Destinos: An Edutainment Show in a telenovela format, meant to help students learn Spanish, with several actual telenovela performers in the main roles.

La doña, better known as Lady Altagracia in English. Yet another Mexican revenge story, this time revolving around a rich powerful lady who seeks to avenge the abuse she suffered as a young lady. It is a loose adaptation of the Venezuelan novel Doña Barbara (which, as mentioned above, was already adapted into a telenovela several times). A joint American/Mexican production.

Amar en tiempos revueltos ("To Love in Turbulent Times") is considered one of the most successful Spanish culebrones ("big snakes" — that's slang for a soap opera... on account of their being as long as snakes.) Senhora Do Destinho, a 2004 telenovela about a mother of five looking for her missing child while also making her remaining children's lives better from the midst of the country's military dictatorship to the present day. The show's villain, played by the renowned Renata Sorrah, is the source of the " Confused Math Lady " meme.

Dónde está Elisa? ("Where Is Elisa?") is a Chilean night telenovela (a new telenovela format in which the series is aired around 10 PM so it can be Darker and Edgier/ Hotter and Sexier than the standard) about what happens when the daughter of a powerful family disappears. Includes actress Paola Volpato's incredibly scary Yandere Consuelo, bringer of a HUGE twist: Elisa was not only was kidnapped by a lover who is also her uncle as well as Consuelo's husband, but she actually gets shot to death. Teresa: Another Mexican telenovela where the main character, desperate to leave a life of poverty, becomes a manipulative Gold Digger. The original story, aired in 1959, has had one film version and four television remakes (the latest and most popular remake was aired in 2010). Triunfo Del Amor ("Triumph of Love"). A Mexican remake of the Venezuelan telenovela Cristal, the second one after El privilegio de amar. It concerns the love story between Maximiliano ("Max"), the stepson of the owner of a major fashion empire, and María Desamparada (literally "María Forsaken"), an orphan. Max's stepmother disapproves of the relationship... before realizing that María is her long-lost daughter whom she got separated from against her will many years ago. Famous in the United States for being the telenovela The Soup comically recapped after finishing La madrastra. (Both telenovelas actually share several cast members — Max's stepmother is played by the same actress who played the lead in La madrastra.)

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Simplemente Rita: A particular take on a telenovela, not only in that it was mostly a parody of telenovela tropes, but was also animated. Cuna de lobos ("Den of Wolves"). Another eighties classic made in Mexico about an aristocratic family fighting among themselves over inheritance (name and money) rights. Escrava Isaura ("Isaura the Slave"), a late 1970's soap about a white slave in Colonial Brazil. Exposed the Eastern Bloc to Latin soaps. It is based on a book by Bernardo Guimaraes. Mirada De Mujer (Gaze of a Woman). A telenovela that focus on the problems of middle-aged people and their sexual lives, specially the main character, Maria Ines who is cheated by her husband that fell for a younger woman, and ends falling for a young reporter. It has curiosly a counterpart story 'La Vida en el Espejo' (Life in the reflection) where the main character, a middle age male, has to deal with his wife cheating on him the same way. Machos is a 2003 Chilean telenovela about the Mercader family, a patriarchy of only men with seven sons and a father who's the Villain Protagonist of the telenovela. It's considerated one of the best Chilean teleseries of all time and was emitted in Latin America, USA, Central Europe, Spain and even Israel. As other telenovelas, it has a Mexican remake made in 2005.

Novo Mundo ("New World") is a Brazilian telenovela based on the Italian immigrant wave at the beginnings of 19th century, some time after Brazil got independence from Portugal. Floricienta is an Argentinian telenovela focused on teenage girls with a Fairy Tale touch to modern times, being The Protagonist a kind of modern Cinderella. It has various remakes in various countries, some of them with the names changed ("Floribella" in Portugal, Chile, and Brazil; "Lola, Erase Una Vez" in Mexico.) Cristal: Two women who raised themselves out of their circumstances, mother and daughter, cross paths; tragedy ensues as the former ruins the life of the latter while unaware of their real relationship. Remade several times, said remakes include the Mexican telenovelas El privilegio de amar and Triunfo del amor. Anjo Mau / Angel Malo: Another telenovela which has a Gold Digger Anti Heroine, but now set in Brazil (or Chile, if we see its remake).

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Força de um Desejo ( The Strength of a Desire). A 1999 historical drama and a pretty impressive production of Gilberto Braga, already creator of the period telenovela Escrava Isaura in The '70s. The telenovela is inspired by La Dame aux Camélias: the son a wealthy plantation owner falls in love with a courtesan, but the pair is divided by the scheming of his haughty grandmother. The heartbroken courtesan goes on with marrying a wealthy baron older than her...her lover's father as it turns out. Other than dealing with the main couple, the telenovela focuses on the condition of slaves, with some of them being the main characters. Other subplots are a string of murders that happens in the protagonists' small town. Juana La Virgen: A virgin woman ends up pregnant after receiving an artificial insemination by mistake. Nowadays best known for being the basis for Jane the Virgin. TuNovela has got enormous popularity with it’s simple yet effective interface. We have listed down two of the best methods to Install TuNovela on PC Windows laptop. Both the mentioned emulators are popular to use Apps on PC. You can follow any of these methods to get TuNovela for Windows 10 PC. Decisiones ("Choices"): A Colombian-Puerto Rican anthology series about people suffering the consequences of their choices. Jane the Virgin, the American version of the Venezuelan Juana la virgen, although over time it became its own thing.

Zorro: La espada y la rosa ("The Sword and the Rose"). Yes, Colombia made a Zorro telenovela (loosely inspired by Isabel Allende's Hotter and Sexier version). In some places the genre is referred to as "culebrón", which comes from 'culebra', a type of snake, alluding to their length and intense ups and down, akin to a snakes serpent-like movement. Of note is how the telenovela has influenced similar productions worldwide, with an Arabic genre arising that bears more than a passing resemblance, possibly because of many Middle Eastern immigrants in Latin America raving about telenovelas to their relatives, or the fact that their shorter run than soaps and high melodrama fit in better with pre-existing Eastern productions and Bollywood. Also in Spain, where Latin American telenovelas became huge between the 80s and 2000s, and ended up influencing Spaniard historical drama, which were much more grounded, to start including in the 2010s prominent romance plots that, while never quite as melodramatic as in telenovelas, are quite intense by comparison to traditional Spaniard dramas. Kassandra, a classic tale of Switched at Birth which become the most famous telenovela in the world during the early Nineties. Salomé. A Mexican remake of the 1977 Chilean telenovela La Colorina, which was previously already remade in Mexico in 1980 as Colorina. A cabaret dancer has an affair with the son of an affluent family and ends up pregnant with his child. His overbearing mother proposes to pay her for giving them her child, but after at first reluctantly agreeing, she decides to keep the baby and runs away; years later, the couple rekindles their relationship. One of the most famous roles of Edith González, the actress who played the title role, and who was also in Corazón salvaje and the 2008 version of Doña Barbara.Los Exitosos Pells, about an actor who, because his extremely similar looks to a famous newscaster, is roped into secretely substituting him while the latter is in a coma. Ugly Betty, technically the American version of the Colombian Yo soy Betty, la fea, but like with Jane the Virgin, over time it became its own thing. La intrusa ("The Intruder"). Roberto, about to die after a long illness, decides to ask Virginia, the babysitter of her youngest son, to agree to marry him secretly so that she can take care of his children after he dies and so that they cannot fire her. Virginia is in love with Roberto's eldest son, Carlos Alberto, but when the marriage is discovered, Roberto's children, Carlos Alberto himself included, accuse Virginia of of having married him for ambition. Things get further complicated with Virginia's poor twin sister, Vanessa, arrives. At this point it should be no surprise that it stars the same actress who starred in Deceptions, another telenovela featuring a protagonist with a doppelgänger, although here the twist is that, whereas in Deceptions one lookalike was good and the other evil, here Vanessa is just a good person as Virginia. Rubí: One of the few telenovelas in which the main character is also the villain, as she's a huge Gold Digger.