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Plot Summary:
Kiwako Nonomiya is devastated after Takehiro Akiyama, the married man she has been having an affair with, manipulates her into getting an abortion by promising to marry her and then refusing to divorce his wife. Kiwako then learns of Takehiro's wife's pregnancy. One morning, while Takehiro and his wife Etsuko are away, Kiwako sneaks into their home to get a look at their six-month-old child. Without a thought for the consequences, she carries the baby away. Kiwako then raises the child as her own, while being a fugitive from the law.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 43 min
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Second chance (2016)
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The main character is Monika Borecka, TV producer and manager. She is a modern woman of success - strong, attractive, hard-working and self-confident. Seemingly, she's leading a perfect life: she's on the peak of her career, makes money, and has a handsome partner. She loves living in a big city, she is always updated with news. Monika is ambitious and creative. In the world of show-business, she feels like a duck in water. She's going to celebrate her 40th birthday with beloved ones. Suddenly...she loses everything. Without job, friends, rejected by the world of show-biz which was her entire world. Arrested and convicted to social services in hospital. Monika, for the first time in her life is left on the own. Betrayed, humiliated, disillusioned and without hope. Monika faces many problems to find the answer for a question: what is the most important thing in life? Is she able to struggle with hardships of life? How to use a second chance, which is given us by lock to find our true destiny? The series also shows scenes of show business and reveals to the audience the mechanisms governing the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration:
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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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A Little Room for Hope (2018)
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A girl (Anna Yamada) is just 14-years-old, but she endures a difficult life. Her parents abuse her at home and she is bullied by students at her school. She doesn't have a place where she can feel comfortable. One day, the girl is kidnapped by a man (Shuhei Uesugi) wearing a mask. The kidnapper names the girl Sachi, while wishing her to be happy. For the first time, Sachi can feel happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Le Jun Kai (2013)
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A man lives his life trying to foster a hatred for his enemy and devising ways to seek revenge. Le Jun Kai decides to marry his enemy's daughter, Ye Zi, and then proceeds to mistreat her and make her life as miserable as possible. But his master plan gets complicated when he falls in love with his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 17 min
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Money Crazy (2009)
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Fuutarou has always lived in poverty and hated it. Because of his past he had become obsessed with money and will do anything to obtain it.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Yago (2016)
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Omar, a young man from Mexico City, is betrayed by his fiancé, Sara, and two close friends, in a failed robbery plot where he was famed as the perpetrator. After being unjustly imprisoned for 11 years and later released, he undergoes plastic surgery to alter his appearance and plots revenge under his new identity, "Yago".
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
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Fate (2020)
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Five years ago, Xia Ran Ran was an ugly duckling futilely tailing behind Lin Xiang An whereas Su Mo was the white lotus on Lin Xiang An's heart. Five years gone, Xia Ran Ran became Shao Ming Zhe's fiancée in name, but Su Mo is the ex-girlfriend he keeps in his heart. Xia Ran Ran never expect to meet Lin Xiang An again. Time has passed, yet her memory still seems to be rooted in the past. Can she wipe him away from the bottom of her heart? Her relationship with Shao Ming Zhe is due to the alliance between their families. They've always accompanied each other, but they've never loved each other. Will his gentleness and love be a drug she cannot quit? Love is like poppy, breathtakingly beautiful yet fatal. Chen Luo is her father's right-hand man; he's tried to approach her, only for her to step away again and again.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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Heaven's Promise (2016)
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Na-Yeon is a bright woman. She supports her boyfriend Tae-Joon, who is from a poor background, and has even given up entering a university. But Tae-Joon dumps her for his success and goes with Se-Jin, who is a granddaughter of Baekdoo Company president. Do-Hee is Na-Yeon’s twin sister. She is arrogant and tough. Do-Hee works as a reporter at a weekly magazine. After Na-Yeon’s death, Do-Hee decides to take revenge. She takes on the identity of her sister Na-Yeon. Do-Hee then meets Hwi-Kyung, who is successor of Baekdoo Company.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, romantic, realistic, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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I love you, Güero (2020)
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“La mexicana y el güero” is the story of some scammers who try to deceive a millionaire who is looking for his biological mother through a plan that is funny about what is complicated. Itatí Cantoral, Gala Montes, Juan Soler, Luis Roberto Guzmán, Montserrat Marañón, Jacqueline Andere, Rodrigo Abed and Laura Vignatti, among many other stars.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, telenovela
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The Ideal City (2021)
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Su Xiao, a female construction cost engineer, adheres to the professional belief of "clean cost table". However, she was dismissed as a scapegoat. After a series of career downturns, She will rush to the peak of career all the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 46 min
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Watch Over Me (2006)
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Watch Over Me is an American Television series that debuted on December 6, 2006 on the television network MyNetworkTV. Twentieth Television produced 66 episodes to air weekdays. The limited-run serial is an adaptation of Argentine series Resistiré. Torres, a former Miss Universe, played a woman torn between her bioterrorist fiance and her bodyguard, played by Todd Cahoon. Catherine Oxenberg and Casper Van Dien also appeared as villains. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has not announced plans to release this series on DVD and/or Blu-ray. Telefe, which produced the original version, syndicates a 64-episode run of the series in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. It promotes the show as mixing a classic Latin genre with Hollywood aesthetics. From July 2009 it was aired in Slovakia on TV Markíza taking the slot of Latin American telenovelas, but the show was not very successful.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, telenovela
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Hatsukoi (2012)
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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
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
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As the Crow Flies (2022)
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A young fan maneuvers her way into a seasoned anchor's newsroom but soon confronts the dark side of ambition, envy and the desire to be seen.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 45 min
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La Piloto (2017)
Plot Summary:
Yolanda dreamed her entire life of being a pilot. She found a stewardess job, and an unexpected role in drug smuggling.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sexy, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, touching, soap opera, telenovela
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Of Kings and Prophets (2016)
Plot Summary:
An epic biblical saga of faith, ambition and betrayal as told through the eyes of the battle-weary King Saul, the resentful prophet Samuel and the resourceful young shepherd David—all on a collision course with destiny that will change the world. One thousand years before Christ, the first king of the Israelites, Saul, struggles to unify the 12 Israelite tribes and defend his fledgling nation against savage enemy attacks. The prophet Samuel relays a message from God to King Saul that he must destroy one of Israel's ancient enemies. But when Saul defies that message, Samuel prophesies that the Lord will tear the kingdom of Israel from him and choose another in his place. In time, Saul comes to realize that his greatest threat will not come from his enemies, but from the shepherd, David.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: biblical, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, sensual
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Time Spiral (2014)
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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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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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Before We Get Married (2019)
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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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Anna Karenina (2017)
Plot Summary:
In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky. An eight part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" from Vronsky's point of view.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, period drama
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School can't teach! (2008)
Plot Summary:
Gakko ja Oshierarenai! is a Japanese television drama series concerning the life of ten high school students. It stars Kyoko Fukada as their teacher. It started to air on July 15, 2008. Aida Mai is a woman in her third year as an english teacher at a private all-girls high school. Due to declining enrollment, the school decides to admit its first male students. Those five freshmen initially feel they're in paradise, but the concerned Mai tries to help them adjust by creating a social dance club and inviting five girls. Those ten students become the focus of the drama, which is described as a story of love and adolescence.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, thrilling
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Miss Mermaid (2002)
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Si nos dejan (2021)
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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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Room Laundering (2018)
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Miko Yakumo (Elaiza Ikeda) continues her work "room laundering." She struggles to solve the worries of ghosts staying in the rooms. Meanwhile, the relationship of Miko Yakumo and Akito Nijikawa (Kentaro Ito) develop romantically.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Wicked Wicked Games (2006)
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Wicked Wicked Games is a telenovela that debuted on December 6, 2006 on the American television network MyNetworkTV. Twentieth Television produced 63 episodes to air weekdays. The limited-run serial was directed by Terry Cunningham, Dennis Dimster, P. David Ebersole, Jeff Hare and Jeremy Stanford. It focuses on a bitter, obsessed woman's vendetta against her former lover. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has not announced plans to release this series on DVD and/or Blu-ray.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious, saga
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Ice Adonis (2012)
Plot Summary:
"Yellow Boots" is a drama about the revenge of a woman who lost everything after being framed for a crime.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, compassionate
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Distilling Love (2007)
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Film starring Angélica Rivera, Eduardo Yáñez and Sergio Sendel.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: soap opera, romantic, captivating, novela, entertaining, telenovela
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The Return (2013)
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La Patrona is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami and Mexican Argos Comunicación. The telenovela is a remake of the Venezuelan telenovela La Dueña, written by José Ignacio Cabrujas. The name reflects a local term or slang in Mexico to address a person recognized as the main boss. However, the title is also a reflection of both the protagonist and the antagonist struggle to conquer power, authority and respect in a labor field traditionally deemed to be a man's job.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, captivating, emotional, novela, realistic, telenovela
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Betrayal (2013)
Plot Summary:
Centers on Sara, a beautiful but unhappily married female photographer who begins a torrid affair with Jack, a lawyer for a powerful family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, heartbreaking
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Anna Karenina (2013)
Plot Summary:
Anna and Kitty. Two lives. One of desperate passion that ends in tragedy, the other, an existence made real through love. Two destinies that interweave, giving rise to two, so very different stories, yet lived in pursuit of the same desire- to find a love that lets them fully be themselves, to live without having to conform to society’s pretenses.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Spain, Lithuania
Duration: 354 min
Plot tags: sentimental, captivating, emotional, stylized, serious, realistic, fairy tale
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Till Death (2021)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with his wife’s distancing from him, Hadi goes on a business trip to Turkey where he meets a special woman, an encounter that changes his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Drama
Country: Lebanon
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing