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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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Nothing Remains the Same (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1950s, the plot follows the fictional creation of the first brazilian TV station. Saulo is a visionary and passionate man, who dreams of creating the first television network alongside Verônica, who aspires to be a famous actress.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: erotic, novela, sensual
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Two Faces (2007)
Plot Summary:
Duas Caras is a Brazilian television drama that was broadcast by Rede Globo in 2007 and 2008.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Total Dreamer (2015)
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Eliza lived in the interior of Rio de Janeiro with her family, but after getting involved in a mess with her stepfather, she fled to the capital and started to live on the streets of the city. Despite her careless appearance, she draws attention for her beauty. Eliza takes risks in the streets and Jonatas is the one who realizes the danger and proposes to protect her. During the week, the boy makes a living selling bullets and guarding cars. To save money, he only returns to the family home, who lives far away, on weekends. In a very different world live the powerful director of the magazine Totalmente Demais, Carolina, and the bon vivant and owner of the modeling agency Excalibur, Arthur. Longtime friends and lovers in their spare time, they carry in this intimate relationship the same competitive behavior as legal life. The duo's combination is explosive: she is capable of anything to get what she wants, and he just wants to have fun without measuring the consequences of his actions.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, uplifting, touching, feel good, sweet, captivating, soap opera, fairy tale, romantic comedy, telenovela
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Crashing Into the Future (2018)
Plot Summary:
The Sabino Machado family, their slaves and entourage spend years frozen in the ocean after a shipwreck in 1886. They wake up gradually, one by one, and must learn to deal with the technology and the human idiosyncrasies of the present times. Among cultural and temporal shocks, "the frozen ones" encounter improbable friendships, romances and greedy people, while fighting prejudices that not even time was able to eradicate.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, captivating, exciting, light, humorous, soap opera, romantic comedy, telenovela
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Pantanal (1990)
Plot Summary:
Pantanal is a Brazilian telenovela which originally aired from March 27, 1990 to December 10, 1990 at 9 P.M. on Rede Manchete. SBT recently re-aired the telenovela from June 9, 2008 to January 13, 2009. It was set on the Pantanal region. Pantanal is one of the best known ecological or environmental telenovela, a small sub-category of the genre whose purpose is to dramatize, and hence raise audience awareness of environmental degradation. It was written by Benedito Ruy Barbosa and directed by Jayme Monjardim, Carlos Magalhães, Marcelo de Barreto, and Roberto Naar.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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Tierra de Pasiones (2006)
Plot Summary:
In a beautiful valley where the most exquisite grapes are farmed, an intense and sizzling love story will flourish between Valeria San Roman, a beautiful woman with a strong character, which has given her the strength to face life's deceptions, and Francisco Contreras, renowned publisher, widower and a man of will. Valeria, who manages the San Roman vineyard, hasn't had an easy life. Her own father, Jose Maria 'Chema' San Roman, the family's patriarch, has always hated her because she is the only one who doesn't obey him. A man without scruples, selfish and womanizing, Chema arrived to the United States, married Valeria's mom to steal everything from her and later disposed of her. If that weren't enough, Chema schemes a hideous plan causing Valeria to experience a horrible betrayal. Meanwhile, Francisco arrives to visit his father at the ranch only to learn that he has married Marcia, a woman much younger than he who leads him to the brink of bankruptcy and drives him to suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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River of Intrigues (2010)
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River of intrigues is a historic town with beautiful landscape and a river where people practice sports. Despite its beautiful scenery, the city`s main asset is its different inhabitants. Intrigue, confusion and a lot of passion heat up / warm up the plot. Everything in this quiet town is transformed with the arrival of a mega-project, which causes an impact on all aspects of social life of each resident.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Beyond the Horizon (2013)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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Forbidden Desire (2007)
Plot Summary:
Desejo Proibido is a Brazilian telenovela broadcast by Globo Network, at 6 pm, every day, except Sunday. In the cast: Fernanda Vasconcellos, Murilo Rosa and Daniel de Oliveira.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera
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Madre Luna (2007)
Plot Summary:
Madre Luna is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series, also known as Grains of Love, debuted on July 2, 2007. Veteran telenovela writer Julio Jiménez developed the story as a vehicle for star Amparo Grisales. The show scored a 35 percent share of the Colombian audience during the summer of 2007. During November 2007, it averaged 571,000 core adult viewers. Luna's final episode aired Monday, January 28, 2008.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, telenovela
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Tropical Paradise (2007)
Plot Summary:
The search for a successor provokes the beginning of a clash between two young and talented executives of his group: Daniel Bastos, a lad of simple origins and excellent character, who is not only handsome and charming, but also intelligent and skilled, and Olavo Novaes, an ambitious and unscrupulous man who is ready to fight for the position, at any cost. To fight against Olavo‘s treacherous plans, Daniel will have the help of the sweet and sensitive Paula, a young lady raised as an only child who founds, on the eve of her mother‘s death, that she is adopted and has a family. What Paula does not know is that she has an identical twin sister, the wicked Taís, who is as ambitious and unscrupulous as the man who becomes her main ally, Olavo Novaes. Antenor, for his part, decides on having an heir when he meets the headstrong and honest Lúcia, a woman who will make this cold businessman find true love is and a real reason to live.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, sexy, humorous, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Orphans of a Nation (2019)
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Victim of a devastating bombing, a young Syrian woman agrees to marry a powerful sheikh in exchange for the money needed to save her agonizing brother. But everything changes when the boy dies and the girl must flee with her family to start a new life. Enraged, the sheikh sends his right-hand man after the bride and they fall for each other, living a forbidden love. Their relationship is put to the test when the sheikh's daughter decides to take vengeance on the couple after her father's mysterious death. From Emmy Award winners Thelma Guedes and Duca Rachid, Orphans of a Nation is a story of empathy and love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, sincere, realistic, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Land of Desire (2023)
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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Seven Sins (2007)
Plot Summary:
Sete Pecados is a Brazilian telenovela airing at 7:00 pm, which replaced Pé na Jaca of Carlos Lombardi. The telenovela was written by Walcyr Carrasco, with the collaboration of Claudia Soto and Andre Ryoki. The directors were Jorge Fernando, Pedro Vasconcelos and Fred Mayrink. Jorge worked with the same directing cast on his previous telenovelas Chocolate com Pimenta and Alma Gêmea. Seven Sins debuted on June 18, 2007. and last aired on February 15, 2008, with 209 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, humorous, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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A Life Worth Living (2019)
Plot Summary:
A dreamy seamstress and mother of three's life is turned upside down when she's wrongly diagnosed with a terminal disease along with an actually terminally ill wealthy book publisher.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 41 min
Plot tags: novela, romantic, uplifting, humorous, captivating, romantic comedy, 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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Looks and Essence (2011)
Plot Summary:
Looks and Essence is a telenovela that explores the issue of modern-day values. Griselda is a tough, hard-working handywoman who managed to raise her three children on her own. She struggles to make ends meet but after winning the lottery tensions rise as people inevitably show their true value. With plenty of romance and intrigue this incredibly rich and fun telenovela brings together the true values of friendship, love, and family.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, telenovela
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These Women (2005)
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The plot takes place in 1880, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, following the lives of three strong and determined women. Aurélia, Maria da Glória and Mila are great friends who attend etiquette classes together, but life doesn't take long to put them in completely different directions.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Helena's Shadow (2014)
Plot Summary:
Laerte’s obsessive jealousy brings his relationship with Helena to an end on their wedding day. Twenty years later, he meets Luiza, the daughter of his long lost love. The two fall in love and stir up dormant feelings that profoundly affect Helena’s marriage and her relationship with her daughter. Defying everyone, Laerte and Luiza decide to follow their love to the highest bounds, leaving a trail of conflicts and pain along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, captivating, suspense, satirical, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Young Hearts (1995)
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Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location varied slightly. Although the name of the soap remains the same, it is now set in the Múltipla Escolha High School. In the sixteenth season, the location became a High School placed within a Shopping mall. By the end of the fourteenth season, each episode of Malhação began with a cold open technique, preceded by a retrospective of the previous episodes, continuing the narrative that follows. This technique was a brand of serial, used since the first season, but was abolished from the beginning of the fifteenth season. Malhação reached its peak in the eleventh season, with Guilherme Berenguer, Juliana Didone and Marjorie Estiano as the leads, and the ratings decreased from this season on reach an incredible 42 million viewers. The series is displayed in several countries by Globo Internacional, including displays by SIC in Portugal and by ABC Family in Canada. The show inspired others soaps, like Portuguese channel TVI's Morangos com Açúcar, which is strongly based on the Malhação format, and Brazilian channel Rede Record's, Alta Estação.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, anthology
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Pega Pega (2017)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy about a robbery in a luxurious Rio de Janeiro hotel and the repercussions this event has on the lives of each person involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: novela, sincere, romantic, serious, captivating, soap opera, romantic comedy, telenovela
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Seize the Day (2009)
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Luciana and Helena are two supermodels with completely opposite personalities: the first is stormy and spoiled, while the second - being older - is patient and restrained. Their fate changes when Helena becomes involved with Marcos, Luciana's father, an older man recently divorced from a former model, Tereza, who does not accept the end of the marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, captivating, suspense, disturbing, telenovela
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Precious Pearl (2013)
Plot Summary:
In 1934 two supposed brothers survived an avalanche in the Himalayas: the millionaire Franz Hauser (Bruno Gagliasso), who is saved by Buddhist monks, and Manfred (Carmo Dalla Vecchia), rescued by a team of climbers. Manfred returns to Brazil with a terrible secret: he sabotaged Franz’s equipment in order to take his place in the family business. After an exhaustive search, Ernest Hauser gives his son up for dead and appoints his bastard son as the director of the Hauser Group.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: novela, tense, captivating, soap opera, telenovela
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Watercolors of Love (2009)
Plot Summary:
Daphne and Gabriel cross paths again, 15 years after being separated by a frame from her grandfather. The rapprochement, however, jeopardizes the plans of the shrew, Judith.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, soap opera, telenovela
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Dumb Girls Don't Go to Heaven (2008)
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Las tontas no van al cielo is an original Mexican telenovela that began airing on Mexico's Canal de las Estrellas, beginning 11 February 2008. The novela is a production of Rosy Ocampo and starring Jacqueline Bracamontes, Jaime Camil, and Valentino Lanús.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Side by Side (2012)
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Lado a Lado is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by Rede Globo from September 10, 2012 to March 8, 2013. Written by Claudia Lage and João Ximenes Braga, with collaborations by Chico Soares, Douglas Tourinho, Fernando Rebello, Vellego Jackie, Nina Crintzs and Maria Camargo, script supervision by Gilberto Braga, directed by Dennis Carvalho and core general direction of Vinicius Coimbra, it starrs Camila Pitanga and Marjorie Estiano as the main characters.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Pride and Passion (2018)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the 20th century, a mother dreams of marrying her five daughters to eligible bachelors but marriage is not a priority in Elisabeta Benedito's life. More than finding true love, the strong-willed dreamer and her sisters want to live according to their own choices and to do so they must go against traditional rules and customs. Inspired by Jane Austen's works, this romantic comedy retells classic novels from the point of view of modern and empowered women.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, romantic comedy, period drama, telenovela
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Sparkling Girls (2012)
Plot Summary:
"Sparkling Girls" centers around three young and beautiful, hard-working housekeepers who reach stardom instantly when an online video clip of them singing, surprisingly becomes a hit. Their success provokes the wrath of a glamorously gaudy and outspoken famous singer who will do anything to ruin the girls' friendship and career. With humor, romance, over the top characters, and bright, glittery stage performances set to catchy tunes, "Sparkling Girls" delivers all of the expected delights and shows that dreams really do come true.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: novela, humorous, captivating, entertaining, soap opera, telenovela
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Dinossaurs & Robots (2011)
Plot Summary:
An innovative telenovela set against the backdrop of the discovery of ancient fossils by a top paleontologist and the invention of futuristic robots by a brilliant scientist.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, humorous, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, soap opera
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Tangled Hearts (2013)
Plot Summary:
This Brazilian soap opera is about three orphans and a girl who spent part of their childhood together, reunite after years when they're already grown. Old feelings will arise and new discoveries will happen about these kids' pasts and futures.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, soap opera, telenovela