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Plot Summary:
The saga of a woman, guided by the power of love and moved by the desire for justice, who crosses paths with a family divided by ambition and many secrets.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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The King of the Cattle (1996)
Plot Summary:
O Rei do Gado is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and displayed by Rede Globo, 17 June 1996 to February 15, 1997, totaling 209 chapters and 130 in the original version of the SIC in Portugal.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 737
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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Unknown Woman (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hong Ji Won grew up at an orphanage. To escape from her poor background, she studied hard and graduated from a prestigious university. She then worked as a secretary at a large company. Finally, Hong Ji Won married the owner of the company and gave birth to a son. Now, Hong Ji Won learns that her son has a disease. She decides that she will do anything for her son. Son YeoRi was raised by wealthy foster parents, but she is abandoned by foster parents and her boyfriend. To protect her child, Son Yeo Ri goes to prison.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera
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The Heights (2019)
Plot Summary:
A groundbreaking serial about a community trying to protect its way of life, while under the constant threat of gentrification and the social stratification of its neighbourhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: soap opera
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Yago (2016)
Plot Summary:
Omar, a young man from Mexico City, is betrayed by his fiancé, Sara, and two close friends, in a failed robbery plot where he was famed as the perpetrator. After being unjustly imprisoned for 11 years and later released, he undergoes plastic surgery to alter his appearance and plots revenge under his new identity, "Yago".
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: telenovela
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Heaven's Promise (2016)
Plot Summary:
Na-Yeon is a bright woman. She supports her boyfriend Tae-Joon, who is from a poor background, and has even given up entering a university. But Tae-Joon dumps her for his success and goes with Se-Jin, who is a granddaughter of Baekdoo Company president. Do-Hee is Na-Yeon’s twin sister. She is arrogant and tough. Do-Hee works as a reporter at a weekly magazine. After Na-Yeon’s death, Do-Hee decides to take revenge. She takes on the identity of her sister Na-Yeon. Do-Hee then meets Hwi-Kyung, who is successor of Baekdoo Company.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, realistic, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Ana de nadie (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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El amor invencible (2023)
Plot Summary:
After losing all her loved ones fifteen years ago and believing her babies were killed at the hands of the father of her first love, Leona Bravo embarks on a journey of justice against all those who hurt her. In this process, Leona discovers that her children are actually alive and is reunited with an old friend with whom she finds true love. As a result, she will be torn between her desire for justice and rebuilding her bond with her two children, as well as regaining her faith in love.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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I Have Known You All My Life (2021)
Plot Summary:
Pedro, unhappy in his marriage of convenience, falls in love with Vera during a business trip. After his father blackmails him into breaking Vera's heart, fate brings the two together again years later.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Perfect Heart (2009)
Plot Summary:
Leonor and Pedro, are young, in love and from different social classes. She is the daughter of a wealthy man. He is from a modest working class family. They experience an intense but dramatically short love affair. When Pedro discovers Leonor’s father’s secret – that he sexually abused a maid – he is the victim of a hit and run accident, leaving him in a deep coma for 5 years. He later awakens to find out that his girlfriend, who was told he had died in the accident, moved on with her life and married someone else, after several years of grieving.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Corazón guerrero (2022)
Plot Summary:
After the death of their father, brothers Jesús, Damián, and Samuel are separated and adopted by different families. They reunite as adults and swear on their father's grave to seek vengeance against their enemy, the Ruíz Montalvo family.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Jackpot! (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends had been playing lottery since two years ago. In the New Year's Eve, when the prize has an extraordinary value, they picked the correct numbers of the lottery and they all become millionaires. They live their dreams but they are also involved in a terrible nightmare because they made a pact: each one has a mission to accomplish within one year and only those who can accomplish their mission shall be entitled to the other half of the prize that is stored in a saving account. The conflicts get worse when the friends that won the lottery start to die mysteriously and the winners enter in a game of life or death in which, if they don't discover who the murderer is, they may be the next victim. In addition, Jackpot!, reveals the difficulties of resetting in the labor market, the characteristics of old age and the values of present society. And as it must be in all good telenovela, there are stories of love, full of romance and intrigue.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Tierra de esperanza (2023)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Perdona nuestros pecados (2023)
Plot Summary:
The Quiroga and Montero families live in the town of San Juan, two families of high society, who apparently are united by a friendship of many years. Armando does not agree with the relationship between his daughter Elsa and Andrés, because they are from different social classes. But the relationship between these two families will become a bonfire of betrayal, intrigue, revenge and power.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Cabo (2021)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Vencer la culpa (2023)
Plot Summary:
Four women become friends and learn to overcome their guilt after the disappearance of a local teenage girl unexpectedly brings them together.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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The Favorite (2008)
Plot Summary:
A Favorita is a telenovela, first broadcast in Brazil at Rede Globo from June 2, 2008 to January 17, 2009. A Favorita storylines examine two friends, Donatela and Flora, who became rivals. One of them committed a crime and is lying, so there are two versions of the same story. The series was originally screened as six episodes per week, from Monday to Saturday, with an average running time of one hour. Created by writer João Emanuel Carneiro, A Favorita has remained significant in terms of Globo's success and audience share, and also in Brazilian television drama history, tackling many controversial and taboo issues previously unseen on mainstream television in Brazil. It made history for being the first telenovela where the public did not know who was the villain and who was telling the truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, surprise ending, twisted, telenovela
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Perfect Love (2023)
Plot Summary:
A story about love and its different manifestations, told through the little boy Marcelino in search of his biggest dream: to meet his mother. Inspired by a famous book, the plot takes place in the 1940s.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic comedy, soap opera, telenovela
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Never Give Up (2023)
Plot Summary:
Sol is a hardworking woman who has the chance to work as a backing vocalist for a funk singer and return to dancing, as she did in her youth. Torn between family pressure and passion for the stage, she must face the judgment of her church's members and conflicts with her family. The new chance will make her reconnect with her past in many ways, leading her to find her great youth love.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, romantic comedy, soap opera, telenovela
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Dark Fate (2003)
Plot Summary:
Mariana de la Noche is a Mexican telenovela from 2003. Written by Delia Fiallo and produced by Salvador Mejia, it starred Angélica Rivera, Jorge Salinas, Alejandra Barros and César Évora.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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La Desalmada (2021)
Plot Summary:
Fernanda Linares (Livia Brito) is a woman thirsty for revenge after the murder of her husband on their wedding night, where in addition, Fernanda was a victim of rape after the event occurred. However, Fernanda's life will change when she meets Rafael Toscano (José Ron), a handsome young man who recently just received his university degree with whom she will empathize and return to Fernanda the opportunity to love again.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Los Herederos del Monte (2011)
Plot Summary:
Los Herederos Del Monte is a Spanish-language telenovela to be produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia, with Colombia as location. It is a remake of Chilean telenovela Hijos del Monte produced by TVN in 2008.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, tense, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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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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Unforgivable (2015)
Plot Summary:
Martín (Iván Sánchez) hurries to Mina Escondida after getting an urgent letter from his brother begging to be rescued from the hell in which he's living. On arrival, Martin despairs upon finding out that Demetrio (Pablo Montero), his brother, has committed suicide. His sorrow is transformed into hatred and a thirst for vengeance against the woman who caused his brother suffering and brought him to death.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, novela, soap opera, telenovela
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High Heat (2022)
Plot Summary:
When clues to his brother's murder lead Poncho to a fire brigade, he joins it to investigate further and finds romance, family... and a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, dramatic, captivating, suspenseful, harsh, sensual, soap opera, telenovela
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Apocalypse (2017)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious and spiritual portrayal of one of the most intense and controversial stories in the Holy Bible: the end of the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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Queer as Folk (2022)
Plot Summary:
The lives of a diverse group of friends in New Orleans are transformed in the aftermath of a tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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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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Distilling Love (2007)
Plot Summary:
Film starring Angélica Rivera, Eduardo Yáñez and Sergio Sendel.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: soap opera, romantic, captivating, novela, entertaining, telenovela
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Amor dividido (2022)
Plot Summary:
April and Max thought they had a made life, until fate decided to radically change it, to unite them in the midst of loneliness and disappointment. Learn about the importance of love for family and how people can learn from their mistakes to get ahead.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Hidden Truths (2015)
Plot Summary:
Intending to aid her family, a beautiful young girl accepts the job in a prominent model casting agency, only to discover their girls are also hired for something else.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sexy, exciting, captivating, thought provoking, soap opera, novela, erotic, sensual, erotic drama, suspenseful