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Plot Summary:
Jinshim Original Fried Chicken restaurant is owned by Lee Jin-sam, who has three daughters Lee Soon-jin, Lee Soon-soo and Lee Soon-jung. Since their mother's death, eldest daughter Soon-jin has been running the restaurant and taking care of her father and younger sisters. She struggles to keep Jinshim afloat against its rival restaurant Woontak Chicken, which is managed by the ruthless Chun Woon-tak. Middle daughter Soon-soo is a pianist, but becomes heartbroken when her boyfriend breaks up with because of her poor background. Youngest daughter Soon-jung finds herself caught in love triangle between two men, Jang Soon-chul and Cha Do-hoon.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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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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Flowers for My Life (2007)
Plot Summary:
Na Hana loves money more than anything. she left her home town for Seoul. She decided that the only way she could be with money is to marry a rich man who will die soon. She soon meets Yoon Ho Sang, a young man who is a poor, troublemaker, and also loves money, but is in diguise of a very rich man who died. these two meet and soon love sparks but Ho Sang has a serious cancer problem which he first lied to a man who he owes money to.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama
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Phoenix (2004)
Plot Summary:
Love is timing. Love needs just the "right time". It's not because you loved him or her less that you parted. Heaven brings you your soul mate when the time is just "right". "Phoenix" shows you this heaven's work. There is a young couple who desperately fell in love but who couldn't be together because the time wasn't just right for them. Years pass by and these two meet again. And the trick of fortune switches their situation and environments. A daughter of a millionaire has now become an helper suffering from the grim realities of life. On the other hand, an orphan self-supporting student is now an accomplished wealthy businessman. Now these two people are looking at the world with different eyes. The childlike girl has finally learned the harshness of the world and the guy with once twisted mind has learned to enjoy the latitude of mind. In the end, these two start to understand each other, thus arriving at the "right time".
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing
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The Last Scandal of My Life (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Last Scandal of My Life is about a 39-year-old housewife who finds love with a top actor after a painful divorce.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, romantic drama
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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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Love & Life & Lie (2017)
Plot Summary:
Liu Xin Tong is a positive girl, living in a poor household. There was nothing out of the ordinary until she got into an accident that moved her and her mother into a rich businessman's house. There, she meets Li Yao Nan, her fated love along with two siblings that play important roles in her new life. She is met with multiple obstacles that she must overcome to ultimately keep her lover and friends, in addition to finding out the real truth about her birth.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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A Warmed Up Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
Kiki Inoue could not fulfill her dream to become an idol and is currently working part-time at a convenience store. Takumi Asaba is the president of a convenience store chain and enjoys criticizing sweets on social media. One day, Takumi found a similar criticism about sweets made by Kiki and invited her to be a staff to develop an original "best seller" sweets.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, captivating
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Manpuku (2018)
Plot Summary:
Based on true story of the wife of Ando Momofuku, the businessman who founded Nissin Food Products Co. Ltd. and the inventor of instant ramen, the 99th Asadora follows the life of Tachibana Fukuko, a young woman who tries to survive tough times in Osaka with her husband from before WWII to the rapid economic development era. Together they overcome various setbacks before they succeed in creating instant noodles. (Source: MDL).
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, captivating, asadora
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Cruel Palace: War of Flowers (2013)
Plot Summary:
There is no power struggle that is more cruel and vicious as among the concubines in a royal palace. Jo So Yong is a beautiful but conniving royal concubine during the Joseon Dynasty who will stop at nothing to win the love and power of King In Jo. Although she is from the lower class, she uses her unparalleled beauty and wit to gain power and control over Joseon, even if it means getting rid of Crown Prince So Hyun so her son can be king. When Lady Jo finally gets the power she wanted, it results in the bloodiest battle.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, romantic, captivating, political
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Mother of Mine (2019)
Plot Summary:
Story of a mother and three daughters living in modern day Korean society. The drama conveys a message about the low fertility rate, divorce rate, and the problems of the younger generation who are avoiding marriage.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, entertaining
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Be Careful with My Heart (2012)
Plot Summary:
Be Careful With My Heart is a 2012 Philippine daytime television drama which premiered on ABS-CBN on July 9, 2012 airing before It's Showtime. It is also broadcast worldwide on The Filipino Channel. It is topbilled by Jodi Sta. Maria and Richard Yap. It is one of the most successful teleserye of ABS-CBN. It is the first television drama in the Philippines made by ABS-CBN to be filmed and broadcast in high definition.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Rosy Lovers (2014)
Plot Summary:
A family drama about a college student couple who unintentionally becomes parents and realize the true meaning of love and life. Jang Mi is an immature mama’s girl who grew without experiencing any hardship in life. Unlike her parents’ will to marry her off to a promising man they choose for her, Jang Mi has the hope to marry someone she falls madly in love with. As she dates healthy and innocent engineering student Cha Dol, she slowly begins to realize the meaning of love.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, dorama, entertaining
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Ojakgyo Brothers (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story of a family with four sons who live together with their relatives on a farm near Seoul. Hwang Tae Hee is the third son and a policeman who falls in love with a girl named Baek Ja Eun. Baek Ja Eun is a haughty young woman who only believes in her pretty looks and is quick to flare up in anger.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama, romantic drama
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Plot Summary:
Kanji Takizawa worked diligently at a bank, successfully reaching the position of branch manager. Despite the fact that his conversation with his wife Mariko was dwindling and there was a growing distance between him and his young, unmarried daughter, Misaki, he had come to accept his peaceful life. One day, Kanji gets loaned out to a client company for an unjustifiable reason. Shocked, Kanji lies to his family that he was going on a business trip to Switzerland, where he meets and finds a kindred spirit in Shiori Meguro. Meanwhile, Mariko suspects that her husband may be having an affair, and finds herself falling in forbidden love with her daughter’s fiancé, Haruki Hino.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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Crazy in Love (2007)
Plot Summary:
Suh Jin Young is an aviation maintenance technician. Her fiance Jae Hoon passed away in a horrible traffic accident. Kim Chae Joon dreams of becoming an aviation maintenance technician but he encounters prejudice because he is an ex-convict. He killed someone with his car. Suh Jin Young gives him a chance to work under her and they fall in love. However that love is severely tested when they both discover that Chae Joon's victim was Suh Jin Young's fiance Jae Hoon.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, romantic drama
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The Spring Day of My Life (2014)
Plot Summary:
This is a melodrama about a woman who received heart transplant and a man who loved his late wife very much. Lee Bom Yi decided to live her life to the fullest as a token of gratitude for the donor. She then accidentally met Kang Dong Ha, a single father with two children, unaware that he was the husband of her donor. Kang Dong Ha is baffled that Lee Bom Yi shares many similar traits with his late wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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Passionate Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, sexy, captivating, entertaining, dorama, soap opera
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Give Love Away (2013)
Plot Summary:
A heartwarming family drama centering on a couple’s remarriage in the twilight years of their lives, forcing two families of grown adult children to become one big family. This drama will describe how those grown-up children will re-act and deal with this new situation and their eventual acceptance of each other as a new family. It also depicts how young couple growing up with the turbulent romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating
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Lead with Your Heart (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ben and Maura have been married for years, and they are in a rut…so much of a rut that they are contemplating if it would be better to live separate lives. That’s when their two teenage children step in and scheme to try to get them back together and make them realize how much they still need each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, emotional, entertaining
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A Time to Love (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 1927, the urgent and relentless love of Maria Vitória and Inácio is interrupted by the young man's decision to cross the Atlantic in search of work, and his promise to return. Pregnant, Maria Vitória faces the wrath of her father, who decides to send her to a convent while the baby goes for adoption. Filled with courage, she goes after Inácio, hoping that together they could get their daughter back, but the couple ends up following different paths and living new love stories. They will have to face personal obstacles and the deranged jealousy of Inácio's intended until the inevitable moment of their reencounter in this classic story of growth and the immeasurable force of love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, romantic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, soap opera, entertaining, telenovela
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The Scent of Passion (2021)
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Every year, Gaviota and her mother arrive at Hacienda Casablanca to pick up the coffee from the second harvest of the year, but they hope that their next visit will be their last, because from now on they will be owners of their own land. However, fate has other plans. Octavio Vallejo, the owner of the hacienda, has just died. Gaviota previously had saved him from a kidnapping. Octavio promised as a reward to give her one hectare of land so that she could grow her own coffee. Trying to get the Vallejo family to honor the agreement, Gaviota meets Sebastián, Octavio's son, and an irrepressible attraction is born between them, a heartbreaking, impossible love, becoming two lovers who belong to different worlds.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: soap opera, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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What Life Took From Me (2013)
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"What Life Took From Me" is a Mexican telenovela produced by Angelli Nesma Medina for Televisa. It is a remake of Bodas de odio, produced by Ernesto Alonso in 1983. In 2003, "True Love", the first remake, was produced by Carla Estrada. Unlike Bodas de odio and "True Love", "What Life Took From Me" has been adapted to the present time.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, novela, romantic drama, telenovela
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Pavitra Rishta (2009)
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Pavitra Rishta is an Indian soap opera that airs on Zee TV. It premiered on 1 June 2009 and airs weeknights. It is produced by Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms. Pavitra Rishta portrays the life of two common middle-class Maharashtrian families in the city of Mumbai and their day-to-day life. It particularly focuses on the journey of the couple Manav and Archana and their grown-up children.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, entertaining
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One Warm Word (2013)
Plot Summary:
The drama explores the reality and complexities of married life. Eun-jin and Jae-hak, who are married to other people, find themselves attracted to each other. Their marriages become in danger of unraveling, as their affair disrupts the lives of family and friends around them.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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She Would Never Know (2021)
Plot Summary:
It is an office romance about female senior who doesn’t want to catch feelings for younger men and male junior who are handsome, sexy and has a straightforward style.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: dorama, psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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More Than Friends (2020)
Plot Summary:
Due to a misunderstanding, Lee Soo and Kyung Woo Yeon have held a crush on each other for over 10 years. Lee Soo works as a photographer and he is attractive. He is also mistaken for a model many times. Kyung Woo Yeon works as a calligrapher. She has had a crush on Lee Soo for the past 10 years, since she was 18 years old.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, 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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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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My Friend's Mom (2016)
Plot Summary:
After her mother dies, Young-jae visits her older sister's house, who took care of herself like her, and reunites with her sister, Soon-ae. She is incredibly greedy and charming. With the provocation of Soon-ae, the two develop into a secret relationship. One day when she was having a hot night with her mature lead, her daughter got stuck between the two ... A young and sexy daughter, a seasoned and mature mother, and a man wandering between mother and daughter. An unprecedented triangular romance between the three begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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Sweet Stranger and Me (2016)
Plot Summary:
Hong Na-Ri works as a flight attendant. Her mother passed away 3 years ago and she doesn't have any other immediate family members. Hong Na-Ri returns to her hometown to visit her mother's grave during her death anniversary. There, she sees a young man at her mother's grave. The man, Go Nan-Gil, introduces himself as her father. Before Hong Na-Ri's mother died, she married Go Nan-Gil. He now lives at her mother's house and runs the small dumpling restaurant that her mother ran.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining