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Plot Summary:
Eun Dong-Joo attempts to get back her stolen life. When she was 6 years-old, she was abandoned at an orphanage. She did not remember anything except her name. Despite her difficult environment, she has grown into a woman with a positive and bright personality.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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All Kinds of Daughters-in-Law (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hwang Eun Byul, a ghostwriter for a publishing company, and Hwang Geum Byul, a leader for the PR department at a fashion company, are fraternal twin sisters, but their mother has always favored Geum Byul. The sisters end up marrying into rivaling families, and the story follows them as they try to work through their conflicts with communication and a positive attitude.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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How Long I've Kissed (2012)
Plot Summary:
A housewife is in a state of ambivalence about her children's education and the craze towards private education. The housewife then falls in love with a neighbor who works as a dentist.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Sex, Love & Secrets (2005)
Plot Summary:
A drama chronicling the lives of twentysomethings in the hip L.A. neighborhood of Silverlake.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Will It Snow For Christmas? (2009)
Plot Summary:
Cha Kang Jin grows up in a poor family who is constantly on the move. After relocating to his mother's hometown when Kang Jin is a teenager, his mother falls back into her old ways, opening a bar that draws a group of undesirable men. Kang Jin is forced to watch helplessly from the sidelines, getting into fights with other high school students to protect her honor. When he meets Han Ji Wan at school, sparks fly immediately, but tragedy soon strikes when Ji Wan suddenly must leave town. Eight years later, Kang Jin finally finds her again—at her engagement party. Never able to forget the girl he loved and hurt so badly, Kang Jin has trouble accepting the loss of his love, and after discovering that Ji Wan's fiancée is his co-worker, the three soon become hopelessly entangled in each other's lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Bepannah (2018)
Plot Summary:
Aditya is a pilot who lives in Mumbai with his family and wife, Pooja. Zoya lives in Mussoorie with her husband, Yash. They both love their spouses a lot. One day, they see their spouses dead in an accident together and holding hands. This begins the story of mystery, drama, suspense, and romance.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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Loving You a Thousand Times (2009)
Plot Summary:
Loving You a Thousand Times is a South Korean television drama starring Lee Soo-kyung, Jung Gyu-woon, Go Eun-mi, Ryu Jin and Lee Si-young. It aired on SBS from August 29, 2009 to March 7, 2010 on Saturdays and Sundays at 20:50 for 55 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, novela
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Scandal (2013)
Plot Summary:
Detective Ha Eun-joong uncovers a shocking secret; Ha Myung-geun, the man he believed was his father, had actually kidnapped him as a child. Myung-geun had lost his own son in a building collapse, and as revenge against the man responsible, Jang Tae-ha, he abducted Tae-ha's son and raised him as his own. In the aftermath of revenge, Eun-joong searches for the truth and becomes caught between his two fathers and the woman he loves, Woo Ah-mi.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Midas (2011)
Plot Summary:
A business drama about mergers and acquisitions between companies. When Kim Do Hyun passes the bar exam at the top of his class, he's offered a dream job as top aide to Yoo In Hye, daughter to one of the richest and most powerful men in South Korea. As he becomes more ambitious, Do Hyun is about to find out just how cut throat In Hye's world is, and also just how much he's about to lose, including his long-time girlfriend Lee Jung Yeon.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, dorama, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Algiers Confidential (2021)
Plot Summary:
When two of his countrymen - arms dealers - are kidnapped, a German police investigator is sent to Algiers in search of them. Beginning a steamy affair with an Algerian prosecutor investigating the case for her country probably wasn't the best idea, but as the pair go deeper, they uncover a corruption scandal testing their loyalty to their nations and to each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Dating Agency: Cyrano (2013)
Plot Summary:
A team for hire helps those who are having troubles in their love lives. The team employs elaborate staging to help their clients snag the ones they love.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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May Queen (2012)
Plot Summary:
A woman overcomes the hardships in her life and experiences growth as an expert of the seas.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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My Liberation Notes (2022)
Plot Summary:
Three siblings, exhausted by the monotony of day-to-day adulthood, seek to find fulfillment and freedom from their unremarkable lives.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic
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The Man from the Equator (2012)
Plot Summary:
A man that had his family and whole life has been taken away by the friend he trusted the most has returned and is burning for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, 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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Beyond the Clouds (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jung Se Ro (Yoon Kye Sang) lost his father and his life was destroyed by a murder case in Thailand which also involved stolen diamonds. After that incident, Se Ro lives his life as a swindler. Park Kang Jae (Jo Jin Woong) is his partner in crime and they are close like brothers. Se Ro then falls in love with Han Young Won (Han Ji Hye) whose her fiance died because of Jung Se Ro.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The World That They Live In (2008)
Plot Summary:
Song Hye Gyo plays a PD Joo Joon Young who has bold and unstoppable personality. Hyun Bin also plays a promising drama PD Jung Ji Oh. This drama focuses on TV stations by portraying the love and struggle of these 2 PDs during filming their respective projects as well as unfolding male and female staffs' love stories and marriages.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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You Are My Spring (2021)
Plot Summary:
A hotel concierge and a psychiatrist with traumatic childhoods form a heartfelt bond when they become entangled in a perplexing local murder case.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, dorama, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Taramani (2017)
Plot Summary:
An orthodox youngster and a free-spirited lady fall in love, only to understand that they are different in all aspects of life. How do they realise their complex requirements and mistakes?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Teraz albo nigdy! (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Gossip Girl: Acapulco (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sofía López-Haro returns unexpectedly to Acapulco after leaving mysteriously the year before. Her best friend, Bárbara Fuenmayor, angry that she has always been forced to live in Sofía's shadow, is not happy with her return, especially after discovering that before leaving Acapulco, Sofía had slept with her boyfriend, Nico.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Now, We Are Breaking Up (2021)
Plot Summary:
Will tell stories of emotional love and breakups. Ha Young-eun, a manager of the design team at a fashion label who is a trendy and intelligent realist. Yoon Jae-guk, a wealthy and popular freelancer photographer who also has the brains and looks. Hwang Chi-sook is a director of the fashion label’s design team who attended high school with Ha Young-eun and Seok Do-hoon is a skilled PR company CEO.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Que Sera, Sera (2007)
Plot Summary:
Que Sera, Sera is a 2007 South Korean television series starring Eric Mun, Jung Yoo-mi, Lee Kyu-han, and Yoon Ji-hye. It aired on MBC from March 17 to May 13, 2007 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:40 for 17 episodes. It is a passionate, violent and twisted drama about emotional abuse, the notion that love is a zero-sum game, and that sometimes, you can even buy love.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dorama, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Perfect Bride (2016)
Plot Summary:
A family drama that illustrates marriage and married life in modern society in a positive light.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Eva Luna (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young woman’s quest for happiness is marred by the secrets and deceptions perpetuated by an evil family. Eva González (Blanca Soto) came to Los Angeles with her father and sister in search of a better life. She goes to work as the personal attendant to Julio Arismendi, the ailing founder of Publicidad Arismendi, unknowingly becoming a pawn to kill him by his wife, Marcela (Susana Dosamantes). When the beautiful Eva catches the eye of Julio’s son, Leonardo Arismendi (Julian Gil), and his best friend, Daniel Villanueva (Guy Ecker), she becomes the target of Victoria (Vanessa Villela), who is Leonardo’s sister and Daniel’s girlfriend. But Daniel leaves Victoria for Eva, and on the day of Eva and Daniel’s wedding, Eva’s father is killed in a hit-and-run accident. Can her future husband be responsible? “Eva Luna” is a 2010 telenovela produced by Venevisión International in collaboration with Univision Studios. It is a remake of the 1997 Telemundo telenovela “Aquamarina.”.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Glory Jane (2011)
Plot Summary:
The series follows the romantic and professional trials of an aspiring nurse and two baseball players as they strive for their love and dreams.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Golden Pouch (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Han Suk-Hoon was little, he was adopted by a family in the United States. He returns to Korea as an adult and works as an excellent surgeon, but he falls into a bottomless pit. He succeeds as a dumpling master.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Bridal Material (2018)
Plot Summary:
A free-spirited girl who wants to live life on her own terms, Meera values her uniqueness and is in search of a suitor who will accept her for the person she truly is.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Goodbye Solo (2006)
Plot Summary:
Goodbye Solo is a 2006 South Korean television series starring Chun Jung-myung, Yoon So-yi, Kim Min-hee, Bae Jong-ok, Lee Jae-ryong, Kim Nam-gil, and Na Moon-hee. It aired on KBS2 from March 1 to April 20, 2006 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. In the urban melodrama, seven lead characters of different generations and backgrounds are all haunted by loneliness; they gradually interact and form a "family" borne out of emotional connection and mutual understanding. Renowned for her in-depth, realistic portrayals of ordinary lives, writer Noh Hee-kyung said that the drama's theme is that all human beings are beautiful just the way they are, simply by existing in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Untouchable (2017)
Plot Summary:
The city of Bukcheon has been dominated by the Jang family for 3 generations. Jang Joon-Seo is the second son of family leader Jang Beom-Ho. A woman who Jang Joon-Seo loves dies. After that, he tries to reveal the truth about her death and a secret from his family.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Good and Evil (2009)
Plot Summary:
Il bene e il male is an Italian television series.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, poliziottesco