Best tv shows like Our Kind of People
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Plot Summary:
A strong-willed single mom sets out to reclaim her family's name and make an impact with her revolutionary haircare line but discovers a dark secret about her own mother's past that will turn her world upside-down.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Best tv shows and movies like Our Kind of People (2021):
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Wonderful Mama (2013)
Plot Summary:
Wonderful Mama is a 2013 South Korean television series starring Bae Jong-ok, Jeong Yu-mi and Jung Gyu-woon. It premiered on April 13, 2013, and ended on September 22, 2013, airing on SBS every Saturday and Sunday at 20:40 for 48 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Unkind Ladies (2015)
Plot Summary:
This drama features the women of three generations and the people around them. Ma Ri grows up as a good teacher of this generation where there is no true mentor. Hyun Sook, who has been a troublemaker, realizes the love and support of her family. Kang Soon Ok regards herself as unlucky, but later on realizes how happy she has been. How can you hold up when your life gets tough? You will figure it out by holding up day by day, just like these women in the drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Care (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jenny, a single mother raising two daughters after her husband leaves, is aided by her widowed mother, Mary. But Jenny struggles to stay afloat after Mary suffers a devastating stroke and develops dementia.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling
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Aurora Borealis: Northern Light (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Aurora Borealis is a story of family that is rich in twists and turns. It breaks the depths of the relationship between mother and daughter. A successful lawyer in Vienna, Olga is called back to Hungary when her old mother, Mary suddenly falls into a coma. While Mary is floating between life and death, Olga finds a deeply silent secret. The increasingly passionate research leads back to the post-war Europe of the '50s.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, motivational, thought provoking
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Cold Call (2019)
Plot Summary:
A single mother gets caught up in a cold call scam that turns her world upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, detective
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Bad Hurt (2015)
Plot Summary:
Elaine and Ed Kendall have more than their share of grief and suffering. Once a young couple in love they now struggle for a sense of stability in their Staten Island home. Their eldest son is suffering from the physical and psychological effects of war; his younger brother takes it upon himself to bring him peace and relief. Meanwhile, their special needs daughter brings another kind of chaos to the family. Even though Ed and Elaine explore options for her care, they’re really just hanging on to hope that things improve somehow.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Happy Lambs (2015)
Plot Summary:
The perfect world of a small family breaks, when Can discover that his mother works in a brothel. In a maelstrom of anger, guilt and despair Mother and son are forced to forgive himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sexy
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The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013)
Plot Summary:
Eun Sang-Chul (Lee Sung-Jae) and his four children encounter difficulties after the sudden death of his wife. Then, a suspicious housekeeper named Park Bok-Nyeo (Choi Ji-Woo) appears. Because of the housekeeper, Eun Sang-Chul and his children faces various cases and family members who hate each other begin to experience love and reconciliation.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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The Secrets of Life (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Secrets of Life centers the heartwarming, intense and a bit thrilling story of Kuzgun family whose happiness was wrecked when the secrets of family members comes out one after another. While the audience is captured by the heart breaking and passionate love story of Burak and Seher.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Between Two Worlds (2020)
Plot Summary:
Cate Walford's relationship with vicious, business tycoon husband, Phillip, is on the ropes and their tempestuous home life is trapped in a tangled web of lies and manipulation. Through a shocking twist of fate, this dark and murky world collides with the seemingly disparate and disconnected, warm and loving world of a widow and her footy star son and musical daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Birdie Buddy (2011)
Plot Summary:
Former pro golfer, John Lee, leads two women to become the next golf queens. John Lee became the first Korean to win a PGA title. His background was a mystery other than the fact that he was an adoptee. Even though he found success by winning the PGA title, John Lee stopped playing golf to become a golf course tester. Min Hae Ryung was raised to become an elite golf player and was always placed in the best environment to play golf. Her emotions have always been controlled and she has a deep wound inside of her. In contrast, Sung Mi Soo is a country girl from Kangwon Province. She comes from a poor background, but her mom worked as caddie. With her bright personality and determined efforts, she attempts to become an elite golf player.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Two Sisters (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sisters Alicia and Vanessa are best friends, but they begin to distance themselves in search of their identity in the adult world. Based on the triology of Amanda Schulman and Hannah Widell.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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My Loser Husband (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tsukasa Kobayashi has the appearance and educational background of an elite and earns a good salary, but he is actually incompetent at his job and makes mistakes frequently, earning the ire of his co-workers. Tsukasa was about to quit his job after much humiliation at work when he learns that his wife is pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Silent Tears (2006)
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Wounded Birds (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Story of a brother, sister and her love, protecting them from every evil. Every character have wounded feeling. How life give them suffering and the solution itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Man in Room 301 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Summer 2007, Finland. While the Kurtti are spending their annual holidays in their cabins in the land of a thousand lakes, the family is struck by a tragedy: Tommi, 2 years old, is killed by a gunshot. Elias, a 12-year-old neighbour, is blamed for the death of the child. 12 years later, the family receives a threatening anonymous letter and the secrets start to unravel, and show how far each of them are willing to go for their loved ones.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Woman (2013)
Plot Summary:
After the accidental death of her husband and being deemed ineligible for welfare, Koharu struggles to care for her two children.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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Blue (2012)
Plot Summary:
Blue is a mother with a secret life. She'll do anything to keep it from her son. But her past has other plans.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, tense, sexual, sexy
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A House Divided (2019)
Plot Summary:
The Sanders family is shaken when their matriarch, Pamela Sanders, suddenly dies. Cameron Sanders Sr. grieves while being investigated by the SEC. His sons search for answers but one soon spirals out of control, while his daughter finds solace in the arms of her cousin's husband. Can the family find a way to face their enemies together, or will the secrets and lies tear them apart?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 32 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Dear My Room (2018)
Plot Summary:
The tale of Shim Eun Joo, a self-employed woman who is trying to redefine her life after winning a big project as an editorial designer and subsequently struggling on her own.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kaseifu no Mita is a 2011 Japanese television drama series. The story revolves around a family who is grieving over their mother's recent suicide. They hired Mita as a housekeeper to upkeep the house, which has been thrown into disarray. Mita, who is played by actress Nanako Matsushima, will do anything that her employer orders her to do, except smiling or revealing her past.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Good Sam (2022)
Plot Summary:
A gifted heart surgeon excels in her new leadership role as Chief of Surgery after her renowned boss falls into a coma. When her former boss wakes up months later demanding to resume his duties, Sam is tasked with supervising this egotistical expert with a scalpel who never acknowledged her stellar talent.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, medical drama
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One Hope Enough (2018)
Plot Summary:
Yilmaz, who is retired from military service, will soon realize that he was wrong when he chose the lighthouse on an unemployed island of Köycegiz as his shelter, but he thinks he has started a new and lonely life. Yilmaz, who does not have much expectation from life, is so impressed by the joy of life of Elif, whom he met in Köycegiz, that in a short time, with the isra of Elif, the two young people decide to marry. Over time, even though the miscarriages Elif gave up on her marriages shaken their marriage, their lives will be turned upside down when a newly born baby enters in a miraculous way at an unexpected time. While Elif sees the baby as a gift sent by God, Yilmaz knows that it is wrong. With the press of Elif's baby as bagrina son, the guilty conscience that will last for years has started.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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April, May and June (2019)
Plot Summary:
To inform each personally about her impending death, Mies summons her three daughters home. The three half-sisters April, May and June, each of whom has a different father, start to question their lives: "Where are we at in life? What do we still have in common? What will happen to our autistic brother Jan?".
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Not on My Watch (2017)
Plot Summary:
A single mother gets entangled in a web of lies to protect her sons.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Double Fantasy (2018)
Plot Summary:
Natsu Takato is a 35-year-old popular screenwriter. She lives with her husband Shogo in the outskirts of Saitama. Shogo used to work as a TV station director, but he now supports Natsu by doing housework and working as her business manager. Natsu doesn't have a lot to complain about in her life, but she has a strong sexual desire that she cannot suppress. She spends nights with theater director Shizawa. Meanwhile, Natsu Takato senses her husband interfering with her script and trying to control her. Natsu Takato leaves her home and begins to live alone in Tokyo. She gets involved with two men.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Mysterious Personal Shopper (2018)
Plot Summary:
Hong Se Yeon works as a personal shopper. She is outgoing and a positive person, but she is betrayed by people whom she loved. She begins to take revenge on those who betrayed her. Meanwhile, Eun Kyung Hye is the only child of a CEO. Her life looks perfect, but she has a fear that she will get abandoned. Because of her fear, she has an impulse control disorder and gets compulsive.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Adi: Zehra (2018)
Plot Summary:
Zehra comes to the world as the daughter of a conservative Turkish family in Frankfurt. The incredible story of Zehra, starting at the home of the poor and enthusiastic family in Germany, and continuing with a rich family of Istanbul with secrets and a terrible crime. The story is full of emotions of two mother praying for the same person. And Zehra then start living in Istanbul but there are secrets waiting in Istanbul.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Flowers in the Attic: The Origin (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a whirlwind romance, Olivia finds herself as the mistress of the imposing Foxworth Hall, where she soon discovers that the fairy tale life she expected has quickly become a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, period drama
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Saints & Sinners (2016)
Plot Summary:
A large Southern church is the background for greed, corruption and murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, spiritual, soap opera
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