Shows Like Edge of Desire
If you liked Edge of Desire (2017), 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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Looks & Essence (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also soap and dramaGriselda 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…
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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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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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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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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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A Favorita (2008)
★ 7.8/10Also soap and dramaFlora 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…
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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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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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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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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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A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001)
★ 8/10Also drama and comedyGenius detective Nero Wolfe and his right-hand man, Archie Goodwin, solve seemingly impossible crimes.
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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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Timeless Love (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and soapCatarina 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…
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77 Sunset Strip (1958)
★ 7.2/10Also crime and dramaStu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to…