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Plot Summary:
Zhong Yu Tang and Ji Wen Kai are childhood friends. Wen Kai's grades has always been normal but Yu Tang's grades were really good. After becoming adults and entering society, Yu Tang has entered the cosmetic world and has the chance to become the secretary of the new CEO. The CEO ended up being Ji Wen Kai! And their story continues.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, humorous, sweet, captivating, entertaining, dorama, romantic drama
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Well-Intended Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
In order to receive a bone marrow transplant quicker and be able to continue her career as an actress, Xia Lin enters into a secret marriage with Ling Yi Zhou, the CEO of a company. Despite the conspiracies and misunderstandings they encounter, the two find true love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, sweet, dorama, captivating, romantic drama, romantic, melancholic, entertaining
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Murphy's Law of Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
There's no dating problem love guru Guan Xiao Tong can't solve, except of course her own. When Ji Jia Wei is unceremoniously dumped by his girlfriend, he decides to heal his wounds by setting up his father with Xiao Tong's high-profile boss. But when he and Xiao Tong meet at the matchmaking event, their polarizing chemistry immediately proves that what can go wrong, will go wrong. Can these savvy love experts prove Murphy's Law wrong, or is their romance doomed for the worst?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy
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My Love Eun Dong (2015)
Plot Summary:
A renowned actor who is still pining over the loss of his first real love writes an autobiography about his memories of her, hoping to reconnect.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama, romantic drama
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The King of Dramas (2012)
Plot Summary:
A satirical dramedy about what goes on behind the scenes in making a TV drama.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, feel good, humorous, entertaining, parody
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My First First Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
Due to various personal reasons, a group of Yun Tae-o’s friends move into his house, where they experience love, friendship, and everything in between.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: dorama, humorous, sincere, romantic, touching, sweet, captivating
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Love O2O (2016)
Plot Summary:
What is it that makes a man fall in love with a woman at first sight? Appearance? Aura? Wealth? NO, when campus prince and gaming expert, student Xiao Nai first saw Bei Wei Wei, what made him fall in love was not her extraordinary beauty, but her slim and slender fingers that were flying across the keyboard and her calm and composed manner!!! Embarrassing, no? At the same time, gaming expert Bei Wei Wei, at this time and place is on the computer, methodically commanding a guild war, and won a perfect and glorious victory despite being at a disadvantage, and was completely unaware that cupid is nearby. Soon after basketball player, swimmer, all-around excellent student, and game company president, Xiao Nai, uses both tactics on and off-line to take this beauty’s heart. Therefore this romance slowly bloomed. ~~ Drama adapted from the novel by Gu Man.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting, sweet, romantic drama, dorama, scenic
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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 Don't Love You Yet (2019)
Plot Summary:
Mitari Yo is a career woman who works for a shoe company. She finds her work rewarding and has successfully advanced in her career. Her love life, on the other hand, isn't doing as well. Ishida Ren works for a real estate developer and is Yo’s best friend. An ex-classmate from both high school and university days, he understands her best and is the only person she pours her heart out to. On Yo’s 29th birthday, the two friends place a wager to give 300,000 yen as a congratulatory gift to the one who is the first to get married by the last day they are 30. Although they declare that it is impossible for them to fall in love with each other, this wager, as well as advances by Ren’s junior in the company and Yo’s reunion with her ex-boyfriend, lead to gradual changes in the relationship of the two best friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating
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Love Around (2013)
Plot Summary:
After a chance meeting at a ballpark, the kind son of a former gangster tries to help an outgoing radio DJ get over her recent heartbreak.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama, romantic drama
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Love Buffet (2010)
Plot Summary:
Love Buffet is a 2010 Taiwanese drama starring Aaron Yan and Calvin Chen of Fahrenheit and Reen Yu. It was based on the shōjo manga Parfait Tic!, written by Nagamu Nanaji. The drama was co-produced by Gala Television and Comic Productions and directed by Wu Jian Xin. It was first broadcast in Taiwan on free-to-air Formosa TV from 19 December 2010 to 13 March 2011, on Sundays at 22:00 to 23:30 and cable TV Gala Television Variety Show/CH 28 on 25 December 2010 to 19 March 2011, every Saturday at 22:00 to 23:30. This show was also broadcast in Singapore and Malaysia.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama
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About Is Love (2018)
Plot Summary:
A love story between the president of a company who develops a severe case of OCD that prohibits him from interacting with women and the one person that he is immune to. An incident from when he was eighteen years old gravely affects the life of Wei Qin. Even though he has become a high-ranking corporate executive, he is unable to interact with the opposite sex, which is why he has been searching for a 'princess' that can save him for years. Ten years later, because of a drunken encounter with an eighteen-year old arts student named Zhou Shi, Wei Qin discovers that he feels completely fine after meeting her. An agreement is formed between the two and a romance ensues.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love You (2011)
Plot Summary:
Love You, is a 2011 Taiwanese drama starring Joseph Chang, Rainie Yang, Kingone Wang, Tiffany Hsu, Alien Huang and Tom Price. It is the second installment of the Fated to Love You trilogy. It started filming in January 2011 and wrapped on 30 April. It was first broadcast in Taiwan on free-to-air Taiwan Television from 17 April 2011, every Sunday at 22:00 and cable TV SET Metro from 23 April 2011, every Saturday at 21:00. Love You was nominated in 2011 for four awards at the 46th Golden Bell Awards, including Best Leading Actor in a Television Series for Joseph Chang, Best Directing for a Television Series for Ming-chang Chen and Best Television Series.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Passionate Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
Passionate Love is an upcoming South Korean weekend television drama series starring Sung Hoon and Choi Yoon-young. It is set to premiere on SBS on September 28, 2013, airing every Saturday and Sunday at 20:45 for 50 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, sexy, captivating, entertaining, dorama, soap opera
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Give Love Away (2013)
Plot Summary:
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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What Life Took From Me (2013)
Plot Summary:
"What Life Took From Me" is a Mexican telenovela produced by Angelli Nesma Medina for Televisa. It is a remake of Bodas de odio, produced by Ernesto Alonso in 1983. In 2003, "True Love", the first remake, was produced by Carla Estrada. Unlike Bodas de odio and "True Love", "What Life Took From Me" has been adapted to the present time.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, novela, romantic drama, telenovela
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Full Moon (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ferit Aslan is a very successful businessman, and is extremely organized. He wants the same manner of organization in both his private and professional life. Nazli who is studying gastronomy needs to find a job immediately as she is responsible for covering the expenses of the home she shares with her friend and sister. She is a stubborn and adamant personality, so she has a tough time keeping a job. Both completely opposites, meet each other in this series.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, sincere, entertaining, enigmatic, feel good, humorous, captivating
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She Would Never Know (2021)
Plot Summary:
It is an office romance about female senior who doesn’t want to catch feelings for younger men and male junior who are handsome, sexy and has a straightforward style.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: dorama, psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Begin Again (2020)
Plot Summary:
It tells the story of a domineering female CEO and a warm doctor who turn a fake relationship into reality due to practical reasons. Having exchanged their 'I do's', they start on a new chapter of their lives as they learn to fall in love. Lu Fangning is the general manager of Luning Group, a large corporation in the business of home furniture. Lu Fangning is a woman who has it all - talented, beautiful and rich. Nearing her thirties, Lu Fangning succumbs to family pressures and decides that she urgently needs a husband with whom she will have a child. Coincidentally, surgeon Ling Rui appears in front of her. Ling Rui is not only blessed with good looks but also has an angelic heart, which makes him the perfect candidate in the eyes of Lu Fangning. She schemes her way to his life and they finally become husband and wife. Lu Fangning eventually realizes the error in her ways and strives to be better. However, keeping a marriage is not as easy as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining
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More Than Friends (2020)
Plot Summary:
Due to a misunderstanding, Lee Soo and Kyung Woo Yeon have held a crush on each other for over 10 years. Lee Soo works as a photographer and he is attractive. He is also mistaken for a model many times. Kyung Woo Yeon works as a calligrapher. She has had a crush on Lee Soo for the past 10 years, since she was 18 years old.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Lovestruck in the City (2020)
Plot Summary:
Heart stolen by a free-spirited woman after a beachside romance, a passionate architect sets out to reunite with her on the streets of Seoul.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: romantic, dorama, psychological, light, sincere, captivating, entertaining
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Jun to Ai (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jun to Ai is a Japanese television drama series. It debuted on October 1, 2012 and was broadcast until March 30, 2013. It is about a girl named Jun Kanō, raised in Miyakojima, Okinawa, who moves to Osaka to work in a hotel. There she meets a man named Itoshi Machida, with whom she falls in love. It is the 87th NHK Asadora.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, asadora
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Couple-ish (2015)
Plot Summary:
Dee, a non-binary freelance illustrator, is locked into a lease they can't afford. Dee's younger sister, Amy, enacts a plan to find the perfect roommate. Enter Rachel, a queer British bartender eager to fit in as a Canadian. Months later, things go from cool to not-so-cool when Rachel reveals a startling secret - she's claimed Dee as a common-law partner to evade being deported. Amy prompts the pair to create a YouTube channel to prove they are madly in love, and definitely not faking it. Will Dee and Rachel make a convincing couple after all, or are they just couple-ish?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, queer cinema
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Just You (2013)
Plot Summary:
After paying her rent 6 months in advance, Liang Liang Chen (Guo Xue Fu) receives a court notification that her home will be seized. New owner Yi Chi (Aaron Yan) doesn't make it any easier when he holds her house deed hostage and practically threatens her to move out. As if things couldn't get any worse, Liang Liang's new boss steps into the office, and declares a ban on office romance. Who would’ve guessed that the new boss is none other than her newest enemy, Yi Chi? Now the distant and evil landlord is promoted to an insufferable boss who is persecuting love! It's a full on war both on and off the clock as Liang Liang is determined to change Yi Chi's ways.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Elite Short Stories: Phillipe Caye Felipe (2021)
Plot Summary:
Away from school, during the winter holidays, three new stories take place while the Las Encinas students celebrate Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love from the Hood (2015)
Plot Summary:
Living and working in the colorful neighborhood, La Lagunilla, two friends, Paloma and Laura, long for respective boyfriends and true love. Paloma, a law student and waitress, falls for Daniel, a wealthy doctor with a manipulative mother and a family filled with secrets. Laura finds love with Daniel's cousin, Raul, a business manager with his own complicated past.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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The Time We Were Not in Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jang Ha Na and Choi Won are incredibly close platonic friends: throughout 20 years, they've braved it all through thick and thin. As Ha Na's 30th birthday approaches, Won extols the virtues of aging as a man—like a wine—while explaining that women are like grapes that shrivel into raisins. Determined to prove him wrong, Ha Na strikes a bet on which of the two will marry before turning 35. Can these two friends make the ultimate leap?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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EXO Next Door (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ji Yeon-hee is an extremely shy, introverted 23-year-old girl with zero dating experience and a tendency to blush when talking to someone she likes. One day, four young men move into the house right next door to Yeon-hee's home, and to her surprise, they turn out to be Chanyeol, D.O, Baekhyun, and Sehun from her favorite boy band EXO, who are looking to lay low for a while. They hire her to clean their house part-time during the winter vacation and that's when Yeon-hee found out that Chanyeol was her long lost childhood friend and crush "Chan" and is the grandson of the house owner. As the story goes on, Yeon-hee soon becomes involved in a love triangle with Chanyeol and D.O.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: dorama, light, humorous, touching, feel good, romantic, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Just One Love (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Yokohama a modern port city, Hiroto Kanzaki works hard in a ship repair factory, supporting his sick mother and younger brother. Tsukioka Nao is the rich daughter of a jewelry shop owner, and studies at an upscale college. This drama is about their love, and all he obstacles they encounter because of their different social backgrounds.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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Use for My Talent (2021)
Plot Summary:
Because of his incomplete family, Gu Ren Qi has a closed up personality and mysophobia. Shuang Jiao used to have a happy family, but later lost her mother in a car accident, and became a slovenly person. The two became acquainted when Shuang Jiao becomes an employee in Gu Ren Qi's cleaning company. The two became closer as they get to know each other. Under each other's influence, they began to heal from their wounds.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: dorama, psychological, captivating, disturbing, romantic
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She Was Pretty (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ji Sung Joon has a crush on the most beautiful girl in town, Kim Hye Jin - the only problem is, he's unattractive and lacks self-esteem. As fate would have it, years later Sung Joon grows up to be not only successful, but extremely attractive. However, when he runs into his first love Hye Jin, she has become unattractive and poor. Can their love transcend the vanity they both associated with each other?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, dorama, romantic, sweet, sincere, feel good, funny, captivating, satirical