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Plot Summary:
Brazilian version of the classic 18th century novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Set in the 1920's, this adaptation in 10 episodes takes the story of love, lust and revenge to another era.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela
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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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Lady Altagracia (2016)
Plot Summary:
A story of revenge and ambition, seduction and betrayal; all told from the perspective of an offended and abused woman named Altagracia. Altagracia represents the hundreds of thousands of Mexican women who have been victims of the violence by faceless men who are protected by impunity. But Altagracia, transformed into a strong-willed, ruthless man-eater known as La Doña, will seek out each and every one of these men to bring them to justice.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, novela, telenovela
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Tierra de Pasiones (2006)
Plot Summary:
In a beautiful valley where the most exquisite grapes are farmed, an intense and sizzling love story will flourish between Valeria San Roman, a beautiful woman with a strong character, which has given her the strength to face life's deceptions, and Francisco Contreras, renowned publisher, widower and a man of will. Valeria, who manages the San Roman vineyard, hasn't had an easy life. Her own father, Jose Maria 'Chema' San Roman, the family's patriarch, has always hated her because she is the only one who doesn't obey him. A man without scruples, selfish and womanizing, Chema arrived to the United States, married Valeria's mom to steal everything from her and later disposed of her. If that weren't enough, Chema schemes a hideous plan causing Valeria to experience a horrible betrayal. Meanwhile, Francisco arrives to visit his father at the ranch only to learn that he has married Marcia, a woman much younger than he who leads him to the brink of bankruptcy and drives him to suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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Forbidden Desire (2007)
Plot Summary:
Desejo Proibido is a Brazilian telenovela broadcast by Globo Network, at 6 pm, every day, except Sunday. In the cast: Fernanda Vasconcellos, Murilo Rosa and Daniel de Oliveira.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera
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Madre Luna (2007)
Plot Summary:
Madre Luna is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series, also known as Grains of Love, debuted on July 2, 2007. Veteran telenovela writer Julio Jiménez developed the story as a vehicle for star Amparo Grisales. The show scored a 35 percent share of the Colombian audience during the summer of 2007. During November 2007, it averaged 571,000 core adult viewers. Luna's final episode aired Monday, January 28, 2008.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, telenovela
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Brave Woman (2012)
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A moving tale of courage and resilience in the struggle for freedom – this is the role that life has cast for headstrong Morena in Brave Woman. Raised in a poor neighborhood in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, this tough and humble woman will spare no effort to protect her family and gain her independence.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, touching, realistic, semi serious, affectionate, telenovela
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Orphans of a Nation (2019)
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Victim of a devastating bombing, a young Syrian woman agrees to marry a powerful sheikh in exchange for the money needed to save her agonizing brother. But everything changes when the boy dies and the girl must flee with her family to start a new life. Enraged, the sheikh sends his right-hand man after the bride and they fall for each other, living a forbidden love. Their relationship is put to the test when the sheikh's daughter decides to take vengeance on the couple after her father's mysterious death. From Emmy Award winners Thelma Guedes and Duca Rachid, Orphans of a Nation is a story of empathy and love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, sincere, realistic, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Xica da Silva (1996)
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In the Colonial Brazil, a smart, sassy and sensual slave rises to become a queen as an important contractor falls for her, all for the anger of a woman obsessed with him.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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These Women (2005)
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The plot takes place in 1880, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, following the lives of three strong and determined women. Aurélia, Maria da Glória and Mila are great friends who attend etiquette classes together, but life doesn't take long to put them in completely different directions.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Dark Days (2017)
Plot Summary:
The plot brings fiction and reality together to show how a country's political context affects the lives, dreams and paths of ordinary people.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 37 min
Plot tags: psychological, novela, tense, sentimental, sexy, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative
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Strangers (1996)
Plot Summary:
Anthology series of stand alone episodes about Americans in Paris and the sometimes tragic and sometimes uplifting relationships, trysts and loves they find there.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anthology, erotic
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Volver a Caer (2023)
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Ana travels to San Gabriel to help her brother with her marriage. Upon arrival she meets Vico, a young musician with whom she seems destined to meet.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration:
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Time After Time (2015)
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Lívia and Felipe are in a forbidden love story doomed to end tragically. A century later, they both have a new chance to make their love real again. “Time After Time” is an innovative romance set in two different eras in which characters hold the opportunity to make up for their mistakes, come to terms with the past and write themselves another story.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, sincere, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Wounded Past (2016)
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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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Port of Miracles (2001)
Plot Summary:
Porto dos Milagres is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and aired by TV Globo from 5 February to 29 September 2001, totaling 203 chapters. It was written by Aguinaldo Silva and Ricardo Linhares and loosely based on two works written by Jorge Amado - The Dead Sea and the discovery of America by the Turks. Had Philip collaboration Miguez, Maria Elisa Berredo, Nadotti Nelson and Gloria Baker, directed by Fabricio Mamberti and Luciano Sabino. Director general Mark and Robert Paul Naar, co-directed by Fabricio Mamberti and Luciano Sabino. Had the direction of core Marcos Paulo.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Scarlet and Black (1993)
Plot Summary:
The story of an ambitious but impoverished young man who seduces women of social class in order to improve his own prospects in 19th century France.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 238 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, romantic, costume drama, period drama, hot
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Side by Side (2012)
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Lado a Lado is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by Rede Globo from September 10, 2012 to March 8, 2013. Written by Claudia Lage and João Ximenes Braga, with collaborations by Chico Soares, Douglas Tourinho, Fernando Rebello, Vellego Jackie, Nina Crintzs and Maria Camargo, script supervision by Gilberto Braga, directed by Dennis Carvalho and core general direction of Vinicius Coimbra, it starrs Camila Pitanga and Marjorie Estiano as the main characters.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Celebrity (2003)
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A successful businesswoman in the music industry sees her life fall apart after a young and mysterious woman starts work as her secretary. The scheming girl is totally obsessed by the famous businesswoman and she tries to steal everything from her, including her career.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, romantic, captivating, suspense, telenovela
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Forbidden Love (2008)
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Having lost his wife eleven years ago, Adnan devoted all his attention to his daughter Nihal and his son Bülent. Adnan, who lives in one of the most prominent mansions along the Bosporus in Istanbul with a relative's son Behlül, and his children's nanny, meets Bihter who is also a socialite couple's daughter she is very elegant and beautiful, everyone who meets her get stunned and jealous of her, and he falls in love with her. While searching for peace, safety and happiness in Adnan's mansion, Bihter meets passion. Behlül and Bihter fall completely into each other and become drowned by their infatuation with each other. Their secret love affair will soon affect every member of the family.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, tragic ending, suspense, tense, talky, soap opera, surprise ending, telenovela
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The Life We Lead (2011)
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Ana is a promising tennis player with a collection of titles and trophies to flaunt. She finds out she is pregnant by her loving boyfriend Rodrigo. Her controlling mother, Eva, forces her to break up with Rodrigo and compels her to stay out of town until the baby is born. Eva’s biggest concern is that she doesn’t lose any of her sponsorship deals. Later, Ana returns home and is eager to resume her athletic career, raise her baby Julia, and tell Rodrigo the truth.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, captivating, telenovela
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Doomed (2014)
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Leandro is a sommelier with a penchant for women and fine wine. After seducing his boss’s wife, he is taken by surprise by the true love he feels for the married couple’s daughter, Antônia, which makes him doubt his convictions and plunge madly into a torrent of passion. When Jaime becomes aware of his wife’s infidelity, his fury coincides with the disappearance of the sommelier. Was it a planned escape or a crime of passion? The uncertainty only increases the suspense in this explosive mixture of action, romance and mystery.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, sexy, serious, captivating, exciting
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Girls from Ipanema (2019)
Plot Summary:
A 1950s housewife goes to Rio de Janeiro to meet up with her husband, only to learn he's deserted her, but decides to stay and open a bossa nova club.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, queer cinema, period drama
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Emmanuelle 2000: Emmanuelle Pie (2000)
Plot Summary:
Brazen beauty Emmanuelle embarks on more saucy sci-fi antics. A young man uses a mind-control power for his own sexual needs. Miss Emmanuelle shows up to give him more than a slap on the wrist.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Tell Me You Love Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
Tell Me You Love Me is an American cable television drama series that premiered on HBO and on The Movie Network on September 9, 2007. The series was created by Cynthia Mort and originally conceived as Sexlife. The pilot episode was produced and directed by Patricia Rozema and shot in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The series was picked up by HBO for a second season in October 2007, but was ultimately canceled in July 2008 when Mort said she and the network "were unable to find the direction of the show for the second season".
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: erotic, realistic, talky, art house, sensual, exciting, biting, sexual, sexy, serious
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Happily Ever After? (2015)
Plot Summary:
How far would you go to have your desires fulfilled? Directed by Fernando Meirelles, Happily Ever After? tells the story of a couple in crisis. When the mysterious call girl Danny Bond comes on the scene, a crime of passion changes forever the lives of all involved. Who will the victim be? And the villain? After all, in a story so full of secrets and infidelity, who can get away with it to live happily ever after?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, novela
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Valmont (1989)
Plot Summary:
Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love. Based on the same novel as "Dangerous Liaisons.".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: stylized, period piece, sensual, costume drama, sexy, realistic, erotic, historical drama, independent film, captivating
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Dangerous Liaisons (2003)
Plot Summary:
Updated adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' classic 18th Century tale of seduction, betrayal and revenge set in the modern 1960s world of Parisian high society. The beautiful Madame de Merteuil seeks vengeance against her ex-lover Gercourt when he becomes engaged to her young goddaughter, Cécile. Merteuil turns to her ex-lover/partner-in-crime, Valmont, famous for his reputation as a Don Juan, to seduce Cécile and emotionally destroy her. While on his mission, Valmont gets sidetracked when he goes to visit his aunt and falls for Madame Tourvel, a virtuous, married woman who knows of his womanizing ways, but that only makes the challenge more exciting to Valmont. Together, Madame de Merteuil and Valmont make a dangerous team and they will stop at nothing when it comes to matters of the heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 252 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, sexy, stylized, captivating, serious, realistic, sexual, modern day adaptation
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Sex/Life (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman's daring sexual past collides with her married-with-kids present when the bad-boy ex she can't stop fantasizing about crashes back into her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, psychological, romantic, humorous, captivating, steamy
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Cruel Intentions (1999)
Plot Summary:
Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his most prized possession.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 202000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexual, romantic, erotic, sexy, sensual, teen, cynical, suspense, cult classic, dark
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Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Plot Summary:
Dangerous Liaisons is the film based on the novel of the same name by Choderlos de Laclos set in 18th century France. Marquise de Merteuil’s asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned in this love triangle drama.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: sexy, costume drama, period piece, sexual, erotic, historical drama, sensual, romantic, atmospheric, suspense