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Plot Summary:
Hee-ra is the owner of the Witch's Diner where employee Jin and intern Gil-yong work with her. Guests are welcome to the Witch's Diner where they sell their souls for their wishes to come true.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 842
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing
Best tv shows and movies like The Witch's Diner (2021):
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Mare (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mare is an elementary school student. She lives with her family in the city, but, right before her father goes bankrupt, they run away and settle down at a fishing village in Noto. The family rents a couple's home who run a salt pond. Mare's father starts a new business, but it also fails. Her mother supports the family by working at the salt pond. 8 years later, Mare, about to graduate from high school, decides to work for the Wajima local government. She wants to have a steady job, unlike her father. Her job is to support people who move to Noto.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing, asadora
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Yeditepe Istanbul (2001)
Plot Summary:
When Olcay's husband commits suicide and leaves a huge debt behind, Olcay and her teenage daughter, Duru, are forced to move to a slum in Istanbul. They find themselves financially dependent on Olcay's only remaining friend, so Olcay starts to look for a job. Without any degree or experience, she tries to survive doing all sorts of odd jobs. Meanwhile, her neighbors, who are completely different from the people in Olcay's old world, begin to get to like the mother and daughter. Some even fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Turkey
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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The Protected: The Return (2021)
Plot Summary:
It's been ten years since the Castillo Rey family had a happy ending. But life goes on and time, destiny and an unknown event tore them apart. Now, a serious threat is on them, which will lead them to a new mission and a unforgettable reunion.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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Becoming Human (2011)
Plot Summary:
Becoming Human is a British supernatural drama webisode series and a spin-off from the TV series Being Human. Created by Toby Whithouse, it was written by Brian Dooley, Jamie Mathieson and John Jackson and stars Craig Roberts as the teenage vampire Adam, Leila Mimmack as the werewolf Christa and Josh Brown as the ghost Matt. A composition of the eight episodes was aired on BBC Three at 9:00pm on 20 March 2011.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: educational, psychological, tense, touching, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Avengers Social Club (2017)
Plot Summary:
Features three women from different walks of life coming together for revenge: a fish store ajumma who envisioned a better life for herself, a housewife who grew up an orphan, and a chaebol’s daughter who was raised like a delicate greenhouse flower. They’re an unlikely trio who would never otherwise meet, but they join forces to carry out their individual revenges. Although they start out as co-conspirators, along the way they’ll build a strong friendship. ~~Based on the webtoon "Buam-dong Revenge Social Club".
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative
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Mirror of the Witch (2016)
Plot Summary:
Seo-Ri's mother Queen Sim was unable to have a child. She went to a shaman to help her have a child. With the help of shaman Hong-Joo's black magic, Queen Sim was able to have a boy and girl twins. The girl, Seo-Ri, was put under a curse and abandoned deep in the mountains. She meets Heo Jun, a young man, there.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, touching, captivating, disturbing, visually appealing, dark fantasy
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Weirdsister College (2001)
Plot Summary:
As a follow-up to The Worst Witch serial, we follow Mildred Hubble in her first year at Weirdsister College, a university for students of magic. Similar to her adventures at Cackle's, Mildred usually messes up, but saves the day in the end. The series has a darker side than The Worst Witch, with evil creatures and a possible doomsday.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 318 min
Plot tags: captivating
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The Others (2019)
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Midas (2011)
Plot Summary:
A business drama about mergers and acquisitions between companies. When Kim Do Hyun passes the bar exam at the top of his class, he's offered a dream job as top aide to Yoo In Hye, daughter to one of the richest and most powerful men in South Korea. As he becomes more ambitious, Do Hyun is about to find out just how cut throat In Hye's world is, and also just how much he's about to lose, including his long-time girlfriend Lee Jung Yeon.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, dorama, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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Youkai Sharehouse (2020)
Plot Summary:
Mio Meguro is a timid person. She is afraid of being hated by others, and this causes her to refrain from saying what she really wants to say. She doesn't have any specific things she wants to do. She got a job and eventually dated a man from her workplace. Mio Meguro wanted to marry the man, but he turns out to be a bad guy. Because of him, she becomes penniless and unemployed. Her life descends into a bottomless pit. Mio Meguro then happens to get a sharehouse, where the mysterious creatures known as yōkai live. The yōkai try to solve her problems in radical ways.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: scary, unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Mortel (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sofiane, Victor and Luisa, three seemingly incompatible teenagers find themselves bound together by a supernatural force.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing
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Flames of Desire (2010)
Plot Summary:
Flames of Desire is a South Korean television series starring Shin Eun-kyung, Seo Woo, Yoo Seung-ho, Jo Min-ki, and Lee Soon-jae. It aired on MBC from October 2, 2010 to March 27, 2011 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:45 for 50 episodes. The early working title was A Woman Only Loves Once in a Lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The School Nurse Files (2020)
Plot Summary:
Wielding a light-up sword through the dark corners of a high school, a nurse with an unusual gift protects students from monsters only she can see.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating, contemplative, horror comedy
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The Ghosts of Adly Allam (2017)
Plot Summary:
The series revolves around Adly Allam, an employee in the National Library, he loves reading and culture, and lives with his grumpy wife Hayat, and her brother Araby under one roof. A demon called Sala appears to him , asking him to be in his life in exchange of changing his life for the better.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Sell Your Haunted House (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story of a real estate agent who performs exorcism on real estates where ghosts appear or people die in and makes them clean items.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating, suspense, contemplative, spooky
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The Holy Pearl (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Holy Pearl is a 2011 Chinese Television series starring Gillian Chung as the daughter of an archeologist. She time travels back in time to discovers she is a reincarnation a warrior priestess. She teams up with a human-dragon hybrid, to recover a broken magical vase. The story is an unofficial adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi's popular Japanese manga series InuYasha.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, xianxia
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The Watch (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of misfit cops rise up from decades of helplessness to save their corrupt city from catastrophe. Inspired by the characters created by Sir Terry Pratchett’s famous “Discworld” novels.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, semi serious, detective
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Doom at Your Service (2021)
Plot Summary:
Dong-kyung has been working hard ever since her parents passed away. Her life seems to get stable after working as an web novel editor for 6 years, but one day she gets diagnosed with a brain cancer. She blames her unlucky life and wishes to curse everything to disappear, which unintentionally calls Myul Mang, a messenger between humans and gods, to appear. He says that he can grant her wishes. As her last hope, she makes a contract with Myul Mang for hundred days to live as how she wants, risking her everything.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dorama, dark fantasy, romantic drama
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Hi Bye, Mama! (2020)
Plot Summary:
When the ghost of a woman gains a second chance at life for 49 days, she reappears in front of her remarried husband and young daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, sincere, captivating, psychological, light, touching
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SurrealEstate (2021)
Plot Summary:
Supernaturally trained realtor Nick Roman and his elite team of specialists go above and beyond to sell homes no one else wants to come near. The team works together to research, investigate and, hopefully, “fix” haunted and possessed homes (with often horrific results).
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark comedy, mystical
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The Great Shaman Ga Doo-shim (2021)
Plot Summary:
18-year-old Ga Doo Shim who wishes to live as a typical high schooler but is born with the undesired fate of becoming a shaman. She is a brave and strong character who will fight evil spirits as she works on solving mysterious cases. Na Woo Soo, a nearly perfect high schooler with a wealthy background, handsome looks, and outstanding grades. When Ga Doo Shim suddenly appears in his life, he gains the ability to see evil spirits, and the two get entangled in mysterious cases together.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Fantasy, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: mystical, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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WITS Academy (2015)
Plot Summary:
Now a Guardian in training at WITS Academy, the Magic Realm's most esteemed school for Witches and Wizards in Training, it seems like Andi’s dream has finally come true. But as the best friend and unofficial Guardian to the Chosen One, she’ll have to work hard to prove that she can live up to expectations as the first (and only) human Guardian. Plus, she’s in charge of getting the Magical Realm’s toughest witch and wizard to graduation day, one of which is Jax's little sister Jessie! Along the way she’ll have to decide who is a friend, who is a foe and who may be more….
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, semi serious, teen comedy
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The Light in Your Eyes (2019)
Plot Summary:
Time manipulation comes with a steep price for a young woman, who becomes 78 years old overnight after using a mysterious watch.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, dorama
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Another Trip to the Moon (2015)
Plot Summary:
The magical surrealist journey of Asa, daughter of a shaman, who confronts her own mother, fighting for her own life and freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, surreal, disturbing, psychedelic
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Eastwick (2009)
Plot Summary:
Eastwick is a 2009 television series based on John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick. The series was developed by Maggie Friedman, and starred Paul Gross as the infamous Darryl Van Horne, alongside Jaime Ray Newman, Lindsay Price, and Rebecca Romijn as the eponymous witches.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, semi serious, bad ending, offbeat, humorous
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Good Witch (2015)
Plot Summary:
Cassie Nightingale, Middleton’s favorite enchantress, and her young-teenage daughter Grace, who shares that same special intuition as her mom, welcome Dr. Sam Radford and his son to town. When the New York transplants move in next to the Grey House, they are immediately spellbound by the mother-daughter duo next door, but Sam and Cassie quickly find they may not see eye to eye. With her signature charm, Cassie attempts to bring everyone together, ensuring all of Middleton is in for new changes, big surprises and, of course, a little bit of magic! "Good Witch” is based on Bell’s beloved character Cassie, the raven-haired enchantress who kept audiences spellbound for seven installments of Hallmark Channel's longest-running and highest-rated original movie franchise of all time.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, semi serious, light, colorful, sentimental, humorous, colourful
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Sea of Souls (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sea of Souls follows para-psychologist Monaghan and his two sidekicks from a fictitious Scottish University that investigates paranormal activity.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, mystical
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Just Beyond (2021)
Plot Summary:
Middle school feels like the worst place imaginable, but for Jess, Josh, and Marco, their school may actually be the worst place in this world…or any other!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anthology, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, anime, dark fairy tale, mystical
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The Order (2019)
Plot Summary:
Out to avenge his mother's death, a college student pledges a secret order and lands in a war between werewolves and practitioners of dark magic.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, mythical, supernatural thriller, spooky, teen horror, urban fantasy
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The Magicians (2015)
Plot Summary:
Brakebills University is a secret institution specializing in magic. There, amidst an unorthodox education of spellcasting, a group of twenty-something friends soon discover that a magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real— and poses grave danger to humanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing, fairy tale, suspenseful, suspense, erotic, funny, spiritual, costume drama