Best tv shows like Golden Boy
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Plot Summary:
A young girl is forced to marry a rich groom. The groom is not only rich, but also allows himself to live without any restrictions or obligations. Will married life change his habits? And how will such a man be accepted by a good-hearted wife?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: crying
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Thirtysomething (1987)
Plot Summary:
Thirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late thirties. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick for MGM/UA Television Group and The Bedford Falls Company, and aired on ABC. It premiered in the U.S. on September 29, 1987. It lasted four seasons, with the last of its 85 episodes airing on May 28, 1991. The title of the show was designed as thirtysomething by Kathie Broyles, who combined the words of the original title, Thirty Something. In 1997, "The Go Between" and "Samurai Ad Man" were ranked #22 on TV Guide′s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2002, Thirtysomething was ranked #19 on TV Guide′s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and in 2013 TV Guide ranked it #10 in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, clever, touching, serious, realistic, talky, stylized, telenovela
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Black and White Love (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ferhat is a hitman working for his criminal uncle. Aslı is a young and idealistic doctor. One day, their roads crossed in the most unexpected way: Aslı is forced to operate on a man that Ferhat had shot.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, disturbing, sentimental, light, melancholic, romantic drama, crying, black and white, tear jerker
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Women in Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
Mulheres Apaixonadas is a Brazilian soap opera which originally aired on Rede Globo from February 17, 2003 to October 11, 2003. A total of 203 episodes were created for the series.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, serious, captivating, realistic, romantic, telenovela
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Anna (2008)
Plot Summary:
Anna und die Liebe is the eleventh Telenovela made in Germany. It has aired since August 25, 2008 on German channel Sat.1 and Austrian Channel ORF 1.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, soap opera, serious, emotional, realistic, telenovela
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Wild Heart (2009)
Plot Summary:
Corazon Salvaje - Maria del Rosario and Juan de Dios are profoundly in love and are to be married. But Rodrigo Montes de Oca and Leonarda are able to stop the wedding, separate them and fake Juans death. From their love Juan del Diablo is born, then taken from his mom at birth and grows up away from his real family. Many years later he return where he meets Aimee and Regina, twin sisters identical on the outside but very different inside. Juan falls in love with Aimee but her treachery and ambition ends that love. Some time later destiny reunites Juan and Regina both disappointed in those they chose to love and refusing the opportunity to open up to new love.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Blossom in Heart (2019)
Plot Summary:
Romance between a girl who wants to seek revenge for her father, and the second son of the Yue family who owns a rogue manufacturing factory.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Wings of Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
After divorcing, Leyla and her baby move to Turkey from Germany. She struggles to find a job and leave her family's house. She meets Hasmet through a job. Meanwhile Alper tries to keep up. His marriage and job are in trouble. Alper and Leyla meet unexpectedly through a sucker punch.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, captivating, emotional
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Forbidden Love (2008)
Plot Summary:
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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Hear Me (2022)
Plot Summary:
The life of high school student Ekim, who lives in a humble neighborhood, is shaken by a tragic event that takes place in front of her eyes: her best friend Leyla is injured in a hit-and-run accident. The car disappears inside a prestigious private school, attended by the richest kids of the city. When the neighbors demand justice, the school tries to bury the news by giving scholarships to three studious teenagers from the neighborhood. Ekim, Bekir and Ayşe are chosen, but they soon realize that their life is about to get harder. Yet, Ekim has no intention of letting this go quietly, and there is one thing she is sure of: the criminal is one of the students. While she tries to uncover this dark secret and ensure justice, she will be troubled by her emotions as her heart is turned upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Churasan (2001)
Plot Summary:
The 64th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Churasan, a story of a young woman, Kohagura Eri, who was born in Kohamajima Island, Okinawa on May 15, 1972, the day when Okinawa was returned to Japan from the U.S. Eleven years later, Kamimura Shizuko and her two sons, Kazuya and Fumiya, from Tokyo come to stay as the guests of a small inn run by Eri’s family. Eri’s fun-loving, yet eccentric family welcomes them warmly. However, Eri is shocked to hear one of the sons, Kazuya is terminally ill and Shizuko and her sons came to Okinawa to spend his last moment together in beautiful nature. Fumiya, Kazuya’s younger brother, and Eri promise to marry each other someday. However after Kazuya’s death, Fumiya and his mother leave the island to go back to Tokyo. Years later, they are reunited, Eri as a nurse and Fumiya, a doctor, working at the same hospital in Tokyo.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: asadora
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Fi (2017)
Plot Summary:
Can Manay (Ozan Güven) is a celebrated psychologist, famed for his expertise in his field. A consummate bachelor he beds women but rarely falls in love. And yet, following his first encounter with Duru (Serenay Sarikaya), he is immediately besotted, to the extent that he buys the house nextdoor to her’s, determined to get closer to her. Until her new neighbour moves in, Duru has lived happily with her musician boyfriend, Deniz (Mehmet Gunsur). Can’s mindgames ensure that she starts to question their relationship however, though she is not aware of the full extent of Can’s scheming. Meanwhile a cast of characters - Bilge, a student of Can’s; Özge (Berrak Tuzunatac), a journalist working on an exposé of the celebrity psychologist; and of course Deniz - will find their lives changed forever, by Manay’s crazed pursuit of love.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological thriller, sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, telenovela
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Curse by the Sea (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mar de Amor is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux with protagonists Zuria Vega, Mario Cimarro and Mariana Seoane and antagonists Ninel Conde, Marcelo Córdoba and Manuel Landeta. This is a remake of the 1978 Venezuelan telenovela María del Mar.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, telenovela
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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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Grand Prince (2018)
Plot Summary:
Lee Kang is an ambitious prince. He falls in love with Sung Ja-Hyun. She is a beautiful woman from a prestigious family, but Lee Kang's younger brother Lee Hwi also loves her. To have Ja-Hyun, Lee Kang wants to become the King...even if he has to kill his younger brother.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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The Clone (2001)
Plot Summary:
O Clone is a Brazilian TV Series/Telenovela that ran on the Rede Globo Network from October 1, 2001 to June 15, 2002, airing 221 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, romantic, novela, emotional, sexy, sentimental, philosophical, telenovela
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The Life We Lead (2011)
Plot Summary:
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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My Little Princess (2016)
Plot Summary:
Should some places be off limits to the poor? The Si Ye Art Institute is an elite arts high school for the children of wealthy families whose students go on to attend the most exclusive universities. Jiang Yu Nian is one of the most popular boys at the school, but he is cold and emotionally distant after the death of his sister. The exclusive school and its privileged students are turned upside down when Lin Xing Chen, a talented art student from a poor background, is admitted. Xing Chen faces immediate bullying from the other rich students, but will Yu Nian try to protect the kindhearted new student?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, touching, suspenseful, dorama
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Inconstant Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
The hatred of Miran Aslanbey against the man guilty of the death of his parents unleashes his desire for revenge by taking him to seduce his daughter Reyyan. Reyyan falls madly in love in Miran's arms. But what will happen when he finds out the truth? What is stronger love or revenge?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, touching, sweet, romantic
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Humsafar (2011)
Plot Summary:
Khirad and Ashar's marriage is a bad match in the eyes of Ashar's mother. She plots successfully to discredit Khirad in Ashar's eyes, and he distances himself from Khirad despite her repeated pleas of innocence. Their time apart is hard for both with Ashar trying desperately to forget his love for Khirad, and Khirad hardened towards Ashar for mistreating her. Their daughter's illness brings them reluctantly together, reigniting Ashar's longing for Khirad and him offering her his forgiveness. She is appalled and leaves. In his distraught state, Ashar finds out the truth about Khirad's innocence and asks her forgiveness, which she hesitantly gives.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: tense, romantic, captivating, cult classic
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Cain and Abel (2016)
Plot Summary:
Takada Yu is an employee of a development firm. His father has favored his high-achieving older brother and been indifferent to Yu since young. So Yu craves for his father’s love and wants his recognition somehow. Then one day, Yu encounters a woman. Although it was the worst possible meeting, he gradually starts to have romantic feelings for her through work and an unexpected development. But ironically enough, she turns out to be the girlfriend of his older brother. Yu begins to realize what he truly treasures and matures as a person as he struggles with this complicated romance and with his older brother and father.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, shoujo
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Asi (2007)
Plot Summary:
Asi is a Turkish television drama serial. The series originally aired from Jule 21, 2007 to June 15, 2009. It ran for two seasons on Kanal D.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, captivating, realistic, soap opera
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Sila (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young woman's forced marriage to the agha of a tribe in Southeastern Turkey leads to tragedy and social change.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
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Timeless Love (2010)
Plot Summary:
Renata, a spirited woman, is treated cruelly by her mother and sister. Falling in love with Jerónimo changes her life for the better, but his misguided quest to avenge his brother's death jeopardizes their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, soap opera, captivating, novela, crying, telenovela
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Don't mess with an angel (2008)
Plot Summary:
Cuidado Con El Ángel is a Telenovela distributed by Televisa starring Maite Perroni and William Levy. The telenovela, a production of Nathalie Lartilleux, premiered on June 9, 2008 and finished its broadcast March 6, 2009. It had millions of viewers worldwide, and broke records in America.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, soap opera, touching, emotional, novela, captivating, realistic, crying, telenovela
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Dynasty (1981)
Plot Summary:
The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam, lost in childhood after a kidnapping; Fallon, pampered and spoiled; Steven, openly gay; and Amanda, hidden from him by his ex-wife, the conniving Alexis. Most of the show features the conflict between 2 large corporations, Blake's Denver Carrington and Alexis' ColbyCo.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, captivating, realistic, serious, enigmatic, retro, sex comedy, relaxing, saga, telenovela
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Days of Our Lives (1965)
Plot Summary:
The Horton and Brady broods endure the romantic trials of life in Salem, a Midwestern hamlet filled with evil geniuses, star-crossed lovers and a rich family history.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, realistic, sentimental, serious, emotional, campy
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Forbidden Apple (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three things in life can not be hidden "love, smoke and lack of money". The social society and the events behind the business world are told.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, captivating, psychological, serious, realistic
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Encounter (2018)
Plot Summary:
What happens when an encounter between a man and woman who seem to have nothing in common develops into a complicated love story? Cha Soo Hyun is a woman and daughter of a politician who lives a life where she is unable to choose her own path. After graduating from college, she entered into a loveless marriage with the son to a wealthy conglomerate, a marriage only beneficial to her politican father. After having a child, she was obliged to divorce. Her life is changed when she meets simple and kind Kim Jin Hyuk. Kim Jin Hyuk is ordinary and innocent, a young man who enjoys life and finds happiness in the smaller things. He works various part-time jobs to earn a living, but is looking for a regular job. One day, he decides to take a trip abroad, where he meets Cha Soo Hyun.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, dorama, sentimental, thought provoking, touching, entertaining
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Like Shooting Stars in the Twilight (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kanji Takizawa worked diligently at a bank, successfully reaching the position of branch manager. Despite the fact that his conversation with his wife Mariko was dwindling and there was a growing distance between him and his young, unmarried daughter, Misaki, he had come to accept his peaceful life. One day, Kanji gets loaned out to a client company for an unjustifiable reason. Shocked, Kanji lies to his family that he was going on a business trip to Switzerland, where he meets and finds a kindred spirit in Shiori Meguro. Meanwhile, Mariko suspects that her husband may be having an affair, and finds herself falling in forbidden love with her daughter’s fiancé, Haruki Hino.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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Kuzey Guney (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kuzey Güney is a spin-off Turkish television drama series of 1976 American television miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. The scenarists are Ece Yörenç and Melek Gençoğlu. The series stars Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ as Kuzey Tekinoğlu, a restless son of an Istanbul baker, who comes back from prison four years after he admits to a crime his brother, Güney, committed. The series is broadcast in the Turkey on the popular Kanal D channel, and is produced by Ay Yapım. It premiered on September 7, 2011 and was among Turkey's four most popular TV shows, after Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Adını Feriha Koydum, Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman Ki and Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne? being the most successful one. Kuzey Güney has been aired every Wednesday evening at 8 pm on Kanal D. But starting from Episode 61, airs on the same day at 10 pm. After two long seasons and 80 episodes Kuzey Güney came to an end on 26 June.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, tense, surprise ending