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Murphy (2024)
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Genre: Romance
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
MURPHY, starring Prabhu Mundkur, Roshini Prakash and Ila Veermalla,It is an ode to the beauty and the struggle of bringing in the essence of familial bonds, friendship and above all love in the era of dispassion.
Style:
heartfelt, sentimental, reflective, melancholic
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
love, friendship, grandfather, memory, nostalgia, house, healing, grief, acceptance, legacy, loss, bittersweet, intimate, domestic drama, forgiveness, slice of life, magic realism, supernatural, coming of age, small town, general
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, realistic and romantic drama films with plots about bittersweet, intimate, slice of life, coming of age, friendship, small town and nostalgia mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Murphy: First Love (2000), Love Matteru (2025), Love Mocktail 2 (2024), Ravikula Raghurama (2024), You and Everything Else (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Story:
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Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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