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Plot Summary:
Isabel Vilela is about to fulfill one of her greatest wishes. She’s been married for a year with the cheerful Danilo when she realizes that she’s pregnant on the eve of a romantic trip. Isabel’s professional life is also booming, with financial help from Danilo, she’s about to inaugurate her own architecture firm.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, novela
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Unknown Woman (2017)
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Hong Ji Won grew up at an orphanage. To escape from her poor background, she studied hard and graduated from a prestigious university. She then worked as a secretary at a large company. Finally, Hong Ji Won married the owner of the company and gave birth to a son. Now, Hong Ji Won learns that her son has a disease. She decides that she will do anything for her son. Son YeoRi was raised by wealthy foster parents, but she is abandoned by foster parents and her boyfriend. To protect her child, Son Yeo Ri goes to prison.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera
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Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sana'y Wala Nang Wakas was a soap aired by ABS-CBN that premiered on May 19, 2003 and ended July 9, 2004. It is a love story of two star-crossed lovers who suffer for their parents’ long forgotten sins. Christian and Ara battle the odd twists and turns of fate in the hopes of protecting a love that withstands the test of time. The series was headlined by Jericho Rosales, Kristine Hermosa, Diether Ocampo and Angelika dela Cruz.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera
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Ester the Queen (2010)
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Esther, the Queen tells the story of a beautiful young lady, and Jewish at a time when her people were persecuted and she must avoid all of being extinct. The drama takes place in Persian Empire, where King Ahasuerus called all the virgins of the kingdom so he could choose a new queen for him. When he meets Esther, King Ahasuerus falls in love with her immediately, without knowing the truth about her origin. Esther surrenders to the love of the king and reveals her true feelings for him. They get married she is crowned queen of the whole Persian Empire. However, not everything is the plot is romance. Prejudice, jealousy and many traps are armed by Haman, the prime minister who convinces the king to exterminate the Jews. When she finds out such brutality to his people, Esther finds courage to tell the King about his Jewish origin and begs him to have pity and don't take off the Jews' life.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, novela
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Machos (2003)
Plot Summary:
Set in the city of Viña del Mar, the story focuses on the Mercader family and the conflicts, love and relationships that arise between the patriarch Ángel Mercader and his 7 sons.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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Tierra de Pasiones (2006)
Plot Summary:
In a beautiful valley where the most exquisite grapes are farmed, an intense and sizzling love story will flourish between Valeria San Roman, a beautiful woman with a strong character, which has given her the strength to face life's deceptions, and Francisco Contreras, renowned publisher, widower and a man of will. Valeria, who manages the San Roman vineyard, hasn't had an easy life. Her own father, Jose Maria 'Chema' San Roman, the family's patriarch, has always hated her because she is the only one who doesn't obey him. A man without scruples, selfish and womanizing, Chema arrived to the United States, married Valeria's mom to steal everything from her and later disposed of her. If that weren't enough, Chema schemes a hideous plan causing Valeria to experience a horrible betrayal. Meanwhile, Francisco arrives to visit his father at the ranch only to learn that he has married Marcia, a woman much younger than he who leads him to the brink of bankruptcy and drives him to suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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River of Intrigues (2010)
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River of intrigues is a historic town with beautiful landscape and a river where people practice sports. Despite its beautiful scenery, the city`s main asset is its different inhabitants. Intrigue, confusion and a lot of passion heat up / warm up the plot. Everything in this quiet town is transformed with the arrival of a mega-project, which causes an impact on all aspects of social life of each resident.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Jackpot! (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends had been playing lottery since two years ago. In the New Year's Eve, when the prize has an extraordinary value, they picked the correct numbers of the lottery and they all become millionaires. They live their dreams but they are also involved in a terrible nightmare because they made a pact: each one has a mission to accomplish within one year and only those who can accomplish their mission shall be entitled to the other half of the prize that is stored in a saving account. The conflicts get worse when the friends that won the lottery start to die mysteriously and the winners enter in a game of life or death in which, if they don't discover who the murderer is, they may be the next victim. In addition, Jackpot!, reveals the difficulties of resetting in the labor market, the characteristics of old age and the values of present society. And as it must be in all good telenovela, there are stories of love, full of romance and intrigue.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, telenovela
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The Rich and Lazarus (2017)
Plot Summary:
After the death of Joshua, the Hebrew people begin to "go their own way", turning their backs on God and beginning to worship pagan gods. But when the prophet Jeremiah tries to warn them, his own people try to stone him, calling him a traitor and false prophet, but his prophecy is fulfilled with the arrival of King Nebuchadnezzar II and his wife Queen Amytis. And in another part of the story involves the love triangle involving Joana, Zac and Asher, who at the beginning of the novel were childhood friends, but over time the trio is growing and Zac and Asher fall in love with Joan, but she corresponds only to Asher.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera
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Beyond the Horizon (2013)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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Forbidden Desire (2007)
Plot Summary:
Desejo Proibido is a Brazilian telenovela broadcast by Globo Network, at 6 pm, every day, except Sunday. In the cast: Fernanda Vasconcellos, Murilo Rosa and Daniel de Oliveira.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera
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Hearts to the Limit (2004)
Plot Summary:
Corazones al límite is a Mexican telenovela about a teenage girl named Diana who was emotionally neglected from her parents, and felt unwanted. After being expelled from her boarding school in Switzerland, Diana goes back to live with her parents.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Romance, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Brave Woman (2012)
Plot Summary:
A moving tale of courage and resilience in the struggle for freedom – this is the role that life has cast for headstrong Morena in Brave Woman. Raised in a poor neighborhood in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, this tough and humble woman will spare no effort to protect her family and gain her independence.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, touching, realistic, semi serious, affectionate, telenovela
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The Slave Mother (2016)
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The story begins in 1789 in Congo, in Africa, where a tribe celebrates the marriage of Luena and Kamau. The natives, trapped and sold as slaves.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: novela, captivating
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Orphans of a Nation (2019)
Plot Summary:
Victim of a devastating bombing, a young Syrian woman agrees to marry a powerful sheikh in exchange for the money needed to save her agonizing brother. But everything changes when the boy dies and the girl must flee with her family to start a new life. Enraged, the sheikh sends his right-hand man after the bride and they fall for each other, living a forbidden love. Their relationship is put to the test when the sheikh's daughter decides to take vengeance on the couple after her father's mysterious death. From Emmy Award winners Thelma Guedes and Duca Rachid, Orphans of a Nation is a story of empathy and love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, sincere, realistic, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Paradise City (2009)
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, psychological, suspense, disturbing
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Once in a Blue Moon (2005)
Plot Summary:
Ex-babysitter Heloísa falls in love with a member of her boss' family. After the boss' death she wins custody of his 15-year-old daughter Branca, heiress to his fortune, and fights the envy of the rest of the "rich" family. The story also includes Ademilde, the owner of the main Supermarket at the "Beco da Baiuca" (Baiuca Alley) where most of the low-class characters live. The supermarket is called "O Frango com Tudo Dentro", which means "The Chicken with Everything Inside". In the Baiúca Alley live Dona Roma, the owner of the Bed and Breakfast who cross-dresses as a woman, and Morcega, the singer in the local cabaret. Both are also the neighborhood private-investigators/gossip-queens. Other residents are Anastacia and Jurema, sisters of African descent who hate being black and decide to be called Latoya and Whitney; through these two, the writers approach the racism issue with much humor and a healthy way to treat the topic.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera
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These Women (2005)
Plot Summary:
The plot takes place in 1880, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, following the lives of three strong and determined women. Aurélia, Maria da Glória and Mila are great friends who attend etiquette classes together, but life doesn't take long to put them in completely different directions.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera, novela, telenovela
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Family Secrets (2014)
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Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: soap opera
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Time After Time (2015)
Plot Summary:
Lívia and Felipe are in a forbidden love story doomed to end tragically. A century later, they both have a new chance to make their love real again. “Time After Time” is an innovative romance set in two different eras in which characters hold the opportunity to make up for their mistakes, come to terms with the past and write themselves another story.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: novela, sincere, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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The Battle of Mr. and Mrs. Sasaki (2008)
Plot Summary:
You have heard of the old cliche that goes something like 'do not mix work with pleasure.' Except this marriage may better be defined as displeasure. Two lawyers are partners at work and also married. They occasionally do not get along. Rather, they often do not get along. The war rages at home and work.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic, captivating
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Dei-te Quase Tudo (2005)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, novela
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Dark Fate (2003)
Plot Summary:
Mariana de la Noche is a Mexican telenovela from 2003. Written by Delia Fiallo and produced by Salvador Mejia, it starred Angélica Rivera, Jorge Salinas, Alejandra Barros and César Évora.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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The Clone (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lucas falls for a young Arab girl named Jade. She is caught between modern values and her Islamic upbringing. They separate and two decades pass. Then a strange turn of luck brings the pair together. Then Jade meets a clone, who is just like Lucas, but twenty years younger. She must choose between the man she loved and the memory she cherishes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Colombia, Brazil
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Never Give Up (2015)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful and intense tv show about finding and holding on to love. Nur, a simple woman from countryside goes to Istanbul and finds what she expected the least; love.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, romantic, captivating, soap opera
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Before We Get Married (2019)
Plot Summary:
Zhou Wei Wei is about to marry her successful, devoted fiancé. And Chu Ke Huan is also planning to tie the knot with the beautiful woman he thinks he wants to spend the rest of his life with. There’s just one hitch – as their respective wedding days approach, Wei Wei and Ke Huan are starting to develop feelings for one another. Despite their intentions to keep things platonic, Cupid seems to have other plans for them. Will they get cold feet? Will they give in to passion? Or can they keep their feelings for one another in check? This tense romantic drama about love, friendship, and betrayal is adapted from a novel by hit author Ayamei.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, suspense, suspenseful, dorama
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Los Herederos del Monte (2011)
Plot Summary:
Los Herederos Del Monte is a Spanish-language telenovela to be produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia, with Colombia as location. It is a remake of Chilean telenovela Hijos del Monte produced by TVN in 2008.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, tense, captivating, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
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Unforgivable (2015)
Plot Summary:
Martín (Iván Sánchez) hurries to Mina Escondida after getting an urgent letter from his brother begging to be rescued from the hell in which he's living. On arrival, Martin despairs upon finding out that Demetrio (Pablo Montero), his brother, has committed suicide. His sorrow is transformed into hatred and a thirst for vengeance against the woman who caused his brother suffering and brought him to death.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, novela, soap opera, telenovela
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Apocalypse (2017)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious and spiritual portrayal of one of the most intense and controversial stories in the Holy Bible: the end of the world.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: novela, soap opera, telenovela
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Distilling Love (2007)
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Film starring Angélica Rivera, Eduardo Yáñez and Sergio Sendel.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: soap opera, romantic, captivating, novela, entertaining, telenovela
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A Time to Love (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 1927, the urgent and relentless love of Maria Vitória and Inácio is interrupted by the young man's decision to cross the Atlantic in search of work, and his promise to return. Pregnant, Maria Vitória faces the wrath of her father, who decides to send her to a convent while the baby goes for adoption. Filled with courage, she goes after Inácio, hoping that together they could get their daughter back, but the couple ends up following different paths and living new love stories. They will have to face personal obstacles and the deranged jealousy of Inácio's intended until the inevitable moment of their reencounter in this classic story of growth and the immeasurable force of love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: novela, psychological, romantic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, soap opera, entertaining, telenovela