Best tv shows like Shadows of the Past
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Plot Summary:
Two very different families live in the village of Santa Lucía who are involved in a whirlwind of passion, pain, and revenge. The rivaling families are the Mendozas and the Alcocers. Severiano Mendoza and Candela Santana are a rich and powerful marriage who live at the ranch, "Las Ánimas", along with their young son, Cristóbal. Roberta and Raymundo Alcocer also have a daughter named Alonza; however, they do not live with the same luxuries as the Mendoza family, which causes frustration and resentment in Roberta as nothing is enough to fill the inferiority complex that follows her like a shadow.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, telenovela
Best tv shows and movies like Shadows of the Past (2014):
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RadhaKrishn (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story of Radha and Krishna is the epitome of eternal love, which transcends eras and emotions.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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Even Closer: Hautnah (2021)
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating
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Romance of Our Parents (2014)
Plot Summary:
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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Deniz Inside My Heart (2016)
Plot Summary:
Deniz has everything a woman can ask for. But when her husband disappeared no trace, this happy life changes. Deniz, who is in a desperate state with her two children and her father, meets Mirat who will be a lover and be a life-saver.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Crash Palace (2001)
Plot Summary:
The trials and tribulations of a group of young backpackers living in the same Sydney hostel.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Dare to Dream (2009)
Plot Summary:
Danna Paola stars as Patito, Eleazar Gómez as Mateo, Violeta Isfel and Cynthia Klitbo, play antagonist roles as Antonella and Bianca. The telenovela features adult protagonists also, René Strickler and Vanessa Guzmán. It first aired on Sunday, 8 March 2009, as the first telenovela to debut on a Sunday in Mexico. After a year of success, becoming a major hit in Mexico, especially among children, its final episode was also on a Sunday, 7 March 2010.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, soap opera, telenovela
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XYX (2019)
Plot Summary:
Nikky, Farah, Binny- Three Friends, flatmates, and colleagues. The confusion starts when a question arises about who loves whom? Will they be able to straighten out their friendship or the love triangle that is twisted in all means.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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I Dare You to Leave (2015)
Plot Summary:
A heartbreaking story in which power, obsession, and desire will tragically mark the love between Paulina and Adrián who will fight for their love against all odds, even if it takes their life.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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A Thousand Goodnights (2019)
Plot Summary:
To carry out her dad's wish and discover her roots, Dai Tian-qing embarks on a journey around Taiwan and finds love and redemption on the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Twelve Nights (2018)
Plot Summary:
Yoo Kyung and and Hyun Oh surprisingly keep bumping into each other over the course of three different trips and end up spending 12 nights together. Could this be just coincidence or something much more?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Way Back Into Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
As a student, Lu Jia spent most of her time in school dreaming of the day she finally caught the attention of Xu Jia Xiu. A student in the class next door, Jia Xiu was everything Jia dreamed a guy could be. Unfortunately, all of her dreams were based on a secret, one-sided love. Knowing that nothing would ever happen with Jia Xiu if she kept her feelings as secret, Jia decided to do what any desperate girl might do. She mustered up every ounce of her courage and wrote him a letter. Having never paid any attention to the quiet girl in the class next door, the letter from Jia comes as a bit of a surprise to Jia Xiu. With no prior feelings for Jia, Jia Xiu can’t give her any sort of an answer. But that doesn’t mean she failed to make an impression. Despite the fact that many years have passed and nothing ever came of the letter, Jia Xiu has often wondered what happened to the girl who was once brave enough to confess her feelings for him.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Dil Se Dil Tak (2017)
Plot Summary:
The lives of Parth and Shorvari, a happily married couple, change after the entry of Teni, a young bubbly girl, who decides to become a surrogate mother to their child.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Si nos dejan (2021)
Plot Summary:
After dedicating a lifetime to her husband and family, Alicia's world changes completely when she discovers a betrayal. Determined to rebuild her life, Alicia begins to fall in love with a much younger man.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Los Herederos del Monte (2011)
Plot Summary:
Los Herederos Del Monte is a Spanish-language telenovela to be produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia, with Colombia as location. It is a remake of Chilean telenovela Hijos del Monte produced by TVN in 2008.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, tense, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Secrets at the Hotel (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of Secrets at the Hotel begins in 1908. Julio Olmedo and Isabel Alarcón travel on the same train to the Gran Hotel, property of the Alarcón family. Both of them ignore that their lives will take a new twist in that place, produced by love, treason, and the secrets hidden there.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Amor dividido (2022)
Plot Summary:
April and Max thought they had a made life, until fate decided to radically change it, to unite them in the midst of loneliness and disappointment. Learn about the importance of love for family and how people can learn from their mistakes to get ahead.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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A Seven-Faced Man (2017)
Plot Summary:
Bai Xin Xin is a first-year medical intern who crosses paths with Shen Yi Zhen, a man from a wealthy family. When Xin Xin is roped into becoming the personal attending physician for Yi Zhen, she doesn’t understand what she signed up for until it’s too late. As Yi Zhen’s seven different personalities begin to emerge, so too do dark secrets from his cruel family history. Can Xin Xin help the many faces of Yi Zhen recover from his painful past?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Dog love (2010)
Plot Summary:
Perro Amor is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo that originally ran in the United States from January to July 2010. This is a Colombian soap opera remake of the 1998 Cenpro Televisión daily telenovela Perro Amor, written by Natalia Ospina & Andrés Salgado. As with most of its other soap operas, Telemundo broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, romantic, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Simply María (2015)
Plot Summary:
Will Maria marry Christoper.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, telenovela
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The Neighbor (2015)
Plot Summary:
La vecina, is a comedy-telenovela produced by Lucero Suárez for Televisa. It is the remake of the telenovela La costeña y el cachaco produced in 2003 by RCN TV.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, telenovela
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The Centimeter of Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
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
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The Game of Life (2003)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, telenovela
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Tree in the River (2018)
Plot Summary:
Chu Zhi He who's a goodie two shoes and Wang Da Shu who has a personality that is rigid and sturdy like a tree learn to grow together as they fall in love. Like the show's namesake, animal behavior is quite representative of human nature. Take the giraffe and the squirrel for example, they are a metaphor for two very different people who find a way to coexist.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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The Lady from Vendaval (2012)
Plot Summary:
La Mujer Del Vendaval is a 2012 Mexican telenovela produced by Mapat L. de Zatarain for Televisa. It is a remake of the Venezuelan telenovela Un Esposo para Estela. Ariadne Díaz and José Ron star as the main protagonists, while Chantal Andere, Marco Muñoz, Manuel Flaco Ibañez and Florencia del Saracho as the main antagonists.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing, telenovela
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Eva Luna (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young woman’s quest for happiness is marred by the secrets and deceptions perpetuated by an evil family. Eva González (Blanca Soto) came to Los Angeles with her father and sister in search of a better life. She goes to work as the personal attendant to Julio Arismendi, the ailing founder of Publicidad Arismendi, unknowingly becoming a pawn to kill him by his wife, Marcela (Susana Dosamantes). When the beautiful Eva catches the eye of Julio’s son, Leonardo Arismendi (Julian Gil), and his best friend, Daniel Villanueva (Guy Ecker), she becomes the target of Victoria (Vanessa Villela), who is Leonardo’s sister and Daniel’s girlfriend. But Daniel leaves Victoria for Eva, and on the day of Eva and Daniel’s wedding, Eva’s father is killed in a hit-and-run accident. Can her future husband be responsible? “Eva Luna” is a 2010 telenovela produced by Venevisión International in collaboration with Univision Studios. It is a remake of the 1997 Telemundo telenovela “Aquamarina.”.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Black Pearl (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hazal, beautiful young girl is engajed with Kenan, handsome young fisherman. The day before their wedding, Hazal is forced to marry Vural, successful businessman who fall in love with her since the first time he saw her working on his birthday party as a waitress. Vurals first wife, Naz, was just alike Hazal, and thats the reason why Vural fell in love with her so much, since Naz died 2 years ago and now he finds a replacement of her in Hazal. The story is telling us about the love story between Kenan who thought Hazal dumped him just for money and higher society life and who became a successful businessman with the aim of avenging them , and Hazal who tries to forget all she has been through and the way Vural stole her dreams and youth, and of course Vural who is still waiting for Hazal to love him as much as she loves Kenan.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Hawa Baghdad (2019)
Plot Summary:
Hawa Baghdad.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Drama
Country: Iraq
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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My Brother's Girlfriend (2017)
Plot Summary:
Reiko is a sister who is studying with his successful lawyer brother Sato as a role model. She joins Saburo who is a motivator of the same subject, and she introduces Saburo’s sister, Maya, to her brother to turn her brother’s heart, who does not recognize her boyfriend. Sato is taken away by beautiful Maya. Reiko, who is relieved to see the two of them and dreams of a happy future, suddenly appeared to her ex-girlfriend, Kanbe, and began to blame her for having lost her girlfriend to Sato.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 5
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Bad Romance (2016)
Plot Summary:
Yihwa, a single university girl, believes that she doesn’t need boys in her life because she can survive without them, and thinks that boys are like iPhones that are only for decoration purposes. However, when she went to the condominium unit of her best friend Korn, who is celebrating his anniversary with his partner Knock, she met Korn’s friend, Cho, who suddenly fell in love with her at first sight. But Yihwa did not feel it the same way; instead, she thought that Cho is gay and he wants to have a relationship with Knock. After that day, Cho started to pursue Yihwa, however he will be having a hard time to please her and will experience different circumstances before he becomes close to her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Flower Shop Without a Rose (2008)
Plot Summary:
Shiomi Eiji is forced to become a single father when his girlfriend passes away while giving birth to their daughter, Shizuku. Desolate after the loss of the woman he loved, Eiji has little time or desire to even consider remarrying, working part-time jobs just to make ends meet. The one thing that gives meaning and joy to his life is Shizuku, but even that begins to trouble him when Shizuku begins acting strange, hiding her face by putting a cloth over her head when around other people. One day after opening his flower shop, Eiji comes across a blind woman standing by the door, taking shelter from the rain. When he invites her to come inside the shop, she at first refuses, but later gives in to Eiji's kindness. They become intimate friends and she slowly grows to depend on Eiji's sincerity and good heartedness. After rescuing her a following evening when she walks into the street and is nearly struck by traffic, Eiji himself inexplicably discovers the cold of winter that has saddled his heart all these years slowly melting away.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dorama