The Top 20 Best American Telenovelas

When Eva's father is killed by a hit-and-run driver, she vows to find the culprit. Her life becomes a nightmare when she begins to suspect the man she loves. However, her suspicions are being fed by others.

Barbarita is a sweet and modest young woman who works as a seamstress at a renowned fashion boutique in Miami. When she is asked to do a fitting for the well-known society widow Ricarda Thomson, Barbarita has no clue that this will be the beginning of a tortuous relationship between her and this millionaire family. At the estate, she fortuitously meets Valentino, Ricarda's oldest son. Single, dishonest, spoiled and accustomed to always getting his way, Valentino decides to seduce the beautiful Barbarita, who soon succumbs to his charms. However, for the first time in his life, Valentino feels more than physical attraction and discovers that he has fallen in love for real. Going against the wishes of his arrogant mother, who considers the poor seamstress beneath his son in every way, Valentino and Barbarita are married in a quiet, intimate ceremony. However, happiness disappears as quickly as it came for Barbarita. On their wedding night, when the couple set out on their honeymoon trip, they have a terrible car accident that takes Valentino's life and leaves Barbarita merely bruised. This twist of fate is something that Ricarda Thompson will never forgive. Full of hate and pain, blaming Barbarita for Valentino's death, she convinces her younger son, Antonio Adolfo, to avenge Valentino by playing a cruel trick on Barbarita: he is to court her, seduce and then abandon her, leaving the young woman totally humiliated. That is how love enters Barbarita's life for the second time, once again bearing the Thomson name. Antonio Adolfo follows his mother's plan to perfection, but along the way he realizes something totally unexpected: Barbarita's kindness, tenderness and beauty have won his heart, and he is in love - just as his brother had been. Now, he too decides to defy his mother and make Barbarita his wife. It seems that Barbarita will finally be happy - until she is faced with an even greater obstacle than Ricarda's rage: Valentino himself, who had faked his death in order to avoid being exposed for embezzlement of the family's company funds, and now returns to claim his woman and his fortune.

Guadalupe is the illegitimate daughter of a man who abandoned her when she was born. Before the man dies, he is haunted by guilt, makes her the only heiress and leaves his relatives with nothing. She moves in with the hateful relatives and meets the mysteries Alfredo, whom she can't decide whether to love or hate.

It tells the story of a young lower-class secretary, firm in her Christian values, decent and very attached to her family. However, love will take her by surprise when she meets Luis Felipe and her heart shakes.

A wealthy, unscrupulous family alters the fate of a mother and her two daughters.

Valeria and Leopoldo work on their relationship while they fight temptations while living in Miami.

From the city of Zacatecas, Florecita takes off on a large trip to the United States with the company of her sister Isela and her grandmother Cleotilde. The girls are going to reunite with their father Ruben, and their brothers Rodrigo and Victor, that live in Miami. It is a trip filled with dangers and suffrage; the grandmother dies along the way and her granddaughters have to bury her in the desert. The two young women continue their way filled with sadness, but without losing hope in finding their father. Finally, they get to Miami where they find out that Ruben has fallen in the alcoholism. In Miami there also lives Gabriela, the mother of Florecita, whom her children believe dead. Gabriela got married again and is now a famous television show host. Without knowing their family relationship, mother and daughter will find themselves again. Florecita starts working immediately by selling flowers in the street, where one day she meets Julio Alberto and his girlfriend Gloria, whom are about to be married. But that same day of the wedding, Gloria dies, and the heart of Julio Alberto breaks in one thousand pieces. Occasionally he sees Florecita on the street and talks with her for a moment. Little by little, the smile of the innocent florist gets into his heart, and his life results less empty. The mother of Julio Alberto, Rebeca, lives with her three sons to expenses of her twin sister Raquel. Both sisters hate each other, and Rebeca waits anxiously for the day in which Raquel will die to inherit her fortune. But Raquel will play Rebeca one last evil trick, since she knows she suffers from a terminal cancer, she decides to give her fortune to the florist. Rebeca gets furious when the testament is read; she will not allow a stranger to steal what she considers is hers, and she obligates Julio Alberto to make the young woman fall in love with him. Florecita ingenually believes in him and accepts to be his wife. With diabolic intelligence, Rebeca manages to deprives her from everything, and without any feelings, throws her out into the street. To Florecita, Julio Alberto's treason hurts more than the loss of her fortune. She was never rich and never meant to be rich. Decided to not to herself down by adverisities, she looks for a job again and finds it as a servant in the house of the Dalmacci family, where Jorge, the primogenitor, is fascinated by the kindness of her soul and falls in love with her. Now, Florecita finds herself in a crossroad because Jorge wishes to make her his wife, but Julio Alberto has discovered that he really loves her and begs her to come back with him. To which of these two does her heart belong?

23-year-old Alma lives with exploitative Fucha and foster sister Jazmin. Alma starts working at the Sorrento estate, facing humiliation. She falls for administrator Juan Pablo amid scheming from others vying for power and revenge.

Emilia goes from being a poor immigrant to a millionaire heir. This transformation is a perverse plan that traps her in a web of lies and deception. What starts out as a dream turns into a nightmare that changes your life.

Ana Escudero goes to Miami to visit her entire family in a two-story house; eventually, one fateful night, Ana's entire world crashes down on top of her. In the grand debut of the telenovela, the rash Ignacio Bustamante destroyed Ana's life when he runs over her brother while he is trying to change the tire to his car. To cover up the accident, Ignacio purposely throws a sleeping gas bomb into her house while her mom and brother's fiance are inside and then sets the house on fire. Everyone believes it was Ana who died. Her brother, who was in a coma, came out of it, but paralyzed. Afraid for their lives, they move to New York for two years before Fabian dies of an aneurysm. Because of this, Ana vows revenge on the Bustamante family and takes on a new persona. Unknowingly, at the same time, Ana meets the brother of Ignacio named Gustavo, the son who had been disowned by his father for refusing to go into the family business and wanting to pursue an acting career. Ana falls in love with Gustavo, not realizing that he's part of the family that she wants to seek revenge on.

Ivana is a hopeless romantic and a dreamer. She is in love with the gorgeous Raimundo. Every day Ivana goes to the beach to watch him jog. When she finally bumps into him, Ivana exaggerate her origin, social status and family. In fact she comes from a broken home. Her mother Rosario abandoned her to run off with her lover. While Ivana fantasizes of her dream wedding with Raimundo, she is unaware he's already engaged to Patty. It comes out that Patty is a step-daughter of Augusto, Ivana's biological father.

Fate will bring two sisters together again, but in an unfavorable way because both will fall in love with the same man: Alejandro, son of the murderer of their father.

Maria Clara and Carlos Raul are in love and preparing to get married. But everything changes when he looses his job, postpones the wedding, moves to Miami and there becomes involved with a wealthy heiress.

Montserrat is a girl who lives with her wealthy parents who adore her and Juan José, her boyfriend, loves her very much. Ingrid envies everything that makes her cousin Montserrat happy and decides to destroy her love with Juan José.

Rebeca is a hard working young woman, who holds two jobs in order to help her family and attends a night college to achieve a diploma. She lives with her mother Matilde and her two sisters Niurka and Patty. One day Rebeca crashes her delivery truck into the car of Eduardo Montalbán, a rich and dashing playboy. Since the accident a romance develops between them. However, Eduardo's girlfriend, Princesa Izaguirre pushes for a marriage and is determined to eliminate the competition. Rebeca encounters Sergio Montalbán, unaware that he is Eduardo's father. Now father and son will become rivals for the heart of the woman of their dreams. Rebeca's childhood friend and neighbour, Martín has been in love with her for a long time but his feelings aren't shared. Meanwhile Sara Santos, the maid of the Montalbán family hides baffling secrets from her past, one of which being a mistress to Sergio and having a child from him.