The 50 Most Popular Telenovelas of the 80's

A mother's overbearing and unhealthy love for her only biological son will lead to the realization of a despicable plot that ends up ruining the lives of many individuals.

A poor maid becomes pregnant and is fired; with no money for herself and the child, she leaves her in an orphanage. Years later she has become very rich and successful, but she has never forgotten the child she abandoned years before.

A poor young blind girl falls in love with a guy.

Teresa desperately seeks to escape poverty. Resentful of the miserable life that left her without her sister, she plans to use her beauty and intelligence as method to enter the luxurious world to which she so desperately wants to belong.

A poor girl encounters a wealthy young man and falls in love with him, but his family does not approve

To save Maria Elena's baby, Maria Elena's nanny has to -kidnap- him and take him far away to raise him.

A theater student and cheerleader for a basketball team, starts working in a washing tunnel to help her family: her father has just died. The owner of the car wash knows Gabriela and has an affair with her.

Oyuki Ogino lives in a Japanese village in the early 1970s. She is a beautiful, honest, good woman whose beauty and physical attributes are used by her ambitious brother Yutaka Ogino, who exploits her and forces her to work as a Geisha.

A woman spends 20 years in Prison in a foreign country. Once she gets out, She finds out her children have been told a lie.

Follow the beautiful and tormented only daughter of a well-known businessman, a rich and spoiled girl who falls in love with her literature professor at San Lazaro Prep School.

A millionaire man married to a sick woman falls in love with a famous cabaret artist.

Diana Salazar is a woman who has the ability to move things with her mind.

Maricruz and Beatriz are best friends, Beatriz comes from a wealthy family and Maricruz doesn't. Both are about to turn 15, at which age they will leave their childhood behind. Girls, welcome to adulthood.

A young woman gets involved in a feud between two brothers.

Although Eugenia Montiel was a minor when she committed a crime, she sits in prison for five years awaiting her judgment. She knows that the one responsible for her long imprisonment was the lawyer, Diego Mendoza; she hates him and swears to take revenge on him for this injustice. Silvana, a violent predator, hits her in the head with a fire extinguisher, which temporarily blinds her. A strange woman called Endrina visits Diego and asks him to repair his injustice. Taking advantage of Eugenia's blindness, Diego pretends to be a nurse, makes friends with her, and falls in love with her although he's already married to Pilar Luján with whom he has daughter María de los Ángeles. Before knowing the face of Eugenia, he marches, leaving her the truth in a letter. Eugenia gets free and goes to live with Endrina and her sister Cándida, who adopt her. Cándida knows the secret about Eugenia's origin, but she dies without telling her. Eugenia has only one clue: the name "Constitución Méndez"; with this she goes to Caracas to look for the cruel and powerful Constitución who is her real mother, something that both of them ignore.

Follows the life of Emiro Lizarraga, the owner of Amazonas, a farm. h

Love story between a teacher and a student in a all-girls boarding school

We're back in the turbulent times of 1928 and a failed coup leaves a wealthy man wounded and near death. He begs his mute servant to go in search of the Adriana, the daughter he has never seen. Once the servant finds her he is to hand over the documents that will make her the heir to a large fortune. The search is long and difficult and there are many dead-ends along the way. The mother of the girl he searches for believes that she is dead. The girl herself does not know of her past history or who her parents really are. Wealthy people with hidden agendas and powerful friends are anxious to prevent the servant from succeeding in his quest and then there is twisted love and raw passion to content with as well. Ultimately those that tried to prevent the servant from finding Adriana will be destroyed by someone they do not recognize.

This is a Telenovela Venezuela about virgin bride-to-be Leonela Ferrari (Mayra Alexandra) getting ready to be married. One night she is the victim of a violent drunken man, Jorge Luis Guerra (Carlos Olivier), who rapes her. Her fiancé refuses to marry her, and when she realizes that she is pregnant, her rich, influential parents dread what "everyone will say" when they find out that Leonela is pregnant and not getting married. Leonela later becomes a lawyer and puts Jorge Luis Guerra in jail for 12 years, during which he falls in love with her and regrets what he did.

Beatriz is a widow who is dedicated to raising her children, Vicky and Juanito, along with her mother-in-law Doña Emilia. Beatriz marries Enrique, later discovering the satanic treatment that her husband has in exchange for money.

The innocent María López leaves her town, looking for a better economic future in Mexico City. She gets a job as a servant in the home of a wealthy family. María falls in love and gives up her employer's son and he leaves her pregnant.