Shows Like Looks & Essence
If you liked Looks & Essence (2011), a soap and drama 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.
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Pepper Chocolate (2003)
★ 7.8/10Also soap and comedyAna 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…
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Doña Bárbara (2008)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and comedyDoña 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…
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Sweet Diva (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also soap and dramaMaria 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…
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Vale Tudo (1988)
★ 8.4/10Also soap and dramaFátima Accioly is a young, callous woman who wants to be rich and successful at any price. After selling her family's house in the country, she heads to Rio and gets to know dress man César who is unscrupulous himself…
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Tieta (1989)
★ 8.2/10Also soap and dramaInspired 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…
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Empire (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also soap and dramaHeartbreak 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…
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Trail of Lies (2013)
★ 6.1/10Also soap and dramaPaloma is a willful woman whose newborn baby is kidnapped by her own brother, Félix, who plans to become sole heir to the family’s fortune. Bruno is an honest man who, during the same night, loses his wife and son in…
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Land of Desire (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also soap and dramaWhen her husband is killed in a land grabbing attempt, Aline takes charge of cultivating his land and protecting his family. Facing the powerful Antonio La Selva, responsible for the death of her husband and the…
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Volta por Cima (2024)
★ 6.1/10Also soap and dramaThrough the stories of Madá, Jão and Osmar, the work talks about achievements and the price we are willing to pay for them.
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Edge of Desire (2017)
★ 7.2/10Also soap and comedyAn 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…
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Rebirth (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also soap and dramaAfter making a pact with Jequitibá, José Inocêncio becomes a mythical figure, known as the most successful cocoa farmer in the region. While still young, he wins the heart of Maria Santa. Their intense passion results…
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Brave Woman (2012)
★ 7.2/10Also soap and dramaA 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…
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The Slave Isaura (2004)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and soapIsaura 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…
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A Mother's Love (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also soap and dramaLurdes is a mother of five who tirelessly seeks for Domenico, a child of hers who was sold by his own father 26 years ago; Thelma is an overprotective mother who finds out she has a terminal illness, and must race…
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Genesis (2021)
★ 8/10Also soap and dramaThe story of the first 2,300 years of humanity and recounts events exclusively from that period. The plot begins by giving us a greater understanding of why we exist and how we turned from perfection to imperfection…
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Crazy About You (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also soap and dramaThe story begins with the ambiguous relationship between friends Viola and Luma, who seem predestined to literally enter each other's lives. Born on the same day, in very different situations, they meet years later…
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Family Ties (2000)
★ 6.7/10Also soap and dramaA mature and successful woman, Helena becomes involved with Edu, who is twenty years her junior. She battles prejudice in order to live her love, but their romance fizzles out when she realizes that her daughter Camila…
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Perfect Love (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also soap and dramaA 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.
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Total Dreamer (2015)
★ 7.8/10Also soap and dramaThis 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…
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Secrets of Sand (1993)
★ 7.4/10Also soap and dramaTwin sisters with contrasting personalities, Ruth and Raquel, rival in the fictional Pontal D'Areia, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro.