Shows Like Her Own Destiny

If you liked Her Own Destiny (2004), 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.

1
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.
2
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…
3
The King of The Cattle (1996)
★ 7.7/10Also soap and drama
In the struggle for land a vicious feud erupts between two men, who commit their families to a war without truce. Over two generations they are moved by love and by hatred in this epic saga of love for the land.
4
Timeless Love (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and soap
Catarina embarks on a dangerous journey to find who made her mother vanish. The Torres family seems to be the obvious suspect, but within them there's Vasco, the love of Catarina's life. Two opposed sides connected by…
5
Vuelve a mí (2023)
★ 8.6/10Also soap and drama
The kidnapping of her son unleashes a storm in Nuria García's life who, in the most difficult moment, meets Santiago Zepeda; together, they find redemption in the face of adversity.
6
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…
7
A Trick of Fate (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also soap and drama
After spending ten years wrongfully imprisoned for the death of his girlfriend Elisa, the illusionist Davi returns to the farm that belongs to his girlfriend’s family under another identity and discovers that her…
8
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.
9
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.
10
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…
11
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.
12
A Favorita (2008)
★ 7.8/10Also soap and drama
Flora and Donatella were two friends bonded by their love of music, but whose passion for the same man separated them forever. Donatella was Marcelo’s wife; Flora, his lover and murderer — a crime which cost her…
13
The Rich and Lazarus (2017)
★ 8.3/10Also soap and drama
After the death of Joshua, the Hebrew people begin to "go their own way", turning their backs on God and beginning to worship pagan gods. But when the prophet Jeremiah tries to warn them, his own people try to stone…
14
Anything for Love (1997)
★ 7/10Also soap and drama
Helena is an independendent woman with strong emotions. More than a dedicated mother, she is also a friend to her daughter. Her daughter is experiencing difficulties in her marriage with Marcelo because of his renewed…
15
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.
16
The Next Victim (1995)
★ 7.4/10Also soap and drama
A young law student starts to work as a detective, decided to uncover the identity behind a series of murders, as well as who is next.
17
Chiquititas (2013)
★ 8.3/10Also soap
Based on the original version of same name created by Cris Morena, the series tells the story of a group of orphans living in a manor, known as Raio de Luz, struggling and being guided by a young woman, Carol, that…
18
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…
19
Vale Tudo (1988)
★ 8.4/10Also soap and drama
Fátima 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…
20
Jezabel (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also drama
The story of Phoenician princess Jezebel, an idol worshipper who marries King Ahab and uses her beauty and wickedness to try to impose on the Israelite people the worship of her pagan gods.