El amor no es como lo pintan is a Mexican telenovela produced by Juan David Burns and Elisa Salinas for TV Azteca. It was broadcast on Azteca 13 from November 6, 2000 to April 27, 2001 for 165 episodes.
The story follows the lives of 3 boys from Taiwan Hsinchu Senior High School under the Japanese Rule. Lin Qingwen, Zhou Shaozhen and Zhuang Shigeng are childhood friends that grew up together and suffered under the Japanese colonial movement. The turbulence in lives and the brutality they faced under the Japanese rule awakens their nationalist feelings, which led them to different paths.
Crisanto is a soldier lovingly married to his wife, Beth, but is forced to be sent away to fight in a war someplace else, leaving his wife and daughter, Liza, behind. In the midst of the battle, Crisanto meets Florida, the two fall in love and have an affair, which produces a child, Flor. One day, the opposing side ambushed Crisanto, and he protected Flor and Florida by helping them hide inside the house, as a consequence, Crisanto becomes gravely injured when he is sent home, and unknowing of their secret affair, Beth hires Florida to be Crisanto's nurse. Eventually, Beth allows Florida's daughter, Flor, to stay over at her house and Flor eventually befriends Liza, however their friendship will be threatened by their parents' intertwining love stories.
This is the life of Kees Heistee. Kees is married to the charming, good-natured Ben, and together they have two children: their daughter Anne, a nightmare for any mother, and their son Rudie, who has a taste for the morbid. Her best friend and next-door neighbor, Sonja, also plays a major role in her life. Kees tries to teach her family morals and values, but so far, that seems impossible...
Darius and his teams of atypical agents, the young and wealthy Duchesse, the experienced Marie-Jo and the former boxer Ben constitute the "Invisible" Brigade, a police taskforce specialized in cases with unidentified bodies. Every investigation is a race against the clock to discover not only what happened to the victims but mostly who they are.
Gu Nanting, the vice minister of passenger flight department of Lu Airlines, is a strict and self-disciplined man, who is known as a mean boss and a devil instructor. The female cargo pilot, Cheng Xiao, is brave and unrestrained. She was about to be promoted to captain when she got transferred to the passenger department due to the company's restructuring. Gu Nanting becomes Cheng Xiao's direct supervisor and mentor, and the two are at odds with each other. Gu Nanting, who has always pursued stability and order, is disrupted time and again by Cheng Xiao, who does not follow the usual rules. The two pilots and their mentor, who have always pursued stability and order, are disrupted time and again by the unorthodox Cheng Xiao. How can they deal with this situation?
Oğuz has losaves a young amnesiac woman, Defne, who he brings into his home. But when Defne recovers her memory, she realizes that she was a con artist who must remain in hiding.
Ruth Clarke, a tough, supremely competent middle-aged Canadian maple syrup farmer has had it with being hemmed in by the polite, bureaucratic conventions native to her country’s identity. With the help of Remy Bouchard, a pint-sized local blockhead and an aging Mike Byrne, a low-level mobster, Ruth changes her fate — and transforms the future of her community with the theft of millions of dollars’ worth of maple syrup.
Pícara Sonhadora is a Brazilian telenovela produced by SBT and originally broadcast from August 27 to December 18, 2001. It is a Brazilian adaptation of the Mexican telenovela La Pícara Soñadora (1991), based on the original story by Abel Santa Cruz. Adapted by Henrique Zambelli, with collaboration from Adriana Moretto and text supervision by Crayton Sarzy, the telenovela stars Bianca Rinaldi and Petrônio Gontijo.
The story follows Ludmila "Milla" Lopes, a hardworking young woman who moves to São Paulo to study law while working in the toy department of the prestigious Soles department store. Unable to afford housing, she secretly sleeps inside the store at night. Her life changes when Alfredo Rockfield, the wealthy heir to the business, disguises himself as an ordinary employee to win her heart. As their romance blossoms, they face family conflicts, social differences, misunderstandings, and the schemes of those determined to keep them apart.
“Voltea Pa 'Que Te Enamores” is an urban and modern soap opera, full of comic moments, witty dialogues interpreted with absolute naturalness, and rich and moving characters in situations that vividly reflect the daily experiences of millions of people entangled in the complexity of love , impossible love, difficult love, old love about to expire, new love that brings new illusions.