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Pedro el escamoso (2001)
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Pedro el escamoso (2001)
Original name: Pedro El Escamoso
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Pedro el escamoso is a popular telenovela filmed in Colombia and produced by the Colombian network, Caracol TV. This novela is about a cheesy but charming macho man who lives in a small town in Colombia. He moves to the city to find his fortune and encounters a series of events and people that change his life dramatically. Pedro is the epitome of a man who can get all the women he wants, but can't get the one he loves.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, novela, hispanic, telenovela
Plot: love triangle, changing lives, workplace romance, fish out of water, womanizer, fall in love, rivalry, workplace intrigue, disorder, workplace, eccentric family, boss and employee, misfit, family relations, wooing, unrequited love, romantic triangle, love and romance, power relations, driver, long hair, romance
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: colombia, latin america, south america
Keyword: colombian, latin

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, telenovela, captivating and serious films and TV series with plots about love and romance, rivalry, workplace, workplace situations, family relations, fall in love and power relations mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Pedro el escamoso: Love Rules (2012), The Impostor (2014), The Prettiest Ugly Girl (2006), Rosary Scissors (2010), Life of Lies (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Love Rules (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Porque el Amor Manda is a 2012 Mexican telenovela produced by Juan Osorio for Televisa. It is a remake of the Colombian telenovela El secretario, produced by Juan Andrés Flórez in 2011. Fernando Colunga and Blanca Soto star as the protagonists ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, light ...
Plot: love and romance, top executive, fish out of water, couples, fall in love, workplace romance, power relations, unlikely couple, workplace, workplace situations, workplace intrigue, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
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The Impostor (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
TV show
Story: La Impostora, is a Spanish-language telenovela presumably to be produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami.
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: workplace intrigue, rivalry, uncover truth, dishonesty, hidden identity, boss and employee, fall in love, family relations, power relations, disorder, family business, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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The Prettiest Ugly Girl (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: La Fea Más Bella is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa. It is the second Mexican version of the popular Colombian telenovela: Betty la fea. La Fea más Bella stars popular actress/singer/comedian Angélica Vale and actor/singer Jaime Camil, ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, novela ...
Plot: physical appearance, couples, workplace romance, fashion, workplace, workplace situations, obnoxious boss, disorder, workplace intrigue, opposites attract, ambition, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Rosary Scissors (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
TV show
Story: Rosario is a teenage schoolgirl who lives in a tough Latin neighborhood filled with challenges. Having poverty all around, she faces difficult situations from family, school, rich friends vs. poor friends, and the element of drug cartel activity ...
Style: realistic, emotional, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot: love triangle, rivalry, fall in love, tragic love, life is a bitch, vengeance, drug cartel, couples, drug smuggling, society, criminal heroes, hitman ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: colombia, latin america
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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
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66%
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Monday Monday (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Monday Monday is an ITV, UTV comedy drama. It stars Fay Ripley, Jenny Agutter, Neil Stuke, Holly Aird, Morven Christie, Tom Ellis, and Miranda Hart. It is set in the head office of a supermarket that has fallen on hard times and had to re-locate ...
Style: humorous, cynical, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot: workplace, supermarket, workplace intrigue, rivalry, intern, corporate world, boss and employee, accountant, office, workplace romance, unsupportive coworkers, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, northern england, europe
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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
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The Deep End (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Deep End is an American television series created by David Hemingson and produced by 20th Century Fox Television for the ABC television network. Starring Mehcad Brooks, Matt Long, Tina Majorino, Clancy Brown, and Billy Zane, the show follows ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: lawyer, law firm, corporate world, lawsuit, rivalry, lifestyle, workplace, lawyers and clients, ambition, legal, boss and employee, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
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Trust Me (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The series revolves around Rothman, Greene, and Moore, a fictional advertising firm. The storylines center on the difficulties of securing accounts and the characters' personal lives.
Style: realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, witty ...
Plot: advertising, workplace, workplace intrigue, partner, friendship, relationship vs career, advertising agency, workaholic, ambition, promotion, boss and employee, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Red Roses (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Rote Rosen is a German telenovela produced by Studio Hamburg Serienwerft Lüneburg and broadcast by Das Erste since November 6, 2006. The show is a complex telenovela, who tells one love story every season about women in their forties.
Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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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 ⇓
60%
Triumph in the Skies (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Young pilot Branson (Louis Koo) recently takes over Skylette, his father's aviation empire, only to realise his old flames Cassie (Charmaine Sheh) is a flight attendant there. Several years ago, he was forced to break up with her and move to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, feel good
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: unfulfilled love, fall in love, lovers reunited, workplace romance, workplace, workplace situations, love and romance, unfulfillment, bittersweet, pilot, adaptation, opposites attract
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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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.
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Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Colombia
TV show
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When ambitious New York attorney Sam is sent to Shanghai on assignment, he immediately stumbles into a legal mess that could end his career. With the help of a beautiful relocation specialist, a well-connected old-timer, a clever journalist, and a ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, independent film
Audience: date night
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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E.N.G. (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: E.N.G. is a Canadian television drama, following the staff of a fictional Toronto television news station. The show aired on CTV from 1989 to 1994. The series ran for 96 episodes, produced by the Alliance Entertainment Corporation.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic
Plot: journalist, journalism, love and romance, workplace situations, ego clash, workplace, power relations, rivalry, boss and employee, media, workplace romance, tv news ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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A.U.S.A. (2003)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
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Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 337 min.
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Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Californians (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
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Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic
Plot: rivalry, social differences, infidelity, boss and employee, workplace romance, opposites attract, couple relations, love triangle, culture clash, family relations, siblings relations, introspection ...
Place: california, usa
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Office Romance. Our time (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
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Audience: family outing
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Time: 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, stylized, historical drama, costume drama ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
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Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 42 min.
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Story: Rafaela is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is based on the Venezuelan telenovela of the same name produced in 1977. Scarlet Ortiz and Jorge Poza star as the main protagonists, while Chantal Andere, Diana Bracho ...
Style: captivating, serious, sentimental, realistic, soap opera ...
Audience: girls' night
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Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
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Story: The fraudster Lena is trying to get her father out of jail, where he got through her fault. Yulia's doctor has a seemingly prosperous marriage bursting at the seams. Vika's top manager is torn between a career, a child and a married ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating
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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
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My Heart is Yours (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Fernando Lascurain is a wealthy businessman and recent widower, attempting to raise his seven unruly children. He seeks the assistance of a new nanny. He hires and falls in love with Ana Leal, a struggling exotic dancer who tries to hide her double ...
Style: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Truckers (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
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Story: Funny, moving and at times painful - Truckers tells stories of real life, ordinary people pushed to extremes. In each episode, one character undertakes a journey and we are along for the ride. In an age when technology would make us seem ever more ...
Style: sincere, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
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Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Desire (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 3900 min.
TV show
Story: On the run from a New Jersey crime family, two brothers wend their way to Los Angeles, where they make their dream of owning a restaurant a reality. But their life in hiding life becomes complicated when their lives are torn apart by their love for ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, sincere
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Finding Joy (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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