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Plot Summary:
Woo Bin and Ji Hyo play best friends who move to Vietnam into a home filled with the coolest Samsung appliances. There is also a bit of drama in store for the friends when feelings and other people get involved.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 7 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, entertaining, disturbing
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Never Let Me Go (2016)
Plot Summary:
30-year-old Kyoko has a "job". The story starts with her looking back 20 years to her boarding school of Yoko Gakuen in the mountains. Tomohiko, Miwa, and Kyoko are all in the same grade. Inspired by the educational philosophy of the principal - Emiko, teacher Tatsuko joins the boarding school staff, but soon finds the school rather strange.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: sentimental, suspense, melancholic, suspenseful
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Face Off (2017)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from comic 'Please! Make Me Beautiful!'. The candid and straightforward Chen Zhen works as a salesgirl for cosmetics. She meets Wang Yi, a leading prosthetic makeup artist, at a fashion show by chance. And thus, commences her pursuit in the field of prosthetic makeup, while romance blossoms between the two.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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The Whirlwind Girl (2015)
Plot Summary:
10 years ago in the town of An Yang, the origin of Yuan Wu Dao martial arts, world champion Qu Xiang Nan was accused of doping and his prestigious title was stripped. He became a disgrace to the town and tarnished their name in the arts of Yuan Wu Dao. The story of Tornado Girl is set in the present and revolves around his adopted daughter and student Qi Bai Cao in her journey of becoming a true Yuan Wu Dao martial artist, fighting her way to the top and reclaiming her Teacher's innocence. Along the way she encounters friends such as her stoic and selfless Yuan Wu Dao senior Ruo Bai, the warm and caring but mysteriously secluded medic Yu Chu Yuan, and the flirtatious, playful Fang Ting Hao with a hidden agenda. Together they learn, grow, compete, find love and fight for their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Fluttering Warning (2018)
Plot Summary:
Cha Woo-Hyun is a dermatologist. He is an attractive man who is popular with women. He meets Yoon Yoo-Jung who is a popular actress. They get involved in scandal and decide to make a contract. Their contract sets out that they act like they are in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, dorama, touching, suspenseful
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Line Romance (2014)
Plot Summary:
Min Ho, a music producer who is struggling to write a new song because of the lack of inspiration. He is told by his manger that he has to find love so he would have emotions to write a new melody. He then meets a Chinese tourist named Ling Ling. Min Ho is inspired by Ling Ling but due to their language barrier he decides to adds her as a friend onthe mobile messenger app LINE to communicate with one another.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 14 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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Should We Kiss First (2018)
Plot Summary:
Son Moo-Han works as a managing director of an advertising company. An Soon-Jin lost her daughter unexpectedly and she works as a flight attendant. Eun Kyung-Soo is An Soon-Jin’s ex-husband and he is now married to Baek Ji-Min.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Professional Single (2020)
Plot Summary:
Single since birth, Yuan Qian and Qin Shen are two people who will probably end up being single for life because they want to. Set against the backdrop of an art school, the story follows students who overcome many difficulties to pursue their artistic ideals. Qin Shen is a student who dreams of becoming a sculptor. A freshman in their department, he is like a god-level existence in their school - cold, disciplined and a perfectionist. However, girls mean nothing to him and he finds dating to be a complete waste of time. Yuan Qian has the appearance of the cute girl next door but has a headstrong personality. She is eloquent and determined such that no one can stop her once she sets her mind to something. However, she has a tendency to pick at other people's shortcomings so much that no guy can impress her.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, touching, disturbing, tsundere
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The Best Future (2014)
Plot Summary:
Choi Go is a young aspiring idol working a part-time job, who can be a bit of a coward. Mi Rae, recently hired by a company in the talent development field. The two struggle attempting to start different careers, meet by chance and start to share the same house, but because of their different schedules (one works during day, the other during night), they communicate leaving messages on a board.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom, sentimental, dorama, touching, humorous, disturbing
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All I Want for Love is You (2019)
Plot Summary:
A story full of laughs follows sanda fighter Gu Xiao Man and school genius Zuo An as they chase after love. Graduation is fast approaching for 3rd year high school student Gu Xiao Man. Unlike your average school girl, she is a sanda fighter who wins medals at the sport but not in class. Because she wants to continue to be schoolmates with her idol Zuo An, she decides to give the same effort to academics as she does to sanda. Her hard work combined with Zuo An's efforts to be her personal teacher pays off and they get into the same university. There's nothing sweeter than to have your crush crushing on you and their story continues on.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful
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Best Friends in Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
Aoi Miura (Sota Fukushi) was born and grew up in Toyama Prefecture. He has an indecisive personality and does not like summer. He was the focal member of the high school swimming team, but he now works as an assistant at a small architectural office in Tokyo. One summer day, he meets his childhood friend and first love Akari Serizawa. During their school days they spent everyday hanging out together until the fireworks night in their 3rd year of high school. That night, Akari suddenly disappeared. Now, Akari has a man named Aoi.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing, romantic drama
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The Best of You in My Mind (2020)
Plot Summary:
A story follows two childhood friends, a young woman from a broken family and a conceited archer, as they fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, dorama
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Sprout (2012)
Plot Summary:
Miku finds out that the most popular guy at school will be living under the same roof as her for the summer. Will a budding summer romance blossom?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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K-POP Extreme Survival (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ji Seung Yeon fails her audition piece for an English music college by severely modernizing it, secretly returning home to South Korea in shame. Hiding out at her painfully shy friend's house, she joins him in auditioning to replace popular members of a boy band who are getting too old. Together, she and her friend make it through to a finalized group of eight competing for the few opening spots. No one but her friend and her uncle (director of the pop music company) and his assistant know she's a girl. The leader of the boy band, not in the know, starts questioning his orientation when finding himself progressively attracted to this "boy.".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, feel good, entertaining
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My Little Princess (2016)
Plot Summary:
Should some places be off limits to the poor? The Si Ye Art Institute is an elite arts high school for the children of wealthy families whose students go on to attend the most exclusive universities. Jiang Yu Nian is one of the most popular boys at the school, but he is cold and emotionally distant after the death of his sister. The exclusive school and its privileged students are turned upside down when Lin Xing Chen, a talented art student from a poor background, is admitted. Xing Chen faces immediate bullying from the other rich students, but will Yu Nian try to protect the kindhearted new student?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, touching, suspenseful, dorama
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Destiny-Like Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
During their childhood, a little girl and a boy made a pledge to meet again. Now at the age of 45, the girl, Kasumi, is now a divorced mother of a son of high school age. She works as hard as she can at a laundry delivery shop for the wealthy, in order to make a living. Then one day, Kasumi encounters a young male designer, Yuri, who has attracted international attention. He is somehow far too familiar with her and pokes his nose into her affairs. Kasumi is initially wary, but she soon learns that he has a pure heart and starts to get drawn to him. These two people with different backgrounds fall in love. Why did Yuri appear before her? Could he be the boy from that time?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Outstanding Woman (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young fashion magazine editor is a successful career woman who seems to have everything, but she must learn to balance her work, friends and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, touching, feel good, dorama
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Somewhere Only We Know (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ph.D. candidate in Physics Mu Cheng He catches a third-year student in English Xue Tong cheating on an exam. When he even becomes the substitute teacher in her elective course Russian and makes her study with him after classes, her hatred for him only grows. Over time, however, Xue Tong discovers Teacher Mu’s true character and comes to secretly love him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful, romantic drama
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Game Development Girls (2016)
Plot Summary:
A drama based on a webtoon which depicts and builds a connection through the story of young women who work at a mobile game company.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 7 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Angel's Last Mission: Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
As a punishment for meddling in human affairs, an angel faces the impossible task of finding a soulmate for a cold-hearted ballerina.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful, romantic, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Welcome (2020)
Plot Summary:
What if your cat was capable of turning into a charming boy? After taking time off, Sol Ah returns to school as she finds herself a place to live alone. Per her friend’s favor, Sol Ah takes in a cat named Hong Jo, and a story of the life of two housemates unfolds. However, Sol Ah is not aware that the cat, Hong Jo, has the ability to shapeshift into a human. Sol Ah’s friends start to notice weird things about Hong Jo whenever they run into his human form. Things are about to change around the peaceful single-resident complex, and Hong Jo finds it difficult just being a mere cat whenever Sol Ah is too busy with her life to pay attention to him. Will Sol Ah be able to recognize Hong Jo in his human form? Sol Ah and Hong Jo “Welcome!” you into their romance fantasy story.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspenseful, disturbing, dorama
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Be Arrogant (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hong Hara is a bright, energetic girl with a positive outlook on life. She is a sweet girl who believes that every time she falls in love, it would last forever. Hong Hara is in a relationship with No Cheol, a man no one cannot seem to resist, though he is not mature all the time. He is also the ex-boyfriend of Do Ra Hee, a girl who has spent the last ten years in the fashion business. After dating No Cheol for six years, she is now sick of men and her number one goal is to gain more money. Somehow Hong Hara ends up living and working with Do Ra Hee. The two women decide to launch their own online shopping mall. After struggling to make a living at the fast fashion mecca of Korea, Dongdaemun, they realize the potential in online shopping malls. However, the industry is filled with competitors, and the business partners soon learn about the challenges of running a small business.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, light, dorama, touching, humorous, romantic comedy
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Chocolate (2019)
Plot Summary:
Brought together by meaningful meals in the past and present, a doctor and a chef are reacquainted when they begin working at a hospice ward.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: dorama, sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful, romantic drama
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Hi My Sweetheart (2009)
Plot Summary:
Hi My Sweetheart is a 2009 Taiwanese Drama starring Show Luo, Rainie Yang and Lee Wei. It was produced by Comic Ritz International Production and Chai Zhi Ping as producer and directed by Lin He Long. It started filming on 26 July 2009 and wrapped in 23 November 2009. It was filmed on location in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and Hangzhou, China. The series was first broadcast in Taiwan on free-to-air Chinese Television System from 1 November 2009 to 31 January 2010, every Sunday at 22:00 to 23:30 and cable TV Gala Television Variety Show/CH 28 on 8 November 2009 to 7 February 2010, every Sunday at 20:00 to 21:30. The 14 episode series follows the romance between Xue Hai and Chen Bao Zhu, beginning from their college days until their late 20's. Hi My Sweetheart was nominated in 2010 in five categories at the 45th Golden Bell Awards,including Best Television Series and Best Leading Actor in a Television Series for Show Luo. Rainie Yang who portrayed Chen Bao Zhu in the drama, won Best Leading Actress in a Television Series at the award ceremony in October.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, captivating, entertaining
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Love Actually (2017)
Plot Summary:
It’s a story about the eras of the 70s, 80s and 90s; about the rapid development of the great era of love and how to deal with the success and failure of life, self-growth and self-transformation. It’s a drama genre of modern day city life; about singles’ rigid pursuit of love; about the lives of a group of ordinary people. It avoids dramatic negative energy. Instead, it’ll bring forth positive energy to encourage men and women to move positively forward in life and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Anitomo (2018)
Plot Summary:
Sota Nishino is a good looking high school student. He meets Mai who is his friend Yukihiro Nanase's younger sister. She is also a high school student and somewhat naive. Sota mutters to Yukihiro "Your sister is cute." Mai overhears Sota's remark through the thin wall between her room and her brother's room.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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The Black Devil and the White Prince (2015)
Plot Summary:
Yu Akahane moves to a dormitory room after her father's transfer from work. She is excited that she will live in the same dorm as Takumi Shirakawa aka "White Prince." Yet, Haruto Kurosaki aka "Black Devil" kisses her as punishment for going against him. It is Yu Akahane’s first kiss. Since then, she becomes obedient to Haruto Kurosaki.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, suspenseful, disturbing
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Horimiya (2021)
Plot Summary:
Although admired at school for her amiability and academic prowess, high school student Kyouko Hori has been hiding another side of her. With her parents often away from home due to work, Hori has to look after her younger brother and do the housework, leaving no chance to socialize away from school. Meanwhile, Izumi Miyamura is seen as a brooding, glasses-wearing otaku. However, in reality, he is a gentle person inept at studying. Furthermore, he has nine piercings hidden behind his long hair and a tattoo along his back and left shoulder. By sheer chance, Hori and Miyamura cross paths outside of school—neither looking as the other expects. These seemingly polar opposites become friends, sharing with each other a side they have never shown to anyone else.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, light, touching, humorous
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Love Me (2019)
Plot Summary:
Friendship, grief and romance intersect with love in the lives of three generations of people living in Stockholm.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, romantic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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The Secret Life of My Secretary (2019)
Plot Summary:
Do Min-Ik works as a director of the mobile media 1 team at T&T. He is smart and excellent at his job. His secretary is Jung Gal-Hee. Do Min-Ik often does childish things like calling Jung Gal-Hee continually. Jung Gal-Hee carries out Do Min-Ik's orders without complaints. She looks soft, but she hides her tough side.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: dorama, feel good, funny, light, romantic, touching, captivating, sentimental, humorous, entertaining
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The Time We Were Not in Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jang Ha Na and Choi Won are incredibly close platonic friends: throughout 20 years, they've braved it all through thick and thin. As Ha Na's 30th birthday approaches, Won extols the virtues of aging as a man—like a wine—while explaining that women are like grapes that shrivel into raisins. Determined to prove him wrong, Ha Na strikes a bet on which of the two will marry before turning 35. Can these two friends make the ultimate leap?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining