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Plot Summary:
Nam Sang-mi plays widowed police officer Lee Sun-ae who finds herself suddenly immersed into international espionage by Han Yoo-il, an undercover agent. Kang-Jun has recently transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department. He opens an old case involving Sun-ae's past that leads him to an entanglement between the current political/economic powers and their secrets. One of them, oddly enough, being Han Yoo-il. Who is this man? Why is he here?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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The Spies Who Loved Me (2020)
Plot Summary:
Is a suspenseful romantic comedy about a woman who inadvertently gets caught up in the world of espionage. Kang Ah Reum, a wedding dress designer who gets married twice, to two husbands who both harbor many secrets. Kang Ah Reum’s first husband Jun Ji Hoon is a charming and unpredictable secret agent who works for Interpol. Meanwhile, her second husband Derek Hyun is a highly intelligent corporate spy with a competitive streak.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Was It Love? (2020)
Plot Summary:
After 14 years devoid of romance, a struggling movie producer and single mom faces the unexpected arrival of 4 men into her life—an author, an actor, a CEO, and a younger man—who might just revive her dormant desire for love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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First Love of a Royal Prince (2004)
Plot Summary:
First Love of a Royal Prince is a 2004 South Korean television series starring Sung Yu-ri, Cha Tae-hyun, Kim Nam-jin and Jin Jae-young. It aired on MBC from June 23 to August 26, 2004 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 18 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Crazy in Love (2007)
Plot Summary:
Suh Jin Young is an aviation maintenance technician. Her fiance Jae Hoon passed away in a horrible traffic accident. Kim Chae Joon dreams of becoming an aviation maintenance technician but he encounters prejudice because he is an ex-convict. He killed someone with his car. Suh Jin Young gives him a chance to work under her and they fall in love. However that love is severely tested when they both discover that Chae Joon's victim was Suh Jin Young's fiance Jae Hoon.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, romantic drama
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My Story For You (2018)
Plot Summary:
It’s 1998, and Zhang Chang Gong gets his first taste of success as a developer in an IT company. At the same time, he meets and falls in love with Li Mu Zi, a kind and intelligent university student. Unfortunately the IT bubble soon bursts, and Zhang Chang Gong is left unemployed. With the help of his friends and family, Chang Gong faces the challenges head on, and eventually becomes a top-selling author.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, inspirational, romantic comedy
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Student's Hearts (2002)
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, soap opera
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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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We Love You, Mr. Jin (2012)
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When your parents don’t approve of your spouse, is a happy life possible? Mi Xiao Mi is a reporter for a Beijing news agency who meets and falls in love with Jin Liang, a gynecologist. When Xiao Mi insists on marrying Liang, a “bei piao” (a non-native Beijing resident), Xiao Mi’s single mother, Wang Shu Hua, nearly has a heart attack but is forced to accept the relationship. But when living with Liang’s father, Jin Tai Zhu, turns out to be more difficult than imagined, Xiao Mi’s mother refuses to just stand by and just watch. “We Love You, Mr. Jin,” also known as “Jin Tai Lang’s Happy Life,” is a 2012 Chinese drama series directed by Yu Chun.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: China
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love Actually (2017)
Plot Summary:
It’s a story about the eras of the 70s, 80s and 90s; about the rapid development of the great era of love and how to deal with the success and failure of life, self-growth and self-transformation. It’s a drama genre of modern day city life; about singles’ rigid pursuit of love; about the lives of a group of ordinary people. It avoids dramatic negative energy. Instead, it’ll bring forth positive energy to encourage men and women to move positively forward in life and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Hooray for Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
Hooray for Love is a 2011 South Korean television series starring Lee Bo-young, Lee Tae-sung and Jin Yi-han. It aired on MBC from July 16, 2011 to January 29, 2012 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:45 for 57 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Art in Love (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tao Yufei is a perfectionist artist, who is introverted, sensitive, and cold. His personality is challenged by the fearless Li Chenyin who isn’t afraid of anything. They get to know each other in college and have been clashing since then. When given the chance to pursue further education in arts, Tao Yufei chooses to follow his dream and study abroad, sacrificing the budding romance. Seven years later, he returns home and meets Chenyin again, but throughout the years, she has been protected by a handsome basketball player Qiu Jiawu.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: China
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Lovers of Haeundae (2012)
Plot Summary:
Haeundae Lovers is a 2012 South Korean television series about a prosecutor who goes undercover to infiltrate a crime family in Haeundae, Busan, then gets into an accident and loses his memory. Thinking he's a gangster, he falls in love with the mob boss's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Why Why Love (2007)
Plot Summary:
Tong Jia Di needs a life besides work, paying down family debt, and more work. So her best friend Jiang Xiao Nan sneaks in a "Love" coupon in Jia Di's raffle box praying that the lucky guy who draws it will sweep Jia Di off her feet. As it so happens, Huo Yan, the compassionate manager Jia Di has secret crush on, is the lucky guy. But, tho' the prince can exchange the coupon for Cinderella's love, it doesn't mean he will, especially when his devilish younger brother is determined to exchange his "Master/Angel" coupon for her servitude.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Momo Love (2009)
Plot Summary:
In a family of six children, Tao-Hua (Cyndi Wang) is both the youngest and only girl! Her four eldest brothers, Chen Chi (Ken Zhu), Chen Cheng (Chun-Tian Lan), Chen Chuan (Sphinx Ting) and Chen He (Godfrey Gao), attempt to smother any chance she has at a love life by setting impossible rules with respect to suitable men. One rainy day, Tao-Hua encounters Shih Lang (Jiro Wang) and immediately falls for him. Despite Shih Lang's above-average academic standards and high-quality character, Tao-Hua's brothers only tighten their grip. To add to her woes, she must also compete with Kung Hui-Chi (Chia-ying Lee) for Shih Lang's affection. Will Tao-Hua win her independence and the heart of Shih Lang?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love, Inevitably (2019)
Plot Summary:
A Flamenco dancer from Seville and a businessman from Rome can't stop having visions of each other after they accidentally bump into each other at the Prague Airport.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Anitomo (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sota Nishino is a good looking high school student. He meets Mai who is his friend Yukihiro Nanase's younger sister. She is also a high school student and somewhat naive. Sota mutters to Yukihiro "Your sister is cute." Mai overhears Sota's remark through the thin wall between her room and her brother's room.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love in Bora Bora (2018)
Plot Summary:
Valentine is convinced she’s in love with Jérôme, her best friend and work partner. She decides to share her feelings with him while they’re away in Bora Bora on a business trip. But there’s a bad surprise in store: Jérôme’s new girlfriend, Céleste, has decided to tag along. Valentine will have to put up a real fight to win over the love of her life, under the amused gaze of Marc, their guide in the “lovers’ paradise.” But as the days roll by, Valentine realizes she was wrong about Jérôme, and discovers true love elsewhere….
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Sweet 18 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Kwon Hyuk Joon's grandfather, the head of the traditional Kwon family agrees to an arranged marriage between his grandson, Hyuk Joon, and Yoon Jung Sook when Yoon Jung Sook is born. Eventually, the two families lose contact with each other, because soon after the contract is signed, Jung Sook's family encounters financial issues and is forced to run away. 18 years later, Jung Sook has grown up to be a rebellious and strong-willed girl who just wants to live her life as she sees fit. With little aspirations, she is the direct foil of her achievement-bound counterpart, Hyuk Joon. When the two meet again, they clash horribly; Jung Sook thinks her fiancee is nothing but boring, and Hyuk Joon believes Jung Sook to be nothing but an immature child. Despite this, they marry. What follows is the story of their new life living together as a couple, and the obstacles they are faced with.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, dorama
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Love Rerun (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sayaka Minami works as a designer for a company. She is 30-years-old, single and has not had any love experience due to her 15 year unrequited love for Ryosuke Sagisawa. They have been friends since they were kids. One day, Sayaka wakes up and a strange man is in front of her. She panics and the man introduces herself as Shohei Machida. He works as a salesman at the same company as Sayaka. He tells her that they are in a relationship and live together. Sayaka lost her memory for 3 months.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Discovery of Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
Han Yeo-reum is a furniture designer who owns a workshop space that she shares with other designers. For the past three years, she's been dating Nam Ha-jin, a plastic surgeon with a sweet and gentle personality. But Yeo-reum's peaceful existence is shaken when her ex-boyfriend Kang Tae-ha suddenly reappears in her life. The CEO of an interior design company, Tae-ha is a smart, confident man with a strong competitive edge who always gets what he wants. Meanwhile, Ha-jin's childhood friend Ahn Ah-rim has secretly been carrying a torch for him all these years. As she begins working with Tae-ha, Yeo-reum is forced to reevaluate her romantic history, which sets her off on a search for true love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Can Love Become Money? (2012)
Plot Summary:
A romantic drama about what happens when young and successful CEO Ma In Tak offers to pass on a 10 billion won inheritance to his future wife. Young CEO, Ma In Tak (Yun Jung Hoon) considers money as the most important thing in his life. He calculates everything in terms of money, and his success has also earned him the reputation of being a tyrant. The CEO then finds himself entangled in a strange conspiracy due to his obsession with riches, but along the way, will he be able to admit that something else has become more important than money?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Two Faces of My Girlfriend (2007)
Plot Summary:
From failing at job interviews, to being a 30-year-old virgin, Gu Chang seriously can’t catch a break. But that all changes when he meets Ah Ni, a lovely and innocent woman who makes Gu Chang think his luck has finally turned for the better — until her split personality Ha Ni rudely emerges during their first kiss. Between Ah Ni's sweet nothings and Ha Ni's abusive high kicks, can Gu Chang handle two girlfriends at once?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy
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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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Singielka (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of Ela, who decides to find love in 274 days.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, soap opera
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Warm and Cozy (2015)
Plot Summary:
A workaholic with a rage problem and a laid-back guy from a wealthy family meet at a restaurant named "Warm and Cozy" on the beautiful island of Jeju.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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My Unfortunate Boyfriend (2015)
Plot Summary:
Yoo Ji Na is a budding career woman who has absolutely no issues with lying to get what she wants. But when she falls for the innocent and naive Yoon Tae Woon, who is truthful to a fault, their budding romance becomes a liability for Ji Na's cutthroat corporate job. Can these unlikely lovers stay true to themselves and manage to stay together?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Sweet Stranger and Me (2016)
Plot Summary:
Hong Na-Ri works as a flight attendant. Her mother passed away 3 years ago and she doesn't have any other immediate family members. Hong Na-Ri returns to her hometown to visit her mother's grave during her death anniversary. There, she sees a young man at her mother's grave. The man, Go Nan-Gil, introduces himself as her father. Before Hong Na-Ri's mother died, she married Go Nan-Gil. He now lives at her mother's house and runs the small dumpling restaurant that her mother ran.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang (2005)
Plot Summary:
Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang is a 2005 South Korean television series starring Han Chae-young, Jae Hee, Uhm Tae-woong and Park Si-eun. It aired on KBS2 from January 3 to March 1, 2005 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 17 episodes. A modern retelling of the classic Korean folktale Chunhyangjeon, the romantic comedy series was called "fusion-style" for, among others, mixing rap with pansori in the background music. This is the first Korean drama written by Hong Jung-eun and Hong Mi-ran, and remains the highest-rated in their filmography, with a peak viewership rating of 32.2%. The story begins when Lee Mong-ryong is transferred from Seoul to a high school in Namwon, North Jeolla Province. Chun-hyang does her best to help Mong-ryong, her first love and the son of the Namwon Police Station chief, to enter a prestigious university. However, after meeting with Mong-ryong’s first love, Chae-rin, Mong-ryong’s love toward Chun-hyang is shattered, although Chun-hyang’s love remains unwavering. One day, Byeon Hak-do, CEO of a famous entertainment company, appears in her life. He exudes confidence that he can make any woman fall for him. But as Chun-hyang shows no interest in him, his self-esteem is damaged profoundly. Byeon Hak-do is determined to make her love him.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, captivating, satirical, disturbing, romantic drama