Movies like My Faraway Bride

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My Faraway Bride (2006)
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My Faraway Bride (2006)
Original name: My Bollywood Bride
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of Alex, a copy-writer dreaming of being an adventure novelist someday, who meets and romances Indian beauty Reena, while she is vacationing in California. Torn by her blossoming feelings for Alex and her Indian family values and obligations, Reena returns home without saying goodbye. Alex, distraught by the turn of events, decides to follow her to Mumbai and win her back.
Style: sentimental, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love affair, social differences, opposites attract, friendship, fall in love, couples, tragic love, society, looking for love, writer's life, fish out of water, infidelity, celebrity, love at first sight, wedding, friends, family relations, love and romance, tour guide, contests and competitions, actor's life, couple relations, chaos and mayhem, love, interracial romance ...
Time: contemporary
Place: usa, california, asia, india

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and feel good films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, couple relations, bollywood, love and looking for love mostly in Romance, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like My Faraway Bride: Bride & Prejudice (2004), Looking for Maria Sanchez (2013), Cocktail (2012), When Harry Tries to Marry (2011), The Wish List (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bride & Prejudice (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA, India, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A Bollywood update of Jane Austen's classic tale, in which Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitable husbands for her four unmarried daughters. When the rich single gentlemen Balraj and Darcy come to visit, the Bakshis have high hopes, though ...
Style: romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, colorful ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: opposites attract, initially antagonists, love and romance, society, wedding, arranged marriage, couple relations, interracial romance, dancing, love, culture clash, fall in love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: india, london, england, california, usa ...
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Looking for Maria Sanchez (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Raul, a Puerto Rican born in New York, meets Maria, a young Puerto Rican woman visiting NY, one night. Struck by love at first sight, he travels to Puerto Rico in search of this beautiful girl.
Style: humorous, sentimental, captivating, light, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, looking for love, friends, fish out of water, love, love at first sight, journey, culture clash, couples, society, love story, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: puerto rico, new york, usa
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Cocktail (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Gautam is an incorrigible flirt, who runs after every girl he sees. Meera is a pretty girl with desi values and attire, who comes to London from Delhi for a fresh start. Veronica is the spoilt bombshell who loves partying and drinking. Though ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: beach, love triangle, friendship, beach party, lifestyle, fall in love, couples, love affair, love and romance, nightlife, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
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When Harry Tries to Marry (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An Indian-American surprises his family when he announces his desire for an arranged marriage with an Indian woman, though his affection for a longtime American friend complicate his plan.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: looking for love, fall in love, true love, couples, immigrant, unlikely couple, society, self discovery, wedding preparations and rituals, friendship, interracial love, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, india, asia
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The Wish List (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sarah Fisher, an overly organized, by-the-numbers kind of woman, makes a "wish list" of all the qualities and traits her future husband should have. After finding the perfect man, she falls for a guy who meets none of her criteria and ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, light, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: fall in love, love triangle, couples, looking for love, opposites attract, dating, dinner, christmas, rivalry, society, friendship, cooking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ecuador
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Love Breakups Zindagi (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Love Breakups Zindagi is a movie which tries to answer the question related to love, breakups and life. A couple and many of their friends experience changes and challenges in their respective lives after attending a wedding.
Style: feel good, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: couples, looking for love, buddies, breakup, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, friendship, lifestyle, lgbt, wedding, punjabi ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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Orange (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Orange is a 2010 Telugu romantic comedy film directed by Bhaskar, in his third venture after Bommarillu and Parugu. The film features Ram Charan Teja and Genelia D'Souza with Shazahn Padamsee playing a pivotal role. The film, which has music ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love affair, looking for love, love and romance, youth, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, graffiti, young lovers, fall in love, telugu
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india, australia
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Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Six newly-married, diverse, honeymooning couples face marital bliss and discord, finding out more about themselves, their significant others and life in this happy-go-lucky, quirky drama.
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: honeymoon, newlyweds, couple relations, love and romance, social differences, couples, tour guide, crumbling marriage, society, on the road, love, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, goa india
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Americanizing Shelley (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A wannabe Hollywood player sets out to Americanize an Indian girl from the Himalayas.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, touching
Audience: date night
Plot: hollywood, opposites attract, fall in love, disorder, social differences, misfit, celebrity culture, filmmaking, teaching the ways of the world, fish out of water, country, immigration ...
Place: usa, himalaya, asia
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Namastey London (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Indian-born Manmohan Malhotra decided to re-locate to London, England, established himself, returned to India, got married to Bebo, and after a period of 4 years got a visa for her so that she could live with him. Shortly thereafter she gave birth ...
Style: romantic, realistic, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: culture clash, family relations, couples, love triangle, looking for love, parents and children, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, wedding planning, tragic love, diaspora ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: india, london, england, europe, asia
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Tanu Weds Manu (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Manu comes to India to find a bride for himself and falls for Tanu at first sight but Tanu, a free spirited girl has no plans of marrying him.
Style: feel good, humorous, sentimental, semi serious, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: looking for love, rebelliousness, fall in love, rebellion, couples, rejection, wedding, anthropology, femininity, middle class, feminist, punjabi ...
Time: y2k, year 2011, 21st century
Place: asia, india, delhi
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Shirin in Love (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Despite being engaged to a successful Iranian plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, Shirin finds herself falling for a mysterious young man who lives in a lighthouse in northern California.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: true love, culture clash, family relations, fall in love, society, interracial marriage, love and romance, couples, friendship, parents and children, persian
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, persia, california, los angeles, beverly hills
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Wedding Planners (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Shruti and Bittoo decide to start a wedding planning company together after they graduate from university, but romance gets in the way of business.
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, romantic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: wedding, wedding party, partner, friendship, unlikely partners, fall in love, dancer, wedding preparations and rituals, couples, workplace situations, love affair, graduation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, new delhi, delhi, india
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Partner (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: The only male child in the family that sired six daughters, Prem has empathy towards the fair sex and decides to assist males to woo women so much so that he becomes popular as the 'Love Guru'. Amongst the men he assists are Bhaskar ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, powerful ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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Aisha (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Aisha is a girl with a simple diktat - everyone's business is her business. Arjun is a boy with even a simpler set of beliefs - Aisha should mind her own business. Caught in the Delhi upper class world with its own set of social rules, Aisha ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: india, new delhi, asia, delhi
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Marigold (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA, India, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film follows the story of Marigold Lexton, an American actress who gets stranded in Mumbai and lands a minor role in a Bollywood musical. She meets Prem, the film's choreographer, and undergoes a personal transformation as she experiences ...
Style: feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: opposites attract, love triangle, showbiz, looking for love, disorder, love affair, workplace romance, artists and showbiz, fall in love, actor's life, love and romance, politics ...
Time: year 2007
Place: usa, asia, india
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Manual of Love (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couples, marital crisis, love affair, fall in love, family relations, couple relations, family life, infidelity, love, husband wife relationship, amor, multiple storylines ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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Rockin' Meera (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An upcoming hip-hop band from San Francisco makes the journey into the depths of modern Hindustan. They clash with a feisty Prince for the prized catch: Meera, a bold dusky beauty. The comic adventure unfolds in the jaws of a raging tiger, raining ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, exciting, feel good, stylized ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 21st century
Place: india, san francisco, usa, asia
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Chalte Chalte (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Priya Chopra is a fashion designer and Raj Mathur owns a small trucking company. They meet on the road, quarrel, and then fall for each other. Priya, who is already engaged, must decide whether she will marry her fiancé or leave him for Raj. Love ...
Style: sincere, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
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Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Two best friends being convinced that they are not in love search for each other's love.
Style: sentimental, feel good, semi serious, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
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Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The romantic myth is exposed for Guy when he is plagued by memories of an old girlfriend on his wedding day.
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: wedding, true love, family relations, couples, opposites attract, unfulfillment, lifestyle, unlikely couple, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations, orphan ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
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Country: USA
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Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous, touching ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
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Style: feel good, emotional, romantic, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
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Passionada (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband had been a fisherman who died at sea. The widow's teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her mother to date a British man whose new in town. The ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, semi serious, touching, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
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Style: sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic, fast ...
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Bridal Fever (2008)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: It’s a race to the altar when a steamy romance novelist with a long line of torrid romances – and ex-husbands – sets out to help a single woman ditch her bridesmaid dresses once and for all.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Time: 21st century
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Just a Kiss (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of thirtysomethings having problems with fidelity gets an opportunity to turn back the clock.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
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Time: year 2002
Place: usa, new york
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Shades of Ray (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: American-born Ray Rehman comes home one night to find his Pakistani father on his doorstep. Ray's Caucasian mother threw him out. It's an awkward time for his father to move in as Ray just proposed to his Caucasian girlfriend - who ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, realistic ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, pakistan
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