Marimar (Season 1)

Marimar (1994) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa that you can watch online on iFILM. The lead role belongs to Thalía — then a pop singer crossing into acting — and the series made her a household name across Latin America, the Philippines and beyond.

Marimar is a young woman living with her grandparents in a beachside shack, with barely enough food to get by. When Sergio Ibáñez (Eduardo Capetillo), the son of a wealthy estate owner, enters her life and eventually proposes marriage — not out of love at first, but to spite his family — Marimar is swept into a world that wants nothing to do with her. The Ibáñez household is openly hostile, and her new status protects her from nothing.

The show ran through dozens of episodes of feuds, revealed secrets and sharp reversals of fortune, which is exactly why it travelled so far. For viewers who caught it in its original run, it's a touchstone. For everyone else, it's an easy entry point into classic Latin telenovela storytelling. Stream all episodes of Marimar online on iFILM.