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Plot Summary:
A half-caste beauty emigrates from India to Great Britain, pursues fame and fortune at the cost of personal happiness, and becomes a Hollywood movie star while suppressing the truth of her heritage.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 233 min
Plot tags: multicultural
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The Life of Despised Matsuko (2006)
Plot Summary:
Matsuko, in her 20s, is fired as a teacher and degenerates from an elite to a “Soap Lady.” Through her history of affairs with men, she kills her pimp and ends up in prison. Despite her rough lifex struck by terrible misfortunes, she does not stop loving some one and keeps her dreams until the very end. This drama depicts Matsuko’s stormy life as she deals with it head-on.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, romantic, captivating
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Hollywood Wives (1985)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags:
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The Thorn Birds (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Thorn Birds is a 2011 South Korean television series where one woman forsakes her love and family for her ambition while another woman embraces with love all that the former had left behind. Fates of a bit part actress Seo Jung-eun and a film producer Han Yoo-kyung who chose success are intertwined and resolved gradually as their mutual stories progress. The "thorn birds" of the title refers to Jung-eun's character, who only brings out her best at the cost of great pain. A thornbird is a mythical bird who searches for a thorn tree from the day it is born. When it finds it, the bird impales itself upon the sharpest thorn, and rises above the agony to sing the most beautiful song ever heard.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags:
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When the Weather Is Fine (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a series of unfortunate events, Mok Hae-won quits her job in Seoul and goes back to Bookhyun Village, in Gangwon Province, where she briefly lived when she was in high school. There, she meets again her former classmate and neighbor, Im Eun-seob. He also came back to Bookhyun after leaving the village for a few years and now owns a bookstore.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic drama, sincere, touching, contemplative, emotional, romantic
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Bare Essence (1983)
Plot Summary:
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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The Long Hot Summer (1985)
Plot Summary:
Accused barn burner and con man Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags:
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Yesilçam: Bir Sinema Hayvani (2021)
Plot Summary:
Showcasing Turkey of the 1960s, while it follows a film producer who will tell the story of survival in Yesilcam as he experiences the golden age of Turkish cinema.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Phoenix (2004)
Plot Summary:
Love is timing. Love needs just the "right time". It's not because you loved him or her less that you parted. Heaven brings you your soul mate when the time is just "right". "Phoenix" shows you this heaven's work. There is a young couple who desperately fell in love but who couldn't be together because the time wasn't just right for them. Years pass by and these two meet again. And the trick of fortune switches their situation and environments. A daughter of a millionaire has now become an helper suffering from the grim realities of life. On the other hand, an orphan self-supporting student is now an accomplished wealthy businessman. Now these two people are looking at the world with different eyes. The childlike girl has finally learned the harshness of the world and the guy with once twisted mind has learned to enjoy the latitude of mind. In the end, these two start to understand each other, thus arriving at the "right time".
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Hold the Dream (1986)
Plot Summary:
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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The Hours of My Life (2014)
Plot Summary:
Your whole outlook on life can change in an instant. Takuto Sawada (Haruma Miura) is your average college student. But one day, he finds out that he has ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and only has a short time to live. How will he choose to spend the remaining days of his precious life?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: romantic, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Sex, Love & Secrets (2005)
Plot Summary:
A drama chronicling the lives of twentysomethings in the hip L.A. neighborhood of Silverlake.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Xica da Silva (1996)
Plot Summary:
In the Colonial Brazil, a smart, sassy and sensual slave rises to become a queen as an important contractor falls for her, all for the anger of a woman obsessed with him.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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Scruples (1980)
Plot Summary:
The melodramatic story follows the fortunes of three ambitious people: Billy, secretary/wife to an older billionaire, who upon his death starts the Beverly Hills boutique ("Scruples") and pursues film director Vito Orsini. Valentine, a French would-be fashion designer, and Spider, a parking lot attendant/photographer/stud, struggling up the ladder. After Valentine and Spider become Billy's employees, they team up to navigate a number of hazards on the road to happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 279 min
Plot tags: sexy, serious, realistic, sexual
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Volver a Caer (2023)
Plot Summary:
Ana travels to San Gabriel to help her brother with her marriage. Upon arrival she meets Vico, a young musician with whom she seems destined to meet.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Beautiful People (2005)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful People is an American drama television series about a family that moves from New Mexico to The Big Apple to make a fresh start on their lives. The series aired on the ABC Family Network from August 8, 2005, to April 24, 2006, lasting sixteen episodes. Its executive producer was Paul Stupin, who played the same role for Dawson's Creek. Both Daphne Zuniga and Torrey DeVitto later appeared on the fifth and sixth season of One Tree Hill as major recurring roles, although they never shared any screen time.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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Harlow (1965)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based biography of 1930s star Jean Harlow as she begins her climb to stardom. One of two "Harlow" film biographies that appeared in 1965, this one stars Carol Lynley in the title role that begins as Jean Harlow, a bit player in Laurel and Hardy comedies, is invited to test for director Jonathan Martin for the lead in Howard Hughes's "Hell's Angels." She is an instantaneous sensation, and in a series of films devoted more to her body than her talent, she becomes Hollywood's "Platanum Blonde.".
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Melrose Place (2009)
Plot Summary:
In an elegant Spanish-style apartment building in the trendy Melrose neighborhood of Los Angeles, a diverse group of 20-somethings have formed a close-knit surrogate family. However, when a bloody body is found floating in the courtyard pool, the police soon discover that almost everyone had a reason to want the deceased out of the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, stylized, captivating, sexy, soap opera, teen, realistic, telenovela
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Thirtysomething (1987)
Plot Summary:
Thirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late thirties. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick for MGM/UA Television Group and The Bedford Falls Company, and aired on ABC. It premiered in the U.S. on September 29, 1987. It lasted four seasons, with the last of its 85 episodes airing on May 28, 1991. The title of the show was designed as thirtysomething by Kathie Broyles, who combined the words of the original title, Thirty Something. In 1997, "The Go Between" and "Samurai Ad Man" were ranked #22 on TV Guide′s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2002, Thirtysomething was ranked #19 on TV Guide′s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and in 2013 TV Guide ranked it #10 in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, clever, touching, serious, realistic, talky, stylized, telenovela
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Anna (2008)
Plot Summary:
Anna und die Liebe is the eleventh Telenovela made in Germany. It has aired since August 25, 2008 on German channel Sat.1 and Austrian Channel ORF 1.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, soap opera, serious, emotional, realistic, telenovela
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The Life We Lead (2011)
Plot Summary:
Ana is a promising tennis player with a collection of titles and trophies to flaunt. She finds out she is pregnant by her loving boyfriend Rodrigo. Her controlling mother, Eva, forces her to break up with Rodrigo and compels her to stay out of town until the baby is born. Eva’s biggest concern is that she doesn’t lose any of her sponsorship deals. Later, Ana returns home and is eager to resume her athletic career, raise her baby Julia, and tell Rodrigo the truth.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, captivating, telenovela
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The Quad (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Eva Fletcher is the newly-elected President of the fictional Georgia A&M University. Upon arriving, Eva is charged with saving the prestigious HBCU from bankruptcy and her twenty-year marriage from crumbling while managing a tumultuous relationship with her rebellious only daughter. A diverse group of freshman also promises to keep Eva's hands full.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Famous in Love (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ordinary college student Paige gets her big break after auditioning for the starring role in a Hollywood blockbuster. She must now navigate her new star-studded life and the highs and lows that come with being the new It Girl in town as well as balancing her college workload.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, sexy, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Days of Our Lives (1965)
Plot Summary:
The Horton and Brady broods endure the romantic trials of life in Salem, a Midwestern hamlet filled with evil geniuses, star-crossed lovers and a rich family history.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, realistic, sentimental, serious, emotional, campy
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The Young and the Restless (1973)
Plot Summary:
The rivalries, romances, hopes and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives and loves of a wide variety of characters mingle through the generations, dominated by the Newman, Abbott, Baldwin and Winters families.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 37 min
Plot tags: soap opera, sentimental, realistic, serious, emotional, saga
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Out of Order (2003)
Plot Summary:
I suppose this is the story of the beauty and brutality of a long-term marriage as seen through the eyes of a writer who aspires to make art, but makes his living writing popcorn movies. Someone who wants to be a good man, but finds himself contemplating many crimes. Someone who is guilty of the crime of being human. Someone whose life is the only movie he can't rewrite. Well, that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 754
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, sensual, clever, realistic, sexual, black comedy, dark comedy, sexy
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Melrose Place (1992)
Plot Summary:
Melrose Place is an American primetime soap opera that aired on Fox from July 8, 1992, to May 24, 1999 for seven seasons. It follows the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, California. The show was created by Darren Star for Fox and executive produced by Aaron Spelling for his company, Spelling Television. It is the second series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise. Season one and season two were broadcast on Wednesday at 9pm, after Beverly Hills, 90210. In 1994, for its third season premiere, the show moved to Monday at 8pm. The show had many cast changes during the run. Thomas Calabro was the only original cast member to remain on the series throughout its entire run. The show earned several Golden Globe nominations and placed #51 on Entertainment Weekly's "New TV Classics" list.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sexy, soap opera, captivating, sexual, telenovela, campy
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Pavitra Rishta (2009)
Plot Summary:
Pavitra Rishta is an Indian soap opera that airs on Zee TV. It premiered on 1 June 2009 and airs weeknights. It is produced by Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms. Pavitra Rishta portrays the life of two common middle-class Maharashtrian families in the city of Mumbai and their day-to-day life. It particularly focuses on the journey of the couple Manav and Archana and their grown-up children.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, entertaining
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Black Tie Nights (2004)
Plot Summary:
Black Tie Nights was a softcore drama anthology series which aired on Cinemax in the United States from 2004 to 2005. This anthology show revolved around the adventures of Olivia Hartley and Cooper Snow who ran Black Tie dating service. They were assisted by their geeky sidekick, Ryan Lundy. Each week they would encounter new or returning customers and try to play matchmaker. The first season had two main subplots that continued in each episode. The first was the budding romance between Ryan and Cooper. The second was Olivia getting over the loss of her husband and dating again. In the second season, the show was retooled. The anthology series was renamed Hollywood Sexcapades and the characters of Olivia and Cooper were said to be out of the country opening a new branch. Candi Hicks, a recurring customer in the first season, became the new employee of Black Tie dating service. She and Ryan partnered to run the company, and the continuing subplot was the budding romance between these two characters. Each week they would continue to try to play matchmaker to that episode's guest stars.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, captivating, anthology
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My Perfect Stranger (2023)
Plot Summary:
An enthralling journey begins as a man and a woman, trapped in May 1987, embark on their adventure.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 719
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: retro
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The Fosters (2013)
Plot Summary:
Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and their adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. Their lives are disrupted in unexpected ways when Lena meets Callie, a hardened teen with an abusive past who has spent her life in and out of foster homes. Lena and Stef welcome Callie and her brother, Jude, into their home thinking it's just for a few weeks, until a more permanent placement can be found. But life has something else in store for the Fosters.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, melancholic, teen, sincere, sex comedy, anime, hispanic, controversial, semi serious