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Swades (2004)
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Swades (2004)
Original name: स्वदेस
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: India, USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story: Set in modern day India, Swades is a film that tackles the issues that development throws up on a grass root level. It is to this India, which is colorful, heterogeneous and complex that Mohan Bhargava (Shah Rukh Khan), a bright young scientist working as a project manager in NASA, returns on a quest to find his childhood nanny.
Style: touching, sincere, inspirational, patriotic, sentimental, uplifting, cult classic, realistic, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: poverty, discrimination, village, human spirit, journey, follow your dream, self discovery, social differences, homecoming, change of heart, obsessive quest, immigrant, social issues, friendship, fall in love, society, social problems, redemption, culture clash, idealism, hopes, patriot, scientist, hindu, indians ...
Time: year 2004, y2k, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: india, middle east, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and serious films with plots about bollywood, hindi, love and romance, family relations, hindu, love and fall in love mostly in Drama, Musical and Romance genres. Some movies like Swades: Chak De! India (2007), Flight (2010), Bilal's Stand (2010), Smile (2005), Yash Chopra's Veer-Zaara (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Chak De! India (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: India, USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 153 min.
Story: A team of rag-tag girls with their own agenda form Team India competing for international fame in field hockey. Their coach, the ex-men's Indian National team captain, returns from a life of shame after being unjustly accused of match fixing in ...
Style: feel good, realistic, inspirational, patriotic, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: underdog, coach, contests and competitions, rivalry, sport team, determination, against the odds, bonding, glory, power relations, patriotism, media coverage ...
Time: year 2007, y2k, 21st century
Place: india, middle east, australia, asia
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Flight (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story: After being abandoned for eight straight years in boarding school, Rohan returns to the small industrial town of Jamshedpur and finds himself closeted with an authoritarian father and a younger half brother who he didn't even know existed. ...
Style: sincere, captivating, touching, sentimental, inspirational ...
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, self discovery, friendship, family reunited, parents and children, homecoming, family relations, estrangement, step siblings, family problems, youth ...
Time: year 2010, y2k, 21st century
Place: middle east, india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Bilal's Stand (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, follow your dream, self discovery, teenage life, family business, society, youth, human spirit, hopes, workplace, family problems, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 1K
Smile (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Introduced to a volunteer opportunity with the Doctor's Gift Program, Katie (Mika Boorem) signs up for a trip to China, where she meets Lin (Yi Ding), a girl with whom she shares a birthday. Lin has a facial deformity that discourages her from ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: friendship, social differences, culture clash, teenage life, human spirit, human nature, society, misfit, teaching the ways of the world, disfigured, journey, rich and poor ...
Time: year 2005
Place: china, california, usa, asia, malibu california ...
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100%
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You Don't Get Life a Second Time (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, Spain
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Mumbai-based Kabir Dhiman, who comes from a wealthy building construction family, proposes to his long-time girlfriend, Natasha, much to the delight of both their respective families. He then gets together with one of two of his close friends, Imran ...
Style: road movie, entertaining, realistic, philosophical, semi serious ...
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, travel, friendship, extreme sport, friends, hindu, free spirited, obsessive quest, self discovery, fall in love, engaged, wedding preparations and rituals ...
Time: y2k, year 2011, 21st century
Place: spain, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Sport
Country: India, USA
Duration: 224 min.
Story: Lagaan tells the tale of the Indian village Champaner, beset by drought and British colonialism in the year 1893. Without a drop of rain in months, the worried villagers of Champaner decide to ask the local authorities for a temporary repeal of ...
Style: patriotic, realistic, inspirational, semi serious, uplifting ...
Plot: love triangle, village, patriotism, british raj, sikh, cricket, caste system, colonialism, self esteem, friendship, jealousy, poverty ...
Time: 19th century, year 2001, 2000s, 50s, 1800s ...
Place: britain, middle east, nebraska, asia, europe ...
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54%
Yash Chopra's Veer-Zaara (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 192 min.
Story: The story of the love between Veer Pratap Singh, an Indian, and Zaara Hayaat Khan, a Pakistani...a love so great it knows no boundaries...
Style: serious, atmospheric, emotional, captivating, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, impossible love, muslim, rescue, uncover truth, social differences, false accusation, love affair, against the odds, hopes, legal, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2004
Place: india, pakistan, asia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Happiness & Tears (2001)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, UK
Duration: 210 min.
Story: Orthodox Indian, Raichand, would like his two sons to live together with him and his wife, and get married to girls' of his choice. One of his sons, Rahul, is adopted, while Rohan is his real son. Rahul falls in love with a poor Indian girl ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: forbidden love, reconciliation, father son relationship, love, wealth, brother brother relationship, unrequited love, separation from family, love and romance, couple relations, estrangement, parent child relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 189 min.
Story: Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood ...
Style: romantic, touching, entertaining, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: wedding, fall in love, love and romance, patriarchy, train, love, forbidden love, trip, love story, opposites attract, family relations, tradition ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century
Place: india, switzerland, england, middle east, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Tomorrow May Never Come (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, Canada
Duration: 186 min.
Story: Naina is a very serious girl with a very serious life. But one day, her soul is awakened by the happy-go-lucky Aman, who teaches her that life is meant to be lived. Naturally, she falls in love with him. But Aman is harboring a secret that keeps him ...
Style: sincere, touching, romantic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: terminal illness, love triangle, neighbor, young woman, secret, diary, tragic event, unfulfilled love, family life, best friend, family problems, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, middle east, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Something Is Happening (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Anjali is left heartbroken when her best friend and secret crush, Rahul, falls in love with Tina. Years later, Tina's young daughter tries to fulfil her mother's last wish of uniting Rahul and Anjali.
Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: friendship, love triangle, best friend, childhood friend, love, love and romance, youth, family life, crumbling relationship, unhappiness, family relations, couples ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india, middle east, scotland, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Banaras: A Mystic Love Story (2006)
Genre: Musical, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Banaras: A Mystic Love Story is the name of an Indian Bollywood film directed by Pankaj Parashar released in 2006. The film takes place in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi (the city, once known as Banaras, serves as a destination for the pilgrimage ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot: hinduism, guru, family relations, social differences, love affair, culture clash, love and romance, society, fall in love, couples, family problems, religions or cults ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.0
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Love Stories (2000)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 216 min.
Story: In India, open romance is forbidden, as is showing affection in public. A college principal named Narayan is a strong believer in this, aware that a male student named Vicky is in love with Ishika; while another male student is hopelessly in love ...
Style: romantic, touching, serious, realistic, entertaining
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: true love, forbidden love, father daughter relationship, friendship, tradition, love and romance, fall in love, youth, love affair, teenage life, teachers and students, buddies ...
Time: 90s
Place: india, england, asia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
A Married Woman (2005)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
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Audience: date night
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Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: asia, india, kolkata
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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String (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Shankar Singh and his wife, Meera, live in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India along with widowed paternal grandmother, Laxmibai, his mom, Gowri, and dad, Randhir. The family feel that they are blessed after Meera's entry in this family. Shankar must go ...
Style: realistic, emotional, sincere, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, hopes, power of love, redemption, dishonesty, gender, friends, muslim, loss of spouse, social differences, women, female empowerment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
A Mother's Prayer (2009)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A Mother's Prayer, starring Robin Givens (Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys), Johnny Gill (legendary R&B singer), Shirley Murdock (Man of Her Dreams) and Jermaine Crawford (HBO's The Wire), tells the compelling, heartwarming ...
Style: touching, realistic, uplifting, serious, emotional ...
Plot: self discovery, family life, redemption, family relations, family in crisis, last wish, love and romance, hopes, estrangement, family problems, dealing with death, soul ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Cherished Memories (2001)
Genre: Musical, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 171 min.
Story: Raj Singh Puri has a very wealthy friend in Lalit Kumar Malhotra, and his wife, Nalini. After the passing away of his wife, Shalini, Raj has become more dependent on the Malhotras, and they have offered him support and solace in his time of need. ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, romantic
Plot: family relations, young lovers, fall in love, siblings relations, win over, parents and children, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, love, father daughter relationship, hindu, materialism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, london, malaysia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Refugee (2000)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 207 min.
Story: The films tells the story of an un-named Indian Muslim, who helps illegal refugees from both India and Pakistan to cross the border through the Great Rann of Kutch. The film is attributed to have been inspired by the short story "Love Across ...
Style: serious, sincere, sentimental, tense, social ...
Plot: love triangle, family relations, soldier, fall in love, love affair, border patrol, terrorist, society, parents and children, mistaken identity, destiny, immigrant ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: pakistan, india, new delhi
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
As Long as I Live (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 198 min.
Story: An ex-army man, leading a double life in London, must choose between his wife and muse. Jab Tak Hai Jaan movie is a love triangle,and also marks the return of Yash Chopra as a director after eight years. In Jab Tak Hai Jaan, Shahrukh Khan plays ...
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, love triangle, bomb, power of love, couples, love and romance, soldier, encounter, artists and showbiz, journalist, doubts and hesitations, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, london, england, kashmir
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Sometimes Yes, Sometimes No (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Sunil belongs to a middle-class family, and is intent in pursuing his career with a music group, despite of his dad disapproval. Sunil is also in love with Anna, but Anna does not really love him, but likes him as a friend. Sunil is persistent, but ...
Style: emotional, powerful, inspirational, cult classic, romantic ...
Plot: indians, hindu, music band, unrequited love, studying, family relations, couples, love and romance, lifestyle, wooing, unfulfilled love, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: india, asia, goa india
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
This Youth Is Crazy (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani features two polar opposite characters, who at one point were classmates in Modern School. The first is Naina Talwar (Deepika Padukone), a studious bespectacled young girl. The second is Bunny (Ranbir Kapoor), a carefree ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
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Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: india, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Immortal Love (1972)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Amar Prem (Eternal Love) shows a off and on loving relationship between a small boy Nandu and a nautch girl Pushpa (Sharmila Tagore). Pushpa is seperated from her Husband and is brought to Calcutta to work as a Nautch girl. Here she meets Anand ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot: prostitute, true love, rebel, affair, female protagonist, happiness, loneliness, prostitution, sadness, unrequited love, maid, affection ...
Time: 70s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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When Love Calls (1989)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 192 min.
Story: Karan (Alok Nath) lives in a small house with his only daughter, Suman (Bhagyashree). He decides to travel overseas in Dubai, in the Persian Gulf, so that he can accumulate enough wealth to get his daughter married. He decides to leave his daughter ...
Style: romantic drama, mesmerizing, romantic, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: tragic love, hindu, family relations, love of one's life, family life, love and romance, fall in love, father, fight, businessman, love, wealth ...
Time: 80s
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.7
 14K
Yes Boss (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story: There are lots of poor people in India who want to get rich soon. A woman named Seema is one of them. She is very beautiful and has an admirer by the name of Sidharth. This man is very rich, and says he wants to marry Seema. But Seema finds out that ...
Style: entertaining, romantic, semi serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: womanizer, affair, hindu, couple relations, dishonesty, fall in love, love and romance, model, couples, infidelity, chaos and mayhem, love triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story: A lonely 40-ish man, likely to remain a bachelor, has a chance to find the love of his life when he falls for a vivacious young woman.
Style: feel good, emotional, romantic, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: couples, couple relations, dancer's life, disorder, ambition, love and romance, dishonesty, shyness, dancer, artists and showbiz, hindu, love ...
Time: year 2008
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
We Stand United (1999)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story: The trials and challenges of a joint family in India, whose parents are Ramkishen and second wife Mamta, and have three sons and a married daughter. The eldest son is handicapped since birth, and is from Ramkishen's first wife. Mamta, the ...
Style: entertaining, romantic, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: wedding, stepmother stepson relationship, family relations, family business, remorse, brother brother relationship, brother sister relationship, tradition, happiness, husband wife relationship, celebration, vacation ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
My Little Devil (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: India, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After the tragic passing away of his mother, Joseph Ignace alias Jassiya (Rushabh Patni) is sent to a Catholic Hostel where he can continue his studies as well as live in the hostel. The sudden separation from his mother, diet, and familiar ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, sentimental, gujarati
Plot: human spirit, friendship, society, hopes, social misfits, social differences, youth, boarding school life, redemption, bittersweet, boarding school, cross cultural relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.5
 22K
The Namesake (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, Japan, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: immigrant, childhood, marriage, generation gap, childbirth, relationships, parenthood, life, rebel, family life, society, acceptance ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2006, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: india, new york, usa, ohio, taj mahal
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story: A young mute girl from Pakistan loses herself in India with no way to head back. A devoted man with a magnanimous spirit undertakes the task to get her back to her motherland and unite her with her family.
Style: touching, emotional, disturbing, sweet, sentimental ...
Plot: love, love story, revenge, manipulation, forbidden love, religions or cults, fall in love, love and romance, love affair, indians, torture, patriot ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: india, pakistan, kashmir
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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