Words similar to melodramas

Example sentences for: melodramas

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You may well be more baffled by the appeal of the colorful musical comedies and violent shoot-em-ups than you would be in the West, but the emotion of the melodramas and romantic adventure stories of India’s cultural and historic past have considerable curiosity value for a rainy afternoon.
If you think that sounds a little lurid, that's the whole point: These were ripe metropolitan melodramas served up for the genteel piano parlors of the suburbs.
Not to take anything away from his movie--it's a lovely work--but Almodóvar arrived as a world-class director 15 years ago, when his silly, campy, and impassioned melodramas were like joyous dances on Gen.
We see it in the ghosts and doppelgängers who populate the melodramas of Amy Tan and her imitators.
The plot twists are dismissed as hackneyed, borrowed from Cold War thrillers and courtroom melodramas.