Romance dramas featuring a master/disciple or teacher/student relationship.
MLs with that supernatural white, bright, or unusual hair colors at some point, just because it's pretty. ;)
Dramas and movies in which a storyline or all of the plot revolves around life inside the palace.
Chinese and Taiwanese dramas that are short length (15 mins. or less an episode) or full length dramas with 15 or fewer episodes.
For when you're tired of dramas in which the ML sacrifices everything and the FL doesn't seem to even love him as much. Here are FLs who definitely…
My favorite sort of happy ending stories - the leads are together and parents (adopted/biological child/children and/or pregnancy). Also included…
Dramas and movies in which characters are able to transform into both humans and animals (includes nine tailed foxes).
Dramas and movies with angels, demons, gods, grim reapers, goblins, or plant fairies.
Childhood connections, childhood and earlier meetings, separations during and toward the end, basically any stories that ultimately feature…
Stories in which the FL physically and/or emotionally saves the ML at least once.
Dramas and movies with plot centered around or leads whose careers are in the arts - painting, music, writing, dance, theatre, entertainment,…
Romances between step family, in-laws or adopted (not blood related) siblings, and the occasional related one.
The delightful or not so delightful trope! Dramas and movies where at least one of the leads loses their memory at least once.
Arranged marriages, forced marriages, fake relationships, and contract relationships of all sorts that ultimately lead to love.
Dramas and movies in which the leads are friends long before they become lovers.
When you need romance with a bit more fire - particularly sizzling chemistry, yearning/UST, scenes that makes you wonder where exactly the censors…
Sad endings (my definition is the leads don't end up together due to death or separation) and happy endings for the main couple but are otherwise…
Dramas and movies with a school setting or leads who are students or teachers.
Dramas and movies in which the lead(s) have scars, particularly those that are important in relationship to the other lead or to the plot at…
Dramas and movies in which the characters appear to be someone other than who they truly are due to body/face swaps, power swaps, identity swaps,…
Dramas and movies with an ocean/seaside setting and/or set aboard a ship for at least part of the plot.
Stories where the endgame pairing isn't the usual "met as children and loved forever" - the leads have romantic relationships and…
Dramas and movies with LGBTQ+ characters, including BLs, GLs, censored BLs, and dramas featuring supporting characters.
Thai Dramas that are short length (15 mins. or less an episode) or full length dramas with 15 or fewer episodes.
Dramas and movies featuring characters with mental or physical disabilities, mental illness, chronic illnesses, and more.
Dramas and movies with a rich lead and a poor(er) lead in a romantic relationship.
Dramas and movies with hidden and secret pregnancies and children, such as the FL conceals her pregnancy intentionally or unintentionally from…
Dramas and movies in which the leads are in an established romantic relationship and then break up, divorce, or plan to divorce only to fall…
Dramas in which the leads are more than star-crossed lovers - either one of them or their family destroyed the other's family, harmed the…
Dramas and movies in which the plot is driven by the FL or ML's quest for revenge for something that happened to them or their family.
A very subjective and self indulgent list of pretty people with very beautiful eyes.
Dramas and movies in which three or more guys fall in love with the FL during the course of the plot, or the FL is surrounded by a group of…
Dramas where instead of an enemies to lovers arc, the leads go back and forth between hatred and love in their relationship.
Dramas and movies based upon a true story, ranging from historical figures to events, to varying degrees of accuracy.
Dramas I loved and would very much recommend!(if there's more than one season, only the first is listed)
Dramas in which the SFL/SML gives up on the ML/FL and finds love with someone else. May end happily, may end tragically.
For when you're in the mood for screaming at your screen after it goes black. Cliffhangers for second seasons that never happened, endings up…
Nostalgic dramas and movies partially or entirely set in the 1980s or 1990s.