The Best TV Shows on Telemundo

Every Telemundo Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Boasting a rich catalog, Telemundo features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 2003 to 2021. Notable series such as Pasión de Gavilanes and Prisoner from Telemundo first graced the screens in 2003 and 2004. Discover the best of Telemundo with our list of over 20 series, meticulously updated for July 2025.

  • La hija del Mariachi
    La hija del Mariachi (2006)8.0

    Emiliano, a wealthy Mexican businessman, is ripped off by his friends and partners. Hidden in Bogotá, he receives help from Rosario, a mariachi singer. She does not know Emiliano’s background and that he is wanted by the police of two countries and by a criminal organization. With a new name and personality, he adapts well to his new life as a mariachi band member and finds in Rosario the love of his life. But he is afraid his secret will tear them apart. He needs to clear his name and resolve his case to avoid that fate. Meanwhile, he often finds his love tested and vulnerable to several rivals, but Rosario always trusts that he has been honest with her.

  • Who Is Who?
    Who Is Who? (2015)8.0

    Is a story about twin brothers, one rich and the other poor, who were separated at birth and reunited several years later by fate. However their polar opposite lives are switched. Through this journey they search and discover themselves.

  • Pasión prohibida
    Pasión prohibida (2013)7.9

    Pasión Prohibida is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Television Studios, Miami. It is a remake of the Turkish telenovela Aşk-ı Memnu by Ece Yörenç and Melek Gençoğlu. It has been adapted from Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil's novel Aşk-ı Memnu, published in 1900, but takes place in the modern-day Miami, instead of the novel's late 19th century setting. Jencarlos Canela and Mónica Spear starred as the protagonists.

  • Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio
    Jenni Rivera: Mariposa de Barrio (2017)7.9

    This drama reveals the difficult rise to fame of the Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera, from her past of abuse to success as a band leader.

  • Senora Acero
    Senora Acero (2014)7.8

    The adventures of Vicenta Acero, the feared coyote who now leads the dynasty of illicit dealings once under the control of her father.

  • La Casa de los Famosos
    La Casa de los Famosos (2021)7.8

  • Doña Bárbara
    Doña Bárbara (2008)7.7

    Doña Bárbara is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo, Sony Pictures Television International and RTI Colombia. Edith González and Christian Meier star in this adaptation of the 1929 novel by Venezuelan author Rómulo Gallegos.

  • El Chema
    El Chema (2016)7.7

    Follow one man's epic journey as he transforms from wily underage drug smuggler to one of the world's most infamous cartel leaders.

  • Silvana Sin Lana
    Silvana Sin Lana (2016)7.7

    A high society woman loses everything and has to move with her three daughters, and her mom to a middle-class neighborhood.

  • Pasión de Gavilanes
    Pasión de Gavilanes (2003)7.6

    The Reyes-Elizondo's idyllic lives are shattered by a murder charge against Eric and León.

  • Second chance
    Second chance (2005)7.6

    El cuerpo del Deseo also known as Second Chance is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by Telemundo and Film in Florida. This limited-run series is about a man who comes back from the dead and discovers dark secrets about his beautiful widow. The first version of El cuerpo del Deseo was En Cuerpo Ajeno produced by RTI Colombia in 1992.This telenovela was aired in 25 countries around the world.

  • Dangerous Affairs
    Dangerous Affairs (2012)7.6

    Relaciones Peligrosas, originally known as Fisico o Quimica, is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami. It is an adaptation of the Spanish television series Física o Química. It has Sandra Echeverría, Gabriel Coronel, Maritza Bustamante, Gonzalo García Vivanco, Jonathan Freudman, Mercedes Molto, Carlos Ferro, Daniela Navarro, Renato Rossini, Kevin Aponte and Ana Layevska in the leading roles of the plot.

  • Sin senos sí hay paraíso
    Sin senos sí hay paraíso (2016)7.5

    A young woman born in a mafia-controlled town seeks revenge on those who wrongfully harmed and imprisoned her family.

  • False Identity
    False Identity (2018)7.5

    Isabel and Diego, two complete strangers, must assume the identity of a married couple in order to flee the state of Sonora.

  • La tormenta
    La tormenta (2005)7.3

    La Tormenta is a Colombian 2005 telenovela produced by RTI Colombia and broadcast by Telemundo and Caracol TV, starring Natalia Streignard and Christian Meier. Maria Teresa is a woman accustomed to living in the city, but she has to move to live at ‘La Tormenta’, her family’s estate, to try to save her family from financial ruin. The family is facing economic problems and she thinks La Tormenta will save them from bankruptcy.

  • The Impostor
    The Impostor (2014)7.2

    La Impostora, is a Spanish-language telenovela presumably to be produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami.

  • Los Plateados
    Los Plateados (2005)6.7

    This is a historical novel with its Roots in the beginning of XIX century. "Silverplated" were bandits who stole from the routes which transported silver to the states of Guanajuato and Taxco in Mexico. For that reason the bandits were called "the silver plated ones", which means "the silver-plated". It was the social time of the bandits, They would steal from the rich and give to the poor. This soap opera bring that era to us with plenty of excitement and romance.

  • Parientes a la Fuerza
    Parientes a la Fuerza (2021)6.0

    After George's mom dies, he's tasked with taking her ashes from Los Angeles to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he meets Carmen, a beautiful singer who inadvertently saves his life.

  • Duenos Del Paraiso
    Duenos Del Paraiso (2015)5.5

    After Anastasia Cardona's drug lord husband is murdered she inherits his cocaine empire, and finds a life of wealth, power, violence, and betrayal.

  • Prisoner
    Prisoner (2004)N/A

    Wrongfully accused of a crime she didn't commit, 13 year old Guadalupe Santos is sentenced to 30 years in jail, while in jail she gives birth to a baby girl who is taken from her by her older sister Milagros. 15 years later she escapes jail and meets with Daniel Moncada who turns out to be the brother of the man she was accused of killing.