From Pasión de Gavilanes to Café con aroma de mujer there are more than twenty years of difference but a common factor: they are Colombian series that have managed to conquer millions of people around the world, successful Colombian soap operas that we can see again today in Netflix and to which we can get hooked on the streaming platform.
If you are a fan of soap operas and you are looking for Colombian soap operas to watch on Netflix, there are several options that will allow us hours and hours of marathon. Most of them with more than 80 or 90 episodes of almost an hour that will allow us to have guaranteed drama for weeks with impossible love stories, drugs, mafia, etc.
The classics and current greatest hits
Classic series and Colombian telenovelas well known by all that we can see again today on Netflix…
woman-fragranced coffee
One of the most watched series on Netflix and one of the best Colombian series of all time is “Café con aroma de mujer” released in 2022 on the streaming platform and in the Top 10 for weeks. An 88-episode Colombian telenovela that we can see as a remake of a classic series from Colombia. “Coffee with the aroma of a woman” is the love story between a coffee picker and the grandson of the owner of the plant. Gaviota and Sebastián have very different lives and an impossible love story that we will be following in these 82 episodes of about 50 minutes that we can see on Netflix and that have managed to hook millions of people and all kinds of audiences. Without a doubt, one of the great successes.
Platform : Netflix
Year: 2022
Episodes: One season, 82 episodes
Duration : Between 45 and 50 minutes
Theme : Soap opera, drama
Recommended age : For over 13 years
Watch Woman Scented Coffee on Netflix
Passion of Hawks
If you are looking for one of the great classics of all time, Pasión de Gavilanes is one of the Colombian series that you can watch on Netflix. Almost 200 episodes of a series that could be seen on television in Spain in 2005 on the Antena 3 network and whose soundtrack you surely know. If you also keep singing when you hear “Who is that man…?” it’s because it’s hard not to have heard of her. It is the story of the three Reyes Guerrero brothers who seek to avenge the death of a loved one. A drama of love, heartbreak, jealousy, revenge and family intrigues that has been a worldwide success and that we can see again on Netflix or that you can see now on the streaming platform if you did not see it in its premiere in 2003.
In addition, Telecinco has a new series or reboot since 2022.
Platform : Netflix
Year : 2003
Chapters : One season, 188 episodes
Duration per episode :
Genre : Drama
Recommended age : For over 13 years
See Passion of Gavilanes on Netflix
Without breasts there is paradise
In Spain we saw “Without tits there is no paradise” at the end of the nineties but it is a version of the classic “Without breasts there is no paradise”. And its second part or sequel is available on Netflix: Without breasts, there is paradise. More than 200 episodes of a Colombian soap opera that we can see on the streaming platform and that follows Catalina . The young woman was born the day her sister was murdered and moves in a world of absences, secrets and characters who will try to manage her at will. Among these characters will be La Diabla trying to sell her to some powerful drug traffickers who will put her in a world of drugs and danger.
Platform : Netflix
Year: 2018
Chapters: Three seasons, 240 episodes
Duration : Between 40 and 50 minutes per chapter
Theme : Drama and revenge
Recommended age : For over 16 years
See Without breasts there is paradise on Netflix
the end of paradise
The sequel to “Without breasts there is no paradise” is this Colombian telenovela. A spin off of Telemundo and Fox Colombia based on the trilogy of novels by Gustavo Bolivar and with around 80 episodes that seek to follow Catalina’s story in a world of drugs, prostitution and mafias. One of the essential Colombian series on Netflix but that we do not recommend watching until you have seen the previous installments and only as the end of the telenovela trilogy or as a continuation of the Spanish series that we could see on Telecinco almost twenty years ago today.
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2019
Chapters: One season, 82 episodes
Duration: About 40 or 50 minutes per chapter
Theme : Telenovela / Thriller
Recommended age : For over 16 years
Watch The End of Paradise on Netflix
musical series
If you want to watch Colombian series in which music is part of the plot, there are some recommended soap operas for you on Netflix.
Love and live
Different from classic soap opera dramas and betting on an entertaining and entertaining musical comedy, “Amar y vive” is a Mexican Netflix series released in 2020 and follows a young woman who wants to be a singer. He dreams of dedicating himself to music but works at his mother’s fruit stand. His life will intersect with that of a young peasant who has returned home after military service and tries to find his missing sister. A Colombian soap opera with 69 episodes in which both will delve into the underworld and in which there is no lack of love, drama, love triangles, fights, revenge… But neither is music.
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2020
Chapters: One season, 69 episodes in total
Duration: About 46 minutes for each chapter
Theme : Love, romance series / Telenovela / Musical series
Recommended age : For over 13 years
Watch Love and Live on Netflix
The Queen of Flow
Another of the great successes on Netflix if we look for Colombian series is “La Reina del Flow”. Premiered in 2018, it continues to be one of the most followed telenovelas on the streaming platform and one of the most popular. Yeimi is a street artist and singer who was thrown in jail 17 years ago because of her ex-boyfriend. Now he has managed to get out of prison and seeks revenge. Yeimi has been released from prison to take revenge on Charly, who was her partner. A Colombian drama from Caracol Televisión that we recommend if you are looking for action, drama and soap opera but also if you want music, street rhymes, catchy songs and a lot of flow.
Platform : Netflix
Year: 2018
Episodes: One season, 82 episodes
Duration : Between 45 and 50 minutes
Theme : Soap opera, drama
Recommended age : For over 13 years
See The Queen of Flow on Netflix
Drugs and drug trafficking
There are many Colombian series in which drugs and drug trafficking are part of the axis of history. From classic characters like Pablo Escobar to other dramas like “Muñecas de la mafia” about the wives of popular drug traffickers.
mafia dolls
Brenda, Pamela, Renata, Violeta and Olivia are the protagonists of this telenovela of power, drug trafficking, extravagance and pleasure. Different women but united in a life starring the world of the Colombian mafia and drugs. A soap opera with more than a hundred episodes and one of the best Colombian series to watch on Netflix. Brenda and the others are part of the sentimental life of the biggest drug traffickers in Colombia… A life of luxury and facilities but also of problems, frights, kidnappings, revenge or rivals that will make living in peace not easy.
Platform : Netflix
Year : 2018
Chapters : Two seasons, 118 episodes
Duration per episode : About 60 minutes per chapter
Genre : Police drama
Recommended age : For over 16 years
Watch The Mafia Dolls on Netflix
The patron of evil
Although “Narcos” is the best-known Netflix series if you seek to delve into the life of Pablo Escobar, it is not the only one. The Colombian series “El patron del mar” is a drama that tells us the story and life of Pablo Escobar Gaviria. Produced by Caracol Televisión, it seeks to reflect the life of one of the biggest traffickers in history and is recommended whether you like soap operas or if you are simply looking for an action and drug series, a biographical series that tells us how the character has influenced the Colombian society. According to the experts, a much more realistic and faithful plot to the life of its protagonist and that will allow us to know how he became a hero or a villain for a country.
Platform: Netflix
Year: 2012
Chapters: One season, 74 episodes
Duration: Between 45 and 60 minutes for each chapter
Theme : Pablo Escobar / Biography
Recommended age : For over 13 years
Watch The Pattern of Evil on Netflix
historical series
Although they are still Colombian soap operas and series and dramas to get hooked on, there are some series with a historical component that we can see on Netflix and even seek to tell us about the lives of relevant characters such as Bolívar.
Bolivar
A historical series that bets on a biographical tone if we are looking for Mexican soap operas that go beyond a love drama. It is the story of Bolívar, although more focused on the personal part of the character than on his political role. It is not a documentary or an educational series, but a Colombian telenovela that delves into his personal life, his travels, his lovers… A telenovela with some sixty episodes that seeks to show the “human side” of what many consider a hero.
Platform : Netflix
Year : 2019
Chapters : One season, sixty episodes
Duration : Between 55 and 60 minutes per chapter
Theme : Historical and period series
Recommended age : Over 16 years old
the white slave
Another of the Colombian telenovelas that we can see on Netflix is “La esclava blanca”, a series with a Spanish air. Starring the Spanish actress Nerea Camacho, a Colombian series produced by Caracol Television that takes us back to the year 1821. It follows a population of black slaves who have saved a girl, the young orphan Victoria Quintero. She has been raised by them until the town has been destroyed and Quintero is sent to Spain to be raised by nuns. Years later he will return home to free them from slavery, to reunite with his family.
Platform : Netflix
Year: 2016
Chapters: One season, 62 episodes
Duration : Between 40 and 44 minutes per chapter
Theme : vintage
Recommended age : For over 16 years
Watch The White Slave on Netflix
