Shows Like The Thorn and the Rose

If you liked The Thorn and the Rose (2000), 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
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…
2
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…
3
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…
4
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…
5
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…
6
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…
7
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.
8
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…
9
Young Hearts (1995)
★ 6.2/10Also soap and comedy
Malhação is a Brazilian television series for the teenage audience. The soap started in 1995, and was set in a fictional Gym Club called Malhação on Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro. Through the years the location…
10
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.
11
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.
12
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…
13
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…
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
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.
17
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.
18
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…
19
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…
20
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…