The 50 Most Popular Brazilian Telenovelas
A list of some of the most popular telenovelas from Brazil.
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- CreatorGlória PerezStarsMurilo BenícioGiovanna AntonelliVera FischerA young man who has been secretly cloned by his godfather scientist falls in love with a Moroccan girl from a rigorous family.
- StarsRubens de FalcoLucélia SantosGilberto MartinhoThe difficulties faced by a gentle-hearted young white slave targeted by the obsession of her lord in the Brazilian colonial period.
- StarsAntônio FagundesRaul CortezAna Paula ArósioThe love story of two young Italian immigrants who first meet on their way to Brazil at the end of the 18th century, but are separated after their ship docks.
- StarsReynaldo GianecchiniAna Paula ArósioRaul CortezThe story of two young Italian lovers of different, rival families who are separated after he moves to Brazil and falls for another woman, while she is forced to marry a fascist.
- StarsDébora FalabellaDanton MelloOsmar PradoMonarchists and republicans meet in Araruna, a small fictional town in the interior of São Paulo, in 1886. The novel portrays the love story of the beautiful and wealthy Sinhá Moça - daughter of the slave, Barão Ferreira de Araruna, and sweet and submissive Mother Candida - , with the young abolitionist lawyer Dr. Rodolfo Fontes - son of Dr. Fontes, and the housewife Inêz. Together, they face the difficulties in the campaign for the abolition of slaves.
- CreatorGlória PerezStarsJuliana PaesLaura CardosoChristiane TorloniThe daughter of a traditional, rich Indian family falls in love for a Dalit, an "untouchable" man.
- StarsRegina DuarteAntônio FagundesGlória PiresIntending to be rich and successful at any price, a callous young woman abandons her family and is pursued by her mother for the reckoning.
- StarsVanusa SpindlerAntônio FagundesGlória PiresThe enmity between two rancher families in territorial dispute, and the forbidden love between a drover and a landless, mysterious woman with no past.
- StarsPatricia PillarCláudia RaiaMariana XimenesThe friendship of two women is torn apart as one, supposedly innocent, is accused of murdering the other one's husband.
- StarsEduardo MoscovisFlávia AlessandraPriscila FantinA ballerina is murdered and reincarnates as an indigenous woman. Her journey for spiritual justice takes her back to her past family and romance.
- StarsDeborah SeccoMurilo BenícioCamila MorgadoSol, a dreamy young woman from the carioca suburbs, attempts to emigrate to the United States, believing in a better life with better opportunities.
- StarsThiago FragosoFernanda SouzaDalton VighA countryside young man gifted with precognitive powers moves to the big city, where he meets some unscrupulous people interested in his gift, and the girl he knows is the woman of his life.
- CreatorGilberto BragaStarsMalu MaderCláudia AbreuFábio AssunçãoA prominent producer is approached by an ambitious woman who becomes her assistant, but actually intends to own everything that is hers.
- StarsGabriela SenraReynaldo GianecchiniGiovanna AntonelliA Maranhense young woman and a carioca tourist photographer fall for each other and get separated by destiny and a woman obsessed with his family's wealth.
- StarsAntônio FagundesDalton VighMarjorie EstianoA young woman vows revenge on a tricky, unscrupulous man after he deceives and abandons her pregnant with their son.
- StarsRegina DuarteLília CabralAna Paula ArósioAfter a young woman gives birth to twins and then suddenly dies, her cold-hearted mother keeps her grandson but rejects his sister with Down syndrome, who is adopted by their kind-hearted surgeon.
- CreatorAndréa MaltarolliStarsEdson CelulariRegiane AlvesCarolina FerrazGuilherme is a jumbled, womanizing aeronautical engineer, who at the moment is in love with his neighbor, beautician Sônia, but lives to enjoy life and women with the money earned by the helicopters he designs. His new release is called Carcará. One of the buyers of the machine is eccentric entrepreneur Olavo Pederneiras, who goes with a team to record an aesthetic program in the Amazon. But in a frame to destroy Guilherme, Norma Gusmão, friend and workmate, in love and despised by him, sabotages the helicopter, which crashes and kills Olavo, Sônia, journalist Márcia, writer and former doctor Alex, and chemist Mateus. Joana is a dermatologist who was abandoned by her mother at an orphanage; with the money she earned as an employee at Renato Reis' plastic-surgery clinic, she can find her thanks to a detective. But Sonia has just passed away. The fates of Guillermo and Joana intersect when she knocks on the door of her mother's house and finds the engineer taking care of her younger siblings. Ruined and feeling guilty for the deaths, Guilherme decides to adopt Klaus and Dominique, and to play forward the project of the beauty clinic Pure Beauty, which Sônia was about to inaugurate. As a good engineer, he gets into a lot of confusion, since he does not understand anything about cosmetics and beauty products. He and Joana fall in love and have a beautiful relationship until Norma again disrupts his life. And now he has the support of Renato, in love with Joana. Separated, Guilherme and Joana end up becoming rivals when she becomes a partner of the fun hairdresser Ivete--owner of the bustling Belezoca--and together they open the clinic Amor da Pele just in front of Guilherme, Pure Beauty. Between professional and amorous confusions, the passion between the couple only increases.
- StarsAdriana EstevesEduardo MoscovisDrica MoraesA short tempered, feminist rich woman notable for her aversion to marriage and her aggressive behavior gradually falls in love for a rough and lowly farmer.
- CreatorWalcyr CarrascoStarsMariana XimenesMurilo BenícioDrica MoraesA humble girl who rises to become a wealthy, vengeful widow returns to the small town that humiliated her and to the man she loved, bringing their young son.
- StarsLázaro RamosCarolina DieckmannDaniel de OliveiraA rascally, leery man assumes the place of a namesake honest young worker as the heir of a important businessman's wealth.
- StarsTaís AraújoDrica MoraesVictor WagnerIn the Brazil Colonial period, an intelligent, seductive and vengefully ruthless slave rises to become a practical queen when an important contractor falls for her, much for the anger of a woman obsessed with him.
- StarsJosé WilkerTony RamosSusana VieiraA young law student starts to work as a detective, determined to uncover the perpetrator of a series of murders, as well as who is next.
- CreatorElizabeth JhinStarsHumberto MartinsNathalia DillAlexandre NeroAfter he dies, the spirit of a young man gets caught between care and obsession towards the girl he left in life, while she is forced to join a scheme to exploit his family.
- CreatorCassiano Gabus MendesStarsMurilo BenícioAlexandre BorgesMalu MaderThe story of rival stylists Jacques Leclair and Victor Valentim, who have been competing for everything from toys to girlfriends since childhood.
- CreatorWalcyr CarrascoStarsFlávia AlessandraIsabelle DrummondMalvino SalvadorA painter Gabriel and gallery owner Dafne's relationship is marred by family secrets, including a hidden artistic talent in the form of a mischievous chimpanzee named Xico.
- StarsSusana VieiraRenata SorrahJosé WilkerThe baby daughter of a mother of five from a poor background is kidnapped, and the mother fights to get her back; as time passes, she rises to a better life with her remaining children.
- CreatorSilvio de AbreuStarsFernanda MontenegroMariana XimenesTony RamosAn ambitious young woman with a traumatizing past targets an Italian man, the distant son of a wealthy Brazilian family.
- StarsAlexandre BorgesAna CarbattiArlete HeringerThe unconditional love a mother has for her daughter, even after they fall in love with the same man.
- StarsGlória PiresGuilherme FontesMarcos FrotaThe conflicts of identical twins after they fall for the same man, while an autistic sand sculptor also finds himself between them.
- StarsGiselle ItiéBruno FerrariSimone SpoladoreAn awkward young woman struggles at her agency where she is often harassed for her looks and falls for her boss.
- StarsJuliana SilveiraRoger GobethMaria Carolina RibeiroThe humble lead singer of a band joins the life of a rich family of six orphaned siblings, and falls for their elder, authoritarian brother.
- StarsNatália do ValeMarcos PalmeiraJuca de OliveiraThe mystery surrounding the bombing of a shopping mall, which wealthy owner has become the target of an imprisoned man's vengeance.
- StarsGlória PiresLucélia SantosJosé LewgoyLife of wealthy playboy Nelson Fragonard goes haywire as he is robbed of all his fortune by a false friend. On top of that, Nelson reveals he has a daughter, little Maria Helena, who was raised in an orphanage.
- StarsSusana VieiraRubens de FalcoNathália TimbergIn the 1920s, a simple country young lady marries a mysterious and charismatic rich widower and moves to his mansion, where the strong presence of his late wife is still venerated by an obsessed housekeeper and by an intimidating portrait.
- StarsChristine FernandesCarla ReginaMiriam Freeland"Essas Mulheres" (These Women) is a soap opera set in the 19th century's Rio de Janeiro, freely inspired on José de Alencar's novels "Senhora", "Diva" and "Lucíola". It tells the story of three exceptional women who had lived torrid and forbidden love and had their lives radically transformed because of it.
- StarsIrene RavacheOthon BastosLuciana BragaThe life and times of a family of six in Sao Paulo in the 1920s.
- StarsClaudio MarzoCristiana OliveiraMarcos WinterIn the Brazilian Pantanal, marked by land and family disputes and watched over by a mystical figure from nature, a man from the big city falls for a woman believed to be a shapeshifter.
- CreatorEmanuel JacobinaRosane SvartmanCao HamburgerStarsAlexandre SlavieroEdvana CarvalhoLeo JaimeLong-running soap that depicts the lives of a group of teens as they struggle in the midst of life choices, love, ambition, disappointment, and family and relationship issues.
- CreatorManoel CarlosStarsChristiane TorloniJosé MayerTony RamosThe series surrounds the damaged relationship between a saxophonist and a woman who falls in love with a former boyfriend, whom she had left to marry him.
- StarsHeitor MartinezVanessa GerbelliLuciano SzafirAn ambitious woman abandons her family with their incoming and is pursued by her sister for the reckoning. Things complicate even further when they both fall for the same man.
- StarsClaudio JaborandyRenato GóesPriscila Sol"Água na Boca" is a beautiful love story inspired by William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It is still reminded by the audience for its tenderness. This TV Series shows a very soft and happy point of view about loving and living.
- StarsLima DuarteHumberto MartinsVivianne PasmanterAn orphaned young man raised in the wild by an indigenous shaman is found by his grandfather and returned to his estranged family, where he finds himself as heir to their wealth.