Movies and TV shows like One Life to Live

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One Life to Live (1968)
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One Life to Live (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: One Life to Live is an American soap opera broadcast on television for more than 43 years on the ABC network, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes via The Online Network since April 29, 2013. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature ethnically and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social issues. One Life to Live was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26, 1976, and then to an hour on January 16, 1978. One Life to Live heavily focuses on the members and relationships of the Lord family. Actress Erika Slezak began portraying original and central heroine Victoria "Viki" Lord on March 1971 and played the character continuously for the rest of the show's run on ABC Daytime, winning a record six Daytime Emmy Awards for the role. In 2002, the series won an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series. One Life to Live was the last American daytime soap opera taped in New York City, based outside the Los Angeles area, and is now the second American daytime soap opera taped at the Connecticut Film Center in Stamford, Connecticut.
Style: soap opera, sentimental, emotional, serious, sincere, saga, exciting
Plot: friendship, parents and children, family life, love and romance, family problems, couple relations, family relations, infidelity, family feud, borderline personality disorder, lesbian, women, rapist, friends, abortion, intrigue, couples, rivalry, suburbs, family in crisis, dishonesty, power relations, sex, sex scene, interracial relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s, 60s, 2000s, 2010s ...
Place: pennsylvania

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, soap opera and sentimental films and TV series with plots about family relations, couple relations, couples, love and romance, family problems, family life and parents and children mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres. Some movies like One Life to Live: The Thorn Birds (1983), The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), Dallas (1978), Days of Our Lives (1965), Home and Away (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Thorn Birds (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 460 min.
TV show
Story: This mini series covers 60 years in the lives of the Cleary family, brought from New Zealand to Australia to run their aunt Mary Carson's ranch. The story centers on their daughter, Meggie, and her love for the family's priest, Father ...
Style: sentimental, touching, family saga, captivating, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, clergy, catholic priest, tragic love, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, priest, family life, friendship, society ...
Time: 50s, 1920s, 20th century, 1930s, 1940s ...
Place: australia
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100%
The Bold and the Beautiful (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 19 min.
TV show
Story: Continuing drama combining romance and intrigue set against the glittering backdrop of Beverly Hills and the American fashion industry.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental, soap opera ...
Plot: fashion, family relations, love triangle, intrigue, family problems, family business, rich and poor, family life, couple relations, lifestyle, betrayal, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, 2020s, 2000s ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Dallas (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked ...
Style: soap opera, serious, realistic, melancholic, uplifting ...
Plot: family feud, mogul, oil industry, family relations, family business, hypocrisy, uninhibited rivalry, ambition, couple relations, rich and poor, parents and children, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: texas, usa, dallas texas, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Days of Our Lives (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The 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.
Style: soap opera, realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental
Plot: family relations, infidelity, family problems, betrayal, love triangle, loss of daughter, power relations, intrigue, couple relations, siblings relations, gay, couples ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, 70s, 60s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Home and Away (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher ...
Style: soap opera, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coastal town, sex, beach, small town, lesbian, family relations, bare chested male, love, husband wife relationship, seaside town, youth, fall in love ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: australia, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Young and the Restless (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 37 min.
TV show
Story: The 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, Abbott, Baldwin and Winters ...
Style: soap opera, realistic, sentimental, serious, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, rivalry, couple relations, infidelity, family life, couples, power relations, uninhibited rivalry, dishonesty, betrayal, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s, 2000s ...
Place: usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
All My Children (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: All My Children is an American television soap opera that aired on ABC for 41 years, from January 5, 1970 to September 23, 2011, and on The Online Network since April 29, 2013 via Hulu, Hulu Plus, and iTunes. Created by Agnes Nixon, All My Children ...
Style: soap opera, saga, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: lesbian, women, culture, gender, betrayal, rapist, family relations, childhood sweetheart, family problems, couples, crumbling marriage, couple relations ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa
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43%
Good Times, Bad Times (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Goede tijden, slechte tijden, also known as GTST, is the longest-running Dutch soap opera, which began on 1 October 1990 on RTL4. The programme was the first daily soap in the Netherlands. The soap is produced by Joop van den Ende and to date over ...
Style: soap opera, saga, realistic, serious, sentimental
Plot: lesbian, gay, couple relations, love and romance, rivalry, intrigue, family problems, family relations, couples, love affair, family life, eccentric family ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, holland, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Falcon Crest (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the ...
Style: soap opera, realistic, captivating, serious, touching ...
Plot: wealthy family, family relations, rivalry, intrigue, betrayal, family business, family problems, family feud, parents and children, dishonesty, uninhibited rivalry, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Burden of Guilt (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
TV show
Story: Mi pecado is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and aired on Canal de las Estrellas from 15 June 2009 through 13 November 2009. Starring Maite Perroni, Eugenio Siller and as adult protagonist Daniela Castro who is also the main ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, serious, novela ...
Plot: forbidden love, lovers reunited, family relations, couples, manipulation, unfulfilled love, couple relations, parents and children, family problems, love and romance, friendship, master and servant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Knots Landing (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
Style: soap opera, realistic, serious, telenovela
Plot: women, poor, family relations, small town, couple relations, intrigue, love and romance, couples, family life, love affair, power, best friend ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
General Hospital (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Families, friends, enemies and lovers experience life-changing events in the large upstate New York city of Port Charles, which has a busy hospital, upscale hotel, cozy diner and dangerous waterfront frequented by the criminal underworld.
Style: soap opera, medical drama, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: hospital, medical, rivalry, twists and turns, parents and children, manipulation, dishonesty, siblings relations, family life, family business, family in crisis, doctor ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 2020s, 60s, 90s ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
All That Matters (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Alles was zählt is a German television soap opera first broadcast on RTL on September 4, 2006. The original plot revolved around Diana Sommer's dream to become a world class ice skater. She fell in love with Julian Herzog, who signed her at ...
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, soap opera
Plot: family business, ambition, family problems, couple relations, boss and employee, workplace situations, family life, couples, friendship, workplace, male female relationship, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Husband for Rent aka Husband for Hire (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Marido En Alquiler is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami and Brazilian Rede Globo. It is a remake of the Brazilian telenovela, Fina Estampa, although the working title for the ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, captivating, novela ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, social differences, infidelity, parents and children, love and romance, couples, family business, family in crisis, strong female presence
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
A Shelter for Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Un refugio para el amor is a Mexican Spanish-language telenovela produced by Ignacio Sada Madero for Televisa. It is a remake of the Venezuelan telenovela La Zulianita, written by Delia Fiallo and adapted by Nora Alemán and Georgina Tinoco. Zuria ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, realistic, serious, soap opera ...
Plot: love affair, couple relations, love triangle, couples, love and romance, infidelity, family feud, estate, family relations, paralysis, boss and employee, master and servant
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Until the End of Time (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: After their father's death, Sofía Ripoll, the oldest of three sisters, takes over the family's fictional successful chocolate factory. Though she is engaged to a man who uses her for money, she quickly falls in love with Salvador Cruz, a ...
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, sentimental, soap opera ...
Plot: workplace intrigue, siblings relations, power relations, love and romance, couple relations, unlikely couple, family relations, master and servant, dishonesty, fall in love, infidelity, true love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Providence (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Providence is an American television drama series that aired on NBC starring Melina Kanakaredes. The show ran for five seasons from January 8, 1999 until December 20, 2002.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, medical drama ...
Plot: family relations, hometown, living with parents, family problems, love and romance, family life, siblings relations, parents and children, looking for love, homecoming, small town life, medical ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
If Loving You Is Wrong (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the relationships of a group of husbands and wives that live and love on the same street. While the neighbors come from very different backgrounds, their lives are similar – raising children, dealing with exes, worrying about money and ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, soap opera ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, starting over, family relations, love and romance, looking for love, marriage, family problems, couples, parents and children, couple relations, family life, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Abyss of Passion (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Rosendo Arango, the owner of Grupo La Anita, is married to Alfonsina. They have one son, Damian. Estefanía Bouvier is married to Augusto Castanon and they have one daughter, Elisa. Rosendo cheats on his wife with Carmina Bouvier, Estefanía's ...
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: couples, couple relations, love and romance, family relations, love triangle, latinos, family feud, love
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The One Who Couldn't Love (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: La que no podía amar is a Mexican telenovela produced by José Alberto Castro for Televisa. Ximena Suarez wrote the script based on the original story by Delia Fiallo. The cast was headed by Ana Brenda Contreras, Jorge Salinas, and Jose Ron, while ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, realistic, novela, captivating ...
Plot: boss and employee, love triangle, fall in love, best friend, couple relations, couples, friendship, family relations, intrigue, social differences, love and romance
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Ryan's Hope (1975)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Ryan's Hope is an American soap opera created by Claire Labine and Paul Avila Mayer, originally airing for 13 years on ABC from July 7, 1975 to January 13, 1989. It revolved around the trials and tribulations within a large Irish-American ...
Style: soap opera, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Plot: hopes, society, family relations, friends, family business, family life, working class, liberal, sergeant, bar, irish american
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: ireland, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.2
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Forbidden Love (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Verbotene Liebe is a German television soap opera created by Reg Watson for Das Erste. The show is set primarily in the German city of Düsseldorf although, at times, the city of Cologne and the Spanish island of Majorca have figured prominently in ...
Style: soap opera, art house, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbtq, gay couple, female masturbation, lgbt, infidelity, boys and girls, forbidden sex, family relations, family problems, young lovers, forbidden love ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 11K
Dallas (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: J.R., Bobby and Sue Ellen Ewing are all back at Southfork, with plenty of secrets, schemes and betrayals in mind. This time, they're joined by the next generation of Ewings, who take ambition and deception to a new level.
Style: soap opera, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: family business, betrayal, family relations, parents and children, family feud, family secret, oil industry, family problems, uninhibited rivalry, intrigue, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: texas, southern usa, usa, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Hollyoaks (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The daily soap that follows the loves, lives and misdemeanours of a group of people living in the Chester village of Hollyoaks where anything could, and frequently does, happen...
Style: soap opera, realistic, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: family relations, teenage love, college, family problems, love and romance, youth, college life, teenage life, couple relations, adolescence vs adulthood, family life, student life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2010s, 2020s, 2000s ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Army Wives (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Army Wives is an American drama series that follows the lives of four army wives, one army husband, and their families.
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, game show, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: military life, couples, family relations, family life, military, social relations, love and romance, lifestyle, soldier, infidelity, marital problem, desire ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Time of Our Lives (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: The Time of Our Lives follows the lives of the extended Tivolli family as they navigate their way around relationships, raising kids, love, careers, divorce, disability and finding happiness. Elder brother Matt is a high-flying sports agent ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: family relations, friendship, couples, friends, parents and children, family life, adulthood, city life, looking for love, couple relations, love and romance, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Slap (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A family drama that explodes from one small incident where a man slaps another couple's misbehaving child. This seemingly minor domestic dispute pulls the family apart, exposes long-held secrets, and ignites a lawsuit that challenges the core ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating
Plot: couples, family problems, friendship, infidelity, suburbs, parents and children, society, courtroom, friends, dishonesty, family in crisis, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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True Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Amores verdaderos is a 2012 Mexican telenovela produced by Nicandro Díaz Gonzalez for Televisa. It is based on Amor en Custodia, produced in Colombia, Argentina, and Mexico.
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, soap opera ...
Plot: love triangle, forbidden love, family relations, rivalry, parents and children, uninhibited rivalry, workplace, love and romance, true love, master and servant, step siblings, spoiled brat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Talisman (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: El Talismán is a telenovela co-produced by Venevision and Univision Studios, starring Blanca Soto and Rafael Novoa as the main protagonists, and Aarón Díaz, Lola Ponce, and Marcela Mar as the main antagonists. Univision had announced that El ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, sentimental, suspense ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, love and romance, fall in love, love affair, dishonesty, couples, true love, manipulation, infidelity, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
All the Small Things (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Uplifting drama series from the writer of Cutting It about family and community, played out with rousing choruses, joyous harmonies and booming basslines.
Style: realistic, sentimental, serious, sincere
Plot: family relations, ego clash, choir, family problems, couples, infidelity, couple relations, family reunited, love and romance, church, estrangement, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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