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Plot Summary:
Bulut is working for Ferman Köklükaya, the owner of a big construction company. A successful and ambitious man, Bulut is also married to Ferman's spoiled daughter Sude. Ferman caused the death of Bulut's father working as the site manager; but Bulut does not know about this yet. Sude and Bulut have an unhappy marriage and one day, at a hotel opening, Bulut meets the young and beautiful promising violinist Melek. It is love at first sight.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dangerous Beauty (2012)
Plot Summary:
Muazzez (Gizem Karaca) is a beautiful and young girl who loses her father and becomes all alone in this world. After her father's death, she struggles with the difficulties in her life but she never loses her hope. She thinks that she does not have any relative, for this reason, she tries to stand on her own legs. However, she has an uncle whom she has never met. Her uncle has been angry at Muazzez's father for a very long time that's why, he has never seen Muazzez. When Muazzez loses her father, her uncle decides to look after her nephew and sends his older son Namik (Murat Han) to find her. Namik explains everything to Muazzez and bring her to Istanbul. Now, Muazzez has a new life in this beautiful city. She starts to live with her uncle, her cousin Sait (Mehmetcan Mincinozlu), Namik and his wife Sayeste (Seda Akman). Muazzez arrival to the house changes everything immediately. Both Namik and Sait develop a crush on her. Although Namik is married with Sayeste and even though he is older than Muazzez, he cannot stand for her beauty. On the other hand, Sait is a young and handsome boy who goes to university. He is a womanizer but he also cannot stand for Muazzez's beauty. At the beginning, Muazzez shows no interest in neither Sait nor Namik. She calls Namik as an older brother. However, as time passes, she also starts to develop a crush on Sait.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, disturbing, controversial
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New Life (2020)
Plot Summary:
Adam is an ex-special forces solider who is hired to work as a bodyguard for Yasmine,Tymor's wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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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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Tres Milagros (2018)
Plot Summary:
The series follows the lives of three young people who end up joining their destinies thanks to a prophecy, the prophecy says: "The day that Milagros meets Milagros and Milagros, Milagros and the love of Milagros, They will die". On September 18, 1985 there is a birth of three girls who are baptized with the same name. Catemaco's jaguar manages to see the connection between the three girls. and to his own sorrow he anticipates a prophecy. What will make the three girls start their lives and both fall in love with the same man, but only one of them will die.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, telenovela
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Ask God For Forgiveness... Not Me (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of Renata Flores del Angel, a young woman from a wealthy family who falls for Pablo Ramos, the foreman of her father's estate.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, soap opera, telenovela
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Wounded Past (2016)
Plot Summary:
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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The Innocents (2020)
Plot Summary:
Safiye and Gülben are two obsessive sisters who live in a dependent manner with their brother Han who is the only real connection between this family, including their sick father, and the world. Han’s lifelong goal is to keep this family afloat and he has no other life but his job and his home. One day Han meets İnci by accident, love will change him and he will start thinking about his own happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense
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The Clone (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lucas falls for a young Arab girl named Jade. She is caught between modern values and her Islamic upbringing. They separate and two decades pass. Then a strange turn of luck brings the pair together. Then Jade meets a clone, who is just like Lucas, but twenty years younger. She must choose between the man she loved and the memory she cherishes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Colombia, Brazil
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Miss Mermaid (2002)
Plot Summary:
《인어 아가씨》는 MBC에서 2002년 6월 24일부터 2003년 6월 27일까지 246부작으로 방영되었던 드라마이다.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, 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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From the Lips to the Heart (2007)
Plot Summary:
Dudaktan Kalbe is a Turkish television series. It stars Burak Hakki and Asli Tandogan. It is the television adaptation of Reşat Nuri Güntekin's famous novel, "Dudaktan Kalbe". He was one of the most popular writers of his period and was also a prominent name in the history of Turkish literature and drama. "Dudaktan Kalbe" recalls the pathos and romance of Leo Tolstoy's novels. It was published in 1923 and focuses on the struggle between ethics, loyalty, love and ambition. The television series ran for two seasons. This series is currently airing in Serbia as Plač violine on Prva TV at 19:20.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating
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Woman (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of mother Bahar, who carries the weight and love of two children in their hearts with enthusiasm in their hearts. Bahar, abandoned by her mother when she was eight years old, later lost her grandma and her father. When she thinks she is all alone, she meets Sarp, whom she delicately loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, entertaining
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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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Sangre de mi tierra (2017)
Plot Summary:
American drama series about two rival family wine farmers in Napa, California.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Little Nyonya (2008)
Plot Summary:
A biographic flashback of an extended Peranakan family in Malacca; set in the 1930s, the story spans over 70 years and several generations of three families.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Singapore
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, family saga
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Sacrificio de Mujer (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sacrificio de Mujer is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Venevisión International. Marjorie de Sousa and Juan A. Baptista star as the main protagonists with Mariana Torres and Pablo Azar as co-protagonists. Luis Jose Santander,Flor Núñez, Géraldine Bazán, Arnaldo Pipke and Ximena Duque star as the main villains. Filming took place in Miami, Florida in 2010. From April 18, 2011 to June 17, 2011, Univision aired double episodes weekday afternoons at 12pm/11am central. From June 20, 2011 to July 7, 2011, the remaining episodes aired for one hour weekday afternoons. As of September 21, 2011, Venevisión is currently airing Sacrificio de Mujer at 10pm.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Venezuela, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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The Girl in Blue (2010)
Plot Summary:
After university student You Jia Qi met Meng He Ping, the two started dating. Meng He Ping's mother however strongly objected to their relationship. Jia Qi broke up with He Ping and He Ping angrily went overseas. Jia Qi's friend Ruan Zheng Dong who comes from a rich family, had an accident and ended up in the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, novela
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Dila Hanım (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dila is a beautiful bride of Barazoglu family. Her life turns upside down when her lovely husband is killed by the older son of the Karadagli family, Riza. Dila swears to take revenge of her husband and swears to kill Riza. She moves out Istanbul and starts to live in a big farm house of her father-in-law in order to exact her vengeance.When Riza meets Dila, he is immediately drowned to her without knowing that she comes from Barazoglu family. At the same time, Dila falls in love with Riza but she does not know that Riza is the killer of her ex-husband.In this story, you will explore the impossible love of two proud persons who come from opposing families. Will Dila learn that Riza is the one who has killed her ex-husband? Will Dila and Riza manage to restrain their love? Will the past be forgotten?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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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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The Centimeter of Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
The play tells the story of the Yanxi Hospital doctor Xu Qingfeng on the voyage back from studying abroad, and the captain Guan Yuqing, because of tacit cooperation in helping patients, found that each other's family had hard-to-recited sutras.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Red Scarf (2011)
Plot Summary:
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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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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Goodbye Solo (2006)
Plot Summary:
Goodbye Solo is a 2006 South Korean television series starring Chun Jung-myung, Yoon So-yi, Kim Min-hee, Bae Jong-ok, Lee Jae-ryong, Kim Nam-gil, and Na Moon-hee. It aired on KBS2 from March 1 to April 20, 2006 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. In the urban melodrama, seven lead characters of different generations and backgrounds are all haunted by loneliness; they gradually interact and form a "family" borne out of emotional connection and mutual understanding. Renowned for her in-depth, realistic portrayals of ordinary lives, writer Noh Hee-kyung said that the drama's theme is that all human beings are beautiful just the way they are, simply by existing in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Imlie (2020)
Plot Summary:
All Imlie wanted was to create a name for herself in the city. But upon her arrival, she finds herself caught in the middle of Aditya and Malini's love story.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Black Pearl (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hazal, beautiful young girl is engajed with Kenan, handsome young fisherman. The day before their wedding, Hazal is forced to marry Vural, successful businessman who fall in love with her since the first time he saw her working on his birthday party as a waitress. Vurals first wife, Naz, was just alike Hazal, and thats the reason why Vural fell in love with her so much, since Naz died 2 years ago and now he finds a replacement of her in Hazal. The story is telling us about the love story between Kenan who thought Hazal dumped him just for money and higher society life and who became a successful businessman with the aim of avenging them , and Hazal who tries to forget all she has been through and the way Vural stole her dreams and youth, and of course Vural who is still waiting for Hazal to love him as much as she loves Kenan.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Enemies from the Past (2017)
Plot Summary:
Go Ya supports her family by doing part-time work. Her father had an affair and left home 10 years ago. She is now looking for a regular full-time job. Ji Seok is a lawyer who specializes in divorces. He is skeptical about marriage, but after he meets Go Ya and gets close to her, they face a difficult situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, soap opera
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Love Makes Us Cry (2019)
Plot Summary:
Young people who migrated from the provinces to Istanbul and tried to survive alone; it is the story of the conflict between their conscience and their love.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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The Third Way of Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
"The Third Way of Love" tells the sad love story of Lin Qi Zheng, who is from a rich family, and Zhou Yu who is a smart and beautiful lawyer.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, romantic drama
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Inborn Pair (2011)
Plot Summary:
Betrothed while in utero, a resort group president enters into an arranged marriage with a legal assistant. Despite their bickering, love blooms.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Erkek Severse (2022)
Plot Summary:
Zeynep who lives with her twin children, is divorced from Oktay whom she married with great love during her university years, because she was cheated on. Zeynep loses her faith in men and closes her heart to love. Until he met Kenan Yelda is one of the women after Kenan and she intends to carry on the business partnership they have just started with Kenan to marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, semi serious