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Happy Pill (2018)
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Original name: হ্যাপি পিল
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Story:
A medical student has to drop out of college due to unfortunate circumstances and starts running a sweet shop. However, his boring life encounters a sudden twist when he claims to have discovered the formula for a pill that can make people happy.
Style:
comedy drama, uplifting, black comedy, melancholic
Plot:
medical student, deception, moral ambiguity, scam, dropout, social commentary, ethical dilemma, entrepreneurship, community, desperation, trust, satire, small town, identity crisis, mental health, hopes, friendship, betrayal, ambition, urban, coming of age, rumor, publicity, slice of life, pharmaceutical company ...
Time:
2010s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, realistic and psychological films with plots about friendship, coming of age, social commentary, slice of life, urban, small town and ethical dilemma mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Happy Pill: Vidyarthi Vidyarthiniyare (2024), Sriranga Neethulu (2024), Sound (2012), Chilli Chicken (2024), Thin Ice (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
How technological gadgets impact children on various ways.
Style:
realistic, emotional
Plot:
children, technology, social media, teenager, education, youth, parenting, high school life, family drama, social commentary, coming of age, cautionary tale ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Follows three characters from diverse backgrounds in their mid twenties. How consequences arise because of their flaws and what struggles they go through?
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The film revolves around the life of Tarak, a foley artist of Bengali film. Tarak's job is to create ambient sounds for films, but, he gradually gets trapped in his own world, a world full of sound.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
kolkata
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Chilli Chicken follows the lives of five Northeastern boys working at a Chinese restaurant. Based on true events, this film is written and directed by Prateek Prajosh. The cast includes BV Shrunga (known for "19.20.21"), Manipur actor ...
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Graham studied medicine, but never qualified due to being expelled from medical school for theft. He did pass the final exams, but while being paid to do them for someone else, which he feels qualifies him to practice medicine privately. Dispensing ...
Style:
crime drama, medical drama, realistic, suspense, black comedy ...
Plot:
ethical dilemma, fraud, police operation, deception, forgery, secret police, moral ambiguity, investigation, crime family, underworld, greed, character study ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hoping to do good while making millions, three college graduates create a startup. But as business begins to flourish, their own bond starts to fray.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, fast paced, realistic ...
Plot:
ambition, startup, businessman, entrepreneurship, business, job, competitor, group of friends, friends, companion, money, problem ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Abhay, shattered by betrayal and loneliness, prepares to end his life beneath the night sky. But the sudden laughter of a mysterious woman pierces his darkness.
Style:
melancholic, art house
Plot:
betrayal, loss, loneliness, trust, hopes, soul searching, grief, redemption, existential crisis, mental health, forgiveness, chance meeting ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Little Bhutu and Chini are best friends. When Bhutu kisses Chini, their innocent friendship leads to a major scandal. Who is to be blamed when our society lets down the little ones?
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching
Audience:
kids
Plot:
friendship, childhood, high school life, innocence, children, family conflict, family drama, elementary school, social commentary, scandal, heartwarming, family values ...
Place:
kolkata
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Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Felino, his girlfriend and his two friends, have their film rejected from every film festival, so they decide to submit it as major filmmaker Tomas Guevara latest film.
Style:
captivating, light, black comedy, mockumentary, crime drama
Plot:
deception, festival, problem solving, pretending to be someone else, filmmaking, filmmaker, pretense, lie, friends, con trick, movie business, film industry ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
Shivaramu is a married man who leads a miserly life. However, when he loses his government job, he is forced to join a politician's liquor company to fulfil his wife's greed for money.
Style:
masala, comedy drama, emotional, light hearted, sentimental ...
Plot:
marriage, greed, family drama, male protagonist, middle class, everyday life, small town, unemployment, moral dilemma, materialism, social commentary, sacrifice ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A twelve-year-old bright schoolboy, Sivanandhan, his mother, sister, and with his friend Sekhar works during his school holidays carrying banana stalks, a task he dreads. As he navigates life's challenges, poverty, friendship, and the ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
coming of age, poverty, childhood, social realism, village life, friendship, resilience, sibling relationship, mother son relationship, determination, labor, slice of life ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Paulina, a trainee social worker doing her internship in a reintegration center, meets Manuel, with whom she starts a friendship that promps her to question her vocation and begin a 'second adolescence', this time free from the tyranny of ...
Style:
realistic, independent film, emotional, contemplative, poignant ...
Plot:
friendship, social work, loss of innocence, social realism, social inequality, empathy, real world, coming of age, poverty, social commentary, youth, female protagonist ...
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52%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Go back in time and experience a roller coaster ride of emotions with the Committee Kurrollu.
Style:
tension, heartfelt, melancholic, reflective
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friendship, village life, betrayal, small town, slice of life, intimate, families, moral dilemma, resilience, regret, reconciliation, coming of age ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A do-gooder who views everything in a different perspective, inspires others by being a doting father, and tries to bring in a few changes in the society.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, inspirational ...
Plot:
father son relationship, parenting, family drama, family values, relationship problems, family problems, family relations, relationships, life is a bitch, social commentary, heartwarming, families ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Keshya, a simple villager believes that god has arrived in his village but everyone disbelieves him. Later when the politics plays its part things take a drastic change
Style:
emotional, serious
Plot:
village, politics, ethical dilemma, faith, religion, temple, social commentary, pilgrimage, a vision, miraculous event, moral ambiguity, hypocrisy ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sarah, a free spirited young girl looking to surgically reassign her gender and Antony, a once exuberant but now a dejected and dispirited young man. What will happen when they meet?
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
self discovery, transgender, lgbtq, desire for fame, relationship problems, male female relationship, life is a bitch, relationships, coming of age, identity crisis, character study, acceptance ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
We market our picture perfect, Facebook-savvy lives, as we navigate our fabulous body-doubles past other people’s walls, collecting friends, being successful, living the life. Online, we are happy. Online rocks. It’s Offline that sucks - as we ...
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Plot:
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Place:
kolkata
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Country: India
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, poignant, tear jerker, melancholic, uplifting ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Italy
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Story:
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Style:
sentimental, melancholic
Plot:
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Country: India
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
kolkata
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Country: India
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Story:
Stranded on her way home, Sruthi hitches a long ride with KK who turns out to be her dad's buddy. Sruthi's mother seems to be reassured hearing that KK is with her daughter now. However her husband is troubled on hearing the news. ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
father son relationship, unemployment, family crisis, family bonds, social commentary, sacrifice, job seeking, desperation, social realism, poverty, ethical dilemma, working class ...
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Country: India
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
character study, small town, coming of age, alienation, young adult, friendship, aimlessness, apathy, youth culture, social isolation, slice of life, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
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Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, comedy drama, realistic ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: India
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Germany, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. In the meantime, Francoise is picked up at a psychic department of ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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