang Tae Bok. Happiness wasn't something that was allowed to him. His only dream is to find his mother and live a happy life. However, this is impossible in his life. No matter how hard he tries, he can't escape the nightmare of his reality, and when he was about to give up on his life, he sees a flier asking, "Do you want to become happy?" With the smallest inkling of hope, he goes to the research center, so he can experience a bit of happiness. However, he learns that happiness comes at a steep price of 300,000 dollars. He decides to steal the money from Tae Bok. Will he be able to achieve happiness?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Rich and Poor (2019)
Plot Summary:
In the same neighborhood in Istanbul, two different houses in two different worlds. Berringiller, who was struggling with their livelihood at the foot of the slope, and their rich relatives are Erdemliler. Aysel no longer wants to take money from her rich relatives. She doesn't want to wear Aleyna's old ones.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Tricky Business (2012)
Plot Summary:
Warm, funny and moving, Tricky Business looks at the lengths people go to get themselves out of trouble - financial trouble, emotional trouble, growing up trouble, relationship trouble… things we all have to deal with at some time or other.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Woman (2013)
Plot Summary:
After the accidental death of her husband and being deemed ineligible for welfare, Koharu struggles to care for her two children.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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This is Not a Business Expense! (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sanako Moriwaka (Mikako Tabe) is single and works in the accounting department of a soap company. For her job, she checks receipts and bills. Each slip that she reviews, mentions only the dollar amount and a brief reason for the expense. When Sanako Moriwaka reviews the slips, she can often discern suspicious facts surrounding the expense or even troubles in the lives of the employee.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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A House Divided (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Sanders family is shaken when their matriarch, Pamela Sanders, suddenly dies. Cameron Sanders Sr. grieves while being investigated by the SEC. His sons search for answers but one soon spirals out of control, while his daughter finds solace in the arms of her cousin's husband. Can the family find a way to face their enemies together, or will the secrets and lies tear them apart?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 32 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Wang’s Family (2013)
Plot Summary:
Wang Subak, the eldest daughter of the Wang family, had married into a wealthy family. But after her husband Ko Minjung goes bankrupt, she and her family have to move back into her parents' home. Second daughter Hobak is also having financial difficulties with her jobless husband Heo Sedal, while third daughter Gwangbak suddenly decides to quit her stable job as a teacher to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. Navigating the pressures of their circumstances will test every member of the family as they struggle to find happiness and love.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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The Gravedigger's Wife (2021)
Plot Summary:
Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already working hard as a gravedigger to make ends meet.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France, Somalia, Qatar
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Kardeslerim (2021)
Plot Summary:
4 siblings have to struggle with life after their parents' death.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Jyouou (2005)
Plot Summary:
Fujisaki Aya is a young college student whose family is 150 million yen in debt after her father's corporation went bankrupt. To earn the money, she enters the Hostess Grand Prix.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing