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Plot Summary:
Through a portrait of this family, we witness the profound changes that have shaken Spanish society between the 1990s and the present, with the advent of the economic and political crises in the background.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: ironic, serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, dark comedy
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A Little Room for Hope (2018)
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A girl (Anna Yamada) is just 14-years-old, but she endures a difficult life. Her parents abuse her at home and she is bullied by students at her school. She doesn't have a place where she can feel comfortable. One day, the girl is kidnapped by a man (Shuhei Uesugi) wearing a mask. The kidnapper names the girl Sachi, while wishing her to be happy. For the first time, Sachi can feel happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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My Fantastic Funeral (2015)
Plot Summary:
Though Mi Soo received treatment for her brain tumor three years ago, it’s back. Soon, she becomes a terminally ill patient. After her parents divorced, her mother remarried and her father passed away from a car accident. Her aunt raised her, but they’re on bad terms. She’s single and without any close friends, so there’s no one to arrange a funeral for her. Mi Soo decides to find someone who can make arrangements after her death. She runs into Dong Soo who becomes obsessed with her, constantly following her everywhere she goes like a stalker. Ten years ago, Dong Soo fell hard for Mi Soo but now has miraculously crossed paths with her again.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 5
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: rough, touching, serious, realistic
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Once Again (2020)
Plot Summary:
A turbulent divorce story of the Song family that ends in the discovery of romance and familial love. The Song family includes a frugal father, a cute but materialistic mother, and four adult children with their own quirks and family troubles.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: light, touching, suspense, suspenseful, dorama
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Should We Kiss First (2018)
Plot Summary:
Son Moo-Han works as a managing director of an advertising company. An Soon-Jin lost her daughter unexpectedly and she works as a flight attendant. Eun Kyung-Soo is An Soon-Jin’s ex-husband and he is now married to Baek Ji-Min.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Child (2019)
Plot Summary:
Being the daughter of a prostitute mother, Akca gives up her motherhood in order to give her child a better future. The bride of a wealthy family, Sule promises to be a mother to Akca's baby for a lifetime. She looks at the baby she named Efe and raises him. Things change with the birth of Sule's own child.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, realistic
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Go Go Squid! (2019)
Plot Summary:
Tong Nian is a genius 19-year-old student with high IQ and low EQ, who is also a famous anime cosplay person and sings well. She’s falls in love at first sight with Han Shang Yan, who is a game genius in the e-sports world and never pays attention to the girls.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful, romantic drama
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The Secrets of Life (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Secrets of Life centers the heartwarming, intense and a bit thrilling story of Kuzgun family whose happiness was wrecked when the secrets of family members comes out one after another. While the audience is captured by the heart breaking and passionate love story of Burak and Seher.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Candy House (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sakurai Taro’s parents died young. His grandmother, Akiko, has been making great effort to protect her struggling candy store, Sakuraya, in the old part of Tokyo, but it's not easy. Taro eats candy with regular customers such as chilhood friend Saegusa Hiroki who aspires to be a scriptwriter, and talk nonsense, like in their youth. However, they realize this unfettered, comfortable existence will end some day with the passage of time. Then Taro’s ex-classmate, Kimura Reiko, comes back home with her son after a divorce. He and his friends start to notice what is truly important to them as they face up to their pasts, dreams and pains.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Love - Distance (2020)
Plot Summary:
It is early summer in 2020 at a time when social interaction is restricted and many people are spending time at home. Six people living in an apartment building meet and find themselves relating to each other. Two of them are a couple who have been married for three years – Takiguchi Miwa, a magazine editor who works from home, and her husband Akira, a video producer. They look forward to each day despite the changes in their lives. Akira’s daily routine is to watch the videos of a popular trio on NewTube. The three members actually live on the same floor of the apartment building. Asano Chiaki, a young photographer who lives next door, lost his job due to the coronavirus. He has been spending his days taking photos from the rooftop or verandah, capturing beauty amid the mundane daily life. One day, when he steps out onto the verandah, he sees Miwa watering her flowers on the verandah next door and is attracted to her.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 9 min
Plot tags: sentimental, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful
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The Great Craftsman (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1920s, it revolves around aspiring architects and their contributions to the country.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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In Youth (2019)
Plot Summary:
Li Zi Yu is a simple, kind-hearted and righteous girl. She starts working at a public relationships company, but unfortunately meets a difficult boss. The boss Fan Shu Chen is a talented hidden rich heir who is very hostile towards Zi Yu, making Zi Yu tremble with fear every day. What she doesn’t know is that company secrets have been leaked since the day she started working and Shu Chen is thus heavily suspecting her. But gradually, the two start to appreciate and admire each other. However, Shu Chen’s three best friends each have their theory on Zi Yu’s identity, making Shu Chen all confused. When Shu Chen’s rival Luo Zong Liang appears, it becomes known that Zong Liang and Zi Yu have some sort of relationship which anew arouses suspicion that Zi Yu could be a spy sent by Zong Liang. What is the truth behind everything? And will Zi Yu and Shu Chen’s love-hate relationship have a happy end?.
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Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Time Spiral (2014)
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When Natsuki Aizawa was a child, she was kidnapped which left her traumatized. Natsuki grew up relying on her friend Kentaro Yuki. She now studies physics at a university. One day, she meets newly appointed professor Shuya Tatsumi. Afterwards, mysterious events continually happen around Natsuki Aizawa. Shuya is time traveller who travels between the future and the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful
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You Always Haunt My Heart (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kyoko Ogawa is a woman in her 20's and she works at an underwear company. Because of her mother, Kyoko Ogawa has suffered from low self-esteem since she was a child. She is also shaken by two men: Kojiro Yoshizaki and Ren Hoshina. Kojiro Yoshizaki works as an editor for a manga magazine. He is bright, funny and a nice person. Ren Hoshina is a guy that Kyoko Ogawa dated when she attended college. Ren Hoshina was able to see her weakness and was controlling over her. At her job at the underwear company, Ren Hoshina appears in front of her as her boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Best Chicken (2019)
Plot Summary:
One day, Park Choi Go, decides to quit his job at a big company and open up his own chicken restaurant at what used to be a bathhouse. Meanwhile, Seo Bo Ah, an aspiring webtoon writer who secludes herself in the bathhouse, can’t accept that the building she inherited from her grandfather is turning into a chicken restaurant. To take her inheritance back, she becomes Park Choi Go’s employee along with Andrew Kang, a once promising chef who is now homeless. Can Park Choi Go become the ultimate chicken master and achieve his dream?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Summer Romance Shines in Rainbow Color (2010)
Plot Summary:
Taiga is a struggling second-generation actor who has developed a complex due to his father, a famous actor in his time. Most of the time, Taiga only gets to appear in variety shows. One day when his friend brings him out skydiving, a big wind drags him away from the dropping point and he gets stuck in a tree. A beautiful woman, Shiori, rescues him. Shiori is a cheerful woman who laughs away all of her worries. She's exactly the opposite of Taiga.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Over The Sea I Come to You (2019)
Plot Summary:
A story of laughter and tears that surrounds three different families in the journey of sending their children to study abroad. Huang Cheng Dong is forced to accompany his only son Huang Xiao Dong to study in the US after his wife's visa was rejected. In his travels, he meets Lin Sa, a high ranking executive who gives up her career to marry into a rich family and accompanies her new stepdaughter Wu Dan Dan to study abroad. After a series of hilarious mishaps, Huang Cheng Dong learns that Liu Ruo Yu who was supposed to act as his son's guardian has run into troubles of her own leaving him no choice but to find a way to stay in the US. Three families of different backgrounds cross paths in a foreign country and experience many trials that test their relationships with their loved ones.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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No Secrets (2019)
Plot Summary:
A story about a young man who can read people's minds and a meritless lawyer who come to protect each other. A tragic case from the past revolving around a car accident connects the lives of Lin Xing Ran and Jiang Xia. After 10 years, the young man who can read minds and the impulsive public defender meet again. Meanwhile, Zhang Xiao Yang is Lin Xing Ran's boss who has a reputation for never having lost a single case while Gu Si Yu is a colleague who becomes a bitter rival.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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O Rangreza (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story is of stubborn girl, Sassi , who makes her father Khayyam ideal and follows his footsteps and treats her mother Mumtaz "Mammo" exactly like how Khayyam treats her.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Before We Get Married (2019)
Plot Summary:
Zhou Wei Wei is about to marry her successful, devoted fiancé. And Chu Ke Huan is also planning to tie the knot with the beautiful woman he thinks he wants to spend the rest of his life with. There’s just one hitch – as their respective wedding days approach, Wei Wei and Ke Huan are starting to develop feelings for one another. Despite their intentions to keep things platonic, Cupid seems to have other plans for them. Will they get cold feet? Will they give in to passion? Or can they keep their feelings for one another in check? This tense romantic drama about love, friendship, and betrayal is adapted from a novel by hit author Ayamei.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful, dorama
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I Dare You to Leave (2015)
Plot Summary:
A heartbreaking story in which power, obsession, and desire will tragically mark the love between Paulina and Adrián who will fight for their love against all odds, even if it takes their life.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Eternal Salvation (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan Wright has it all, a prestigious job, incredibly beautiful wife Amy, gorgeous 7-year-old daughter Megan and countless friends. In the prime of his life, Jonathan suffers a life threatening brain aneurysm that leaves him comatose. After regaining consciousness, he begins the grueling task of rebuilding his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: christian film, touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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My Home My Destiny (2019)
Plot Summary:
The house where you were born even decides who you love and who you marry. First the mothers take the pen in his hand and start writing.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Double Life (2010)
Plot Summary:
Amanda and Alex have a fling going on as they find out that their parents are getting a divorce. To complicate things, Amanda's father has met a new woman and that woman is... Alex's mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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Night and Day (2001)
Plot Summary:
Night and Day is a British soap opera which was produced by Granada Television for LWT and ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003. Its theme-song, "Always & Forever", was sung by Kylie Minogue.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sitcom, psychological, sincere, captivating, soap opera
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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 Slap (2015)
Plot Summary:
A family drama that explodes from one small incident where a man slaps another couple's misbehaving child. This seemingly minor domestic dispute pulls the family apart, exposes long-held secrets, and ignites a lawsuit that challenges the core values of all who are pulled into it.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, 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
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The Time of Our Lives (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Time of Our Lives follows the lives of the extended Tivolli family as they navigate their way around relationships, raising kids, love, careers, divorce, disability and finding happiness. Elder brother Matt is a high-flying sports agent struggling with his obsessive wife Caroline. Younger brother Luce runs a much more relaxed household with long-time partner Bernadette, despite a chaotic schedule and financial pressures. Chai Li, the youngest, was adopted from Vietnam as a baby and is a successful and happy thirty-something until her world is shattered by a humiliating turn of events. Herb has known the family since childhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, emotional, psychological, touching, serious, gloomy
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The Pigeon (2019)
Plot Summary:
The series tells the story of Zulf, who was thrown into a well in a deserted place where there are not even birds flying .. While she was waiting for her death, she was rescued by a young man named Kinan who appeared in front of her as a miracle, but when she discovers who Kanan is, she will be shocked by the shock of her life .. Kinan who saw Zalf The one who talks about her beauty being thrown into the well will turn his world ... The crime that was committed fifteen years ago will return, and the blood that was shed with her will affect the two families until love comes and all that is erased.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sweet, captivating, realistic
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Guilty: The Woman Who Made a Pact with the Devil (2010)
Plot Summary:
A pet groomer at a salon in Shirogane, Nogami Meiko has a lot of celebrity dog-lovers as customers. She cheerfully serves customers with care, and her skills are tried and tested. The salon's owner, Kotomi, has a strong faith in her, and she is admired by her colleagues. Meiko leads a quiet and fulfilling life... however, there is another side to her. She has a plan for revenge that she must accomplish. In truth, when she was 19, she was imprisoned for murder but there was also another side to this case. And just as she's about to execute her plan, she meets a man named Mashima Takuro. She acts mysteriously around him and for some reason, he makes her feel better. Is he the only miscalculation to her? Or a reckoning?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful