Best soap series ever

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch soap shows from all over the world, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

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    Empire 2015

    A powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne.

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  • Poster for Dawson's Creek

    Dawson's Creek 1998

    Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.

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  • Poster for Dynasty

    Dynasty 2017

    Follows two of America’s wealthiest families, the Carringtons and the Colbys, as they feud for control over their fortune and their children focusing on Fallon Carrington, the daughter of billionaire Blake Carrington, and her soon-to-be stepmother, Cristal, a Hispanic woman marrying into this WASP family and America’s most powerful class.

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  • Poster for Beverly Hills, 90210

    Beverly Hills, 90210 1990

    Follow the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California University after graduation.

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  • Poster for Oh My Ghostess

    Oh My Ghostess 2015

    Na Bong Sun may be a skilled sous chef, but she lacks the self-esteem to shine professionally and socially. Beyond her cooking talents, however, is an uncanny ability to communicate with ghosts. One day, her mystic senses go out of control when the seductive ghost of Shin Soon Ae possesses her. Imbued with a fiery new "personality," Bong Sun starts turning heads, including that of Kang Sun Woo, the hottest chef in town and Bong Sun's secret crush!

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  • Poster for Felicity

    Felicity 1998

    Felicity Porter, a sensitive and intelligent girl from the San Francisco Bay Area, decides to give up a slot at Stanford University's pre-med program to follow her long time crush to college in New York City. Things get even more complicated when she meets her dorm's resident advisor and they fall in love.

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  • Poster for Degrassi

    Degrassi 2001

    The life of a group of adolescents going through the trials and tribulations of teendom at Degrassi Community School.

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  • Poster for Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots

    Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots 2013

    Follow the complicated dynamic between the rich and powerful Cryer family and the hired help who work in their opulent Savannah, Georgia, mansion.

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  • Poster for Dallas

    Dallas 1978

    The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked "Who shot J.R.?" A slow-burner to begin with, Dallas hit its stride in the 2nd season, with long storylines and expert character development. Dallas ruled the airwaves in the 1980's.

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  • Poster for Erkenci Kus

    Erkenci Kus 2018

    Sanem, a young girl with aspirations of becoming a writer, is forced by her parents to choose between an arranged marriage and finding a proper job. Rushing into a new job at an advertising company, she soon falls for her boss, Can.

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  • Poster for Rebelde

    Rebelde 2004

    Six teenagers with different lives and personalities attend a prominent private school with only one thing in common: their vocation and passion for music.

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  • Poster for Melrose Place

    Melrose Place 1992

    Follow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, California.

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  • Poster for Famous in Love

    Famous in Love 2017

    Ordinary college student Paige gets her big break after auditioning for the starring role in a Hollywood blockbuster. She must now navigate her new star-studded life and the highs and lows that come with being the new It Girl in town as well as balancing her college workload.

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  • Poster for The Cook of Castamar

    The Cook of Castamar 2021

    Set in early 18th-century Madrid, the plot follows the love story between an agoraphobic cook and a widowed nobleman.

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  • Poster for Velvet

    Velvet 2014

    In 1950s Spain, the heir to a fashion house romances a beautiful seamstress who works for the company, despite the objections of his family.

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  • Poster for The Marked Heart

    The Marked Heart 2022

    A man hell-bent on exacting revenge on the organ trafficking organization that murdered his wife becomes involved with the woman who received her heart.

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  • Poster for Soy Luna

    Soy Luna 2016

    Luna Valente lives with her family in Cancún, Mexico. She goes to school, has her own group of friends, has a job, and loves to skate. However, her life changes when her parents are given a job offer that moves them to Buenos Aires, Argentina. There she finds a new skating rink (named Jam & Roller), learns freestyling, makes new friends, and even falls in love.

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  • Poster for Violetta

    Violetta 2012

    A musically talented teenager returns to her native Buenos Aires with her father, Herman, after living in Europe for several years, navigating the trials and tribulations of growing up.

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  • Poster for A Place To Call Home

    A Place To Call Home 2013

    A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia. A sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s rural Australia following the lives of the Blighs, a wealthy and complicated pastoralist family, who lives in Inverness, NSW.

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  • Poster for General Hospital

    General Hospital 1963

    Families, friends, enemies and lovers experience life-changing events in the large upstate New York city of Port Charles, which has a busy hospital, upscale hotel, cozy diner and dangerous waterfront frequented by the criminal underworld.

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  • Poster for Yo soy Betty, la fea

    Yo soy Betty, la fea 1999

    Beatriz Pinzón Solano is a brilliant economist with a master's degree in finance; she has only one flaw: she's ugly. Everything changes when she starts working at Ecomoda, one of the country's largest companies, where she meets and falls in love with Armando Mendoza. This time, life will give her a second chance to prove she can become the most desired and beloved woman in the world.

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  • Poster for O11CE

    O11CE 2017

    The series revolves around Gabo, a soccer-loving teenager who, upon receiving a scholarship from the prestigious Sports Academic Institute (IAD) of Buenos Aires, will see his dream of playing at Los Halcones Dorados, the renowned amateur team of the school, and also his longing to become a professional footballer.

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  • Poster for Tyler Perry's If Loving You Is Wrong

    Tyler Perry's If Loving You Is Wrong 2014

    This sexy, sleek drama takes viewers into the lives of a group of husbands, wives and friends that live and love in the same middle class neighborhood. On the surface they are true-to-life, relatable people – raising children, working jobs, finding and maintaining romance - but just below the veneer of happiness, their lives are entangled by heartbreak, deceit and lies that threaten to destroy everything.

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  • Poster for Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah

    Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah 2008

    Inspired by the famous Gujarati column *Duniya Ne Undha Chasma* by Tarak Mehta, this show captures the everyday life in Gokuldham Co-operative Society, addressing socially relevant issues with humor. At its heart is Jethalal, an uneducated Gujarati businessman, who often seeks guidance from his wise neighbor and friend, Taarak Mehta. Jethalal lives with his naive yet lovable wife Daya Ben and their mischievous son Tapu, whose antics frequently disrupt the peace of the society. The members often warn Jethalal to control Tapu or face eviction. In desperation, he calls his father, Champaklal, from the village, hoping he’ll instill discipline in Tapu. Instead, the grandfather-grandson duo teams up, creating even more chaos and turning Jethalal’s life into a comedic roller coaster. The show blends family dynamics, friendship, and neighborhood bonds with a dose of satire and laughter.

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  • Poster for Soap

    Soap 1977

    Sisters Mary Campbell and Jessica Tate lead soap-opera lives with their crazy families.

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  • Poster for Dynasty

    Dynasty 1981

    The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam, lost in childhood after a kidnapping; Fallon, pampered and spoiled; Steven, openly gay; and Amanda, hidden from him by his ex-wife, the conniving Alexis. Most of the show features the conflict between 2 large corporations, Blake's Denver Carrington and Alexis' ColbyCo.

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  • Poster for Coronation Street

    Coronation Street 1960

    The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.

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  • Poster for Days of our Lives

    Days of our Lives 1965

    "Like sands through the hourglass... so are the Days of our Lives." These words, spoken by late cast member Macdonald Carey, open every episode of this daytime drama, chronicaling the trials and tribulations of the citizens of the fictional city of Salem.

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  • Poster for The Young and the Restless

    The Young and the Restless 1973

    The rivalries, romances, hopes and fears of the residents of the fictional Midwestern metropolis, Genoa City. The lives and loves of a wide variety of characters mingle through the generations, dominated by the Newman, Abbott, Baldwin and Winters families.

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  • Poster for Rebelde Way

    Rebelde Way 2002

    Four teenagers at an elite school in Buenos Aires are drawn together by their love of music, despite their differing social and economic backgrounds.

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  • Poster for EastEnders

    EastEnders 1985

    The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.

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  • Poster for Avenida Brasil

    Avenida Brasil 2012

    Brazil Avenue is a dynamic, lifelike, and modern telenovela that reveals how unrelenting ambition and inflicted cruelty can change a young girl’s destiny and lead her to seek revenge.

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  • Poster for Return to Las Sabinas

    Return to Las Sabinas 2024

    Gracia and Paloma return to Las Sabinas to look after their father, Emilio. Gracia reunites with her childhood sweetheart, Miguel, who is now engaged to Esther. Paloma takes over the family's land and clashes with landowner Paca Utrera, who shares a terrible secret with Emilio and has a nefarious plan for the village. Young Óscar is found dead under strange circumstances. Manuela must investigate the murder with the help of Óscar's brother, Álex, who is a priest.

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  • Poster for The Windsors

    The Windsors 2016

    Comedy soap opera re-imagining the lives of the British Royal Family as you have never seen them before.

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  • Poster for Pink Sin

    Pink Sin 2018

    Kangsadan is a dreamer who used to view the world in an positive light until her pink colored world changed when she became the woman of Patsakorn, the only man she loves. He made her an offer for her to become his mistress in exchange for the house, the only memory she has left of her mother. Patsakorn is the only heir of a millionaire/billionaire who hides his cruel coldness under his good looks. He says he never has eyes for Kangsadan, the little girl who fell in love with him. But one day his heart began to waver. Kangsadan stepped up to the status as the woman his father loves likes his own daughter. With resentment in his heart, Patsakorn decided to turn his back on his family. After four years, he came back as a charming and handsome businessman to become business rivals with his father's company. He returned in order to take everything back, and Kangsadan will be the first person he takes revenge on

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  • Poster for Love Mechanics

    Love Mechanics 2022

    Vee has a girlfriend. Mark has feelings. One moment changes everything, and now they must face what love really means.

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  • Poster for Dark Shadows

    Dark Shadows 1966

    Dark Shadows is an American gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show was created by Dan Curtis. The story bible, which was written by Art Wallace, does not mention any supernatural elements. It was unprecedented in daytime television when ghosts were introduced about six months after it began. The series became hugely popular when vampire Barnabas Collins appeared a year into its run. Dark Shadows also featured werewolves, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel, and a parallel universe. A small company of actors each played many roles; indeed, as actors came and went, some characters were played by more than one actor. Major writers besides Art Wallace included Malcolm Marmorstein, Sam Hall, Gordon Russell, and Violet Welles.

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  • Poster for Point Pleasant

    Point Pleasant 2005

    A series of supernatural events begins in a small coastal New Jersey town after the arrival of a mysterious teenage girl, who apparently has the ability to influence the people and events around her.

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  • Poster for Like In The Movies

    Like In The Movies 2020

    Gaya sa Pelikula (Like in the Movies) is about Karl, a 19-year old architecture student in the middle of an identity crisis and Vlad, a schoolmate on the run from his own family. As their lives become entwined by fate making them housemates over the semestral break, Karl and Vlad come to learn more about each other and themselves than they could have ever imagined.

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  • Poster for Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020

    Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020 2019

    Six strangers share a fabulous house in Tokyo, looking for love while living under the same roof. With no script, what happens next is all up to them.

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  • Poster for The L.A. Complex

    The L.A. Complex 2012

    Six young performers having been dubbed “most likely to succeed” in their hometowns now face the challenges and opportunities of a lifetime in the City of Angels.

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  • Poster for Hidden Truths

    Hidden Truths 2015

    A teenager who dreams with a career as a top model becomes part of a prostitution scheme and meets a powerful and obsessive businessman. As a last resort, he marries the girl's mother just to be near her. This series explores the limits of obsession, wealth and pleasure, using the fashion world as backdrop.

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  • Poster for Neighbours

    Neighbours 1985

    Neighbours is an Australian television soap opera. The show's storylines concern the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in Erinsborough, a fictional suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The series primarily centres around the residents of Ramsay Street, a short cul-de-sac, and its neighbouring areas, the Lassiters complex, which includes a bar, hotel, cafe, news office and park. Neighbours began with three families created by Watson – the Ramsays, the Robinsons and the Clarkes. Watson said that he wanted to show three families who are friends living in a small street. The Robinsons and the Ramsays had a long history and were involved in an ongoing rivalry.

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  • Poster for Chicago Hope

    Chicago Hope 1994

    Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return in the fall of 2013 on TVGN in reruns.

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  • Poster for The Bold and the Beautiful

    The Bold and the Beautiful 1987

    Continuing drama combining romance and intrigue set against the glittering backdrop of Beverly Hills and the American fashion industry.

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  • Poster for The Lord of the Skies

    The Lord of the Skies 2013

    Set in the 1990s, these are the life and times of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, a man who became the head of the Juárez cartel. Nicknamed “El Señor de los Cielos” (Lord of the Skies) because of the large fleet of airplanes he used to transport drugs, he was also known for washing more than $200 million through Colombia to finance his huge fleet. He is described as the most powerful drug trafficker of his time.

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  • Poster for Kally's Mashup

    Kally's Mashup 2017

    Kally is a musical prodigy trying to juggle being a classical piano virtuoso, a normal 14-year old girl, and having a secret desire to become a world-famous pop-star.

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  • Poster for Almost Angels

    Almost Angels 2007

    A group of orphans are exploited and forced to steal for Bartolomé Bedoya Agüero and Justina Merarda García. However, everything changes when Cielo Mágico, acrobat and dancer, and Dr. Nicolás Bauer, an archaeologist, enter the kids' lives. Cielo, through her music, her love and her kindness, and Nicolás, with his fatherly nature and dreams, give the children the chance to believe in joy again.

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  • Poster for Casualty

    Casualty 1986

    Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

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  • Poster for Prisoner: Cell Block H

    Prisoner: Cell Block H 1979

    Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.

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  • Poster for Dante's Cove

    Dante's Cove 2005

    A young gay couple must overcome dark, mystical forces conspiring against them, starting with a vengeful 19th century witch and her cheating warlock fiance.

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  • Poster for Kuma - The Other Wife

    Kuma - The Other Wife 2025

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  • Poster for Home and Away

    Home and Away 1988

    Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart family. During the early 2000s, the central storylines focused on the Sutherlands and later, the Hunters. Home and Away had proved popular when it premiered in 1988 and had risen to become a hit in Australia, and after only a few weeks, the show tackled its first major and disturbing storyline, the rape of Carly Morris; it was one of the first shows to feature such storylines during the early timeslot. H&A has tackled many adult-themed and controversial storylines; something rarely found in its restricted timeslot.

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  • Poster for The Clone

    The Clone 2001

    Human cloning. The Islamic world. Two young people, two different cultures, two different beliefs. An impossible love story that not even time could erase. During a trip to Morocco, Lucas has a forbidden romance with Jade. He returns to Brazil after the death of his twin brother Diogo. A close family friend, scientist Albieri uses this situation to produce the first human clone using cells taken from Lucas. Twenty years later, Jade, Lucas and his clone form an odd love triangle.

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  • Poster for Teresa

    Teresa 2010

    Teresa Chavez is a young woman with an obsession for money and ambition. Despite her beauty and the fact that she was raised in the bosom of a loving family, she is resentful; her one desire is to leave her humble but poor neighbourhood.

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  • Poster for Mentiras, The Series

    Mentiras, The Series 2025

    After discovering that Emmanuel Mijares has died, Daniela, Dulce, Yuri, and Lupita are summoned to a mysterious mansion. Forced to interact, the tensions between them quickly ignite, and the lies they've been hiding for years come to light. But little by little, these women begin to question themselves, to reflect, and to realize that they share much more than they ever imagined.

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  • Poster for Emmerdale

    Emmerdale 1972

    The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.

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  • Poster for Falcon Crest

    Falcon Crest 1981

    Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.

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  • Poster for Knots Landing

    Knots Landing 1979

    The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.

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  • Poster for Scars of Beauty

    Scars of Beauty 2025

    Two families, two terrible injustices, and one common plan for revenge. A daughter who loses her mother is wrongly imprisoned and murdered in prison. A mother who loses her daughter is the victim of medical malpractice. Both join forces to take revenge on those who destroyed their families.

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  • Poster for Full House

    Full House 2014

    Sentimental tears flood the screen again with the remake of this classic series.Directed and filmed by producer Max Martin Ananda. Everio Birmingham with his team at Swarm Products Company Limited has created a series of viral fever Korean idols for Thailand. Raised and imprinted audiences all over Thailand to imbue art, poetry, romantic vibe. The perfect match between chemicals. A spirit happy nad sad drama that has captured the hearts of people everywhere.

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  • Poster for Queens

    Queens 2021

    Estranged and out-of-touch, four women in their 40s reunite for a chance to recapture their fame and regain the swagger they had as the Nasty Bitches—their ‘90s group that made them legends in the hip-hop world.

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  • Poster for Le cœur a ses raisons

    Le cœur a ses raisons 2005

    In the fictional city of Saint Andrews, Brett Montgomery, a wealthy cosmetics businessman and doctor at the local hospital, and Brad, his evil twin brother, battle for control of the Montgomery family fortune. Brett’s fiancée, Cricket, is a journalist with the local television station and has a twin sister, Ashley, who is a nurse at the hospital.

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  • Poster for F.C. De Kampioenen

    F.C. De Kampioenen 1990

    F.C. De Kampioenen, was a long-running Flemish sitcom chronicling the adventures of a fictional local football team. It aired on the Belgian-Flemish channel één between 1990 and 2011, for 21 seasons with 273 half-hour long episodes, making it one of the most successful comedy programs ever on Belgian television. In 2009 a film had been planned, but has since been cancelled following complaints by the actors about the script. In 2012 the crew announced a new script was written and a movie will be produced. The movie is to be released in December 2013. The series relies heavily on stereotypical characters and farce for its humour. The story is mainly set around a few members of the football club who regularly visit the club canteen before or after a soccer training or match. The canteen is run by Pascale, who is in a relationship with Maurice. The football club is sponsored by the owner of a sausage factory, Balthazar Boma. Next to the field is an antiques shop, owned by the fraudulent Fernand. Most of the episodes are based on misunderstandings or dirty tricks from Fernand.

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  • Poster for The Miracle

    The Miracle 2016

    How could twin sisters be such polar opposites? Kwon Shi Ah is the beautiful sister, gorgeous in every way and a member of the popular girl group known as Miracle Girls. Since she was in preschool, Shia has worked as a model and then a teen actress before becoming an idol. Her fraternal twin sister, Shi Yeon, is almost double the body size of Shi Ah and has always been ridiculed and bullied in school for her large frame. Because of this, Shi Yeon has become a recluse, who prefers staying home and producing an Internet broadcast within the safety of her room. The only time Shi Yeon ventures out is to visit a mysterious tarot card reader who gives Shi Yeon a magical tarot card every day. But the twin sisters’ lives are turned upside down when they wake up one day and realize that their souls have switched bodies! What will an idol musician and Shi Yeon’s high school crush think of the women they thought they knew?

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  • Poster for Chocolate com Pimenta

    Chocolate com Pimenta 2003

    Ana Francisca is a poor and ugly girl who, after being humiliated by the entire town, becomes a beautiful, stylish and rich woman who wants revenge. During this trajectory, this romantic comedy also shows the true love of Ana Francisca and Danilo that survives throughout the years, the distance and the traps of destiny. They will be part of a love triangle with Olga, a snobbish girl who is going to do anything to steal Danilo from Ana Francisca.

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