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Thalli Manasu (2025)
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Jyothi, a widow who raised her son alone after her husband Janakiram's tragic accident, devoted her entire life to him. Despite her deep love for her son she unexpectedly stabs her son's heart.
Style:
heartbreaking, bleak, intense, dark, tear jerker, twist ending, tearjerker
Plot:
tragedy, mother son relationship, family drama, betrayal, single mother, grief, loss, moral dilemma, guilt, regret, betrayal of trust, isolation, family home, empathy, intimate, revenge, gender roles, retribution, forgiveness
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, intense, realistic and melancholic films with plots about guilt, family drama, moral dilemma, loss, grief, empathy and isolation mostly in Drama, Family and Thriller genres. Some movies like Thalli Manasu: Ullozhukku (2024), A Vow to Cherish (1999), Behind the Haystacks (2022), Apple Garden (1985), Shadow Kids (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Family, Thriller
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Duration: 118 min.
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Plot:
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Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An aged man falls in love with a woman refugee from Western Armenia. When his beloved dies because of his daughters, in a fury he destroys his only treasure - apple garden.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This family drama deals with a case of Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy, a fabricated illness. Stephanie is an apparently happy single mother of two daughters, Therese and Agnes, although the latter suffers from chronic health problems. When ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, poignant, realistic, heartbreaking
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
guilt, redemption, regret, coming of age, empathy, loss, reconciliation, resilience, moral dilemma, friendship, memory, isolation ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Appa, a veteran theatre actor who has primarily worked in adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, falls upon hard times in his old age.
Style:
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Plot:
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67%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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60%
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Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 123 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Country: India
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Story:
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Story:
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