Movies like Parari
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Parari (2024)
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Neighboring villages involved in feud over a hill. Lower caste Maran endures hostility from Jai Kumar, jeopardizing Maran's love interest. Working in the city, they face manipulative forces paving the way for division within the community.
Style:
tense
Plot:
social injustice, manipulation, power struggle, oppression, feud, social realism, betrayal, patriarchy, resentment, feudalism, family honor, heartbreak, forbidden romance, revenge, coming of age
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, dark, emotional and intense films with plots about revenge, betrayal, corruption, moral ambiguity, power struggle, coming of age and social realism mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Parari: Nagarvalam (2017), Jogwa - The Awakening (2009), Nandhan (2024), Draupathi (2020), Shareek 2 (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: India
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
village, lawyer, women's rights, female protagonist, justice, social injustice, social activism, activist, family problems, villager, problem, fake marriage ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
81%
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252
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Follows two estranged step-brothers whose feud about the ownership of land turns into a war for love, honor, pride and to claim a sense of identity.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
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Place:
india
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two Koothu artistes become pawns in a political power game and are falsely implicated in a drug smuggling case. For how long can they evade a determined police hunt?
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, crime thriller, intense ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
In a village named Ilavattam there lives a man by the name of Gopalakrishna Pillai. He is a man with diverse qualities. Basically he is a moneylender, but not the avaricious kind. He lends money at very low interest-rates but makes it a point to get ...
Style:
suspense
Plot:
sibling relationship, family conflict, family drama, rivalry, feud, loan shark, power struggle, family business, betrayal, revenge, male protagonist, vendetta ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Having witnessed his father's murder as a child, a man seeks revenge against the ruthless landlord who killed him.
Style:
tense, grim, suspenseful, dark, emotional
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Nepal
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Three individuals unite against societal norms perpetuating caste discrimination, facing challenges in their collective struggle to defy the existing caste-based social order.
Style:
tense, independent film, tragic
Plot:
oppression, caste system, injustice, social justice, empowerment, social commentary, solidarity, resistance, human rights, identity, activism, courage ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
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Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When a man pursues a local woman, his relationship with her friend is misconstrued by the villagers.
Style:
emotional, tension, tense, atmospheric, suspense
Plot:
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Similarity:
56%
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Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, dramatic, sentimental, crime thriller, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province's powerful and corrupt governor. When an assassination attempt is made against the official, ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
52%
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Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
52%
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Country: India
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
Winner of the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Film in 1988
Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
tense, crime thriller, intense, dark, noir ...
Plot:
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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: 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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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
tense, intense, dark, brutal, political
Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
tense, fast paced, dark
Audience:
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Plot:
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