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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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Marasli (2021)
Plot Summary:
Marasli (BurakDeniz) is a retired soldier turned bookstore owner. For Marasli, life changed drastically after his daughter is shot. One day, the beautiful Mahur (AlinaBoz) enters Marasli's bookstore and on that same day, she involuntarily gets involved in an incident. Marasli saves Mahur's life and from that day onwards, their fates will be linked.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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My Rosy Life (2005)
Plot Summary:
Maeng Soon-yi has sacrificed everything in her life for the sake of others. She missed out on her youth because she was too busy taking care of her father, who started drinking heavily after her mother abandoned them when Soon-yi was 10 years old. Soon-yi gave up on her own education so that she could earn the money to pay for her younger siblings' tuition. Soon-yi's younger sister Young-yi, is now a successful career woman. She is having an affair with a married man, Lee Jung-do. Jung-do was Young-yi's first love, but he broke up with her for the sake of his career. While younger brother Chul-soo has settled down in the United States where he's earning his doctorate degree, completely ignoring his responsibilities at home. Soon-yi perseveres despite the constant hardships that life throws at her. Until one day, she is jolted when Ban Sung-moon , her husband with whom she has two daughters, tells her that he has fallen in love with another woman and demands a divorce. Worse, she is diagnosed with stomach cancer shortly after. Abandoned by everyone around her, all those who she has worked so hard to make happy her entire life, Soon-yi decides that it's never too late to start living the life you want, and begins to be a little selfish and find some true happiness. When they find out about her disease, her family finally realizes what she means to them. And her husband Sung-moon also rethinks his actions and finally shows her the genuine meaning of marital love.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating
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Miracle That We Met (2018)
Plot Summary:
A man dies in a car crash, but awakes with the spirit of another person. He becomes the head of two families and he agonizes over his two different wives.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Basketball (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set during the turbulent years of the Japanese occupation until independence, and a few years before the division of Korea into North and South, the story is about the first and last time that Korea had a single, unified national basketball team, which made history by advancing to the quarterfinals of the 1948 London Olympics. The drama follows the loves, conflicts, unity, and emotional victory of young athletes who cling to the sport as the bright spot in the darkness of their times.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, period drama
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History of the Salaryman (2012)
Plot Summary:
History of a Salaryman is a 2012 South Korean television series that aired on SBS from January 2 to March 31, 2012 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 22 episodes. Starring Lee Beom-soo, Jung Ryeo-won, Jung Gyu-woon, Hong Soo-hyun, Lee Deok-hwa, and Kim Seo-hyung, the series is a quirky comedy and murder mystery about an ordinary salaryman who finds himself involved with corporate spies and rival pharmaceutical companies. It satirizes the historical events during China's Chu–Han Contention to become a parody of modern office politics.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bichunmoo (2008)
Plot Summary:
This drama depicts the sacrifices four central characters make for love, vengeance and honor as each travels a road of chosen destiny.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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You're Too Much (2017)
Plot Summary:
Yoo Ji-Na has been a popular singer for the past 20 years, but she holds pain inside because of something she abandoned when she was younger. Meanwhile, Jung Hae-Dang began working as a Yoo Ji-Na impersonator to support her family after her father lost his job. She sings on stage at a club and tries hard to mimic Yoo Ji-Na's songs.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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The Wind Blows (2019)
Plot Summary:
Do-Hoon and Soo-Jin are a married couple. Do-Hoon learns that he has Alzheimer's disease. He decides to divorce Soo-Jin out of concern for her future. The couple divorces. 6 years later, they meet again.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Navarasa (2021)
Plot Summary:
From amusement to awe, the nine human emotions of Indian aesthetic theory are explored in this anthology series.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, anthology
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Third Half (2018)
Plot Summary:
A contemporary take on "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" with the love for football as a dramatic backdrop.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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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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Love and Glory (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kazutoyo lived during the end of the Sengoku period (1546-1605). He was the first feudal lord of the fief of Tosa on the island of Shikoku. He served Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Chiyo (1557-1617) was his wife, and was known in history for her dedication and devotion to her husband (like Matsu was to Toshiie in Toshiie to Matsu). She is the daughter of a samurai who served the feudal lord Asai.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Sammi (2017)
Plot Summary:
The series centers social issues on the rural society revolving around the concept of Vanni, the series shows moral lessons against common issues such as gender discrimination. Depicting the Vanni concept storyline revolves around the journey of Sammi, a young girl who was sold off by her family to the Chaudhry family where her brother had killed her fiancé. Simultaneously it revolves around reality based issues with different characters within the same plot.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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When You Least Expect It (2022)
Plot Summary:
Explore the healing journey of five strangers, each dealing with the loss of a loved one, whose lives intersect in a group therapy session.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, 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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Woman with a Suitcase (2016)
Plot Summary:
A successful career woman gets framed for a crime and works her way back up after serving her time. She was once an office manager with a thriving career, but that takes a major hit when she is penalized for violating the Attorneys-at-Law Act and sent to prison for it. The drama follows the success story as she comes back as an ex-con, and follows her dream to become an outstanding lawyer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Second Avenue (2007)
Plot Summary:
Andra Avenyn was a Swedish drama series and soap opera, produced by SVT and broadcast from 2007 to 2010.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 491
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, soap opera
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Surgeon Bong Dal-hee (2007)
Plot Summary:
Surgeon Bong Dal-hee is a 2007 South Korean medical drama television series starring Lee Yo-won, Lee Beom-soo, Kim Min-joon and Oh Yoon-ah. It aired on SBS from January 17 to March 15, 2007 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 18 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Chrysalis (2021)
Plot Summary:
Nalan is a beautiful young woman who earns everyone's love at first sight with her warmth. As the only child of the family enlarged hand baby, baby roses, lived in the existence of life and Nalan graduated with honors the best schools, Turkey finds's largest hotel chain, which Koroglu company as an architect at running than himself Sedat Koroglu' with marriage Eve. Although Nalan and Sedat began to walk hand in hand in this tale with hope, thinking that they are moving away from the dark secrets they have kept in their past; Soon their lives will sink into real darkness.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Traces of the Hand (2017)
Plot Summary:
Is there an app to help you get the woman you love? Kim Hong Sik is a shy young man who returns to college after serving his mandatory military service. He discovers an app called T-Scope that helps him to see other people’s secret messages. Can he use it to help him capture the heart of the “Queen of the Engineering College”, whom he has secretly loved for years?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 7 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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What Happened in Bali (2004)
Plot Summary:
Soo Jung grew up poorly with her brother, Jang Soo who’s a walking disaster, after losing both of her parents at a young age. Meanwhile, Jae Min is the son of a conglomerate family, but he’s always been afraid of living under his father’s shadow. He gets engaged to Young Joo, who’s also a daughter of a rich family like him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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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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Wounded Heart (2021)
Plot Summary:
Ferit Sancakzade is the cherished heir apparent of one of the well-established families of Antakya. Ayse, on the other hand, is a lively young girl living in Istanbul who has managed to stand on her own feet. Ferit, who is about to marry Hande, the daughter of the Varoglu Family, the choice of his family, confronts the facts before the wedding and his world turns upside down. Shaken by betrayal, Ferit's path crosses with Ayse. The two find themselves in a difficult marriage game after their accidental meeting. The story, which takes place in Antakya, an ancient land that is the cradle of civilizations, turns into a true love story by testing friendship with love, past with the future, and passion with patience.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Oh! My Lady (2010)
Plot Summary:
Oh! My Lady is a romance comedy TV Drama in Seoul Korea under SBS Network. It was first aired on March 22, 2010. It is a romantic comedy about a top star who finds himself living with his manager, a 35 year old woman who is trying to earn money to get custody of her child. The first episode of Oh! My Lady scored 10 percent according to TNS Korea and 11.5 percent by AGB Nielsen Media Research.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Bitter Love (2015)
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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The Snow Queen (2006)
Plot Summary:
A boxer who was previously a genius, and a rich girl who has a serious illness. Despite appearing not to have any connection, they are similar. Nothing can melt their heart of ice. What is the sunlight that can melt their frozen heart? If the answer is love, is it too cliché? Tae Woong`s love melted the heart of the ice princess, Bo Ra. Although this winter will be very cold and scary, winter is not the end of the seasons, but the beginning of the hope for a greater love.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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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 Love Lasts Two Minds (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the first year of Later Liang lived Yuan Qingli, the daughter of a general. While on the road to a nunnery to reflect and meditate, she is abducted and knocked unconscious. After her rescue, Yuan Qingli wakes up days later without her memories and with a new personality. To escape from her own wedding, she dresses as a man and becomes a constable of Qinhe County.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Flower Shop Without a Rose (2008)
Plot Summary:
Shiomi Eiji is forced to become a single father when his girlfriend passes away while giving birth to their daughter, Shizuku. Desolate after the loss of the woman he loved, Eiji has little time or desire to even consider remarrying, working part-time jobs just to make ends meet. The one thing that gives meaning and joy to his life is Shizuku, but even that begins to trouble him when Shizuku begins acting strange, hiding her face by putting a cloth over her head when around other people. One day after opening his flower shop, Eiji comes across a blind woman standing by the door, taking shelter from the rain. When he invites her to come inside the shop, she at first refuses, but later gives in to Eiji's kindness. They become intimate friends and she slowly grows to depend on Eiji's sincerity and good heartedness. After rescuing her a following evening when she walks into the street and is nearly struck by traffic, Eiji himself inexplicably discovers the cold of winter that has saddled his heart all these years slowly melting away.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dorama