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Sundari (2021)
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Original name: సుందరి
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A village girl is married to a software employee who is head over heels with her beauty. Life takes an unexpected turn when her husband loses his job and she is forced to take a few steps that she has to go through an emotional turmoil.
Style:
realistic, heartfelt, sentimental
Plot:
female protagonist, marriage, domestic drama, village, family values, unemployment, loss of job, resilience, struggle, personal growth, self discovery, beauty, sacrifice, spouse, perseverance, empathy, gender roles, hopes, working woman, community, tradition, grief, identity, intimate, women ...
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, emotional, melancholic and heartfelt films with plots about resilience, intimate, slice of life, empathy, social realism, sacrifice and family drama mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Sundari: Dhumketu (2025), 3BHK (2025), Mayu: Kokoro no hoshi (2007), Pekamedalu (2024), Bright Women (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Megh is a married person, who works as manager of a tea estate in North Sikkim. In a certain crisis he became jobless and struggles to make ends problems of his life because there are not many options for livelihood around in the hills. He fights to ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, scenic, melancholic
Plot:
struggle, resilience, empathy, poverty, hopes, unemployment, perseverance, family bonds, slice of life, sacrifice, parenting, recovery ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A middle-class family battles financial hurdles and personal setbacks while pursuing their dream of owning a home in the bustling city.
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realistic, heartfelt, emotional, sentimental
Plot:
middle class, family drama, aspiration, city life, family bonds, city, slice of life, working class, sacrifice, social issues, perseverance, hopes ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Adaptation of Mayu Ohara's autobiography.
Style:
heartfelt, realistic, emotional, reflective, period drama ...
Plot:
biopic, autobiography, adaptation, female protagonist, personal growth, slice of life, mother daughter relationship, coming of age, intimate, domestic drama, bittersweet, resilience ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Young married couple from heartlands face ideological divide. Varalakshmi, grounded homemaker values steady income. Laxman, jobless husband seeks shortcuts for entrepreneurial dreams.
Style:
realistic, melancholic
Plot:
domestic drama, middle class, unemployment, gender roles, aspiration, sacrifice, social commentary, small town, slice of life, intimate, entrepreneurship, working class ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Karine, a housekeeper of 34, is the full-time mother of 17 year-old Ziggy. When the company that employed her is taken over, subject to the laws of capitalism, Karine will have to choose between being true to herself, or lie to protect herself and ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, tense
Plot:
moral dilemma, motherhood, female protagonist, parent child relationship, empathy, social realism, domestic drama, moral ambiguity, single mother, capitalism, housekeeper, working class ...
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64%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The life and journey of Hameed to find his biological mother and how his life changes when Aisha comes into his life.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
mother son relationship, search for mother, family drama, adoption, identity, self discovery, domestic drama, longing, family reunited, male protagonist, coming of age, family secret ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A famous dancer is fired after an injury and thrust into the role of motherhood.
Style:
emotional, realistic, contemplative, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
introspection, artists and showbiz, ambition, strong female presence, hopes, dancer's life, women, motherhood, dance, performance art, family drama, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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55%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
A young girl from a conservative family aspires to become the best cook in India.
Style:
culinary, emotional, inspirational
Plot:
cooking competition, ambition, female protagonist, family drama, perseverance, aspiration, female empowerment, personal growth, domestic drama, hardship, self discovery, triumph ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, psychological, captivating, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
self discovery, female protagonist, patriarchy, parent child relationship, feminist, empowerment, personal growth, gender roles, female empowerment, introspection, social relations, coping ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
canada
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53%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A moment of impulsiveness turns Gao Zhilei into a "stay-at-home" individual, but he never expected his life to take a turn in the opposite direction. A series of changes compel him to take on his responsibilities as the head of the family. ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, motivational
Plot:
responsibility, self discovery, family drama, personal growth, sacrifice, redemption, male protagonist, midlife crisis, second chance, parenting, resilience, intimate ...
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52%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Saachi is in high school when her father gets diagnosed with a brain tumor. Unfortunately, she doesn't get any help from the family or the community. She then decides to run her family-owned barbershop business. Can she manage it all? Will her ...
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, realistic, inspirational, tense
Plot:
family drama, resilience, perseverance, empathy, barbershop, responsibility, teenage protagonist, coming of age, sacrifice, female empowerment, small business, social realism ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
A man leading a happy life with his loving wife and two children suddenly starts getting forgetful and lost. Then, he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease leaving his family devastated.
Style:
psychological, heartbreaking, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, alzheimer's disease, memory loss, family drama, student, family relations, changing lives, lifestyle change, kids and family, family problems, lifestyle, grief ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A 15 year old mute village girl runs away from home due to problems, lands in Mumbai city. Initially she struggles to cope up with the big city, but fights her way forward to survive and achieve freedom overcoming obstacles.
Style:
emotional, realistic, heartfelt
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
empowerment, coming of age, teenager, female empowerment, female protagonist, struggle, independence, perseverance, determination, survival, resilience, disability ...
Place:
mumbai india
Similarity:
46%
211
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Jack, 19, Lisa, 17, and Mathis, 10, abruptly become orphans. Each sibling reacts differently to the family tragedy: Lisa spreads her wings. Jack, having just become of age is appointed as his brother’s guardian by court decision. A new life ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic
Plot:
youth, grief, family tragedy, loss, siblings, coming of age, bereavement, resilience, adolescence, coping, domestic drama, grownups ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Hello Beautiful is a powerful and emotionally charged film that delves into the harrowing yet transformative journey of Willow, a successful model whose life is shattered by a devastating breast cancer diagnosis. Based on Christine Handy's ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, heartfelt, medical drama, tear jerker ...
Plot:
transformation, cancer, female protagonist, resilience, breast cancer, biopic, empowerment, identity, self discovery, survival, women, personal growth ...
Similarity:
44%
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: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
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farmer, village life, farming, village, agriculture, perseverance, resilience, social change, aspiration, getting home, family drama, career change ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Molly and Tim are happy newlyweds, but an unexpected miscarriage threatens to tear them apart until they meet Kristin, a pregnant homeless girl in need of a family.
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The conflict felt by a modern Iranian woman as she is forced to choose between her career and the traditional obligations of a housewife are examined in this drama. Until she married Hamed, Zinat worked in a public health clinic in a small Iranian ...
Style:
medical drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, gender roles, small town, public health, compassion, patriarchy, female empowerment, ethical dilemma, domestic drama, women, family honor, social realism ...
Place:
iran
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
During a train journey, A ticket examiner narrates four tales of extreme parental sacrifice, exploring familial bonds through illness, estrangement, unexpected connections, and emotional turmoil, to a young woman
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Style:
romantic drama, heartfelt, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
marriage, arranged marriage, forced marriage, unrequited love, personal growth, domestic drama, village life, redemption, self discovery, healing, empathy, longing ...
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39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
In a remote village, over a single day, four characters respond differently to the death of an upper-caste man named Shivaji.
Style:
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Plot:
death, village, human spirit, social commentary, class conflict, grief, moral ambiguity, community, resilience, hopes, morality, justice ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, heartfelt, uplifting, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological
Plot:
empathy, character study, humanism, working class, resilience, slice of life, social realism, dignity, mortality, solidarity, hopes, melancholy ...
Place:
iran
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, tension, suspense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, love story, relationships, trust, empowerment, courage, perseverance, resilience, hopes, empathy, workplace, social issues ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
There is a woman who gets married, her husband buys a scooter on the same day, and later, he abandons both. The story is woven around the parallel lives of the scooter and the woman, who go through the same situation.
Style:
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Plot:
woman, female protagonist, marriage, abandonment, character study, loss, loneliness, metaphor, domestic drama, symbolism, modern life, slice of life ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Shot mainly in South East London, it’s about Micky Mason, a skilled manual worker who, since the Crash, can find nothing but menial zero hours jobs. He takes a course of action that is completely out of character, but it’s the only way he can ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
From a schoolboy’s crush to a middle-aged bachelor’s office romance, four love stories spanning age, religion and status unfold in a small Indian town.
Style:
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