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Plot Summary:
There are over 600 orphanages across the nation, housing approximately 30,000 children; Most of them had been abused by their parents. Maki, was placed into the orphanage "Kogamo no Ie", after her mother, Ryoka, was arrested and jailed. There she was handed over to the care of Kana, and also Sasaki, the eccentric caretaker of the home. Under Sasaki's management, the home is a calm and safe haven from all the madness of the real world. At the home, Maki befriends 3 other little girls, who all go by their nicknames instead of their real names. Piami who plays the piano really well, Bombi who came from a very poor family, and Post, who is the leader of all the kids.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, suspenseful, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Good Life: Thank You, Papa, Goodbye (2011)
Plot Summary:
The basis for the drama is the novel “Kashikogi” by author Cho Chang-in, which has sold 2 million copies in Korea since its publication in 2000. It has already been adapted as a television drama and a stage play in that country. On February 4, Shogakukan is publishing the book in Japan under the title “Good Life.” Sorimachi plays the part of Daichi Sawamoto, a newspaper reporter who has always prioritized his work over his family. When his wife suddenly leaves him, he finally notices the love he has been receiving from his son. Just as he decides to answer back, it is discovered that his son has leukemia.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Mi Familia Perfecta (2018)
Plot Summary:
Five siblings living in modern day Houston, TX must learn to survive after their father dies and their mother is deported back to Mexico. All the while surviving in the shadow of the American dream and harsh realities of the city.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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My Rosy Life (2005)
Plot Summary:
Maeng Soon-yi has sacrificed everything in her life for the sake of others. She missed out on her youth because she was too busy taking care of her father, who started drinking heavily after her mother abandoned them when Soon-yi was 10 years old. Soon-yi gave up on her own education so that she could earn the money to pay for her younger siblings' tuition. Soon-yi's younger sister Young-yi, is now a successful career woman. She is having an affair with a married man, Lee Jung-do. Jung-do was Young-yi's first love, but he broke up with her for the sake of his career. While younger brother Chul-soo has settled down in the United States where he's earning his doctorate degree, completely ignoring his responsibilities at home. Soon-yi perseveres despite the constant hardships that life throws at her. Until one day, she is jolted when Ban Sung-moon , her husband with whom she has two daughters, tells her that he has fallen in love with another woman and demands a divorce. Worse, she is diagnosed with stomach cancer shortly after. Abandoned by everyone around her, all those who she has worked so hard to make happy her entire life, Soon-yi decides that it's never too late to start living the life you want, and begins to be a little selfish and find some true happiness. When they find out about her disease, her family finally realizes what she means to them. And her husband Sung-moon also rethinks his actions and finally shows her the genuine meaning of marital love.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating
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Mother (2010)
Plot Summary:
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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Still, Life Goes On (2011)
Plot Summary:
Fukami Hiroki's younger sister was killed by a friend. Hiroki then meets the killer's sister, Toyama Futaba, 15 years after the incident. Both of their families have been burdened with grief, but through their meeting they struggle to find a brighter tomorrow.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating
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In Your Place (2021)
Plot Summary:
Christian and Renato are identical twins who have opposite lives: Christian grew up in an orphanage and is underemployed, struggling to survive. Renato was adopted by a rich family and had everything that money can buy. When they meet again as adults, a tragedy happens: Renato is murdered and identified as Christian who, in turn, takes the place of his brother. However, to this end, he must leave behind his identity and his great love.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, novela, soap opera, telenovela
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The Innocents (2020)
Plot Summary:
Safiye and Gülben are two obsessive sisters who live in a dependent manner with their brother Han who is the only real connection between this family, including their sick father, and the world. Han’s lifelong goal is to keep this family afloat and he has no other life but his job and his home. One day Han meets İnci by accident, love will change him and he will start thinking about his own happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense
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Goodbye to Our Kindergarten (2011)
Plot Summary:
One day, five kindergarten children suddenly disappear from a kindergarten in Tokyo, sending their teachers and parents into a panic. The five of them are connecting on trains and headed to an unfamiliar place for some purpose. Before their journey, they had made a promise to each other “not to cry no matter what happens”.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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When Heaven Burns (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Yip Chi-Yan, Lau Chun-Hung, Sung Yee-Long, and Cheng Chun-Hin are brought together again by an accident, their lives change irreversibly. Chi-Yan is a radio host. She and the other three were members of the same band eighteen years ago. The memory of them playing music together comes back vividly to them, and so does the pain they have all tried so hard to bury. Eighteen years ago her boyfriend, Ka-Ming, was killed in a hiking accident. Time flies, but she can never forgive Chun-Hung, Yee-Long, and Chun-Hin for failing to save Ka-Ming. As they reconnect, the four good friends and the people around them are drawn into a vortex of love they have no control over.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, banned
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My Daughter, Geum Sa-Wol (2015)
Plot Summary:
A family has been dismantled by revenge and hate, but Geum Sa-Wol (Baek Jin-Hee) attempts to build up a dream house for the dismantled family.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Village (2019)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to the Village, an apartment building in Brooklyn that appears like any other from the outside but is quite unique inside. The people who reside here have built a bonded family of friends and neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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At Home in the Mountains (2018)
Plot Summary:
The family feud has gone on for decades. Sebastian cannot forgive his erstwhile friend Lorenz for causing the accidental death of his son. Nor can Lorenz forgive himself. His daughter Lisa has just come home, a lawyer no less, determined to take the feud to court and right an old wrong. Although emotions run high as old wounds are reopened, Sebastian finally seems ready to forgive. Yet conflict is still rife between his sons and Lorenz's daughters. An impulsive one-night stand makes Marie question a lifelong hatred, while sparks fly between former childhood sweethearts Lisa and Florian. Nor are things any less turbulent among their holiday guests, who bring their own family dramas with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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What's Wrong, Poong-Sang (2019)
Plot Summary:
Poong Sang is a lonely, pitiful middle-aged man, who has never lived his life for himself. Up until now, he took care of his four younger siblings and supported them financially. Will he ever get to find happiness for himself?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, disturbing, dorama
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Life (2007)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from Keiko Suenobu's manga "LIFE," this drama delves into the dark side of high school life. The story focuses mainly on bullying, but the manga also touches on subjects such as self-mutilation, suicide, and rape. Kitano Kii stars as Ayumu Shiiba, one of the students bullied by a group of classmates led by Ayumu's former friend, Manami Anzai (Fukuda Saki).
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 36 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, dorama
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Love and Glory (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kazutoyo lived during the end of the Sengoku period (1546-1605). He was the first feudal lord of the fief of Tosa on the island of Shikoku. He served Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Chiyo (1557-1617) was his wife, and was known in history for her dedication and devotion to her husband (like Matsu was to Toshiie in Toshiie to Matsu). She is the daughter of a samurai who served the feudal lord Asai.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Tainted Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
Yasemin's story began in Germany and found itself in the ups and downs of life. However, she was not afraid to live and succeeded in entering the law school. Now she is both studying and working. Her sole purpose in life is to receive custody of her hearing-impaired brother, who has been growing up in the orphanage as their fathers are different. On the other hand, she is saving up money for her brother Murat's operation. Cem is the older of two children of a wealthy family. As a child, he has witnessed an incident that led his mother Belkis and his father apart and disrupted their lives. Successful, bright man in business. However, he is distant and insecure to women because of what happened in the past. Yasemin and Cem's life crossed in coincides with an event that happened on the night of the organization of Cem's company. Two broken hearts, two wounded souls. It is a pure love that tries to grow among the dark secrets, ambitions, intrigues. Love that will win the pride?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Over Water (2018)
Plot Summary:
John Beckers gains one last chance from his wife Marjan and their two children to get his life back on track. After a visit to rehab, John starts his new job at the freight company of his father-in-law. The port of Antwerp is a whole new world for the former TV star. It’s a harsh environment, but also one with its own rules and traditions. John fights his old demons as well as new temptations, but quickly enters a dangerous arena but also a very lucrative trade of the docks: cocaine. John Beckers came to work at the port, but finds increasingly extreme ways to make the port work for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Glass Home (2010)
Plot Summary:
Glass Home is a Bulgarian drama series created by bTV. It's a family drama and the executive producers are Dimityr Mitovski and Dimityr Gochev from "Camera OOD". It airs in bTV's primetime. Some of Bulgaria's most famous actors star in the series, which is directed by Viktor Bojinov and Petar Rusev.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Woman (2013)
Plot Summary:
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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Side Order of Life (2007)
Plot Summary:
Side Order of Life is a dramatic television series broadcast by Lifetime on Sunday night. In its first five weeks it aired at 8:00pm ET/PT, then switched to the 9:00pm time slot. Marisa Coughlan plays Jenny McIntyre, a photographer who reconsiders her life and is reawakened to her options after her best friend, Vivy Porter, is diagnosed with a recurrence of cancer. Jason Priestley returns to regular series television as Ian Denison, Jenny's fiancé. Christopher Gartin rounds out the main case as Jenny's boss Rick Purdy at the fictional In Person magazine; he is in love with Vivy, who has rejected him. Lifetime broadcast Side Order of Life with State of Mind and Army Wives in an effort to offer a night of new original programming aimed primarily at female viewers during the summer hiatus. Side Order of Life premiered on Lifetime on July 15, 2007. Initial reviews were positive, with Variety.com's Brian Lowry saying, "writer-producer Margaret Nagle brings a level of wit to the proceedings superior to most chick-lit-inspired TV drama." The Seattle Times, after describing the premise, said, "If this all sounds kind of corny, well, it kind of is until you realize the story line hits its mark, making you recall your own missteps and regrets for not having taken better charge.".
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous
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Double Life (2010)
Plot Summary:
Amanda and Alex have a fling going on as they find out that their parents are getting a divorce. To complicate things, Amanda's father has met a new woman and that woman is... Alex's mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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The Outcast (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in post-war Britain, ten year-old Lewis Aldridge is grief-stricken as he struggles to cope with the death of his beloved mother. Left under the care of his emotionally distant father Gilbert, whom he barely knows and who quickly remarries, Lewis is forced to bury his feelings.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy, period drama
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Infidels (2009)
Plot Summary:
Following the lives of five young women in Barcelona. Close friends whose professional lives, friendships, love, passion and sense of humour make up a series of stories that revolve around self-assurance and loyalty to one's principles.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating
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I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kaseifu no Mita is a 2011 Japanese television drama series. The story revolves around a family who is grieving over their mother's recent suicide. They hired Mita as a housekeeper to upkeep the house, which has been thrown into disarray. Mita, who is played by actress Nanako Matsushima, will do anything that her employer orders her to do, except smiling or revealing her past.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Virtues (2019)
Plot Summary:
Joseph falls into despair when his nine-year-old son Shea leaves for Australia with his ex Debbie. Sufffering the hangover from hell, he walks away from his present life and boards a boat bound for Ireland to confront memories from his childhood.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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A Brand New Life (2009)
Plot Summary:
Young Jinhee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jinhee desperately believes her father will come back for her and take her on a trip. The film is based on the experiences of the director, an ethnic Korean who was adopted by a French couple in the 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, inspirational, sad, poignant
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Ancestral Land (2017)
Plot Summary:
An epic family saga set in the Russian Urals before, during and after the Second World War. The story is centered on the Morozov family - Aleksey, Stepan, Aliona and Varvara - two brothers and two sisters, with a multitude of complex relationships between them. Miraculously, they all survive the slaughter of World War 2, but not without learning some important lessons on the way, including the meaning of true love, that overcomes all hurdles and heals all wounds, and how to cope with grief, leading them ultimately to a long dreamed-of happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, tense
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Adi: Zehra (2018)
Plot Summary:
Zehra comes to the world as the daughter of a conservative Turkish family in Frankfurt. The incredible story of Zehra, starting at the home of the poor and enthusiastic family in Germany, and continuing with a rich family of Istanbul with secrets and a terrible crime. The story is full of emotions of two mother praying for the same person. And Zehra then start living in Istanbul but there are secrets waiting in Istanbul.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Guilty: The Woman Who Made a Pact with the Devil (2010)
Plot Summary:
A pet groomer at a salon in Shirogane, Nogami Meiko has a lot of celebrity dog-lovers as customers. She cheerfully serves customers with care, and her skills are tried and tested. The salon's owner, Kotomi, has a strong faith in her, and she is admired by her colleagues. Meiko leads a quiet and fulfilling life... however, there is another side to her. She has a plan for revenge that she must accomplish. In truth, when she was 19, she was imprisoned for murder but there was also another side to this case. And just as she's about to execute her plan, she meets a man named Mashima Takuro. She acts mysteriously around him and for some reason, he makes her feel better. Is he the only miscalculation to her? Or a reckoning?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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My Brilliant Friend (2018)
Plot Summary:
When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, suspense, exciting, rough, captivating, erotic, aesthetic