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Plot Summary:
Parents force the breakup of two couples, but what happens to their lingering feelings years later? Li Tang and Fu Fang Si were high school sweethearts, but the two end up breaking up due to pressures from Li Tang’s father and a misunderstanding. Li Tang eventually stands up to his father and leaves to start his own company. Years later, Fang Si is finally achieving her dreams as a fashion designer and dating Yin Hao Ran. But their relationship gets complicated when Li Tang comes back into Fang Si’s life just as she is struggling professionally. Li Tang is now engaged to Cheng Xiang Nan, a supermodel, who also happens to be Hao Ran’s ex-girlfriend. Xiang Nan was forced to break up with Hao Ran by her ambitious mother, but she has never gotten over her feelings for him. Will Li Tang and Fang Si now have the courage to listen to their own hearts?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Chronicle of Life (2016)
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After witnessing the slaughter of her family, the only surviving daughter escapes only to experience another harrowing robbery with a young boy who would be the future emperor. Wei Lin Lang develops amnesia after the traumatic events but is raised by a kind family who gives her the name Gem. Years later, Na Lan Rang Ruo recognizes Lin Lang as his cousin and falls in love with her. Emperor Kang Xi wants to reward Rang Ruo for being a loyal subject and orders that Ling Lang be found so that she can be betrothed to Rang Ruo. However, after laying eyes on the beautiful Lin Lang, Emperor Kang Xi also is drawn to her. What will happen to Lin Lang once she enters the palace?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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Hey, Daddy (2015)
Plot Summary:
This is a comedy with topical and practical significance. Grass root Liu Haipi meets his goddess Yi Shuang, a girl he has loved for years. They pretend to be lovers at the beginning, and then fall in love. However, they are under great pressure caused by Haipi's business failure and career setbacks. Just at the time the couple decides to have a "naked marriage", Haipi's father gets Alzheimer and makes trouble like a child, leaving the young couple in distress. At the same time, a rich guy woos Yi Shuang, and Yi Shuang's family has troubles all the time. The young couple is confronted with constant troubles. Haipi and his father go through hostility and indifference, but gradually start to understand each other, and finally come to terms. Haipi and Yi Shuang come through ups and downs, and insist on their love despite everything. Eventually, the family gets together again, embracing happiness with love and tolerance.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating
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Check Out the Event (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follows the emotional journey that will unfold when two former lovers pretend to be together to head on a couple's trip they won at an event.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, road movie, captivating, disturbing
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Romance of Our Parents (2014)
Plot Summary:
An elderly couple looks back on their lives from the time when he was a naval officer who fell in love with a girl from a different background.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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Miss in Kiss (2016)
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After an earthquake destroyed Xiang Qin's house, she and her father moved in with the family of her father's college buddy, Uncle Ah Li. To her surprise, the kind and amicable aunt and uncle are the parents of her cold and distant schoolmate Jiang Zhi Shu, a genius with an IQ of 200 whom not too long ago rejected her endless crush on him. Will the close proximity give her a second chance to win Zhi Shu's heart? Or, will her love for him end under his cold words? What happens when there is competition for his heart?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, romantic comedy, entertaining
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Don't Think Twice, Love's All Right (2020)
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Deniz Inside My Heart (2016)
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Deniz has everything a woman can ask for. But when her husband disappeared no trace, this happy life changes. Deniz, who is in a desperate state with her two children and her father, meets Mirat who will be a lover and be a life-saver.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Love Is Back (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three couples deal with the societal and familial pressures to get married. Ming Liang (Qi Wei) and Gao Jian (Chen He) are arch rivals at work but they share the same viewpoint about marriage: they are opposed to it and would rather enjoy carefree relationships. As their strong feelings for each other turn romantic, they become secret lovers and eventually are forced to rethink their views on marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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The Cook of Castamar (2021)
Plot Summary:
Set in early 18th-century Madrid, the plot follows the love story between an agoraphobic cook and a widowed nobleman.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: costume drama, captivating, historical drama, epic, period drama
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The Interpreter (2016)
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She knows what she wants and is determined to go after it. Qiao Fei is a French postgraduate student who dreams of becoming a professional interpreter. Her mentor during her schooling in Paris is Cheng Jia Yang, the son of a foreign minister and a genius French interpreter. Their budding romance is complicated when Qiao Fei’s ex-boyfriend, Gao Jia Ming, happens to be Jia Yang’s adopted brother, and Jia Yang’s family thinks Wen Xiao Hua is much more suited for Jia Yang’s station in life. With the support of his friend, Wang Xu Dong, can Jia Yang stand up to his family and follow his heart?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, bilingual
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Bangkok Love Stories: Plead (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a blind fortune teller decides to love a confident girl, who doesn't believe in fate, even the horoscope of both will be very strongly, that may cause his fate to be absent.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, dorama, entertaining
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Way Back Into Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
As a student, Lu Jia spent most of her time in school dreaming of the day she finally caught the attention of Xu Jia Xiu. A student in the class next door, Jia Xiu was everything Jia dreamed a guy could be. Unfortunately, all of her dreams were based on a secret, one-sided love. Knowing that nothing would ever happen with Jia Xiu if she kept her feelings as secret, Jia decided to do what any desperate girl might do. She mustered up every ounce of her courage and wrote him a letter. Having never paid any attention to the quiet girl in the class next door, the letter from Jia comes as a bit of a surprise to Jia Xiu. With no prior feelings for Jia, Jia Xiu can’t give her any sort of an answer. But that doesn’t mean she failed to make an impression. Despite the fact that many years have passed and nothing ever came of the letter, Jia Xiu has often wondered what happened to the girl who was once brave enough to confess her feelings for him.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Dil Se Dil Tak (2017)
Plot Summary:
The lives of Parth and Shorvari, a happily married couple, change after the entry of Teni, a young bubbly girl, who decides to become a surrogate mother to their child.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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I'm Home (2015)
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Ieji Hisashi, a salaryman who works for a securities company, has a fuzzy memory of the recent five years because of an accident at his job posting. His wife of five years, Megumi and their 4-year-old son seem to wear masks. He can neither tell their facial expressions nor their emotions. He also struggles about his love for them. On the other hand, Ieji feels an attachment to his ex-wife, whom he divorced five years ago, and their daughter. What sort of days did he have in those five years which are a blank to him? Ieji sets out on a journey to find his past self with a mysterious bunch of 10 keys that he has. He becomes aware that he was a cold, career-minded man before the accident, and the persona that is gradually revealed is beyond the imagination of his present kindhearted self.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Honey and Clover (2008)
Plot Summary:
The series depicts the relationships and lives of a group of five art school students. This is a live-action television drama based on the manga and anime series with the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, captivating
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First Love of a Royal Prince (2004)
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First Love of a Royal Prince is a 2004 South Korean television series starring Sung Yu-ri, Cha Tae-hyun, Kim Nam-jin and Jin Jae-young. It aired on MBC from June 23 to August 26, 2004 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 18 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love, Now (2012)
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Love, Now is a 72 episode Taiwanese idol romance drama television series created and developed by SETTV. It stars Annie Chen, George Hu as the main leads and Bobby Dou, Harry Chang from Taiwanese band Da Mouth and Vivi Lee as the supporting leads. The drama is set to debut on SETTV and ETTV on 31 October 2012. It ended its last episode on 5 March 2013 with 72 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating
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Outbound Love (2014)
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In order to develop new business, LAW SIK-SIK, who works for a travel agency, goes to Malaysia to have a meeting with her client. Unexpectedly, her plans are ruined by a local cunning tour guide, LUK KUNG-CHI, resulting in a falling-out between the two. All of a sudden, SIK-SIK"s boyfriend CHING CHIN-BOK appears to propose marriage to her. The pair start preparing for their wedding ceremony on the heels of their return to Hong Kong.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating
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A Seven-Faced Man (2017)
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Bai Xin Xin is a first-year medical intern who crosses paths with Shen Yi Zhen, a man from a wealthy family. When Xin Xin is roped into becoming the personal attending physician for Yi Zhen, she doesn’t understand what she signed up for until it’s too late. As Yi Zhen’s seven different personalities begin to emerge, so too do dark secrets from his cruel family history. Can Xin Xin help the many faces of Yi Zhen recover from his painful past?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Dog love (2010)
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Perro Amor is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo that originally ran in the United States from January to July 2010. This is a Colombian soap opera remake of the 1998 Cenpro Televisión daily telenovela Perro Amor, written by Natalia Ospina & Andrés Salgado. As with most of its other soap operas, Telemundo broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, romantic, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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The Girl in Blue (2010)
Plot Summary:
After university student You Jia Qi met Meng He Ping, the two started dating. Meng He Ping's mother however strongly objected to their relationship. Jia Qi broke up with He Ping and He Ping angrily went overseas. Jia Qi's friend Ruan Zheng Dong who comes from a rich family, had an accident and ended up in the hospital.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, novela
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The Centimeter of Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
The play tells the story of the Yanxi Hospital doctor Xu Qingfeng on the voyage back from studying abroad, and the captain Guan Yuqing, because of tacit cooperation in helping patients, found that each other's family had hard-to-recited sutras.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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The Game of Life (2003)
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, telenovela
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Seizing Love by Force, Winter (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hikari works at a design office. Her upbringing is not a wealthy one, but now she has a good job and an affectionate fiancé Kota. She is happy and feeling very much fulfilled. But, when she happens to see her ex-boyfriend Shin, once the love of her life, her relationship with her fiancé starts to fall apart... Hikari and Shin used to work for the same design office where he was her boss. They had been lovers but one day, all of a sudden, Shin left her without a word. Now, he is married to Ran. Ran’s over posses- sive manic love towards Shin makes her consumed with jealousy against Hikari. And Hikari’s fiancé Kota also finds himself suffering from his love and his jealousy... Shin’s presence is driving him slowly but steadily to the brink of insanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Art in Love (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tao Yufei is a perfectionist artist, who is introverted, sensitive, and cold. His personality is challenged by the fearless Li Chenyin who isn’t afraid of anything. They get to know each other in college and have been clashing since then. When given the chance to pursue further education in arts, Tao Yufei chooses to follow his dream and study abroad, sacrificing the budding romance. Seven years later, he returns home and meets Chenyin again, but throughout the years, she has been protected by a handsome basketball player Qiu Jiawu.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: China
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Here to Heart (2018)
Plot Summary:
She has more than work on her mind. Wen Nuan decides to quit her high-paying job in England to work as an executive assistant to the founder of a high-tech company in China. Zhan Nan Xian started the company with his classmates and used his financial savvy to weather the economic downturn and keep the company successful. It turns out that Wen Nuan and Nan Xian were in a relationship in the past. Can Wen Nuan make herself indispensable to Nan Xian in both his work and his life?.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, dorama, entertaining
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First Love Again (2016)
Plot Summary:
Lee Ha Jin (Myung Se Bin) is a woman who had forgotten memories of her first love. Meanwhile, Cha Do Yoon (Kim Seung Soo) is a man who is trapped in the memories of his first love. Two of them meet again after 8 years.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Black Pearl (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hazal, beautiful young girl is engajed with Kenan, handsome young fisherman. The day before their wedding, Hazal is forced to marry Vural, successful businessman who fall in love with her since the first time he saw her working on his birthday party as a waitress. Vurals first wife, Naz, was just alike Hazal, and thats the reason why Vural fell in love with her so much, since Naz died 2 years ago and now he finds a replacement of her in Hazal. The story is telling us about the love story between Kenan who thought Hazal dumped him just for money and higher society life and who became a successful businessman with the aim of avenging them , and Hazal who tries to forget all she has been through and the way Vural stole her dreams and youth, and of course Vural who is still waiting for Hazal to love him as much as she loves Kenan.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Hawa Baghdad (2019)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: Iraq
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang (2005)
Plot Summary:
Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang is a 2005 South Korean television series starring Han Chae-young, Jae Hee, Uhm Tae-woong and Park Si-eun. It aired on KBS2 from January 3 to March 1, 2005 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 17 episodes. A modern retelling of the classic Korean folktale Chunhyangjeon, the romantic comedy series was called "fusion-style" for, among others, mixing rap with pansori in the background music. This is the first Korean drama written by Hong Jung-eun and Hong Mi-ran, and remains the highest-rated in their filmography, with a peak viewership rating of 32.2%. The story begins when Lee Mong-ryong is transferred from Seoul to a high school in Namwon, North Jeolla Province. Chun-hyang does her best to help Mong-ryong, her first love and the son of the Namwon Police Station chief, to enter a prestigious university. However, after meeting with Mong-ryong’s first love, Chae-rin, Mong-ryong’s love toward Chun-hyang is shattered, although Chun-hyang’s love remains unwavering. One day, Byeon Hak-do, CEO of a famous entertainment company, appears in her life. He exudes confidence that he can make any woman fall for him. But as Chun-hyang shows no interest in him, his self-esteem is damaged profoundly. Byeon Hak-do is determined to make her love him.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, captivating, satirical, disturbing, romantic drama