Maria da Paz is a committed baker who becomes a wealthy businesswoman twenty years after a tragedy strikes on the day of her wedding to Amadeu. From this broken union a baby is born, Jô, who seeks power and despises her mother’s humble origins. Afraid that her parents’ reunion might spoil her plans, Jô starts an alliance with the charming Régis to convince Maria to marry him and, together, they plan to steal all of Maria’s fortune. In this exciting telenovela written by Emmy Awards winner Walcyr Carrasco, Maria’s optimism must be stronger than Jô’s ambition when the baker finds out about the betrayal and her own daughter’s dangerous secrets.
"Sparkling Girls" centers around three young and beautiful, hard-working housekeepers who reach stardom instantly when an online video clip of them singing, surprisingly becomes a hit. Their success provokes the wrath of a glamorously gaudy and outspoken famous singer who will do anything to ruin the girls' friendship and career. With humor, romance, over the top characters, and bright, glittery stage performances set to catchy tunes, "Sparkling Girls" delivers all of the expected delights and shows that dreams really do come true.
Zhou Ying is sold to the powerful Shen family by her foster father, yet successfully escapes by sneaking into merchant Wu Ping’s palanquin. The Wu family agreed to take her in after witnessing her remarkable business acumen, and she ends up marrying Wu Ping. The drama will chronicle the life of the Qing Dynasty's richest female merchant, and her struggles to keep the Wu family business afloat during the last years of the Qing Dynasty. Shen Xingyi is a happy-go-lucky young sir who has never known hardship in his life. After meeting Zhou Ying, he eventually decides to change his ways and becomes a mature noble who is willing to protect his country and family from disaster. He has a seemingly unrequited love for Zhou Ying.
Pasan Ko Ang Daigdig is a Philippine drama that airs on GMA Network. This is the fourth instalment of Sine Novela. The original movie was released back in 1987.
For the TV remake of the movie GMA negotiated with Viva films that they would keep the elements of the old movie but use the comic elements of Pablo Gomez to make the story more fitting for its TV remake.
Ji Eun is the daughter of a wealthy chaebol family. She is bright, humorous, beautiful, and smart. Ji Eun meets Se Hoon, who runs a small furniture workshop. Unlike Ji Eun, Se Hoon comes from a poor family background. He was once the top student at a prestigious university, but he had to drop out due to his sick mother. Nevertheless, Ji Eun falls deeply in love with Se Hoon. She confesses her feelings to him. Se Hoon is also in love with Ji Eun, but he turns her down due to the extreme differences in their backgrounds. Eventually, Se Hoon is unable to bury his feelings any longer and they decide to marry.
Makunouchi Ippo is een gewone middelbare scholier in Japan. Omdat hij het grootste deel van zijn tijd buiten school doorbrengt met het helpen van zijn moeder bij het runnen van het familiebedrijf, kan hij niet zoals de meeste tieners van zijn jongere jaren genieten. Ippo's leven is altijd een doelwit voor pesterijen op school (het familievisserijbedrijf geeft hem een duidelijke geur). Ippo's leven is er een van ontberingen. Een van deze pestsessies na schooltijd verandert Ippo's leven ten goede, aangezien hij wordt gered door een bokser genaamd Takamura. Hij besluit in de voetsporen van Takamura te treden en een opleiding tot bokser te volgen, waardoor zijn leven richting en een doel krijgt. Ippo's pad naar het perfectioneren van zijn boksvaardigheid is nog maar net begonnen...
To escape her cruel stepmother, Lu Zhen enters the palace and rises through the ranks with her pottery skills. Despite capturing the heart of Crown Prince Gao Zhan, social barriers and jealous enemies prevent their union. She dedicates herself to politics, helping him thwart a coup, and is eventually honored with the position of female prime minister.
In een moordende wereld waar het leven waarin je geboren bent bepalend is voor je succes, zijn drie aspirant-jongeren vastbesloten om die perceptie te veranderen terwijl ze vechten voor hun dromen.
Driedelig drama van HBO over een vrijgevochten, pas gescheiden vrouw die tijdens de Grote Depressie probeert om voor zichzelf en haar gezin een nieuw leven te beginnen. De serie is gebaseerd op de roman uit 1941 van James M. Cain.
Een man komt om bij een auto-ongeluk, maar wordt wakker met de geest van een andere persoon. Hij wordt het hoofd van twee families en hij maakt zich zorgen over zijn twee verschillende vrouwen.
From when she was young, Qing Ling grew up in an orphanage. She is a kind, cheerful and helpful girl with a perfect sense of smell. Due to her sensitivity to smells, she started to develop perfume. Qing Ling's dream is to create a perfume to pay back the orphanage and help society. In order to realize this dream, Qing Ling persevered through all sorts of adversity. While chasing her dream, she received Xu Qinglun, Duan Tian Lang, Duan Yi Hua and others help. With Duan Tian Lang, they went from friends to lovers. During this period, she also found her family and reconnected with them. After experiencing lots of frustration, she finally, with her own effort and everyone's help, produced her own perfume brand, realized her dream and obtained love.
In a colorful Seoul neighborhood, an ex-con and his friends fight a mighty foe to make their ambitious dreams for their street bar a reality.
Based on Hashim Nadeem’s novel of the same name, the titular protagonist is born in unfortunate circumstances – a poor family of eleven people and dark skin. In a society obsessed with fair skin, he finds himself in start contrast with his name (lit. fairy's child)
Violence and Victorian gentility meet in this powerful adaptations of one of Dickens's greatest creations, his most piercing examination of upward mobility.
The Thorn Birds is a 2011 South Korean television series where one woman forsakes her love and family for her ambition while another woman embraces with love all that the former had left behind. Fates of a bit part actress Seo Jung-eun and a film producer Han Yoo-kyung who chose success are intertwined and resolved gradually as their mutual stories progress.
The "thorn birds" of the title refers to Jung-eun's character, who only brings out her best at the cost of great pain. A thornbird is a mythical bird who searches for a thorn tree from the day it is born. When it finds it, the bird impales itself upon the sharpest thorn, and rises above the agony to sing the most beautiful song ever heard.
Een verhaal dat twee koppels volgt die per ongeluk in een huwelijk terechtkomen dat ze nooit hadden verwacht en geleidelijk naar liefde en vertrouwen groeien.
A home-searching romance story about a man who buys houses and a woman who lives in one. It follows the diverse stories of the editors of a home magazine.
Set in Jiudaowan, this story follows a group of young people over 40 years of reform and opening up. Through life's struggles, the twists and turns of love, and the challenges of their careers, these true friends face it all together, growing and maturing into adulthood.