Shows Like Vale Tudo
If you liked Vale Tudo (1988), 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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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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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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A Gentleman in Moscow (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaCount Alexander Rostov finds himself going from riches to rags following the Russian revolution. A Soviet tribunal banishes him to the attic room of an opulent hotel, where, oblivious to the world outside, he discovers…
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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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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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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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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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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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Chiquititas (2013)
★ 8.3/10Also soapBased 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…
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A Trick of Fate (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also soap and dramaAfter 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…
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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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Days of Our Lives (1965)
★ 6.2/10Also soap and dramaThe Horton and Brady broods endure the romantic trials of life in Salem, a Midwestern hamlet filled with evil geniuses, star-crossed lovers and a rich family history.
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Offspring (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaAn exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman and her struggle to deal with her fabulously messy family, her hunt for a decent love life and her tendency to overthink and fly off into fantasy.
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The Young and the Restless (1973)
★ 7/10Also soap and dramaThe 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…
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Vuelve a mí (2023)
★ 8.6/10Also soap and dramaThe 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.
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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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Brazil Avenue (2012)
★ 8.1/10Also soap and dramaBrazil 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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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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Primeiro Amor A Mil Por Hora (2000)
★ 7.8/10Also soap and dramaThe 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.