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Plot Summary:
Katya, a plain-looking girl, works as a secretary at the company Zimaletto, a manufacturer of uniforms and wedding dresses. No man has paid attention to her yet, but she doesn't allow her looks to keep her from dreaming about love and happiness.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 747
Genere: Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: romantic, semi serious, entertaining, realistic
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That's Life (2005)
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Verliebt in Berlin is a Golden Rose-winning German telenovela, starring Alexandra Neldel, along with Mathis Künzler, Tim Sander, and Laura Osswald. It premiered on February 28, 2005, on Sat.1 in most of German-speaking Europe, with its final episode broadcast on October 12, 2007. The series is an adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea, written by Fernando Gaitán and produced by RCN TV. The original season of the serial comedy-drama followed the life of the unsophisticated but good-natured Lisa Plenske, and her incongruous job at the ultra-chic Berlin fashion house Kerima Moda; while the second season revolved around Lisa's ham-fisted but sly half-brother Bruno and junior designer Hannah Refrath. Lisa and Bruno's status as two "fish out of water" drove much of the story plot. ViB was adapted into a Berlin setting by creators Michael Esser, Peter Schlesselmann and their co-team and co-producers Markus Brunnemann and Rainer Wemcken, whose production company Phoenix Film Karlheinz Brunnemann GmbH & Co. Produktions KG partnered with Grundy UFA TV Produktions GmbH to create the half-hour-long program for the German-speaking audience.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, telenovela
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Desperate Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Mongolian Princess Mei Li arrives in Beijing with her father, she met the man who changed her destiny, Prince Jing Xuan of the Qing Dynasty.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 5
Genere: Romance
Country: China
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Office Girls (2011)
Plot Summary:
Office Girls, is a 2011 Taiwanese drama starring Roy Chiu, Alice Ko, James Wen, Tia/Keiko, and Patrick Lee. It started filming in July 2011. It was first broadcast in Taiwan on free-to-air Taiwan Television every Sunday at 22:00 from 21 August 2011, and cable TV SET Metro every Saturday at 22:00 from 28 August 2011.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, novela
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Cloudy With a Chance of Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
Quirky meteorologist Deb spends most of her time finishing the passionate pursuit of her meteorology Ph.D. The wind of change starts blowing, however, when a handsome news director recruits her to fill in as an on-air weather personality.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: romantic, entertaining, semi serious
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Color of Woman (2011)
Plot Summary:
Byun So Ra comes from an ordinary background, but she works very hard. She is then betrayed by her boyfriend and her dreams of becoming a professor fails. Byun So-Ra then joins a cosmetics company and she also meets a rival with whom she clashes in this cosmetics company.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, dorama
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Love That Makes You Cry (2016)
Plot Summary:
Follows the story of love, friendship and growth of six young men and women who move from countryside to the big city of Tokyo, each with their own dreams and aspirations. Among them is Sugihara Oto and Soda Ren. After her mother died, Oto was raised by adoptive parents in Hokkaido. Although she has given up on having any high hopes or big dreams for her future, she still remains positive and faces life with optimistic attitude. One day, she finds out the fact that her adoptive parents are planning to marry her to the wealthy man in town in order to solve their financial debt. Soda Ren was raised by his grandfather in Fukushima. Ren works hard on one job after another in order to earn the money to buy back his grandfather's land so that they can start farming again. By chance, Oto and Ren meet in Hokkaido and they decide to move to Tokyo to find new life to change their fate and future. However, as soon as they arrive Tokyo, they get separated in the crowds.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama, shoujo, romantic drama
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This Guy Is the Biggest Mistake in My Life (2020)
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Sato Yui is a dispatched contract worker at Amagi Pharmaceutical Company. Her pet has died and she feels deep sorrow over its death. One day, she drinks alone at a bar and shouts, with tears running down her face, "Develop medicine to bring back someone to life!" At that time, a man walks towards her. He makes a spiteful remark that there is no such medicine that can bring someone back to life. He also tells her to stop barking and to go home. Yui feels anger within herself and she trips him. She then leaves the bar. Yui is unaware that the man she tripped is Amagi Kyoichi and he is the CEO of Amagi Pharmaceutical Company. The next day, Yui hears at work that the CEO is looking for her. When she gets to his office, she realizes the man she tripped in the bar is the CEO. She thinks that she might get fired, but he suddenly tells her to "Please treat me as a slave.".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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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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Far Away Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
Meng Chu-Xia is a kind-hearted and optimistic single 28-year-old ‘shengnu’ (‘leftover woman’) who takes care of the son of her long lost sister. Shen An is a businessman who has returned to China from overseas to start a new company. When Shen An and Chu-Xia meet, they are both not expecting to find love. Shen An is engaged to be married and Chu-Xia is struggling to raise her teenage nephew.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Romance
Country: China
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Memories of Love (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young couple finds their love rekindled after being separated for ten years. Lu Fei, a seemingly perfect Prince Charming unexpectedly encounters the stubborn and rebellious young lady Xin Chen. Despite their clashing personalities, they find themselves drawn to one another and eventually fall in love. However, they later separate, and it is not until ten years later, when Lu Fei lets go of his newly burgeoning company overseas and returns to search for Xin Chen, that they rediscover the meaning of their love.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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My Gear and Your Gown (2020)
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Pai is a clever medical student. He goes from being the thick glasses president of his school's academic club to a college freshmen regarded as the beau of the faculty of medicine. He has never been confident about how he looks. He has never believed in love. Itt is a handsome engineering student who is an ex-president of his school's sports club. He has always been in a spotlight. Fate brings him back to his enemy who always wears a dust grey medical gown earring.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, emotional, talky
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Kiss Me Again (2018)
Plot Summary:
Taking place before the events of "Kiss: The Series',' this series focuses on Sandee and Sanrak's older sisters. We also learn how Kao and Pete's relationship came to be as well as seeing how June, Sandee, Thada, Pete, and Kao all became friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Betty en NY (2019)
Plot Summary:
Betty is a young Latina in New York who, rejected in multiple jobs, accepts one below her qualifications in the fashion industry. Amid the glamor and business, the war between the pretty and the ugly, Betty grows and faces the biggest challenge of her life: love.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, novela, telenovela
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Husband Factor (2015)
Plot Summary:
A traditional Turkish woman tries to find love and is forced by her family members to get married.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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My Huckleberry Friends (2017)
Plot Summary:
Yu Zhou Zhou, a math prodigy, defies her teachers and family's expectations and elects to study liberal arts. Though the transition from math & science to liberal arts major is difficult, she found joy in the new challenges, as well as making new friends and reconnecting with old ones.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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En of Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
Gun Tossakan is a very bright and tall medical faculty freshman who has been in love with the popular third-year Engineering major and head hazer, Bar Sarawat, ever since he was in high school. Although at that time Gun was unable to confess his feelings because of the promise he made to his mum to not date until he passed high school, once he enters university fate has very different plans for him. The world is small, and a university is smaller. Being popular students at the same university leads Gun and Bar to collide with each other again and again until Gun succeeds in wooing Bar. Or maybe Bar too has a confession to make?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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I Bought Boyfriend with Loan (2018)
Plot Summary:
Tae Ukishima works at the front desk for a company. Her dream is to marry a competent man and live as a housewife. Her boyfriend is Shunpei Shiraishi and he works at the same company. They have dated for the past year. To marry him, Tae Ukishima pretends to act like a naive and shy person in front of him. Her real personality though is to speak frankly and making sharp remarks. Tae Ukishima wants to relieve her stress and she decides to purchase Jun Setsuna as her boyfriend. To pay off his debt, Jun Setsuna becomes an obedient boyfriend to Tae Ukishima.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Holiday Love (2018)
Plot Summary:
Azu Takamori is 30-years-old and married to Junpei. They have a 5-year-old daughter. She runs a nail shop out of her house. Azu Takamori has a happy life, but she is not satisfied with her marriage. Her husband is more like a family lover than a lover. One day, Junpei comes home with bruises on his face. He had an affair with a female co-worker and the woman's husband found out about their affair. Junpei's bruises are from the other woman's husband. Azu Takamori happy life collapses. She is filled with anguish, but tries to restart life with her husband. They face a difficult situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, suspense
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Fall In Love With Me (2014)
Plot Summary:
Lu Tian Xing is a prodigy in Asia's advertising field. Rich, famous, and mightily successful, he suddenly announces during a press conference that he will be taking a three-month break from the advertising life. With a simple disguise, he transforms himself into "Xiao Lu." Enter Tao Le Si, a young woman who promised her late brother to protect his advertisement agency and his legacy. Unfortunately business never picks up and Le Si had to battle with Tian Xing to stop her company from being sold. When Xiao Lu enters her office doors, Le Si initially thinks that he's Tian Xing but the two men's personalities are complete opposites. Le Si finds herself drawn to Xiao Lu's warm temperament, but will their love last once she discovers the truth of his identity?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama
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I Love You So Much (2012)
Plot Summary:
Xia Ledi was an arrogant, self-absorbed socialite before her father's bankruptcy left her penniless. She believed that it happened because his competitor stole "Mona Lisa," a revolutionary makeup technology that his company developed. She vowed to get it back. She went undercover at JEALOUS, the rival company, working as an assistant to Chang Yujie, the heartless operation manager/lead makeup artist. While she focused her investigation on him, her romantic interest wandered to his charming half-brother Chang Shaofeng. But unbeknownst to her, the half-brother was the real culprit behind the theft.
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Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy
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Time Teaches Me to Love (2018)
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In order to cover the hospital costs for her ill little brother, the clumsy but cute Lin Lu (Song Yi Ren) enters into a contract relationship with the childish overbearing CEO Shi Lian Sen (Yan Yu Hao). Lin Lu, who acts before thinking, unintentionally tests Lian Sen’s boundaries again and again.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Vacation of Love (2021)
Plot Summary:
Around the age of 30, celebrity agent Xu Keyi fights her way in the entertainment industry and gained solid reputation. The day before new year, she brought her artist Gao Junyu to a vacation resort to perform and thinking that her 10-year relationship would reap in a happy ending but sadly it didn't. When she drinks down sorrow at the seaside, Hou Hao, who has been watching and worrying her breaks into her life accidentally. It seems that only Hou Hao, who has a the slow-lived lifestyle, can bring her a new beginning in this unexpected vacation that thwarted her career and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Her Lovely Heels (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story about secret office love affair between Shin Ji Hoo, a 24 year-old woman who’s afraid of love and Oh Tae Soo, a 28 year-old man who has lots of dating experience and is rather cynical about love, but slowly transforms as he meets Ji Hoo.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Waiting for Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
A drama about love and relationships, centers on a college student Joo Yeon Ae (BoA) who has both good looks and personality, but she′s actually a novice in relationships, and always fails at getting her man. Meanwhile, Cha Ki Dae (Choi Daniel) is a skilled dating coach who expert at reading women′s minds. He comes to coach Yeon Ae over SNS, but despite the experience he boasts about, however, he also always fails at getting his own girl. The drama also depicts what happens when four youths with completely different views toward love start dating each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Hotelier (2001)
Plot Summary:
Hotelier is a 2001 South Korean television drama series set in Seoul Hotel, a fictional five-star hotel undergoing an expensive expansion and renovation. The word "hotelier" means "a person who owns or runs a hotel." Starring Bae Yong-joon, Song Yun-ah, Kim Seung-woo and Song Hye-kyo, it aired on MBC from April 4 to July 7, 2001 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes. A Japanese remake later aired on TV Asahi in 2007.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Love Catharsis (2016)
Plot Summary:
Mia Kurihara works in the public relations department of a company. She falls in love with Kairi Miyoshi. He is the vice president of the company, but he is also married.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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I Am Betty, the Ugly Girl (1999)
Plot Summary:
Yo soy Betty, la fea is a telenovela filmed in Colombia, written by Fernando Gaitán and produced from October 25, 1999 to May 8, 2001 by the Colombian network RCN. More than a dozen versions of the telenovela have been made in other countries. In the United States, both the comedy-drama hit Ugly Betty and Televisa program La Fea Más Bella are based on the Colombian soap opera. Betty, la Fea re-aired on Spanish-language U.S. network TeleFutura in January 2009. Eight years after the telenovela's original run, the highly anticipated return of the original version of Yo Soy Betty, La Fea delivered impressive ratings for the network, attracting over one million viewers, more than half a million of which were adults aged 18–49. In addition, the premiere episode doubled and in some cases nearly tripled its prior audience among all key demographics. Due to the success of re-runs aired in the United States, in June 2009, Yo soy Betty, la fea re-aired in México on Canal de las Estrellas. Betty, la Fea is arguably the most successful telenovela of all time and one of the most popular television shows in the world. It is the first telenovela to have been remade worldwide and has been regarded as bringing the telenovela to new levels of success.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Colombia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: novela, realistic, hispanic, soap opera, semi serious, humorous, witty, telenovela, campy
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The Prettiest Ugly Girl (2006)
Plot Summary:
La Fea Más Bella is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is the second Mexican version of the popular Colombian telenovela: Betty la fea. La Fea más Bella stars popular actress/singer/comedian Angélica Vale and actor/singer Jaime Camil, with one of the most diverse and popular supporting casts ever assembled in Mexico, including Angélica María, José José, Sergio Mayer, Elizabeth Álvarez, Patricia Navidad and many others. Univision broadcast 2 hour episodes of La Fea Más Bella from September 13, 2010 to April 15, 2011 La Fea Más Bella also won the TV y Novelas award for best telenovela of the year. In 2009 it was dubbed into Arabic and aired on MTV Lebanon as Letty instead of La Fea Más Bella. "The Best Telenovela of the Year 2007".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, novela, realistic, soap opera, exciting, telenovela
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Individualist Ms. Ji-Young (2017)
Plot Summary:
This is a short drama about an individualist, Ji Young, who avoids relationships with others, meets Byuk Soo, who can’t live without having relationships.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, romantic comedy, romantic drama
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Ugly Betty (2006)
Plot Summary:
Smart but wholesome Betty embraces her unique appearance and independent attitude in the cutthroat world of New York fashion. With the help of her proud yet far-from-glamorous family from Queens, Betty will continue to have big dreams and deal with any obstacle in her own unique style.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, offbeat, dark comedy, dark drama, hispanic, witty, sitcom, telenovela