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Plot Summary:
Sins is a 1986 CBS television miniseries starring Joan Collins. An adaptation of the 1982 novel of the same name by Judith Gould, it is the story of a woman who survives the horrors of the Nazi occupation of France and suffers a succession of challenges as she rises in the world of fashion. Produced by New World Television, Collins also served as executive producer with her then-husband Peter Holm, and the mini-series contained 85 costume changes for her role. Carly Simon co-wrote and performed the theme song, "It's Hard to be Tender.".
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 420 min
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Family Album (1994)
Plot Summary:
Based on Danielle Steel's novel of a celebrated actress-filmmaker whose family life is marked with love and strife.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sincere, captivating, realistic
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Customize Happiness (2016)
Plot Summary:
Your perfect match can be found in the most unexpected places. Tian Xiao Ni (Tong Yao) is a top fashion designer who is at the peak of her career thanks to her meticulous personality and razor-sharp focus on what she wants out of life. She has lived by the motto of “Perfect Self + Perfect Other Half = Happy Life.” But because of her impossible-to-meet “18 Standards for Mr. Right,” Xiao Ni finds herself still single despite her charm, beauty and talent. When Xiao Ni meets Zhan Wang (Kimi Qiao), she thinks she has found her “ Perfect Other Half” and begins to pursue him. Zhan Wang is a professional race car driver who suddenly quits at the peak of his career and now helps a friend manage an auto body shop. Will Xiao Ni discover that true love can’t be customized to her ideal specifications? “Customize Happiness” is a 2016 Chinese drama series directed by Xie Lü.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 44 min
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Seventh Avenue (1977)
Plot Summary:
A poor young man from New York's Lower East Side determines to overcome his status, and through hard work rises to become a power in the garment industry.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 360 min
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Mistral's Daughter (1984)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful and naïve Maggy Lunel arrives in Paris completely broke. She becomes an artist's model and the toast of Paris, attracting the attention of Picasso-like painter Julien Mistral, an arrogant and selfish man who places his work above everything. Their paths diverge as Mistral's art catches the eye of a rich American woman who becomes his patroness and eventually his wife. During the war years in France, Mistral collaborates with the Nazis in order to continue with his work, a decision that will come back to haunt him years later. In the meantime, Maggy has a daughter named Teddy who grows up and falls in love with Mistral with whom she has a child named Fauve. As Mistral ages, he comes to terms with his selfish past and wartime betrayal through his art, leaving a beautiful legacy for his daughter, Fauve.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 390 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, emotional, realistic
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Jewels (1992)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Thompson, an American visiting England, meets and marries William Whitfield, the Duke of Whitfield. They settle in a chateau in France and begin a family. World War II interrupts their happiness and alters their future. After the war, the family helps war survivors by buying their jewelry and eventually opens a jewelry store, which rapidly becomes a success. But conflicts abound as new generations arise and forces from both outside and within threaten the store and the family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Luxembourg, UK
Duration: 241 min
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Psychologist (2021)
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Due to negative feedback to a public service announcement on suicide prevention that she created, psychologist He Dun experiences a blow to her career. To cheer up, she meets her best friend at a restaurant where she runs into Qian Kai Yi. He is now hosting a radio program dealing with emotional issues. At his insistence, He Dun agrees to be his collaborator and co-host. As the show gains listenership He Dun's counseling clinic becomes equally busy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
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Wounded Hearts (2012)
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Corações Feridos is a Brazilian telenovela that aired on SBT from January 16 to May 23, 2012. It is a remake of the Mexican telenovela La Mentira written and adapted by Íris Abravanel, based on the original by Caridad Bravo Adams and directed by Del Rangel.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
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Fashion House (2006)
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Fashion House is an American telenovela that aired at 9:00PM Eastern/8:00PM Central Monday through Saturday on MyNetworkTV stations. The series premiered on September 5, 2006 and concluded on December 5, 2006. It was produced by Twentieth Television with directors David Hogan, Alex Hennech, Jim Slocum and Jeremy Stanford. Fashion House focused on greed, lust and ambition surrounding a corporate takeover of the business's hottest company. It starred Bo Derek as the ruthless head of the business and Morgan Fairchild as her long-time arch-rival. The show was known more for the leads' hair-pulling, name-calling, and vase-throwing than for its romance, passion and drama. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has not announced plans to release this series on DVD and/or Blu-ray.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, humorous, semi serious, soap opera
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Lady Altagracia (2016)
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A story of revenge and ambition, seduction and betrayal; all told from the perspective of an offended and abused woman named Altagracia. Altagracia represents the hundreds of thousands of Mexican women who have been victims of the violence by faceless men who are protected by impunity. But Altagracia, transformed into a strong-willed, ruthless man-eater known as La Doña, will seek out each and every one of these men to bring them to justice.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, novela, telenovela
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The Count of Monte-Cristo: Great Revenge (2018)
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Wrongfully imprisoned for 15 years despite his innocence, Dan Saimon manages to get out of his imprisonment at the risk of his own life, and makes a thrilling return as a fresh new character. This is a drama about a man, who, through his elaborate maneuvers and various clever entrapments fulfills his passionate revenge against those who stripped away all his glories. He seeks for the light that he had been striving for.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
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Sunset Beach (1997)
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Sunset Beach is an American television soap opera that aired on NBC from January 6, 1997 to December 31, 1999. The show follows the loves and lives of the people living in the Orange County coastal area named Sunset Beach, on the coast of California. Although there is a town in California called Sunset Beach, the show's beach scenes were shot on nearby Seal Beach. The show was co-produced by NBC and Spelling Television. Sunset Beach won two Daytime Emmy Awards and was nominated another eleven times. The show also received twenty-two nominations for various other awards.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, humorous, semi serious, light, melancholic, realistic, hot, campy
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From Here to Eternity (1979)
Plot Summary:
Soapy look at events of Pearl Harbor just previous to the Japanese attack.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 360 min
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Call It Love (2023)
Plot Summary:
A woman vows revenge on her for, a heart-wrenchingly lonely and gentle man.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
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Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac (1997)
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Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac is a 1997 television miniseries that served as a reunion show for the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. It aired on CBS in two two-hour parts on May 7 and May 9, 1997. The miniseries takes place four years after the series ended in 1993, and brings back castmembers William Devane, Kevin Dobson, Michele Lee, Donna Mills, Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Michelle Phillips and Stacy Galina in starring roles. It also includes cameo appearances by former cast members Tonya Crowe, Brian Austin Green, Kim Lankford, Claudia Lonow and Patrick Petersen.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: soap opera
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Titans (2000)
Plot Summary:
Titans is an American prime time soap opera that debuted on October 4, 2000 on NBC. Thirteen episodes were filmed, of which eleven were actually aired. Produced by Aaron Spelling, the series was initially marketed as a "Dynasty for the new millennium," attempting to emulate the style of Spelling's earlier hit series. However, low ratings led NBC to cancel the series before its first season was completed.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, soap opera, sexual, sexy
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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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Celebrity (2003)
Plot Summary:
A successful businesswoman in the music industry sees her life fall apart after a young and mysterious woman starts work as her secretary. The scheming girl is totally obsessed by the famous businesswoman and she tries to steal everything from her, including her career.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, romantic, captivating, suspense, telenovela
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Crossings (1986)
Plot Summary:
Despite rumors of impending war, the majestic ship Normandie makes its transatlantic voyage from Washington D.C., to France. Aboard is beautiful, American-born Liane De Villiers, devoted to her much-older husband, the French ambassador to the United States, and her two daughters. She meets Nick Burnham, an American steel magnate, a kind man trapped in a loveless marriage. Their passion remains unacknowledged. But when the outbreak of World War II forces Liane to flee Paris, she and Nick meet again–and pledge a love that can no longer be denied.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 269 min
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The Execution (1985)
Plot Summary:
The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as young girls. To their horror they learn that he has already been tried as a war criminal and has served but a few years for his crimes. They decide that they will "execute" him, drawing lots to determine which one will perform the act, without letting the others know who it is.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Inconstant Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
The hatred of Miran Aslanbey against the man guilty of the death of his parents unleashes his desire for revenge by taking him to seduce his daughter Reyyan. Reyyan falls madly in love in Miran's arms. But what will happen when he finds out the truth? What is stronger love or revenge?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, touching, sweet, romantic
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Dynasty (1981)
Plot Summary:
The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam, lost in childhood after a kidnapping; Fallon, pampered and spoiled; Steven, openly gay; and Amanda, hidden from him by his ex-wife, the conniving Alexis. Most of the show features the conflict between 2 large corporations, Blake's Denver Carrington and Alexis' ColbyCo.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, captivating, realistic, serious, enigmatic, retro, sex comedy, relaxing, saga, telenovela
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Lingerie (2009)
Plot Summary:
Lingerie is a softcore pornographic television series, created by John Quinn, that has been airing on Cinemax since its premiere in July 2009. The second season premiered in October 2010.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: erotic, sincere, romantic, captivating, sexy, hot
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The Bold and the Beautiful (1987)
Plot Summary:
Continuing drama combining romance and intrigue set against the glittering backdrop of Beverly Hills and the American fashion industry.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 19 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, serious, emotional, soap opera, sex comedy, romantic drama, saga, telenovela, masterpiece
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Monte Carlo (1986)
Plot Summary:
An American writer on the Riviera courts a Russian singer who is spying on Nazis for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Confess (2017)
Plot Summary:
Auburn Reed is determined to put her challenging past behind her and get her future on track. Now in her mid-twenties and struggling to fund her custody battle for her only son, she stumbles upon the art studio of the talented and charming artist, Owen Gentry. The two wrestle with their developing romance and the secrets they're both keeping until they realize they may risk their future if they don't reveal their pasts to each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Velvet (2013)
Plot Summary:
In 1950s Spain, the heir to a fashion house romances a beautiful seamstress who works for the company, despite the objections of his family.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, stylized, sincere, emotional, costume drama, historical drama, period drama, telenovela
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Scarlett (1994)
Plot Summary:
The greatest love story ever told began with Gone with the Wind and continues in this sweeping epic sequel, as Scarlett, Rhett and a host of unforgettable characters go from tragedy to triumph in an action-packed saga of international scope.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Austria
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, stylized, romantic, sentimental, emotional, realistic, epic, sexy, period drama
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Till We Meet Again (1989)
Plot Summary:
Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again was a 1989 TV mini-series based on the Judith Krantz novel, Till We Meet Again. Its stars included Mia Sara, Bruce Boxleitner, Hugh Grant and Courteney Cox.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: clever, serious, emotional, realistic, talky, period drama
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Four Seasons (2008)
Plot Summary:
Patriach Alex reigns over the magnificent country estate Endellion with a mildness that infuriates his eldest son Stephen, a high-powered financier, but perfectly suits his younger, more relaxed son Charles. After many years of unruffled tranquility, life at Endellion is about to enter a turbulent new phase with the return of Stephen's ex-wife, and division over her granddaughter Abby, whose mother had died never revealing the father's name.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Gossip Girl (2007)
Plot Summary:
Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, originally ran on The CW for six seasons from September 19, 2007 to December 17, 2012. Narrated by the omniscient blogger "Gossip Girl," voiced by Kristen Bell, the series revolves around the lives of privileged young adults on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 189000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: romantic, soap opera, talky, stylized, serious, witty, teen, erotic, sexy, intellectual