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TV Shows & Series: Best "rags to riches" TV Shows/Series

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Fighting Spirit(2000-2014)

TV-PG
| 24min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure
4.3/5 (with 467 votes)

Makunouchi Ippo is an ordinary high school student in Japan. Since he spends most of his time away from school helping his mother run the family business, he doesn't get to enjoy his younger years like most teenagers. Always a target for bullying at school (the family fishing business grants him a distinct odor), Ippo's life is one of hardship. One of these after-school bullying sessions turns Ippo's life around for the better, as he is saved by a boxer named Takamura. He decides to follow in Takamura's footsteps and train to become a boxer, giving his life direction and purpose. Ippo's path to perfecting his pugilistic prowess is just beginning...

Sweet Diva(2019)

NR
| Drama, Comedy, Crime, Soap / Telenovela
3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

- No description / details available yet. -

With Juliana Paes

Sparkling Girls(2012)

Comedy, Soap / Telenovela
3.9/5 (with 6 votes)

"Sparkling Girls" centers around three young and beautiful, hard-working housekeepers who reach stardom instantly when an online video clip of them singing, surprisingly becomes a hit. Their success provokes the wrath of a glamorously gaudy and outspoken famous singer who will do anything to ruin the girls' friendship and career. With humor, romance, over the top characters, and bright, glittery stage performances set to catchy tunes, "Sparkling Girls" delivers all of the expected delights and shows that dreams really do come true.

With Taís Araújo

Great Expectations(2011)

NR
| 1h per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 43 votes)

The life of an orphan is changed by the providential intervention of a mysterious benefactor.

Directed by Brian Kirk - With Ray Winstone

Itaewon Class(2020)

1h 9min per episode | Drama
4.2/5 (with 148 votes)

In a colorful Seoul neighborhood, an ex-con and his friends fight a mighty foe to make their ambitious dreams for their street bar a reality.

With Park Seo-joon, Kim Da-mi, Yoo Jae-myung, Kwon Na-ra, Kim Dong-hee, Lee Joo-young, ...
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Nothing Gold Can Stay(2017)

45min per episode | Drama
3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Zhou Ying is sold to the powerful Shen family by her foster father, yet successfully escapes by sneaking into merchant Wu Ping’s palanquin. The Wu family agreed to take her in after witnessing her remarkable business acumen, and she ends up marrying Wu Ping. The drama will chronicle the life of the Qing Dynasty's richest female merchant, and her struggles to keep the Wu family business afloat during the last years of the Qing Dynasty. Shen Xingyi is a happy-go-lucky young sir who has never known hardship in his life. After meeting Zhou Ying, he eventually decides to change his ways and becomes a mature noble who is willing to protect his country and family from disaster. He has a seemingly unrequited love for Zhou Ying.

Great Expectations(1991)

NR
| 1h per episode | Drama
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Miniseries based on Charles Dickens' novel of the same title.

Directed by Kevin Connor - With Martin Harvey

Inside the Mafia(2005)

TV-PG
| Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Infiltrate the legendary secrecy of one of the world's most powerful criminal organisations to expose the stark realities deep Inside the Mafia. With remarkable access to FBI and DEA agents and former mobsters, get intimate detail on the cutthroat deals, gangland assassinations and secret rituals within the infamous global mob.

Great Expectations(1981)

30min per episode | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Violence and Victorian gentility meet in this powerful adaptations of one of Dickens's greatest creations, his most piercing examination of upward mobility.

With Stratford Johns

Killing It(2022-)

TV-MA
| Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 11 votes)

Craig Foster, a Miami bank security guard, enters a state-sponsored snake-hunting contest to achieve his American dream of becoming a successful entrepreneur.

Monthly Magazine Home(2021)

1h 3min per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 7 votes)

A home-searching romance story about a man who buys houses and a woman who lives in one. It follows the diverse stories of the editors of a home magazine.

The Miracle We Met(2018)

1h per episode | Drama, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

A man dies in a car crash, but awakes with the spirit of another person. He becomes the head of two families and he agonizes over his two different wives.

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Araw Gabi(2018)

30min per episode | Drama, Comedy

- No description / details available yet. -

Truth or Dare(2021)

45min per episode | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A story that follows two couples who mistakenly find themselves in a marriage they never expected and gradually grow in love and trust over time.

The Thorn Birds(2011)

1h per episode | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The Thorn Birds is a 2011 South Korean television series where one woman forsakes her love and family for her ambition while another woman embraces with love all that the former had left behind. Fates of a bit part actress Seo Jung-eun and a film producer Han Yoo-kyung who chose success are intertwined and resolved gradually as their mutual stories progress. The "thorn birds" of the title refers to Jung-eun's character, who only brings out her best at the cost of great pain. A thornbird is a mythical bird who searches for a thorn tree from the day it is born. When it finds it, the bird impales itself upon the sharpest thorn, and rises above the agony to sing the most beautiful song ever heard.

Love, Just Come(2017-)

Drama, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

From when she was young, Qing Ling grew up in an orphanage. She is a kind, cheerful and helpful girl with a perfect sense of smell. Due to her sensitivity to smells, she started to develop perfume. Qing Ling's dream is to create a perfume to pay back the orphanage and help society. In order to realize this dream, Qing Ling persevered through all sorts of adversity. While chasing her dream, she received Xu Qinglun, Duan Tian Lang, Duan Yi Hua and others help. With Duan Tian Lang, they went from friends to lovers. During this period, she also found her family and reconnected with them. After experiencing lots of frustration, she finally, with her own effort and everyone's help, produced her own perfume brand, realized her dream and obtained love.

Sapan Dao(1999)

Drama

"Sapan Dao" (TH:สะพานดาว) is a 1999 Thai television miniseries adaptation of the 1993 social-conscious best-selling novel of the same name by Thommayanti. Directed by Thapakorn Disayanon, starring Art Supawatt Purdy (as Supawatt Aumprasit) and Sririta Jensen. Produced by Kantana Video Production and written for television by Jintabutr, "Sapan Dao" was originally made for Ch. 5 as part of the 'TeleFive' Network primetime line-up. Fortunately, Kantana decided last minute to present it to the big boss at Ch. 7, Thailand most-watched television network. As luck would have it, Ch. 7 recognised right away a hit, and bought the right to the story for its Wednesday & Thursday primetime slot. "Sapan Dao" became one of ch. 7 biggest hits for 1999 and made Art an overnight sensation in the process.

With Art Supawatt Purdy, Sririta Jensen