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Plot Summary:
When the patriarch of a mega-rich Southern family, famed for creating a wildly successful Christian television network, dies in a plane crash, his wife and family are stunned to learn that he fathered three illegitimate children, all of whom are written into his will, threatening their family name and fortune.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: light, ironic, cynical, funny, southern gothic, christian film
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Ned Rifle (2014)
Plot Summary:
Henry and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: clever, realistic, semi serious, captivating, erotic, offbeat, humorous, tragicomedy, independent film, saga
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Desire (2006)
Plot Summary:
On the run from a New Jersey crime family, two brothers wend their way to Los Angeles, where they make their dream of owning a restaurant a reality. But their life in hiding life becomes complicated when their lives are torn apart by their love for the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 3900 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, sincere, suspense, contemplative
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Dahoam is Dahoam (2007)
Plot Summary:
Dahoam is Dahoam is a German television series. The soap opera concerns the lives of the residents of the fictitious village of Lansing in Upper Bavaria. The characters speak the Bavarian dialect.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: emotional, light, atmospheric, captivating, sentimental, serious, realistic, soap opera, spoof, parody
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StartUp (2014)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen young ambitious people are all working together in an empty building, some also live there. They try to achieve the same goal: having a selfmade business. Despite having the same goal, they're different people with different opinions about how to reach their goal. One of them is Sterre de Vries, who initiated the whole thing. Her father (Bert de Vries) is the owner of the building. It's all there: ambitions, arguments, secrets, intrigues, friendship, family ties, romance, lust.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense
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Land of Honor (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set on horse ranches around Houston, Texas, this Spanish-language telenovela covers the three Gallardo brothers' search for vengeance against the wealthy del Junco family, following the mysterious death of their rodeo-riding sister. The brothers soon become aware of the three beautiful del Junco daughters, and entanglements ensue.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, soap opera, telenovela
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Wicked Wicked Games (2006)
Plot Summary:
Wicked Wicked Games is a telenovela that debuted on December 6, 2006 on the American television network MyNetworkTV. Twentieth Television produced 63 episodes to air weekdays. The limited-run serial was directed by Terry Cunningham, Dennis Dimster, P. David Ebersole, Jeff Hare and Jeremy Stanford. It focuses on a bitter, obsessed woman's vendetta against her former lover. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has not announced plans to release this series on DVD and/or Blu-ray.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious, saga
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Pasadena (2001)
Plot Summary:
Pasadena is an American primetime soap opera originally broadcast in the U.S. from September to November 2001 on Fox.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, soap opera, gloomy, surprise ending
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Falcon Crest (1981)
Plot Summary:
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, realistic, serious, captivating, touching, sincere, melancholic, retro, saga, telenovela
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The Mountain (2004)
Plot Summary:
Boundary Mountain is an escapist playground for wealthy tourists and extreme sports enthusiasts, but to the Carver family, it's home. "The Mountain" chronicles the larger-than-life saga of the Carvers, whose colorful patriarch, David Carver, Sr., founded the town and its internationally famous ski resort after winning the land in a poker game. When this legendary man unexpectedly dies, his choice of an heir sends shockwaves throughout the community.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, romantic, scenic
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I'll Take Manhattan (1987)
Plot Summary:
Maxi Amberville tries to save the magazine empire her father built, but her treacherous uncle stands in her way.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 375 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, vintage
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Spyder Games (2001)
Plot Summary:
Spyder Games is a television series that was broadcast on MTV from June 18, 2001 through September 20, 2001. MTV's second foray into the soap opera format following the run of the anthology series Undressed, the series was originally called Spyder Web in development. Originally intended for a 3 pm time slot, Spyder Games ultimately debuted at 7 pm because of its racy content. The final episodes, originally scheduled to air during the week of 10 September 2001, were postponed by a week because of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The last episode was written as cliffhanger, but MTV did not pick the series up for a second season.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, soap opera, captivating, disturbing, sexy, semi serious
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Cane (2007)
Plot Summary:
Cane is an American television drama created by Cynthia Cidre, who also served as executive producer alongside Jonathan Prince, Jimmy Iovine and Polly Anthony. The pilot was directed by Christian Duguay. The show chronicled the lives and internal power struggles of a powerful and wealthy Cuban-American family running an immensely successful rum and sugar cane business in South Florida. Produced by ABC Studios, CBS Paramount Network Television, El Sendero Productions, Interscope Records and Once A Frog Productions, the series premiered on September 25, 2007 airing on Tuesday nights at 10:00/9:00c on CBS, following The Unit. The series premiere of the show brought in 11 million viewers, the best in its time slot since 1999's Judging Amy.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, stylized, gloomy, tv series pilot
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Blue (2012)
Plot Summary:
Blue is a mother with a secret life. She'll do anything to keep it from her son. But her past has other plans.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, tense, sexual, sexy
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Hotel Portofino (2022)
Plot Summary:
A classic whodunit mystery, as the characters go about their lives in 1920s Italy, when Benito Mussolini's brand of fascism was on the rise.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, period drama
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Master of the Game (1984)
Plot Summary:
Elderly Kate Blackwell looks back at her family's life beginning with her Scottish father Jamie McGregor's journey to South Africa to make his fortune in diamonds. The family history is littered with revenge, lust, betrayal, manipulation, and murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 413 min
Plot tags: family saga, costume drama, epic, serious, captivating, realistic
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Dynasty (2017)
Plot Summary:
The reboot follows two of America’s wealthiest families, the Carringtons and the Colbys, as they feud for control over their fortune and their children focusing on Fallon Carrington, the daughter of billionaire Blake Carrington, and her soon-to-be stepmother, Cristal, a Hispanic woman marrying into this WASP family and America’s most powerful class.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: artsy, captivating, soap opera, cynical
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Big Love (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of Bill Henrickson and his life in suburban Salt Lake City, balancing the needs of his three wives -- Barb, Nicki and Margene-- their seven kids, three new houses and the opening of his newest hardware store. When disturbing news arrives about Bill's father, he is forced to reconnect with his polygamist parents who live on a fundamentalist compound in rural Utah.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, social, melancholic, epic, grindhouse, offbeat, serious, realistic, contemplative
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House of Hancock (2015)
Plot Summary:
House of Hancock tells the epic true story of the Hancock dynasty and the bizarre love triangle that emerged between Lang, his daughter Gina, and his beautiful Filipina housekeeper Rose.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, epic, saga
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Acacias 38 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Acacias 38, the address of a stately apartment building where our stories unfold, is set in 1899 and tells the story of a group of maids and the bourgeois families they serve, in a single block in a distinguished neighborhood of a large Spanish city. Two worlds colliding in a universe of crossed lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspense, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, family saga, telenovela
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The Return (2013)
Plot Summary:
La Patrona is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami and Mexican Argos Comunicación. The telenovela is a remake of the Venezuelan telenovela La Dueña, written by José Ignacio Cabrujas. The name reflects a local term or slang in Mexico to address a person recognized as the main boss. However, the title is also a reflection of both the protagonist and the antagonist struggle to conquer power, authority and respect in a labor field traditionally deemed to be a man's job.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, captivating, emotional, novela, realistic, telenovela
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Queen Sugar (2016)
Plot Summary:
The series follows the life of two sisters, Nova Bordelon and Charley Bordelon, who, with her teenage son Micah moves to the heart of Louisiana to claim an inheritance from her recently departed father - an 800-acre sugarcane farm.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, sincere, sad, queer cinema
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Kane & Abel (1985)
Plot Summary:
Kane and Abel are born on the same day the same year on each side of the Atlantic. William Kane is born in one of the richest families of Boston and grows up to be a banker on Wall Street. Abel Rosnovski is born in the Polish countryside and has to spend many years in Siberian prison camps before he travels to New York and eventually creates one of the world's largest chains of hotels. The confrontation between these two men, both striving for power and success, will make the finance capital of the world tremble.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 942
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: costume drama, serious, captivating, realistic, saga
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Family Affairs (1997)
Plot Summary:
Focuses on the lives of residents in the fictional London suburb of Charnham.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, melancholic, sincere
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The Colbys (1985)
Plot Summary:
The Colbys is an American prime time soap opera, which originally aired on ABC from November 20, 1985 to March 26, 1987. Produced by Aaron Spelling, it was a spin-off of Dynasty, which had been the highest rated series for the 1984–1985 U.S. television season. The Colbys revolved around another wealthy, upper-class family, who were distant relatives of the Carringtons of Dynasty and who owned a large multi-national corporation. Intended to surpass its predecessor in opulence, the series' producers were handed an immensely high budget for the era and cast a handful of well-known movie stars among its leads, including Charlton Heston, Barbara Stanwyck, Katharine Ross and Ricardo Montalban. However, The Colbys was ultimately a ratings disappointment, and was canceled after two seasons.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, saga, campy
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Brothers and Sisters (2006)
Plot Summary:
Brothers & Sisters is an American television drama series that centers on the Walker family and their lives in Pasadena, California. The series premiered on ABC on September 24, 2006, and aired its final episode on May 8, 2011. It aired, for its entire run, in a Sunday night timeslot after Desperate Housewives. The cast included a collection of award-winning actors, including Sally Field, Rachel Griffiths, Calista Flockhart, Rob Lowe, and Patricia Wettig. Sally Field received both a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance throughout the series. Rachel Griffiths was also nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for her work on the show. In May 2011, the show completed its fifth and final season on ABC. On May 13, 2011, it was announced that ABC had decided to end the show.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic, captivating, entertaining, stylized, telenovela, queer cinema
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King Of Duval County (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Black Family a once powerful respected family has lost power in the city of Jacksonville.11 years has past and now the city is controlled by 4 family's.Young Antonio must return to the city and reclaim the Black family's respect and power.
IMDB Rating:
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Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, enigmatic, bleak, disturbing
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Saints & Sinners (2016)
Plot Summary:
A large Southern church is the background for greed, corruption and murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, spiritual, soap opera
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Gravesend (2020)
Plot Summary:
A 1980's series of events revolving around Benny Zerletta (William DeMeo), a Brooklyn based Italian-American, soldier in the Colezzo crime family. Benny depicts the difficulties.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Dirty Sexy Money (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Darling family's obscene wealth and enormous power makes them easy targets for their rivals, enemies, and the tabloids. Patriarch Tripp uses his money and influence to shield his five adult children from the prying eyes of the world. As the Darlings' reluctant personal lawyer, Nick George has barely begun to discover the legal - and illegal - needs of the family. Blackmail threats. Questionable deals. Illegitimate children. Illicit affairs. It will take every trick he can think of to keep them out of the tabloids - and out of jail. But if he can solve his father's mysterious death, it might be worth the hassle. Enter a seductive world of glamorous people, exclusive parties and delicious intrigue.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, serious, talky, stylized, sexual
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Billions (2016)
Plot Summary:
A complex drama about power politics in the world of New York high finance. Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmaneuver the other. The stakes are in the billions in this timely, provocative series.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, thought provoking, suspense, intellectual, political, smart, intelligent, entertaining, queer cinema