Best tv shows like The Brightest Star in the Sky
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Plot Summary:
Star Entertainment is the top entertainment agency in China. It was set up by a couple, Cheng Tian Hao and Du Wan Qing, who eventually separated due to differing beliefs in managing the company. Yang Zhen Zhen is an aspiring young girl with a passion for music. She joined Starry Sky Entertainment and was assigned as Zheng Bo Xu's assistant. Bo Xu is a popular idol who is arrogant and unruly. With the help of Zhen Zhen, who helped him correct his flaws and unleash his potential, Bo Xu slowly transforms into a talented singer. In the process, Zhen Zhen also gains experience and becomes a capable idol manager. At the same time, Du Wan Qing is also grooming a singer, Yu Zi Rui, who shapes up to become Bo Xu's biggest competitor yet.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama
Country: China
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Mr. Fighting (2019)
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This is called Mr Fighting in English and it's about the self discovery of a young actor in Chinese action frames.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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IDOL: The Coup (2021)
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Portrays the last story of “doomed idols” who need a single “success” in order to “disband.” The story of young people who confidently let go of their dreams as they grow through their failures and take courageous steps towards their new goals.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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Ireland (2004)
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Ireland is a 2004 South Korean television series starring Lee Na-young, Kim Min-joon, Kim Min-jung and Hyun Bin. It aired on MBC from September 1 to October 21, 2004 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, tearjerker
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April Star (2017)
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It's hard to date when your face is recognized everywhere. Ye Fanxing (Stephy Qi) is a famous television anchor who is instantly recognized wherever she goes. She has been trying to be the best daughter to her mother after the devastating death of her younger sister in a car accident 10 years ago.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
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THE [email protected] (2017)
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THE [email protected], set in the world of Korean entertainment production, stars Korean idols of course, as well as other Japanese and Thai hopefuls. Like the original game, the drama follows a group of young women as they embark on a career in the entertainment industry, and depicts their sweat and tears, their hopes and dreams.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 45 min
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Poisoned Love (2020)
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The story revolves a dubbing genius Fang Yan, who suffers from sleepwalking due to a trauma; and a film producer Shi Meng. Shi Meng helps Fang Yan walk out of her traumatic experience, but Fang Yan recognized the wrong person, and thought his brother Shi Yi was the one who helped her. The three of them grew through misunderstands, and untied the knot in their heart.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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Half Bright and Half Rain (2019)
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When a newspaper intern meets a craftsman, she unintentionally discovers a world full of bizarre oddities. One thousand years in the past, humans, spirits, and demons lived under the same blue sky. Qian Xun is a newspaper intern who returns to her hometown after graduating from college. By chance, she encounters the mysterious Su Mingmou, a craftsman, and Jun Wanglian, a jade spirit. The extraordinary events that follow awaken a memory from her past, a memory that she did not know existed. In this story, every blade of grass, every tree, every drop of sand and every rock has been infused with love under the careful attention of an extraordinary craftsman. They come to life as spirits that embody their master's life's work. They are kind, helpful to humans and continue to live through objects even after their master's death while those that harbor evil intentions evolve into demons.
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Country: China
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I Will Be Your Bloom (2022)
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Asuka had once realized her goal to become a teacher, but after a gutting failure, she gives up her dream profession and becomes extremely withdrawn. After a series of events, she finds herself becoming a live-in housemother for a dorm… where the boy-band septet 8LOOM live together! At the dorm, she is reunited with her former student Dan—as a teacher, Asuka used to encourage him to go for his dreams. Inspired by Dan's leadership in the band and his passion for making his dream come true, Asuka, too, regains the passion she had in her teaching days and comes to terms with her own failure.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
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Hi Venus (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 42
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Goodbye Dear Wife (2012)
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Goodbye Dear Wife is a 2012 South Korean television series, starring Ryu Si-won, Hong Soo-hyun and Park Ji-yeon. It aired on Channel A from May 7 to July 10, 2012 at 20:50 for 20 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
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Puppy Love (1980)
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A drama series about young people on the threshold of maturity. The heroes are young people who have recently graduated from high school. Before them, the first life decisions await, the first "adult" love, as well as the first disappointments and dramas.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 18
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Country: Poland
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Meeting You Loving You (2021)
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A love story that is full of heartaches and heart-fluttering moments follows Su Zhi Nian and Song Qing Chun as two people who overcome a past heartbreak to be reunited once more.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
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She Is Beautiful (2018)
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Zhang is a 30-year-old elite woman. She's very good at her own work but not as well at dating. Finally, her family enrolled her in a matchmaking agency, hoping that she could find her Mr. Right. And this was how Zhang began her romantic story, which was full of laughters, tears and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
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Duration:
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No Regrets In Life (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 60 min
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To Give a Dream (2015)
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13 years ago, the Abe family moved to a town in the suburbs, surrounded by nature. The Abe family consists of their French father Toma (De Lencquesaing Nozomi), his Japanese wife Mikiko (Rinko Kikuchi) and their beautiful daughter Yuko (Kanon Tani). They appear like the perfect family. Mikiko managed to get her daughter Yuko to take part in a CM audition and she was picked by Murano (Joe Odagiri), director of the advertising agency. Yuko is now in show business. Several years later, Yuko (Nana Komatsu) transfers to a large entertainment company. As her mother wishes, Yuko is now popular and appears on the cover of magazines, variety shows and drama series. Yuko, though, feels an uncomfortable imbalance between her public image and her real self. During this time, she meets a dancer, Seiko (Mackenyu), who marches to the beat of his own drum, and falls in love with him. The nightmare begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
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Next of Kin (2018)
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Whip-smart general practitioner Dr. Mona Harcourt lives in London with her political lobbyist husband Guy and her family. When a bomb goes off in London on the same day that her brother, Dr. Kareem Shirani, is abducted in Pakistan, Mona's charmed life is shaken to its core.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
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Dream Garden (2021)
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When it comes to matters of the heart, Xiao Xiao believes she is something of an expert. The blogger behind a popular social media account which addresses all sorts of relationship issues, Xiao Xiao has no shortage of experience when it comes to love. However, all of her experiences online can’t prepare her for her first encounter with Lin Shen, a professional psychological counselor, who sees the world in an entirely different way. After butting heads on a popular variety show, Xiao Xiao hoped that she would never have to deal with Lin Shen ever again. But fate, it would seem, had other plans. Hoping to improve her ability to analyze emotional problems by learning from a true professional, Xiao Xiao applies for a position as a professional psychologist’s assistant. Only too late does she realize that the professional she’s working for is none other than the cold-hearted Lin Shen.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller
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The story features two people who experience their first love late in life. Maruya Kosuke is a 29-year-old employee in the sales department of his family's brewery. Thanks to his good looks he was always popular, receiving many love confessions from women since his youth. However, he experiences a rude awakening the moment he realizes his cuteness has an expiry date. Sanada Izumi is a researcher at the brewery. Past experiences have led her to believe she is inferior to others.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
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Quartet (2017)
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Maki Maki, Sebuki Suzume, Beppu Tsukasa and Iemori Yutaka happen to meet and form a quartet. They even begin to live together in Karuizawa during the winter, but there is a big hidden secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
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Zhang Wei, the general manager of a five-star hotel, was pressured by work throughout his life until he met Luo Xi, a girl who could get Zhang Wei out of his busy state. Zhang Wei was impressed by the goodness and beauty of Luo Xi, and eventually sprouting the feeling of love. Luo Xi gradually saw the gentle side behind the iceberg Zhang Wei and her affection for Zhang Wei gradually escalated. Tao Lun, who secretly loves Luo Xi, but in the eyes of Luo Xi, Tao Lun is like a big brother. In disappointing, Tao Lun focused on his own career, and slowly found a feeling of love with Liu Wen Na. When a powerful hotel group plans to build a hotel that will lead to the destruction of the beautiful natural scenery. Zhang Wei and Tao Lun joined hands together to maintain the beautiful natural scenery.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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Midori is a married woman with a happy home life, a child, and a job as a speech therapist. One day, Midori is diagnosed with liver cancer and finds herself face to face with her first love; a man whose betrayal had left her deeply scarred. They are forced to put their past aside and work together to save her life.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 6
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Country: Japan
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Be With You (2020)
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A young cartoonist intentionally gets near Ji Yan Xin, a cold and arrogant professor. Qi Nian, a girl with a straightforward personality hopes that interacting with Ji Yan Xin would give her inspiration and creative materials for her comic plot. Coincidentally Ji Yan Xin’s younger brother Ji Si Qi becomes Qi Nian’s assistant and a catalyst for their relationship to progress and blossom.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tsundere
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Hidden Love (2023)
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Since high school, Sang Zhi has had a crush on Duan Jiaxu. When fate brings them together again, they find a chance to embark on a sweet relationship.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
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Ebba och Didrik (1990)
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Two siblings, Ebba and Didrik, live in small society by the sea. An ordinary family with usual struggles. They're looking for love in different ways, but it's easier said than done.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 262 min
Plot tags: masterpiece
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In the aftermath of an accident, a naive girl finds herself torn between an unscrupulous prosecutor, and a vindictive plaintiff.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, romantic, uplifting, touching, sweet, captivating
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Way Back Into Love (2020)
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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:
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Poong Sang is a lonely, pitiful middle-aged man, who has never lived his life for himself. Up until now, he took care of his four younger siblings and supported them financially. Will he ever get to find happiness for himself?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 74
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Country: South Korea
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Wounded Birds (2019)
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A Story of a brother, sister and her love, protecting them from every evil. Every character have wounded feeling. How life give them suffering and the solution itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 113
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Country: Turkey
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After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly as he raises his talented but resentful 15-year-old son Ephram and his 9-year-old daughter Delia.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
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Country: USA
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The Love Lasts Two Minds (2020)
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In the first year of Later Liang lived Yuan Qingli, the daughter of a general. While on the road to a nunnery to reflect and meditate, she is abducted and knocked unconscious. After her rescue, Yuan Qingli wakes up days later without her memories and with a new personality. To escape from her own wedding, she dresses as a man and becomes a constable of Qinhe County.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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