The Telenovela subgenre features TV series that highlight the larger than life passion, drama and romance of Latin American soap operas. These stories often contain unsuspecting plot twists, love triangles and even murder.

Kate del Castillo in La Reina del Sur (2011)

Sixteen-year-old Love Crossova her name echoing both love and the cross runs away from home and calls the married man she is in love with to join her at her family's country house. When he refuses, she phones her ex-boyfriend in a moment of despair. In the end, the entire "Holy Trinity" gathers at the dacha. In times of peace, running is ridiculous; in times of war, it is a sin. In the feature film Unholy, these words are spoken by the executioner assigned to sixteen-year-old Love Crossova before Pontius Pilate. What if all of us are crucified between the past and the future just as Jesus once was? Unholy is a film about a love triangle, a meta-narrative woven into the life of an ordinary teenage girl. What if the teenage girl Love Crossova her name echoing both love and the cross embodies the image of Christ in a story where Magdalene is a married, parasitic man, and Juda is Crossova's former lover? This story is a reinterpretation of the events surrounding Jesus and Pontius Pilate. This is an experimental film a cinematic parable.

The series tells how a hunter who thinks that he will not go down from the peaks falls prey to his prey, and how an unhappy woman who has convinced herself that she will not be loved becomes a hunter in her tragic life.

Camila creates a sexy profile on the online dating app Spice looking for the man of her dreams. But her dreams quickly turn into nightmares, and Camila ends up falling into a web of sex, lies, and deception.

A mother and daughter in São Paulo faces corruption that affects her community and family. As evil forces threaten countless sick people for profit, she struggles with moral choices while fighting for survival.

Dira Paes, Alana Cabral, and Sophie Charlotte in Três Graças (2025)

Intending to aid her family, a beautiful young girl accepts a job in a prominent model casting agency, only to discover their girls are also hired for something else.

Set in the 1920s, this is the story of four women from different backgrounds newly hired as operators for a phone company.

Blanca Suárez, Nadia de Santiago, Ana Polvorosa, and Ana Fernández in Cable Girls (2017)

A feel-good, compelling Spanish story of a fashion house in Madrid in the late 50's, which is scene to money, fashion, drama, entanglements, love, jealousies, plots, counter-plots involving its owners, customers and residential employees.

Paula Echevarría and Miguel Ángel Silvestre in Velvet (2013)

Teresa is a young woman dominated by her greed. Her parents have made great sacrifices to give her a good, decent life, but Teresa wants more, a lot more.

Sebastián Rulli, Aarón Díaz, and Angelique Boyer in Teresa (2010)

Two identical twin sisters separated at birth reunite and the rich, devious, cruel one offers to let her sweet-natured counterpart assume her place.

Paty Díaz and Gabriela Spanic in La usurpadora (1998)

A young girl who had her life ruined by an ambitious, unscrupulous woman returns to her as an adult, under a new identity and seeking revenge.

Adriana Esteves, Débora Falabella, and Mel Maia in Brazil Avenue (2012)

Six teenagers with different lives and personalities attend a prominent private school with only one thing in common: their vocation and passion for music.

Anahí, Dulce María, Christopher Von Uckermann, and Alfonso Herrera in Rebelde (2004)

The life of Sira, a dressmaker consumed by the love of a man, left the turmoil of Madrid prior to the Civil War at Tangier, where she inadvertently becomes part of an espionage scheme.

Adriana Ugarte in The Time in Between (2013)

Jimena is trying to keep her life in order, raising her three children, competing for the presidency of the company and dealing with her (almost) ex-husband. Then she meets Gaby, who turns out to be the best nanny for her children.

Stories about people who use the Virgin Mary's help when they get into difficulties; where a rose appears, their problems are solved.

Teresa Mendoza returns to Mexico after 8 years to fight with Mexican drug dealers.

Natalia is a school teacher who wants to dedicate herself to local tourism. Cristo is a criminal who pretends to be a benefactor to those in need. Cristo becomes obsessed with Natalia and does unimaginable things to win her over.

José Ron and Carolina Miranda in La Mujer del Diablo (2022)

A woman who is frowned upon for being the ugliest woman around, falls hopelessly in love with her boss, the heir of a film enterprise.

Jaime Camil and Angélica Vale in La fea más bella (2006)

A brave, poor young girl is welcomed into a rich family and develops a romance with their misogynist youngest son, driving a woman already in love with him to go to great lengths to destroy their relationship.

A young man falls for a seductive, confident woman who performs as a mermaid and actually believes that she is one.

Juliana Paes, Paolla Oliveira, and Isis Valverde in Edge of Desire (2017)

In the Brazil Colonial period, an intelligent, seductive and vengefully ruthless slave rises to become a practical queen when an important contractor falls for her, much for the anger of a woman obsessed with him.

Taís Araújo and Victor Wagner in Xica da Silva (1996)

The story of Sol, a woman of faith, dedicated to her family, who finds herself in debt. One day an unimaginable opportunity to earn money arises. She is invited by an old friend to work and the invitation causes great confusion.

A family-owned hotel in the fictional coastal Spanish town of Cantaloa in 1905: love, blackmail, jealousies, crime, comedy, and plots and counter-plots all involving the hotel's owners, guests, detectives, and residential employees.

Pedro Alonso, Eloy Azorín, Juan Luis Galiardo, Lluís Homar, Fele Martínez, Pep Anton Muñoz, Adriana Ozores, Concha Velasco, Marta Larralde, Luz Valdenebro, Marta Hazas, Yon González, Amaia Salamanca, Llorenç González, and Megan Montaner in Gran Hotel (2011)

Two women of different origins and social classes fight for their rights in the conservative society of Rio de Janeiro of the early 20th century.

Caio Blat, Rafael Cardoso, Cássio Gabus Mendes, Maria Padilha, Patricia Pillar, and Sheron Menezzes in Side by Side (2012)

Two sisters discover disturbing family secrets after a string of mysterious deaths occur on a luxury ship traveling from Spain to Brazil in the 1940s.

Eloy Azorín, Eduardo Blanco, Tamar Novas, José Sacristán, Chiqui Fernández, Ivana Baquero, Claudia Traisac, Natalia Rodríguez, Jon Kortajarena, Ignacio Montes, Alejandra Onieva, and Begoña Vargas in High Seas (2019)

The exploits of the notorious drug lord, Pablo Escobar.

Andrés Parra in Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal (2012)

Three brothers set out for vengeance when their younger sister commits suicide after love goes wrong. The three handsome brothers' evil intentions are dispelled when their hatred turns to unexpected love.

Juan Alfonso Baptista, Michel Brown, Mario Cimarro, Danna García, Natasha Klauss, Zharick León, and Paola Rey in Pasión de gavilanes (2003)

Adriana a 20-year-old woman travels from Madrid to Asturias after discovering that her marriage to a man she does not know was secretly arranged and she must go to meet him at her aunt's house. There she will be used as a maid.

Rocío Suárez de Puga and Marco Pernas in Valle Salvaje (2024)

A girl goes on to live difficult times when she chooses to step outside the path her parents had laid out for her.

A telenovela that dramatizes the romances and rivalries between two brothers and two sisters in Mexico in the early 1900s.

Edith González and Eduardo Palomo in Corazón salvaje (1993)

A young orphan and her new family unite in a quest for revenge against those responsible for their personal tragedies.

Three prosperous women, including a mother and her daughter, fall for a seductive man in Colombia's Coffee Triangle.

A group of students are doing their best to win EWS' Battle of the Bands. Along the way, love and friendship bloom between them while a mysterious secret society casts a shadow over their dreams of becoming the next big music star.

Azul Guaita, Alejandro Puente, Saak, Andrea Chaparro, Lizeth Selene, Metturo, Sergio Mayer Mori, Franco Masini, Giovanna Grigio, and Jeronimo Cantillo in Rebelde (2022)

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