Movies and TV shows like The Two Lives of Estela Carrillo

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The Two Lives of Estela Carrillo (2017)
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The Two Lives of Estela Carrillo (2017)
Original name: La doble vida de Estela Carrillo
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After witnessing a murder, single mother Estela Carrillo must hide the fact that she is an undocumented immigrant escaping a dark past. While hiding her secret, romantic interests and her dream of becoming a singer complicate her plans.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, soap opera, telenovela
Plot: single mother, illegal immigrant, dark past, musician, murder, murder mystery, female protagonist, personality change, female singer, witness, hidden identity, musician's life, witnessing a crime, confronting the past, immigrant, singer, singing, american dream, fall in love, mother daughter relationship, double life, immigration, murder witness, secret, music teacher ...
Place: los angeles, california

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and suspense films and TV series with plots about female protagonist, secret, relationship problems, family relations, life is a bitch, male female relationship and love affair mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like The Two Lives of Estela Carrillo: I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper (2011), Temptation of an Angel (2009), Overcoming heartbreak (2020), Dark Fate (2003), La Desalmada (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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I'm Mita, Your Housekeeper (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Kaseifu no Mita is a 2011 Japanese television drama series. The story revolves around a family who is grieving over their mother's recent suicide. They hired Mita as a housekeeper to upkeep the house, which has been thrown into disarray. Mita, ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: family problems, dysfunctional family, suicide, dark past, murder mystery, family relations, husband wife relationship, troubled past, changing lives, relationship problems, family secret, housewife ...
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100%
Temptation of an Angel (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Joo Ah-Ran and Shin Hyun-Woo have an elaborate wedding at a luxurious hotel. Shin Hyun-Woo sincerely loves Joo Ah-Ran, but Joo Ah-Ran has ulterior motives for the marriage. Joo Ah-Rans family was destroyed by Shin Hyun-Woo's parents and, ...
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: personality change, life is a bitch, relationship problems, vengeance, revenge, new identity, marital problem, secret, asian
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Overcoming heartbreak (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Four women of different ages and social strata are forced to live together under the same roof. At first, the coexistence between them is complicated and tense due to their different visions and ways of facing life, but little by little the ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, soap opera, telenovela
Plot: sorority, unrequited love, family relations, female protagonist, social differences, living together, intergenerational friendship, cultural difference, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, class differences, society, women ...
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43%
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Dark Fate (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Mariana de la Noche is a Mexican telenovela from 2003. Written by Delia Fiallo and produced by Salvador Mejia, it starred Angélica Rivera, Jorge Salinas, Alejandra Barros and César Évora.
Style: novela, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, cursed, father and daughter, father daughter relationship, relationship problems, female protagonist, family curse, jealousy, parents and children, forbidden love, fall in love, family problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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La Desalmada (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Fernanda Linares (Livia Brito) is a woman thirsty for revenge after the murder of her husband on their wedding night, where in addition, Fernanda was a victim of rape after the event occurred. However, Fernanda's life will change when she meets ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: payback, female protagonist, revenge, vendetta, tragic love, mistaken identity, life is a bitch, relationships, killings, male female relationship, criminal's revenge, loss of spouse ...
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39%
Our Kind of People (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A strong-willed single mom sets out to reclaim her family's name and make an impact with her revolutionary haircare line but discovers a dark secret about her own mother's past that will turn her world upside-down.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: single parent, family problems, secret, family secret, ambitious woman, single mother, businesswoman, female protagonist, changing lives, family relations, mother daughter relationship, hair
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34%
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Savage Beauty (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: In Savage Beauty, Rosemary Zimu plays Zinhle - a first young woman with a tragic past who is determined to take revenge on the Bhengus family, who destroyed a lot of lives with their infernal vision. Don and Grace Bhengu once used street children ...
Style: captivating, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
La Reina Soy Yo (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
TV show
Story: Yamelí Montoya returns to Mexico City for revenge after being wrongfully convicted in a U.S. prison for 17 years.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, telenovela
Plot: betrayal, musician, revenge, female protagonist, new identity, woman, falsely accused, musician's life, vengeance, secret identity, personality change, espionage ...
Place: mexico, mexico city
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30%
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The Lady from Vendaval (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: La Mujer Del Vendaval is a 2012 Mexican telenovela produced by Mapat L. de Zatarain for Televisa. It is a remake of the Venezuelan telenovela Un Esposo para Estela. Ariadne Díaz and José Ron star as the main protagonists, while Chantal Andere, ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, sincere, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: relationships, fall in love, male female relationship, relationship problems, love interest, in love, romantic relationship, couple relations, love affair, love and romance, love story, inheritance ...
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30%
Out of the Blue (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Out of the Blue is an Australian serial drama commissioned by the BBC, produced by Australia's Southern Star Entertainment. It began screening on BBC One on weekday afternoons on 28 April 2008. The programme attracted lower than desired ratings ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot: thirty something, murder mystery, secret, murder, problem, who done it, group of friends, crime investigation, investigation, friends, murder investigation, reunited friends ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Saki (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: From the 2011 drama, Utsukushi Rinjin, Nakama Yukie reprises the character Saki. This time round, as Saki Amihama, she will be targeting men. With the facade of an angel, she draws men to her, only to lead them to a destructive end. Like a moth to ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot: nurse, evil doctor, secret, female protagonist, female doctor, doctor, medicine, physician
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Amor dividido (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: April and Max thought they had a made life, until fate decided to radically change it, to unite them in the midst of loneliness and disappointment. Learn about the importance of love for family and how people can learn from their mistakes to get ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, romantic, psychological, soap opera ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, love and romance, love story, romantic relationship, male female relationship, love affair, secret, mother son relationship, boss and employee, single mother, love interest ...
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29%
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Yago (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Omar, a young man from Mexico City, is betrayed by his fiancé, Sara, and two close friends, in a failed robbery plot where he was famed as the perpetrator. After being unjustly imprisoned for 11 years and later released, he undergoes plastic ...
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, telenovela
Plot: betrayal, revenge, vengeance, avenge, murderer, criminal, frame up, murder, new identity, traitor, personality change, boyfriend girlfriend relationship
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29%
Ties of Shooting Stars (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Based on a novel by mystery writer Keigo Higashino, Ryūsei no Kizuna tells the story of three orphans, whose parents were murdered long ago. Together, the three vowed on a shooting star to one day avenge their parents. After many years, the two ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: siblings, revenge, murder, family relations, siblings relations, life is a bitch, brother brother relationship, brother sister relationship, loss of father, loss of mother, murder mystery
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
BG: Personal Bodyguard (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Akira Shimazaki (Takuya Kimura) lives with his middle school student son. He used to work as a bodyguard, but, due to an incident, he now works as a security guard at a construction site. The private security company where he works establishes a new ...
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: police, secret, workplace, tragic past, working undercover, hidden identity, secret past, hidden truth, bodyguard
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28%
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Hush (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Dr. Draya Logan, a renowned marriage and sex therapist, finds herself entangled in lies, sex and murder.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: relationship problems, affair, male female relationship, secret, therapist, female protagonist, problem, murder, sex therapy, murder mystery, intrigue, deception
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Laws of love (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of two lawyers specializing in family law, Ricardo and Alejandra, that despite coming from two disappointments and being in a world where it seems that love loses strength, before so much divorce, they still have faith in finding true love.
Style: psychological, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, telenovela
Plot: law firm, workplace, lawyer, co worker co worker relationship, court, love triangle, lawyers and clients, rivalry, legal action, society, trial, law ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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State Rules (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: After a former journalist, David Graziano, discovers confidential information transferred to him from Moran, the senior advisor to the Minister of Public Security, that his brother's death was actually the murder of Shavim as an accident, he ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: investigation, personality change, murder, murder investigation, crime solving, conspiracy, murderer, secret, crime investigation, private investigation, new identity, journalist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Hide and Seek (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: A secret exits surrounding two women. One woman is the successor to a cosmetics company and the other woman lives her life for the female succors.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: woman, female protagonist, secrets, life is a bitch, undercover, family business, inheritance, secret, heir
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Asphalt Goddess (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Max returns to her slum turned into the vocalist of a rock band. There, the memories await, the latest news and the truths that were silent for years: Sonia is a voice that speaks from the death.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: musician, lgbt, rock band, confronting the past, troubled past, music band, music, social problems, lifestyle, musician's life, female protagonist, social issues ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Minas de pasión (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Emilia a single mother who works in a mine fall in love with Leonardo the son of Roberta Castro the most powerful of the people. Roberta will seek revenge on Emilia by making her life miserable.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, soap opera, telenovela
Plot: love story, life is a bitch, love affair, tragic love, relationship problems, love interest, single mother, love
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Sin tu mirada (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A Mexican telenovela revolving around Marina, a blind woman who because of her disability has developed a great sensitivity.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, sincere, soap opera ...
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26%
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The Clan (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: Yannick Moreau is a reformed criminal who rebuilt his life in Quebec living with a new identity under the witness protection program. Will the past catch up with him?
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: witness protection, small town, problem, troubled past, personality change, hidden identity, dysfunctional family, bandit, secret, criminal, drug smuggling, fighting crime ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Life of Lies (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Mentir para vivir is a Mexican telenovela produced by Rosy Ocampo for Televisa. The telenovela is written by Maria Zarattini, who last wrote La Fuerza del Destino. Mayrín Villanueva and David Zepeda star as the protagonists, while Altair Jarabo, ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, touching, soap opera ...
Plot: love affair, family relations, couple relations, workplace, infidelity, workplace romance, parents and children, couples, workplace situations, love and romance, murder, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Crown of Tears (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Corona de Lágrimas is a 2012 Mexican telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro for Televisa. It is a remake of Corona de Lágrimas, produced in 1965 and starring Prudencia Grifell and Jorge Lavat. Victoria Ruffo, Africa Zavala and Mané de la ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, telenovela
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Woman (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: After the accidental death of her husband and being deemed ineligible for welfare, Koharu struggles to care for her two children.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, dorama
Plot: single mother, woman, family relations, motherhood, mother daughter relationship, family problems, female protagonist, mother daughter estrangement, parents and children, life is a bitch, social problems, mother and daughter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Tres Milagros (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The series follows the lives of three young people who end up joining their destinies thanks to a prophecy, the prophecy says: "The day that Milagros meets Milagros and Milagros, Milagros and the love of Milagros, They will die". On ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, telenovela
Plot: girlfriend girlfriend relationship, romantic triangle, love triangle, relationship problems, star crossed lovers, prophecy, bonding, tragic love, female protagonist, love interest, death of girlfriend, forbidden love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Lost Days (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: A group of university students who belong to the same tennis club, Shino Yuta, Sakurada Miki, Sasaki Rinka, Takano Natsu, Fueki Mana, Tachibana Satsuki and Sakurada Wataru, go on a graduation trip to a cottage in the mountains in winter. Although ...
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling, suspense
Plot: secret, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder mystery, relationships, teenage love, tragic love, murder, student, love triangle, teenager, love interest, problem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Innocents (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Safiye and Gülben are two obsessive sisters who live in a dependent manner with their brother Han who is the only real connection between this family, including their sick father, and the world. Han’s lifelong goal is to keep this family afloat ...
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot: fall in love, dysfunctional family, love affair, family life, love interest, male female relationship, family problems, in love, dark past, relationships, relationship problems, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Holy Family (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: A family hiding a shocking secret starts over in Madrid, where new relationships complicate their plans and the past begins to catch up with them.
Style: thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, tense
Plot: family relations, secret, dysfunctional family, secret past, confronting the past, life is a bitch, family life, family secret, mother daughter relationship, new life, relationships, mother son relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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