Best tv shows like One Well-Raised Daughter
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Plot Summary:
Jang Ha Na is the fourth daughter of the eldest son of a family that’s been making soy sauce for hundred of years. She has to dress up like a man because of their financial situation. The family needs a male representative for their soy sauce business. After giving birth to four daughters, they gave up for trying for the male heir and the fourth daughter will just have to pretend tobe a boy and act like a son within the family.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera
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Cranberry Sorbet (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration:
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The Real Deal Has Come! (2023)
Plot Summary:
A successful lecturer facing single motherhood devises a fake romance with a marriage-averse doctor — but keeping up the act proves harder than it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min
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The Bay (2010)
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The Bay follows the affluent, yet dysfunctional Bay City residents living in a town cursed by the spirit of Senator Red Garrett, the grandfather of socialite Sara Garrett. Their lives are riddled with sex, lies, & never-ending scandals.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, dramatic
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Love's Secret (2001)
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Secreto de Amor is an American telenovela produced by Venevisión International in 2001. The telenovela was filmed in Miami, Florida and it starred Scarlet Ortiz and Jorge Aravena as the main protagonists while Colombian actress Aura Cristina Geithner and Venezuelan actress Astrid Gruber starred as the main antagonists.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Venezuela, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: soap opera, telenovela
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Amor Fati (2021)
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A divorcee with cancer and a penniless single father meet and heal their wounds with the help of each other. Do Yeon-Hee (Choi Jung-Yoon) is the only daughter-in-law of a family, who runs the Rara Group. She has a perfect life, but her husband cheats on her. Due to the other woman, Do Yeon-Hee’s life changes completely. Han Jae-Kyeong (Ahn Jae-Mo) used to be a professional golfer. To let his wife achieve her dream and support her while she studies abroad, he quit playing golf and became a golfing instructor at a practice facility. He raises his son by himself, while his wife is away. When his wife returns to South Korea, she asks him for a divorce.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: dorama, soap opera
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Piano (2001)
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Piano is about a father’s terrible love through a fantastical way, the unacceptable love between stepsiblings, and conflicts within a family.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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Love At Night (2021)
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As the night has fallen and the bustling offices have gone quiet, Xu Qing You and Mo Ling Ze first meet due to a misunderstanding. White-collar worker Xu Qing You spends all year round working so much that it's always evening by the time she packs up to go home. She has been in a long-term relationship with Fan Yun Xi for ten years and was preparing for her wedding when she finds out that he cheated on her. Fan Yun Xi explains it was an accident yet Xu Qing You resolutely asks to break up.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
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Bare Essence (1983)
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Bare Essence is an American television soap opera which aired on the NBC network during the 1982-1983 season. Bare Essence starred popular daytime soap actress Genie Francis and dealt with the intrigues of the perfume industry. Initially, the show started its life as a 4-hour TV mini series shown in October 1982 on CBS with supporting performances from veteran prime-time soap actresses Linda Evans and Donna Mills, as well as Lee Grant and Bruce Boxleitner. The mini series garnered excellent ratings but CBS passed on a proposed series, which NBC picked up. By the time the series went to air in February 1983, the roles which had been played in the mini series by Evans, Mills, Grant, and Boxleitner were taken over respectively by Jennifer O'Neill, Jaime Lyn Bauer, Jessica Walter and Al Corley. Genie Francis reprised the lead role in the new series. The series revolved around Tyger Hayes' efforts to succeed in the business world. In the first episode, her new husband Chase Marshall is killed in a racing car accident. Chase's father Hadden opposes Tyger's efforts to join the family business, Kellico, but she is encouraged by Hadden's sister Margaret to try her hand with a new line of perfumes. Ava, the widow of Hadden's other son, is concerned that any success Tyger might have will undermine her son Marcus' position in the company. Both Ava and Marcus' wife Muffin plotted to undermine Tyger's success. To this end, Ava eventually seduces and marries Hadden. Tyger's mother, Lady Bobbi Rowan, falls in love with a Greek millionaire, Niko Theopolous, who wants to exact revenge on the Marshalls.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera
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Love for Lydia (1977)
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This thirteen-part series explores just how painful love can be for young people. Would-be writer Edward Richardson is in love with heiress Lydia Aspen and wants her all to himself. Lydia professes to be in love with him, but her first love is excitement. There are several other young men who vie with Richardson for Lydia's affection, and she sends mixed signals to them all, playing them off against each other, sometimes with dire results. At least that's the way Richardson sees things, but it's not the whole story.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 780 min
Plot tags: period piece, costume drama, period drama
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Best Lover (2016)
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Best Couple's background is set in modern day Korean entertainment industry. The story is about two top stars entering into a fake marriage with their own secret agendas, and through their efforts to defend their fake marriage in public, they learn about about each other's pains and weaknesses and eventually end up together. The male lead comes from a poor background and through hard work becomes a top star. He finds himself emotionally involved with his first love, fake wife and admirer. The female lead comes from a chaebol family and is an arrogant top star. She is neglected by her parents and due to a family feud/conspiracy, she must act strong in order to survive even though she is weak at times. Through a fake marriage, these two people find true love and their true selves.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, China
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: dorama
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Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac (1997)
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Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac is a 1997 television miniseries that served as a reunion show for the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. It aired on CBS in two two-hour parts on May 7 and May 9, 1997. The miniseries takes place four years after the series ended in 1993, and brings back castmembers William Devane, Kevin Dobson, Michele Lee, Donna Mills, Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Michelle Phillips and Stacy Galina in starring roles. It also includes cameo appearances by former cast members Tonya Crowe, Brian Austin Green, Kim Lankford, Claudia Lonow and Patrick Petersen.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: soap opera
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My Lecturer, My Husband (2020)
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Inggit's life is perfect with her 5 best friends, a lover named Tristan, and the love of her parents in Jogja. This perfection was reversed when Mr. Inggit was sick and matched him with Mr. Arya.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 611
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 40 min
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Married with Senior (2022)
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Mika and Angkasa suddenly got matched by their parents. At school, Angkasa is Mika's senior who has different traits and hates each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration:
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Daam (2010)
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Zara Hidayatullah and Maleeha Sami were two close friends for a span of seven years. Zara belongs to a lower-middle-class family while Maleeha comes from an upper class household. Yet their class difference did not threaten their unbreakable bond. Maleeha had been there for her friend through many hardships, but she never really felt the extent of anguish which plagued Zara's life.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Pakistan
Duration:
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Ryan's Hope (1975)
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Ryan's Hope is an American soap opera created by Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer, originally airing for 13 years on ABC from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989. It revolved around the trials and tribulations within a large Irish-American family in the Riverside district of New York City.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: soap opera, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
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Once in a Blue Moon (2005)
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Ex-babysitter Heloísa falls in love with a member of her boss' family. After the boss' death she wins custody of his 15-year-old daughter Branca, heiress to his fortune, and fights the envy of the rest of the "rich" family. The story also includes Ademilde, the owner of the main Supermarket at the "Beco da Baiuca" (Baiuca Alley) where most of the low-class characters live. The supermarket is called "O Frango com Tudo Dentro", which means "The Chicken with Everything Inside". In the Baiúca Alley live Dona Roma, the owner of the Bed and Breakfast who cross-dresses as a woman, and Morcega, the singer in the local cabaret. Both are also the neighborhood private-investigators/gossip-queens. Other residents are Anastacia and Jurema, sisters of African descent who hate being black and decide to be called Latoya and Whitney; through these two, the writers approach the racism issue with much humor and a healthy way to treat the topic.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera
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Hold the Dream (1986)
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Hold the Dream is a British two-part miniseries made in 1986, based on the novel of the same name by Barbara Taylor Bradford. It is the second book in the Emma Harte series, following A Woman of Substance. Hold the Dream continues the story of Emma Harte, played by Deborah Kerr, with Jenny Seagrove, who played the young Emma taking over the part of Paula Fairley.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 195 min
Plot tags: family saga
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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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Las Estrellas (2017)
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Five sisters must take care of a hotel for a year after their father's death in order to get the 6 million dollar inheritance he left them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, soap opera
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High Society (2015)
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Jang Yoon-Ha is the youngest daughter of a chaebol. Even though her family is extremely wealthy, she holds a part-time job at a food market. She hides her background as an heiress and attempts to find a man that loves her for herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, emotional, intense, semi serious
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Affection (2021)
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When the crown prince is killed, his twin sister assumes the throne while trying to keep her identity and affection for her first love a royal secret.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, psychological, captivating, disturbing, historical drama, historical romance, period drama
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Friends and Rivals (2001)
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Amigas y rivales is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 2001.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, captivating, soap opera, telenovela
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Love (ft. Marriage and Divorce) (2021)
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The drama will tell the stories of three charming female protagonists in their 30s, 40s, and 50s who face unpredictable misfortunes, and it also deals with the trouble of married couples as they try to find true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, entertaining
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Asi (2007)
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Asi is a Turkish television drama serial. The series originally aired from Jule 21, 2007 to June 15, 2009. It ran for two seasons on Kanal D.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, captivating, realistic, soap opera
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Knots Landing (1979)
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The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, serious, realistic, telenovela
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Welcome to Wedding Hell (2022)
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A relatable romance drama about a couple in their 30s preparing for marriage. While they were expecting a happy ending like something out of a fairy tale, the reality of their preparations proves to be somewhat different. From the meeting between the families to marriage preparations and finding a house, the soon-to-be married couple will deal with very realistic topics.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
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Give Love Away (2013)
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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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Marriage by Surprise (2016)
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"Which of us did not love?" The title of the TV-series and also a sign of honor for the legendary turkish singer and actor Müslüm Gürses, who died in 2013. The main plot of the story is of course love. At first Tarik and Itir are the most importantly characters, they married secretly. The reason for the secret marriage was Tariks mother "Adile" and Itirs Father "Münir", which are both widow and widower, and argue with each other for 36 years. But what the children don't know is the past. Adile and Münir did love each other 36 years ago, but becauso of many reasons they married another one, one they never will love so much as they do each other. Tarik and Itir's comeback to the district will provide a astabilisized friendship between the two families.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Home for Summer (2019)
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The world is changing and living as a big family is a culture that withered down. These days, it’s even hard to see a nuclear family with so many single people living alone. Living with family brings endless conflicts as much as it brings comfort and a solid shoulder to cry on. Through a young lady named Geum Hui, Home for Summer is a drama about not giving up hope on finding the true meaning of family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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If Loving You Is Wrong (2014)
Plot Summary:
Follow the relationships of a group of husbands and wives that live and love on the same street. While the neighbors come from very different backgrounds, their lives are similar – raising children, dealing with exes, worrying about money and keeping romance in their relationships. But just below the surface — secrets, lies and deception threaten to destroy what they have built.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, soap opera, captivating