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Plot Summary:
Mara Clara is a Philippine television drama which aired on ABS-CBN from October 25, 2010 to June 3, 2011. It is a remake based on the 1992 original television series of same name. It was also in celebration of the 60 Years Of Philippine Soap Opera year end offering. Following AMCARA Broadcasting Network's closure on October 22, 2010, after the ABS-CBN's acquisition of Studio 23 in July 2010.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, touching, suspenseful, disturbing, meditative, soap opera, telenovela
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Missing (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Altamira family celebrate Mariuno's birthday. Elisa and her cousins ask for permission to go dancing at a new club in town.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: suspense, novela, scary, rough, sinister, exciting, telenovela
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Widow's Web (2022)
Plot Summary:
Four Women With Ulterior And Hidden Secrets Because Of A Businessman's Unexplainable Assasination.Their Lives Will Be Shattered And Trapped In A Maze Of Lies,Conflicts,Betrayals,Mysteries,Ambition,Murder,Wealth,And Power.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological thriller, gothic, suspense, disturbing, crime thriller, bizarre
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Behind Closed Doors (2011)
Plot Summary:
La Casa de al Lado is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. This mystery is a remake of Chilean telenovela La familia de al lado produced by TVN in 2010-2011 and is being adapted by the author of the original, José Ignacio Valenzuela making a story longer with many differences from the original. Maritza Rodriguez and Gabriel Porras star as the protagonists, while Catherine Siachoque, Miguel Varoni, David Chocarro and Maritza Rodriguez star as the antagonists.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, sentimental, suspense, novela, realistic, saga, sinister, telenovela
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Imortal (2010)
Plot Summary:
300 years ago, a group of powerful clan came to this island. They were known as vampires or blood drinkers. They quickly grew in numbers and their violence increased. Unknown to them another powerful clan lived in the island, the werewolves. Sensing to protect the humans, the werewolves organized a warrior group just to destroy all the vampires. The vampires were no match to the werewolves. They were exterminated one by one. The survivors hid from the clutches of the werewolves. Peace eventually came among the humans and the werewolves and as time passed by, memories of the vampire dwindled gradually. Unbeknownst to all and during those times, the vampires were organizing and fortifying their clan. They believed that one day they would reign. Vampires believe in a prophecy that foretells an epic battle between the two powerful clans - a war that will finally decide the one blood that shall rule them all. It will be lead by the most powerful vampire and werewolf. While the vampires.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: gothic, exciting, serious, captivating, epic, sinister
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Flames of Life (2008)
Plot Summary:
This telenovela is full of secrets. The plot releases love stories, hate, friendship, revenge, friendship, hate and many surprises. The exciting story of Flame of Life shows a love growing interest started in two childhood friends who haven’t seen each other for many years and are bring back together in a tragic moment.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: surprise ending, soap opera, novela, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, psychotronic, telenovela
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Burning for Revenge (2008)
Plot Summary:
Fuego en la sangre is a telenovela that began transmissions on January 21, 2008, through Mexico's Canal de las Estrellas network. Starring Adela Noriega, Eduardo Yáñez, Diana Bracho, and Guillermo García Cantú. It is the Mexican remake of the Colombian soap operas Las Aguas Mansas and Pasion de Gavilanes. The theme song called "Para Siempre" is sung by Vicente Fernández. The telenovela received TVyNovelas Award for Best Telenovela, in 2009.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Action, Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, suspenseful, soap opera, novela, telenovela, period drama
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Facing Destiny (2012)
Plot Summary:
A youth named Diego (David Chocarro) was released from prison, 20 years after being incarcerated. He was unjustly accused of a school massacre. Soon after his release, he finds himself entangled in a series of conspiracies and intrigues. With the help of his psychiatrist, Antonia(Maritza Rodriguez), he begins to uncover the mysteries surrounding the massacre.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, emotional, suspense, novela, slasher, realistic, sinister, telenovela
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Wildflower (2017)
Plot Summary:
Wildflower is a Philippine revenge drama television series starring Maja Salvador, together with an ensemble cast. The show originally aired on ABS-CBN, and worldwide on The Filipino Channel, from February 13, 2017 to February 9, 2018.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, captivating, enigmatic, political thriller, surprise ending, sinister
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The Iron Heart (2022)
Plot Summary:
An undercover agent goes on a dangerous mission to bring down a crime ring. Fueled by a bitter and painful past, he along with his allies faces the grueling task that will challenge his resolve and strength.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: action adventure, suspense, political thriller
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The Penthouse: War in Life (2020)
Plot Summary:
A woman puts everything on the line to achieve her goal of being able to move into a luxury penthouse in the Gangnam District. In the process, she gradually finds herself turning into a monster.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, uplifting, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, entertaining
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Tycoon (2020)
Plot Summary:
Someone shoots at Serbian tycoon Vladan Simonovic. This makes Vladan initiate a private investigation that will open up "Pandora's box" with respect to his past and will lead to conflicts linked with the future of his mighty company.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, disturbing
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Insider (2016)
Plot Summary:
Even though two brothers are completely separated from each other after the imprisoning of their father and the kidnapping of their twin brother, they meet by coincidence years after when both choose to enter the police academy.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, disturbing, detective, black comedy, dark comedy, surprise ending
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Kuruthi Kalam (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two rival gangs with a history of violence rule the roost in Chennai. An upright youngster, Vijay, is pulled into their never-ending power play and has to give up his hopes of becoming a police officer when he resorts to violence.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Brave and Beautiful (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tahsin is head of the Korludag family, his wealth and great influence in society makes him feared and respected by everyone. There isn’t a place or person in town that he does not control. Tahsin has two children; his son Korhan is a big disappointment to his father, but Sühan, his smart and beautiful daughter, he loves dearly. Korhan’s wife is without success trying to get pregnant. As she fears that Sühan will deliver an heir to the family fortune before herself, she tries to kill her sister-in-law. However, her evil plans are spoiled when a handsome stranger enters the story, saving Sühan's life, becoming her lover and taking his place as the son Tahsin always dreamt of. But what no one knows is that revenge runs in this stranger’s veins and it is no coincidence that he showed up when he did. Will his love for Sühan stop him going ahead with his plan to get vengeance on Tahsin or is it all part of his master plan…?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, touching, sweet
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Age of Legends (2018)
Plot Summary:
Liu Zi Guang has no memories of the past eight years of his life. When he returns to his hometown, Jiangbei, all he knows is that he wants to live life as an upstanding citizen. But those mysterious eight years are bound to catch up to him as he finds his father injured in the hospital upon his return. Hu Rong is a detective whose looks are as fiery as her personality. She's young, but her tough demeanor and unquestionable skills make her a seasoned officer. She cares intensely about her work, doing whatever it takes to protect the citizens of China. Nie Wanfeng is the leader of a criminal organization. He is a hugely tricky opponent for the police, with both his smarts and viciousness keeping him a free man. When Liu Zi Guang and Hu Rong meet, they initially struggle to get along. But their relationship grows as they both come up against Nie Wanfeng together. Things only complicate, however, as Hu Rong learns more about Liu Zi Guang's past, just as she finds herself falling for him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, disturbing
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Rosario Tijeras (2016)
Plot Summary:
Worlds collide when a vengeance-obsessed young woman from the other side of the tracks captures the attention of two well-off friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, telenovela
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Cornered (2007)
Plot Summary:
Acorralada is an American telenovela produced by Venevisión. Univision aired Acorralada from January 2007 to October 2007 on weekday afternoons at 2 pm central. It was rebroadcast in late 2011 through April 2012 on Univision's sister network, Telefutura. It was filmed in Miami, Florida, and lasted about 187 episodes. It is the second long-running telenovela that Venevisión Productions has produced without its former co-producer Fonovideo. It began airing in Venezuela on December 10, 2008 in the 11 pm timeslot on Venevisión and finished on July 25, 2009 with seven months of airing and being the most successful telenovela for its timeslot since La Fea Más Bella. Venevision International released Acorralada on DVD in the United States on December 2, 2008, a week before its debut on Venezuelan television. The DVD set consists of three discs, and has a running time of 596 minutes. The show is heavily edited in order to fit into three discs. Neither Venevision nor Univision have plans to offer a more complete version.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Femme Fatales (2011)
Plot Summary:
Femme Fatales is an anthology TV series, inspired by the men's magazine of the same name, with each episode focusing on an antihero woman, intercut with softcore pornographic scenes and produced by Cinemax. Lilith, introduces each episode Rod Serling-style and occasionally appears within the narrative. Some characters make encore appearances in later episodes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, suspenseful, stylized, serious, anthology, realistic
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The Method (2015)
Plot Summary:
The main character is an extraordinary and mysterious person, at the same time, he (Rodion Meglin) is an outstanding inspector. Rodion is used to work alone in order to keep the secrecy of his unusual method. Young graduate Esenya Steklova is eager to get the internship with the glorious investigator but she could hardly expect the challenges she would face while working with Rodion. Together they investigate the cruelest crimes that took place in the history of Russian criminality.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller, rough
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The Long Goodbye (2014)
Plot Summary:
Tamotsu is suspected of murdering his actress wife Shizuka Harada. He flees to Taiwan and commits suicide. Tamotsu’s friend Banji Masuzawa works as a private detective, and has doubts about Tamotsu’s death, but the case is covered up by powerful media mogul Heizo Harada.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Vagabond (2019)
Plot Summary:
Stuntman Cha Dal-geon gets involved in a tragic airplane crash and ends up discovering a national corruption scandal in the process. Go Hae-ri, the oldest daughter of a deceased marine, decides to work for the National Intelligence Service as a secret ops agent in order to support her mom and younger siblings, although all she wanted to do is to become a civil servant.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dorama, tense, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Ezel (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ömer, a young man returning from military service, is set up by his friends and fiancé and ends up in prison for ten years. He fakes his own death and manages to escape. He re-creates himself as ‘Ezel’, a high-end gambler who is outwardly a successful man, but inwardly driven by one thing - his determination to understand why the people he loved betrayed him, and take his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, soap opera, captivating, realistic
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Black Money Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ömer is a police officer. After the death of his fiancée, he suffers great pain. The body of Sibel, Ömer's fiancée, was found on the top of a cliff, in a car next to a fairly old, rich business man. After the shock of her sudden death and the accusations of his love cheating on him, Ömer realizes that there is more behind her suspicious murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, touching, captivating, detective
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Kara Ekmek (2015)
Plot Summary:
Asiye is young and beautiful girl who works as a manicurist in a small beauty salon. She lives in a poor neighborhood with her family and wants to get married as soon as possible in order to get rid of her step mothers evil tongue. When she learns that she is pregnant, she immediately talks to her boyfriend and wants him to come and ask her family's approval for marriage. However, her boyfriend wants her to have an abortion and mentions clearly that he has no intention for marriage.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Blood out of Blood (2012)
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Suburra: Blood on Rome (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 2008, a fight over land in a seaside town near Rome spirals into a deadly battle between organized crime, corrupt politicians and the Vatican.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, hood, crime thriller, interesting, political drama
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El Halal Mountain (2014)
Plot Summary:
The tale of "Mansour Abu Heiba" - the self-righteous patriarch of Abu Heiba family - from upper Egypt, one of the 5 largest organized crime dynasties in the world; the pioneers of arms trafficking and monuments merchandising in the Middle East. The series explores the organized crime scene in Egypt and the Middle East through the rise and fall of Abu Heiba, his relationship with the European Mafia and his struggle with keeping his family close.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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If Tomorrow Comes (1986)
Plot Summary:
This mini-series focuses on two people, Tracy Whitney and Jeff Stevens. In the beginning, Tracy was an innocent, who was in love and pregnant, with the son of an affluent family. Obviously her family did not approve of her. She would sent ot prison for a crime she didn't commit. Eventually, she got released. She then set out to get back at the people who framed her. She would try to rebuild her life but her prison record would always be a hindrance. She would be offered a job, stealing jewelry. Jeff is con-man who thought he found true love, but when he learned that his wife did not feel about him as he did, decided to con some of her friends and divorce her. Their paths would cross when Tracy after stealing what she was contracted to, meets up with some policemen, one of whom is Jeff. Apparently her boss tried to double cross her but she manages to outwit them.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 304 min
Plot tags: romantic, entertaining, tense, sexy, thought provoking, feel good, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, sincere
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Pretty Little Liars (2010)
Plot Summary:
Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year later, they begin receiving messages from someone using the name "A" who threatens to expose their secrets — including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 176000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, teen, soap opera, slasher, saga, relaxing, thrilling, teen horror
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Defending Jacob (2020)
Plot Summary:
A family’s lives are irreparably disrupted when the 14-year-old son is accused of murdering a fellow classmate.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 402 min
Plot tags: suspense, detective, serious, captivating, social, philosophical, atmospheric, intellectual, slasher, anthology