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Return to Eden

Return to Eden

1983 ★ 6.9

Stephanie Harper is rich but insecure 40 year old heiress with two failed marriages behind her. Stephanie believes that she has found true love with tennis pro Greg Marsden, but after the wedding, Greg promptly begins an affair with Stephanie’s best friend Jilly Stewart. Whilst on their honeymoon, Greg pushes Stephanie into a crocodile-infested swamp, and he and Jilly watch as she is apparently mauled to death. However, Stephanie miraculously survives and goes to an island clinic where she meets Dr. Dan Marshall, a brilliant plastic surgeon who uses his talents to repair her face and body. Using her new identity and fortune, she plots her revenge on Greg and Jilly and aims to take back what is rightfully hers.

Sullivan's Crossing

Sullivan's Crossing

2023 ★ 8.2

After Neurosurgeon Maggie Sullivan’s personal and professional life are thrown into turmoil she returns home to Sullivan’s Crossing. While there, Maggie is forced to navigate her complicated present while confronting the painful past she has chosen to ignore for years.

Swagger

Swagger

2021 ★ 7.8

A basketball prodigy must navigate a maze of pressure if he's going to overcome the odds against him and learn what it truly means to have swagger.

Tyler Perry's The Oval

Tyler Perry's The Oval

2019 ★ 8.2

A seemingly perfect interracial first family becomes the White House's newest residents. But behind closed doors they unleash a torrent of lies, cheating and corruption.

Ripple

Ripple

2025 ★ 6.3

In New York City, four strangers navigate life's challenges while their separate paths unexpectedly intertwine in ways that change them forever.

Offspring

Offspring

2010 ★ 6.9

An exuberant drama set in Melbourne's Fitzroy, centering on Nina Proudman and her struggle to deal with her fabulously messy family, her hunt for a decent love life and her tendency to overthink and fly off into fantasy.

The Young and the Restless

The Young and the Restless

1973 ★ 7.0

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 families.

Empire

Empire

2015 ★ 7.1

A powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne.

Chesapeake Shores

Chesapeake Shores

2016 ★ 7.8

A divorced mom deals with an old romance and complicated family issues when she returns to her hometown with her twin daughters.

Felicity

Felicity

1998 ★ 6.7

Felicity Porter, a sensitive and intelligent girl from the San Francisco Bay Area, decides to give up a slot at Stanford University's pre-med program to follow her long time crush to college in New York City. Things get even more complicated when she meets her dorm's resident advisor and they fall in love.

Parenthood

Parenthood

2010 ★ 7.5

The trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.

Days of Our Lives

Days of Our Lives

1965 ★ 6.1

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.

Greenleaf

Greenleaf

2016 ★ 7.1

The unscrupulous world of the Greenleaf family and their sprawling Memphis megachurch, where scandalous secrets and lies are as numerous as the faithful. Born of the church, the Greenleaf family love and care for each other, but beneath the surface lies a den of iniquity—greed, adultery, sibling rivalry and conflicting values—that threatens to tear apart the very core of their faith that holds them together.

Nancy Drew

Nancy Drew

2019 ★ 7.7

Nancy Drew makes plans to leave her hometown for college, but finds herself drawn into a supernatural murder mystery instead.

Smother

Smother

2021 ★ 6.5

On the rugged coast of County Clare, Val Ahern's husband is found dead at the foot of a cliff the morning after a family party. The matriarch starts to dig into the family's secrets to find out who might be responsible.

Hill Street Blues

Hill Street Blues

1981 ★ 7.6

A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

Sanditon

Sanditon

2019 ★ 7.6

The spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.

Famous in Love

Famous in Love

2017 ★ 6.8

Ordinary college student Paige gets her big break after auditioning for the starring role in a Hollywood blockbuster. She must now navigate her new star-studded life and the highs and lows that come with being the new It Girl in town as well as balancing her college workload.

Agatha Christie's Marple

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004 ★ 7.8

The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.

Sweet Magnolias

Sweet Magnolias

2020 ★ 7.7

Lifelong friends Maddie, Helen and Dana Sue lift each other up as they juggle relationships, family and careers in the small Southern town of Serenity.

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