Staying in this Labor Day Weekend? No worries, Netflix has the best telenovelas selection and here are 15 of the ones you can stream on the service.Telemundo/Televisa
Labor Day, celebrated the first Monday of September, honors the American labor movement and the contributions that workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of their country. The national holiday also marks the end of summer and the beginning of the cozy seasons, fall and winter. Needless to say, every hardworking person in the U.S. gets to enjoy a three-day long weekend to relax. While some people take advantage of the holiday to plan a road trip or do a BBQ at home, others prefer to stay home and call it a day.
For those who rather chill in the comfort of their own house, we've got the perfect way to make a party ---binge watching telenovelas on Netflix! Yay! From narco novela series to all-time classic soap operas, check out 15 novelas we encourage you to watch from the second you wake up to the second you fall asleep.
Traumatized by the events of a difficult life and driven to avenge the betrayal of a husband, Anastasia Cardona will find, in the illicit business of her husband, the wealth which she has always desired. Her thirst for power overrides any limits when choosing her victims. Willing to do anything it takes to defeat her enemies, Anastasia will endure trials of betrayal and the impossibility of living a life with true love.The story features Pedro José Donoso, a wealthy old man who lives in a big mansion with his daughter Angela and his servants. He falls in love with and marries a gorgeous younger woman, Isabel Arroyo. He dies suddenly,and Isabel marries employee Andres Corona. But Pedro Jose returns to Earth through transmigration in the body of Salvador Cerinza, a handsome (yet poor) family man.El Señor de los Cielos is a fictional story inspired by true events. The series chronicles the life of Aurelio Casillas, the biggest drug lord in Mexico during the 1990s, whose great ambition was to become the most rich and powerful man in Mexico and its surroundings. From the time his photograph was first publicized, his face became his worst obstacle; justice and his enemies began to haunt him, and for this reason he underwent plastic surgery.Gabriela Suárez is the only woman working in the gold mine that gives life and name to the town of San Pedro del Oro. Being a single mother and a woman, she suffers the taunts and abuse from some of the miners. Her strong character makes her rebel against these abuses.La Reina del Sur is the story of Teresa Mendoza, a 23-year-old woman who is living with her boyfriend, "El Güero," a drug trafficker and rising star in the Sinaloa cartel. El Güero has been dabbling in his own trade, which is starting to cut into the cartel's profits, and is killed on the order of Epifanio Vargas, the leader of the cartel. Teresa receives a phone call telling her to run. Teresa is unaware that El Güero's death was ordered by Vargas, mistakenly believing that he was killed by rivals in the organization. She trades El Güero's business ledger to Vargas in exchange for his help fleeing the country.Each episode of La Rosa de Guadalupe is different. There is a character who is involved in some sort of problem who asks for La Virgen de Guadalupe to intercede for them.Paola and Paulina are twins who were separated at birth. Paulina is a good, honest woman who lives in poverty and is engaged to a simple man, named Osvaldo (who is seeing another woman). Paola though rich, is a frivolous, evil woman who has many lovers, including her brother in-law Willy. She is married to a wealthy man named Carlos Daniel Bracho. When the twins cross paths by chance, Paola attempts to convince Paulina into taking her place in the Brachos' house, so that she can take a year-long vacation with a new lover, Alessandro.La Viuda Negra tells the story of Griselda Blanco, the real-life drug godmother. Originally from Colombia, Griselda was a pioneer of drug trafficking in the United States, specifically in New York and, eventually, Miami. She became one of the fiercest and most influential drug leaders in the 1970s and early 1980s.Montserrat is a beautiful young socialite who has always been domineered by her mother Graciela whose only concern is their high society status, even though the family is financially ruined. Montserrat, despite doing everything her mother tells her, secretly maintains a relationship with José Luis of the marina, whom she plans to marry, although Graciela has already selected her prospect for Montserrat. "Pasión de gavilanes" is the story of the Reyes brothers, three honest and good-natured men until the day a shocking and unforgettable tragedy makes them go in search of revenge. Their plan takes an unexpected turn when they meet the Elizondo sisters, the three beautiful daughters of the powerful hacendado who they blame for their misfortune. A group of teenagers with different lives and personalities attend a prominent private school with only one thing in common: their vocation and passion for music. Rubí Pérez is a poor woman interested only in money. She studies at an exclusive university thanks to the financial support from Cristina, her hard-working older sister. She is determined to change her poor situation using her seductive skills on a millionaire doctor. An innocent woman becomes haunted by the death of her husband to later learn that he secretly worked in the drug business. This woman, Sara, slowly begins her own drug trafficking business and becomes a woman she never expected to be.Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman, desperately seeking to leave the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives. Despite being beautiful and having support and love from her parents, she lives a miserable and resentful life, blaming poverty for her sister's death. She uses her beauty as a way to make it to the top. She is in love with Mariano, a man who lives in the same neighborhood with her and is studying to become a doctor in order to meet Teresa's expectations and fulfill all her dreams. But Teresa is impatient.In her 25th wedding anniversary party, Victoria Mendoza finds out her husband Enrique Mendoza has a mistress, Tatiana López. Suddenly, Victoria's whole life crashes around her as she realizes her marriage is wrecked. As she tries to heal the pain of her husband's adultery, she meets the 33-year-old Jerónimo.
