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Plot Summary:
Ana is a promising tennis player with a collection of titles and trophies to flaunt. She finds out she is pregnant by her loving boyfriend Rodrigo. Her controlling mother, Eva, forces her to break up with Rodrigo and compels her to stay out of town until the baby is born. Eva’s biggest concern is that she doesn’t lose any of her sponsorship deals. Later, Ana returns home and is eager to resume her athletic career, raise her baby Julia, and tell Rodrigo the truth.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, captivating, telenovela
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Candy Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
The sisters Bandi, owners of a famous candy factory, are facing one of its worst moments. However, the arrival of the new driver, Marcos, will change the fate of Bandi, at all possible levels.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, telenovela
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Star's Lover (2008)
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Lee Ma Ri, a star actress, falls in love with Jung Woo Jin, but she realizes that he became interested in her after reading her popular travel essay, “Lovers in Asuka”. Because of this, the ghostwriter for “Lovers in Asuka”, Kim Chul Soo, gets called in by Ma Ri for private lessons about the details on the travel essay. However, Byung Joon, Chul Soo’s friend and journalist, discovers that Chul Soo is the real writer of “Lovers in Asuka”, and he suggests that Chul Soo should sell a story about Lee Ma Ri’s personal life. This makes Chul Soo troubled because he was in desperate need of money for his sick sister. As Chul Soo realizes that he is no longer needed by Ma Ri, he decides to follow Byung Joon’s suggestion. Woo Jin ends up proposing marriage to Ma Ri and prepares a documentary film based on “Lovers in Asuka”. Chul Soo and Eun Young join in the project as writers, and Chul Soo begins to meet Ma Ri again during the filming.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, dorama
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Written in the stars (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ricardo Aguillar, a powerful physician, loses the only and beloved son, the young Daniel, in an accident. After some time he discovers that the boy had frozen the semen before he died. From there he decides to go hunting for the "ideal woman", worthy of being inseminated and become the mother of his grandson. Only fate is about to play a part. When the insemination is finally done and the young woman chosen - the young Viviane - becomes pregnant, the man discovers himself hopelessly in love with her. From then on an unusual and surprising situation will give an electrifying direction to the story: the boy's spirit begins to prowl the family and, although they are in different plans, father and son will dispute the love of the same woman. It will be a clash between the impossible love, therefore idealized, and the realizable love, carnal, with all that it brings of joy and fulfillment, but also of hurts and uncertainties.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, psychological, captivating, disturbing
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My Love, My Sin (2004)
Plot Summary:
Amarte es mi Pecado' is a Mexican telenovela that was transmitted in the year 2004. It is a production of Ernesto Alonso and the protagonists are Yadhira Carrillo, Alessandra Rosaldo and Sergio Sendel.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, soap opera, novela, entertaining, telenovela
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The Color of Passion (2014)
Plot Summary:
Rebeca murders her sister Adriana to end up with the man she loved, and becomes the step mother of her niece Lucía. Nora, Lucía's half sister and daughter of Rebeca, resents Lucía for the same reasons Rebeca hated Adriana, as history repeats itself.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Wooden Woman (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mujer de Madera is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa in 2004. One unusual feature of this telenovela is that the main character is played by different actresses before and after her stay in hospital due to a forest fire.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Wounded Past (2016)
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When she was a young girl, Heloisa was harshly torn apart from the love of her life: Pedro, a straightforward romantic young man whose powerful family strongly believes the ends always do justify the means. Because she comes from a very humble background, Pedro's parents set up all kinds of intrigues in order to prevent the couple from fulfilling their seemingly predestined love story. Twenty years later, all it takes is a casual encounter to spark that feeling again and have them fighting against not only Pedro's family tricks, but also Heloisa's mighty and unscrupulous husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Port of Miracles (2001)
Plot Summary:
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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Eterna Magia (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: soap opera, tense, captivating, novela
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Dare to Dream (2009)
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Danna Paola stars as Patito, Eleazar Gómez as Mateo, Violeta Isfel and Cynthia Klitbo, play antagonist roles as Antonella and Bianca. The telenovela features adult protagonists also, René Strickler and Vanessa Guzmán. It first aired on Sunday, 8 March 2009, as the first telenovela to debut on a Sunday in Mexico. After a year of success, becoming a major hit in Mexico, especially among children, its final episode was also on a Sunday, 7 March 2010.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, soap opera, telenovela
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Pride and Passion (2018)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the 20th century, a mother dreams of marrying her five daughters to eligible bachelors but marriage is not a priority in Elisabeta Benedito's life. More than finding true love, the strong-willed dreamer and her sisters want to live according to their own choices and to do so they must go against traditional rules and customs. Inspired by Jane Austen's works, this romantic comedy retells classic novels from the point of view of modern and empowered women.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, romantic comedy, period drama, telenovela
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Women in Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
Mulheres Apaixonadas is a Brazilian soap opera which originally aired on Rede Globo from February 17, 2003 to October 11, 2003. A total of 203 episodes were created for the series.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, serious, captivating, realistic, romantic, telenovela
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Wings of Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
After divorcing, Leyla and her baby move to Turkey from Germany. She struggles to find a job and leave her family's house. She meets Hasmet through a job. Meanwhile Alper tries to keep up. His marriage and job are in trouble. Alper and Leyla meet unexpectedly through a sucker punch.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, captivating, emotional
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Goodbye to Goodbye (2018)
Plot Summary:
Young-Hee lives alone at an apartment. She has separated from her pilot husband Sang-Jin, because he had an affair. Meanwhile, Jung-Hyo is pregnant, but her boyfriend wants her to have an abortion. Jung-Hyo goes to Young-Hee’s apartment and tells her she will stay there until she gives birth. Young-Hee is her boyfriend's mother. Living together, Young-Hee and Jung-Hyo fight with each other, but also come to understand each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, gloomy
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Rebeca (2003)
Plot Summary:
Rebeca is a 2003 Spanish-language telenovela produced by Venevisión International. The telenovela was written by Alberto Gómez and stars Mariana Seoane and Ricardo Álamo as the main protagonists with Gaby Espino, Pablo Martin and Elluz Peraza portraying the main antagonists.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Venezuela, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, soap opera, telenovela
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Los Herederos del Monte (2011)
Plot Summary:
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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Dream of Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
Esperanza Guerrero is a single mother working as a teacher at two schools, a state school and an elite school to provide for her two teenagers, Pedro and Patricia. Ricardo Alegría, a married father with two young children, works as an Interpol agent in Los Angeles. Seeking to capture a sleazy jewellery thief known as ‘La Sombra’, he infiltrates the private school where Esperanza is employed and masquerades as the teacher of the criminal’s son. Esperanza and Ricardo are reunited following a 20-year separation and fight to rekindle their love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, soap opera, entertaining, telenovela
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Tangled Hearts (2013)
Plot Summary:
This Brazilian soap opera is about three orphans and a girl who spent part of their childhood together, reunite after years when they're already grown. Old feelings will arise and new discoveries will happen about these kids' pasts and futures.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, soap opera, telenovela
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Plot Summary:
Kanji Takizawa worked diligently at a bank, successfully reaching the position of branch manager. Despite the fact that his conversation with his wife Mariko was dwindling and there was a growing distance between him and his young, unmarried daughter, Misaki, he had come to accept his peaceful life. One day, Kanji gets loaned out to a client company for an unjustifiable reason. Shocked, Kanji lies to his family that he was going on a business trip to Switzerland, where he meets and finds a kindred spirit in Shiori Meguro. Meanwhile, Mariko suspects that her husband may be having an affair, and finds herself falling in forbidden love with her daughter’s fiancé, Haruki Hino.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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Boogie Oogie (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1978 in the "disco era," the series depicts the meeting between humble, hardworking Sandra (Ísis Valverde) and rich, spoiled Vitória (Bianca Bin). They meet because of a tragic accident and start fighting for the love of the same man. What they don't know is that their paths have crossed before, when they were switched at birth.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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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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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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A Time to Love (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 1927, the urgent and relentless love of Maria Vitória and Inácio is interrupted by the young man's decision to cross the Atlantic in search of work, and his promise to return. Pregnant, Maria Vitória faces the wrath of her father, who decides to send her to a convent while the baby goes for adoption. Filled with courage, she goes after Inácio, hoping that together they could get their daughter back, but the couple ends up following different paths and living new love stories. They will have to face personal obstacles and the deranged jealousy of Inácio's intended until the inevitable moment of their reencounter in this classic story of growth and the immeasurable force of love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, romantic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, soap opera, entertaining, telenovela
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What Life Took From Me (2013)
Plot Summary:
"What Life Took From Me" is a Mexican telenovela produced by Angelli Nesma Medina for Televisa. It is a remake of Bodas de odio, produced by Ernesto Alonso in 1983. In 2003, "True Love", the first remake, was produced by Carla Estrada. Unlike Bodas de odio and "True Love", "What Life Took From Me" has been adapted to the present time.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, novela, romantic drama, telenovela
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Dog love (2010)
Plot Summary:
Perro Amor is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo that originally ran in the United States from January to July 2010. This is a Colombian soap opera remake of the 1998 Cenpro Televisión daily telenovela Perro Amor, written by Natalia Ospina & Andrés Salgado. As with most of its other soap operas, Telemundo broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, romantic, captivating, disturbing, telenovela
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Italian Bride (2014)
Plot Summary:
Muchacha italiana viene a casarse is a 1971 Mexican telenovela by Televisa produced by Ernesto Alonso and directed by Alfredo Saldaña, starring Angélica María and Ricardo Blume. Writing credits belong to Delia González Marquez, Fernanda Villeli, Marissa Garrido, Miguel Sabido and Carlos Lozano Dana The series featured two theme songs: "A dónde va nuestro amor" and "Lo que sabemos del amor". Both songs were written by Eduardo Magallanes and performed by Angélica María.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, telenovela
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The Game of Life (2003)
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, telenovela
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Fatih Harbiye (2013)
Plot Summary:
The main character is a girl who lives in the suburbs of Istanbul. All her thoughts together about how to get out of poverty and miserable life and enter the socialite. Girl walking.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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Eva Luna (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young woman’s quest for happiness is marred by the secrets and deceptions perpetuated by an evil family. Eva González (Blanca Soto) came to Los Angeles with her father and sister in search of a better life. She goes to work as the personal attendant to Julio Arismendi, the ailing founder of Publicidad Arismendi, unknowingly becoming a pawn to kill him by his wife, Marcela (Susana Dosamantes). When the beautiful Eva catches the eye of Julio’s son, Leonardo Arismendi (Julian Gil), and his best friend, Daniel Villanueva (Guy Ecker), she becomes the target of Victoria (Vanessa Villela), who is Leonardo’s sister and Daniel’s girlfriend. But Daniel leaves Victoria for Eva, and on the day of Eva and Daniel’s wedding, Eva’s father is killed in a hit-and-run accident. Can her future husband be responsible? “Eva Luna” is a 2010 telenovela produced by Venevisión International in collaboration with Univision Studios. It is a remake of the 1997 Telemundo telenovela “Aquamarina.”.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Forever and Ever (2014)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing, telenovela