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Plot Summary:
Xu Long Bin is a reservist officer who saved Chen Jin Bao's life during a military exercise. Instead of being grateful, Jin Bao blames Long Bin for his damaged car. From then, the duo never see eye to eye. Lu Jun Guang becomes their mediator and the three men eventually became friends. Jun Guang is in love with Shen Yi Xuan, who cannot get over the memory of her dead boyfriend. While Bai Jing Yu, Jun Guang's childhood friend, is always at his side through thick and thin. New recruit Yao Wei Guo dislikes Yang Xian Feng and constantly picks on him. But Xian Feng proves himself to be a kind and compassionate buddy, and they eventually become good friends. Their friendship is tested when they fall in love with the same girl. Long Bin, Jun Guang and Jin Bao are patrolling a restricted military area when they encounter a terrorist attack. Will they be able to put their military skills to good use and stop the terrorist attack?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Drama
Country: Singapore
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic
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Prosecutor Princess (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ma Hye Ri is a woman with an excellent memory and ability to focus, which allowed her to pass the bar exam with ease. Despite her talents, she is more interested in being fashionable and dislikes hard work, so she is far from being an ideal prosecutor and has doubts about her suitability for her job. Through her conflicts with senior colleagues and struggles with difficult cases, however, Hye Ri gradually matures into a brilliant prosecutor with a sense of duty and justice.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, captivating, realistic, semi serious, light
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Juliantina (2019)
Plot Summary:
A spin-off for Juliana and Valentina from the Spanish soap opera, Amar a Muerte. Story of two girls with many differences such as social status and education, but that didn't stop them from being very good friends who ended up falling in love. With a surprising and nothing morbid interpretation the actresses gave voice and courage to many to express their feelings without fear. A love story that shows us that Love is Love.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, telenovela
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MVP (2008)
Plot Summary:
MVP is a 2008 Canadian television series that debuted January 11, 2008 on CBC Television. The program was cancelled by the CBC on March 7, 2008. Poor ratings and high production costs were cited as reasons for the cancellation.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating
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Tres Milagros (2018)
Plot Summary:
The series follows the lives of three young people who end up joining their destinies thanks to a prophecy, the prophecy says: "The day that Milagros meets Milagros and Milagros, Milagros and the love of Milagros, They will die". On September 18, 1985 there is a birth of three girls who are baptized with the same name. Catemaco's jaguar manages to see the connection between the three girls. and to his own sorrow he anticipates a prophecy. What will make the three girls start their lives and both fall in love with the same man, but only one of them will die.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, telenovela
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Married Single Other (2010)
Plot Summary:
Married Single Other is a British television drama created and written by Peter Souter. The series is based on the lives of group of people who are either married, single or "other", other being defined as in a relationship. It began airing on Monday 22 February 2010 on ITV and UTV. The drama series was later screened in Scotland on STV from February 2012. The series was filmed on location in various areas of Leeds, while Left Bank Pictures television studios annexed to The Leeds Studios were used for interior shooting.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sincere, humorous, semi serious
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Desire (2006)
Plot Summary:
On the run from a New Jersey crime family, two brothers wend their way to Los Angeles, where they make their dream of owning a restaurant a reality. But their life in hiding life becomes complicated when their lives are torn apart by their love for the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 3900 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, sincere, suspense, contemplative
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Way Back Into Love (2020)
Plot Summary:
As a student, Lu Jia spent most of her time in school dreaming of the day she finally caught the attention of Xu Jia Xiu. A student in the class next door, Jia Xiu was everything Jia dreamed a guy could be. Unfortunately, all of her dreams were based on a secret, one-sided love. Knowing that nothing would ever happen with Jia Xiu if she kept her feelings as secret, Jia decided to do what any desperate girl might do. She mustered up every ounce of her courage and wrote him a letter. Having never paid any attention to the quiet girl in the class next door, the letter from Jia comes as a bit of a surprise to Jia Xiu. With no prior feelings for Jia, Jia Xiu can’t give her any sort of an answer. But that doesn’t mean she failed to make an impression. Despite the fact that many years have passed and nothing ever came of the letter, Jia Xiu has often wondered what happened to the girl who was once brave enough to confess her feelings for him.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Cloroform (2012)
Plot Summary:
Life of boxing in Mexico city, bets, deception, love, crime and courage takes place in the lives of amateur boxers to professional fighters.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, rough, realistic, telenovela
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The Ice Cream Girls (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Ice Creams is based on the bestselling book by Dorothy Koomson about two girls who, one brief summer, find themselves involved with an abusive, controlling man. The situation spirals out of control and they are trial for his murder; ultimately Poppy gets sent to prison. Flash forward 17 years; Serena is married with a daughter in a seemingly comfortable life, returns to Brighton to take care of her dying mother. Poppy has been released and she wants answers. She claims not to have killed Marcus, but if she didn't and Serena didn't....then who did?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, realistic
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The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry (2010)
Plot Summary:
When three women put their careers above their personal relationships in their quest to succeed, would they change anything about their lives now that they’re in their 30s? Lee Shin Young is a reporter for the UBN broadcasting company. Jung Da Jung works as a Korean-English translator. Kim Boo Ki works as a popular restaurant consultant. The women are all 36 years old and good friends. When one gets married and discovers married life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, another develops a condition that sidelines her career, and the other suddenly finds a baby at her doorstep, they help each other deal with the challenges facing modern career women.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, humorous
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Red Roses (2006)
Plot Summary:
Rote Rosen is a German telenovela produced by Studio Hamburg Serienwerft Lüneburg and broadcast by Das Erste since November 6, 2006. The show is a complex telenovela, who tells one love story every season about women in their forties.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, serious, telenovela
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Blue (2012)
Plot Summary:
Blue is a mother with a secret life. She'll do anything to keep it from her son. But her past has other plans.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, tense, sexual, sexy
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Saved (2006)
Plot Summary:
“Saved” chronicles medical school dropout turned paramedic Wyatt Cole, who finds the breakneck pace of his 24-hour shift a welcome escape from his inner demons.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, serious, medical drama, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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House of Hancock (2015)
Plot Summary:
House of Hancock tells the epic true story of the Hancock dynasty and the bizarre love triangle that emerged between Lang, his daughter Gina, and his beautiful Filipina housekeeper Rose.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, epic, saga
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Code Blue (2008)
Plot Summary:
Four young physicians are assigned to the “Doctor Helicopter” system, the latest medical system where a medical team is dispatched to the patients via helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon as possible. The doctors experience traumatic medical situations, deal with personal ambitions, and witness the fragility of life, all while growing personally and professionally.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, sincere, serious, captivating
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Kuzey Guney (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kuzey Güney is a spin-off Turkish television drama series of 1976 American television miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. The scenarists are Ece Yörenç and Melek Gençoğlu. The series stars Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ as Kuzey Tekinoğlu, a restless son of an Istanbul baker, who comes back from prison four years after he admits to a crime his brother, Güney, committed. The series is broadcast in the Turkey on the popular Kanal D channel, and is produced by Ay Yapım. It premiered on September 7, 2011 and was among Turkey's four most popular TV shows, after Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Adını Feriha Koydum, Öyle Bir Geçer Zaman Ki and Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne? being the most successful one. Kuzey Güney has been aired every Wednesday evening at 8 pm on Kanal D. But starting from Episode 61, airs on the same day at 10 pm. After two long seasons and 80 episodes Kuzey Güney came to an end on 26 June.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, tense, surprise ending
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Prisoners Wives (2012)
Plot Summary:
Behind every prisoner, there's a wife, girlfriend or mother doing time on the outside. For some it's a nightmare, for others a liberation. Prisoners' Wives - it's time to tell their stories.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating, tense, detective
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A Passionate Woman (2010)
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1950's, Leeds: Betty (Billie Piper) is a wife and mother, whose life is changed forever after falling hopelessly and dangerously in love with her charismatic Polish neighbour, Alex Crazenovski, better known as Craze . Against her principles, she soon abandons herself to a world of untapped thrills and passion, a world that has been so desperately missing from her own conventional and claustrophobic marriage. But 30 years later, an older Betty (Sue Johnston) comes to realise that her compulsive passion of the past and its consequences have created ripples that spill far into the future, finally reaching crisis point on her beloved son s wedding day.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, thought provoking, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, period drama
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HaMidrasha (2015)
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Cadets from every level of Israeli society undergo intense training to join their country's elite, highly classified intelligence service, the Mossad. The series revolves around a secret Mossad compound called 'HaMidrasha', which is surrounded by surveillance cameras and is equipped with technological devices. The compound operates a training course in which 13 trainees are sent to complicated missions in order to test their suitability for the occupation, and their improvisation, seduction and impersonation abilities. Yonna, the commander of the course, criticizes the mediocrity of Mossad's agents and demands from the new trainees a higher level of execution. He decides to create a new training program to test his trainees via unusual and radical situations, in which, apart from excellence, Yonna demands a creative "out of the box" thinking.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
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Welcome to Reality (2011)
Plot Summary:
This dramatic series follows a group of troubled Mexican teens in their last year of school, coping with such challenges as drug abuse and sexual identity. In other words, growing up.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sentimental, sincere, telenovela
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From There to Here (2014)
Plot Summary:
Created by Peter Bowker, From There To Here is set in the aftermath of the 1996 Arndale bombing and follows Daniel Cotton, a Manchester family man who is torn between the life he wants and the life he could have. The story spans the four years that changed Manchester and the country forever; from Footballs Coming Home in 1996, to New Labour sweeping to power in 1997, and finally to the hangover after the Millennium celebrations of 2000. Against the feel-good backdrop of Euro 96, it maps the emotional shockwaves generated by that bomb in the lives of two parallel families from different sides of the tracks.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, touching, captivating, realistic
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The Smoke (2014)
Plot Summary:
An experienced fire fighter is badly injured and spends almost a year recovering at home. Now he returns to work, but is he as emotionally and physically sound as he thinks he is?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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Arctic Air (2012)
Plot Summary:
Arctic Air is about a Yellowknife-based maverick airline and the unconventional family who runs it. The owners are Mel Ivarson, an old school bush pilot; Krista Ivarson, Mel's daughter; and Bobby Martin, the son of Ivarson's deceased partner. Episodes focus on interpersonal conflicts between the characters as well as dramatic flying missions with their aging fleet of Douglas DC-3s, de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otters and other aircraft. Each episode has one or more flying missions. The series was canceled on March 17, 2014, due to government budgetary cuts.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic
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Our Grand Despair (2011)
Plot Summary:
The peaceful cohabitation of two 30-something bachelors is disrupted when they both fall in love with the charming young woman who moves in with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, sentimental, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, art house
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Lone Star (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lone Star is an American drama television series which originally ran on Fox from September 20, 2010 to September 27, 2010, airing Monday nights at 9 pm ET/PT. Fox announced Lone Star's cancellation on September 28, 2010 after two low-rated episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing
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Breaking News (2002)
Plot Summary:
Breaking News is an American drama television series about the fictional Milwaukee-based 24-hour cable news television network I-24, with the motto 'Around the Clock, Around the World.' The series premiered July 17, 2002, on Bravo.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating
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Trauma Center (1983)
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When a person is seriously injured in an accident, they often have only one hour to live. Dr. Michael "Cutter" Royce (James Naughton) leads a hospital's specialized emergency department that is designed to make maximum use of that one golden hour to save lives, a trauma center. However, even before that crack medical team can begin, it is the task of paramedics like John Six (Lou Ferrigno) and "Hatter" Pacelli (Alfie Wise) to rescue such victims and get them to the center within that hour. With all the emergencies that occur in their city, this medical team both in the field and in the hospital are challenged to the utmost.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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First Monday (2002)
Plot Summary:
A newcomer to the Supreme Court finds himself a pivotal force on an often deadlocked bench, frequently at odds over hot-button cases in this earnest but brief legal drama.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy
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Game of Silence (2016)
Plot Summary:
A successful Atlanta attorney's long-lost childhood friends unexpectedly reappear after 25 years. When a dark secret they thought they'd buried resurfaces, the brotherhood bands together to right the wrongs of their shared past - a journey that will push the limits of their loyalty and quench their thirst for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
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Rosary Scissors (2010)
Plot Summary:
Rosario is a teenage schoolgirl who lives in a tough Latin neighborhood filled with challenges. Having poverty all around, she faces difficult situations from family, school, rich friends vs. poor friends, and the element of drug cartel activity while she is forming her beliefs, goals and life. Her special skill of being "street-smart" allows her to outwit and shine in situations of danger, and is an epic strength that attracts people in her life, as well as helping her and her friends get ahead and what they want out of life. Her reputation becomes larger than real-life, and causes trouble and changes in the Barrio.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration:
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, serious, telenovela