100 best melodrama series

List of the best TV series in the melodrama genre, selected by visitors to our site: Dali and Cocky Prince, Who Are You: School 2015, Love Life, The Golden Horde. Золотая Орда, Tenderness, Doom at Your Service, Falling Into Your Smile, School 2017, Tale of the Nine Tailed, True Beauty
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Markimdb: 8.2
Genrefantasy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:30

The Hotel Del Luna, located in Seoul, is not like any other hotel: its clients are all ghosts. Jang Man-wol, stuck in the hotel for the past millennium, meets Goo Chan-sung, the new manager.

Markimdb: 8.2

An ignorant but strong-willed man and an upper-class woman who struggles through life, work to fall in love.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:29

Set at a prestigious private high school in Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea. Eun-Byeol is a popular student at the private high school. She goes missing and returns, but she has lost her memory. She tries to find out the truth.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, short
CountryRussia

One day in the life of Elena Ivanovna in St. Petersburg in search of a man, sex and, maybe, love.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genremelodrama
CountryChina

Student Tong Yao makes two vows: to never be in a relationship with someone in the same field and to make up for the Chinese League of Legends. When Tong Yao earns her spot as the first formal female player in China's professional league, she catches the attention of an elite team captain. Facing doubts and inconveniences, she meets each challenge with her own persistence and her teammates' support. After much effort, what will become of her vows? Will she stand on the world stage to make up for six years of regret? Will she avoid a romantic entanglement within the e-sports world? Adapted from the novel You're Beautiful When You Smile by Qing Mei.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

A romantic comedy anthology series which follows a different protagonist each season on the journey from first love to last love, with each half-hour episode chronicling one of their relationships.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:30

Based on the webtoon "Noona Fan Dot Com", Sun Deok-mi is an art curator who lives a double life as an idol fan girl. Ryan, her new director, learns of her secret and begins to take an interest in her.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:25

A coming-of-age story about the lives of 18-year-old high school students who are valued according to their ranking in school. Despite their frustrations, they find out how to make their own way in this world that seems to be a stagnant cycle of school and home.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrefantasy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

An urban dark fantasy drama about a gumiho who settles into the city and a producer who is after it.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure
CountryRussia
Duration02:44

Golden Horde - Russian historical TV show.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryTurkey

Connecting all her hopes in her life to her education, Eda comes face to face with Serkan Bolat, who unknowingly cuts her scholarship abroad and caused her to remain a high school graduate. Serkan Bolat offers to give Eda her scholarship back if she pretends to be engaged to him for two months. Eda first rejects the offer due to her hatred for him, but when circumstances change, she has no choice but to accept the offer. While pretending to be engaged, Serkan and Eda begin to have a passionate, challenging relationship that will make you forget all they know right, because love is hard. And that's why it's amazing!!

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrefantasy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

Tak Dong Kyung lives a fairly ordinary life until she stumbles into an unexpected fate and ends up signing a hundred-day contract with Myul Mang, risking her everything.

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

Lim Ju-kyung is a high school student. Since she was little, she has had a complex about her appearance. To hide her bare face, Ju-kyung always wears make-up. Her excellent make-up skills make her pretty and she hides her bare face in front of others. She gets involved with 2 men; Lee Su-ho and Han Seo-jun.

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:50

Reply 1997 is a 2012 South Korean television series that centers on the lives of five friends in Busan, as the timeline moves back and forth between their past as 18-year-old high schoolers in 1997 and their present as 33-year-olds at their high school reunion dinner in 2012, where one couple will announce that they're getting married. The coming-of-age drama also examines the extreme fan culture that emerged in the 1990s when first generation idol groups such as H.O.T. and Sechs Kies took center stage and K-pop was just blossoming.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:05

Han-gyeol is a smart young man who hates to be tied down to one career in his life. Abhorring the idea of joining the family business, he is ordered by his grandmother to manage a cafe. Unable to disobey his grandmother, he reluctantly takes over the responsibility of running a cafe and begins to immerse himself in the gourmet coffee business. One day, he meets Eun-chan, whom he mistakes as a boy, and learns the meaning of true love...

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, music
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:05

Dream High is a South Korean television series broadcast by KBS in 2011. It features miss A's Suzy, Kim Soo-hyun, T-ara's Eunjung, IU and 2PM. The drama was popular among teenagers, and brought in viewership ratings in the 18 to 20 percent range during its two-month run. A special episode, where the cast of the show performed the Dream High Special Concert on a stage near Seoul, was aired on March 1, 2011, the day after the series ended. Its sequel Dream High Season 2 aired a year later with a different cast.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:05

A wealthy man and a poor stunt girl fall in love. But things get complicated when their souls become inexplicably swapped and dark secrets surface.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, sport
CountryArgentina
Duration00:43

You are the one is a 2006 Argentine romantic comedy television series starring Facundo Arana and Natalia Oreiro, directed by Rodolfo Antúnez and Jorge Bechara and broadcast by El Trece between January 16, 2006 and January 9, 2007. During its broadcast its overall rating averaged 26.9 points. It was written by Ernesto Korovsky and Sebastian Parrotta, and won four Martín Fierro Awards and three Clarín Awards.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySoviet Union
Duration04:18

A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, music
CountrySouth Korea
Duration16:00

You're Beautiful is a 2009 South Korean romantic comedy television drama series, starring Park Shin-hye, Jang Keun-suk, Lee Hong-ki of F.T. Island and Jung Yong-hwa of CN Blue. It is about a fictional boy band A.N.Jell and the relationship between its members when a female, posing as her twin brother, joins the group. It aired on Seoul Broadcasting System from October 7 to November 26, 2009 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. The series has been posted on SBS's YouTube channel. A Japanese remake of this drama was released in Japan in July 2011 as Ikemen desu ne, and included a cameo appearance by Jang in Episode 8 as his Japanese counterpart, Gunsoku. A Taiwanese remake, Fabulous Boys, was broadcast in 2013, which includes a cameo appearance by Park Shin-hye.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, sport
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:06

Baseball player Muyeol is a star in baseball, but is known for his wild image. Eunjae is a bodyguard who is also a Diamond member of Muyeol's anti-fan club. One day, Muyeol and Eunjae get into a fight at a karaoke room, where they first meet. A video of their fight goes viral on the Internet, so in order to deal with the controversy, Eunjae has no choice but to become Muyeol's bodyguard. Originally planning to be his bodyguard for a short while, things go longer as planned when Muyeol's stalker shows up. Will the two be able to get along? 'Wild Romance' is a sweet and scary love story between Eunjae, having to protect a guy she wants to beat up, and Muyeol, who must be protected by his most dangerous anti-fan.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:02

Han Hyo-joo plays a surgeon whose father is a famous comic book creator. One day Dad goes missing and she rushes to his workshop to look for him, and instead finds a strange man bathed in blood. She gets kidnapped by the bloody man, which is where their story begins. The drama takes place in 2016 Seoul, but in different dimensions that exist in parallel with one another. It’s described as a suspense romance melodrama about “a man and a woman who are living in the same time, but different worlds.”

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

Television adaptation of the romantic comedy film 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genrefantasy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:51

How can a mermaid from the Joseon era survive in modern-day Seoul? Shim Chung is a mermaid who finds herself transplanted to modern times. She is caught by Heo Joon Jae, a charming but cold con artist who is the doppelgänger for Kim Moon, the son of a nobleman from the Joseon Dynasty. But in the present time, Joon Jae works with Jo Nam Doo, a skilled conman who guides Joon Jae to become a genius scammer. But Joon Jae’s friend, Cha Shi Ah, who works as a researcher at KAIST, may be Chung’s only hope for surviving in her strange new world.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrefantasy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:40

As a punishment for meddling in human affairs, an angel faces the impossible task of finding a soulmate for a cold-hearted ballerina.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:59

After his uncle's unjust takeover of the family company, Kang Min Ho grows up to be a successful, if not cynical investor who only cares about money. But when he undergoes a sudden heart transplant surgery, Min Ho literally has a change of heart when he inherits a warm and compassionate heart. In the midst of seeing the world anew, including falling for the kind Kim Soon Jung, Min Ho must mitigate his newfound personality with the demands of his cutthroat career.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration12:00

Go Dok Mi doesn't spend all day dreaming about her knight in shining armor — she’s too busy spying on her neighbors who all happen to be hot, "flower-boy" types, including cartoon artist Oh Jin Rak. But when Enrique Geum, the new pretty boy next door, catches her, Dok Mi is finally forced to face the consequences - without the safety of binoculars and curtains. Will he be able to convince this “urban Rapunzel” to let her hair down? Whether you’re a lover or a fighter, this sensitive man will captivate your sensibilities.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration16:00

Jang Jae-yeol is a writer of bestselling mystery novels and a radio DJ. Playful and a bit arrogant, he also suffers from obsessive–compulsive disorder. Ji Hae-soo is a psychiatrist on her first year of fellowship. Driven and ambitious with her career yet compassionate towards her patients, Hae-soo has a negative attitude towards love and relationships in her personal life. Once Jae-yeol and Hae-soo meet, there is much contention between them caused by their strong personalities and refusal to give in to each other. But slowly their bickering turns into love and they begin to learn how compatible they are. Jae-yeol and Hae-soo attempt to heal each other's deep-seated wounds, but their fledgling relationship takes a blow when they learn that Jae-yeol's mental health issues are more serious than they initially suspected.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

Drama series depicts a love story between Ban Ji-Yeon and Yoon Dong-Ha. Ban Ji-Yeon is a single 39-year-old woman. She works as a reporter and is very enthusiastic about her work. So much so that she is often called a “witch” at work. She doesn't believe in true love, because of her past experience when her boyfriend disappeared prior to their wedding. Yoon Dong-Ha is 25-year-old young man who runs a small errand center with his friend. The errand center will do pretty much anything including sending out someone dressed as Santa Claus or provide security for an idol star. He looks like a happy guy, but he lost his girlfriend by an accident.

Markimdb: 8
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:39

Inevitably, everybody gets hurt at some point in their lives. There are different remedies for different types of wounds, and as time elapses, these remedies start to become less effective. This is a story about a man who created a shield for his broken heart. Since the day his heart broke, he has been living inside a shell. One day, he encounters a being unlike any other, and by interacting with her, he slowly learns how to break out of his shell.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryJapan

Junko Harumi was once a model student during her middle school and high school days. She failed to enter prestigious Tokyo University and her life has not gone smoothly since then. She has a hard time finding a job and having relationships with men. Now, at the age of 31, she works as a teacher at a private institute. 3 men, who vary in type, appear in front of her. Masashi Yakumo is smart and a cousin of Junko, Kyohei Yuri is a disorderly high school student and Kazuma Yamashita is Kyohei ’s teacher in high school.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryTaiwan

What do netizens know? Ting En (Chris Wu) is a celebrated chef whose fine-dining restaurant is a destination for food lovers from all over the world. When Ting En stumbles upon comments on the Internet from people who can’t afford to eat at his high-priced restaurant, they blow his mind. Netizens claim that the culinary creations made by Fen Qing (Ivy Shao) at the night market are just as satisfying as Ting En’s Michelin-worthy food. Determined to debunk such preposterous claims, Ting En goes to the night market to find Fen Qing and show her what true culinary talent really is. Whose cuisine will reign supreme? “The Perfect Match” is a 2017 Taiwanese drama series.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrefantastic, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:40

Nam Shin is a son from a family who runs a large company. After an unexpected accident, he falls into a coma. His mother Oh Ro-Ra is an authority on brain science and artificial intelligence. She creates an android named Nam Shin III which looks like just like her son Nam Shin. The android pretends to be Nam Shin and he has a bodyguard So-Bong.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration18:54

I Can Hear Your Voice is a 2013 South Korean television series starring Lee Bo-young, Lee Jong-suk, and Yoon Sang-hyun. It aired on SBS from June 5 to August 1, 2013, on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 18 episodes. Originally set for 16 episodes, due to its successful ratings the series was extended by 2 episodes.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genreaction, melodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:46

A drama about the love of people who get closer as they learn to be considerate of each other in desperate times and sacrifices made by people who throw themselves into natural disasters.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration35:00

Generation Y, meet Generation X: on the heels of the success of Answer Me 1997, ‘90s nostalgia continues with a series set in 1994. Journey with a group of high schoolers as they discover the now legendary—then new—K-pop group Seo Taiji and the Boys, as well as the Korean Basketball League, "new" technology, and grungy fashion trends. Sometimes you’ve just got to look to your past in order to appreciate the present. Every generation is sure to find something to love in this field trip back into time!

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:16

Gil Oh-so, an employee at a cleaning company, meets Jang Seon-gyul, the boss of the company. The two are diametric opposite when it comes to cleanliness. With the help of Oh-sol, Seon-gyul faces his mysophobia and falls in love with her.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, melodrama, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:42

This drama is a romantic thriller that centers around a criminal profiler, Lee Hyun who previously work as a consultant at the police department in New York. After he returns to south Korea, he’s in charge of a special criminal investigation team. Due to his special insight, he can analyze the crime scene and the suspect at one glance. He works together with an elite detective, Cha Ji An to solve the crimes and they develop a romantic relationship.

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Genremelodrama, drama, detective
CountryRussia
Duration00:50

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Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:30

Kim Young Ho is a personal trainer for Hollywood stars. Even though he comes from a wealthy family background, he suffered a devastating injury during his childhood days. Now, he overcomes his problems with patience and stubbornness. Meanwhile, Kang Joo Eun is 33-years-old lawyer. She has struggled to support her family. Now, she is overweight and challenge her-selves for a diet.

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