Best tv shows like Cursed in Love
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Plot Summary:
Nao spent her formative years living at Kogetsuan, a well-established Japanese confectionery shop, where her single mother worked as a pastry chef. She is the same age as Tsubaki, heir to the store, and they become each other's first love. One morning, Tsubaki's father and head of Kogetsuan is stabbed and found covered in blood. Nao's mother is arrested based on the six-year-old Tsubaki's testimony and the little girl is kicked out of the shop. Nao's mother died while the investigation was going on, preventing the truth to emerge. Fifteen years later, the case is still shrouded in mystery. Is she really the culprit?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, romantic, touching, emotional, melancholic, talky
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The Ranger - On the Hunt (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Ranger - On the Hunt is a German television series that has been produced for Das Erste since 2018 on behalf of ARD-Degeto and MDR. The episodes are about 90 minutes long and will be broadcast as part of the series Endlich Freitag on Das Erste. The central character of the series is Jonas Waldek who worked as a ranger in Canada for several years and returned to his hometown of Wehlen to work as a ranger in the Saxon Switzerland National Park.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Crime, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky
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The Many Faces of Ito (2017)
Plot Summary:
A jaded rom-com screenwriter in her 30s mines four love-sick women for their stories under the guise of providing them with romantic advice.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, humorous, emotional, talky
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The Diary of the 38-year-old Divorcee who has tried a Dating App (2020)
Plot Summary:
Matsumoto Chiaki is a 38-year-old woman who got married at 24 and divorced at 35. As she's almost 40, she decides to try a dating app and meet various types of men to recover the youth she lost from her early marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, emotional, melancholic, talky
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Ru: Taiwan Express (2020)
Plot Summary:
In 1999, a general trading company in Tokyo celebrates because Shinkansen of Japan wins priority negotiating rights for the Taiwan High Speed Rail. Haruka Tada (Haru) has been working at the general trading company for 4 years and she is sent to Taiwan for work. When Haruka Tada was a university student, she visited Taiwan for the first time during the summer. During that time, she happened to meet young Taiwanese man Eric and he showed her Taiwan for a day. She lost contact with him after that and she could not find him again. She then sealed away her thoughts about him in her mind. 6 years later, Haruka Tada arrives in Taiwan again.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan, Taiwan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, emotional, melancholic, talky
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My Engineer (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Bon the popular engineering students start a revenge plan on Duen The innocent first year medical students slowly their feelings start to grow through roses that Duen Have to buy for Bon every day for a month. The series bring out the different side of each couple and their journey with friends and relationship. Join us and see how their feelings slowly evolved with each other through the 4 couples.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, melancholic, talky
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My Dear Lady (2020)
Plot Summary:
After getting a divorce from her husband, Ling Xunxun decides to celebrate her singlehood. However on her way to a party, her car collided with a luxurious car on the roadside. The owner of the car Cheng Li, a young man who appears to be a university graduate, asked her for a huge amount of compensation. What makes the situation worse is that the he also turns out to be the boss of her new company.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, humorous, emotional, talky
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Weakest Beast (2018)
Plot Summary:
Seemingly perfect from the outside, Shinkai Akira was exhausted from worrying too much about how to be perfect. Nemoto Kousei is amicable and popular with women, but he trusts no one and views everything with a cold heart. The two of them, who became unable to live instinctively like animals, meet by chance at a craft beer bar after work and gradually become close enough to fight and tell each other how they really feel. Due to their encounter, even while getting hurt, they begin to try to be themselves and start taking a step forward.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, touching, emotional, talky
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Her Legend (2013)
Plot Summary:
Despite her poverty and lack of education or connections, bright and plucky Eun Jung-soo works her way up in the luxury handbag industry based on sheer talent alone. She encounters Do Jin-hoo, the smart and handsome chaebol heir of a fashion company, and Kim Seo-hyun who has to hide her true identity in order to achieve her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky
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When I Was the Most Beautiful (2020)
Plot Summary:
Oh Ye Ji is an art student who dreams of becoming a ceramic artist. She heads to school in Yangpyeong as both a student and a teacher, where she meets brothers Seo Hwan and Seo Jin. Hwan, who is Ye Ji’s student, falls in love with her and takes her to his father’s workshop to confess his feelings. However, at the workshop, Ye Ji meets Jin. Although Jin is aware of Hwan’s feelings toward Ye Ji, Jin does not hesitate to win over Ye Ji’s heart and eventually gets engaged to her. Overnight, those who are meant to be each other’s strongest supporters end up becoming the worst enemies thanks to a twist of fate. Straddling desire and love, the three struggle to figure out what’s right during the most beautiful time of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, emotional, talky
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Threads - Our Tapestry of Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ren Takahashi and Aoi Sonoda were both born in 1989. They met for the first time at the age of 13 and became each other's first love, but they separated. At the age of 21, they met again. They were unable to undo their past. Now, they are 31 years old.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, melancholic, talky
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A Crazy Wind (2018)
Plot Summary:
Melike Candan a star in the 80s, now cleans toilets at a bar where one days he meets Gökçe Yücel, who has big hopes for the future.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, sexy, touching, emotional, melancholic, talky
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The Imperial Coroner (2021)
Plot Summary:
Young girl Chu Chu came from a family of coroners. She meets Prince Xiao Jinyu, a dignified prince in charge of criminal lawsuit who appeared weak and sickly. Prince Xiao lacks reliable manpower to investigate case, while Chu Chu lacks people to stepup, take charge and be a man. Together, they manage to unravel a shocking case that has dragged on for 18 years. After solving the case, she won the Emperor's approval and is finally certified as the Imperial Coroner, fulfilling her life goal.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, romantic, suspense, melancholic, suspenseful, disturbing, talky
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The Smile Has Left Your Eyes (2018)
Plot Summary:
A detective thinks about quitting his job. He takes on a female university student murder case that was disguised as a suicide. The detective becomes obsessed with solving the case. He has a young sister and she meets a man. The man does not remember when he was little. He is not a good person, but she has sympathy for him. The detective tries to push the man away from his younger sister. The detective suspects that the man is somehow involved in the female university student murder case. The man and the detective's younger sister fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, romantic, dorama, detective
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In Family We Trust (2018)
Plot Summary:
It’s a drama about conflicts in a big family, involving murder and a police investigation. The title is a twist on the idiom, blood is thicker than water. Because of the conflicts, their family bonds aren’t strong. When one relative mysteriously dies, the true colors of everyone in the family are about to be revealed. Yi, the eldest brother and Pete, the second brother, try to find out the truth. Patsorn and Cris, their mother, are the biggest suspects. Both of them need to prove their innocence. But the more Yi and Pete investigate, the more dirt they find on the family and everyone becomes a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Ending Planner (2012)
Plot Summary:
Saikō no Jinsei no Owarikata: Ending Planner is a Japanese television drama series. It premiered on TBS on January 12, 2012. The drama revolves around the members of the Ihara family who operate a funeral parlor in Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, dorama
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Strawberry Night (2012)
Plot Summary:
Reiko Himekawa is a female detective at the Metropolitan Police Department. Reiko doesn't come from an elite background, but she has risen fast through the ranks with hard work and gain the respect of the policeman.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Cherish the Day (2020)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the stirring relationship of one couple, with each episode spanning a single day. The narrative will unfold to reveal significant moments in a relationship that compel us to hold true to the ones we love, from the extraordinary to the everyday.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, romantic, touching, emotional, melancholic, talky, anthology
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The Way We Were (2018)
Plot Summary:
Xiao Qing is an exchange student in the US. The daughter of a heroic prosecutor back home, she takes extreme pride in her father’s work. Her dad is an incorruptible arbiter of justice, and Xiao Qing lives her life with the same principles. Shu Che is Xiao Qing’s classmate. Unlike Xiao Qing's father, Shu Che’s dad is a little less pure. As a government official, Shu Che’s dad has taken part in quite a few shady deals. With these deals, he has opened many doors for his son. But Shu Che doesn’t want any part of that. When Xiao Qing and Shu Che meet, they fall in love. But when their fathers clash in a legal battle, the lovers’ relationship is forever changed. As they struggle between their duty and their love, the two realize that they can never again be the way they once were.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky
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Framed for Murder: A Fixer Upper Mystery (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the small resort town of Lighthouse Cove, everyone knows that the best man for the job is a woman. And that woman is Shannon Hughes, owner of a construction company and an expert in Victorian home restoration and renovation. Through her renovations she will find clues to uncover the house’s secret past and in turn become an unlikely sleuth to help crack these unsolved mysteries.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing, emotional
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Love in Time (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two former enemies from high school whose lives keep intersecting end up in a contract marriage with each other as adults. Xu Jian'an is an unknown author whose family is in a tough spot. To alleviate her situation, she has no choice but to agree to enter into a contract marriage with Lu Boyan. Lu Boyan has become a guru in the world of investments. The two people who have very different temperaments are also at odds due to a childhood misunderstanding, yet they must know to learn to live together. A sweet cohabitation war under the same roof ensues.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, humorous, emotional, talky
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I Picked Up a Star on the Road (2018)
Plot Summary:
Contract worker Lee Yeon Seo daydreams about teaching her manager a lesson, but accidentally acts out her fantasy on none other than top Hallyu star Kang Joon Hyuk. Thinking she killed him but afraid to be labeled a murderer, she takes him home and prepares to get rid of the body. But Joon Hyuk wakes up and seeing her preparations thinks he has been kidnapped by a murderous psychopath. Seeing no other option, she keeps him hostage so he doesn't turn her in to the police. How long can she keep him hidden and can she ever convince him she's not an evil person?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky
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Hundred Year Inheritance (2013)
Plot Summary:
A warm-hearted family drama about a three-generation family and their noodle factory that they operate in the outskirts of Seoul.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, touching, emotional
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Forest (2020)
Plot Summary:
Kang San-Hyeok is a member of the 119 special rescue team. He is handsome and smart, but he does not remember his childhood. Jung Young-Jae is an enthusiastic surgical resident. Kang San-Hyeok and Jung Young-Jae meet at a mysterious forest. Even though they do not want to, they must live together in the mysterious forest. Living there, they discover small pleasures. Kang San-Hyeok and Jung Young-Jae soon uncover a secret about themselves and the forest.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, emotional, talky, dorama
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Run On (2020)
Plot Summary:
Veering off course from his preset path, a track star follows his own pace and heart for the first time after a film translator steps into his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, melancholic, talky
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One in a Hundred Thousand (2020)
Plot Summary:
Rino Sakuragi (Yuna Taira) is a high school student. She is good friends with Ren Kiritani (Alan Shirahama) who attends the same high school. They have been close since their middle school days. Rino holds special feelings for Ren Kiritani, but she is unable to tell him how she feels because he is popular. One day, Ren confesses to Rino that he likes her. They begin to date and enjoy their time together, but Rino is diagnosed with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, emotional, melancholic, talky
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Us Forever (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ichiharu Sudo is a furniture craftsman. He is very serious about his craft and becomes immersed in his work, but he has a hard time to create a new work that can surpass that of his teacher. This causes him to go into a slump. Ichiharu Sudo meets Sakurako Motohashi. Sakurako Motohashi works at an advertising company and she isn't very good when it comes to dating. These two people become attracted to each other, but they both carry emotional wounds that they don't talk about. Ichiharu Sudo can't get over the death of a person who was very important to him. For about a week every December, Ichiharu Sudo loses his voice. Meanwhile, Sakurako Motohashi’s father went bankrupt. She has supported her family since that time, but she wants to run away from her situation. Ichiharu Sudo and Sakurako Motohashi begin to date for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, psychological, romantic, captivating, melancholic, dramatic, talky
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Dark Woods (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1989, the sister of Hamburg's LKA chief Thomas Bethge disappears without a trace. For almost three decades, he investigates the mysterious criminal case, before he gets on the trail of a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Crimson Wedding (2018)
Plot Summary:
There is a party atmosphere in Provence: Sandra, the daughter of a couple of renowned local restaurant owners, is getting married, and her sister Alice comes home for the occasion. The family reunion is initially a carefree affair… but then tragedy strikes. A few hours after the ceremony, the bride is found dead at the bottom of a cliff. What at first looks like suicide could well be murder. When Vincent, a family friend, investigates, behind the veil of appearances, he stumbles on some very dark secrets….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Innocent Days (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sasaki Shinichi looks at his childhood friend Tanaka Yukino in court. Yukino is sentenced to death. She went to her ex-boyfriend’s apartment and caused his wife and child to burn to death. Shinichi knows his childhood friend and perceives that she is innocent. He wants to save Yukino and meets people who knew her including her sister and former classmates. ~~Based on the novel "Innocent Days" by Kazumasa Hayami.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative
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High School Entrance Exam (2012)
Plot Summary:
Kyoko, a newly-appointed English teacher at a rural but well-respected, prestigious prefectural high school, had spent her childhood and high school years overseas before returning to Japan. Because she lived abroad for a long time, she cannot understand the old-fashioned ideas peculiar to Japan and tends to be frank about what she thinks. On the eve and the day of the school entrance examination, various incidents occur. There is the spectre of someone attempting to wreck the examination for some motive. Everyone present is a potential suspect and the truth remains shrouded in mystery to the end.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, talky