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Plot Summary:
One unexpected choice can change everything about your life. Cha Joo Hyuk works at a bank and has been married to Seo Woo Jin for five years. When a strange incident happens one day, Joo Hyuk makes a decision that impacts his life and those around him in unexpected ways. Suddenly, the life he had with Woo Jin and his best friend, Yoon Joong Hoo, are gone and he is leading a very different life. How will his first love, Lee Hee Won, factor into his new life? And will it be possible to get his old life back?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, thought provoking, sweet, contemplative, feel good, nostalgic
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Orange Marmalade (2015)
Plot Summary:
Despite a 200-year-old treaty between humans and vampires, both races still don't get along. Amidst the looming tension, Jung Jae Min, a posh yet kindhearted high school student, quickly falls for the mysterious new girl Baek Ma Ri. But can Ma Ri conceal her true vampire identity and give love an honest chance? If these star-crossed lovers can find the courage to make the leap, Jae Min and Ma Ri may just be the key to a final resolution between humans and vampires.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, light, touching, disturbing
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Time after Time (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young journalist returns home to work in the local newspaper. There again see his girlfriend, who is now engaged. For her, this reunion will be a great emotional impact.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, sweet, entertaining
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Snow Lotus (2015)
Plot Summary:
A fantasy melodrama that traverses dreams, reality and the time-space continuum. Haunted by lucid dreams, two people discover a connection between their past lives and a star-crossed romance over 1,000-years-old.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Padam, Padam... The Sound of His and Her Heartbeats (2011)
Plot Summary:
A man serves 16 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. Yang Kang Chil maintains his good nature nonetheless and is protected by his best friend Gook Soo. After his release from prison, Kang Chil becomes a carpenter and tries to rebuild his life. He falls in love with Jang Ji Na, a veterinarian who happens to the niece of the victim in Kang Chil’s murder case. Can Kang Chil prove his innocence and bring the real killer to justice to save his relationship with Ji Na?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Splash Splash Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
Danbi, a senior in high school, is whisked back in time to the Joseon Era. There she is mistaken for a servant and begins her life anew as the confidante of King Lee Do; her knowledge of mathematics and sciences, however, begins to cause controversies to arise.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, captivating, novela, entertaining, period drama
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Goodbye Mr. Loser (2015)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged loser travels back in time to his high scool years to put his life on the right track.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous
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Tinted With You (2021)
Plot Summary:
In Korea’s feudal past, the deposed Crown Prince Lee Heon has been forced into a lonely exile by his cruel older brother, who has usurped the throne. Lee Heon fears for his life at every moment, as his brother plans to secure his place on the royal seat by killing him. Assassins and other schemes are a constant threat for Lee Heon, whose only true ally is his faithful and kind-hearted bodyguard Geum. Meanwhile, in modern times, a high school student named Eun Ho loves paintings. In fact, art is his whole world. And when he is tasked with completing a mysterious painting, he is unexpectedly drawn back into the distant past, where he meets Lee Heon. The duo starts to form a close, romantic, and tender bond. But as the acting king grows restless, hoping to kill the exiled Crown Prince as soon as possible, Eun Ho begins to understand that he may be Lee Heon’s best – or perhaps only – chance of survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, talky, historical drama, historical romance
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Somehow 18 (2017)
Plot Summary:
The web drama tells the story of a popular orthopedic surgeon, Oh Kyung Hwi, who used to be a loner and a bullying victim during his highschool days. In order to save his first love, who committed suicide, Kyung Hwi goes back in time to when he was 18 years old.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Short, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, sweet, entertaining, semi serious
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Operation Love (2007)
Plot Summary:
A missed confession of love haunts a young man on his best girl friend's wedding day. Sudden appearance of a mysterious Angel enables him to go back in time to regain the love of his life. Will he succeed? A romantic comedy of young Ken who missed a chance to confess his love in the past and ended up attending the wedding of his childhood love. Deep with regret as he helplessly watches the wedding party proceed, suddenly time stops and an Angel appears asking him whether he would like to just start over. Astounded as he is, Ken asks to do so, thereby embarking on a journey that will supposedly change everything. All does not go well however, as fate seems to be a resilient force that refuses to change.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, light, feel good, sweet, entertaining, romantic
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Live Up To Your Name (2017)
Plot Summary:
Heo Im is an oriental doctor, acknowledged as the best in acupuncture and moxibustion in Joseon. His success is blocked due to his low status. One day, Heo Im travels though time and finds himself in present day Seoul. He meets Choi Yeon-Kyung. She is doctor firmly believing in only modern medicine.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dorama, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Go Back Couple (2017)
Plot Summary:
Choi Ban Do and Ma Jin Joo are both 38-years-old and a married couple. Choi Ban Do has been burdened with being the breadwinner and Ma Jin Joo is a housewife with low self-esteem. Even though they loved each other when they married, they now hate each other. They both regret marrying at such a young age. The couple travel through time and find themselves as 20-year-old university students, when they met for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, semi serious, dorama, nostalgic
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Longing Heart (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kang Shin-Woo is a math teacher with a good looking appearance. He has not forgotten his first love Han Ji-Soo for the past 10 years. By an accident, he travels to the past when he was a high school student. There, he meets his younger self. Kang Shin-Woo struggles to make the younger Kang Shin-Woo's love come true.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating, romantic drama
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Do Over (2002)
Plot Summary:
Do Over is an American comedy-drama/fantasy series created by Kenny Schwartz and Rick Wiener about a man who gets a chance to relive his childhood. The series, which was originally broadcast on The WB in 2002, stars Penn Badgley.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, captivating, retro, offbeat
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Turn Left Turn Right (2020)
Plot Summary:
The life story of three individuals whose fate led them to a little mysterious bar, "Somewhere only we know". All three of them chose the path that they deemed right, yet ended up being unhappy and regretting the path they didn’t choose. Now they’ve come and met each other at this bar. The owner gives them a chance to turn back time.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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The King: Eternal Monarch (2020)
Plot Summary:
When a gateway opens to a parallel universe in modern-day Korea, a king must step into another world in search of answers to a long-unanswered mystery.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, unusual plot structure, disturbing, sincere, enigmatic, captivating, visually appealing, detective, exciting
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Faith (2012)
Plot Summary:
Faith is a 2012 South Korean fusion fantasy-historical-medical television series broadcast by SBS from August 13 to October 30, 2012 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 24 episodes. It is about a modern-day plastic surgeon who gets kidnapped and travels back in time to the Goryeo period, 700 years in the past. There, she meets and falls in love with a warrior who is the leader of the royal guard.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, romantic, semi serious, dorama, anime, medical drama, period drama
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Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo (2016)
Plot Summary:
Scarlet Heart: Ryeo is the remake of Chinese drama Bu Bu Jing Xin that stars IU as a woman who gets time-warped back to the Goryeo dynasty, and becomes involved with a very large family of princes, some of whom are vying for the throne, or her affections, or both.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, romantic, dorama, sageuk, sweet, harsh, gothic, sad, suspenseful
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Abyss (2019)
Plot Summary:
After meeting an untimely demise in separate incidents, Cha Min and Go Se-yeon discover they’ve come back to life in new bodies they don’t recognize.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, touching, captivating, suspenseful
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Secret Garden (2010)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy man and a poor stunt girl fall in love. But things get complicated when their souls become inexplicably swapped and dark secrets surface.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, dorama, touching, semi serious, sweet, novela, romantic drama, realistic
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The Beauty Inside (2018)
Plot Summary:
It is a love story of Han Se-gye who is an A-list actress. She is known as a troublemaker and the object of many rumors. Her life is a mystery, but, in reality, she suffers from an unusual phenomenon. At a certain point every month, her appearance changes to a different person. She lives one week out of every month with a different appearance, and Seo Do-jae who is an executive director of an airline company. He seems perfect with an attractive appearance and intelligence but, he suffers from prosopagnosia. He hides this disability and tries hard to memorize people by their habits and mannerisms. The only face that he is able to recognize is Han Se-gye’s.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, light, feel good, sweet, romantic drama
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One Spring Night (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Lee Jeong-in and Yu Ji-ho meet, something unexpected happens. Or it just may be that spring is in the air -- and anything is possible.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: dorama, exciting, light, romantic, psychological, melancholic, contemplative, suspenseful
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Another Miss Oh (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two women working in the same industry with the exact same name keep getting their lives entangled both professionally and personally.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: romantic, dorama, psychological, light, sincere, novela
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Oh My Ghost (2015)
Plot Summary:
Na Bong Sun may be a skilled sous chef, but she lacks the self-esteem to shine professionally and socially. Beyond her cooking talents, however, is an uncanny ability to communicate with ghosts. One day, her mystic senses go out of control when the seductive ghost of Shin Soon Ae possesses her. Imbued with a fiery new "personality," Bong Sun starts turning heads, including that of Kang Sun Woo, the hottest chef in town and Bong Sun's secret crush!.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, touching, dorama, romantic, entertaining, sweet, romantic drama, humorous
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Marriage, Not Dating (2014)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy about a man who doesn't want to get married and a woman who has no luck in marriage prospect. Gong Ki Tae is a successful bachelor who keeps getting pressured by his family to settle down. He then comes up with a plan to introduce Joo Jang Mi, whom he thinks will never be approved by his family.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, sincere, touching, feel good, captivating, romantic drama
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Thousand Years of Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
It was about 1,400 years ago. The story revolves around Princess Buyeu Ju, the Daughter of last king, general Ari who attempts to reconstruct Bakje for the love of the princess, and general Yu Suk Kim from Shila whos after him. When the princess falls into YuSuks trap, she jumps off the cliff and then, the princess leaps through 1400 years and is brought to modern society in 2003. And meets Inchul (Ari) and Tasuji who have no idea of their past lives and creates love fantasy that overcome time and space.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama
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Operation Proposal (2012)
Plot Summary:
Kang Baek-ho and Ham Yi-seul have been best friends since elementary school. Baek-ho has never acknowledged his attraction to her, unaware that Yi-seul has been in love with him for more than 20 years. Finally, at the wedding ceremony where Yi-seul is about to marry another man, Baek-ho regrets that he never confessed his love for the bride. A mysterious conductor suddenly appears and offers him a second chance to win Yi-seul's heart. Baek-ho travels back in time to various events of their lives hoping to change the outcome of their relationship. But changing the future is not as easy as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Matrimonial Chaos (2018)
Plot Summary:
Is marriage really the completion to love? This comedy drama begins with this question and defines the difference in thought between men and women about love, marriage and family.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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The Light in Your Eyes (2019)
Plot Summary:
Time manipulation comes with a steep price for a young woman, who becomes 78 years old overnight after using a mysterious watch.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, dorama
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18 Again (2020)
Plot Summary:
Jung Da-Jung is married to 37-year-old Hong Dae-Young. They have an 18-year-old son and daughter. Jung Da-Jung works hard as a rookie announcer and she has a warm heart. She becomes completely fed up with her husband and is unable to deal with him anymore. Hong Dae-Young gets fired from his job and is looked down upon by his family. Jung Da-Jung hands him divorce papers.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, dorama
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My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho (2010)
Plot Summary:
Cha Dae-woong (Lee Seung Gi) accidentally releases a troublesome gumiho, a legendary fox with nine tails, sealed inside a painting by Grandma Samshin . Fleeing the scene, Dae-woong suffers a life-threatening fall and is only saved by the gumiho giving him her "fox bead". When Dae-woong awakes and meets a mysterious pretty girl, he initially treats her as eccentric or mentally ill, before fully understanding she is a gumiho in disguise-at which point he tries to research gumihos, but fails to find correct information in the library or on the internet. He agrees to stay with her and he tries to keep her happy, while hiding her true identity as a gumiho from all others by introducing her as his friend, Mi Ho. Slowly, however, he becomes less scared of her and more protective of her-finally admitting to himself and to her that he loves her. As the story unfolds, Mi Ho (Shin Min Ah) pursues her goal of becoming human, with the half-human, half-supernatural Park Dong Joo, who has a career.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, light, sincere, feel good, dorama, sentimental, offbeat, romantic drama, semi serious, humorous