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Plot Summary:
A priest falls in love with a young artist. Their secret affair is revealed and the Media try to destroy both of them. Apart from their affair, the dirty past of the priest is discovered by a reporter. Nothing can stop them from being together. Or maybe someone can.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 42 min
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Plebania (2000)
Plot Summary:
Plebania is a Polish soap opera broadcast from October 5, 2000 to January 27, 2012 on TVP1. The series is about the lives of ordinary people in the fictional Polish village of Tulczyn. The plot revolves around the family, religious, and social issues of the village inhabitants with central roles played by a parish priest, his family and friends, and a wealthy business man known for shady dealings. Plebania is the second-longest Polish soap opera.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 30 min
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Breakers (1998)
Plot Summary:
Breakers is an Australian television series, that was made and aired on Network Ten between 1998 and 1999. It was shown in Ireland on TV3 and City Channel. It was also screened on BBC One in the United Kingdom and TV4 in New Zealand.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
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Shadows of the Heart (1990)
Plot Summary:
A female doctor, Kate Munro moves to (fictitious) Gannet Island off the South Australian coast in 1927. Conflict between traditional religious values and modern scientific medicine ensues as she forms a relationship with two men who are brothers, one a grazier and one a priest.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 240 min
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Innocent Love (2008)
Plot Summary:
An arson took it all away from Akiyama Kanon seven years ago. Her parents died in that fire, her brother was arrested as the prime suspect and her carefree life disappeared from that instant. She was shunned by the town as the sister of a murderer, yet she believes in her brother's innocence and often pays him visits with words of encouragement. As life gets harder when nobody is willing to give her a job, Kanon decides to try her luck in the city and there she meets the man of her destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, disclosure, entertaining
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The Bay (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Bay follows the affluent, yet dysfunctional Bay City residents living in a town cursed by the spirit of Senator Red Garrett, the grandfather of socialite Sara Garrett. Their lives are riddled with sex, lies, & never-ending scandals.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, dramatic
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Piano (2001)
Plot Summary:
Piano is about a father’s terrible love through a fantastical way, the unacceptable love between stepsiblings, and conflicts within a family.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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Ill-Fated Love (1978)
Plot Summary:
A story about doomed love between two people from different worlds and the impact in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 262 min
Plot tags: epic, period piece, costume drama, period drama
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In the Name of Love (2008)
Plot Summary:
En Nombre Del Amor is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is a remake of Cadenas de Amargura. En Nombre Del Amor was produced by Carlos Moreno, and filming began on August 4, 2008. It premiered in the United States July 7, 2009 on Univision and ended its run on March 7, 2010 in a two-hour grand finale on a Sunday. Starring for Allison Lozz and Sebastián Zurita, as adult stars Victoria Ruffo, Arturo Peniche with Leticia Calderón as the villain protagonist and main villain, co-starring for Laura Flores, Alfredo Adame, Víctor Cámara, and the participation of Altair Jarabo as youth antagonist.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, romantic, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, entertaining, telenovela
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The Crime of Father Amaro (2023)
Plot Summary:
Based on Eça de Queiroz's 1875 novel, the plot takes place in Leiria, Portugal, at the end of the 1860s, and follows the story of the forbidden passion between Amaro, a young priest, and Amélia, "the most beautiful girl in Leiria". Tense, emotional and rooted in personality conflicts, the series takes a critical look at society and the church in Portugal, in Leiria in the 19th century.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 46 min
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Call It Love (2023)
Plot Summary:
A woman vows revenge on her for, a heart-wrenchingly lonely and gentle man.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags:
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In the Name of Honour (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ilinca is the modern woman who dreams of a successful career in PR and never settles for what she has got. Yet, deep down, she still believes that true love can be found. And when least expected, Ilinca meets Amir, a charming, wealthy and attractive Sheikh who will change her destiny from the very first moment they meet. A new life begins for Amir, one worth fighting for even if it means to stand up to traditions and get over the memory of a past love. The world in which Amir has lived his life is marked by old written and unwritten traditions. In Beled el Noor (a fictional emirate), his homeland, it is accepted that a woman be killed in the name of honour for having disrespected the Islamic law. Marked by honour and love, the couple will write a story of forbidden love: the story of Ilinca and Amir - soulmates separated by a river of traditions, secrets, betrayal and religion.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Romania
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sexy, romantic, captivating, emotional
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Nothing Sacred (1997)
Plot Summary:
Nothing Sacred is an American drama series that aired from 1997 to 1998 on ABC. The series was created by a Jesuit priest named Bill Cain and producer David Manson.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
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Perfect Love (2023)
Plot Summary:
A story about love and its different manifestations, told through the little boy Marcelino in search of his biggest dream: to meet his mother. Inspired by a famous book, the plot takes place in the 1940s.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic comedy, soap opera, telenovela
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Love & Life & Lie (2017)
Plot Summary:
Liu Xin Tong is a positive girl, living in a poor household. There was nothing out of the ordinary until she got into an accident that moved her and her mother into a rich businessman's house. There, she meets Li Yao Nan, her fated love along with two siblings that play important roles in her new life. She is met with multiple obstacles that she must overcome to ultimately keep her lover and friends, in addition to finding out the real truth about her birth.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining
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The Mermaid Chair (2006)
Plot Summary:
A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, romantic, touching, realistic, sexual, folk tale, sexy
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Real Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
True love threatens to tear a family apart in this epic Mexican serial set in the 1800s. Rich and beautiful Matilde falls in love with Adolfo, but her mother, Augusta, disapproves of the relationship when she learns Adolfo is poor. Augusta forces her daughter to marry rich and handsome Manuel Fuentes Guerra, but Matilde plays with fire by continuing to be with Adolfo. Adela Noriega, Fernando Colunga, Helena Rojo and Chantal Andere star.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, stylized, soap opera, novela, realistic, contemplative, hispanic, 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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Burden of Guilt (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mi pecado is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and aired on Canal de las Estrellas from 15 June 2009 through 13 November 2009. Starring Maite Perroni, Eugenio Siller and as adult protagonist Daniela Castro who is also the main villain. Mi pecado tells the story of young lovers Lucrecia and Julián, who are torn apart by their feuding families following the tragic death of Lucrecia's brother César when the three are just children.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, novela, soap opera, telenovela
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True Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
Amores verdaderos is a 2012 Mexican telenovela produced by Nicandro Díaz Gonzalez for Televisa. It is based on Amor en Custodia, produced in Colombia, Argentina, and Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Middlemarch (1994)
Plot Summary:
A BBC dramatization of George Eliot's classic novel about the lives and loves of a group of people living on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution in a small town named Middlemarch. These include young Doctor Lydgate, who arrives at Middlemarch hospital full of idealism and determined to do good works; Dorothea Brooke, who becomes attracted to the scholarly Edward Casaubon and then finds herself trapped in an ill-fated marriage; and Will Ladislaw, a young lad who awakens Dorothea's repressed passion and thereby changes the course of her life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 375 min
Plot tags: costume drama, period piece, historical drama, romantic drama, clever, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, stylized
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Seni Çok Bekledim (2021)
Plot Summary:
While the dirty secrets of the two families are revealed one by one, the love of Kadir and Ayliz has to pass this test.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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The Scent of Passion (2021)
Plot Summary:
Every year, Gaviota and her mother arrive at Hacienda Casablanca to pick up the coffee from the second harvest of the year, but they hope that their next visit will be their last, because from now on they will be owners of their own land. However, fate has other plans. Octavio Vallejo, the owner of the hacienda, has just died. Gaviota previously had saved him from a kidnapping. Octavio promised as a reward to give her one hectare of land so that she could grow her own coffee. Trying to get the Vallejo family to honor the agreement, Gaviota meets Sebastián, Octavio's son, and an irrepressible attraction is born between them, a heartbreaking, impossible love, becoming two lovers who belong to different worlds.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 741
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: soap opera, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Melancholia (2021)
Plot Summary:
A sexual scandal between a math teacher and a student in a prestigious high school ended in tragedy. 4 years later they meet again, now as adults, to reveal the corruptions in school and to regain one's reputation as a teacher.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Camila (1984)
Plot Summary:
In Buenos Aires of the 1840s, a young Jesuit and a wealthy socialite fall in love and begin a torrid affair. They escape from the city, and, in disguise, set up house in a village, assuming they are safe and beyond the cares of anyone. However, both the church and Camila's family are enraged, vowing to hunt down the lovers for a capital crime. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: romantic, manga, cult classic, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, masterpiece, period drama, cult film
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The Book of Daniel (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Book of Daniel is a television series broadcast on NBC. The network promoted it as a serious drama about Christians and the Christian faith, but it was controversial with some Christians. The show had been proposed for NBC's 2005 fall line-up, but was rescheduled as a 2006 midseason replacement. The program premiered on January 6, 2006 in the US and was scheduled to air in thirteen episodes on Friday nights. NBC called the show "edgy", "challenging", and "courageous" in its promotional material. On January 24, 2006, a spokeswoman for NBC announced the show had been dropped.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, tense, touching, controversial
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The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)
Plot Summary:
The young Father Amaro is put to the test. He is sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito when he meets a 16-year-old girl that he begins and affair with. It turns out the girls mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must soon choose between the holy or the sinful life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: controversial, harsh, stylized, touching, realistic, sexual, emotional, erotic, hispanic, disturbing
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Love and Fortune (2018)
Plot Summary:
Wako Taira is 31-years-old. She works part-time at a cinema close to her home. Her boyfriend is Fu-kun and they have lived together for 3 years. She has never thought of breaking up with her boyfriend, considering her age. One day, she meets high school student Yumeaki Iko. She can't resist him. Wako Taira has an affair with Yumeaki Iko.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Romeo and Juliet (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: captivating
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Four Seasons (2008)
Plot Summary:
Patriach Alex reigns over the magnificent country estate Endellion with a mildness that infuriates his eldest son Stephen, a high-powered financier, but perfectly suits his younger, more relaxed son Charles. After many years of unruffled tranquility, life at Endellion is about to enter a turbulent new phase with the return of Stephen's ex-wife, and division over her granddaughter Abby, whose mother had died never revealing the father's name.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Thorn Birds (1983)
Plot Summary:
This mini series covers 60 years in the lives of the Cleary family, brought from New Zealand to Australia to run their aunt Mary Carson's ranch. The story centers on their daughter, Meggie, and her love for the family's priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart. Meggie tries to forget Ralph by marrying dashing stockman Luke O'Neill, but she and Ralph are soon reunited, with tragic consequences for them both.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 460 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, family saga, emotional, captivating, serious, heartbreaking, romantic drama, historical drama, realistic