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Plot Summary:
13 years ago, the Abe family moved to a town in the suburbs, surrounded by nature. The Abe family consists of their French father Toma (De Lencquesaing Nozomi), his Japanese wife Mikiko (Rinko Kikuchi) and their beautiful daughter Yuko (Kanon Tani). They appear like the perfect family. Mikiko managed to get her daughter Yuko to take part in a CM audition and she was picked by Murano (Joe Odagiri), director of the advertising agency. Yuko is now in show business. Several years later, Yuko (Nana Komatsu) transfers to a large entertainment company. As her mother wishes, Yuko is now popular and appears on the cover of magazines, variety shows and drama series. Yuko, though, feels an uncomfortable imbalance between her public image and her real self. During this time, she meets a dancer, Seiko (Mackenyu), who marches to the beat of his own drum, and falls in love with him. The nightmare begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min
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IDOL: The Coup (2021)
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Portrays the last story of “doomed idols” who need a single “success” in order to “disband.” The story of young people who confidently let go of their dreams as they grow through their failures and take courageous steps towards their new goals.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama, Music
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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Poisoned Love (2020)
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The story revolves a dubbing genius Fang Yan, who suffers from sleepwalking due to a trauma; and a film producer Shi Meng. Shi Meng helps Fang Yan walk out of her traumatic experience, but Fang Yan recognized the wrong person, and thought his brother Shi Yi was the one who helped her. The three of them grew through misunderstands, and untied the knot in their heart.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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Fire Dance (2022)
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Feigi, 18, is a young, troubled woman who - following a failed suicide attempt - attaches her future happiness to Nathan, the 35-year-old married son of the leader of the ultra-orthodox community in which they both live. Feigi grows dangerously close to Nathan, who is expecting his first child with his wife.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min
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I Will Be Your Bloom (2022)
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Asuka had once realized her goal to become a teacher, but after a gutting failure, she gives up her dream profession and becomes extremely withdrawn. After a series of events, she finds herself becoming a live-in housemother for a dorm… where the boy-band septet 8LOOM live together! At the dorm, she is reunited with her former student Dan—as a teacher, Asuka used to encourage him to go for his dreams. Inspired by Dan's leadership in the band and his passion for making his dream come true, Asuka, too, regains the passion she had in her teaching days and comes to terms with her own failure.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Chivalry (2022)
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A successful producer and a woke writer and director are brought closer by a creeping attraction and a feeling that they are just pawns in the studio's agenda for a Saudi Arabian buyout.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic comedy
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Mouna (2019)
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Mouna is a Palestinian photographer living in Tel Aviv, moments before her big professional break. When a military operation in Gaza goes out of hand, she is faced with the realities of both worlds she lives in, and with the close relationships with the two men in her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min
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Age Before Beauty (2018)
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Bel, after spending the past 18 years as a homemaker, steps in to save the family business in a failing family run beauty salon in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. Family feuds and bitter rivalries, professional and personal, escalate in the salon amongst the Botox, fillers and facelifts.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 56 min
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The Brightest Star in the Sky (2019)
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Star Entertainment is the top entertainment agency in China. It was set up by a couple, Cheng Tian Hao and Du Wan Qing, who eventually separated due to differing beliefs in managing the company. Yang Zhen Zhen is an aspiring young girl with a passion for music. She joined Starry Sky Entertainment and was assigned as Zheng Bo Xu's assistant. Bo Xu is a popular idol who is arrogant and unruly. With the help of Zhen Zhen, who helped him correct his flaws and unleash his potential, Bo Xu slowly transforms into a talented singer. In the process, Zhen Zhen also gains experience and becomes a capable idol manager. At the same time, Du Wan Qing is also grooming a singer, Yu Zi Rui, who shapes up to become Bo Xu's biggest competitor yet.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
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Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan (2009)
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Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan is a drama serial made in Pakistan based on a novel written by Umera Ahmad. It is an emotional story of a girl named Saba and her daughter Sara. The drama became very popular upon its release. The serial featured a huge ensemble cast consisting of Samia Mumtaz, Samina Peerzada, Sarwat Gillani, Mehreen Raheel, Ismat Zaidi, Faisal Qureshi, Adnan Siddiqui, Khayam Sarhadi, Shakeel, Imran Abbas, Rashid Farooqui, Humayun Saeed, Shehryar Zaidi, Zeba Ali and Lubna Aslam.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, captivating, suspense, exciting, contemplative
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Paper Dolls (1984)
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Paper Dolls is an American prime time soap opera which aired for 14 episodes on ABC from September 23, 1984 to December 25, 1984. Set in New York's fashion industry, the show centered around top modeling agency owner Racine, her conflicts with the family of cosmetics tycoon Grant Harper, and the careers of two teenage models. The series was based on a 1982 TV movie of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
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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Too Close to Home (2016)
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A young woman is forced to return to her trailer-park beginnings after her political career is derailed by a sex scandal.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Everything and Nothing (2019)
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“We are neither kids nor adults. When do we become adults then?” Min Jae and Seo Yeon are no different from ordinary 17-year-old high school students. Min Jae is silent and sensitive, yet a good student. Seo Yeon who plays the piano wished to enter an arts high school but failed. As they grow into adults, their surroundings and the reality they face get harsher. These two somehow similar but different friends get closer as they overcome their growing pains together.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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Secret Campus (2023)
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Four stories of high school and college students whispered around campuses. Real or fabricated, it's up to you to discover.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: anthology
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I Don't Want To Be Friends With You (2020)
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A high school student time travels 20 years earlier to meet her mother in her younger days. Li Jinbu and her mom have always leaned on each other. A magical journey brings Li Jinbu 20 years earlier where she meets her mother Li Qingtong and they become fast friends. Coming from different generations and having different personalities, they run into funny situations. Through their time together, Li Jinbu gets to know her mother's forbearance and bravery.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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All Passion Spent (1986)
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his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged French maid Genoux (Eileen Way), who has served her faithfully for a lifetime, Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her large flock of middle-aged children. The family is chagrined by, but honors, her choice to live a modest country retirement at some distance, in Hampstead Heath. Lady Slane competently comes to terms to lease and restore a crumbling house, aided by an aging land agent Gervase Bucktrout (Maurice Denham). Once settled, an acquaintance from 50 years past, Mr. Fitzgeorge (Harry Andrews), visits the cottage to rekindle memories of their brief, deep, but unfulfilled brush as soul-mates in colonial India when Lady Slane was a devoted young wife and mother. Great-granddaughter Deborah (Jane Snowden), who has been trapped by a socially desirable but passionless engagement, regularly visits to confide and seek wisdom.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Date My Daughter! (2021)
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Aoi Minase is in her 40's. She works as a popular writer of romance novels. She is also a single mother, who raised her daughter alone. Her daughter is now 20-years-old. Due to Aoi Minase's success as a romance novelist, Aoi lives with her daughter in an upscale high-rise apartment building. Aoi is worried about her daughter. Her daughter doesn't have a boyfriend. Aoi Minase believes this is because her daughter is an otaku, who enjoys manga and cosplay. Her daughter does want to fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Mom, May I Quit Being Your Daughter? (2017)
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Akiko and her 25-year old daughter Mizuki are best friends and are closer than most mother and daughters. Akiko feels that Mizuki is growing distant from her due to her new boyfriend and decides to seduce him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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Dear Sister (2014)
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Growing up, sisters Misaki and Hazuki couldn't have been more different. Misaki's charming personality and popularity stood in sharp contrast to the older, more responsible yet timid Hazuki. After high school, the two lose touch once Misaki leaves their home, only to be reunited many years later, when Misaki returns, harboring a secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing, dorama, sexy, novela, entertaining
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Anglo Saxon Attitudes (1992)
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Three part miniseries about Gerald Middleton, an aging historian, who reflects on his youth, relationships (especially the one with his best friend's girl), career (shadowed by a scandal), and current issues, like his marriage and kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 229 min
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Chicas (2010)
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Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the manager of the building in which she lives, she organizes a lunch in her home with the intention of introducing him to the rest of the family. The reunion goes wildly wrong and the family's craziness overtakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
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The Elegant Empire (2023)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman take revenge desperately yet elegantly after being trampled on by enormous power.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 40 min
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Unseen (2020)
Plot Summary:
The fiction series UNSEEN tells the story of how, over ten days, people and their families face a mysterious phenomenon : some of them become invisible. Out of sight, the invisibles can do anything without being seen, nobody to punish them, nobody to compliment them, nobody to judge them, - But is it really an advantage? Some of them are using invisibility as a tool of revenge or domination, others live it as an exile. But all of them will have to make a moral choice: is their invisibility a power or a handicap? What is left for humanity when no one can see us anymore? Facing the unimaginable, seen and unseen will try, each in their own way, to save their own world.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 48 min
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Mother (2010)
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Mother is a Japanese television drama that aired on Nippon TV between 14 April and 23 June 2010, starring Matsuyuki Yasuko.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, suspense, realistic, captivating, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Miracle Man (2016)
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Ittaku lives without having a reason. One day, he falls in love with Hana who struggles with her harsh life. Hana's daughter Umi has problems with her ears and eyes. Umi has a hard time dealing with her daily life. Ittaku wants to help Hana and Umi.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, suspenseful
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Our Kind of People (2021)
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A strong-willed single mom sets out to reclaim her family's name and make an impact with her revolutionary haircare line but discovers a dark secret about her own mother's past that will turn her world upside-down.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Woman (2013)
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After the accidental death of her husband and being deemed ineligible for welfare, Koharu struggles to care for her two children.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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School (2018)
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When successful businesswoman Katya's daughter tries to commit suicide, she becomes an economics teacher in order to be closer to her daughter and understand what the kids are up to at school. At the same time, Alex, a new English teacher, former lawyer, son of the principal, and newly engaged, also comes to the school. As sparks begin between Katya and Alex, the skeletons of the past still haunt them and won't let our heroes go.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, realistic, sentimental
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A behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, exploring the unique challenges faced by the men and women who carry out this daily televised ritual.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 123000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: social, disturbing, suspense, emotional, captivating, exciting, funny, intellectual, cynical, sexploitation film
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The Last Tycoon (2016)
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From F. Scott Fitzgerald's last work, The Last Tycoon follows Monroe Stahr, Hollywood's Golden Boy as he battles father figure and boss Pat Brady for the soul of their studio. In a world darkened by the Depression and the growing influence of Hitler's Germany, The Last Tycoon illuminates the passions, violence and towering ambition of 1930s Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: costume drama, period piece, tense, captivating, historical drama, interesting, period drama