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Plot Summary:
A musical journey follows Chen Jing, her guy friend and a group of female musicians who are passionate about traditional Chinese music. Together, they start a band to challenge the norm and go on an all-out war against the students of Western music.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5
Genere: Drama
Country: China
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Legend of Two Sisters In the Chaos (2020)
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During the Later Zhou Dynasty, the Fu family was the focus of world attention to the well-known prophecy given to Fu Yan Qing that states that one of the daughters of the Fu family would become the future Empress. This leads to people assuming that by destroying the Fu sisters, they will indirectly destroy the throne. With the passing of Guo Wei, the fate of the throne is left unresolved. Under the irony of fate, the two sisters end up falling for two men who are against each other. Facing the dark tides brewing within Zhou Dynasty, the two sisters does not forget their beginnings, and work together to secure the reign of Zhou.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: China
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Irreplaceable Love (2020)
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After Li Chu Yao loses her younger brother Chu Chen to an accident, Li Luo Shu, the orphan who lives across the street, takes Chu Chen's place in the Li household to appease his mentally unstable mother. Years pass, and Luo Shu develops romantic feelings for his ‘older sister’, though decides to keep them hidden after Chu Yao falls in love with and gets engaged to Han Zi Mo. Unfortunately, Han Zi Mo goes on the run after loan sharks come knocking at his door, and Chu Yao is left with a mountain of debt. Luo Shu is gravely injured while trying to protect her, and Chu Yao eventually realizes who she truly loves. They promise to spend the rest of their lives together, yet are soon forced apart by reality.
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Angel Heart (2012)
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Based off the same name novel by Liu Liu, the story revolves around the lives of people in the medical field.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: China
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Love is Deep (2019)
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To like someone is to love lightly while to love someone is to like deeply. There is one person in this world and in this life whom you will love deeply. This is a realistic story of healing. Zheng Ding Ding and her boyfriend Chen Xun have been dating for years. For the sake of love, she has on many occasions set aside her dream to design pet toys because she was wholly devoted to her boyfriend. When she realizes that he has not gotten over his ex-girlfriend, Zheng Ding Ding decides to give up on their unjust relationship. Surgeon Ning Wei Jin has readily stayed by Ding Ding's side as he encourages her to pursue her dreams. He has liked Ding Ding for some time but was rejected when he opened up about his feelings as she wanted to focus on her career. Ning Wei Jin doesn't give up and Ding Ding unwittingly begins to reciprocate a mutual attraction. However, problems with their work and family get in the way to test the couple as they fight for their love.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama
Country: China
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The Fiery Years of Gao Daxia (2019)
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In 1945, the 'War of Liberation' broke out as battles raged across China. At that time, the city of Dalian aided by the Soviet Union maintained peace, atleast on the surface. Meanwhile an undercurrent surged, fueled by the Kuomintang reactionaries who watched for their opportunity to destroy the Communist Party's connection with the Soviet Union's Red Army. Our heroine, Gao Daxia, pursued by the enemy for her participation in the 'Anti-Japanese Fire Regiment', is sent back to Dalian by the organization to carry out her new mission. There she unexpectedly meets Fu Jiazhuang, a cadre of the Chinese Communist Party. Both with seemingly very different temperaments, gradually became reliable 'comrades-in-arms' and after several crises, some in comedic calamity, begin to develop a romantic alliance. Gao Daxia, who had been wronged so many times, remains firm in her beliefs. Her focus, bravery and care, help her see through the enemy's plots to lead the local people to a better life in this dramatic, dark-comedy spy series. Ultimately the Kuomintang is overcome in the battle to 'seize the city'. Revolutionary fighters such as Gao Daxia and Fu Jiazhuang dominate in their belief of Communism to eventually eradicate the remaining Kuomintang reactionaries. After many dangerous ordeals, Gao Daxia and Fu Jiazhuang finally seal-the-deal and wed.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: political
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Love's Lies (2018)
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She wants to save the drug-dealing, money-laundering boyfriend who abandoned her. But is he really the one who needs saving?.
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Country: China
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I Don't Want To Be Friends With You (2020)
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A high school student time travels 20 years earlier to meet her mother in her younger days. Li Jinbu and her mom have always leaned on each other. A magical journey brings Li Jinbu 20 years earlier where she meets her mother Li Qingtong and they become fast friends. Coming from different generations and having different personalities, they run into funny situations. Through their time together, Li Jinbu gets to know her mother's forbearance and bravery.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: China
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Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Diamond Lover (2015)
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Xiao Liang is the CEO of the world's biggest Diamond company. He's reserved, strict and counts every penny while doing business. He also chooses to close himself off from people, insisting relationships are of no worth in his life. Everything turns upside down when he meets Mi Dou, a woman who changes his views in life and teaches him what it means to be alive and happy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, romantic, touching, sweet, semi serious
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Chronicle of Life (2016)
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After witnessing the slaughter of her family, the only surviving daughter escapes only to experience another harrowing robbery with a young boy who would be the future emperor. Wei Lin Lang develops amnesia after the traumatic events but is raised by a kind family who gives her the name Gem. Years later, Na Lan Rang Ruo recognizes Lin Lang as his cousin and falls in love with her. Emperor Kang Xi wants to reward Rang Ruo for being a loyal subject and orders that Ling Lang be found so that she can be betrothed to Rang Ruo. However, after laying eyes on the beautiful Lin Lang, Emperor Kang Xi also is drawn to her. What will happen to Lin Lang once she enters the palace?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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The Legendary Tavern (2019)
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Chen Huaihai leads his fellows to explore new lives in northeast China by running a tavern. They experience different situations and make a whole new life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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My Best Ex-Boyfriend (2015)
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Parents force the breakup of two couples, but what happens to their lingering feelings years later? Li Tang and Fu Fang Si were high school sweethearts, but the two end up breaking up due to pressures from Li Tang’s father and a misunderstanding. Li Tang eventually stands up to his father and leaves to start his own company. Years later, Fang Si is finally achieving her dreams as a fashion designer and dating Yin Hao Ran. But their relationship gets complicated when Li Tang comes back into Fang Si’s life just as she is struggling professionally. Li Tang is now engaged to Cheng Xiang Nan, a supermodel, who also happens to be Hao Ran’s ex-girlfriend. Xiang Nan was forced to break up with Hao Ran by her ambitious mother, but she has never gotten over her feelings for him. Will Li Tang and Fang Si now have the courage to listen to their own hearts?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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My! Physical Education Teacher (2017)
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Young girl Wang Xiaomi falls in love with and marries a middle-aged P.E. teacher Ma Ke who has divorced and lives with a teenage daughter and a little son.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, dorama, lyrical
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Closer to You (2020)
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A surgeon suddenly returns to eighteen years ago and meets his classmate Han Fei, and helps her put down her guard and untie the knot in her heart.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: light, sweet, entertaining, semi serious, dorama
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Romance of Our Parents (2014)
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An elderly couple looks back on their lives from the time when he was a naval officer who fell in love with a girl from a different background.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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Don't Think Twice, Love's All Right (2020)
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Drama
Country: China
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Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Legend of Fan Li Wa (2011)
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The Love Equations (2020)
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It follows a pair of school sweethearts who part ways and meet again in a story about never giving up on love and bravely chasing after your dreams. Zhou Xiao is a big fan of detective novels. Zhao Fanzhou is a student of forensic science who is talented in the field. The two fall into a sweet romance, yet their story ends in a heartbreak when Zhao Fanzhou breaks up with Zhou Xiao. One day, they meet again.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, uplifting, feel good, sweet, captivating
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Pretty Li Hui Zhen (2017)
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Li Huizhen used to be gorgeous, but years of declining family fortune added much pain to her life, and her looks slowly drifted away. Her friend Bai Haoyu, on the other hand, was once an ordinary looking guy and grew up to be suave, successful, and immensely likable. So when she comes across him years later and witnesses their reversal of fortune, Li Huizhen is too embarrassed to even meet him and instead asks her stylish friend and roommate Xia Qiao to assume her identity. But when Huizhen lands an internship at a company that she has been trying to break into, she is shocked to find out that Haoyu is her new boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, uplifting, touching, feel good, sweet
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Suddenly This Summer (2018)
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He Luo is a quiet and smart model student who excels in English and dreams of becoming a diplomat. Besides, she has a special hobby: She loves to fantasize and integrates the people and situations around her into manhua plots. This summer, when He Luo goes to a tennis competition and sees the team leader Zhang Yuan, she falls head over heels for this beautiful and proud guy. Fate is on HeLuo’s side as they happen to meet again in English evening classes and confront each other during the school’s debating competition. The two become friends, but in He Luo’s imagination, he’s the main lead in her manhua. When He Luo’s friends find their own love, He Luo and Zhang Yuan finally open up about their true feelings. They agree to apply for the same university, however, Zhang Yuan fails to get in. From being in two different classes in the same school, they end up going to different universities in two different cities, and later even different countries, each making their own experiences while growing up. What will become of these two in the end?.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating
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Cruel Romance (2015)
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Adapted from a Republican-era novel called "The Fate of Jinxiu", Cruel Romance tells the story of Rong Jinxiu (Chen Qiao En, a country girl who travels to Shanghai in order to discover why her entire family was killed. Along the way, she meets triad leader Zuo Zhen (Huang Xiao Ming), and after a series of accidents and misunderstandings, the two fall in love. Also vying for Jinxiu's attention is businessman Xiang Yingdong, a businessman and close friend of Zuo Zhen. Ever protective of his woman, however, Zuo Zhen refuses to let other men even come close to Jinxiu – which ultimately pays off when a villainous Japanese man tries to finish off Jinxiu and her remaining family members.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, romantic, suspense, disturbing, costume drama
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The Legend of Dugu (2018)
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“He who has Dugu, has the world”. Daughters of a court official, Dugu Banruo, Dugu Mantuo, and Dugu Jialou were always destined for greatness. Blessed with beauty, intelligence, and connections, the Dugu sisters grew up knowing they were the subjects of a prophecy that could someday tear them apart. Determined to remain loyal to each other, they vowed to always put their relationship first. But time has a way of changing things, and vows are easily broken.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Interpreter (2016)
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She knows what she wants and is determined to go after it. Qiao Fei is a French postgraduate student who dreams of becoming a professional interpreter. Her mentor during her schooling in Paris is Cheng Jia Yang, the son of a foreign minister and a genius French interpreter. Their budding romance is complicated when Qiao Fei’s ex-boyfriend, Gao Jia Ming, happens to be Jia Yang’s adopted brother, and Jia Yang’s family thinks Wen Xiao Hua is much more suited for Jia Yang’s station in life. With the support of his friend, Wang Xu Dong, can Jia Yang stand up to his family and follow his heart?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, bilingual
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The Great Craftsman (2019)
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Set in the 1920s, it revolves around aspiring architects and their contributions to the country.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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In Youth (2019)
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Li Zi Yu is a simple, kind-hearted and righteous girl. She starts working at a public relationships company, but unfortunately meets a difficult boss. The boss Fan Shu Chen is a talented hidden rich heir who is very hostile towards Zi Yu, making Zi Yu tremble with fear every day. What she doesn’t know is that company secrets have been leaked since the day she started working and Shu Chen is thus heavily suspecting her. But gradually, the two start to appreciate and admire each other. However, Shu Chen’s three best friends each have their theory on Zi Yu’s identity, making Shu Chen all confused. When Shu Chen’s rival Luo Zong Liang appears, it becomes known that Zong Liang and Zi Yu have some sort of relationship which anew arouses suspicion that Zi Yu could be a spy sent by Zong Liang. What is the truth behind everything? And will Zi Yu and Shu Chen’s love-hate relationship have a happy end?.
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Genere: Drama
Country: China
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Plot tags: touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Another Me (2019)
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Best friends An Sheng and Qi Yue enjoy a friendship that they think will last forever. But when the dashing Su Jiaming appears on the scene, their lives are thrown into turmoil, with both women falling for him. When An Sheng realizes that Su Jiaming prefers her best friend, she decides to break off all contact with Su Jiaming and Qi Yue. Instead, she decides to strike up an ill-fated relationship with a rock musician, following him out of town, and – so she thinks – out of both Su Jiaming’s and Qi Yue’s lives forever. An Sheng and the musician soon part ways, and it soon turns out that her efforts to play Cupid did not go as smoothly as she had hoped. Qi Yue and Su Jiaming have agreed to marry, but he keeps delaying... Could he be seeing An Sheng behind her back? And what other dark secrets are the trio hiding from each other?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, serious, suspense, suspenseful, dorama
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Mr. Honesty (2020)
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Xu Yi Ren loses both her relationship and career in one night. Her close friend, Xia Di recommends her to an architecture company as the assistant of the CEO. However during the interview, she finds out that the CEO is the person who exposed that her boyfriend is cheating on her in public, Fang Zhi You. Though she doesn't know why, Xu Yi Ren eventually gets the job, but gets handled a weird task - to lie for her boss. But Fang Zhi You's tendency to expose her lies in public always lands her in sticky situations.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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The Grand Mansion Gate (2001)
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This Chinese period drama series follows the fortunes of a prominent merchant family engaged in Traditional Chinese Medicine during the waning years of the Ching dynasty. The affairs of this family of doctors/pharmacists (which in those days were one and the same) are intimately linked with social upheavals of the time such as the encroachment of Christian missionaries and foreign imperialism as well as conflicts that inevitably emerge in a large upper class family. Comparable in scope and production value to such recent titles as "Downton Abbey", the lives and character of both masters and servants intertwine in plot lines that spans more than a generation.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Ordinary World (2015)
Plot Summary:
A TV serialization of the classic Chinese novel 'Ordinary World'.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating
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Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Sabre (2019)
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Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Sabre is a 2019 Chinese wuxia television series adapted from the novel The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber by Jin Yong. Originally published in newspapers from 1961 to 1963, the story has been revised twice; once in 1979 and the second in 2005. This remake is primarily based on the third edition of the novel. The series is the first adaptation to be released as a web series and was first broadcast on Tencent in China on February 27, 2019.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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The Centimeter of Love (2020)
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The play tells the story of the Yanxi Hospital doctor Xu Qingfeng on the voyage back from studying abroad, and the captain Guan Yuqing, because of tacit cooperation in helping patients, found that each other's family had hard-to-recited sutras.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing