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Plot Summary:
O Rei do Gado is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and displayed by Rede Globo, 17 June 1996 to February 15, 1997, totaling 209 chapters and 130 in the original version of the SIC in Portugal.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 737
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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A Viagem (1994)
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A Viagem is a Brazilian TV soap opera produced by Rede Globo. It was written by Ivani Ribeiro with the contribution of Solange Castro Neves, and directed by Wolf Maya,Ignácio Coqueiro e Andre Schultz. The soap first aired from April 11, 1994 until October 22 of the same year and includes 167 episodes. The twisted plot deals with the sorrows and hopes of ordinary people and their love or enmity with each other. Supernatural powers affect them until in the end peace and goodwill are restored.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, telenovela
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Contra viento y marea (2005)
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Contra viento y marea is a Mexican telenovela aired from April 25 until November 4, 2005. This was also the last acting role of Beatriz Sheridan, who died in 2006 of a heart attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining, fairy tale, soap opera, novela, exciting, telenovela
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The Storm (2005)
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La Tormenta is a Colombian 2005 telenovela produced by RTI Colombia and broadcast by Telemundo and Caracol TV, starring Natalia Streignard and Christian Meier. Maria Teresa is a woman accustomed to living in the city, but she has to move to live at ‘La Tormenta’, her family’s estate, to try to save her family from financial ruin. The family is facing economic problems and she thinks La Tormenta will save them from bankruptcy.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, romantic, disturbing, captivating, soap opera, telenovela
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Pantanal (1990)
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Pantanal is a Brazilian telenovela which originally aired from March 27, 1990 to December 10, 1990 at 9 P.M. on Rede Manchete. SBT recently re-aired the telenovela from June 9, 2008 to January 13, 2009. It was set on the Pantanal region. Pantanal is one of the best known ecological or environmental telenovela, a small sub-category of the genre whose purpose is to dramatize, and hence raise audience awareness of environmental degradation. It was written by Benedito Ruy Barbosa and directed by Jayme Monjardim, Carlos Magalhães, Marcelo de Barreto, and Roberto Naar.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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Tierra de Pasiones (2006)
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In a beautiful valley where the most exquisite grapes are farmed, an intense and sizzling love story will flourish between Valeria San Roman, a beautiful woman with a strong character, which has given her the strength to face life's deceptions, and Francisco Contreras, renowned publisher, widower and a man of will. Valeria, who manages the San Roman vineyard, hasn't had an easy life. Her own father, Jose Maria 'Chema' San Roman, the family's patriarch, has always hated her because she is the only one who doesn't obey him. A man without scruples, selfish and womanizing, Chema arrived to the United States, married Valeria's mom to steal everything from her and later disposed of her. If that weren't enough, Chema schemes a hideous plan causing Valeria to experience a horrible betrayal. Meanwhile, Francisco arrives to visit his father at the ranch only to learn that he has married Marcia, a woman much younger than he who leads him to the brink of bankruptcy and drives him to suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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River of Intrigues (2010)
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River of intrigues is a historic town with beautiful landscape and a river where people practice sports. Despite its beautiful scenery, the city`s main asset is its different inhabitants. Intrigue, confusion and a lot of passion heat up / warm up the plot. Everything in this quiet town is transformed with the arrival of a mega-project, which causes an impact on all aspects of social life of each resident.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Jackpot! (2011)
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A group of friends had been playing lottery since two years ago. In the New Year's Eve, when the prize has an extraordinary value, they picked the correct numbers of the lottery and they all become millionaires. They live their dreams but they are also involved in a terrible nightmare because they made a pact: each one has a mission to accomplish within one year and only those who can accomplish their mission shall be entitled to the other half of the prize that is stored in a saving account. The conflicts get worse when the friends that won the lottery start to die mysteriously and the winners enter in a game of life or death in which, if they don't discover who the murderer is, they may be the next victim. In addition, Jackpot!, reveals the difficulties of resetting in the labor market, the characteristics of old age and the values of present society. And as it must be in all good telenovela, there are stories of love, full of romance and intrigue.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, telenovela
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The Rich and Lazarus (2017)
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After the death of Joshua, the Hebrew people begin to "go their own way", turning their backs on God and beginning to worship pagan gods. But when the prophet Jeremiah tries to warn them, his own people try to stone him, calling him a traitor and false prophet, but his prophecy is fulfilled with the arrival of King Nebuchadnezzar II and his wife Queen Amytis. And in another part of the story involves the love triangle involving Joana, Zac and Asher, who at the beginning of the novel were childhood friends, but over time the trio is growing and Zac and Asher fall in love with Joan, but she corresponds only to Asher.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera
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Beyond the Horizon (2013)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
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Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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Forbidden Desire (2007)
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Desejo Proibido is a Brazilian telenovela broadcast by Globo Network, at 6 pm, every day, except Sunday. In the cast: Fernanda Vasconcellos, Murilo Rosa and Daniel de Oliveira.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera
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Madre Luna (2007)
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Madre Luna is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. This limited-run series, also known as Grains of Love, debuted on July 2, 2007. Veteran telenovela writer Julio Jiménez developed the story as a vehicle for star Amparo Grisales. The show scored a 35 percent share of the Colombian audience during the summer of 2007. During November 2007, it averaged 571,000 core adult viewers. Luna's final episode aired Monday, January 28, 2008.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, telenovela
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Hearts to the Limit (2004)
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Corazones al límite is a Mexican telenovela about a teenage girl named Diana who was emotionally neglected from her parents, and felt unwanted. After being expelled from her boarding school in Switzerland, Diana goes back to live with her parents.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Tropical Paradise (2007)
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The search for a successor provokes the beginning of a clash between two young and talented executives of his group: Daniel Bastos, a lad of simple origins and excellent character, who is not only handsome and charming, but also intelligent and skilled, and Olavo Novaes, an ambitious and unscrupulous man who is ready to fight for the position, at any cost. To fight against Olavo‘s treacherous plans, Daniel will have the help of the sweet and sensitive Paula, a young lady raised as an only child who founds, on the eve of her mother‘s death, that she is adopted and has a family. What Paula does not know is that she has an identical twin sister, the wicked Taís, who is as ambitious and unscrupulous as the man who becomes her main ally, Olavo Novaes. Antenor, for his part, decides on having an heir when he meets the headstrong and honest Lúcia, a woman who will make this cold businessman find true love is and a real reason to live.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, sexy, humorous, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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The Favorite (2008)
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A Favorita is a telenovela, first broadcast in Brazil at Rede Globo from June 2, 2008 to January 17, 2009. A Favorita storylines examine two friends, Donatela and Flora, who became rivals. One of them committed a crime and is lying, so there are two versions of the same story. The series was originally screened as six episodes per week, from Monday to Saturday, with an average running time of one hour. Created by writer João Emanuel Carneiro, A Favorita has remained significant in terms of Globo's success and audience share, and also in Brazilian television drama history, tackling many controversial and taboo issues previously unseen on mainstream television in Brazil. It made history for being the first telenovela where the public did not know who was the villain and who was telling the truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, surprise ending, twisted, telenovela
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Stepmother (2005)
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La Madrastra is a Mexican telenovela. It was produced by Televisa and broadcast on Canal de las Estrellas in Mexico from 7 February 2005 through 29 July 2005. The program became an unexpected success, garnering ratings in excess of 30 points. Starring Victoria Ruffo and César Évora, who last appeared together in 2000's Abrázame muy fuerte, La madrastra tells the story of María, a woman who lost twenty years of her life after being falsely accused of murder and who returns to Mexico to exact revenge on her husband and friends who abandoned her and to see her beloved children once more. La Madrastra is fourth in a series of remakes of the 1981 Chilean production of the same name. The program aired five nights a week, Monday through Friday, at 9 pm for 25 weeks. A follow-up special, La madrastra: años después, aired shortly after the finale on 30 July 2005.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, suspense, hispanic, telenovela
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Once We Were Six (2019)
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The plot tells the history and daily life of the Lemos Family between the 1920s and 1940s. Júlio works in a fabric store and has the ambition of getting rich to offer his family a good life. His wife, Lola, does everything she can to keep her family together, because she believes that this way they can move on.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Once in a Blue Moon (2005)
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Ex-babysitter Heloísa falls in love with a member of her boss' family. After the boss' death she wins custody of his 15-year-old daughter Branca, heiress to his fortune, and fights the envy of the rest of the "rich" family. The story also includes Ademilde, the owner of the main Supermarket at the "Beco da Baiuca" (Baiuca Alley) where most of the low-class characters live. The supermarket is called "O Frango com Tudo Dentro", which means "The Chicken with Everything Inside". In the Baiúca Alley live Dona Roma, the owner of the Bed and Breakfast who cross-dresses as a woman, and Morcega, the singer in the local cabaret. Both are also the neighborhood private-investigators/gossip-queens. Other residents are Anastacia and Jurema, sisters of African descent who hate being black and decide to be called Latoya and Whitney; through these two, the writers approach the racism issue with much humor and a healthy way to treat the topic.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera
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Xica da Silva (1996)
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In the Colonial Brazil, a smart, sassy and sensual slave rises to become a queen as an important contractor falls for her, all for the anger of a woman obsessed with him.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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These Women (2005)
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The plot takes place in 1880, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, following the lives of three strong and determined women. Aurélia, Maria da Glória and Mila are great friends who attend etiquette classes together, but life doesn't take long to put them in completely different directions.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Terra esperanza (2002)
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Esperança is a Brazilian telenovela produced and aired by TV Globo between June 17, 2002 and February 15, 2003. With Reynaldo Gianecchini, Priscila Fantin, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Ana Paula Arósio, Raul Cortez, Antonio Fagundes, José Mayer and Fernanda Montenegro interpreted their main roles.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, telenovela
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Port of Miracles (2001)
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Porto dos Milagres is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and aired by TV Globo from 5 February to 29 September 2001, totaling 203 chapters. It was written by Aguinaldo Silva and Ricardo Linhares and loosely based on two works written by Jorge Amado - The Dead Sea and the discovery of America by the Turks. Had Philip collaboration Miguez, Maria Elisa Berredo, Nadotti Nelson and Gloria Baker, directed by Fabricio Mamberti and Luciano Sabino. Director general Mark and Robert Paul Naar, co-directed by Fabricio Mamberti and Luciano Sabino. Had the direction of core Marcos Paulo.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Novo Mundo (2017)
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Anna Millman is a portuguese teacher, she falls for Joaquim Martinho, an actor. Both meet in Europe and travel to Brazil together with the future princess of Brazil, Leopoldina from Austria. The romance between the teacher and the actor evolves during a time of revolution, the independence of Brazil.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 41 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, historical drama, telenovela
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Celebrity (2003)
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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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Los Herederos del Monte (2011)
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Los Herederos Del Monte is a Spanish-language telenovela to be produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia, with Colombia as location. It is a remake of Chilean telenovela Hijos del Monte produced by TVN in 2008.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, tense, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Humble Maria (1995)
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María la del barrio, the third telenovela in the Las Tres Marías trilogy, is a Mexican telenovela starring Thalía, Fernando Colunga, Itatí Cantoral, Ricardo Blume, Irán Eory and the young actors Ludwika Paleta & Osvaldo Benavides. It was produced and broadcast on Televisa in 1995–1996. The series is a remake of Los Ricos También Lloran, which featured Verónica Castro, Rogelio Guerra and Rocío Banquells. María la del barrio is considered one of the most popular and successful telenovelas ever, having been broadcast in over 180 countries and watched by more than two billion people.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, hispanic, serious, emotional, realistic, telenovela
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True Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
Amores verdaderos is a 2012 Mexican telenovela produced by Nicandro Díaz Gonzalez for Televisa. It is based on Amor en Custodia, produced in Colombia, Argentina, and Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Brazil Avenue (2012)
Plot Summary:
Brazil Avenue is a dynamic, lifelike, and modern telenovela that reveals how unrelenting ambition and inflicted cruelty can change a young girl’s destiny and lead her to seek revenge.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, serious, captivating, realistic, soap opera, exciting, tense, suspenseful, telenovela
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Apocalypse (2017)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious and spiritual portrayal of one of the most intense and controversial stories in the Holy Bible: the end of the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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India: A Love Story (2009)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a traditional, rich Indian family falls in love for a Dalit, and "untouchable" man.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 847
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, sentimental, touching, captivating, uplifting, romantic, serious, realistic, telenovela
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Shades of Sin (2004)
Plot Summary:
Da Cor do Pecado is a Brazilian telenovela that was produced and aired by TV Globo in the traditional schedule of 19 hours between January 26 and August 28, 2004 with 185 chapters.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, telenovela