Shows Like Young Hearts

If you liked Young Hearts (1995), a soap and comedy series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Tieta (1989)
★ 8.2/10Also soap and drama
Inspired on Jorge Amado's romance "Tieta do Agreste", the plot is set on the fictional city of Santana do Agreste, at Brazil's northwest, and has as main theme Tieta's life turnarounds. Twenty-five years after being…
2
The Thorn and the Rose (2000)
★ 7.4/10Also soap and comedy
A spoiled feminist, daughter of a rich father, even though she doesn't admit it, falls in love with a rustic farmer whom she marries.
3
Pepper Chocolate (2003)
★ 7.8/10Also soap and comedy
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…
4
Volta por Cima (2024)
★ 6.1/10Also soap and drama
Through the stories of Madá, Jão and Osmar, the work talks about achievements and the price we are willing to pay for them.
5
Looks & Essence (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also soap and drama
Griselda is a tough, hard-working handywoman who managed to raise her three children on her own. She struggles to make ends meet but after winning the lottery tensions rise as people inevitably show their true value…
6
Doña Bárbara (2008)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and comedy
Doña Bárbara is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo, Sony Pictures Television International and RTI Colombia. Edith González and Christian Meier star in this…
7
Poliana Moça (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also soap and drama
Poliana Moça is a Brazilian telenovela produced and broadcast by SBT from March 21, 2022, to May 24, 2023. Based on the novel Pollyanna Moça (1915) by Eleanor H. Porter, it is a sequel to As Aventuras de Poliana…
8
Empire (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also soap and drama
Heartbreak forever changed the fate of the young and humble José Alfredo. Years later, he became the Lord Alfredo, a successful owner of a jewelry empire and a man obsessed with power. Temperamental and cunning, he…
9
Primeiro Amor A Mil Por Hora (2000)
★ 7.8/10Also soap and drama
The story of fifteen-year-old Jovana Luna and the obstacles she will have to overcome in her fight to find happiness with the handsome León Baldomero, the love of her life.
10
Edge of Desire (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also soap and comedy
An ambitious woman who, for love, abandons Law School and ends up in the criminal world. A policewoman who dreams about becominga MMA championwhile fighting organized crime. A young dreamer torn between finding true…
11
Never Give Up (2023)
★ 7.7/10Also soap and comedy
Sol is a hardworking woman who has the chance to work as a backing vocalist for a funk singer and return to dancing, as she did in her youth. Torn between family pressure and passion for the stage, she must face the…
12
Total Dreamer (2015)
★ 7.8/10Also soap and drama
This modern fairy tale tells the story of a homeless girl who dreams of helping out her family and finds her big chance of turning her life around in a fashion modeling contest - but the way to winning it and becoming…
13
The Slave Isaura (2004)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and soap
Isaura was born in 1835, in the farm of Commender Almeida. She is the daughter of the slave Juliana and the tenant of the farm, Miguel. Juliana dies right after the birth, because she denied going to bed with the…
14
Secrets of Sand (1993)
★ 7.4/10Also soap and drama
Twin sisters with contrasting personalities, Ruth and Raquel, rival in the fictional Pontal D'Areia, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
15
Perfect Love (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also soap and drama
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.
16
Brazil Avenue (2012)
★ 8.1/10Also soap and drama
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.
17
Popular (1999)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama
Brooke McQueen, a popular cheerleader at Jacqueline Kennedy High School, and Sam McPherson, the editor of the school paper, are polar opposites. When their single parents unexpectedly meet and get engaged, Brooke and…
18
My So-Called Life (1994)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and comedy
The life of a 15 year-old high school student, whose angst-ridden journey through adolescence, friendship, parents, and life teaches her what it means to grow up.
19
India: A Love Story (2009)
★ 7.4/10Also soap and drama
The daughter of a traditional, rich Indian family falls in love for a Dalit, and "untouchable" man.
20
Brave Woman (2012)
★ 7.2/10Also soap and drama
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…