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Chaar Lugaai (2023)
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Genre: Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Women, who maintain every duty and responsibility of their married life, but while on that, they find themselves yearning for intimacy and affection. With their husbands staying afar, they let their suppressed urges come out on the surface which eventually leads to an unfortunate accident. Their attempts to hide their blunder would tickle your funny bone as they find themselves surrounded by obstacles they never thought they would have to face.
Style:
melancholic, realistic, romantic drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
intimacy, women, companionship, longing, gender roles, middle class, slice of life, urban, retiring, social commentary, provincial
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, tense, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about urban, investigation, moral ambiguity, slow burn, cat and mouse, slice of life and whodunit mostly in Mystery, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Chaar Lugaai: Pogumidam Vegu Thooramillai (2024), B&W (2023), Beline (2024), Circle (2023), Thala (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Story:
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