the DON JONES INDEX…
		GAINS POSTED in GREEN LOSSES POSTED in RED 8/14/23... 15,050.49 8/7/23... 15,033.93
	6/27/13… 15,000.00
(THE DOW JONES INDEX: 8/14/23... 35,281.40; 8/7/23... 35,065.62; 6/27/13… 15,000.00)

LESSON for August 14th, 2023 – “Pyongyang 2-Nite?”

Two weeks ago, before the interruption of Donald Trump’s Indictment Three on the One Six riots, we examined the actors’ and writers’ strikes in Hollywood and teased as to a simple strategy that the studio suits could use to break the union forever and keep them alive and making money while AI scripted and robot-acted film and TV programming is perfected.

Of all people, Ronald Reagan had been elected head of the Screen Actors’ Guild (DJI.230731) during the last time SAG and the Writers’ Guild went on strike simultaneously. It was 1960, and agent Lew Wasserman acted as unofficial mediator while Ronald Reagan fronted the union. When the head of 20th Century Fox, Spyros Skouras, vowed to wage “a struggle to the death” over the actors and writers demands for residuals in an interview published in the Dec. 30, 1959, edition of Daily Variety - even suggesting that Fox might fold its tent in the U.S. for a while and work in Europe if Hollywood was hit with a prolonged work stoppage, Reagan’s agent, Lew Wasserman, took him aside and said: “Don’t be greedy.”

This could happen because, as noted two weeks ago, Hollywood was ruled by a club – one that has since become extinct. “The tech companies now in control haven’t a care or a clue about the entertainment business,” as Barry Diller puts it.

“The unions and the studios fought bitterly over residuals in 1960, but the personal enmity was minimal (except in the case of a few older actors whose pre-1960 work was shunted aside for a health insurance deal, and those who worked before 1948… scumped entirely. But, whether out of decency or self-interest, cordiality was usually the rule – even when money was on the table.

“The Club, gathered ‘round that table, had grown up together in the industry and “understood the obstacles ahead. Not only was the box office fading but the antitrust crusaders had suddenly decreed that the studios must exit the distribution business.

“At the same time, Hollywood stars were adding a new word to their vocabulary: residuals. It became Reagan’s mission as SAG president to persuade the studios that residuals were now a key to future peace.”

“Clubmember Lew Wasserman, Universal’s president, had formerly been Reagan’s agent, so “gentlemanly bargaining” could ensue. “Wasserman could steer residuals to the stars while SAG could reciprocate with important concessions that would help Universal. It was all within club rules.”

Skouros has gone to the great cinema in the sky, but present-day studio suits like Disney’s Bob Iger are still crying poor. Iger recently said that “disruptive forces” such as streaming, shrinking TV audiences and an uncertain economy made this “the worst time in the world” for talent to insist on their fair share. The content creators must “be realistic about the business”, he added.

But the reality is that show business is doing fine, contends the liberal Guardian UK (8/8/23, Attachment One) as confirmed by “strong earnings, sky-high executive pay and summer box-office hits – Barbie, Oppenheimer and Mission Impossible.” Besides, studios today are diversified entities that own “streamers, TV networks, theme parks, cable properties and sundry and foreign operations.”

“Disney’s streamers – Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN – boast billions of dollars in revenue. That, plus 12 theme parks, five cruise ships, Pixar, Marvel and others, made for a profitable 2022.

“Comcast/Universal/NBC (next week’s lesson will take a closer look at the origins of Universal) is a $120bn company that doesn’t rely on movies as much as it leans on its cable TV monopoly. Sony is a multinational with electronics, games, image sensors and Columbia Pictures under its roof... others, GUK contends, are just “arms of a Frankencorp (Octocorp might be more precise) – a mish-mash of discordant parts.” In 2022, the men behind the new $43bn Warner/Discovery/CNN merger “borrowed some $50bn, fired 1,000 workers, and tarnished the HBO, TCM, and CNN brands,” but Jack Warner’s “once-lean studio now epitomizes bloated conglomerates that squeeze employees and customers.

Warner’s CEO, David Zaslav, has become a symbol of Hollywood avarice. To be fair, even GUK admits, he’s under pressure to cut TV residuals, payroll and debt. “But an analysis by the Los Angeles Times showed that his total pay from 2018 to 2022 was nearly half a billion dollars. His salary is so excessive that 40% of company shareholders voted against it in May.”

He may be the leader of the pack, but the other wolves are howling with delight. Netflix co-chief executive Ted Sarandos collected $192m over the past five years; Universal/Comcast’s leader Brian Roberts, $170m; and the executives at Apple, Paramount and Fox have done very well, even when they’ve messed up.

Meanwhile, about 87% of SAG actors don’t make the minimum income – $26,470 a year – to qualify for its health insurance. The median pay for a weekly writer-producer has declined 23% over the past decade and half of all TV writers are paid WGA minimum. Residuals for writing a hit Netflix streamer can amount to 89 cents.

Perhaps acknowledging the reality that their stance, if economically blessed, was morally (and PR-ically) untenable so, as GK and others reported, “...on Friday, negotiators for the Hollywood studios finally sat down with the Writers Guild of America after a three-month standoff. But don’t hold your breath,” the Brits added.

Friday’s meeting might have been a “long-awaited thaw in the icy Hollywood strike that has largely kept the entertainment industry at a standstill since early May,” wrote a hopeful (if desperate Los Angeles Times... striking workers unable to buy stuff from places upon whose advertising revenues the LAT depends). (August 11^th, Attachment Two)

But it’s still not clear whether the talks will lead to a significant breakthrough, or how long it will take for the sides to reach a deal for a new three-year contract between the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).

The session was more productive than the talks on Aug. 4 — the first since the strike began May 2 – according to a “source close to the negotiations” who was not authorized to comment

The parties have agreed to meet again tomorrow with the union’s full negotiating team, “including representatives of the WGA’s East Coast branch who were not present for Friday’s meeting, the source said.”

“We’re saddened that as an industry, we couldn’t come to an agreement that would have prevented this,” Paramount Global Chief Executive Bob Bakish laid on the cream, if not the cash, during an earnings call with investors. “Our partnership with the creative community is critical to the health of our industry. So we remain hopeful for a timely resolution, and we are committed to finding a path forward.”

And the Guardian, after the studios made their proposal, reported that the WGA had promised to “evaluate their offer and, after deliberation, go back to them with the WGA’s response next week.” (August 12^th, Attachment Three)

Since neither strike has been settled... despite the occasional leakage of negotiations and solutions ‘round the corner... we press on.

First, the latest on the stoppages (with the writers paramount, inasmuch as the studio suits have offered another settlement and the WGA is “contemplating” it).

“Friday's resumption of talks was the first glimmer of hope in three months of a possible break in the labor stalemate that has essentially shut down production and brought the entertainment industry to a halt,” wrote an also-optimistic Fox. (August 11^th, Attachment Four)

In a message to WGA members late week, negotiators said the studios appeared willing to increase some compensation levels and were at least "willing to talk" about the use of artificial intelligence.

The AMPTP has pushed back against some of the WGA's demands, particularly around its calls for mandatory staffing and employment guarantees on programs. “AMPTP has also pushed back against WGA demands around streaming residuals,” Fox conglomerated, saying the guild's offer “would increase rates by 200%.”

(Absent any settlement, or hope of one, Netflix has still been raising its rates.)

And Reuters (also 8/11, Attachment Five) noted other issues, such as “minimum staffing of writers' rooms” and... in a sort of throwback to 1960 and the Reagan/Wasserman deal... residual payments in the streaming era.

The Hill, nominally a political journal, covered the political aspects of the strike as they affected L.A. Mayor Karen Bassm who said that she backed the striking workers, but encouraged the two sides to come to an agreement “for the betterment of the city.

“The impact has spanned every corner of Los Angeles — from the writers and actors on the picket line trying to make ends meet to keep a roof over their head and food on the table, to the businesses who rely on the entertainment industry,” she said in a statement last week. 

A significant difference from the 1960 strike issues has been the use of artificial intelligence has emerged as a major topic, Fox acknowledged. The WGA says it wants a ban on the use of AI, and contends the AMPTP has refused to even negotiate the issue. The AMPTP said the issue raises "important creative and legal questions" and requires "a lot more discussion, which we've committed to doing."

But while the discussors discuss, the strikers... a few notable exceptions noted... are growing poorer and more desperate, as AMPTP understands well.

If some of the pro-union participants and sympathizers suspect that the studios are dragging their feet – they’re probably right. While there have been plenty of wealthy and famous mooviestars on the picket line, the majority of the membership are simply struggling to stay alive… balancing their occasional gig with real world jobs like waiting tables or mowing lawns… or perhaps exotic dancing. Many fail to even make the required payouts to join or remain in the health insurance embrace, so the suits have a distinct advantage, and they are pressing their thousand dollar shoes against the throats of the unions and bearing down.

The WashPost, last Wednesday, reported on WGA strikers raiding their savings accounts and working side hustles so as to pay LA’s exorbitant rents with perhaps enough left over for a tuna fish sandwich for dinner. “For all the Hollywood success stories — writers who get big feature films made or develop popular TV shows — many more live a day-to-day struggle of writing on spec, selling pilots that never get made and taking meetings that go nowhere,” posted the Post (Attachment Seven) and after the first talks between studios and the Writers Guild went nowhere last week, “concerns are mounting about how long they can keep up their fight.”

The Washingtonians interviewed Kimberly Barrante, who said she hadn’t worked in Hollywood for long before she discovered how common it was for producers or directors to ask her to essentially work for free, “asking for small changes in scripts that would end up requiring large-scale rewrites for which she received no compensation.” That’s also an issue the WGA is attempting to address in the contract negotiations.

According to the WGA, writers’ pay has declined 4 percent overall over the past decade — 23 percent if adjusted for inflation. There’s a widespread view among writers that the changes brought about by streaming services — such as smaller writing staffs working for shorter periods of time and earning lower residuals — have made it difficult, if not impossible, to earn a middle-class income as a working writer, unlike in decades past.

The Post also reported that even animals are being impacted by the strike. Animals are rented at a day rate, often around $500. (Exotic animals can cost more.) Animal handlers and trainers are additionally paid a minimum hourly rate. For those working on West Coast-based projects, the rate is set by their Teamsters contracts — typically somewhere between $40 and $70 an hour, depending on the type of animal. They are compensated for travel, but only some projects pay for the hours of preparatory training, trainers say.

Kelly Capponcellim who manages a large ranch outside of Los Angeles with a variety of animals, including horses, pigs, Jack the water buffalo, and exotic birds, including flamingos. (“You can’t really train a flamingo,” she says. “You kind of have to wrangle a flamingo.”) says that, in better days, her reindeer would be working on holiday films right now.

“Christmas movies don’t use reindeer as much anymore,” she says. “Nobody has a budget anymore these days.” The reindeer are spending their summer cooling off in her sprinklers.

“It’s very, very sad, because there is an art to what we do. Just like there is an art with the actors,” says Megan-Kate Hoover, an animal trainer based out of Cincinnati who worked on “Hillbilly Elegy.” “I mean, can you imagine ‘Homeward Bound’ with AI animals?

And those paltry residual checks the humans have been sharing? The animals and their handlers have it worse. There are typically no residuals paid out to handlers and owners, even if the movie is centered on a trained animal as the main character.

There is a subtle aura of bitterness among the 11 handlers and trainers interviewed by The Washington Post, even though they support the strikes and would not cross the picket lines.

“We don’t make what the writers make,” says trainer and wrangler Alison Smith. “It’s rough to feel like, as Teamsters, that we’re fighting for the writers, but I know a lot of Teamsters are wondering, ‘Would the writers fight for us?’ We feel like we need it more.”

(Actually, the Teamsters... at least those of them who drive for UPS... appear to have done quite well for themselves as their recent settlement indicates.)

Todd Forsberg’s horses have worked on the HBO series “Westworld.” During the strikes, he’ll be booking children’s birthday parties, where his white pony, Arkas, will play the role of unicorn, fake horn and all.

“He likes his job,” Forsberg says. “He gets petted. People get to look at him.”

And that’s what’s important, the trainers say: keeping their animals ready for the limelight.

A clubsome deal such as that struck between Spyros, Ronnie and Wasserman wouldn’t be possible today, because... lets face it... the suits are greedy and greed is good. In fact, they want nothing so much as to smoosh the unions entirely – replace scripts with AI boilerplate and actors with robots. (Like cartoons, but with synthesized voices – perhaps even stolen off old movies!)

The Hollywood Reporter, months ago reported on the possibility that an extended strike could induce producers and distribution companies, not to mention non-WGA affiliated writers to go global.

“As with previous WGA strikes, we’d expect there will be an increased demand for content from outside the U.S., particularly from English-speaking countries like the U.K. and Australia,” say Martin Moszkowicz and Oliver Berben of German mini-major Constantin Film, producers of the English-language Resident Evil horror franchise as well as German films and series including We Children From Bahnhof Zoo, which streams on Amazon, and KaDeWe, carried on the BBC in the U.K. and Stan in Australia.” (March 30^th, Attachment Nine)

“A lot of American buyers were planning for [the strike] and talking about shows as potential acquisitions,” said Louise Pedersen, CEO of All3Media International, which handles global sales on such series as Amazon Prime’s The English starring Emily Blunt and All Creatures Great and Small, speaking on a panel at French television festival SeriesMania on March 21. “I suspect they’re doing research behind the scenes for backup lists [should the strike happen].”

The last WGA strike, a 100-day work stoppage between 2007 and 2008, saw a significant opening in the U.S. market to non-American shows, with Canada the prime beneficiary. Mid-season pickups by U.S. networks of Canadian series like Flashpoint (on CBS) and The Listener (NBC), used to plug the gap in fresh content as U.S. scripted series went off the air, helped usher in a gold rush for Canadian producers looking to get their shows on American primetime. What followed were the likes of Rookie Blue on ABC, CW soap The L.A. Complex, Orphan Black on BBC America, and NBC’s Saving Hope.

Karen Thorne-Stone, president and CEO of Ontario Creates, which markets the province to Hollywood producers, is confident high-end Canadian series can help fill a strike-induced gap in schedules south of the border.

“There’s still room for growth on that side, which will certainly buffer any negative impact from U.S. production,” she says.

Since the 2007-08 strike, the U.S. market has become even more open to non-American series — see the primetime success of Downton Abbey or Sherlock on PBS — and even non-English-language shows. This has been particularly evident on streaming services. Alongside Netflix hits like Narcos, Dark and Squid Game, Hulu has had success with imports like German spy thriller Deutschland 83 and Scandi noir The Bridge, and Sundance Now with Irish procedural The Fall and French drama The Bureau (See Attachment “A”, Number Fifteen). Sony-owned Crunchyroll has turned its once-niche market for Asian content into a mainstream juggernaut, extending beyond the small screen to box office successes with the likes of Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train and Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero.

“We’re tracking this very closely, just to see where this will all end,” says Justin Cutler, Ontario’s Film Commissioner.

So perhaps it’s time for the studios to take the kill shot… the double tap that will terminate the double jeopardy of uppity actors and writers forever.

Technology will make this possible… but the AI apps that can write scripts and simulate human bodies is still a ways away.

But there’s no need to wait. Rather, there’s no time to wait as, for the first time in nearly a century, the smoke of class warfare is wafting over the labor table. In July, a studio source told Deadline that the AMPTP’s strategy was to let negotiations drag on until “union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses”; another anonymous studio source claimed that the tactic was a “cruel but necessary evil”. (GUK, Attachment One, above)

So, before the people with the pitchforks show up on Bob Iger’s the time is right for AMPTP to kill off those troublesome unions, as well as the no-count writers and actors (well, maybe not Tom Cruise or The Rock until perfect AI simulacra of their faces and voices and physiques can be perfected). The talent may be starving, but starving actors and writers always are with us, always have been and always will be. Chief executives having to drop down from the billionaire to common millionaire class... that’s trouble, and while reruns and reality shows might take the networks through the rest of a long, hot summer, new fall programming (or old programming that Americans don’t know about, hence new) can keep the WGA and SAG on the sidelines forever.

What might a sample network’s week look like when programmed with foreign content (plus a little bit of AI-generated shows, just to test the waters for the Big After?

The listing and review site IMDB not only runs critiques of American (or, to accommodate the Brits and the Canucks, English-speaking) entries but includes a list of either the top fifty or top one hundred foreign language televised entries, sorted by countries. The usual suspects are there... the French, Germans, the Italians and a few other Westernized republics... but also the outliers: African and Asian (most of Latin America receives Spanish language networks like Telemundo, also available to North American users), so we’ll pass these up.

As any Hollywooden head can see… there’s plenty of content out there. Plenty! Some of the higher calibre presentations have been snapped up by cable and streaming companies, but the real stuff… the programming that can capitate American eyes, ears and stomach – well there’s some of that around, too.

There is even programming from our enemies – the Chinese and Russians. Even Iran! Even North Korea!!!

Why not steal and program it? What can they do? If they send lawyers to America to sue for royalties, the lawyers can be arrested and jailed as supporting war criminals.

It’s perfect.

The IMDB listings, containing a mini-summary of casts and plots, are attached (A through G). Most of the entries have links where one can learn more about a particular show. We’ve taken a thoroughly subjective selection of shows (an affinity for the strange, the bizarre but, also, the goopily familiar is confessed) and slotted them into what migh be a typical week’s programming, should the American suits conspire to destroy the WGA and SAG/Aftra right now... while waiting for a full AI/CGI lineup to become available in a few years.

Enjoy? (All times are EST, as manipulated by the program vendors and station.)

	Monday (France)	Tuesday (Germany)	Wednesday Night Xi-ing (China)	Thursday Night in Moscow (Russia)	Diversions Fit for a Prince! (Nigeria)	Bollywood Saturday Night (India)	Sundays with Kim (North Korea)
8:00 PM	Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir Animation, Action, Adventure Marinette and Adrien, two normal teens, transform into superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir when an evil threatens their city. Stars: Cristina Valenzuela, Bryce Papenbrook, Keith Silverstein, Max Mittelman (8:30) Primal  Animation, Action, Adventure A caveman and a dinosaur bond over shared tragedy and work together to survive in a perilous prehistoric world. Stars: Aaron LaPlante, Laëtitia Eïdo, Fred Tatasciore, Imari Williams	The Bureau of Magical Things  Family, Fantasy Teenage girl Kyra accidentally discovers an extraordinary world and gains magical powers’ Stars: Kimie Tsukakoshi, Elizabeth Cullen, Mia Milnes, Julian Cullen (8:30) How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)  Comedy, Crime, Drama To win back the love of his life, a high school student and his best friend launch Europe's largest online drug business. Stars: Maximilian Mundt, Danilo Kamperidis, Lena Klenke, Damian Hardung	Link Click Animation, Crime, Drama Using superpowers to enter their clientele's photos one by one, Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang take their work seriously at "Time Photo Studio." Stars: Alejandro Saab, Suzie Yeung, Kelsey Maher, Zeno Robinson,  (8:30) Falling Into Your Smile Comedy, Drama, Romance Romance between two professional gamers. Stars: Kai Xu, Cheng Xiao, Han Gao, Bruce Crossey	The Inbetweeners Follows four friends and their antics during their final years of school. Stars: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas (8:30) Gold Diggers Drama, Thriller Set in the luxurious world of the Russian social elite, a world where money dictates everything. Marina Levkoeva appears to have it all as a socialite and mistress of a wealthy businessman, until events take a shocking turn. Stars: Darya Moroz, Marina Zudina, Vladimir Mishukov, Aleksandra Rebenok	The Johnsons Comedy The story revolves around the middle class family of The Johnsons as they strive to survive in Lagos and slowly become successful. Stars: Charles Inojie, Ada Ameh, Olumide Oworu, Chinedu Ikedieze (8:30) Big Brother Nigeria Game-Show, Reality-TV 21-26 housemates between the ages of 21 and above, battle to co-exist in the big brother house for 99 days. Stars: Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, Venita Akpofure, Natacha Akide, Esther Agunbiade	Office Office Comedy The show follows the comedy of a man struggling to get his work done in corrupt offices. Stars: Pankaj Kapur, Deven Bhojani, Sanjay Mishra, Manoj Pahwa (8:30) Mahabharat Action, Adventure, Drama When a dynastic struggle leads rival clans to war, Lord Krishna decides to step in and take control of the situation. Stars: Harish Bhimani, Nitish Bharadwag, Mukesh Khanna, Gajendra Chauhan See Note 1, below	A Traffic Controller on Crossroads Drama A driver learns the importance of obeying traffic regulations. Director: Che Phun Ki | Stars: Ri Sol Hee, Ko Sam He, Ri Song Il, Ri Yong Nam (8:45) Gyotongjilseoleul jal jikijayo Animation, Family North Korean kids learn traffic safety and rules in different ways
9:00 PM	Profilage  Crime, Thriller Chloé Saint-Laurent is a profiler with a police team solving murders in Paris. She's very sweet, she wears very colored clothes and a huge yellow bag. Stars: Jean-Michel Martial, Raphaël Ferret, Philippe Bas, Valérie Dashwood (9:30) Candice Renoir Comedy, Crime, Drama French police Commandant and divorced mother of four Candice Renoir solves crime cases in a harbor city of southern France. Stars: Cécile Bois, Raphaël Lenglet, Clara Antoons, Ali Marhyar	Sleeping Dog Crime, Drama, Mystery A former detective now living on the streets searches for the truth about a supposedly settled murder case. Stars: Max Riemelt, Luise von Finckh, Peri Baumeister, Tara Corrigan	New Legend of Madame White Snake Drama, Fantasy, Musical A fantastical love story inspired by the legend of white snake - a mythical snake-like creature who strives to be human. Stars: Angie Chiu, Cecilia Yip, Maggie Chan, Ming Chiang (May be succeeded by, or paired with The Legend of White Snake – DJI)	Chernobyl: Zone of Exclusion Sci-Fi, Thriller Five youths chase after a man who has stolen 8 million rubles from them. The man reveals on his video blog his intention to travel to Chernobyl. Stars: Sergey Romanovich, Valeriya Dmitrieva, Konstantin Davydov, Kristina Kazinskaya	The Real Housewives of Abuja Reality-TV Follows the luxurious lives of six influential and successful women in Abuja, Nigeria. Stars: Samantha Homossany, Arafa, OJ Posharella, Princess Jecoco (9:30) Lahira Action In the aftermath of an attack on an IDP camp, a young girl pushes the limit of bravery in her attempt to be free from the hands of insurgents while a special force unit follows her trail in a mission to rescue the abducted girls Stars: Alfred 'Six Foot Plus' Atungu, Queen Abah, David Adoga, Grace-Charis Bassey	Rocket Boys Drama, History A story of two extraordinary men, Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha and Dr. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, who created history while building India's future. Stars: Jim Sarbh, Saba Azad, Regina Cassandra, Mark Bennington	Urban Girl Comes to Get Married Comedy, Romance A romantic comedy that tells the story of a fashion designer from Pyongyang who comes to a small village to show her latest designs. The fashion designer is young and attractive. Director: Yun Jong | Stars: Yong-sin Han, Jun-nam Kim, Kun-ho Ri, Kyong-hui Ri (9:45) Saemmul-eul masin du dongmu Animation, Short, Family Two companions prepare for the day of the sumo wrestling contest. One of them begins to drink lots of spring water.
10:00 PM	Lupin Action, Crime, Drama Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family. Stars: Omar Sy, Ludivine Sagnier, Hervé Pierre, Soufiane Guerrab The Bureau Drama, Thriller A very unique and captivating series about the "bureau des légendes", the mythical powerhouse within the French Secret Service and its dare devil ghost agents. Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Florence Loiret Caille, Jonathan Zaccaï, Sara Giraudeau	Dark  Crime, Drama, Mystery A family saga with a supernatural twist, in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families. Stars: Louis Hofmann, Karoline Eichhorn, Lisa Vicari, Maja Schöne	You Are My Hero Crime, Drama, Romance As a new resident at the bustling metropolitan hospital, Mi Ka's life is far from boring, (w)ith a steady stream of patients to see and a variety of training exercises to complete Stars: Sichun Ma, Jingting Bai, Hao Chen, Yang Wang	The Pleasure Principle Crime Three European countries. Three post-communist cities, Odessa, Warsaw and Prague. Three young women murdered... their bodies - or parts of them – found, their throats cut. Stars: Malgorzata Buczkowska, Karel Roden, Sergey Strelnikov, Robert Gonera	Shanty Town Action, Crime, Drama A group of courtesans attempts to escape the grasp of a notorious kingpin- but political corruption and blood ties make freedom a near - impossible goal. Stars: Nancy Isime, Sola Sobowale,   Richard Mofe-Damijo, Ali Nuhu (10:30) Dr. Love   Drama Dr. Love is a master of the art of love and romance, but only in theory. Stars: Princess Adefiyebi, Adewuyi Adeleye, Lilian Afegbai, Oluwatosin Akingba	Shri Krishna Drama, Fantasy When evil takes over the world, Lord Vishnu incarnates into the world as Shri Krishna for the protection of the righteous and the destruction of the wicked. Stars: Sarvadaman Banerjee, Swapnil Joshi, Sandeep Mohan, Mahendra Ghule Great mythological show by Ramanand Sagar based on the life of Lord Krishna. Note One (abpve): This epic show of B.R. Chopra was very popular among audience. Brilliant casting, brilliant writing, brilliant music and brilliant direction. War sequences were incredible. This show was ahed (sic)of its time.	The Hero Noreturn Drama, History Based on a play called "Bloody Conference" (allegedly written by Kim Il-sung). A dramatized retelling of the Hague Secret Emissary Affair from the perspective of Yi Jun, Korean prosecutor and diplomat. Directors: Eun-hie Choi, Shin Sang-ok Stars: Kim Jun-sik, Hye-sung Ryang, Yoon-Hong Kim, Jung-hwa Kim (10:45) Unsung Heroes Action, Drama The film follows Yu Rim, Korean expatriate in the United Kingdom working as a journalist - ordered by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea to gather intelligence on the United States. Directors: Ryu Ho-son, Hak-lim Ko Stars: Ryong-rin Kim, Jung-hwa Kim, Woon-mo Jung, Son Dae-won
11:00 PM	Late news - Paris	Late news - Berlin	Late news - Beijing	Late news - Moscow	Late news - Abidjan	Late news – New Delhi	(Movie runs to 11:30 PM after which all are ordered to bed so as to rise early on Monday,)

And after Don Jones gets used to his favorite crime drama from Nigeria or sitcom from Pyongyang and the Trump Supremes smack down the guilds’ legal objections with further fines and sanctions to bankrupt the bastards... well... maybe Bob Iger can toss a minimum wage gig to Fran Drescher – as a nanny.

Today, no progress was reported, only that the unions and the studios were mulling their options and lulling their critics to sleep. But weirdly, as noted in a few excerpts from The Vulture (August 14^th, Attachment Ten) including some scabby stories and a preview of the next union tiff, when the American networks go after foreign unions. Netflix is now trying to bust the Koreans... but now, The Vulture surmised, their library of international programming “may have labor issues of its own to address.”

And the unions?

They have a way to avoid extinction if they are bold enough... and a few of the top grosser are willing to throw a few mil into the top hat (not for charity, but for the market). It was done once (and subsequently corrupted, as great political or economic advances usually are) and it can be done again.

Take a peek... next week!

	Our Lesson: August Seventh through Thirteenth, 2023
Monday, August 7, 2023 Dow: 35,473.13	It’s back to school day... or maybe a bit earlier, for some, later for others. The children of America are off on their buses or parent’s cars (only the poorest of the poor actually walk because, you know, there are child molesters everywhere!) Arriving, the kids pass through metal detectors, perhaps undergo body and even cavity searches, then walk down hallways past the scowling security guards and growling K-9s with brightly colored “Do not pet” or even “Do not approach” vests. And then they enter rooms where they have to sit down and be taught – stuff. Aren’t we a great country? The DOJ issues an order muzzling Djonald UnMuzzled from speaking out and, either, threatening political or physical revenge on his enemies. Both sides won’t admit it’s all theater, but it is. Russians and Chinese embracing, as dictators do, to probe US defenses off the coast of Alaska. President Joe objects, to no avail. President Zelensky, dodging a female assassin, orders two bridges connecting Russia with occupied Crimea blown up, and “President” Putin angrily bombs a blood transfusion facility and then, half an hour later, bombs it again to kill the rescuers. In Gotham, “influencer” Kai Cenat announces he’s giving away free videogams and says “Let’s go crazy!” Thousands do, and violent riots erupt. Police and politicians blame “outside agitators”.
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 Dow: 35,374.49	The weekend’s murders include an angry man shooting a 9 year old girl for “making noise” and Utah man killed by FBI after making threats against President Joe. There are accidental (or negligent) deaths too... two die when storm tossed utility poles crush their car, three California wildfire firefighters die in copter crash, but other rescuers pull a trapped owl tangled in a soccer net. And then – Justice. Rapper Tori Lanez gets ten years for shooting Megan Thee Stallion. Race riot breaks out on the docks of Montgomery, AL but DA passes on hate crime charges. And the weather. Violent storms disrupt Beyonce concert, thousands of flights cancelled or delayed and there’s even a tornado touchdown on Cape Cod. And sharks... one enters NY city limits to feast on an old woman in Rockaway Beach. Ohio voters hand Biden a welcome win by voting down a pro-abortion bill.
Wednesday, August 9, 2023 Dow: 35,123.36	Maui wowee!... wildfires scorch the island and devastate the touristy Lahaina. Tourists and residents are both advised to evacuate. Six deaths reported, many missing. One wowee winner from Florida takes the 1.5 billion dollar Mega Millions jackppt. Moody’s follows Fitch in downgrading America’s creditworthiness... the national debt now totals 32 trillion while Americans’ credit card bills top a hundred trillion (See below) even with interest rates topping 20%. Mom and child freed by Haitian kidnappers after payment of undisclosed ransom. FBI guns down Utah man for making threats to President Joe in advance of his trip to Provo. Biden and the women’s lobbies take a victory in Ohio where a complicated proposal to pass legislation outlawing the passage (or introduction) of anti-anti-abortion laws goes down to defeat. More good news for everybody and Ohio: firefighters in Willoughby rescue an owl trapped in the webbing of a soccer goal.
Thursday, August 10, 2023 Dow: 35,176.15	Death toll in Maui up to 53 as the island burns and the historic resort town of Lahaina is obliterated. The wildfires, spurred by winds from Hurricane Dora (750 miles away) spread to the Big Island as hundreds are thought to be missing and the count of refugee evacuees tops 4,000. Escape by car impossible, drivers and passengers abandon their vehicles to burn on the road while they run for their lives or jump into the ocean where some are drowned, others are boiled to death. Not quite so bad but bad enough across the mainland... record breaking heat, flooding and stormy weather coast to coast – but Southern California needs the rain. President Joe proposes a $12 billion disaster relief package to go along with his $13B in military aid to Ukraine (where the war lumbers on). FBI says the assassination threat to Biden was “credible” and you can mark the assassination of a political candidate in Ecuador as “accomplished”. Inflation data relased and the CPI is up 3.3% – not the 2% economists want but better than last year’s 9%. Still, the Fed warning of more interest rates hikes to come. Gas, citrus and bread prices are up, but eggs and used cars finally more affordable.
Friday, August 11, 2023 Dow: 35,281.40	It’s National Sons and Daughters Day. Aygee Merrick Garland has an (unwelcome) gift for President Joe... he announces the elevation of dogged deputy David Weiss to Special Counsel in the five year investigation of Hunter Biden after a Trump-appointed judge yanks away what Republicans call a sweetheart plea deal. The death toll on Maui rises to 55 as refugees flood airports while dangerous heat on the mainland extends to the usually cool Pacific Northwest. Tourist traps in Maine advise: “We’re not as hot as the rest of you.” Disorder in the court finds new disclosure of billionaire bribes to Clarence Thomas: dozens of free flights, vacations and sporting tickets. More perks for Justices Alito (right) and Sotomayor (left) and the partisans unite to kill disclosure bill 9-0. But, on their day job, they block a Sackler opioid settlement deemed as lame as Hunter Biden’s plea deal and cybercurrency scammer Sam Bankman-Fried has his $250M bail revoked for trying to intimidate witnesses. And the plutocrats in gentrified San Francisco approve the deployment of self-driving robotaxis in order to bust the drivers’ union and, soon enougn, create terror and carnage on the highways.
Saturday, August 12, 2023 Dow: (Closed)	As death toll rises to 80, Maui residents embrace rescue workers and good Samaritans who provide some of the missing necessities... like ICE... and castigate the government for failing to notify them of the imminant danger from wildfires. “They have blood on their hands,” a survivor curses – another despairs: “This is done.” Shelters are full, roads closed by fire or the police and people are sleeping in the ashes and winds of 70 mph spread the flames to the rest of the island before easing slightly at night. And the rest of America bakes too, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs declares a heat emergency. The heat may also be frying brains amidst the people and police... cops mistake a man carrying a baby for a traffic suspect at a Kenosha, WI Applebees, beat and tase him as the baby screams and. after an employee exonerates him, hauls him away anyway for “resisting arrest” while Applebee’s fires the whistleblower. In Marion County, Kansas, cops raid and destroy a critical town newspaper office that published details about a local bigshot’s traffic arrest – the publisher’s mother dies after the raid. GOP candidates flock to Iowa to eat meat and greet voters... Djonald UnGrounded flies in, makes a short speech to chants of “We Love Trump” nnd flies off again while Saint Ron and Pence do battle in the Pork Tent with voters heckling them both. The poor are squeezed balancing payments for food, rents and power for air conditioning (or fans) with credit card interest up to 20%. TV-con-mystics say that but for Taylor, Beyonce and Barbie, America would have fallen into a recession.
Sunday, August 13, 2023 Dow: (Closed)	Search and rescue teams bring in K9s to sniff out corposes, admitting that few, if any, survivors will ever be found as Maui death toll reaches 93. Survivors are now fighting police who will not let them return to the ruins of their homes to retrieve what they can... victims blame failed radio, celltower and telephone notices of danger while angry cops strike back with fists, clubs and words: spokesman snarling that the ruins are still toxic and survivors are trampling the burned corpses into powder, making further identifications impossible while officials defend themselves in that power failed so quickly that no warnings could be transmitted. Sunday gabsters tackle wildfires, Trump and Hunter. K-Mac, who supported Weiss as prosecutor, now says that he is a traitor and Garland puppet. With an Atlanta grand jury in session and debating the One Six (in particular, Djonald’s plea to Aygee Raffensperger to “find” votes), most speeches say that Trump is still far ahead of his Republican competitors... Saint Ron shuffling campaign team still seeing Iowa as his “field of dreams” with first debate less than two weeks off (Trump still maintaining he will not attend so long as the mandatory pledge to support the eventual nominee... even Christie or maybe Liz Cheney?... remains. National Review editor Ramesh Ponneru says that: “you can’t call Trump a loser, he won two elections in his alternate reality.” Former Dem. chair Donna Brazile says it’s not over yet, citing Tim Scott (!) and “something unknown”. Candidate Nikki Haley channels Johnny Nash, asserting that there are still “...more questions than answers.” When FEMA’s Deanne Criswell hails the arrival of more cadaver K9s, some arriving from mainland states like California, saying “The dogs make a difference,” The BBC predicts “10-20” more cadavers per day and Congresswoman Jill Tokuda (D-HI) replies... “Everyone wants to go home. We know what it means when a cadaver dog sigs in front of a building and barks.” She adds that many survivors now fighting police believed that noisy warnings without details meant a tsunami, so the unluckiest ran out of their homes and fled inland, right into the flames.
The Don was up again – almost entirely based upon rising exports and falling imports. Hawaiians might not feel so happy... but Jack Parnell has issued a statement and plea to President Joe... fer Chrissakes, open up Pearl Harbor to the evacuees and refugees. There’s plenty of space and, being a naval station, plenty of ships to transport them to safety for the time being. In the past month, we’ve passed a lot of pro-military and pro-veteran legislation... can we deploy these people to the burn site to help with the cleanup?

THE DON JONES INDEX

CHART of CATEGORIES w/VALUE ADDED to EQUAL BASELINE of 15,000

(REFLECTING… approximately… DOW JONES INDEX of June 27, 2013)

See a further explanation of categories here…

ECONOMIC INDICES (60%)

CATEGORY	VALUE	BASE	RESULTS			SCORE		OUR SOURCES and COMMENTS
INCOME	(24%)	6/17/13 & 1/1/22	LAST	CHANGE	NEXT	LAST WEEK	THIS WEEK
Wages (hrly. Per cap)	9%	1350 points	7/31/23	+0.45%	8/23	1,451.49	1,451.49	https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/wages   28.83
Median Inc. (yearly)	4%	600	8/7/23	+0.025%	8/21/23	609.84	609.99	http://www.usdebtclock.org/   35,970
Unempl. (BLS – in mi)	4%	600	7/31/23	- 2.86%	8/23	651.75	651.75	http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000/  3.5
Official (DC – in mi)	2%	300	8/7/23	nc (3 weeks)	8/21/23	266.86	266.86	http://www.usdebtclock.org/      5,967 nc nc nc*
Unofficl. (DC – in mi)	2%	300	8/7/23	- 0.44%	8/21/23	327.46	328.90	http://www.usdebtclock.org/     9,785
Workforce Particip. Number Percent	2%	300	8/7/23	+0.029% +0.01%	8/21/23	305.40	305.43	In 163,542 Out 99,865* Total: 263,302 358 407 http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 62.087 * Anomaly: out of work not searching up only 1,000 over 3 weeks
WP % (ycharts)*	1%	150	2/27/23	nc (5 mos.)	8/23	151.19	151.19	https://ycharts.com/indicators/labor_force_participation_rate 62.60 nc*
OUTGO	15%
Total Inflation	7%	1050	8/7/23	+0.2%	9/23	985.95	983.98	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm     +0.2
Food	2%	300	8/7/23	+0.2%	9/23	277.66	277.10	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm     +0.2
Gasoline	2%	300	8/7/23	+0.2%	9/23	255.40	254.89	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm    +0.2
Medical Costs	2%	300	8/7/23	-0.4%	9/23	296.97	298.16	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm     -0.4
Shelter	2%	300	8/7/23	+0.4%	9/23	274.37	273.27	http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm     +0.4
WEALTH	6%
Dow Jones Index	2%	300	8/7/23	+0.62%	8/21/23	286.48	288.24	https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/index/ 35,281.40
Home (Sales) (Valuation)	1% 1%	150 150	5/1/23	-3.26% +3.56%	8/23	130.20 301.09	130.20 301.09	https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics Sales (M):  4.16 Valuations (K):  410.2
Debt (Personal)	2%	300	8/7/23	+0.023%	8/21/23	275.85	275.79	http://www.usdebtclock.org/    73,470
NATIONAL	(10%)
Revenue (trilns.)	2%	300	8/7/23	-2.71%	8/21/23	397.22	386.46	debtclock.org/       4,600
Expenditures (tr.)	2%	300	8/7/23	+0.11%	8/21/23	325.17	324.81	debtclock.org/       6,309
National Debt tr.)	3%	450	8/7/23	+0.04%	8/21/23	412.52	412.36	http://www.usdebtclock.org/    32,697 (The debt ceiling... now kicked forward to 1/1/25... had been 31.4. Of late, there have been rumblings and mutterings from Congress, that it should be addressed sooner… like now?)
Aggregate Debt (tr.)	3%	450	8/7/23	+0.14%	8/21/23	396.03	395.47	http://www.usdebtclock.org/    101,899
GLOBAL	(5%)
Foreign Debt (tr.)	2%	300	8/7/23	+9.03%	8/21/23	328.20	328.11	http://www.usdebtclock.org/   7,619
Exports (in billions)	1%	150	5/22/23	-0.16%	8/23	153.48	153.73	https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/current/index.html 247.5
Imports (bl.)	1%	150	5/22/23	+0.99%	8/23	172.26	174.97	https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/current/index.html 313.0
Trade Deficit (bl.)	1%	150	5/22/23	+5.34%	8/23	287.16	302.50	https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/current/index.html 69.5

SOCIAL INDICES (40%)
ACTS of MAN	12%
World Affairs	3%	450	8/7/23	+0.2%	8/21/23	451.25	452.15	Ecuadorian presidential candidate assassinated, replaced by a brave (or foolish) journalist. Six Colombians arrested. Five Americans transferred as rumours of Iranian ransom deal ($6B!) swirl. Next door, Iraq bans utterances of the world “homosexual”.
War and terrorism	2%	300	8/7/23	+0.4%	8/21/23	291.60	292.77	Ukraine foils and catches a Putinista plotting to assassinate Zelenskyy and then blows up two Russian bridges to Crimea as Xi and Putin hold joint naval maneuvers off Alaska. Rapper Kai Cenat arrested for starting a NYC riot with social media giveaway posts. Mom and child freed by Haitian kidnappers.
Politics	3%	450	8/7/23	+0.1%	8/21/23	479.06	479.54	Trump to be indicted “any day now” by Georgia – it’s Number Four. Special counsel on #2 and #3 accuses him of trying his case(s) in the media... Duh!... wants limited gag order. His competitors prepping for next week’s debate – St. Ron fires his campaign staff... again!... Pence blasts his former boss, saying that there is nothing more un-American than “one man choosing the President.” The polls show Americans are tired of reliving 2020. Kansas newspaper gagged and mother of publisher killed for printing news against the ruling class. Ohio voters reject complicated anti-abortion bill.
Economics	3%	450	8/7/23	-0.2%	8/21/23	430.04	429.18	July inflation data out: gas, citrus and bread up; rents, eggs and used cars down. Moody’s follows Fitch in downgrading American credit rating. LA city workers join Hollywood on strike. Closings include Yellow Trucks, four Tyson chicken plants and Rao Soup, bought out by Campbell’s as devotees weep. Paramount sells Simon and Schuster to the KKR money manipulators as Don Jones stops buying and reading books.
Crime	1%	150	8/7/23	-0.1%	8/21/23	252.50	252.25	Angry man in Chicago shoots 9 year old girl for “making noise”. Ambulance jacker arrested in Arlington, Va.
ACTS of GOD	(6%)
Environment/Weather	3%	450	8/7/23	-0.2%	8/21/23	404.32	403.51	A week of 100+° temperatures for U.S. on tap. Tornadoes strike Cape Cod. Floods here and there, statisticians cite the hottest July ever... and August is shaping up worse.
Disasters	3%	450	8/7/23	-0.7%	8/21/23	434.60	431.56	Maui burns. Heat and wildfires take their toll on first responders: 3 die in California copter crash. Storms kill 2 by falling utility pole in Maryland, more fatalities in AL, TN and WVa. And the Summer of Sharks edges into metro NYC as a 65 year old Rockaway Beach woman gets chomped.
LIFESTYLE/JUSTICE INDEX			(15%)
Science, Tech, Educ.	4%	600	8/7/23	+0.2	8/21/23	633.50	634.77	It’s back to school time for millions of American children. Virgin Galactic launches more tourists into space.
Equality (econ/social)	4%	600	8/7/23	+0.3	8/21/23	617.92	619.77	Greta Garwig becomes first billion dollar director - Taylor, Beyonce and Barbie save American economy, say experts. Migrant buses keep rolling north, child dies en route to Chicago.
Health	4%	600	8/7/23	-0.2%	8/21/23	471.08	470.14	Diners beware! Listeria kiwifruits recalled. JAMA says sugary drinks KILL so dump the Coke from your rum and cokes. Doctors dispute over whether 5,000 or 10,000 steps daily will save your life, but agree that acid reflux leads to dementia. Treat for kids going back to school – a new Covid strain.
Freedom and Justice	3%	450	8/7/23	+0.1%	8/21/23	471.05	471.52	Crypto-crook-o Sam Bankman-Fried has his bail revoked. Back to jail. Crime and punishment buffs point out that states like Georgia are immune to pardons so if Trump is convicted and elected, he’ll have to run the country from prison. DOJ to drop Delaware charges against Hunter, but add new ones in California and New York.
MISCELLANEOUS and TRANSIENT INDEX					(7%)
Cultural incidents	3%	450	8/7/23	+0.1%	8/21/23	502.79	503.40	Hip Hop museum dedicated in the Bronx w/50^th anniversary concert at Yankee Stadium. Economy savior Queen B finishes gig in Maryland amidst thunderstorms. Michael Lorenzen throws a no hitter for Phillies; “career minor leaguer” 28 year old “rookie” hits home run in first big league at bat. RIP: “Exorcist” director William Friedkin, Robbie Robertson, leader of “The Band”, voiceover actor Johnny Hardman (“King of the Hill”)
Misc. incidents	4%	450	8/7/23	+0.2%	8/21/23	483.79	484.76	Lucky lotto winner garners $1.5B (less taxes and terms) in Neptune Beach, Fl.

The Don Jones Index for the week of August 7th through August 13th, 2023 was UP 16.56 points

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ATTACHMENT ONE – From the Guardian UK

THE HOLLYWOOD STRIKE DRAGS ON BECAUSE OF ONE STUMBLING BLOCK: STUDIO GREED

Execs make hundreds of millions of dollars, yet 87% of Sag actors don’t make the $26,470 a year to qualify for health insurance

By Kathleen Sharp, Tue 8 Aug 2023 07.10 EDT

On Friday, negotiators for the Hollywood studios finally sat down with the Writers Guild of America after a three-month standoff. But don’t hold your breath. The Screen Actors Guild is still on strike, studio tycoons sound like Logan Roy (who?) and the two-union shutdown could drag on for months.

The Hollywood strike can and must win – for all of us, not just writers and actors

Writers and actors want raises, residuals from streaming platforms and some regulation of AI.

But media CEOs such as Disney’s Bob Iger are crying poor. Iger recently said that “disruptive forces” such as streaming, shrinking TV audiences and an uncertain economy made this “the worst time in the world” for talent to insist on their fair share. The content creators must “be realistic about the business”, he added.

(But) the reality is that show business is doing fine, as confirmed by strong earnings, sky-high executive pay and summer box-office hits – Barbie, Oppenheimer and Mission Impossible. Besides, studios today are diversified entities that own streamers, TV networks, theme parks, cable properties and sundry and foreign operations.

Disney’s streamers – Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN – boast billions of dollars in revenue. That, plus 12 theme parks, five cruise ships, Pixar, Marvel and others, made for a profitable 2022.

Comcast/Universal/NBC is a $120bn company that doesn’t rely on movies as much as it leans on its cable TV monopoly. Sony is a multinational with electronics, games, image sensors and Columbia Pictures under its roof.

Some studios are just arms of a Frankencorp – a mish-mash of discordant parts. In 2022, the men behind the new $43bn Warner/Discovery/CNN merger borrowed some $50bn, fired 1,000 workers, and tarnished the HBO, TCM, and CNN brands. There may be a catchy slogan about Discovery’s bird programs and Food Network shows (Polly Warner Cracker?). But Jack Warner’s once-lean studio now epitomizes bloated conglomerates that squeeze employees and customers.

Warner’s CEO, David Zaslav, has become a symbol of Hollywood avarice. To be fair, he’s under pressure to cut TV residuals, payroll and debt. But an analysis by the Los Angeles Times showed that his total pay from 2018 to 2022 was nearly half a billion dollars. His salary is so excessive that 40% of company shareholders voted against it in May.

Pay packages for most studio leaders have soared. Netflix co-chief executive Ted Sarandos has collected $192m over the past five years; Universal/Comcast’s leader Brian Roberts, $170m; and the executives at Apple, Paramount and Fox have done very well, even when they’ve messed up. (See Fox’s $787.5m defamation suit.)

Meanwhile, about 87% of SAG actors don’t make the minimum income – $26,470 a year – to qualify for its health insurance. The median pay for a weekly writer-producer has declined 23% over the past decade and half of all TV writers are paid WGA minimum. Residuals for writing a hit Netflix streamer can amount to 89 cents.

If the AMPTP would accept the WGA’s proposal of 6%, 5% and 5% increase in wages and base residuals over three years, it’d cost the studios about $500m a year – or 0.5% of the $210bn revenues they collected in 2022. Bean counters call that a rounding error.

By refusing to settle, the AMPTP is hurting ancillary workers, too – the waiters, cooks, seamstresses and other blue- and pink-collar workers who support scripted shows. These people have already survived Covid lockdowns and inflation and now they’re losing jobs in not just Los Angeles but in film hubs such as Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, and New York.

Taxpayers subsidize producers who film on their streets. California just raised its “refundable” tax credits to $300m and New York increased its tax credit cap to $700m. But when residents see how their generosity is being repaid, they may not extend those perks to the film-makers.

More troubling is that, for the first time in nearly a century, the smoke of class warfare is wafting over the labor table. In July, a studio source told Deadline that the AMPTP’s strategy was to let negotiations drag on until “union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses”; another anonymous studio source claimed that the tactic was a “cruel but necessary evil”.

It’s one thing for corporate leaders to try turn one strike into two. But it’s quite another to try and expand LA’s homeless population by sacrificing workers from your own company. Although the AMPTP disavowed the comments, the casual cruelty resurfaced days later when Universal pruned trees that had given shade to picketers during a heat wave.

The city fined Universal $250 and Sag and WGA filed claims of unlawful labor practices. No wonder a recent poll found that the public favors strikers over executives.

And so the hot labor summer burns on. An unemployed carpenter spies a tabloid story about Jeff Bezos vacationing on his $500m super-yacht. An out-of-work designer talks about Iger renovating his $33m mansion in Brentwood, adding a two-story stable. A WGA member pickets the Apple store then drives past Sarandos’ $34m faux Italian villa in Montecito, shaking her fist.

It helps to review the last time these two unions were on strike simultaneously. It was 1960, and agent Lew Wasserman acted as unofficial mediator. When the head of 20th Century Fox, Spyros Skouras, whined about how he couldn’t give residuals, Wasserman took him aside and said: “Don’t be greedy.”

That maxim should guide today’s studio bosses.

· Kathleen Sharp is the author of Mr & Mrs Hollywood (Blackstone) and co-producer of The Last Mogul (ThinkFilm)

ATTACHMENT TWO – From the L.A. Times

WGA AND AMPTP RESUME NEGOTIATIONS AMID SIGNS OF A POSSIBLE THAW IN THE STANDOFF

BY WENDY LEE, STAFF WRITER AUG. 11, 2023 UPDATED 5:50 PM PT

Negotiators for film and TV writers met with studio representatives on Friday afternoon, a step that could represent a long-awaited thaw in the icy Hollywood strike that has largely kept the entertainment industry at a standstill since early May.

Writers Guild of America members have been on strike for more than 100 days, resulting in headaches for studios and financial losses for entertainment-related businesses, including talent agencies and prop houses and crew members struggling to make ends meet. The situation escalated in mid-July when film and TV actors joined writers on the picket lines.

Writers’ strike: What’s at stake and how it could disrupt Hollywood

Aug. 10, 2023

It’s not clear whether the talks will lead to a significant breakthrough, or how long it will take for the sides to reach a deal for a new three-year contract between the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

But a source close to the negotiations who was not authorized to comment said the session was more productive than the talks on Aug. 4 — the first since the strike began May 2.

The parties have agreed to meet again on Tuesday with the union’s full negotiating team, including representatives of the WGA’s East Coast branch who were not present for Friday’s meeting, the source said.

Representatives of the AMPTP and WGA declined to comment Friday.

In a note to members, the union’s negotiating committee said it has received a counterproposal from the AMPTP and was evaluating its offer for a response next week.

“Sometimes more progress can be made in negotiations when they are conducted without a blow-by-blow description of the moves on each side and a subsequent public dissection of the meaning of the moves,” the negotiating committee said in its note. “That will be our approach, at least for the time being, until there is something of significance to report, or unless management uses the media or industry surrogates to try to influence the narrative.”

The sides have been far apart on issues pertaining to the future of the industry, including how writers are compensated for streaming shows, protections against the use of artificial intelligence and the guild’s demand for minimum staffing requirements in writers rooms depending on series length. The studios have previously indicated they are prepared to discuss AI protocols.

The WGA and the studios previously met on Aug. 4 to discuss resuming negotiations, but those talks did not go well, according to people familiar with the matter. During that meeting, WGA asked for a healthcare benefit extension and the right for WGA members to honor other unions’ picket lines, according to a note the WGA’s negotiating committee sent to members last week.

Even before that summit, WGA leadership encouraged members to be wary of the studios’ “playbook.” The studio alliance called the union’s rhetoric “unfortunate.”

But the lead-up to Friday’s meeting was more hopeful in tone from the various parties.

“We expect the AMPTP to provide responses to WGA proposals,” the WGA negotiating committee wrote in a letter to members on Thursday. “Our committee returns to the bargaining table ready to make a fair deal, knowing the unified WGA membership stands behind us and buoyed by the ongoing support of our union allies.”

Studio executives have lately been increasingly conciliatory in their remarks about the labor disputes, reflecting a need to get the industry back to work.

“We’re saddened that as an industry, we couldn’t come to an agreement that would have prevented this,” Paramount Global Chief Executive Bob Bakish said Monday during an earnings call with investors. “Our partnership with the creative community is critical to the health of our industry. So we remain hopeful for a timely resolution, and we are committed to finding a path forward.”

Hollywood writers have been on strike for 100 days — and there’s no end in sight

Aug. 8, 2023

Experts said they expect the negotiations to be a long process.

“It appears as though most of the industry is really on the edge of their seat because last week’s meeting about a meeting, as they called it, was so disastrous,” said Tom Nunan, a former studio and TV network executive. “That scrutiny is going to be higher than usual on this meeting to see if any progress whatsoever is possible.”

‘A lot of blood in the water.’ Why actors’ and writers’ strikes are a big blow to Hollywood studios

July 16, 2023

Studios are under pressure to come up with programming that will entice audiences amid the strikes, resulting in them leaning into international productions, reality TV series and sports. But they face challenges as actors abroad and reality TV stars push for greater protections as well.

Media and entertainment companies face existential challenges to their businesses, including the acceleration of cord-cutting. Streaming services run by the traditional studios are hemorrhaging cash.

ATTACHMENT THREE – From the Guardian UK

HOLLYWOOD WRITERS UNION MULLS PROPOSAL FROM STUDIOS THAT WOULD END STRIKE

Negotiating committee of Writers Guild of America says it is evaluating offer in substantial step forward

Michael Sainato Sat 12 Aug 2023 09.52 EDT

Hollywood TV and film writers represented by the Writers Guild of America are evaluating a counterproposal from studios that would end their ongoing strike of more than 100 days, marking a substantial step forward in negotiations.

“Your Negotiating Committee received a counterproposal from the AMPTP today,” the guild’s negotiating committee said in a statement referring to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. “We will evaluate their offer and, after deliberation, go back to them with the WGA’s response next week.

“Sometimes more progress can be made in negotiations when they are conducted without a blow-by-blow description of the moves on each side and a subsequent public dissection of the meaning of the moves. That will be our approach, at least for the time being, until there is something of significance to report, or unless management uses the media or industry surrogates to try to influence the narrative.”

The AMPTP, which represents the studios, resumed negotiations with the WGA on 4 August, the first talks since over 11,000 writers went on strike on 2 May.

Reports noted those initial talks did not go well, with the 11 August meeting turning out to be more productive.

TV and film writers are calling for improvements to residuals and pay as the shift to streaming services has been used by the industry to underpay writers, and for regulation of how artificial intelligence is used by the industry.

In July, thousands of television and film actors represented by the Sag-Aftra union also went on strike over similar issues.

Their union provided an update on 9 August, noting the studios have not yet contacted them to resume talks.

ATTACHMENT FOUR – From Fox

STRIKE DAY 102: HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS RESPONDS TO WGA DEMANDS WITH COUNTERPROPOSAL

By CNS Staff (City News Service) Published August 11, 2023 7:31PM

LOS ANGELES - The Writers Guild of America and representatives of Hollywood studios held their first negotiating session Friday since the union went on strike May 2, and while no specifics were released, the WGA told its members that studios offered a "counterproposal" to union demands.

"We will evaluate their offer and, after deliberation, go back to them with the WGA's response next week," the union's negotiating committee wrote in a message to members Friday afternoon.

The union, however, did not disclose any details about the counterproposal offered by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the studios.

"Sometimes more progress can be made in negotiations when they are conducted without a blow-by-blow description of the moves on each side and a subsequent public dissection of the meaning of the moves," according to the WGA negotiating committee. "That will be our approach, at least for the time being, until there is something of significance to report, or unless management uses the media or industry surrogates to try to influence the narrative."

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The committee urged members in the meantime to continue their presence on picket lines, along with members of the striking SAG-AFTRA actors' union.

Friday's resumption of talks was the first glimmer of hope in three months of a possible break in the labor stalemate that has essentially shut down production and brought the entertainment industry to a halt.

There was no official statement from the AMPTP about Friday's talks.

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On Wednesday, the WGA marked the 100th day of its strike -- matching the duration of the union's last walkout in 2007-08.

Last Friday, WGA leaders met with AMPTP leadership to discuss a possible resumption of talks. According to the WGA, that discussion showed the two sides remain far apart on several key issues, including success-based residuals for streaming content.

In a message to WGA members late week, negotiators said the studios appeared willing to increase some compensation levels and were at least "willing to talk" about the use of artificial intelligence.

The last WGA strike, which lasted from November 2007 to February 2008, was estimated to have cost the local economy between $2 billion and $3 billion.

The impact of the current walkout is expected to be far worse, with the WGA now joined by actors on the picket lines for the first double-barreled strike to hit Hollywood in 63 years. The SAG-AFTRA actors union went on strike July 14.

The WGA is pushing for improvements on a variety of fronts, notably for higher residual pay for streaming programs that have larger viewership, rather than the existing model that pays a standard rate regardless of a show's success.

The union is also calling for industry standards on the number of writers assigned to each show, increases in foreign streaming residuals and regulations preventing the use of artificial intelligence technology to write or rewrite any literary material.

The AMPTP has pushed back against some of the WGA's demands, particularly around its calls for mandatory staffing and employment guarantees on programs. AMPTP has also pushed back against WGA demands around streaming residuals, saying the guild's offer would increase rates by 200%.

The use of artificial intelligence has emerged as a major topic. The WGA says it wants a ban on the use of AI, and contends the AMPTP has refused to even negotiate the issue. The AMPTP said the issue raises "important creative and legal questions" and requires "a lot more discussion, which we've committed to doing."

ATTACHMENT FIVE – From Reuters

HOLLYWOOD WRITERS TO EVALUATE COUNTERPROPOSAL FROM STUDIOS

August 11, 2023 11:19 PM EDT Updated 2 days ago

Aug 11 (Reuters) - The union representing striking Hollywood writers said on Friday it had received a counterproposal from the studios that it would consider, an apparent sign of progress in the more than 100-day-old strike.

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) said it would respond next week "after deliberation" on the offer from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which negotiates on behalf of companies including Walt Disney (DIS.N) and Netflix (NFLX.O).

Both sides met on Aug. 4 to discuss resuming talks and the issues each intended to bring to the bargaining table, but the WGA afterwards criticized the studios in a sign the talks were strained.

The strike by Hollywood writers began on May 2 after talks between the WGA and the major studios reached an impasse over compensation, minimum staffing of writers' rooms and residual payments in the streaming era, among other issues.

Actors represented by the Screen Actors Guild went on strike on July 14 also over pay and artificial intelligence, effectively halting production of scripted television shows and films and affecting businesses throughout the entertainment world's orbit. It is the first time both unions have gone on strike since 1960.

Reporting by Chandni Shah in Bengaluru; Editing by William Mallard

ATTACHMENT SIX – From The Hill

COUNTERPROPOSAL PAUSES NEGOTIATIONS IN HOLLYWOOD WRITERS STRIKE

BY NICK ROBERTSON - 08/12/23 9:33 AM ET

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) came to the negotiation table for the first time Friday since the union went on strike in early May. 

However, talks were paused after AMPTP offered a counterproposal to the writers union’s requests.

“Your Negotiating Committee received a counterproposal from the AMPTP today. We will evaluate their offer and, after deliberation, go back to them with the WGA’s response next week,” the union said in a message to its members Friday.

Hollywood writers and actors are striking for better wages and working conditions, the first time the two groups have striked together since 1960. Major demands from writers include guarantees that artificial intelligence will be limited on the job, paying residuals for streaming shows and increasing the number of writers staffed to shows.

“Sometimes more progress can be made in negotiations when they are conducted without a blow-by-blow description of the moves on each side and a subsequent public dissection of the meaning of the moves,” the union said. 

“That will be our approach, at least for the time being, until there is something of significance to report, or unless management uses the media or industry surrogates to try to influence the narrative,” they added.

The AMPTP invited WGA leaders to talk last week, but that meeting fell through.

The writers and actors strikes have shut down Hollywood. Over 11,000 WGA members are on strike nationwide, and it is now the longest strike in WGA history.

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass backed the striking workers, but encouraged the two sides to come to an agreement for the betterment of the city.

“The impact has spanned every corner of Los Angeles — from the writers and actors on the picket line trying to make ends meet to keep a roof over their head and food on the table, to the businesses who rely on the entertainment industry,” she said in a statement last week. 

“The economic conditions of the entertainment industry are changing — and we must react and evolve to this challenge,” Bass added. “It is critical that this gets resolved immediately so that Los Angeles gets back on track and I stand ready to personally engage with all the stakeholders in any way possible to help get this done.”

ATTACHMENT SEVEN – From WashPost

AS STRIKE NEARS 100 DAYS, ECONOMIC HARDSHIPS MOUNT FOR HOLLYWOOD WRITERS

By Erica Werner August 9, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

LOS ANGELES — Gisselle Legere, a single mom who has written on shows including ABC’s “Quantico” and NBC’s “New Amsterdam,” says she has about three months of savings left as the Hollywood writers strike nears 100 days.

Jimmy Clabots, 42, who recently joined the Writers Guild of America after getting hired to write a feature film he has yet to get paid for, is falling back on multiple side hustles — including working as a male escort.

Kimberly Barrante has been a guild member for eight years but was struggling even before the strike began. Now she’s in the process of filing for bankruptcy.

The three Los Angeles-area residents are emblematic of many of the Hollywood writers who’ve been picketing on both coasts since the Writers Guild went on strike May 2 after not reaching an agreement with studios. For all the Hollywood success stories — writers who get big feature films made or develop popular TV shows — many more live a day-to-day struggle of writing on spec, selling pilots that never get made and taking meetings that go nowhere.

In an industry that has become even more unpredictable because of the success of streaming services and the threat of artificial intelligence, writers like these are more determined than ever to strike a deal that could guarantee more economic security, such as a boost in minimum compensation, measures to promote pay equity and more generous contributions to pension plans and health funds. But after the first talks between studios and the Writers Guild went nowhere last week, concerns are mounting about how long they can keep up their fight.

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“Even with careful planning and drastic cuts in spending my emergency fund is running out faster than I’d like,” Legere, who is deaf, wrote in a text message. “Being solely responsible for my daughter puts extra pressure on me … I lose sleep at night thinking about how we are one emergency expense away from real trouble.”

Legere lives in a one-bedroom apartment in Burbank with her 9-year-old daughter, Ella. She has been fully committed to the strike, even when it means searching for child care so that she can join the picket lines.

“It’s clear that this is a pivotal moment for this career’s viability,” Legere said. “But the sacrifices we writers are making are real.”

After months during which no talks took place, Writers Guild leaders were invited to a meeting Friday with studio negotiators representing the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Studios are under increased pressure to make a deal after Hollywood’s actors union also walked out in mid-July. It is the first joint strike by both unions in decades and has virtually brought Hollywood productions to a standstill at a time when studios would normally be ramping up for fall releases.

Yet the talks ended with little, if any, progress, according to a WGA press release, and no new negotiations were set. That means the strike will continue for now. The AMPTP, which represents the studios, has consistently disputed the WGA’s version of events, declaring in a statement ahead of the talks that “our only playbook is getting people back to work.”

Most members of the approximately 11,000-member Writers Guild wants the strike over with, but perhaps none so much as those writers whose careers were struggling to begin with and who have now spent months with no opportunity to pursue new projects or try to sell new scripts.

“To me, this fight is so important because it means the survival of my career, so yeah, I’m in it for the long haul,” said Barrante, 37, who’s in the process of declaring bankruptcy so that she doesn’t lose her apartment. “Me and so many like me, we’re determined. Even those of us who weren’t working before, this means we weren’t able to be out looking for work, it still means a huge sacrifice to us because we’re putting our careers on hold. But that’s how important it is.”

Kimberly Barrante said she hadn’t worked in Hollywood for long before she discovered how common it was for producers or directors to ask her to essentially work for free, asking for small changes in scripts that would end up requiring large-scale rewrites for which she received no compensation. That’s an issue the WGA is attempting to address in the contract negotiations.

“It’s death by a thousand notes, and suddenly what was supposed to be a fair wage for a writer on my skill level … they take advantage of the fact that you love this story and want it to get made,” Barrante said.

According to the WGA, writers’ pay has declined 4 percent overall over the past decade — 23 percent if adjusted for inflation. There’s a widespread view among writers that the changes brought about by streaming services — such as smaller writing staffs working for shorter periods of time and earning lower residuals — have made it difficult, if not impossible, to earn a middle-class income as a working writer, unlike in decades past. Meanwhile, new threats are emerging, namely the advent of AI, which some writers and actors have come to view as an existential threat that could eliminate much of the work they do today — if studios get their way.

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“I am angry that my time has been wasted, that this could have been solved much earlier on if the transition to the streaming model was more feasible,” said Clabots, who has been working as a strike leader at the Universal lot, one of the many studios around L.A. where writers and now actors are picketing daily.

“This is an imploding system that is not going to last unless streaming somehow turns into a legacy media model that works,” Clabots added.

While he can’t work as a writer, Clabots has a dizzying array of side hustles, including teaching physical therapy, working as a script consultant, and “sober companioning,” which involves helping former addicts stay clean or transition out of recovery units. And he works as a male escort for women, which he said can bring in as much as $8,000 to $10,000 on a good month.

Most Hollywood writers and actors don’t have these kind of hustles to fall back on. Legere was an epidemiologist before becoming a TV writer, and she said that if the strike drags on past the three months she has left in her savings, she might have to begin to look for work in her previous field.

“I’m one of the lucky ones that has an alternative,” Legere said. “But it’s also been 10 years since I’ve worked as an epidemiologist, which poses its own challenges.”

Writers Guild leaders are aware of the economic struggles afflicting some of their members and have created a “strike fund” that can provide no-interest or low-interest loans. Legere has applied for this assistance and is waiting to hear back.

Other members have acted on their own, including Joelle Garfinkel, 37, who established a program called Green Envelope that provides $100 grocery grants to members. Garfinkel said she sent money to a friend after receiving an unusually large residual check, and it took off from there and has now raised over $100,000 and distributed grants to more than 1,000 members and counting.

“To be honest, we all have real economic need at this point,” Garfinkel said, pointing to crew members, lower-level writers and support staff “who are barely making enough to get by.” Although $100 isn’t much, “there’s a clear need for it.”

ATTACHMENT EIGHT – From WashPost

ANIMAL ACTORS ARE ON STRIKE, TOO. THESE ARE THEIR STORIES.

Jack is an actor. And a water buffalo. Instead of working, he’s chasing people off his ranch.

By Maura Judkis August 8, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

The human actors aren’t the only performers who are out of work.

Jack, a water buffalo who was born on the set of the film “Tropic Thunder,” has been turned out to pasture, where he spends his days chasing away people from a nearby campground who trespass onto his ranch.

Zora, a calico who works in Atlanta’s fast-growing film industry, is taking cat-food-modeling jobs in Tennessee. Luke and Little John, two actor raccoons, are spending their days outside of Los Angeles, hanging out by the pool. (It’s a kiddie pool, but still.)

The Rottweilers who star alongside Jeff Bridges in FX’s “The Old Man” — Freya, Fury, Creed and Cain — are staying busy with walks, fetch and games.

“If a Rottweiler gets bored, it’s not a good thing, because what they’ll do is chew and destroy your life,” says Sarah Clifford, their owner and trainer. (They have already chewed the mud flaps off her Toyota 4Runner.)

Much has been written about the ancillary players — the caterers, florists, costume-makers, prop masters and so on — who are dealing with the repercussions of this summer’s dual Hollywood strikes by screen actors and writers. Their concerns about how they’re going to pay their rent are shared by the industry’s animal trainers and handlers, who face an additional burden: Their animals still have to eat, too. They still have to go to the vet. They still need to be bathed and groomed. On their ranches — some of which have hundreds of thespian animals — they still need to pay for utilities, caretakers and permits.

Mr. Pickles, a lineolated parakeet who recently played the role of a woman’s reincarnated dead husband in a student film, has taken the break as an opportunity to focus on her family. Turns out she’s actually Ms. Pickles, and she has been laying eggs.

Instead of prepping to shoot a third season of the “Sex and the City” reboot, the bulldog who plays Richard Burton, Charlotte’s dog on the show, is “sleeping, snoring and farting, basically,” says trainer Bill Berloni.

The animal folk of Hollywood are finding themselves in a double bind. Artistically, they’re more aligned with the actors, stunt performers and puppeteers who are members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). But trainers and handlers who work on the West Coast are, like film-industry drivers, eligible for membership in the Teamsters union, in part because they are responsible for transporting their animals. Not only are they taking a financial hit from their animals being out of work, but they also won’t earn protections in the contract that eventually emerges from the strike — because they aren’t members of SAG-AFTRA.

“Although we’re paying the price for being down during the strike period, it’s not going to benefit me at all,” says Teresa Ann Miller, a second-generation animal trainer who has worked on the films “Babe,” “A Dog’s Way Home” and “The Art of Racing in the Rain.” (Her father, Karl Miller, was the dog trainer for “Cujo” and “Beethoven.”)

The concerns of striking humans affect their animal counterparts, too. Human actors are trying to prevent studios from capturing their likenesses and using them in perpetuity via artificial intelligence, and this is something the animal handlers have been battling for years in the form of computer-generated imagery,

Goats! (Philip Cheung/For The Washington Post)

Kelly Capponcelli manages a large ranch outside of Los Angeles with a variety of animals, including horses, pigs, Jack the water buffalo, and exotic birds, including flamingos. (“You can’t really train a flamingo,” she says. “You kind of have to wrangle a flamingo.”) In better days, her reindeer would be working on holiday films right now.

“Christmas movies don’t use reindeer as much anymore,” she says. “Nobody has a budget anymore these days.” The reindeer are spending their summer cooling off in her sprinklers.

“It’s very, very sad, because there is an art to what we do. Just like there is an art with the actors,” says Megan-Kate Hoover, an animal trainer based out of Cincinnati who worked on “Hillbilly Elegy.” “I mean, can you imagine ‘Homeward Bound’ with AI animals? ... You’re going to miss the connection of what that animal can do to bring that scene to life, and to put the heart in it.” (Outside of the industry, advocacy groups such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals see AI and CGI as tools to eliminate the use of animal acting, which they allege is animal cruelty.)

And those paltry residual checks the humans have been sharing? The animals and their handlers have it worse. There are typically no residuals paid out to handlers and owners, even if the movie is centered on a trained animal as the main character.

“The dog’s on the poster,” Berloni says. “Zero. Zilch. Nothing.”

Animals are rented at a day rate, often around $500. (Exotic animals can cost more.) Animal handlers and trainers are additionally paid a minimum hourly rate. For those working on West Coast-based projects, the rate is set by their Teamsters contracts — typically somewhere between $40 and $70 an hour, depending on the type of animal. They are compensated for travel, but only some projects pay for the hours of preparatory training, trainers say.

“We’ll be standing on a set, working for $500 a day,” Berloni says, “where the [human] extra standing next to me is making twice as much. And we’re a specialized entity.”

Clifford recalled her experience working as the trainer for Uggie the Jack Russell terrier on the set of the 2011 film “The Artist,” a foreign flick with an approximately $15 million budget.

Because of a grueling commute and schedule, Clifford says, “all the money that I had made on the movie, which was very little money, went to fixing my car,” which broke down during filming.

Then the film got picked up by the Weinstein Company and won best picture at the Academy Awards, where Uggie — by then a major canine star — walked the red carpet. “The Artist” grossed more than $133 million.

“I was like, ‘Man, it would have been nice to see a little bit of that money, you know?’” Clifford says.

There is a subtle aura of bitterness among the 11 handlers and trainers interviewed by The Washington Post, even though they support the strikes and would not cross the picket lines.

“We don’t make what the writers make,” says trainer and wrangler Alison Smith. “It’s rough to feel like, as Teamsters, that we’re fighting for the writers, but I know a lot of Teamsters are wondering, ‘Would the writers fight for us?’ We feel like we need it more.”

And the bills are coming soon. Owning animal performers is an expensive endeavor.

Capponcelli estimates it costs about $60,000 a month to maintain the more than 200 animals at the ranch she manages. The hay bill alone is $16,000, she says. Benay Karp spends $12,000 a month to care for her vast menagerie, which includes raccoons, coyotes, mockingbirds, woodpeckers, squirrels, prairie dogs and two skunks, one of whom is named Stinkerbelle.

Clifford’s Great Dane Rhino, who has appeared on the children’s show “Mutt & Stuff,” fell ill two weeks ago and needed a $16,000 emergency surgery to save his life. She had to start a GoFundMe campaign to raise the money.

Because they have fewer opportunities for work even in normal times — many productions do not use live animals at all — trainers and handlers are concerned that they will not be able to work the 400 hours required (per six-month qualifying period) to maintain their health insurance. (The Teamsters is granting extensions, according to a spokesperson.)

Just like the humans, the animal actors can do some types of work without crossing a picket line. They can work on independent or student films that aren’t connected to studios. They can do live performances and commercials, and model for still photographs. But none of these pays as well or offers any sort of long-term pay.

If they can’t scrounge up enough work, the financial strain of a double crisis — covid, and now this — means “some people will just quit entirely,” says Nicholas Toth, a second-generation trainer of big cats and exotic animals who decided to re-home many of his animals after earlier coronavirus shutdowns dried up much of his work.

Berloni and one of his dogs, a mixed-breed terrier, are in the Berkshires, working on a new musical titled “On Cedar Street” that has Broadway ambitions. He is being paid $300 a week.

Karp is hoping for work from international films.

April Gray, Zora the cat’s owner and trainer in Atlanta, just did a pet-food-modeling gig — “the only job we’ve had this month,” she says.

Hoover, the trainer in Cincinnati, is working a side gig as a dog walker and trainer while also trying to line up work with an exotic animal sanctuary.

Some trainers are taking on private clients for non-thespian pet training — which, not to be snooty, is a little like having Stella Adler direct your kid’s school play.

Todd Forsberg’s horses have worked on the HBO series “Westworld.” During the strikes, he’ll be booking children’s birthday parties, where his white pony, Arkas, will play the role of unicorn, fake horn and all.

“He likes his job,” Forsberg says. “He gets petted. People get to look at him.”

And that’s what’s important, the trainers say: keeping their animals ready for the limelight. They’re spending this down time reinforcing skills and keeping them socialized, so they’ll be ready to be on set as soon as the strikes are over. But how many bills will come before then?

The animals are “not just money to us. They’re all our best friends,” Capponcelli says. “Unless we get rid of animals, which I’m not willing to do, there is no backup plan. So, basically, they’ll eat before any of us.”

Hollywood strikes and shutdown

What’s happening: Actors in the SAG-AFTRA union announced a decision to strike after negotiations over a new contract failed. They will join Hollywood writers, who have been on strike since early May. Here’s what we know and are trying to find out.

Why are Hollywood actors and writers on strike? The Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild of America say their demands are meant to protect their members as the entertainment industry is in an era of rapid change. The SAG strike could last for months, here are the rules about what actors can and can’t do.

What has the writers’ strike halted? With writers and actors both going on strike, the film industry will likely grind to a halt, alongside delays to movies and TV shows, though some are exempt. Here’s what to know about the strikes’ impacts on Hollywood. This is only the second time in history a joint strike has happened, with the last occurrence in 1960 when Ronald Reagan led SAG.

ATTACHMENT NINE – From the Hollywood Reporter

POTENTIAL WRITERS STRIKE PRESENTS DISRUPTION (AND OPPORTUNITY) TO GLOBAL CONTENT CREATORS

Insiders say a shutdown could boost demand for more international fare, but with so many U.S. shows shooting overseas, physical production could grind to a halt: “[It would mean] sort of a forced vacation for a lot of us.”

BY SCOTT ROXBOROUGH, ETAN VLESSING MARCH 30, 2023 1:00AM

If Hollywood writers go on strike — a possibility as we close in on the May 1 deadline without a new deal between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) — the impact will be felt far beyond New York and Los Angeles. Around the world, producers and distribution companies, not to mention non-WGA affiliated writers, are closely watching the ongoing negotiations, with an expectation that a WGA walkout could mean a boost in demand for new international content.

“As with previous WGA strikes, we’d expect there will be an increased demand for content from outside the U.S., particularly from English-speaking countries like the U.K. and Australia,” say Martin Moszkowicz and Oliver Berben of German mini-major Constantin Film, producers of the English-language Resident Evil horror franchise as well as German films and series including We Children From Bahnhof Zoo, which streams on Amazon, and KaDeWe, carried on the BBC in the U.K. and Stan in Australia. “The full impact will depend on how long the strike lasts. The best outcome is a very short strike, since it will limit the disruption.”

(Constantin has its own history with the WGA. In 2021, the guild briefly ordered union members to stop working with the company following a dispute over residuals and health and pension plan contributions, though the parties eventually settled.)

Louise Pedersen, CEO of All3Media International, which handles global sales on such series as Amazon Prime’s The English starring Emily Blunt and All Creatures Great and Small, which airs on PBS stateside, said the pivot toward international shows was already evident at the London TV Screenings earlier this month, with broadcasters and streamers looking at international shows as a possible contingency plan.

“A lot of American buyers were planning for [the strike] and talking about shows as potential acquisitions,” said Pedersen, speaking on a panel at French television festival SeriesMania on March 21. “I suspect they’re doing research behind the scenes for backup lists [should the strike happen].”

The last WGA strike, a 100-day work stoppage between 2007 and 2008, saw a significant opening in the U.S. market to non-American shows, with Canada the prime beneficiary. Mid-season pickups by U.S. networks of Canadian series like Flashpoint (on CBS) and The Listener (NBC), used to plug the gap in fresh content as U.S. scripted series went off the air, helped usher in a gold rush for Canadian producers looking to get their shows on American primetime. What followed were the likes of Rookie Blue on ABC, CW soap The L.A. Complex, Orphan Black on BBC America, and NBC’s Saving Hope.

Karen Thorne-Stone, president and CEO of Ontario Creates, which markets the province to Hollywood producers, is confident high-end Canadian series can help fill a strike-induced gap in schedules south of the border.

“There’s still room for growth on that side, which will certainly buffer any negative impact from U.S. production,” she says.

Since the 2007-08 strike, the U.S. market has become even more open to non-American series — see the primetime success of Downton Abbey or Sherlock on PBS — and even non-English-language shows. This has been particularly evident on streaming services. Alongside Netflix hits like Narcos, Dark and Squid Game, Hulu has had success with imports like German spy thriller Deutschland 83 and Scandi noir The Bridge, and Sundance Now with Irish procedural The Fall and French drama The Bureau. Sony-owned Crunchyroll has turned its once-niche market for Asian content into a mainstream juggernaut, extending beyond the small screen to box office successes with the likes of Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train and Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero.

With much of the world still in the thralls of a production boom — the pullback by global streamers is only starting to work its way through the international industry — there will be plenty of product available should U.S. demand spike.

“There could be opportunities and an impact,” says Cathy Payne, CEO of Banijay Rights, whose massive slate includes numerous series from the U.K. (Peaky Blinders, Chloe), France (Versailles, Maria Antoinette), Scandinavia (Beck, Black Lake) and Australia (Tin Star, Wolf Creek). “But strikes have gone on in the past and we like to think we can sell our product in any case — and have good market reach.”

For the moment, the bigger U.S. networks are busy shooting originals ahead of the May 1 deadline in an effort to stockpile content before a possible strike.

“The important thing is being able to plan properly,” says Moszkowicz. “For feature films, we’re already seeing that the deadlines for writers are being set so they deliver before the strike, so that productions can go ahead in the summer. But if a strike lasts several months, it could have a real impact.”

For many international companies, however, that impact will not be all positive. The biggest non-U.S. producers and sales companies have tight ties stateside — “we all produce in America so [a strike] could harm us quite a bit on the production side,” noted Fremantle International CEO Jens Richter at SeriesMania — and few relish the prospect of an extended walkout, not least because many U.S. films and shows shoot outside the country. If the WGA lays down tools May 1, production on some of the world’s biggest soundstages could grind to a halt.

North of the border, local studio operators are girding for a possible labor action.

“Here we go again. I’m not surprised,” says Paul Bronfman, chairman and CEO of studio operator Comweb Corp. Bronfman, who is also chairman of Pinewood Toronto Studios, says studios with less overheads and long-term leases from major studios and streamers will find it easier to weather any dispute. “They’re paying the rent. They may come back and renegotiate, but the stages are full.”

“It’s an unfortunate pause and [would mean] sort of a forced vacation for a lot of us,” notes Shawn Williamson, head of Brightlight Pictures in Vancouver, which co-produces U.S. content with American partners and its own originals. “But people will focus on other projects, develop other things while they can, while we wait for any potential and hopefully amicable settlement and the writers are happy and the studios are happy.”

Williamson adds a conclusion of a tough year of negotiations for U.S. producers with the Directors Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA’s TV/Theatrical contracts, in addition to the WGA negotiations, will likely be followed by a quick resumption of Hollywood production on Canadian soundstages.

“There will be a pause, while they sort out the negotiations. And there will be a quick restart of physical production as quickly as everyone can get it going again,” he adds.

Until then, there’s uncertainty in the Canadian industry as American producers either bring fewer projects north or look to conclude production on what’s already before the cameras ahead of possible labor stoppages.

Notes Justin Cutler, Ontario’s Film Commissioner with Ontario Creates: “Things may dip. We’re tracking this very closely, just to see where this will all end.”

ATTACHMENT TEN – From Vulture

THE WGA STRIKE PASSES DAY 100

By Bethy Squires and Anne Victoria Clark

Welcome to Vulture’s Strike Recap, or Strike-cap, if you will, a regular rundown of all the biggest news from the WGA and SAG picket lines.

Last Wednesday, August 9, was Day 100 of the 2023 writers’ strike. As WGA board member Deric A. Hughes pointed out, the last strike in 2007–8 ended on Day 100. A big point of contention in that strike was streaming residuals, much like AI is in this one. “And what happened? The day after the strike ended, Hulu launched,” he said on Day 1 of the SAG strike. People are sharing their feelings, both serious and joking, about yet again finding oneself in historic times.

There has been some movement on the strike-ending front. After last week’s meeting to talk about meeting to talk, the AMPTP and WGA actually met and talked on Friday, August 11. “We will evaluate their offer and, after deliberation, go back to them with the WGA’s response next week,” the WGA told members in an email that day. In the meantime, we’ve got a contrite star of Heels on the picket line, a real wrestler trying to turn face, and the return of Li’l Sebastian — from the grave and to the front lines of the strike.

Stephen Amell Joined the Picket Line

You know, after his anti-picket comments seemingly spurred Arrow cast members to reunite? Amell looked contrite on the line and issued a statement explaining that he supports his union. Someone explained to him that striking is a negotiation tactic and not a breakdown in negotiations.

CM Punk Wore a Shirt

CM Punk is a character played by actor Phil Brooks, known for his work on Heels and Mayans M.C. On August 13, Brooks wore his “SAG-AFTRA on Strike!” shirt for his live appearance on AEW’s Collision as the wrestler CM Punk. This is weird for a litany of reasons: One, CM Punk’s first promo upon his return to AEW’s ring was all about how David Zaslav is his friend who calls him “One Bil Phil” (as in, he generates a lot of money), and Collision itself is a show Zaslav asked AEW to add to its schedule ahead of the strikes, potentially because wrestling is, quite famously, a very non-union enterprise. This brings us to reason two that it’s weird: Highlighting that you are in a union that is on strike while continuing to work as the star of a major company with workers who don’t enjoy the same union protections is certainly a choice. And finally, CM Punk is kind of a heel now, and he gets booed at every show that isn’t in his hometown of Chicago. Sometimes he plays into being a villain (see: friends with David Zaslav) and other times he doesn’t, so it’s very hard to know if wearing the shirt was a troll or an attempt to genuinely show support.

(Most of) Parks and Rec Reunited to Strike

Another week, another big cast reunion on the picket line. This time, it was a good chunk of Parks and Recreation. Missing from the pics were Amy Poehler, Chris Pratt, and Aziz Ansari. Pratt posted pics from the reunion and captioned them in solidarity. Ansari’s movie Good Fortune was shut down by a WGA picket in May.

Enough of This Horseshit

The WGA may have been striking for 100-plus days, but the Buena Park Medieval Times has been on strike for six months. The workers at Medieval Times aren’t just striking for themselves; they’re concerned with how the company treats their horses. Horses also showed up at the SAG-AFTRA strike this week. And Li’l Sebastian, as previously discussed, was back from the dead to show up for his human pals. Huzzah for cross-species solidarity. Huzzah!

A Different Kind of K-drama

Netflix is refusing to meet with the Korea Broadcasting Actors Union, as reported by the Los Angeles Times. Netflix says it’s “following all local laws and regulations” because it’s “a streaming service — and not a broadcaster.” Other streamers, however, have met with the union. One of the talking points surrounding this strike was the notion that Netflix would fare better because it has an international library from which to pull. But now it looks like that international library may have labor issues of its own to address.

What Is Scabbing?

Jeopardy! is continuing to film despite its writers being on strike. Players from past seasons are being asked to return, and the show will use answers banked by WGA writers pre-strike as well as ones from past seasons. Polygon reported on the players who are now facing “an impossible decision” about whether or not to return to the show and cross a picket line. James Holzhauer also tweeted his frustration with the upcoming season.

Picket Signs, Picket Fits, Picket Beats

Mad Men quotes! Those meme boots! And a DJ for Day 100!

Do you have a story tip or interesting writers’ strike update to share? Drop us a line at tips@vulture.com.

A previous version of this article cited CBS News’s report that the current strike is the longest in WGA history. The longest WGA strike to date remains the 1988 strike, which lasted 153 days.

MORE FROM THIS SERIES

· WGA and AMPTP Met to Talk About Talking

· Pulling Stunts on the Picket Line

· How Much We Make in Hollywood

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ATTACHMENT “A” – From IMDB.France

TV Series, France (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)

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1. Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir (2015– )

TV-Y7 | 20 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

 7.6

Marinette and Adrien, two normal teens, transform into superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir when an evil threatens their city.

Stars: Cristina Valenzuela, Bryce Papenbrook, Keith Silverstein, Max Mittelman

Votes: 14,002

2. Death in Paradise (2011– )

TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

 7.8

A Detective Inspector is transferred from London to the Caribbean island of Saint-Marie to investigate and solve complex murders.

Stars: Elizabeth Bourgine, Don Warrington, Danny John-Jules, Tobi Bakare

Votes: 24,858

3. Arcane (2021– )

TV-14 | 41 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

 9.0

Set in Utopian Piltover and the oppressed underground of Zaun, the story follows the origins of two iconic League Of Legends champions and the power that will tear them apart.

Stars: Hailee Steinfeld, Kevin Alejandro, Jason Spisak, Terri Douglas

Votes: 238,372

4. Drops of God (2023)

TV-MA | Drama

 8.1

A woman discovers the world's greatest wine collection that's left by her estranged father and competes against his protege to claim her inheritance.

Stars: Tomohisa Yamashita, Fleur Geffrier, Tom Wozniczka, Stanley Weber

Votes: 6,413

5. Primal (2019– )

TV-MA | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

 8.7

A caveman and a dinosaur bond over shared tragedy and work together to survive in a perilous prehistoric world.

Stars: Aaron LaPlante, Laëtitia Eïdo, Fred Tatasciore, Imari Williams

Votes: 17,892

6. War of the Worlds (2019– )

TV-MA | 49 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi @note

 6.5

Set in contemporary France, this Anglo-French reimagining of H. G. Wells' classic in the style of Walking Dead follows pockets of survivors forced to team up after an apocalyptic extra-terrestrial strike.

Stars: Léa Drucker, Gabriel Byrne, Bayo Gbadamosi, Ty Tennant

Votes: 16,712

7. The Swarm (2023)

46 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi @note

 5.7

Ecological thriller about the delicate interconnectedness between mankind and Earth.

Stars: Alexander Karim, Cécile de France, Leonie Benesch, Joshua Odjick

Votes: 4,883

8. Medici (2016–2019)

TV-14 | 60 min | Biography, Drama, History

 7.9

A political family drama set in Florence in the early fifteenth century. Cosimo de Medici finds himself at the helm of his banking dynasty when his father, Giovanni, dies suddenly.

Stars: Daniel Sharman, Alessandra Mastronardi, Synnove Karlsen, Sebastian De Souza

Votes: 20,954

9. Lupin (2021– )

TV-MA | 45 min | Action, Crime, Drama

 7.5

Inspired by the adventures of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief Assane Diop sets out to avenge his father for an injustice inflicted by a wealthy family.

Stars: Omar Sy, Ludivine Sagnier, Hervé Pierre, Soufiane Guerrab

Votes: 120,913

10. Drag Race France (2022– )

TV-14 | 70 min | Game-Show, Reality-TV @note

 8.1

France searches for the Next Drag Superstar as 10 drag queens compete in challenges demonstrating their charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent.

Stars: Nicky Doll, Daphné Bürki, Kiddy Smile, William Pedia

Votes: 1,008

11. Profilage (2009–2020)

TV-MA | 52 min | Crime, Thriller

 7.5

Chloé Saint-Laurent is a profiler and works with a police team to solve murders in Paris. She's very sweet, she wears very colored clothes and a huge yellow bag. She looks like a little ... See full summary »

Stars: Jean-Michel Martial, Raphaël Ferret, Philippe Bas, Valérie Dashwood

Votes: 1,680

12. Total Drama (2007–2023)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

 7.4

Animated satire of survivor reality shows featuring random teenage archetypes vying for the final prize by any means necessary.

Stars: Anthony Christian Potenza, Clé Bennett, Rachel Wilson, Scott McCord

Votes: 12,976

13. The Missing (2014–2016)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 8.2

Tony and Emily Hughes' vacation turns into a nightmare when their 5-year-old son Oliver disappears from a large celebrating crowd in Northern France.

Stars: Tchéky Karyo, Anastasia Hille, James Nesbitt, Frances O'Connor

Votes: 28,743

14. Django (2022– )

50 min | Drama, Western

 4.4

Follows Django, a gunslinger in the Wild West who is searching for his daughter who he believes escaped the murder of his family eight years ago.

Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Nicholas Pinnock, Lisa Vicari, Noomi Rapace

Votes: 992

15. The Bureau (2015– )

TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, Thriller

 8.7

A very unique and captivating series about the "bureau des légendes", the mythical powerhouse within the French Secret Service and its dare devil ghost agents.

Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Florence Loiret Caille, Jonathan Zaccaï, Sara Giraudeau

Votes: 13,007

16. Trapped (2015– )

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 8.0

In a remote town in Iceland, police desperately try to solve a crime as a powerful storm descends upon the town.

Stars: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Guðjón Pedersen

Votes: 23,758

17. Liaison (2023– )

TV-MA | 53 min | Drama, Thriller

 6.5

A high-stakes, contemporary thriller exploring how the mistakes of our past have the potential to destroy our future.

Stars: Vincent Cassel, Eva Green, Peter Mullan, Gérard Lanvin

Votes: 4,570

18. Blindspot (2023– )

Mystery, Thriller

 4.3

It follows a woman as she sets off to solve a murder that she witnessed on a rough estate.

Stars: Beth Alsbury, Michelle Bonnard, Sean Cernow, Crystal Clarke

Votes: 359

19. Criminal: UK (2019–2020)

TV-MA | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 7.6

A cat-and-mouse drama, which focuses on the intense mental conflict between detectives and suspects. The stories take place within the confines of a police interview suite.

Stars: Katherine Kelly, Lee Ingleby, Rochenda Sandall, Shubham Saraf

Votes: 20,305

20. Balthazar (2018–2023)

TV-14 | 52 min | Crime, Thriller

 7.6

Facing a series of complex murder cases, new police commander Hélène Bach must learn to work with the brilliant yet exasperating Raphaël, who can make the dead speak like no-one else.

Stars: Tomer Sisley, Yannig Samot, Philypa Phoenix, Côme Levin

Votes: 2,099

21. Highlander (1992–1998)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy @note

 7.2

Duncan MacLeod is Immortal, and must live in modern society, concealing his true nature while fighting other Immortals.

Stars: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Jim Byrnes, Peter Wingfield

Votes: 17,033

22. Versailles (2015–2018)

TV-MA | 52 min | Biography, Drama, History

 7.9

In 1667, 28-year-old all-powerful king of France, Louis XIV, decides to build the greatest palace in the world - Versailles. But drained budget, affairs and political intrigues complicate things.

Stars: George Blagden, Alexander Vlahos, Tygh Runyan, Stuart Bowman

Votes: 17,933

23. Marie Antoinette (2022– )

52 min | Biography, Drama, History

 7.3

Follows the famed queen Marie Antoinette, who was the last queen of France before the French Revolution.

Stars: Emilia Schüle, Louis Cunningham, Jack Archer, Oscar Lesage

Votes: 2,363

24. Deadwind (2018–2021)

TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 7.3

When Sofia Karppi discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life--again.

Stars: Pihla Viitala, Lauri Tilkanen, Mimosa Willamo, Noa Tola

Votes: 12,117

25. The Kingdom (1994–2022)

TV-MA | 561 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

 8.2

Doctors at an ultramodern hospital in Denmark become convinced, by way of weird, inexplicable happenings, that the place is haunted.

Stars: Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Kirsten Rolffes, Ghita Nørby, Søren Pilmark

Votes: 19,830 | Gross: $0.09M

26. Around the World in 80 Days (2021– ) @note

PG | 60 min | Adventure, Comedy, History

 7.2

Gentleman adventurer Phileas Fogg sets out on a quest to travel around the world and back home in a period of 80 days.

Stars: David Tennant, Ibrahim Koma, Leonie Benesch, Jason Watkins

Votes: 11,095

27. Black Spot (2017–2019)

TV-MA | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

 7.4

A police chief and an eccentric new prosecutor investigate a string of grisly crimes and eerie phenomena in an isolated town at the edge of a forest.

Stars: Suliane Brahim, Hubert Delattre, Laurent Capelluto, Samuel Jouy

Votes: 12,780

28. Astrid et Raphaëlle (2019– )

TV-MA | 52 min | Crime, Thriller

 8.1

Autistic archivist Astrid Nielsen and impulsive inspector Raphaëlle Coste work together to solve crimes in and around Paris.

Stars: Sara Mortensen, Lola Dewaere, Benoît Michel, Meledeen Yacoubi

Votes: 2,097

29. The Tunnel (2013–2018)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 7.9

A prominent French politician is found dead on the border between the U.K. and France, and two agents must work together on behalf of their respective countries to find the murderer.

Stars: Stephen Dillane, Clémence Poésy, Cédric Vieira, Angel Coulby

Votes: 10,104

30. Marianne (2019)

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

 7.4

When a famous horror writer goes back to her hometown, she finds out that the evil spirit that plagues her dreams is also there in real life.

Stars: Victoire Du Bois, Lucie Boujenah, Tiphaine Daviot, Ralph Amoussou

Votes: 17,242

31. F Is for Family (2015–2021)

TV-MA | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

 8.0

Follow the Murphy family back to the 1970s, when kids roamed wild, beer flowed freely and nothing came between a man and his TV.

Stars: Bill Burr, Laura Dern, Justin Long, Debi Derryberry

Votes: 39,734

32. Relic Hunter (1999–2002)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy @note

 6.4

Sydney Fox is a university professor and black belt who globe-trots after lost, stolen and rumored to exist artifacts and antiquities.

Stars: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Lindy Booth, Tanja Reichert

Votes: 7,372

33. Primeval (2007–2011)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

 7.2

When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future.

Stars: Andrew Lee Potts, Hannah Spearritt, Ben Miller, Juliet Aubrey

Votes: 15,048

34. Tour de France: Unchained (2023– )

TV-MA | 45 min | Documentary, Sport

 8.2

Documentary on the journey of eight teams taking part in the world's most challenging Tour de France bike race.

Stars: Christian Prudhomme, Steve Chainel, Patrick Lefevere, Julian Alaphilippe

Votes: 3,510

35. Call My Agent! (2015–2020)

TV-MA | 52 min | Comedy, Drama

 8.3

French serial about the lives and jobs of people working at a talent agency.

Stars: Camille Cottin, Thibault de Montalembert, Grégory Montel, Liliane Rovère

Votes: 15,821

36. HPI Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (2021– )

Comedy, Crime, Mystery

 7.3

Morgane has a 160 IQ but it never really helped her in her everyday life. The police decide to bring her on board to help them track down and catch highly intelligent criminals.

Stars: Audrey Fleurot, Mehdi Nebbou, Bruno Sanches, Marie Denarnaud

Votes: 1,266

37. DNA (I) (2019– )

321 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 7.4

Five years after his daughter's disappearance, Danish police officer Rolf discovers a fatal flaw in the DNA database and might finally be able to find her.

Stars: Anders W. Berthelsen, Zofia Wichlacz, Olivia Joof Lewerissa, Johanne Louise Schmidt

Votes: 3,242

38. Taken (2017–2018)

TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Drama, Thriller @note

 6.6

As former CIA agent Bryan Mills deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world, he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge.

Stars: Clive Standen, Jennifer Beals, Adam Goldberg, Jessica Camacho

Votes: 11,425

39. Calls (2021– )

TV-MA | 12 min | Animation, Drama, Horror

 7.7

Told through a series of interconnected phone conversations, it chronicles the mysterious story of a group of strangers whose lives are thrown into disarray in the lead-up to an apocalyptic event.

Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Clancy Brown, Nika Futterman, Matt Lauria

Votes: 6,489

40. Devils (2020– )

TV-14 | 50 min | Drama, Thriller

 7.2

A worldwide financial conspiracy is discovered by a group of traders of a large investment bank.

Stars: Pia Mechler, Alessandro Borghi, Malachi Kirby, Patrick Dempsey

Votes: 4,829

41. The Mallorca Files (2019– )

TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama

 6.7

A British and German detective clashing over how to police the Spanish island of Mallorca.

Stars: Elen Rhys, Julian Looman, María Fernández Ache, Tábata Cerezo

Votes: 2,588

42. Borgia (2011–2014)

TV-MA | 52 min | Biography, Drama, History

 7.7

Story of the rise and the fall of the Renaissance dynasty.

Stars: Mark Ryder, Isolda Dychauk, Diarmuid Noyes, John Doman

Votes: 6,966

43. That Dirty Black Bag (2022– )

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, Western

 7.2

Two men face off in a savage, deserted world.

Stars: Douglas Booth, Dominic Cooper, Niv Sultan, Guido Caprino

Votes: 3,540

44. Candice Renoir (2013– )

TV-G | 52 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

 7.6

French police Commandant Candice Renoir and her team solve different crime cases in a harbor city of southern France. Candice herself is a divorced mother of four whose daily routine is always packed.

Stars: Cécile Bois, Raphaël Lenglet, Clara Antoons, Ali Marhyar

Votes: 1,945

45. Ganglands (2021– )

TV-MA | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

 7.2

Mehdi, a qualified robber, and Liana, an apprentice thief, get involved in a turf war between drug dealers, and have to collaborate in order to save their loved ones.

Stars: Tracy Gotoas, Salim Kechiouche, Sami Bouajila, Aron Kto

Votes: 4,122

46. Spiral (2005–2020)

TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 8.5

Follows criminal investigations in Paris from all the different points of view of those involved.

Stars: Caroline Proust, Audrey Fleurot, Thierry Godard, Philippe Duclos

Votes: 6,487

47. Marseille (2016–2018)

TV-MA | 41 min | Drama

 6.9

A tale of power, corruption and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the French port city of Marseille.

Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Magimel, Géraldine Pailhas, Stéphane Caillard

Votes: 5,461

48. The Defeated (2020)

TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, History, Thriller

 7.1

Max McLaughlin is an American cop who arrives in Berlin in the summer of 1946 to help create a police force in the chaotic aftermath of the war.

Stars: Taylor Kitsch, Michael C. Hall, Logan Marshall-Green, Nina Hoss

Votes: 7,418

49. Leonardo (2021– )

TV-PG | 409 min | Biography, Drama, History

 7.2

The series recounts Leonardo da Vinci's extraordinary life through the works that made him famous, through the stories hidden within those works, revealing little by little the inner torment of a man obsessed with attaining perfection.

Stars: Aidan Turner, Matilda De Angelis, Freddie Highmore, Carlos Cuevas

Votes: 3,871

50. Ransom (2017–2019)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

 6.6

A team of crisis negotiators travels the globe to help multinational corporations and governmental agencies with complex negotiations and conflict resolution.

Stars: Luke Roberts, Brandon Jay McLaren, Nazneen Contractor, Sarah Greene

Votes: 3,918

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TV Series, Germany (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)

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1. Dark (2017–2020)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 8.7

A family saga with a supernatural twist, set in a German town where the disappearance of two young children exposes the relationships among four families.

Stars: Louis Hofmann, Karoline Eichhorn, Lisa Vicari, Maja Schöne

Votes: 416,572

2. Departure (2019–2022)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

 6.9

A high-octane conspiracy series that follows the mystery of Flight 716 - a passenger plane that vanishes over the Atlantic Ocean.

Stars: Archie Panjabi, Mark Rendall, Kris Holden-Ried, Karen LeBlanc

Votes: 15,909

3. Babylon Berlin (2017– )

TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

 8.4

Colognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.

Stars: Volker Bruch, Liv Lisa Fries, Lars Eidinger, Fritzi Haberlandt

Votes: 27,502

4. 1899 (2022)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

 7.3

Multinational immigrants traveling from the old continent to the new encounter a nightmarish riddle aboard a second ship adrift on the open sea.

Stars: Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Andreas Pietschmann, Miguel Bernardeau

Votes: 100,844

5. The Bridge (2011–2018)

TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

 8.6

When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.

Stars: Sofia Helin, Rafael Pettersson, Sarah Boberg, Candice van Litsenborgh

Votes: 73,257

6. The Swarm (2023)

46 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

 5.7

Ecological thriller about the delicate interconnectedness between mankind and Earth.

Stars: Alexander Karim, Cécile de France, Leonie Benesch, Joshua Odjick

Votes: 4,837

7. Sleeping Dog (2023– )

TV-MA | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 6.4

A former detective now living on the streets searches for the truth after a new death raises unnerving doubts about a supposedly settled murder case.

Stars: Max Riemelt, Luise von Finckh, Peri Baumeister, Tara Corrigan

Votes: 1,970

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8. The Amazing World of Gumball (2011–2019)

TV-Y7-FV | 11 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

 8.3

The life of a twelve-year-old boy who happens to be a blue cat as he lives with his family and other strange creatures.

Stars: Dan Russell, Teresa Gallagher, Kerry Shale, Kyla Rae Kowalewski

Votes: 37,370

9. Gomorrah (2014–2021)

TV-MA | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

 8.7

Ciro disregards tradition in his attempt to become the next boss of his crime syndicate. The internal power struggle puts him and his entire family's life at risk.

Stars: Salvatore Esposito, Marco D'Amore, Ivana Lotito, Cristiana Dell'Anna

Votes: 42,278

10. Berlin Station (2016–2019)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Thriller

 7.6

Follows a CIA team in Berlin and their clandestine activities.

Stars: Leland Orser, Michelle Forbes, Mina Tander, Rhys Ifans

Votes: 9,856

11. Pagan Peak (2018–2023)

TV-MA | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 8.0

Ellie Stocker and Gedeon Winter have become bitter enemies. A ritual murder leads to the formation of a German-Austrian Soko and forces the two opponents to investigate together.

Stars: Matthias Hack, Julia Jentsch, Nicholas Ofczarek, Rony Herman

Votes: 8,332

12. Chemistry of Death (2023– )

45 min | Crime, Thriller

 6.6

It follows forensic pathologist David Hunter, who gave up his work to settle down as a doctor in the rural village of Manham. When a woman is found dead, David struggles to stay out of the investigation.

Stars: Harry Treadaway, Ellen Francis, Jeanne Goursaud, Rosie Whimster

Votes: 1,837

13. The Empress (2022– )

TV-MA | 55 min | Drama, History, Romance

 7.8

Two young people meet. A fateful encounter - the proverbial love at first sight. He is Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary, she is Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, Princess of Bavaria and the sister of the woman Franz is to marry.

Stars: Hanna Hilsdorf, Melika Foroutan, Svenja Jung, Devrim Lingnau

Votes: 12,757

14. Then You Run (2023– )

Thriller

 6.1

Adapted by Ben Chanan (Cyberbully, The Capture) Then You Run follows a close-knit group of rebellious London teenagers on a getaway in Rotterdam - but after the estranged father of Tara (... See full summary »

Stars: Leah McNamara, Lise Risom Olsen, Richard Coyle, Francis Magee

Votes: 247

15. Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (2004–2007)

TV-Y7 | 22 min | Comedy, Family

 7.4

Ned Bigby shares his advice on how to survive middle school.

Stars: Devon Werkheiser, Lindsey Shaw, Daniel Curtis Lee, Kyle Swann

Votes: 18,995

16. Trapped (2015– )

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 8.0

In a remote town in Iceland, police desperately try to solve a crime as a powerful storm descends upon the town.

Stars: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Guðjón Pedersen

Votes: 23,730

17. Barbarians (2020– )

TV-MA | 280 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

 7.2

Torn between the mighty empire that raised him and his own tribal people, a Roman officer's conflicted allegiances lead to an epic historical clash.

Stars: Laurence Rupp, Jeanne Goursaud, David Schütter, Florian Schmidtke

Votes: 28,867

18. The Bureau of Magical Things (2018– )

TV-G | 25 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

 6.8

Teenage girl Kyra accidentally discovers an extraordinary world and gains magical powers; when an unexpected threat emerges, she must unite fairies, elves and humans to save them all.

Stars: Kimie Tsukakoshi, Elizabeth Cullen, Mia Milnes, Julian Cullen

Votes: 2,839

19. Resident Evil (2022) @Note

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

 4.2

Nearly three decades after the discovery of the T-virus, an outbreak reveals the Umbrella Corporation's dark secrets.

Stars: Ella Balinska, Tamara Smart, Siena Agudong, Adeline Rudolph

Votes: 43,977

20. Criminal: UK (2019–2020)

TV-MA | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 7.6

A cat-and-mouse drama, which focuses on the intense mental conflict between detectives and suspects. The stories take place within the confines of a police interview suite.

Stars: Katherine Kelly, Lee Ingleby, Rochenda Sandall, Shubham Saraf

Votes: 20,277

21. Deadwind (2018–2021)

TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 7.3

When Sofia Karppi discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life--again.

Stars: Pihla Viitala, Lauri Tilkanen, Mimosa Willamo, Noa Tola

Votes: 12,100

22. The Kingdom (1994–2022)

TV-MA | 561 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

 8.2

Doctors at an ultramodern hospital in Denmark become convinced, by way of weird, inexplicable happenings, that the place is haunted.

Stars: Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Kirsten Rolffes, Ghita Nørby, Søren Pilmark

Votes: 19,821 | Gross: $0.09M

23. Around the World in 80 Days (2021– ) @Note

PG | 60 min | Adventure, Comedy, History

 7.2

Gentleman adventurer Phileas Fogg sets out on a quest to travel around the world and back home in a period of 80 days.

Stars: David Tennant, Ibrahim Koma, Leonie Benesch, Jason Watkins

Votes: 11,080

24. Das Boot (2018– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, War @Note

 7.5

An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.

Stars: Tom Wlaschiha, Franz Dinda, Rick Okon, Leonard Scheicher

Votes: 8,731

25. Top Dog (2020– )

44 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

 7.3

A mysterious disappearance makes two completely separate worlds collide, creating an extremely odd couple - the lawyer Emily and recently released convict Teddy.

Stars: Josefin Asplund, Alexej Manvelov, Gustav Lindh, Jessica Grabowsky

Votes: 2,359

26. Springfloden (2016–2018)

44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 7.5

A student at the Police Academy is tasked to study a cold case: the murder of a pregnant woman on a Swedish beach 25 years ago.

Stars: Julia Ragnarsson, Kjell Bergqvist, Cecilia Nilsson, Dar Salim

Votes: 4,467

27. Professor T (2021– )

Crime, Drama, Mystery

 7.0

Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD and an overbearing mother, advises the police. British version of the Belgian crime drama of the same name.

Stars: Ben Miller, Emma Naomi, Barney White, Andy Gathergood

Votes: 4,055

28. Wallander (2008–2016) @Note

TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 7.8

Unable to unsee the dark crimes he's tasked to investigate, Wallander's job comes at a cost to his family and relationships.

Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Richard McCabe, Jeany Spark, Sarah Smart

Votes: 15,940

29. Forbrydelsen (2007–2012)

TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 8.4

Police detective Sarah Lund investigates difficult cases with personal and political consequences.

Stars: Sofie Gråbøl, Morten Suurballe, Lars Mikkelsen, Bjarne Henriksen

Votes: 29,098

30. The Gryphon (2023– ) @Note

16+ | Fantasy

 6.9

Based on the fantasy bestseller. To save humanity from the Gryphon's claws, outcast Mark must confront his family's dark legacy and enter a deadly battle in the parallel world of the Black Tower.

Stars: Jeremias Meyer, Zoran Pingel, Lea Drinda, Sabine Timoteo

Votes: 2,130

31. Pauline

Drama, Fantasy, Thriller | Filming

Pauline 18-year-old- accidentally becomes pregnant from a one-night stand with Lukas, who, as it turns out, is the devil himself. The pregnancy gives Pauline supernatural powers and an epic battle between good and evil ensues.

Stars: Kjell Brutscheidt, Andrea Sawatzki, Susanne Wuest, Dimitrij Schaad

32. Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996– )

90 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

 6.3

Two police inspectors and their team from a Bonn-Koeln precinct fight all sorts of criminals they encounter daily on major highways in Germany.

Stars: Erdogan Atalay, Gottfried Vollmer, Niels Kurvin, Dietmar Huhn

Votes: 5,653

33. Relic Hunter (1999–2002)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy @Note

 6.4

Sydney Fox is a university professor and black belt who globe-trots after lost, stolen and rumored to exist artifacts and antiquities.

Stars: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Lindy Booth, Tanja Reichert

Votes: 7,366

34. Kleo (2022– )

TV-MA | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

 7.5

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a former spy killer is set free and embarks on a revenge spree against the people who conspired to betray her.

Stars: Jella Haase, Dimitrij Schaad, Vincent Redetzki, Vladimir Burlakov

Votes: 11,608

35. Primeval (2007–2011)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

 7.2

When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future.

Stars: Andrew Lee Potts, Hannah Spearritt, Ben Miller, Juliet Aubrey

Votes: 15,047

36. Lexx (1996–2002)

R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

 7.3

A group of disparate fugitives from an interplanetary tyranny find themselves in control of a massively powerful starship.

Stars: Brian Downey, Michael McManus, Jeffrey Hirschfield, Xenia Seeberg

Votes: 8,333

37. Kommissar Rex (1994–2004)

45 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

 7.1

A recently-divorced cop adopts a police dog who lost his former companion; together they solve crimes in and around Vienna.

Stars: Gerhard Zemann, Heinz Weixelbraun, Wolf Bachofner, Martin Weinek

Votes: 5,949

38. Before We Die (2017–2019)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

 7.7

A police inspector in the organised crime unit disappears after meeting with a mysterious informer.

Stars: Marie Richardson, Adam Pålsson, Magnus Krepper, Malgorzata Pieczynska

Votes: 4,641

39. How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) (2019– )

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

 7.8

To win back the love of his life, a high school student and his best friend launch Europe's largest online drug business from their teenage bedroom.

Stars: Maximilian Mundt, Danilo Kamperidis, Lena Klenke, Damian Hardung

Votes: 37,167

40. The Sommerdahl Murders (2020– )

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 6.3

A love triangle between Dan Sommerdahl, his wife Marianne Sommerdahl and their best friend Flemming Torp occurs as they try to solves killings in Helsingør.

Stars: Peter Mygind, André Babikian, Laura Drasbæk, Mathias Käki Jørgensen

Votes: 1,450

41. The Worst Witch (2017– )

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Family, Fantasy @Note

 7.2

Mildred lives an ordinary life until the day that Maud Spellbody crashes her broomstick into their balcony. Maud then introduces Mildred to Cackle's Academy--a school for young witches set high on a mountaintop.

Stars: Raquel Cassidy, Jenny Richardson, Clare Higgins, Dagny Rollins

Votes: 2,933

42. Rebecka Martinsson (2017– )

Not Rated | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 7.1

When a childhood friend suddenly dies Rebecka Martinsson returns home to the north of Kiruna. But not everything is what it seems.

Stars: Eva Melander, Jakob Öhrman, Ardalan Esmaili, Thomas Oredsson

Votes: 3,034

43. The Mallorca Files (2019– )

TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama

 6.7

A British and German detective clashing over how to police the Spanish island of Mallorca.

Stars: Elen Rhys, Julian Looman, María Fernández Ache, Tábata Cerezo

Votes: 2,580

44. Borgia (2011–2014)

TV-MA | 52 min | Biography, Drama, History

 7.7

Story of the rise and the fall of the Renaissance dynasty.

Stars: Mark Ryder, Isolda Dychauk, Diarmuid Noyes, John Doman

Votes: 6,962

45. Wallander (2005–2013)

TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 7.6

A Swedish cop in a small town by the Baltic coast.

Stars: Krister Henriksson, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Mats Bergman, Douglas Johansson

Votes: 6,014 | Gross: $0.01M

46. Arctic Circle (2018– )

TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

 6.9

Arctic Circle (aka Ivalo) is set in the unforgiving polar region, amidst the icy landscapes of Finnish Lapland. In season 1 Nina Kautsalo, a Finnish police officer, finds a dying prostitute... See full summary »

Stars: Iina Kuustonen, Pihla Viitala, Venla Ronkainen, Susanna Haavisto

Votes: 2,388

47. The Defeated (2020)

TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, History, Thriller

 7.1

Max McLaughlin is an American cop who arrives in Berlin in the summer of 1946 to help create a police force in the chaotic aftermath of the war.

Stars: Taylor Kitsch, Michael C. Hall, Logan Marshall-Green, Nina Hoss

Votes: 7,405

48. Ransom (2017–2019)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

 6.6

A team of crisis negotiators travels the globe to help multinational corporations and governmental agencies with complex negotiations and conflict resolution.

Stars: Luke Roberts, Brandon Jay McLaren, Nazneen Contractor, Sarah Greene

Votes: 3,916

49. Perfume (2018)

TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Thriller

 7.0

When a singer is found murdered, with her scent glands excised from her body, detectives probe a group of friends who attended boarding school with her.

Stars: Friederike Becht, August Diehl, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Natalia Belitski

Votes: 9,621

50. Dogs of Berlin (2018– )

TV-MA | 542 min | Action, Crime, Drama

 7.5

A politically sensitive murder forces two disparate detectives into a battle with the Berlin underworld and a confrontation with their own corruption.

Stars: Felix Kramer, Fahri Yardim, Anna Maria Mühe, Katharina Schüttler

Votes: 13,629

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ATTACHMENT “C” – From IMDB.China

Top 100 Chinese TV Series (IMDB Ratings)

by pieceofthi | created - 24 Dec 2021 | updated - 24 Dec 2021 | Public

Top 100 Chinese TV Series/ Chinese Dramas as rated by IMDb Users

102 titles

1. The Untamed (2019)

50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

 8.8

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Two talented disciples of respectable magical clans unit during the cultivation training and through many hardships they are together.

Stars: Zhan Xiao, Sanmu Liu, Yibo Wang, Zhuocheng Wang

Votes: 8,349

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2. The Wolf (2020– )

45 min | Action, Drama, History

 7.8

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The script tells the story of Kuizhou City Princess Zhaixing and a young wolf cub who grew up in a wolf pack, and they met after missing eight years. The two fought for love and fate.

Stars: Talu Wang, Qin Li, Zhan Xiao, Zhilei Xin

Votes: 3,445

3. Word of Honor (2021)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

 8.4

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Zhou Zi Shu gets embroiled in a conspiracy in the martial arts world. He meets Wen Ke Xing who escapes from the Ghost Valley to avenge his parents' deaths. They become fast friends and embark on an adventure to find a legendary treasure.

Stars: Zhang Zhehan, Jun Gong, Kai Wang, Ma Cheng

Votes: 3,480

4. Love O2O (2016– )

45 min | Drama, Romance

 7.8

Rate

A story of two popular college students who fell in love through an online game.

Stars: Yang Yang, Shuang Zheng, Denny Huang, Junfeng Niu

Votes: 3,112

5. Eternal Love (2017)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

 8.4

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Two deities Ye Hua and Bai Qian meet and fall in love. Their love story transcends time and has become a legend.

Stars: Mi Yang, Mark Chao, Weiguang Gao, Ken Chang

Votes: 2,697

6. Legend of Fei (2020–2021)

45 min | Action, Adventure, History

 7.2

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A story of how Zhou Fei and Xie Yun went through struggles and challenges to become legendary heroes in the pugilistic world.

Stars: Yibo Wang, Zanilia Zhao, Ruoxuan Chen, Jian Sun

Votes: 2,223

7. Falling Into Your Smile (2021– )

TV-14 | 45 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

 8.2

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Romance between two professional gamers.

Stars: Kai Xu, Cheng Xiao, Han Gao, Bruce Crossey

Votes: 3,100

8. The Founder of Diabolism (2018–2021)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

 8.5

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Wei Wu Xian and Lan Wang Ji meet during a magical training and start working together to solve many mysteries.

Stars: Sanmu Liu, Jiang Bian, Kei Gambit, Ketsu

Votes: 2,103

9. My Girlfriend Is an Alien (2019–2022) @note

45 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

 8.3

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An alien who founds her real love on Earth.

Stars: Yixin Chen, Peng Wan, Thassapak Hsu, Yue Yang

Votes: 2,341

10. A Love So Beautiful (2017)

45 min | Comedy, Romance

 8

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Can the pure love of 17-year-olds endure through all the challenges of adulthood? Chen Xiao Xi and Jiang Chen are high school friends and neighbors who grew up together. Xiao Xi is ... See full summary »

Stars: Yitian Hu, Shen Yue, Yaodong Zhao, Wang Zi Wei

Votes: 1,656

11. Heaven Official's Blessing (2020– )

TV-14 | Animation, Action, Adventure

 8.2

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The story of Crown Prince Xie Lian, who, after 800 years of "Cultivation, " finally ascends to heaven. He is soon banished back to the mortal realm and goes on an extraordinary adventure as they learn the truth about the gods in heaven.

Stars: Guangtao Jiang, Non Sepho, Ying Huang, James Cheek

Votes: 2,042

12. Link Click (2021– )

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Crime, Drama

 8.6

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Using superpowers to enter their clientele's photos one by one, Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang take their work seriously at "Time Photo Studio," a small photography shop set in the backdrop of a modern metropolis.

Stars: Zeno Robinson, Alejandro Saab, Suzie Yeung, Kelsey Maher

Votes: 2,875

13. The Daily Life of the Immortal King (2020– )

TV-14 | 18 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

 7.2

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Wang Ling is a near-invincible existence with powers far beyond his control. But now that he's sixteen, he faces his greatest battle yet - Senior High School.

Stars: Zhao Shuang, Alex Mai, Erica Muse, Nazeeh Tarsha

Votes: 2,032

14. Go Go Squid! (2019– )

45 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

 7.7

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This is a sweet love story about how a straight-A girl student with high IQ pursues a former prince charming as well as an inspirational story about a hero who comes back to regain dream ... See full summary »

Stars: Zi Yang, Xian Li, Mingde Li, Yifan Wen

Votes: 1,605

15. The Bad Kids (2020)

50 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

 8.1

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A story that follows three children who unintentionally film a murder scene. As they become involve with the suspect, it opens up a case that is far more complicated than it looks and entraps several families into an unpredictable outcome.

Stars: Jingchun Wang, Zishan Rong, Pengyuan Shi, Lin Liu

Votes: 1,342

16. Joy of Life (2019–2020)

45 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

 8.1

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A Chinese drama about a loyal underling of the Emperor who continuously outwit his opponents for political power and money and makes several shocking discoveries which lead to a change of goals in life.

Stars: Ruoyun Zhang, Yu Tian, Qin Li, Daoming Chen

Votes: 1,424

17. Douluo Dalu (2018–2023)

TV-14 | 20 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

 8.6

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Tang San is one of Tang Sect martial art clan's most prestigious disciples in the use of hidden weapons. The elders believe his future will be bright; yet Tang chooses to forsake this life at the cost of obtaining a forbidden lore.

Stars: Ying Huang, Zhai Wei, Lu Zhao, Dian Tao

Votes: 1,594

18. Day and Night (2017– )

45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 8.2

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Guan Hongfeng, a nyctophobic former police captain, returns as a consultant in order to discover the culprits behind the framing of his identical twin brother, Guan Hongyu, for familicide.

Stars: Yueming Pan, Longzheng Wang, Naigang Song, Yuan Liang

Votes: 977

19. You are My Glory (2021)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

 8.3

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Based on the novel of the same name written by Man Gu , the play tells the story of the popular actress Qiao Jingjing and her former high school classmate Yu Tu unexpectedly reuniting in the game.

Stars: Yang Yang, Dilraba Dilmurat, Sun Yali, Yanlin Wang

Votes: 1,728

20. Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace (2018)

Drama, History

 7.8

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Chronicle the marriage of the Qing China emperor Qianlong and the step empress Ru Yi, lady Ulanara.

Stars: Xun Zhou, Wallace Huo, Ma Cheng, Janine Chun-Ning Chang

Votes: 857

21. The Long Ballad (2021– )

Action, Adventure, History

 8.3

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On her quest for revenge against her uncle and current emperor, Li Changge, a discounted princess of the Tang Dynasty with military expertise, comes across Ashile Sun, a general and Tegin of an opposing army.

Stars: Dilraba Dilmurat, Lei Wu, Yuning Liu, Lusi Zhao

Votes: 1,244

22. Go Ahead (2020)

45 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

 8.6

 Rate

It focuses on a family which is formed by three broken families and the stories within.

Stars: Steven Zhang, Songyan Tu, Xilin Zhang, Tongshu Yang

Votes: 1,062

23. The Long Night (2020– )

45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 8.2

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In the story of The Long Night, the suspect discarded the body after his murder but was unexpectedly caught red-handed on the spot in broad daylight. There were at least hundreds of ... See full summary »

Stars: Fan Liao, Yu Bai, Chao Niu, Xiaolin Lü

Votes: 846

24. The Longest Day in Chang'an (2019)

45 min | Action, Crime, History

 7.8

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A former detective turned convicted criminal becomes China's last hope to thwart mysterious invaders who threaten the empire's capital city on the day before the Lantern Festival.

Stars: Ricardo Ortiz Del Rio Carrizosa, Jiayin Lei, Jackson Yee, Lu Cai

Votes: 681

25. A Bite of China (2012)

50 min | Documentary

 8.6

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A Bite of China is the quintessential TV series on all things Chinese cuisine, from its rich history to the rarest dishes and wildest ingredients.

Star: Lihong Li

Votes: 546

26. In the Name of the People (2017)

55 min | Drama

 7.5

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A story of intricate struggles against corruption in China.

Stars: Yi Lu, Lan Ke, Fengyi Zhang, Gang Wu

Votes: 565

27. Love and Redemption (2020– )

45 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

 8.3

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According to legends, the god of war saved the heavens in a deadly battle against the demon a thousand years ago. Both fell from the heavens and disappeared from the world.

Stars: Yi Cheng, Crystal Yuan, Xueyi Liu, Zhen Zhao

Votes: 941

28. Gank Your Heart (2019–2020)

TV-14 | Drama, Romance, Sport

 7.5

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Their meeting was a recipe for disaster, but their romance is sweet. This is a love story between an e-sports gamer and a Tsundere live streamer.

Stars: Yibo Wang, Zixuan Wang, Brian O'Shea, Taiyu Gao

Votes: 909

29. Skate Into Love (2020)

45 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport

 7.9

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A speed skating girl crosses paths with the ice hockey god of their school.Despite starting off on the wrong foot,they start on a journey to chase after their dreams.As the two impassioned ... See full summary »

Stars: Qian Wu, Steven Zhang, Tianhao Wei, Jiunuo Han

Votes: 590

30. The Romance of Tiger and Rose (2020)

45 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

 7.9

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Chen Xiao Qian, an unknown screenwriter who's been single since birth, worked really hard and finally finished a grand drama of a heroine. It was planned to started filming, but stopped ... See full summary »

Stars: Lusi Zhao, Yuxi Ding, Zhou Zi Xin, Yinghao Sheng

Votes: 891

31. The Story of Ming Lan (2018– )

Drama, History, Romance

 8.1

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An unfavoured child of a rich family, Ming Lan studies and works hard, and falls in love with the son of a high official. Through cunning schemes, they both rise in position and work to obtain justice from those that have wronged them.

Stars: Zanilia Zhao, Shuzhen Zhao, Shaofeng Feng, Cuifen Cao

Votes: 615

32. Boss & Me (2014)

45 min | Romance

 7.2

 Rate

The story is about the romance between Xue Shan Shan, a young office lady and her boss Feng Teng. One night, Shan Shan got an urgent call from hospital. She was asked to give Feng Yue, her ... See full summary »

Stars: Zanilia Zhao, Pei-Pei Cheng, Hans Zhang, Youming Huang

Votes: 554

33. Oh! My Emperor (2018– )

30 min | Drama, Fantasy

 7.1

 Rate

Add a Plot

Stars: Lusi Zhao, Jason Gu, Jiacheng Wu, Zhan Xiao

Votes: 569

34. Light the Night (2021– )

TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 7.4

 Rate

In the red light district of 1980s Taipei, women at a popular Japanese night club navigate jealousy, heartbreak, friendship and love.

Stars: Chiung-Hsuan Hsieh, Esther Liu, Nikki Hsieh, Hsueh-Fu Kuo

Votes: 1,371

35. Love is Sweet (2020)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

 8.1

 Rate

It follows the story of a girl named Jiang Jun who meets her close childhood friend, Ma Yuanshuai, in the workplace-this time, however, not as an ally but as a rival - Jiang Jun is an ... See full summary »

Stars: Yunxi Luo, Lu Bai, Gao Han Yu, Riley Wang

Votes: 1,106

36. The Rational Life (2021– )

45 min | Drama, Romance

 8

 Rate

Shen Ruo Xin is a thirty-something professional who decides to take a stand against unfair societal expectations At her workplace she finds herself drawn to two different men - one her ... See full summary »

Stars: Zonghan Li, Dylan Wang, Lan Qin, Pan Hong

Votes: 724

37. Arsenal Military Academy (2019)

TV-Y7 | Action, History, Romance

 8.3

 Rate

About a military academy for boys only, but a girl named Xie Xiang joins the academy instead of her brother while pretending to be a boy to make his dream come true. Two men become the ... See full summary »

Stars: Lu Bai, Kai Xu, Tu-Te-Ha-Meng, Toby Lee

Votes: 701

38. A Little Thing Called First Love (2019)

TV-PG | Comedy, Drama, Romance

 7.8

 Rate

Tells the story of an ordinary girl who falls head over heels for the most popular guy in school.

Stars: Jinmai Zhao, Runze Wang, Kuan-lin Lai, Bowen Wang

Votes: 485

39. Our Beloved Summer (2021–2022)

TV-Y7 | 70 min | Drama, Romance

 8.2

 Rate

A coming of age, romantic comedy revolving around ex-lovers who broke up with a promise never to meet again. But the documentary they filmed ten years ago gets the fame and they are by compulsion facing camera once more.

Stars: Choi Woo-sik, Kim Da-mi, Park Jin-joo, No Jeong-ee

Votes: 8,294

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40. Love and Destiny (2019– )

45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

 8

 Rate

After falling into sleep for thousands of years, the God of Warrior Jiu Chen was awakened by a Goddess named Ling Xi. Doubting Ling Xi's identity, Jiu Chen kept her as his maid. The two ... See full summary »

Stars: Chang Chen, Ni Ni, Dongxue Li, Yu Li

Votes: 420

41. Super Star Academy (2016–2017)

Drama, Fantasy

 7

 Rate

The work tells that the Fang family that led the 12 constellations has become the most powerful family in the world.

Stars: Zhan Xiao, Jason Gu, Emn Chen, Zifan Guo

Votes: 485

42. My Unicorn Girl (2020)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

 7.7

 Rate

When she was eighteen, Sang Tian makes a wish to enter her mother's school to become part of the Chinese figure skating team. However, she did not pass the ranking test but somehow ... See full summary »

Stars: Darren Chen, Yao Chen, Jiulin Li, Yaqi Dai

Votes: 439

43. Toren C (2008–2020)

25 min | Comedy

 7.9

 Rate

An offbeat depiction of women at work.

Stars: Maike Meijer, Margôt Ros, Albert Jan van Rees, Ilse Warringa

Votes: 289

44. My Little Happiness (2021– )

Drama, Romance

 8

 Rate

Rong, an aspiring lawyer, gets assigned to work at a hospital on mediation. Her first client, Dr. Shao Qin, is her childhood sweetheart who she doesn't recognize but he recognizes her and instantly starts to try to win her over.

Stars: Xing Fei, Chuan Li, Xiaotian Tang, Yilin Huang

Votes: 588

45. Tribes and Empires: Storm of Prophecy (2017–2018)

45 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

 7.5

 Rate

The series is set in the fictional world of Novoland and tells the story of loyalty, friendship, enmity, struggles and romance between the young descendants during the twilight years of the Duan Dynasty.

Stars: Xuan Huang, Shawn Dou, Fangsheng Lu, Qinqin Jiang

Votes: 305

46. The Legends (2019)

45 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

 7.4

 Rate

a hilarious and sweet xianxia romance set in Ancient China, Lu Zhao Yao went through life living ostentatiously in every way possible. She lived her entire demon life in a loud and brazen ... See full summary »

Stars: Lu Bai, Kai Xu, Shane Xiao, Hang Yin

Votes: 467

47. Burning Ice (2017– )

Crime, Drama, Mystery

 7.5

 Rate

A dishonored policeman searching for a serial killer in Harbin, China.

Stars: Hao Qin, Jiajia Deng, Yao Lu, Xu Dai

Votes: 340

48. Dating in the Kitchen (2020)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

 7.7

 Rate

Working as an assistant chef at the Zijing Hotel, Gu Sheng Nan was a woman well on her way to making her dreams come true. Well situated, in a job that she loved, she was free to express ... See full summary »

Stars: Lusi Zhao, Lin Yu Shen, Lambert Houston, Qian Li

Votes: 518

49. Once Upon A Time in Lingjian Mountain (2019) @note

TV-14 | Action, Adventure, Comedy

 7.2

 Rate

As the nine continents face a crisis, a young disciple joins the Spirit Blade sect and comes under the tutelage of a temperamental sage.

Stars: Kai Xu, Yuanbing Zhu, Sandrine Pinna, Junhao Li

Votes: 365

50. Ode to Joy (2016– )

40 min | Drama

 7.2

 Rate

A Chinese drama about five women who live on the 22nd floor of an apartment complex in Shanghai called Ode To Joy. Andy (Tao Liu) is an incredibly successful though somewhat antisocial and ... See full summary »

Stars: Tao Liu, Ziwen Wang, Xin Jiang, Xin Qiao

Votes: 321

51. Le Coup de Foudre (2019– )

45 min | Comedy, Romance

 8

 Rate

Story about a pair of lovers from their high school to adult life. Based on the Chinese novel "I Don't Like This World, I Only Like You" by Qiao Yi.

Stars: Zhiwei Zhao, Qingyu Yan, Li Ma, Ge An

Votes: 314

52. The Rebel Princess (2021)

Drama, History, Romance

 8.2

 Rate

Intense power play between the royals as they all fight for a better kingdom for everyone.

Stars: Ziyi Zhang, Yiwei Zhou, Ke Shi, Xiaoqing Zuo

Votes: 395

53. When We Were Young (2018)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

 8.2

 Rate

A nostalgic story that revolves around high school students during the year 1996.

Stars: Peng Wan, Yao Zhang, Minghao Hou

Votes: 310

54. Scumbag System (2020– )

TV-14 | Animation, Fantasy, Romance

 8.1

 Rate

An ordinary youth--Shen Yuan, after reading the novel "Arrogant Gods and Demons' Journey", triggers the mysterious system so that he crosses into the book world and penetrates into the body of villain--Shen Qingqiu.

Stars: Shuai Zhou, Wu Lei, Beichen Liu, Dawei Shen

Votes: 392

55. New Legend of Madame White Snake (1992– )

49 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical

 8.3

 Rate

A fantastical love story inspired by the legend of the white snake - a mythical snake-like creature who strives to be human.

Stars: Angie Chiu, Cecilia Yip, Maggie Chan, Ming Chiang

Votes: 259

56. Battle Through the Heavens (2017– )

Animation, Action, Adventure

 8.6

 Rate

Xiao Yan is the genius boy of discipline. When he was 4 years old, he started to practice asceticism. And when he was 10 years old, he got Level9 of the practice asceticism.

Stars: Yiwen Chen, Pei Zhang, Su Wan, Sanmu Liu

Votes: 1,558

57. Unrequited Love (2019)

35 min | Drama

 7.1

 Rate

Luo Zhi has a crush on an outstanding boy named Sheng Huainan and follows up his steps to get into the same university. They have to get over problems between themselves and their families, and make progress in their relationship.

Stars: XiaoWen Zhai, Yanmanzi Zhu, Shunran Zhao, Yu Shen

Votes: 281

58. Moonshine and Valentine (2018)

45 min | Action, Fantasy, Romance

 7.3

 Rate

Helan is a nine tailed fox who has lived for a centuries, while Pipi is a seemingly normal woman. It is revealed that in her past reincarnation she was connected with him.

Stars: Johnny Huang, Victoria Song, Yongxi Liu, Jiaming Li

Votes: 254

59. The Brightest Star in the Sky (2019)

Drama

 7.6

 Rate

As singer-songwriter C-POP star, Huang Zitao plays a role of a recalcitrant idol who debuted and become famous since he was young. He deeply likes music and keeps persistent, that is similar with Huang Zi Tao.

Stars: Chloe Zhao, Zitao Huang, Qian Wu, Junfeng Niu

Votes: 320

60. Hi My Sweetheart (2009–2010)

60 min | Comedy, Romance

 7.3

 Rate

Hsueh Hai (Show Lo) was a certifiable dork who comes from a very wealthy family and has been protected by his oldest sister since young, until he is 20 years old. One day, he decided to ... See full summary »

Stars: Rainie Yang, Show Lo, Wei Lee, Maggie Wu

Votes: 236

61. The Legend of White Snake (2019)

45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

 7.3

 Rate

Provoked by the actions of a seemingly sly human, an ancient snake spirit takes on a human form, in order to prove him a fraud. Convinced she's doing the world a favor, Bai Su Zhen ... See full summary »

Stars: Jingyi Ju, Menglong Yu, Yan Xiao, Tim Pei

Votes: 297

62. Candle in the Tomb (2016–2017)

35 min | Action, Adventure, Drama @note

 7.1

 Rate

Can a woman trust tomb raiders to help her find her missing father? Shirley Yang (Joe Chen) is an archaeologist who grew up in the United States. When she learns that her father has ... See full summary »

Stars: Dong Jin, Joe Chen, Da Zhao, Xinming Yang

Votes: 252

63. I Will Never Let You Go (2019)

45 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

 7

 Rate

The story revolves around a young wanderer with an extraordinary business sense and the masked hero who saves her which ultimately results in them falling in love. When the wanderer is ... See full summary »

Stars: Ariel Lin, Vin Zhang, Tiara Huang, Po-Hung Lin

Votes: 223

64. Chinese Paladin 3 (2009– )

PG | 45 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

 7.2

 Rate

Chinese Paladin 3 is a Chinese television series adapted from the video game of the same title, and, because of an added time travel concept allowing the protagonist from Chinese Paladin (... See full summary »

Stars: Yan Tang, Shi Shi Liu, Kei Gambit, Jerry Chih-Wei Huang

Votes: 260

65. Ming Dynasty 1566 (2007)

42 min | Drama, History

 8.9

 Rate

This is the story of the Ming emperor Jiajing and Hai Rui story. At that time, China's economy developed and its culture became prosperous. However, the social contradictions are prominent,... See full summary »

Stars: Baoguo Chen, Dahong Ni, Guangming Xu, Zhijian Zhang

Votes: 314

66. Langs de oevers van de Yangtze (2016– )

43 min | Documentary

 8.5

 Rate

Dutch photographer Ruben Terlou travels the banks of the Yangtze to examine how China's economic overhaul affected people's lives.

Star: Ruben Terlou

Votes: 209

67. Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Sabre (2019)

45 min | Drama

 7.8

 Rate

Chinese television series adapted from the Louis Cha novel, which is the third part of the Condor Trilogy. Originally published in newspapers from 1961 to 1963, the story has been revised twice; once in 1979 and the second in 2005.

Stars: Yuqi Chen, Kathy Chow, Xudan Zhu, Joseph Zeng

Votes: 306

68. Nothing Gold Can Stay (2017)

45 min | Biography, Drama

 7.9

 Rate

Biography of legendary widow Zhou Ying who revitalized the business of Wu's family, a prominent clan in Guanzhong of Shaanxi, in late Qing Dynasty.

Stars: Li Sun, Mimi Chi-Yan Kung, Xiao Chen, Morning Chang

Votes: 233

69. You Are My Hero (2021– )

Crime, Drama, Romance

 8

 Rate

As a new resident at the bustling metropolitan hospital, Mi Ka's life is far from boring. With a steady stream of patients to see and a variety of training exercises to complete, Mi Ka has ... See full summary »

Stars: Sichun Ma, Jingting Bai, Hao Chen, Yang Wang

Votes: 374

70. You Are My Destiny (2020– )

Drama

 7.4

 Rate

Two people living on "parallel lines" were never meant to interact, but an unanticipated meeting transforms them into each other's destiny.

Stars: Zhaolin Xing, Tara Clance, Jiulin Li, Jie Liang

Votes: 394

71. The Prince of Tennis - Match! Tennis Juniors (2019)

Sport

 7.5

 Rate

A 10th grade boy whom is the son of a famous retired tennis player. They moved back to China after being abroad and Lu Xia went onto a new school and joined the tennis club with a goal of beating his tennis genius father.

Stars: Yiren Song, Binbin Xie, Yuchang Peng, Yijie Zhang

Votes: 273

72. The Oath of Love (2022– )

Drama, Family, Music

 8

 Rate

Its a cute romance tale between a doctor and pianist. Lin Zhi Xiao is a budding cellist is determined to achieve her dreams. Her father is hospitalized and diagnosed with cancer. Her life ... See full summary »

Stars: Zi Yang, Zhan Xiao, ZiLu Zhai, Wenting Hao

Votes: 1,154

73. Thank You (2007)

60 min | Drama

 7.6

 Rate

Dr. Min Ki Seo went to Blue Island to fulfill his deceased girlfriend's last wish to find the single mother and her little girl who was infected by HIV and to apologize to them on her ... See full summary »

Stars: Kong Hyo-Jin, Jang Hyuk, Shin-ae Seo, Bu-ja Kang

Votes: 235

74. Perfect and Casual (2020)

Drama

 7.8

 Rate

The story revolves around cold and icy "male god" professor Zhang Sinian and the calm and sunny Yun Shu.

Stars: Zheming Wei, Ruohan Xu, Yunfan Dai, Joy Sheng

Votes: 442

75. Please Feel at Ease Mr. Ling (2021– )

Comedy, Drama, Romance

 7.6

 Rate

A story of how the 'rabbit' brings home a 'big bad wolf' follows a young woman named Gu Anxin who chances upon the hotshot executive Ling Yue after he encountered an accident.

Stars: Lusi Zhao, Te Liu, Junwei Zhou, Peixin Qi

Votes: 491

76. Ancient Love Poetry (2021– )

45 min | Action, Fantasy, Romance

 8.2

 Rate

When commoners encounter difficulties, they will pray to Gods - but what happens when Gods meet obstacles? Here is the story of the deep love and hardship between one of the four true Gods Bai Jue and Shang Gu.

Stars: Dongyu Zhou, Kai Xu, Jenny Zhang, Xueyi Liu

Votes: 507

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77. Under the Power (2019–2020)

45 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

 7.6

 Rate

Two detectives have to find stolen government funds.

Stars: Jialun Ren, Songyun Tan, Hong Lu, Yichen Yao

Votes: 328

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78. Sweet Dreams (2018– )

Fantasy, Romance

 7

 Rate

Ling Ling Qi (Dilraba Dilmurat, The Flame's Daughter) is a kind woman who always goes out of her way to help others. In the past, she faced some childhood trauma that left her with low ... See full summary »

Stars: Robert Gilabert Cuenca, Dilraba Dilmurat, Allen Deng

Votes: 323

79. Home with Kids (2005– )

20 min | Comedy

 7.2

 Rate

Divorced children's play director Xia Donghai lives with a son and a daughter. He meets and marries a divorced nurse Liu Mei who lives with a son. The whole new family have to face many growing problems of the three children.

Stars: Di Xu, Yan Liu, Zi Yang, Dandan Song

Votes: 249

80. Legend of Yun Xi (2018)

Fantasy, History, Romance

 7.3

 Rate

A young naive girl skilled in magical medicine and poisons meets cruel power struggle, villains, friends and love.

Stars: Ma Cheng, Michael Mao, Zhang Zhehan, Jingyi Ju

Votes: 252

81. Wind Blows in Chang Lin (Nirvana in Fire II) (2017–2018)

Action, Drama, Fantasy

 7.9

 Rate

They destroyed his family. They thought he was too weak to do anything. They thought wrong.

Stars: Huiwen Zhang, Haoran Liu, Xianxu Hu, Hui-Wen Chang

Votes: 222

82. Find Yourself (2020– )

45 min | Drama, Romance

 7.6

 Rate

A love story between an accomplished career woman and a younger man.

Stars: Esther Yu, Weilong Song, Victoria Song, Zheming Wei

Votes: 313

83. Door Het Hart van China (2018)

Documentary

 8.4

 Rate

Dutch photographer Ruben Terlou and director Maaik Krijgsman travel through China, from Inner Mongolia in the north, the tropical coast of Macau in the South, talking to Chinese people about their life in this country.

Star: Ruben Terlou

Votes: 161

84. Minning Town (2021– )

45 min | Drama

 8.5

 Rate

Add a Plot

Stars: Xiaochuan Li, Zhao Shao, Yi Zhu, Yueting Lang

Votes: 208

85. Love Around (2013– )

TV-Y | 90 min | Romance

 7.5

 Rate

Chou Chen (George Hu) is a tough gangster's son who has a soft spot for protecting the weak from bullies. Liang Hsiao-Shu (Annie Chen) is a happy-go-lucky and bubbly radio DJ who is ... See full summary »

Stars: George Hu, Annie Chen, Mandy Tao, Yun-ching Li

Votes: 157

86. Psychic Princess (2018–2019)

TV-14 | Animation, Action, Comedy

 7.9

 Rate

The story of Psychic Princess follows Qian Yunxi, a young lady, sent to live in the mountains at the age of eight because she possessed "strange abilities." Her noble family marries her off... See full summary »

Stars: Wenxiao He, Aojie Ji

Votes: 359

87. My Little Princess (2016)

40 min | Drama, Romance

 6.9

 Rate

When you're trying to win over your Prince Charming, can you find him in an unexpected place? Lin Xing Chen is an heiress of a wealthy family but faces pressure to marry well because of her... See full summary »

Stars: Mike Angelo, Sheng-hao Wen, Yuxi Zhang, Jennifer Ling Hung

Votes: 185

88. Somewhere Only We Know (2019)

Drama, Romance

 7.2

 Rate

A physics student who's also a substitute teacher catches a English student cheating on a test. She sets out to prove she didn't cheat and he finally believes her. She doesn't like him at ... See full summary »

Stars: Chao Zhang, Tingting Li, Zhang Zhang, Yuli Deng

Votes: 202

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89. Begin Again (2020– )

Comedy, Drama, Romance

 7.4

 Rate

It tells the story of a domineering female CEO and a warm doctor who turn a fake relationship into reality due to practical reasons. Having exchanged their 'I do's', they start on a new ... See full summary »

Stars: Jun Gong, Yutong Zhou, Yuchen Du, Meng Fan

Votes: 344

90. Bloody Romance (2018)

45 min | Action, Fantasy, Romance

 7.9

 Rate

During a chaotic period towards the end of the Tang Dynasty, Qi Xue (Li Yi Tong) was sold to a brothel by her own father. She gets a second chance after inadvertently entering a mysterious ... See full summary »

Stars: Hsueh-Fu Kuo, Duo Wang, Chuxiao Qu, Yitong Li

Votes: 188

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91. Legend of Condor Heroes (2008– )

45 min | Action, Drama, Romance

 7.3

 Rate

When their husbands are killed by the Song Army, two pregnant women escape to foreign lands and both give birth to boys who are very different from each other. Guo Jing (Hu Ge) is a strong ... See full summary »

Stars: Ge Hu, Ariel Lin, Yujuan Wu, Shi Shi Liu

Votes: 164

92. Good Bye, My Princess (2019)

45 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

 7.8

 Rate

Xiao Feng (Peng Xiao Ran) is the beloved princess of Western Liang when she is arranged to marry the crown prince Li Cheng Yin (Chen Xing Xu). Loved by her people immensely, she sets off on... See full summary »

Stars: Xingxu Chen, Xiaoran Peng, Shawn Wei, Gaowa Siqin

Votes: 263

93. Rattan (2021– )

Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

 7.4

 Rate

Si Teng, a supernatural creature, recruits the help of a modern-age designer Qin Fang, to assist in regaining her previous life and finding something she is looking for after she is resurrected by his car accident.

Stars: Tian Jing, Vin Zhang, Daisy Li, Yichi Zhang

Votes: 245

94. Beauty Hao Lan (2019)

Drama, Romance

 7.1

 Rate

The story of how a miserable Hao Lan became the queen of Qin dynasty with the help of the witty Lu Bu Wei.

Stars: Jinyan Wu, Yuan Nie, Zijun Mao, Zixin Jiang

Votes: 181

95. The King's Avatar Specials (2018– )

28 min | Animation, Short, Action

 7.7

 Rate

The All-Star Tournament is a three-day event that allows e-sports participants from various professional clubs to display their skills, while also giving casual Glory players the chance to ... See full summary »

Star: Aojie Ji

Votes: 157

96. Hikaru no Go (2020)

50 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sport

 8.7

 Rate

Xiao Guang discovered an ancient Go board by coincidence and thus got to know Chu Ying, a Go player who has been entrenched in the Go board as a "soul" and who has experienced thousands of years.

Stars: Chao Zhang, Ning Chen, Xianxu Hu, Fushen Hao

Votes: 197

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97. First Romance (2020– )

Drama, Romance

 7.7

 Rate

A childhood friendship between a girl with crazy strength (Wan Peng) and a young pianist (Riley Wang) rekindles into something more when they run into each other again in college.

Stars: Peng Wan, Riley Wang, Lesley Lin, Cheng Chang

Votes: 232

98. Medical Examiner Dr. Qin (2016– )

33 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 7.4

 Rate

Qin Ming's assistant resigned because of his unbearable and quirky temper. Li Dabao of the Department of Mark Inspection was ordered to join the working group. At the beginning, Qin doesn't... See full summary »

Stars: Jerry Liau, Ruoyun Zhang, Junyan Jiao, Xian Li

Votes: 159

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99. Count Your Lucky Stars (2020– )

45 min | Romance

 7.2

 Rate

Lu Xingcheng was used to having the world at his feet until he lost everything in an instant. Tong Xiaoyou used to be eternally jinxed until the day she became famous overnight.

Stars: Shen Yue, Jerry Yan, Jackie Li, Zheming Wei

Votes: 167

100. Because of Meeting You (2017)

45 min | Romance

 7.7

 Rate

Zhang Guoguo grew up in a Wonton shop and is also the food-delivery girl for the town. Although Guoguo did not receive very high education, she is loved by her neighborhood because of her ... See full summary »

Stars: Joy Yi-Chun Pan, Allen Deng, Yi Sun, You Wu

Votes: 135

ATTACHMENT “D” – From IMDB.Russia

TV Series, Russia (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)

1. The Inbetweeners (2008–2010)

TV-14 | 25 min | Comedy

 8.4

Follows four friends and their antics during their final years of school.

Stars: Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Joe Thomas

Votes: 91,512

2. North Shore (2023– )

Crime, Thriller

 6.6

When British and Australian detectives team up to solve a murder mystery, they uncover a conspiracy with international political consequences as well as a clash of cultures.

Stars: John Bradley, Joanne Froggatt, Kirsty Sturgess, Dan Spielman

Votes: 554

3. To the Lake (I) (2019– )

TV-MA | 48 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

 7.2

A terrible plague strikes and a group decides to risk their lives. Humanity struggles to survive as they face the end of their civilization.

Stars: @get Kirill Käro, Maryana Spivak, Natalya Zemtsova, Eldar Kalimulin

Votes: 14,248

4. Better Than Us (2018–2019) @get

52 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

 7.3

A family on the brink of splitting up become the owners of a cutting-edge robot being sought by a corporation, homicide investigators and terrorists.

Stars: Paulina Andreeva, Kirill Käro, Aleksandr Ustyugov, Olga Lomonosova

Votes: 9,979

5. Ekaterina (2014– )

44 min | Biography, Drama, History

 8.0

The life of the Russian Empress Ekaterina II (Catherine the Great), a German born princess who came to Russia as bride for the young Peter III, chosen by his aunt Elisabeth, and who, once ... See full summary »

Stars: Marina Aleksandrova, Sergey Koltakov, Michael Gor, Isabel Schosnig

Votes: 1,579

6. Om Nom Stories (2011– )

TV-Y | 3 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

 6.9

Exciting adventures of the cutest green monster Om Nom that take him through the worlds, times, careers, and innumerable funny situations.

Star: Barrett Leddy

Votes: 99

7. The Pleasure Principle (2019)

56 min | Crime

 6.7

Three European countries. Three post-communist cities, Odessa, Warsaw and Prague. Three young women murdered. Within days, their bodies - or parts of them - are found. Their throats have ... See full summary »

Stars: Malgorzata Buczkowska, Karel Roden, Sergey Strelnikov, Robert Gonera

Votes: 453

8. Masha and the Bear (2007– )

TV-Y | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

 7.5

A retired circus bear settles into the woods and prepares for a quiet new life surrounded by peace and tranquility until he is introduced to an adventurous little girl named Masha.

Stars: Boris Kutnevich, Alina Kukushkina, Kaitlyn McCormick, Varvara Sarantseva

Votes: 3,548

9. Metal Family (2018– )

TV-14 | Animation, Drama, Music

 8.5

Metal Family follows the daily lives of Glam and Victoria, two metal fans that fell in love and had two children together, Dee and Heavy.

Stars: Evgeny Blinnikov, Dmitry Vdovenko, George Hoctor, Alina Kovaleva

Votes: 322

10. Dva holma (2022– )

30 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

 6.4

What will happen if, as a result of biological warfare, almost the entire male population dies out? Women will grieve (for a short time), and then they will unite and create a new better ... See full summary »

Stars: Pelageya Nevzorova, Nikita Kologrivyy, Andrey Skorokhod, Zhanna Epple

Votes: 306

@get11. Dead Mountain (2020)

54 min | Drama, History, Mystery

 7.7

In the Ural Mountains, nine students go on a ski hike, but never return. Local investigators must piece together what happened to them when their bodies are found a month later.

Stars: Andrey Dobrovolskiy, Andrey Arzyaev, Polina Chernyshova, Georgiy Bessonov

Votes: 2,914

12. Gold Diggers (2019– )

49 min | Drama, Thriller

 6.0

Set in the luxurious world of the Russian social elite, a world where money dictates everything. Marina Levkoeva appears to have it all as a socialite and mistress of a wealthy businessman, until events take a shocking turn.

Stars: Darya Moroz, Marina Zudina, Vladimir Mishukov, Aleksandra Rebenok

Votes: 672

13. Happy End (2021– )

40 min | Comedy, Drama

 7.2

The series depicts a young couple's journey who have decided to turn their relationship into a sexual attraction for the whole world through the Webcam.

Stars: Lena Tronina, Denis Vlasenko, Aleksandr Gorchilin, Lyubov Tolkalina

Votes: 590

14. Juzni vetar: Na granici (2023)

45 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

 7.1

In the center of the plot is the story of the Belgrade drug lord Petar Maras and his conflict with the powerful state curator of the Serbian criminal world, nicknamed Red. The enmity begins... See full summary »

Stars: Milos Bikovic, Miodrag Radonjic, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Aleksandar Bercek

Votes: 668

15. Silver Spoon (2014– )

TV-14 | 52 min | Crime, Drama

 7.6

A reckless wealthy Russian youth is arrested street racing while on drugs. His father pulls strings to get him a training job in the police, instead of a prison sentence, under threat he'll lose his inheritance otherwise.

Stars: Pavel Priluchnyy, Lyubov Aksyonova, Karina Razumovskaya, Denis Shvedov

Votes: 1,779

16. Life of a Mistress (2018– )

History

 7.1

Polina Lebedeva, daughter of the childless prince Alexei Petrovich Golovin, is the most enviable bride of the Yamburg district. During the ball in honor of her birthday, Alexei Petrovich ... See full summary »

Stars: Tatyana Babenkova, Vladislav Abashin, Maksim Merkulov, Katharina Spiering

Votes: 182

17. The Kitchen (2012–2016)

Not Rated | 25 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

 8.5

Maksim "Max" Lavrov wants to become a great chef. But he finds out that the kitchen isn't the place for an easy career. And in restaurant "Claude Monet" this job looks even harder and much more complicated than just cooking.

Stars: Dmitriy Nazarov, Dmitriy Nagiev, Mark Bogatyryov, Elena Podkaminskaya

Votes: 5,379

18. Karamora (2022)

52 min | Fantasy, History, Thriller @get

 6.0

Karamora, who lost his beloved, Alina, in a fight with representatives of a secret organization, decides to challenge the centuries-old rule of the nobility, avenge his lost love and try to change the world.

Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Filipp Yankovskiy, Darya Balabanova, Andrey Smolyakov

Votes: 316

19. Peace! Love! Chewing Gum! (2020– )

45 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama @get

 7.3

1993. 14-year-old Sanka lives a normal teenage life - looking for adventure, trying to defend himself against bullies, doesn't want to go to music school, doesn't know how to communicate with girls and from which adults to take an example.

Stars: Egor Gubarev, Valentina Lyapina, Egor Abramov, Stepan Devonin

Votes: 522

20. Mediator (2021)

52 min | Drama, Thriller

 6.7

Andrey is a professional negotiator. When people can't agree, he helps them to--for a lot of money. For each dispute, he changes himself beyond recognition. Andrey can convince anyone of ... See full summary »

Stars: Viktoriya Tolstoganova, Andrey Burkovskiy, Yuliya Peresild, Darya Moroz

Votes: 303

21. The Monastery (2022– )

50 min | Crime, Drama

 5.9

Maria is charming and reckless. She never takes no for an answer and cannot spend a day without jumping into some risky venture. While on vacation with a wealthy couple in Dubai Maria lures... See full summary »

Stars: Filipp Yankovskiy, Anastasiya Ivleeva, Mark Eydelshteyn, Anastasia Velikorodnaya

Votes: 293

22. Elizaveta (2022– )

Adventure, Drama, History

 7.2

Life of Russian tsarina Elizabeth, an illuminated ruler, patron of the arts and cultural institutions, daughter of the great Peter the great. The series presents life at the Russian court ... See full summary »

Stars: Yuliya Khlynina, Aleksey Agranovich, Denis Nurulin, Nikita Grigorev

Votes: 39

23. Trudnye podrostki (2019– )

25 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

 7.0

The captain of a football club is released after a two year term in prison. In order to restore his reputation Kovalev goes to work at a center for troubled teenagers. His goal is to help them achieve victory in the tournament.

Stars: Nikita Volkov, Vitaliy Andreev, Anastasiya Krylova, Timofey Eletskiy

Votes: 316

24. Shkola (2010)

26 min | Drama, Romance

 6.3

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Stars: Sayat Abadzhyan, Viacheslav Khakhalkin, Anna Shepeleva, Aleksey Maslodudov

Votes: 893

25. Ballet (2023)

45 min | Drama

 7.0

In the past, the Soviet prima ballerina, and now a world-famous choreographer Ruta Meyers returns to her homeland after almost 40 years. She plans to stage a performance for the most ... See full summary »

Stars: Alla Sigalova, Igor Gordin, Mariya Fomina, Petr Raykov

Votes: 61

26. Trigger (I) (2018– )

52 min | Drama, Thriller

 7.4

Fashionable uptown Moscow: psychologist Artem practices "provocative therapy", convinced that the fastest and most effective cure is to brutally confront his patients with their fears. Yet ... See full summary »

Stars: Maksim Matveev, Lena Tronina, Svetlana Ivanova, Igor Kostolevskiy

Votes: 797

27. Tot, kto chitaet mysli (2018– )

Drama

 3.7

Russian adaptation of The Mentalist.

Stars: Marina Barsukova, Yehezkel Lazarov, Anastasiya Mikulchina

Votes: 46

28. Chernobyl: Zone of Exclusion (2014–2017)

48 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller @get

 7.2

Five youths chase after a man who has stolen 8 million rubles from them. The man reveals on his video blog his intention to travel to Chernobyl. With every kilometer, the heroes' journey becomes more dangerous and confusing.

Stars: Sergey Romanovich, Valeriya Dmitrieva, Konstantin Davydov, Kristina Kazinskaya

Votes: 1,120

29. Byvshie (2018–2021)

52 min | Drama

 7.1

Story about drug and alcohol addict rich girl Yana. Meeting psychologist Ilya changes her life.

Stars: Lyubov Aksyonova, Denis Shvedov, Veronika Mokhireva, Sofya Lebedeva

Votes: 358

30. Razreshite obratitsya (2023– )

30 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

 7.5

Detective Gosha Kotov since childhood dreams of being as cool as his legendary father, who died in the line of duty back in the nineties. But for him to succeed, a miracle must happen. At ... See full summary »

Stars: Roman Evdokimov, Nikita Volkov, Aleksandra Kiseleva, Anna Zavtur

Votes: 79

31. Fizruk (2014–2017)

25 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

 6.8

This is a story about the collision of two times: the "dashing" 90s and the "stable" tenths. The main character Foma, person with a semi-criminal past all his life. Decided to get his job back in any way.

Stars: Dmitriy Nagiev, Polina Grents, Vladimir Sychyov, Daniil Vakhrushev

Votes: 2,616

32. Kazanova (2020)

45 min | Mystery

 7.4

Moscow, 1978, on the eve of the Olympic Games. In the Soviet Union, several cases of fraud were registered, the victims of which were women "with a position in society." The victims ... See full summary »

Stars: Svetlana Khodchenkova, Anton Khabarov, Sergey Ugryumov, Katerina Shpitsa

Votes: 93

33. Bibliotekar (2023– )

51 min | Fantasy, Mystery @get

 6.1

Aleksey Vyazintsev learns that several books by the forgotten Soviet writer Gromov have magical properties. Each of these books gives a specific effect: Rage, Patience, Power, Joy, Strength... See full summary »

Stars: Nikita Efremov, Andrey Merzlikin, Evgeniya Dmitrieva, Mikhail Trukhin

Votes: 36

34. Patient Zero (2022)

50 min | Drama

 7.8

USSR, 1980s. The Elista Children's Hospital is experiencing the country's first major HIV outbreak, with more than 70 children and several adults infected. Now everyone - doctors, patients,... See full summary »

Stars: Nikita Efremov, Viktoriya Agalakova, Evgeniy Stychkin, Ivan Dobronravov

Votes: 544

35. Interny (2010–2016)

25 min | Comedy

 7.2

In this classic Russian sitcom, Doctor Andrei Bykov's life has just gotten a lot more difficult: He must teach four clueless interns how to become professionals, although he despises every single one of them for different reasons.

Stars: Ivan Okhlobystin, Ilya Glinnikov, Aleksandr Ilin, Kristina Asmus

Votes: 3,457

36. Moonzy (2006– )

TV-G | 6 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

 4.5

Born on the Moon, little alien Moonzy came to Earth to find a new home and make friends with inhabitants of a lovely forest meadow. The episodes unfold in a very safe environment with ... See full summary »

Stars: Aleksandr Boyarskiy, Ekaterina Gorokhovskaya, Elena Shulman, Yuliya Rudina

Votes: 281

37. The Departed (2017)

Crime, Drama

 7.6

1961. A small town Strunevo behind 101-st kilometer. In contrast to the neighboring cities and villages, the crimes here do not happen often, but - crime disclosing is one of the best in ... See full summary »

Stars: Vladislav Abashin, Evgeniy Antropov, Vyacheslav Chepurchenko, Igor Chernevich

Votes: 80

38. Olga (2016–2023)

24 min | Comedy

 6.5

A single mother never loses hope struggling with the unfair events she has to go through daily.

Stars: Yana Troyanova, Vasiliy Kortukov, Kseniya Surkova, Timofey Zaytsev

Votes: 405

@get 39. The Terrible (2020)

52 min | Biography, Drama, History

 7.5

Ivan the Terrible is the most discussed Character in the Russian history. At the same time, Ivan is the most unsolved mystery of the Russian Czars. The scale of his political achievements ... See full summary »

Stars: Tatyana Lyalina, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Aleksandr Yatsenko

Votes: 79

40. 2 Broke Girls (2019– )

24 min | Comedy

 4.7

What can there be in common between a provincial woman and the daughter of a billionaire? They both want a lot of money.

Stars: Olga Kartunkova, Alevtina Tukan, Vladimir Sychyov, Viktor Bychkov

Votes: 64

41. The Day After (2013–2016)

48 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

 6.4

Also titled 'The Day After.' Attempting to create a perfect human race, a drug company releases a virus that proves to be deadly. People are dying by the thousands, but 11 strangers who ... See full summary »

Stars: Philippe Reinhardt, Maria Belonenko, Ivan Makarevich, Dmitriy Endaltsev

Votes: 370

42. Catherine the Great (2015– )

49 min | Biography, Drama, History

 6.8

The story of Catherine the Great from the time she came to Russia as the bride of the heir to the Russian throne.

Stars: Yulia Snigir, Pavel Derevyanko, Viktoriya Agalakova, Mark Bogatyryov

Votes: 323

43. Flint. Redemption (2012– )

Action, Crime

 5.1

A special squad mysteriously dies while undergoing training in the mountains, where a group of smugglers are hiding. Andrey must come out of retirement to investigate.

Stars: Vladimir Epifantsev, Dmitri Golubochkin, Sergey Frolov, Anastasiya Vedenskaya

Votes: 140

44. Kitchenblock (2021– )

50 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller

 6.1

While the Olympics-80 thunders in Moscow, a serene life flows in the summer camp on the Volga - with morning exercises, horror stories around the campfire and first loves. But evil is not ... See full summary »

Stars: Pyotr Natarov, Daniil Vershinin, Angelina Strechina, Maria Abramova

Votes: 898

45. KrisTina (2021–2022)

26 min | Drama, Thriller

 7.5

Kris works as a shop assistant in a pet shop located in the uptown, but she used to dream of becoming a vet. The girl refuses to take the future into her own hands and trusts any choice of ... See full summary »

Stars: Yuliya Khlynina, Pyotr Skvortsov, Anton Filipenko, Andrey Urgant

Votes: 75

46. ANNdroid (2020– )

51 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi @get

 6.3

Russian scientists create a female police android captain Anna Nikolayevna Korolkevich and sent her to serve in a provincial town. Anna Nikolayevna is perfect in every way and nothing portends trouble until her humanization goes too far.

Stars: Zoya Berber, Anton Filipenko, Fyodor Lavrov, Sergey Garmash

Votes: 367

47. Little Tiaras (2018– )

6 min | Animation, Adventure

 7.0

Princesses from different magical lands all come to study at the Wondermont School of Magic, under the watchful eye of the Immortal and the Professor (a scholarly cat). Each princess has ... See full summary »

Stars: Aleksandr Boyarskiy, Ekaterina Gorokhovskaya, Natalya Tereshkova, Stanislav Kontsevich

Votes: 30

48. Zhit zhizn (2023– )

46 min | Drama, Thriller

 6.5

30-year-old Anya is an educated and bright girl. She has an accomplished marketing career and a large circle of friends. The tragic death of her husband did not break her, but forced her to... See full summary »

Stars: Lyubov Aksyonova, Darya Moroz, Daniil Vorobyov, Yuriy Chursin

Votes: 74

49. Besstydniki (2017)

TV-MA | 45 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

 5.3

Russian version of the popular British series Shameless (2004).

Stars: Konstantin Davydov, Viktoriya Zabolotnaya, Galina Petrova, Aleksey Chadov

Votes: 96

50. Mata Hari (2016–2017)

60 min | Drama, History

 6.1

A sex icon becomes a spy during one of the most important wars of the 20th century.

Stars: Vahina Giocante, Aleksey Guskov, Viktoriya Isakova, Keith Silverstein

Votes: 482

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1. Shanty Town (2023– )

TV-MA | 40 min | Action, Crime, Drama

 4.8

A group of courtesans attempts to escape the grasp of a notorious kingpin- but political corruption and blood ties make freedom a near - impossible goal.

Stars: Nancy Isime, Sola Sobowale, Richard Mofe-Damijo, Ali Nuhu

Votes: 392

2. Wura (2023– )

Drama

 9.1

Set against the backdrop of the gold mining industry, Wura follows the secret lives of Wura Amoo-Adeleke, a perfect wife, loving mother, and the ruthless iron lady and Chief Executive of Frontline Gold Mine.

Stars: Scarlet Gomez, Yomi Fash-Lanso, Ray Adeka, Martha Ehinome

Votes: 60

3. GRIND (2023)

Drama

 6.1

Tarela, a young lady who works at a local bar where she is constantly owed salary, struggles to make ends meet as the survival of her mother, Ebiere and her younger sister, Kome, rests squarely on her shoulders.

Stars: Eso Dike, Daniel Abua, Chris Iheuwa, Tamara Sindio Apaun

Votes: 43

4. African Folktales, Reimagined (2023)

Drama

 6.5

Six beloved African folktales are boldly re-imagined in this multilingual anthology series exploring themes of grief, love and mysticism.

Stars: Michael Wawuyo Jr., Tracy Kababiito, Michael Wawuyo, River Dan Rugaju

Votes: 170

5. The Johnsons (2012– )

30 min | Comedy

 7.4

The story revolves around the middle class family of The Johnsons as they strive to survive in Lagos and slowly become successful. It further emphasized a strong sarcasm which make the family unique and full of drama

Stars: Charles Inojie, Ada Ameh, Olumide Oworu, Chinedu Ikedieze

Votes: 15

6. Hustle (2016–2018)

Comedy

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Stars: Seun Ajayi, Deborah Anugwa, Deborah Bassey, Stephanie Coker

7. Far from Home (2022– )

32 min | Drama

 6.0

A financially struggling teen finds himself in the world of luxury after a prestigious scholarship sends him to an exclusive school for the one percent.

Stars: Funny Bone, Chioma Chukwuka Akpotha, Adesua Etomi-Wellington, Richard Mofe-Damijo

Votes: 372

8. The Governor (2016– )

TV-14 | Drama

 7.9

The Governor" is the riveting tale of Angela Ochello, the Deputy Governor of Savannah State, who with no governorship ambitions finds herself suddenly entangled in a web of political ... See full summary »

Stars: Caroline Chikezie, Samuel Abiola Robinson, Taiwo Obileye, Jude Chukwuka

Votes: 109

9. Crime and Justice Lagos (2022– )

 7.4

When the SSCU (Serious & Special Crimes Unit) was set up by the Nigeria Police Force, it was in response to the peculiar challenges posed by the biggest, most densely populated and most ... See full synopsis »

Stars: Bridget Chigbufue, Paul Adams, Ibrahim Jammal, Folu Storms

Votes: 7

10. Things Fall Apart (1987– )

50 min | Drama

 8.3

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Stars: Funso Adeolu, Fabian Adibe, Pete Edochie, Justus Esiri

Votes: 26

11. Ajoche (2018– )

30 min | Drama

 8.3

Revenge, war, duty, honor, love, lust, and destiny are the order of the day as the people of Ocholuje learn to survive after uncovering some bitter truths once buried in the past.

Stars: Chris Okagbue, Lota Chukwu, Hilda Dokubo, Femi Branch

Votes: 11

12. Halita (2019–2020)

30 min | Drama

 9.4

Halita is the story of a 19-year-old village girl forced to leave familiarity due to unavoidable necessity. When her mother Rebecca takes ill, Halita is drawn by the promise of being able ... See full summary »

Stars: Chisom Agoawuike, Ummi Baba-Ahmed, Boma Ilamina-Eremie, Bassey Ekpo Bassey

Votes: 38

13. Castle & Castle (2018– )

Drama

 7.1

A drama series set in a law firm, Castle and Castle, in Lagos, Nigeria. Castle and Castle struggles to stay afloat whilst the couple leading it, Remi and Tega Castle, pursue different cases based on what they think is best for the company.

Stars: Blossom Chukwujekwu, Dakore Akande, Deyemi Okanlawon, Daniel Etim Effiong

Votes: 170

14. Big Brother Nigeria (2006– )

30 min | Game-Show, Reality-TV

 5.7

21-26 housemates between the ages of 21 and above, battle to co-exist in the big brother house for 99 days. One winner bags prizes worth sixty million naira and exclusive bragging rights as Big Brother Naija winner

Stars: Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, Venita Akpofure, Natacha Akide, Esther Agunbiade

Votes: 36

15. The Smart Money Woman (2020– )

Drama

 6.5

Meet Zuri. She's living a fabulous life. Great car, gorgeous apartment, well paid job. Meet Zuri. Broken down car, an apartment she cant afford, a job she's about to lose. What's a broke ... See full summary »

Stars: Osas Ighodaro, Ini Dima Okojie, Kemi Lala Akindoju, Toni Tones

Votes: 129

16. Unmarried - Nigeria (2020–2023)

Drama

 8.4

'Unmarried' tells the story of three inseparable young ladies, as they strive to survive the dynamics of friendship, career challenges, relationships, as well as general issues. Nengi (... See full summary »

Stars: Venita Akpofure, Helen Enado Odigie, Folu Storms

Votes: 5

17. Beyond the Veil (2023– )

Drama

 9.2

Following a group of five northern Nigerian women as they navigate the ups and downs of modern life, which includes careers, friendships, romances and often cultures clashes.

Stars: David Adoga, Folawewo Aiyegbusi, Ame Aiyejina, Annie Akaazua

Votes: 12

18. Visa on Arrival (2021– )

Comedy

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Stars: Anita Asuoha, Temisan Emmanuel, Chioma Okafor, Uzoamaka Onuoha

19. LOL: Last One Laughing Naija (2023– )

 7.8

Add a Plot

Stars: Onyebuchi Ojieh, Bukunmi Adeaga-Ilori, Oluwatoyin Albert Tomama, Okey Bakasi

Votes: 8

20. Hush (2016–2017)

30 min | Drama

 8.9

The story of Hush revolves around Bem and Arinola, power-players in fashion and politics respectively. Bem, played by Richard Mofe-Damijo, is one of Africa's biggest designers based in ... See full summary »

Stars: Baaj Adebule, Tana Adelana, Rotimi Adelegan, Sunday Afolabi

Votes: 22

21. The Men's Club (2018–2019)

25 min | Drama

 9.3

the men's club takes us on a journey of 4 friends surrounded by women, business and the hassles of the city,

Stars: Baaj Adebule, Ayoola Ayolola, Efa Iwara, Daniel Etim Effiong

Votes: 37

22. We Are Family (2023– )

Comedy, Drama | Post-production

Add a Plot

Stars: Emmanuel Fuller, Angel Chisom Okoro, Nennaya Okorocha, Ugo Okorocha

23. The Real Housewives of Abuja (2023– )

Reality-TV

Follows the luxurious lives of six influential and successful women in Abuja, Nigeria.

Stars: Samantha Homossany, Arafa, OJ Posharella, Princess Jecoco

24. Flawsome (2022– )

Drama

 8.9

Add a Plot

Stars: Toyin Abraham, Baaj Adebule, Gabriel Afolayan, Bisola Aiyeola

Votes: 12

25. Itura (2022– )

Drama

 9.1

Add a Plot

Stars: Ogbolu Bobby, Shammah Agah, Austine Onuoha, Folaremi Agunbiade

Votes: 17

26. Tinsel (2008– )

30 min | Drama

 8.0

Add a Plot

Stars: Iretiola Doyle, Kalu Ikeagwu, Linda Ejiofor, Matilda Obaseki

Votes: 33

27. Jenifa's Diary (2015– )

25 min | Comedy

 9.1

Jenifa left Ayetoro for Lagos looking for greener pasture, little did she know life is not always a bed of roses. Follow her hilarious adventure and encounter with family and friends.

Stars: Hawwal .E. Ogungbadero, Frances Okeke, Jack Loy, Yinka Pearce-Tijani

Votes: 37

28. Blood of Enogie (2021– )

Drama

In an ancient Benin kingdom, when a king commits suicide, his brother inherits both the crown and a curse.

Stars: Chioma Chukwuka Akpotha, Anu Munirat Alabi, Mary Ann Apollo, Sunkanmi Bahlo

29. Sons of the Caliphate (2016– )

Drama

 7.9

This is a drama series about the lives of three rich, entitled, passionate and ambitious young men: Kalifah, Nuhu and Diko. Elections are fast approaching and there's a tussle for the ... See full summary »

Stars: Rahama Sadau, Mofe Duncan, Yakubu Mohammed, Ikponmwosa Gold

Votes: 37

30. The Mystic River (2021– )

40 min | Horror

 5.2

As pregnant women vanish in a remote Nigerian village over decades, a doctor with child finds herself extremely close to uncovering dangerous secrets.

Stars: Ben Lugo Touitou, Temilolu Fosudo, Lota Chukwu, Debby Felix

Votes: 12

31. On the Real (2016– )

Comedy

 9.5

On the real is a unique format combining pseudo reality-come-drama that incorporates running commentary by all cast members. This edgy series follows the lives of 5 young Nigerian reality ... See full summary »

Stars: Folu Storms, Chy Nwakanma, Ini Dima Okojie, Nancy Isime

Votes: 26

32. The Real Housewives of Lagos (2022– )

Reality-TV

 6.4

This follows the opulent lives of six of the most glamorous women in Lagos, Nigeria.

Stars: Caroline Danjuma, Toyin Lawani, Iyabo Ojo, Mariam Timmer

Votes: 30

33. Edge of Paradise (2006– )

Drama

 8.7

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Stars: Tope Tedela, Joseph Benjamin, Ebuka Ekpunobi, Ufuoma McDermott

Votes: 7

34. Ojo's in d' House (2013)

24 min | Comedy

 6.0

A sitcom about the Ojo family, a newly-rich family that moves into a classy Lagos neighborhood. Each episode revolves around the hilarious antics of Mrs. Ojo and her obsession with keeping ... See full summary »

Stars: Najite Dede, Jude Chukwuka, Taiwo Arimoro, Funmi Eko

Votes: 13

35. Dr. Love (2023– )

Drama

Dr. Love is a master of the art of love and romance, but only in theory.

Stars: Princess Adefiyebi, Adewuyi Adeleye, Lilian Afegbai, Oluwatosin Akingba

36. The Olive (2021– )

36 min | Drama

This story follows the life of grieving widower, 'Anayo', who is left to raise his three children after the demise of his wife. But everything is not as it seems, as secrets of his wife's double life surface after an accidental discovery.

Stars: Bolaji Ogunmola, Mike Afolarin, Mawuli Gavor, Angel Unigwe

37. My Flatmates (2017– )

30 min | Comedy

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Stars: Scarlet Gomez, Chioma Okafor, Courage Chioma Okoli, Jinadu Salako

38. Little Black Book (2021– )

Drama

Little Black Book tells the story of Leo, Tade, and a Little Black Book of gorgeous women, unfolding truths and hidden desires between them.

Stars: Omoye Uzamere, Ikechukwu Onunaku, Teniola Aladese, Floyd Igbo

39. The Mr X Family Show (2018–2023)

Comedy

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Stars: Funlola Aofiyebi, Ego Boyo, Denrele Edun, Mawuli Gavor

40. Ay's Crib (2013–2015)

Comedy

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Stars: Venita Akpofure, Ushbebe Comedian, Alexx Ekubo, Bucci Franklin

41. Jay Jay: The Chosen One (2023– )

20 min | Animation

Austin is an 11-year-old football-loving school boy. Blessed by animals with their abilities, he becomes the superhero Jay Jay, who tackles poachers and guides his school football team to victory.

Stars: Junior-Prince Unigwe, Olamide Dada, Tosin Alabi, Chukwu Martin

42. Alaqa (2021– )

Drama

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Stars: Bilkisu Abdullahi, Zikrullah Abubakar, Sukairaju Yusuf Ahli, Hadiza Ahmad

43. Riona (2020– )

Drama

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Stars: Demi Banwo, Faith Stanley, Uzoamaka Aniunoh, Chioma Okafor

44. Lahira (2023– )

Action

In the aftermath of an attack on an IDP camp, a young girl pushes the limit of bravery in her attempt to be free from the hands of insurgents while a special force unit follows her trail in a mission to rescue the abducted girls

Stars: Alfred 'Six Foot Plus' Atungu, Queen Abah, David Adoga, Grace-Charis Bassey

45. Becoming Abi (2022– )

35 min | Comedy

 8.2

A driven young creative in Lagos lands her dream job at a leading advertising agency and navigates the corporate ladder in hopes of making it big.

Stars: Biodun Stephen, Stan Nze, Bolu Essien, Seun Ajayi

Votes: 18

46. Assistant Madams (2020– )

Drama

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Stars: Osas Ighodaro, Tana Adelana, Kalu Ikeagwu, Sophie Alakija

47. Delilah: The Mysterious Case of Delilah Ambrose (2016– )

30 min | Drama

She defies with her persona...Delilah's world becomes an open book the moment her husband dies. Stories of past men, stolen wills, mysterious disappearances and death are sensationalized in... See full summary »

Stars: Okawa Shaznay, Clarion Chukwura-Abiola, Michael Okon, Paul Obazele

48. Hotel Majestic (2015– )

Drama

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Stars: Oge Okoye, Ivie Okujaye, Demi Banwo, Theresa Edem

49. Clinically Speaking (2022– )

Drama

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Stars: Gbemi Akinlade, Shalewa Ashafa, Chukwuebuka Ude, Paul Utomi

50. Tough Love (2021– )

27 min | Drama

Debola, who was raised by a single mother, Sade, a middle-aged woman, soon finds out that her mother has been hiding a secret from her - the identity of her father. Sade had devoted her 20s... See full summary »

Stars: Ayo Adesanya Hassan, Sophie Alakija, Uzor Arukwe, Timini Egbuson

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100 Best Hindi (Indian) TV and Web Series of all time

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1. Mahabharat (1988–1990)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

 9

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When a dynastic struggle between the collateral branches of the Kuru clan, the Kauravas and Pandavas lead them to the threshold of war, Lord Krishna decides to step in and take control of the situation.

Stars: Harish Bhimani, Nitish Bharadwaj, Mukesh Khanna, Gajendra Chauhan

Votes: 21,352

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This epic show of B.R. Chopra was very popular among audience. Brilliant casting, brilliant writing, brilliant music and brilliant direction. War sequences were incredible. This show was ahed of its time.

2. Malgudi Days (1986–2006)

Drama

 9.4

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Based on the works of R.K. Narayan, Malgudi Days chronicles the lives of people living in the fictitious town of Malgudi.

Stars: Venki, Anant Nag, Sudheendra, Rajaram

Votes: 4,083

Based on the works of R.K. Narayan this show is a timeless classic.

3. Sarabhai V/S Sarabhai (2004–2017)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

 9

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The show revolves around the lives of the members of an Uber Wealthy - High Society Gujarati family of Cuffe Parade - South Mumbai, whose daughter-in-law is from a middle class Delhi background.

Stars: Satish Shah, Ratna Pathak Shah, Sumeet Raghavan, Rupali Ganguly

Votes: 17,446

Best ever Indian sitcom. It was perfectly written and executed. The show never earned good trp during its original run but when the series started re-run of episodes as a daily show and it became popular.

4. Ramayan (1987–1988)

TV-14 | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

 9

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An adaptation of the ancient epic, in which the exiled Prince Rama and his brother Laxman set out to save Rama's wife, Sita, who has been kidnapped by the demon king of Lanka Ravana.

Stars: Arun Govil, Deepika Chikhalia, Sunil Lahri, Arvind Trivedi

Votes: 22,613

Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan is a pure gold of Indian television. Based on Sanskrit epic of same name this show was created and break many records.

5. Kaun Banega Crorepati? (2000– )

60 min | Game-Show

 8.2

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An Indian version of the popular quiz show, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Contestants start off with easy questions, but as they move forward the questions get more and more challenging.... See full summary »

Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Kapil Sharma

Votes: 4,198

Indian version of Who wants to be Millionaire? This is great and knowledgeable show hosting brilliantly by Amitabh Bachchan.

6. Chanakya (1990– )

45 min | Drama, History

 9.3

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This is a historical saga of establishing the Mauryan Empire in India

Stars: Chandra Prakash Dwivedi, Kurush Deboo, Dinesh Shakul, Prakash Dwivedi

Votes: 2,677

Chanakya is probably the most well-researched Indian historical television series till date. Brilliantly written, directed and acted by Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi.

7. Bharat Ek Khoj (1988– )

History

 8.9

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The 5000-year history of India from its beginnings to independence in 1947.

Stars: Roshan Seth, Om Puri, Ravi Jhankal, Anang Desai

Votes: 849

This is literally journey of India in 53 episodes. The show is based on Jawaharlal Nehru's book "Discovery of India". This is must watch show for all Indians.

8. Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story (2020)

TV-14 | 54 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

 9.3

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Set in 1980s and '90s Bombay, it follows the life of Harshad Mehta, a stockbroker who took the stock market to dizzying heights and his catastrophic downfall.

Stars: Pratik Gandhi, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Hemant Kher, Anjali Barot

Votes: 150,520

Popular and critically acclaimed Web series from SonyLiv. Power-packed performance from cast with top class direction, screenplay and bgm. Show won 12 awards at 2nd Filmfare OTT awards including Best Show, Best Actor and best Director.

9. Byomkesh Bakshi (1993–1997)

40 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

 9.2

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An intelligent detective from Kolkata solves, without any weapons, many mysteries that remain unsolved by police.

Stars: Rajit Kapoor, K.K. Raina, Kartik Dutta, Sukanya Kulkarni

Votes: 3,074

Most popular detective series of 90s.

10. Satyamev Jayate (2012–2014)

TV-14 | 65 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

 8.6

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Aamir Khan hosts and produces this documentary/talkshow that explores the social issues affecting modern India.

Stars: Aamir Khan, Vikky Kumar, Sridevi, Aamir Naik

Votes: 7,544

This is an Indian television talk show focuses on sensitive social issues prevalent in India such as female foeticide, child sexual abuse, rape, honour killings, domestic violence, untouchability, alcoholism, and the criminalization of politics.

11. Mirza Ghalib (1988– )

27 min | Short, Biography, Drama

 9.3

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The story of the most admired poet in the History of Urdu and Persian writings, Mirza Ghalib.

Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Tanvi Azmi, Amjad Khan, Neena Gupta

Votes: 648

Mirza Ghalib is an Indian Historical short tv series written and produced by Gulzar sahab. Mirza Ghalib's role was brilliantly portrayed by Naseeruddin Shah.

12. Office Office (2000– )

Comedy

 8.9

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The show follows the comedy of a man struggling to get his work done in corrupt offices.

Stars: Pankaj Kapur, Deven Bhojani, Sanjay Mishra, Manoj Pahwa

Votes: 2,430

This was such a great satirical comedy on common Indian man struggles.

13. Devon Ke Dev... Mahadev (2011–2014)

22 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

 9.3

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This is the story of Lord Shiva and Goddess Shakti. It is an elaborated narration of Shiv and Shakti's separation and union, their journeys together, and how that affected and shaped the ... See full summary »

Stars: Mohit Raina, Mouni Roy, Saurabh Raj Jain, Sonarika Bhadoria

Votes: 4,522

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Amazing mythological show. Brilliant performance by Mohit Raina.

14. Dekh Bhai Dekh (1993–1994)

23 min | Comedy

 8.6

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Three generations of the Diwan clan live as an extended family in an ancestral bungalow in the Mumbai suburbs. The serial takes the viewer through their various ups and downs as their ... See full summary »

Stars: Navin Nischol, Farida Jalal, Shekhar Suman, Bhavana Balsawar

Votes: 1,438

15. Shrimaan Shrimati (1994– )

22 min | Comedy

 8.7

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In this series based on the premise "love thy neighbour's wife," the main characters are Keshav Kulkarni and his wife Kokila, and their neighbours Prema Shalini and her husband Dilruba. ... See full summary »

Stars: Jatin Kanakia, Reema Lagoo, Archana Puran Singh, Rakesh Bedi

Votes: 1,787

One of the most iconic comedy series ever produced in Indian television. The show also had a sequel in 2005 and a reboot version in 2018 but both shows couldn't get the success of the original show.

16. Karamchand (1985– )

Comedy, Mystery

 8.7

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One of the first indian detective series. Karamchand and his assistant solve murder, robbery and other mysteries.

Stars: Archana Puran Singh, Pankaj Kapur, Sushmita Mukherjee

Votes: 157

Karamchand is an Indian detective TV series telecast in the 1980s. The title character was played brilliantly by actor Pankaj Kapur.

17. Fauji (1988)

Action, Drama

 8.1

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A Highly popular TV Series about a batch of trainees into a commando school, their training and eventual induction as soldiers.

Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Rakesh Sharma, Vikram Chopra, Vishwajeet Pradhan

Votes: 2,941

It was debut TV series of Bollywood's king khan Shahrukh.

18. The Family Man (2019– )

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

 8.7

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A working man from the National Investigation Agency tries to protect the nation from terrorism, but he also needs to keep his family safe from his secret job.

Stars: Manoj Bajpayee, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Priyamani, Sharib Hashmi

Votes: 93,400

19. Khichdi (2002– )

20 min | Comedy

 8.6

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A family comedy about an angry old man, his good-for-nothing son Praful and daughter-in-law Hansa, widowed daughter-in-law Jayshree, and grandchildren Jackie and Chakki, who are the smartest ones of all.

Stars: Anang Desai, Rajeev Mehta, Supriya Pathak, Vandana Pathak

Votes: 3,182

Khichdi was a popular sitcom. It is one of the earliest shows on Indian television to adopt the Western model of appearing in seasons. The show is revolves around a Gujarati joint family called Parekhs.

20. Flop Show (1989– )

Comedy

 9.2

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Jaspal Bhatti's satirical take on the common societal problems in India.

Stars: Jaspal Bhatti, Vivek Shauq, Savita Bhatti, Ravi Sharma

Votes: 1,859

This was a brilliant satirical comedy show made by Jaspal Bhatti. This Flop show is superhit among audiences.

21. Kota Factory (2019–2021)

TV-14 | 45 min | Comedy, Drama

 9

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Dedicated to Shrimati SL Loney ji, Shri Irodov ji and Maanniya HC Verma ji, 'Kota Factory' is TVF's latest original. India's first 'Black and White' show highlights the problems present day IIT-JEE aspirants face in their day-to-day lives.

Stars: Mayur More, Jitendra Kumar, Ranjan Raj, Alam Khan

Votes: 77,073

Fresh, less dramatic and relatable show. Words can't describe this show.

22. Delhi Crime (2019– )

TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama

 8.5

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Based on the Nirbhaya case, Delhi Crime follows the Delhi Police investigation into the finding of the men who perpetrated this crime.

Stars: Rasika Dugal, Shefali Shah, Rajesh Tailang, Anurag Arora

Votes: 24,962

23. Stories by Rabindranath Tagore (2015)

45 min | Drama

 8.7

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The writings of Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore come to life in this collection of tales set in early-20th-century Bengal.

Stars: Bhanu Uday, Atul Srivastava, Radhika Apte, Beena Banerjee

Votes: 1,420

The show is a representation of the classic short stories by the Bengali writer and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

24. Sacred Games (2018–2019)

TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Crime, Drama

 8.5

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A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.

Stars: Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Neeraj Kabi, Elnaaz Norouzi

Votes: 90,677

A great thriller web series based on Vikram Chandra's novel Sacred Games.

25. Shaktimaan (1997–2005)

Not Rated | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Family

 8.2

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When darkness get strengthened to destroy the world, Suryanshis chose Shaktimaan in order to fight against the forces of evil.

Stars: Mukesh Khanna, Vaishnavi Mahant, Surendra Pal, Rajendra Gupta

Votes: 5,306

First Indian superhero show on Indian television.

26. 24: India (2013–2016)

60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

 8.1

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This thriller series focuses on an anti-terrorist unit agent named Jai Singh Rathod who has twenty-four hours to save the country from a major terrorist attack.

Stars: Anil Kapoor, Neil Bhoopalam, Raaghavv Chanana, Anita Raj

Votes: 3,123

Indian version of American show 24.

27. Mirzapur (2018– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

 8.5

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A shocking incident at a wedding procession ignites a series of events entangling the lives of two families in the lawless city of Mirzapur.

Stars: Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal, Shweta Tripathi, Rasika Dugal

Votes: 77,655

A great crime thriller web series on produced by Excel Entertainment. It revolves around drugs, guns and lawlessness.

28. Hum Paanch (1995–2006)

20 min | Comedy

 8.1

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Anand Mathur, a middle-class businessman living in Bombay, gets no end of trouble from his five wild, troublesome daughters.

Stars: Ashok Saraf, Shoma Anand, Priya Tendulkar, Vandana Pathak

Votes: 1,634

29. Buniyaad (1987–1988)

Drama

 8.7

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The series dealt with the struggle of a family during the partition of India in 1947 and its aftermath.

Stars: Alok Nath, Anita Kanwar, Kiran Juneja, Vijayendra Ghatge

Votes: 266

Great drama series made by Sholay fame director Ramesh Sippy. The story spans the life in India between 1916-1978.

30. Panchayat (2020– )

TV-14 | 35 min | Comedy, Drama

 8.9

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A comedy-drama, which captures the journey of an engineering graduate Abhishek, who for lack of a better job option joins as secretary of a Panchayat office in a remote village of Uttar Pradesh.

Stars: Jitendra Kumar, Raghubir Yadav, Chandan Roy, Faisal Malik

Votes: 78,005

A critical acclaimed web series by The Viral Fever, the series chronicles the life of engineering graduate who joins as a Panchayat secretary in a remote village Phulera of Uttar Pradesh due to lack of better job options.

31. Bose: Dead/Alive (2017)

TV-MA | 20 min | Biography, History, Mystery

 8.7

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The man. The legend. The mystery. He fascinated us in life, and long after his "death". This is the story of India's biggest cover-up: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and the mystery of his alleged death.

Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Naveen Kasturia, Edward Sonnenblick, Anastasiya Ador

Votes: 6,861

Arguably the best show on ALTBalaji platform. Brilliant performance by Rajkummar Rao as Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

32. Powder (2010– )

Crime, Thriller

 8.6

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Based on the fight against drug abuse in India. Usmaan Ali Malik heads a team of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officers to take head on the drug peddlers led by drug baron Naved Ahmed Ansari.

Stars: Pankaj Tripathi, Geetika Tyagi, Shahab Khan, Subrat Dutta

Votes: 792

33. Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah (2008– )

Not Rated | 22 min | Comedy, Family

 8.2

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The day-to-day happenings of Gokuldham Society and its members, who live, celebrate and often face problems together.

Stars: Dilip Joshi, Disha Vakani, Bhavya Gandhi, Mandar Chandwadkar

Votes: 12,613

The show is based on the column Duniya Ne Undha Chashma written by Taarak Mehta. It is one of the most popular sitcoms of all time. The show covers topical issues faces by residents of Gokuldham Co-operative Society on daily life and finds solutions for it but with a moral value too in a hilarious manner.

34. C.I.D. (1998–2018)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama

 6.8

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A group of officers who work for the Crime Investigation Department of the police force seek the help of a professional forensic expert and solve various criminal cases.

Stars: Aditya Srivastav, Shivaji Satam, Dayanand Shetty, Dinesh Phadnis

Votes: 4,046

C.I.D. was a popular detective show. The show was aired on January 21, 1998, and it went off-air after 21 years on October 27, 2018.

35. Aarohan (1996–1997)

27 min | Drama

 8.4

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The story of the trials and tribulations endured by female cadets in their personal as well as professional lives as they undergo training at the Naval Academy.

Stars: Pallavi Joshi, Shefali Shah, Tarun Dhanrajgir, Girish Malik

Votes: 68

36. Shri Krishna (1993–1997)

55 min | Drama, Fantasy

 8.6

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When evil takes over the world, Lord Vishnu incarnates into the world as Shri Krishna for the protection of the righteous and the destruction of the wicked.

Stars: Sarvadaman Banerjee, Swapnil Joshi, Sandeep Mohan, Mahendra Ghule

Votes: 1,991

Great mythological show by Ramanand Sagar based on the life of Lord Krishna.

37. Hum Log (1984–1985)

50 min | Family

 8.6

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The story of a lower middle class family and the struggles they face in their day to day lives.

Stars: Ashok Kumar, Sushma Seth, Divya Seth Shah, Loveleen Mishra

Votes: 165

38. Paatal Lok (2020– )

TV-MA | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

 8.1

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A down-and-out cop lands the case of a lifetime when four suspects are nabbed in the assassination attempt of a journalist. The pursuit leads him to 'Paatal Lok' and to shocking discoveries in the four suspects' pasts.

Stars: Jaideep Ahlawat, Neeraj Kabi, Ishwak Singh, Abhishek Banerjee

Votes: 62,284

39. Mahabharat (2013–2014)

20 min | Drama, History, War

 9

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The mother of all wars, the epitome of all rivalries, the cauldron of emotions, insecurities, jealousies, and power play - Mahabharat.

Stars: Saurabh Raj Jain, Shaheer Sheikh, Pooja Sharma, Aham Sharma

Votes: 10,403

40. Tu Tu Main Main (1994– )

Comedy

 8.3

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A hilarious comedy featuring a dominant mother-in-law and her equally boisterous daughter-in-law.

Stars: Reema Lagoo, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Mahesh Thakur, Kuldeep Pawar

Votes: 1,551

41. P.O.W. Bandi Yuddh Ke (2016–2017)

24 min | Drama, Thriller

 8.6

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After spending 17 years in captivity, two soldiers, who share a dark secret, return to their families. The two families try to pick up from where they left off, while a government agent tries to expose their secret.

Stars: Satyadeep Misra, Purab Kohli, Manish Chaudhari, Sandhya Mridul

Votes: 917

A brilliant political thriller film by Nikkhil Advani. A must watch show.

42. Yeh Meri Family (2018–2023)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

 9

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Set in the summer of 1998 it is a story about conflicting emotions towards family members from the eyes of a twelve year old.

Stars: Vishesh Bansal, Mona Singh, Prasad Reddy, Akarsh Khurana

Votes: 24,885

43. Upanishad Ganga (2012–2013)

Short, Drama, History

 9.8

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Short stories exploring today's concepts in ancient Indian contexts.

Stars: Abhimanyu Singh, Ravi Khanvilkar, Sandeep Mohan, Auroshikha Dey

Votes: 890

44. Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai (2002–2007)

Talk-Show

 7.9

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Stars: Farooq Shaikh, Rani Mukerji, Kumar Sanu, Jagjit Singh

Votes: 1,138

45. Rocket Boys (2022– )

45 min | Drama, History

 8.9

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The story of two extraordinary men, Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha and Dr. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, who created history while building India's future.

Stars: Jim Sarbh, Saba Azad, Regina Cassandra, Mark Bennington

Votes: 16,543

46. Hatim (2003–2004)

45 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

 8.6

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Hatim is on an adventurous journey with his friend Hobo, to find answers of the 7 question so that a boy become normal who was turned down into stone by Dajjal (a servant of Satan )

Stars: Rahil Azam, Pooja Ghai Rawal, Nirmal Pandey, Kiku Sharda

Votes: 2,042

47. Crime Patrol (II) (2003– )

TV-MA | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 7.9

 Rate

Crime Patrol attempts to bring stories of crime happening all around the country. However the case presentation would be a story telling form that would have the interest of a fiction drama... See full summary »

Stars: Anup Soni, Sanjeev Tyagi, Moin Azam Khan, Nissar Khan

Votes: 1,565

48. Comedy Nights with Kapil (2013–2016)

TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Talk-Show

 8

 Rate

Every episode starts with stage act of Kapil Sharma and various characters and then Kapil take one or more celebrity interview with co-actors.

Stars: Kapil Sharma, Kiku Sharda, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Ali Asgar

Votes: 5,647

49. The Kapil Sharma Show (2016– )

60 min | Comedy, Talk-Show

 7.3

 Rate

Comedian Kapil Sharma interacts with celebrity guests about their latest films while keeping the audience laughing with his wit, humour and assorted skits.

Stars: Kapil Sharma, Kiku Sharda, Sumona Chakravarti, Archana Puran Singh

Votes: 9,572

50. Gullak (2019– )

24 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

 9.1

 Rate

Set in quaint by-lanes in the heart of India, Gullak is a collection of disarming and relatable tales of the Mishra family.

Stars: Jameel Khan, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Vaibhav Raj Gupta, Harsh Mayar

Votes: 19,394

51. Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi (2016–2021)

22 min | Drama, Romance

 8.3

 Rate

Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi is a mature love story of Devrath Dixit, a successful business tycoon and Dr. Sonakshi Bose, a nutritionist.

Stars: Shaheer Sheikh, Erica Fernandes, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Jagat Rawat

Votes: 5,618

52. Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon (2011–2018)

22 min | Drama, Romance

 7.6

 Rate

Arnav, a wealthy business tycoon, decides to ruin Khushi's reputation after he thinks she sabotaged one of his events. Meanwhile, Khushi quietly suffers for the crimes she didn't commit.

Stars: Barun Sobti, Sanaya Irani, Daljeet Kaur, Deepali Pansare

Votes: 3,935

53. TVF Pitchers (2015–2022)

TV-MA | 40 min | Comedy, Drama

 9.1

 Rate

A story of trials and tribulations of four young entrepreneurs who quit their day jobs in order to pursue their start up venture.

Stars: Naveen Kasturia, Arunabh Kumar, Abhay Mahajan, Gopal Datt

Votes: 71,006

TVF Pitchers is an inspirational and sensible web series of TVF. Well written dialogues, excellent performances. Overall and wonderful and must watch show.

54. Baa Bahoo Aur Baby (2005–2010)

24 min | Comedy, Drama

 8.4

 Rate

The story of an elderly woman, Godavari Thakkar, and her family: six sons, two daughters, and their spouses and children. Godavari lives in her father's huge mansion, the famous Krishna ... See full summary »

Stars: Sarita Joshi, Arvind Vaidya, Benaf Dadachandji, Deven Bhojani

Votes: 480

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55. Chandragupta Maurya (2011–2012)

48 min | Biography, History

 9.2

 Rate

An Indian historical drama based on the life of Chandragupta Maurya, one of the major Indian Emperors of ancient India.

Stars: Manish Wadhwa, Joy R.S. Mathur, Aashiesh Sharrma, Rishiraj Pawar

Votes: 832

56. Asur: Welcome to Your Dark Side (2020– )

43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 8.5

 Rate

Shubh returns for revenge and this season he takes the challenge to a whole new level. With the heroes fallen apart, will a desolate Dhananjay Rajpoot and a torn Nikhil Nair be able to stop him?

Stars: Arshad Warsi, Barun Sobti, Riddhi Dogra, Anupriya Goenka

Votes: 62,038

57. Aspirants (2021– )

45 min | Drama

 9.2

 Rate

It is the story of the journey of three UPSC (public service competitive exams in India) aspirants and their friendship against all odds.

Stars: Naveen Kasturia, Shivankit Singh Parihar, Abhilash Thapliyal, Sunny Hinduja

Votes: 303,680

58. Devlok with Devdutt Pattanaik (2015– )

Reality-TV, Talk-Show

 8

 Rate

Renowned mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik sheds light on some of the mythological events, stories and characters.

Stars: Devdutt Pattanaik, Rasika Dugal, Athar Siddiqui, Sorabh Chauhan

Votes: 160

59. Shararat (2003–2006)

30 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

 7.5

 Rate

The story revolves around how different people in the family adjust to the magical powers of naani and her daughters, who use their magical powers for their needs.

Stars: Shruti Seth, Farida Jalal, Karanvir Bohra, Shoma Anand

Votes: 1,818

60. Dharti Ka Veer Yodha Prithviraj Chauhan (2006–2009)

Drama, History

 8

 Rate

The historical story begins with the childhood of Prithviraj.It shows how he became the king.The begins the epic love story of Prithviraj and Sanyogita and how Mohammed Ghor attack Delhi.

Stars: Rajat Tokas, Mugdha Chaphekar, Jas Arora, Geet Prajapati

Votes: 238

61. Alif Laila (1993–2020)

22 min | Adventure, Fantasy

 8.1

 Rate

Shahrzad narrates stories from the Arabian Nights, a collection of folk tales that brims with great morals, fascinating characters, flying carpets, magic lamps and fairies.

Stars: Firoz Ali, Girija Shankar, Damini Kanwal Shetty, Shahnawaz Pradhan

Votes: 612

62. Chandrakanta (1994– )

Fantasy

 7.8

 Rate

Chandrakanta is a television series about the undying love set against the brawl and rivalry between the Naugarh and Vijaygarh Kingdoms. Virendra Singh (played by Shahbaz Khan), the Prince ... See full summary »

Stars: Shikha Swaroop, Shahbaaz Khan, Mukesh Khanna, Javed Khan

Votes: 721

63. Wagle Ki Duniya (1988–1990)

Comedy

 7.9

 Rate

Wagle Ki Duniya (literally: 'Wagle's World') was a popular comedy sitcom on Indian television, aired for the first time in 1988 to 1990 on state-run Doordarshan channel. It was directed by ... See full summary »

Stars: Anjan Srivastav, Bharti Achrekar, Jeetendra Dasadiya, Dicky Nagpal

Votes: 1,374

64. Flames (2018– )

TV-14 | 20 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

 8.9

 Rate

A teenage romance from The Timeliners that aims straight from the heart. This web-series is the story of a young romance unfolding as a chemical reaction.

Stars: Ritvik Sahore, Tanya Maniktala, Sunakshi Grover, Shivam Kakar

Votes: 31,553

65. Katha Sagar (1986– )

Drama

 7.8

 Rate

The series featured a collection of stories by short story writers such as Guy De Maupassant, Tolstoy, O. Henry, Chekov etc. The series had different stories in each episode and most of the stories in the series were one-episode long.

Stars: Beena Banerjee, Ajit Vachani, Saeed Jaffrey, Shashi Puri

Votes: 62

The series was directed by Shyam Benegal. The series featured a collection of stories by short story writers such as Guy De Maupassant, Rabindranath Tagore, Leo Tolstoy, O. Henry, Anton Chekov etc.

66. Adaalat (2010–2016)

42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

 8.1

 Rate

Lawyer K.D. Pathak takes up the challenge of defending the accused by personally investigating the crime.

Stars: Ronit Roy, Romit Raj, Ajay Kumar Nain, Nilofar

Votes: 1,481

67. Yeh Un Dinon Ki Baat Hai (2017–2019)

20 min | Drama, Romance

 8.4

 Rate

The story chronicles the adolescent romance between Naina and Sameer and explores the magic of 'first love' set in the city of Ahmedabad in the year 1990.

Stars: Randeep Rai, Ashi Singh, Ayesha Kaduskar, Sadiya Siddiqui

Votes: 2,042

68. Shaka Laka Boom Boom (2000–2004)

20 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

 7.5

 Rate

Sanju finds a magical pencil, which has the power to bring anything he draws to life. While fun at first, the pencil opens more mystical adventures.

Stars: Kinshuk Vaidya, Hansika Motwani, Jennifer Winget, Sainee Raj

Votes: 1,554

69. Aarya (2020– )

51 min | Action, Crime, Drama

 7.8

 Rate

When her world suddenly turns upside down, will Aarya become the very thing she hated?How far will she go to survive and protect her family?

Stars: Sushmita Sen, Vikas Kumar, Ankur Bhatia, Virti Vaghani

Votes: 14,942

70. Best of Luck Nikki (2011–2016)

TV-G | 22 min | Comedy, Family

 8.4

 Rate

Dolly creates a video diary about their family and friends containing advice for Nikki when she grows up.

Stars: Sheena Bajaj, Gurdeep Kohli, Ananya Kolvankar, Akash Nair

Votes: 1,590

71. Dill Mill Gayye (2007–2010)

25 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

 7.2

 Rate

Young aspiring medical interns join Sanjeevani in hopes of becoming the best doctors. They go through many trials and tribulations and try to manage their professional and personal lives.

Stars: Karan Singh Grover, Mohnish Behl, Shilpa Anand, Karan Wahi

Votes: 866

72. Saans (1999– )

Comedy, Drama, Family

 7.2

 Rate

Priya and Gautam are a happily married couple with two kids, Akul and Mithi. Everything goes wrong when Priya and Gautam become friends with Manisha. Manisha has fallen in love with Gautam.... See full summary »

Stars: Neena Gupta, Kanwaljeet Singh, Kavita Kapoor, Shagufta Ali

Votes: 48

73. Kaisi Yeh Yaariyan (2014– )

30 min | Drama

 8

Rate

Manik and Nandini's love story is the stuff fairy tales are made of. Together, they promised each other a world full of lights. But where light exists, shadows too appear. Can their love ... See full summary »

Stars: Parth Samthaan, Niti Taylor, Charlie Chauhan, Kishwar Merchant

Votes: 2,044

74. F.I.R. (2006– )

20 min | Comedy

 7.7

 Rate

Centered around a Haryanvi female police officer named Chandramukhi Chautala and her funny subordinates. The show depicts their lives as they try to solve every case which comes to Imaan Chowki in a comical and unusual way.

Stars: Kavita Kaushik, Gopi Bhalla, Aamir Ali, Kiku Sharda

Votes: 1,634

75. Miley Jab Hum Tum (2008–2010)

20 min | Romance

 7.8

 Rate

The show is about falling in love during college and developing relations for a lifetime.

Stars: Sanaya Irani, Mohit Sehgal, Arjun Bijlani, Rati Pandey

Votes: 723

76. Permanent Roommates (2014–2016)

TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy, Romance

 8.6

 Rate

A couple, who were in a long distance relationship for 3 years, face the prospect of getting married.

Stars: Sumeet Vyas, Nidhi Singh, Deepak Kumar Mishra, Shishir Sharma

Votes: 25,431

77. Vikram Aur Betaal (1985–1986)

Fantasy

 8.3

 Rate

Based on India mythological collection of 25 stories known as Baital Pachisi. It revolves around the Kind Vikram who is tasked to capture a Betaal, a celestial spirit analogus to Vampire. ... See full summary »

Stars: Arun Govil, Sajjan, Mulraj Rajda, Vijay Arora

Votes: 1,029

78. Captain Vyom (1998–1999)

24 min | Action, Sci-Fi

 8.4

 Rate

A superhero Captain Vyom is given a team of some exceptionally-powered soldiers to fight 12 great villains of all-time who escaped the prison located on a moon of Jupiter.

Stars: Kartika Rane, Milind Soman, Shehzaad Saeed, Rahul Bose

Votes: 434

79. Yudh (2014– )

Drama

 8.3

 Rate

Principled but hard-driving businessman Yudhisthir Sikarwar works to expand his empire whilst keeping an explosive secret.

Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Zakir Hussain, Naeem Khan, Vijay Singh Parmar

Votes: 1,446

80. Left Right Left (2006–2008)

20 min | Drama

 8.1

 Rate

Six confused, dis-oriented cadets in an Indian Army academy face many obstacles, yet stand together.

Stars: Rajeev Khandelwal, Kunal Kapoor, Arjun Bijlani, Priyanka Bassi

Votes: 345

81. Parvarrish: Kuchh Khattee Kuchh Meethi (2011–2013)

Drama, Family

 7.1

 Rate

The Ahluwalias and the Ahujas are two families who are related but believe in different parenting approaches. While Sweety Ahluwalia is strict, her sister Pinky believes in a friendly approach.

Stars: Namrata Ramsay, Athar Siddiqui, Aaryan Harnot, Shweta Tiwari

Votes: 108

82. Little Krishna (2009)

23 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

 8.2

 Rate

Little Krishna is about the adventures of Krishna the Hindi diety, and an angel of Virdanan who was threatened by King Kamsa but defeated him with his supernatural powers .

Stars: Prachi Save Saathi, Meghna Erande, Neil D'Monte, Anand Tiwari

Votes: 470

83. Ek Veer Stree Ki Kahaani... Jhansi Ki Rani (2009–2011)

Action, Adventure, Biography

 7.6

 Rate

Ek Veer Stree ki Kahaani... Jhansi Ki Rani is the story of an ordinary girl who went on to become an extraordinary ruler. Her defiance against the British is exemplary even today. The ... See full summary »

Stars: Hemant Choudhary, Ulka Gupta, Kratika Sengar, Sharhaan Singh

Votes: 250

84. Rangrasiya (2013–2014)

21 min | Drama

 6.9

 Rate

Rangrasiya tells us the story of a village girl from a rural village in Rajasthan and an BSD officer...who are met at an encounter by BSD army.

Stars: Aashiesh Sharrma, Sanaya Irani, Sadiya Siddiqui, Kaliprasad Mukherjee

Votes: 880

85. Beyhadh (2016–2017)

22 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

 7.2

 Rate

Maya falls in love with Arjun while working on an assignment. But soon, her love for him turns into an obsession, affecting their relationship with each other and their respective family members.

Stars: Kushal Tandon, Jennifer Winget, Aneri Vajani, Summit Bhardwaj

Votes: 1,583

86. Ek Veer Ki Ardaas: Veera (2012–2015)

Family

 7.6

 Rate

Rannvijay raises his half-sister, Veera, like his own child and nurtures her. However, their mother, Ratan, shows her contempt towards Veera on the outside but helps her son raise her nonetheless.

Stars: Digangana Suryavanshi, Shivin Narang, Vishal Vashishtha, Farnaz Shetty

Votes: 71

87. Bepannah (2018)

E10+ | 22 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

 7.5

 Rate

Zoya and Aditya meet in the most unfortunate circumstances.

Stars: Jennifer Winget, Harshad Chopda, Shahnawaz Hussain, Shehzad Shaikh

Votes: 1,582

88. Aahat (II) (1995–2015)

55 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

 7.2

 Rate

A horror anthology series revolving around different ghost stories.

Stars: Vijay Raj, Shahab Khan, Gautam Rode, Paras Singh Minhas

Votes: 937

89. Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha (2012–2013)

Drama

 8.1

 Rate

A crime reporter and a widow with two children whose lives become intertwined.

Stars: Kunal Kapoor, Aakanksha Singh, Neelu Kohli, Manish Gandhi

Votes: 351

90. Saraswatichandra (2013–2014)

Romance

 6.2

 Rate

In this classic tale of love and heartbreak, Saras and Kumud are soulmates who are repeatedly denied the joy of being together. Will destiny bring them together?

Stars: Gautam Rode, Jennifer Winget, Varun Kapoor, Anirudh Singh

Votes: 861

91. Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani (2010–2021)

24 min | Fantasy, Romance

 7.1

 Rate

A contemporary, visual, and visceral Romeo and Juliet story of the ultimate forbidden love affair - between a non human and a mortal.

Stars: Vivian Dsena, Sukirti Kandpal, Mohit Keswani, Neetha Shetty

Votes: 1,125

92. Geet (2010–2011)

22 min | Romance

 6.7

 Rate

The story revolves around a small town Woman Geet and how she tackles all the difficulties that come in her way with an unconditional support from a business tycoon Maan Singh Khurana.

Stars: Gurmeet Choudhary, Drashti Dhami, Ranjeev Verma, Abhinav Shukla

Votes: 458

93. Indian Idol (2004– )

Music, Reality-TV

 5

 Rate

The latest addition to the Idol phenomenon. Indian Idol, like Pop, Canadian, and American Idol, brings the entire country together to compete to become the next singing sensation.

Stars: Anu Malik, Vishal Dadlani, Neha Kakkar, Mini Mathur

Votes: 769

94. Surabhi (1993– )

Documentary

 8.9

 Rate

Surabhi was a popular Indian cultural magazine show hosted by Renuka Shahane and Siddharth Kak. It mainly focused on the Indian culture of the 90s. The Indian culture was presented to the ... See full summary »

Stars: Renuka Shahane, Siddharth Kak

Votes: 231

95. Just Mohabbat (1996– )

22 min | Drama, Family, Romance

 8.4

 Rate

The story revolves around the life of Jai, a kid who stays in a hostel in Dehradun away from his parents Raj and Maya. The series chronicles his growing up years and focuses on his ... See full summary »

Stars: Manoj Pahwa, Harsh Lunia, Kavita Kapoor, Ashok Lokhande

Votes: 212

96. Naamkarann (2016–2018)

21 min | Action, Drama, Romance

 6.8

 Rate

Naamkaran is the story of an illegitimate 11 year old girl, Avni Ayesha, who tries to give herself a legitimate identity despite cruel obstacles by her own grandmother Dayawanti Mehta.

Stars: Aditi Rathore, Zain Imam, Ritu Vashisht, Reema Lagoo

Votes: 785

97. Sa Re Ga Ma Pa (1995– )

Musical, Reality-TV

 6.2

 Rate

Indian music reality show.

Stars: Shaan, Aditya Narayan, Shreya Ghoshal, Himesh Reshammiya

Votes: 162

98. Sasural Genda Phool (2010–2012)

Drama

 7.6

 Rate

A high profile girl, Suhana (Ragini Khanna), gets married to a middle-class boy, Ishaan Kashyap (Jay Soni), who lives with his entire family in Chandni Chowk, Delhi. The show centers on how... See full summary »

Stars: Ragini Khanna, Jay Soni, Akshay Bhagat, Shiv Kumar Singh

Votes: 328

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99. Ssshhhh... Koi Hai (2001–2004)

Action, Adventure, Drama

 7.5

 Rate

A non hosted horror anthology series.

Stars: Krishnakant Goswami, Vishnu Sharma, Shahbaaz Khan, Mamik Singh

Votes: 800

100. Bhabi Ji Ghar Par Hai (2015–2024)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy

 8.7

 Rate

Loveless marriages and jealousy characterize two neighboring households as they try to cope with each other and themselves.

Stars: Rohitash Gaud, Aashif Sheikh, Saumya Tandon, Shubhangi Atre Poorey

Votes: 4,124

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1. Simba: The King Lion (1995– )

26 min | Animation, Action, Drama

 6.5

The Lion King is shot by poachers, as part of Shere Khan the Bengal tiger's plot to overthrow the king from his throne. Young Simba, son of the Lion King, suspects something strange and ... See full summary »

Votes: 377

2. Pulgasari (1985)

95 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

 5.2

In feudal Korea, the evil King becomes aware that there is a peasant rebellion being planned in the country. He steals all the iron farming tools and cooking pots from the people so that he... See full summary »

Director: Shin Sang-ok | Stars: Son Hui Chang, Ham Gi Sop, Jong-uk Ri, Gwon Ri

Votes: 1,252

3. Hong Kil-dong (1986)

108 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

 6.6

The illegitimate son of a nobleman defends peasants from greedy rulers, confounds local bandits, and struggles for permission to marry his tasty upper-crust sweetheart despite their vast societal differences. Then ninjas arrive.

Directors: Kil-in Kim, Shin Sang-ok | Stars: Kye-Sung Chan, Son Hui Chang, Sun-bu Choe, Ri Yong Ho

Votes: 522

4. Dalam-iwa Goseumdochi (1977–2012)

TV-14 | Animation, War

 4.4

Two teenagers (Geumsaegi and Juldarami) fight against an evil army.

Stars: Jun Kim, ShockingRotom, Lim Bok Hee, Kim Dae Hong

Votes: 157

5. The Flower Girl (1972)

TV-PG | 127 min | Drama, Musical

 5.8

The country is occupied by the Japanese imperialists. Koppun is selling flowers at the market to get some money to buy medicine for her sick mother. Her brother is imprisoned, her father dead and her sister blind.

Directors: Ik-gyu Choe, Hak Park | Stars: Chon Sob Han, Yong Hui Hong, Ren Rin Kim, Seung-oh Kim

Votes: 234

6. Order No. 027 (1986) @get

77 min | Drama, War

 4.7

A group of elite soldiers is sent across the border to South Korea to destroy a military base. The soldiers are well aware of the inherent suicide nature of their mission, but are happy to risk it all for the benefit of their Great Leader.

Directors: Ki Mo Jung, Eung Suk Kim | Stars: Sung Chol Cha, Yong Chol Choe, Pong Ho Han, Kwang Jo

Votes: 162

7. Unsung Heroes (1978)

60 min | Action, Drama

 5.5

The film follows Yu Rim, a Korean expatriate in the United Kingdom working as a journalist, who is ordered by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea to proceed to Seoul and gather intelligence on the United States Forces Korea.

Directors: Ryu Ho-son, Hak-lim Ko | Stars: Ryong-rin Kim, Jung-hwa Kim, Woon-mo Jung, Son Dae-won

Votes: 32

8. Sea of Blood (1969)

260 min | War

 6.5

A revolutionary novel, film, and opera created in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) about the mass killings during the long period of the Japanese occupation of Korea.

Director: Ik-gyu Choe

Votes: 34

9. A Traffic Controller on Crossroads (1986)

59 min | Drama

 6.0

A driver learns the importance of obeying traffic regulations.

Director: Che Phun Ki | Stars: Ri Sol Hee, Ko Sam He, Ri Song Il, Ri Yong Nam

Votes: 96

10. Simba Jr. And the Football World Cup (1995– )

Animation

 5.0

In his second adventure, Simba Jr. and his friends go to New York to find Winner the Dog, who has been kidnapped. However, Winner has since become the coach of an up-and-coming soccer team ... See full summary »

Votes: 45

11. A Broad Bellflower (1987)

92 min | Drama

 6.4

In a humble rural village, a man aspires of leaving his home behind and moving to the prosperous city, while his lover wishes to stay and transform the town into an ideal and harmonious community.

Directors: Eun-hie Choi, Kyun Soon Jo, Shin Sang-ok | Stars: Ryung Jo Kim, Mi Ran Oh, Yeon Ock Song

Votes: 84

12. The Schoolgirl's Diary (2007)

94 min | Comedy, Drama

 5.2

A student experiences different conflicts as she works toward being a scientist.

Director: In Hak Jang | Stars: Mi-hyang Pak, Jin-mi Kim, Cheol Kim, Jeong-mi Kim

Votes: 190

13. From 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. (1990)

82 min | War

 3.7

Set during the Korean War, a squadron of North Korean soldiers must scramble across dangerous terrain to cut off an American attack with only 12 hours in which to do so.

Director: Kim Yu-Sam | Stars: Hyun Chang-Gyeol, James Joseph Dresnok, Jung Eui-Gyeom, Ri Yong Ho

Votes: 17

14. Wolmi Island (1982)

92 min | Action, Drama, War

 5.4

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Director: Gyong-sun Cho | Stars: Hyun Chang-Gyeol, Gyong-sun Cho, Chang-su Choe, Jung Eui-Gyeom

Votes: 36

15. Legend of Chunhyang (1959)

103 min | Drama

Based on an old Korean legend about the tender and beautiful love of the poor girl Chun Hyang and the son of the formidable and cruel ruler Mong Nyoung.

Director: Yong-Gyu Yoon | Stars: In-hee Woo, Chang-gyu Shin, Sun-Young Kim, Ok-suk Ten

16. My Happiness (1987)

106 min | Drama, War

 7.4

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Directors: Young-Ho Kim, Shin Sang-ok | Stars: Gwang-Yeol Kim, Ock Heel Kim, Kim Ok-hui, Kyoung-ae Ryoo

Votes: 8

17. Souls Protest (2001)

Drama

 4.7

Billed as a North Korean "Titanic". On August 15, 1945, Japanese Imperialists were defeated and there echoed in Japan, too, shouts of victory of thousands of Korean people who had been ... See full summary »

Director: Chun-Song Kim | Stars: Kim Duk-sam, Ri Yong Ho, Woon-mo Jung, Chul Kim

Votes: 14

18. An Unattached Unit (1993)

87 min | Drama, War

 4.7

During the Korean War, a group of North Korean soldiers have served their rotation. On their way home, they find that enemy troops are about to breakthrough, and it is up to them to pull together to save the country.

Director: Jung-mo Kang

Votes: 13

19. The Story of Our Home (2016)

Approved | 100 min | Drama

 5.2

Ri Jong A, the heroine, is a girl in her late teens who has just finished a senior middle school. Going on an errand for her mother who was a colleague of Un Jong's parents before their ... See full summary »

Directors: Ri Yun-Ho Ki, Ha Yong

Votes: 9

20. The Country I Saw (1987)

88 min | Drama

 5.4

While serving as a journalist in World War 2 for the Imperial Army of Japan, "Takahashi Minoru" (Pak Ki Ju) sees first-hand the impact on Koreans who have had their national identity ... See full summary »

Directors: Eun-hie Choi, Shin Sang-ok | Stars: Lee Jin-Hwan, Pak Ki Ju, Rho Jung-won, Jung-hwa Kim

Votes: 14

21. Urban Girl Comes to Get Married (1993)

72 min | Comedy, Romance

 5.8

A romantic comedy that tells the story of a fashion designer from Pyongyang who comes to a small village to show her latest designs. Since the fashion designer is young and attractive, the ... See full summary »

Director: Yun Jong | Stars: Yong-sin Han, Jun-nam Kim, Kun-ho Ri, Kyong-hui Ri

Votes: 18

22. Sogum (1985)

Drama

 7.8

Set in Gando in the 1930s, a family hides a wealthy Chinese-Korean merchant while the father is killed in a fight between the Japanese police and Chinese bandits. The wife believes the communists are the cause of her husband's death.

Director: Shin Sang-ok | Star: Un Hui Choe

Votes: 13

23. The Newlyweds (1955)

59 min | Musical, Romance

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Directors: Dong-in Joo, Yong-Gyu Yoon | Stars: Won Jun Yu, Hyeon-Sook Kim, Ye-bong Mun, Un-bong Choe

24. Inmin ul wihan kil e onjena hamkke kyesyotssumnida (2003)

60 min | Documentary

A documentary highlighting how both Kim il-Sung and Kim Jong-il work for the prosperity of the juche system and North Korean people.

Stars: Il-Sung Kim, Jong-Il Kim

25. The Story of a Blooming Flower (1992)

92 min | Drama

 6.0

A Japanese florist creates his masterpiece: the red begonia hybrids will represent the Juche ideology and stand as a symbol of love, justice and peace. In honor of the beloved leader, he gives her the name Kimjongilia.

Director: Sang Gyu Ri | Stars: Yu Son Chan, Yong Suk Kim, Hen Sun Pak, Mi Hyan Pyon

Votes: 25

26. The Day the Mountain Cried

107 min | Drama, Romance, War | Completed

A sumptuous, epic love story revealing the powers of passion during the time of war. Initially set in 1950's North Korea during the war with South Korea, Son-a, a stunningly beautiful young... See full summary »

Director: Jang In Hak

27. The Hero Noreturn (1984)

132 min | Drama, History

 8.2

Based on a play called "Bloody Conference" (allegedly written by Kim Il-sung). A dramatized retelling of the Hague Secret Emissary Affair from the perspective of Yi Jun, a Korean prosecutor and diplomat.

Directors: Eun-hie Choi, Shin Sang-ok | Stars: Kim Jun-sik, Hye-sung Ryang, Yoon-Hong Kim, Jung-hwa Kim

Votes: 7

28. The Tale of Chun Hyang (1980)

146 min | Drama, Music, Romance

 6.8

A tender hearted young noble man, Mong Ryong, falls in love with the famous Chun Hyang, the most beautiful girl of a Korean village, who is also a pure hearted artist but unfortunately from... See full summary »

Directors: Yong-Gyu Yoon, Won Jun Yu | Stars: Sun Gyu Choe, Yong Suk Kim, Jong Hwan Ko, Son Yong Kim

Votes: 27

29. Repatriation (2003)

149 min | Documentary

 7.7

North Korean spies return to their homeland.

Director: Dong-won Kim

Votes: 162

30. Baduk (2018)

56 min | Documentary

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31. Gyotongjilseoleul jal jikijayo (2006–2023)

15 min | Animation, Family

North Korean kids learn traffic safety and rules in different ways.

32. Return to Frontline (1951)

76 min | War

The film tells the story of the heroic deeds of the Korean People's Army soldiers fighting for the independence and freedom of their homeland.

Director: Sang-in Cheon | Stars: Dal-won Kim, Young Kim, Dichak Lee, Min Lyu

33. Runaway (1984)

100 min | Drama

Considered by Shin to be his best North Korean film.

Director: Shin Sang-ok | Stars: Sang-soo Choe, Eun-hie Choi, Jong-Il Kim

34. The Story of Sim Cheong (1957)

90 min | Drama, Music

Film opera. The legend of the young Cheon Sim who throws herself into the Indangsu sea sacrificing herself so that her blind father can restore his sight. However, she was resurrected, became an empress and healed her father's blindness.

Director: Young-Hee Kim | Stars: Sung-hee Lee, San-sen Cho, Ton-sek Ha, Yeon-sil Kim

35. Boy Partisans (1951)

97 min | Drama, War

 5.9

"Boy Partisans", one of the first Korean films to be shot during the war, tells the story of a group of teenagers who decide to form a Partisan unit after the Americans temporarily take over cities liberated by the Communists.

Director: Yong-Gyu Yoon | Stars: Se-Yong Kim, Ye-bong Mun, Seung-min Nam, Chansook Byun

Votes: 17

36. The Blood Stained Route Map (2004)

140 min | Drama

 5.8

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Director: Phyo Kwang | Stars: Chang-su Choe, Ri Yong Ho, Ryon Hwa Kim, Ryeong-hun Ri

Votes: 10

37. An Animated Classic: Simba, the King Lion (2014 Video)

G | 119 min | Animation, Action, Drama

 4.7

Join in the adventures of Simba and his jungle animal friends in this high quality entertaining animated feature for your kids and family.

Votes: 35

38. On the Green Carpet (2001)

81 min | Comedy, Romance

 4.4

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Directors: Kwang-il Jon, Chang-bom Rim | Stars: Ri Yong Ho, Gyong-hi Ri

Votes: 30

39. Song of Restrospection (1986)

73 min | Drama

 4.8

Mr. Komak, a musician from one foreign power, and Ra Sol Ju, Navy communicator of DPRK, who also does have a sense of music, have met twice. First, during the Korean War, where she captured... See full summary »

Director: Ryu Ho-son | Stars: Yeong-Cheol Ahn, Ryong-ju Chon, Kim Chong-hwa, Kim Chong-nam

Votes: 15

40. Sekunda na podvig (1985)

135 min | Adventure, War

 5.8

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Directors: Kil-son Om, Eldor Urazbaev, Shin Sang-ok | Stars: Andrey Martynov, Chhan-su Chve, Oleg Anofriev, Yon-hi Chon

Votes: 25

41. Prince Moon and Princess Sun (1990)

72 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

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Directors: Kim Kyong Ho, Kim Ryong Hyok, Kim In Son

42. Centre Forward (1978)

77 min | Drama, Sport

 5.6

In Son is trying to become a successful football player. As his team is faced with poor results, their coach is taking a different approach to their training methods.

Directors: Kil-in Kim, Chong-Song Pak | Stars: In Son Cha, Sung-Shin Cho, Chang-su Choi, Yong-hui Chong

Votes: 39

43. The Tale of 15 Children (1985)

138 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

A Korean animation about a group of children saving the galaxy.

44. Kkoekkolsaega buleun nolae (2006 TV Short)

15 min | Animation, Short, Family

An Oriole bird prepares for a song contest, hoping she can win by imitating the wonderful voice of the crane bird she saw earlier.

45. Saemmul-eul masin du dongmu (2006 TV Short)

14 min | Animation, Short, Family

Two companions prepare for the day of the sumo wrestling contest. One of them begins to drink lots of spring water.

46. Marathon Runner (2002)

66 min | Sport

DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) athlete Jong Song Ok's journey from a failed medal attempt at the Olympic games in Atlanta 1996 to her gold medal at the world championships marathon in Seville 1999.

Director: Li Chju Ho | Star: Jong Song-ok

47. Lightning and Thunder Part 1 (1995)

War

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48. The Big Game Hunter (2011)

83 min | Action, Drama

After their occupation of Korea, Japanese imperialists forcibly disband Korean army and engage in all sorts of schemes to suppress the daily growing anti-Japanese sentiments of the Korean ... See full summary »

Director: Phyo Kwang | Stars: Chol Kim, Kim Ui Ri, Pan Hyon Il, Kim Myong Il

49. Boy General (1982–2019)

Animation, Action, Drama

 6.8

During the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo, a brave young soldier named Soe-Me goes to war against the evil Japanese and Chinese invaders.

Star: Won Jeong Suk

Votes: 7

50. Nation and Destiny 1-4: Choe Hyon Dok (1992)

378 min | Biography, Drama, History

Choe Hyon Dok indulged in anti-communism nearly all his life. At the end, he is forsaken by the nation and lives in exile in a foreign country. But in the embrace of his beloved home, his ... See full summary »

Director: Yong-ho Kim | Stars: Chon Chae-yon, Hyun Chang-Gyeol, Chang-su Choi, Kim Duk-sam