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To Love, To Lose(2026)

Also known as Alles fuer die Liebe • L'Amour à perte

Archived · Netflix

148 eps
S01
Drama
ON AIR: JAN 15Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

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To Love, To Lose pairs a tender romance with the threat of a loan shark family. Kemal’s growing feelings for Afife complicate the work he is expected to do, turning their encounters into a conflict between collecting what she owes and caring about her. The drama stays close to that uncomfortable contradiction, with longing and doubt alongside the pressure of his obligations to his bosses.

Afife’s restaurant shifts give the relationship a concrete backdrop: she is a screenwriter whose creative career has given way to making ends meet. Their repeated meetings unfold as one continuing story, gradually changing Kemal’s ideas about goodness and love. Closeness does not erase the debt between them, and his tenderness develops alongside a painful questioning of the life he has accepted.

Best for

tender crime romance, emotional love story and Drama

Story lane

Drama

Commitment

Season 1 · 8 episodes

Where

Netflix

Official Premise

Kemal, the debt collector for a loan shark family, sets out to collect the debt of Afife, a screenwriter who is forced to work in a restaurant. Along the way with her, Kemal discovers that virtue and love are not what he once beli...

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