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Plot Summary:
Aizawa Senba's husband asks her to get divorced after he meets his first love through facebook and wants to marry her. In order for her to get custody of her son, she decides to work at a luxurious hotel, and there she meets the young heir of the hotel, Takaoka Yuusuke, and starts to have feelings for him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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My Shining Girl (2012)
Plot Summary:
The drama is about the events that happen in a broadcasting company. This drama also focus on the love triangel between the three main characters, Kang Min (Kim Hyung Joon), a top star in the Korean entertainment buisness who a is bit temperametal. No Yong Woo (Park Kwang Hyun), a well know producer. and Jun Ji Hyun (So E Hyun), a newly minted scriptwritter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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Zac & Mia (2017)
Plot Summary:
"Zac and Mia", based on the novel by A.J. Betts, about 2 teens battling cancer in the same hospital. In the real world, Zac and Mia would have pretty much nothing in common, but in the hospital, where they're the only 2 teens on the ward, they develop an unbreakable bond. If cancer is the variable that changed everything, the only constant is their ever-deepening need for one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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Once Again (2020)
Plot Summary:
A turbulent divorce story of the Song family that ends in the discovery of romance and familial love. The Song family includes a frugal father, a cute but materialistic mother, and four adult children with their own quirks and family troubles.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: light, touching, suspense, suspenseful, dorama
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The Best Future (2014)
Plot Summary:
Choi Go is a young aspiring idol working a part-time job, who can be a bit of a coward. Mi Rae, recently hired by a company in the talent development field. The two struggle attempting to start different careers, meet by chance and start to share the same house, but because of their different schedules (one works during day, the other during night), they communicate leaving messages on a board.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom, sentimental, dorama, touching, humorous, disturbing
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Best Friends in Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
Aoi Miura (Sota Fukushi) was born and grew up in Toyama Prefecture. He has an indecisive personality and does not like summer. He was the focal member of the high school swimming team, but he now works as an assistant at a small architectural office in Tokyo. One summer day, he meets his childhood friend and first love Akari Serizawa. During their school days they spent everyday hanging out together until the fireworks night in their 3rd year of high school. That night, Akari suddenly disappeared. Now, Akari has a man named Aoi.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing, romantic drama
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My Little Princess (2016)
Plot Summary:
Should some places be off limits to the poor? The Si Ye Art Institute is an elite arts high school for the children of wealthy families whose students go on to attend the most exclusive universities. Jiang Yu Nian is one of the most popular boys at the school, but he is cold and emotionally distant after the death of his sister. The exclusive school and its privileged students are turned upside down when Lin Xing Chen, a talented art student from a poor background, is admitted. Xing Chen faces immediate bullying from the other rich students, but will Yu Nian try to protect the kindhearted new student?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, touching, suspenseful, dorama
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Candy House (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sakurai Taro’s parents died young. His grandmother, Akiko, has been making great effort to protect her struggling candy store, Sakuraya, in the old part of Tokyo, but it's not easy. Taro eats candy with regular customers such as chilhood friend Saegusa Hiroki who aspires to be a scriptwriter, and talk nonsense, like in their youth. However, they realize this unfettered, comfortable existence will end some day with the passage of time. Then Taro’s ex-classmate, Kimura Reiko, comes back home with her son after a divorce. He and his friends start to notice what is truly important to them as they face up to their pasts, dreams and pains.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Love - Distance (2020)
Plot Summary:
It is early summer in 2020 at a time when social interaction is restricted and many people are spending time at home. Six people living in an apartment building meet and find themselves relating to each other. Two of them are a couple who have been married for three years – Takiguchi Miwa, a magazine editor who works from home, and her husband Akira, a video producer. They look forward to each day despite the changes in their lives. Akira’s daily routine is to watch the videos of a popular trio on NewTube. The three members actually live on the same floor of the apartment building. Asano Chiaki, a young photographer who lives next door, lost his job due to the coronavirus. He has been spending his days taking photos from the rooftop or verandah, capturing beauty amid the mundane daily life. One day, when he steps out onto the verandah, he sees Miwa watering her flowers on the verandah next door and is attracted to her.
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Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 9 min
Plot tags: sentimental, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful
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Destiny-Like Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
During their childhood, a little girl and a boy made a pledge to meet again. Now at the age of 45, the girl, Kasumi, is now a divorced mother of a son of high school age. She works as hard as she can at a laundry delivery shop for the wealthy, in order to make a living. Then one day, Kasumi encounters a young male designer, Yuri, who has attracted international attention. He is somehow far too familiar with her and pokes his nose into her affairs. Kasumi is initially wary, but she soon learns that he has a pure heart and starts to get drawn to him. These two people with different backgrounds fall in love. Why did Yuri appear before her? Could he be the boy from that time?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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My True Friend (2019)
Plot Summary:
A modern drama focusing on the relationship between real estate agents and customers wanting to find the perfect home in a growing property market.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, suspenseful
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The Great Craftsman (2019)
Plot Summary:
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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Choco Bank (2016)
Plot Summary:
Choco Bank is about a guy named Kim Eun Haeng, who is a college graduate entering the workforce. His father made sure he had a lucky start in life by giving him a name that meant money. Eun Haeng (meaning Bank in Korean) will deal with the concerns many in their 20s struggle with when they start working for the very first time.And a girl named Ha Cho Co who is getting ready to start a business. The story plays out as the two meet and finds out more about the financial service industry.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 17 min
Plot tags: dorama, touching, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, romantic comedy
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Miracle Man (2016)
Plot Summary:
Ittaku lives without having a reason. One day, he falls in love with Hana who struggles with her harsh life. Hana's daughter Umi has problems with her ears and eyes. Umi has a hard time dealing with her daily life. Ittaku wants to help Hana and Umi.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, suspenseful
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The Outstanding Woman (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young fashion magazine editor is a successful career woman who seems to have everything, but she must learn to balance her work, friends and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, touching, feel good, dorama
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Time Spiral (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Natsuki Aizawa was a child, she was kidnapped which left her traumatized. Natsuki grew up relying on her friend Kentaro Yuki. She now studies physics at a university. One day, she meets newly appointed professor Shuya Tatsumi. Afterwards, mysterious events continually happen around Natsuki Aizawa. Shuya is time traveller who travels between the future and the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful
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You Always Haunt My Heart (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kyoko Ogawa is a woman in her 20's and she works at an underwear company. Because of her mother, Kyoko Ogawa has suffered from low self-esteem since she was a child. She is also shaken by two men: Kojiro Yoshizaki and Ren Hoshina. Kojiro Yoshizaki works as an editor for a manga magazine. He is bright, funny and a nice person. Ren Hoshina is a guy that Kyoko Ogawa dated when she attended college. Ren Hoshina was able to see her weakness and was controlling over her. At her job at the underwear company, Ren Hoshina appears in front of her as her boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Best Chicken (2019)
Plot Summary:
One day, Park Choi Go, decides to quit his job at a big company and open up his own chicken restaurant at what used to be a bathhouse. Meanwhile, Seo Bo Ah, an aspiring webtoon writer who secludes herself in the bathhouse, can’t accept that the building she inherited from her grandfather is turning into a chicken restaurant. To take her inheritance back, she becomes Park Choi Go’s employee along with Andrew Kang, a once promising chef who is now homeless. Can Park Choi Go become the ultimate chicken master and achieve his dream?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Summer Romance Shines in Rainbow Color (2010)
Plot Summary:
Taiga is a struggling second-generation actor who has developed a complex due to his father, a famous actor in his time. Most of the time, Taiga only gets to appear in variety shows. One day when his friend brings him out skydiving, a big wind drags him away from the dropping point and he gets stuck in a tree. A beautiful woman, Shiori, rescues him. Shiori is a cheerful woman who laughs away all of her worries. She's exactly the opposite of Taiga.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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No Secrets (2019)
Plot Summary:
A story about a young man who can read people's minds and a meritless lawyer who come to protect each other. A tragic case from the past revolving around a car accident connects the lives of Lin Xing Ran and Jiang Xia. After 10 years, the young man who can read minds and the impulsive public defender meet again. Meanwhile, Zhang Xiao Yang is Lin Xing Ran's boss who has a reputation for never having lost a single case while Gu Si Yu is a colleague who becomes a bitter rival.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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O Rangreza (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story is of stubborn girl, Sassi , who makes her father Khayyam ideal and follows his footsteps and treats her mother Mumtaz "Mammo" exactly like how Khayyam treats her.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Close Range Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
In high school, Sakurai Haruka, Mirei and Kanata are good friends whom everyone envies. The three of them believed their relationship would remain like this forever. Then Haruka’s stepsister Ririko suddenly returns from overseas. After several years away, she has become beautiful to the extent that classmates call her “goddess”. Although Haruka has often built walls around other people, Ririko deliberately gets close to him. One night, she barges in all of a sudden and starts to cry against his chest. “I have no where to go. You’ll let me stay here, right?” Haruka is baffled by his pushy stepsister, Mirei secretly loves Haruka and Kanata has become aware of Mirei. The distance between Haruka, Mirei and Kanata who had taken it for granted that they would always be close, starts to change little by little.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, shoujo
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Before We Get Married (2019)
Plot Summary:
Zhou Wei Wei is about to marry her successful, devoted fiancé. And Chu Ke Huan is also planning to tie the knot with the beautiful woman he thinks he wants to spend the rest of his life with. There’s just one hitch – as their respective wedding days approach, Wei Wei and Ke Huan are starting to develop feelings for one another. Despite their intentions to keep things platonic, Cupid seems to have other plans for them. Will they get cold feet? Will they give in to passion? Or can they keep their feelings for one another in check? This tense romantic drama about love, friendship, and betrayal is adapted from a novel by hit author Ayamei.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful, dorama
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Weemoedt (2016)
Plot Summary:
First, go back to the story. Job Weemoedt's talent manager at the management company Talent Republic in Amsterdam. Effortless maneuvering through the snake pit of the entertainment world. He kept "his" Famous Dutch for the pitfalls and temptations in their path and keep their scandals in the press. Until he himself off the road and his carefully constructed world completely collapses.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: psychological, 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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Chrysalis (2021)
Plot Summary:
Nalan is a beautiful young woman who earns everyone's love at first sight with her warmth. As the only child of the family enlarged hand baby, baby roses, lived in the existence of life and Nalan graduated with honors the best schools, Turkey finds's largest hotel chain, which Koroglu company as an architect at running than himself Sedat Koroglu' with marriage Eve. Although Nalan and Sedat began to walk hand in hand in this tale with hope, thinking that they are moving away from the dark secrets they have kept in their past; Soon their lives will sink into real darkness.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Oh! My Lady (2010)
Plot Summary:
Oh! My Lady is a romance comedy TV Drama in Seoul Korea under SBS Network. It was first aired on March 22, 2010. It is a romantic comedy about a top star who finds himself living with his manager, a 35 year old woman who is trying to earn money to get custody of her child. The first episode of Oh! My Lady scored 10 percent according to TNS Korea and 11.5 percent by AGB Nielsen Media Research.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Enemies from the Past (2017)
Plot Summary:
Go Ya supports her family by doing part-time work. Her father had an affair and left home 10 years ago. She is now looking for a regular full-time job. Ji Seok is a lawyer who specializes in divorces. He is skeptical about marriage, but after he meets Go Ya and gets close to her, they face a difficult situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, soap opera
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Love of Sage (2016)
Plot Summary:
Starring by Miho Nakayama! Amy Yamada's high impact love-hate drama is now draw a curtain. A woman has trained her ex-best friend's son to be her sexual slave for 20 years. Because her best friend stole her first love. What was meant to be revenge. Ending will come with great impact. This is the drama vividly portrays the axis of terror and psychological warfare caused by the main character, with “love” and “animosity” from over 20 years. The main character's only aim in life is “revenge” for her best friend and her family who stole her first love.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Guilty: The Woman Who Made a Pact with the Devil (2010)
Plot Summary:
A pet groomer at a salon in Shirogane, Nogami Meiko has a lot of celebrity dog-lovers as customers. She cheerfully serves customers with care, and her skills are tried and tested. The salon's owner, Kotomi, has a strong faith in her, and she is admired by her colleagues. Meiko leads a quiet and fulfilling life... however, there is another side to her. She has a plan for revenge that she must accomplish. In truth, when she was 19, she was imprisoned for murder but there was also another side to this case. And just as she's about to execute her plan, she meets a man named Mashima Takuro. She acts mysteriously around him and for some reason, he makes her feel better. Is he the only miscalculation to her? Or a reckoning?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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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