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Ambitious Women (2015)
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Original name: Babilônia
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
In Ambitious Women, all levels of ambition are revealed in a plot full of greed, revenge and struggle for power, through the conflicts of three strong women with very different personalities.
Style:
soap opera, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, novela, telenovela
Plot:
cheating wife, affair, female protagonist, murderer, murder, intrigue, frame up, blackmail, infidelity, unfaithful girlfriend, con trick, lesbian relationship, ambition, lesbian, fight, lesbian couple, sexual blackmail, female female kiss, soap
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