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Khadaan (2024)
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Original name: খাদান
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Shyam comes from the remote areas of Purulia to work as a laborer in the coal mines of the Damodar Valley. The story of Mohan and Shyam will proceed with their rise, reckoning of friendship.
Style:
intense, tragic
Plot:
friendship, working class, coal mining, class struggle, social realism, social commentary, survival, poverty, community, desperation, resilience, brotherhood, bonding, solidarity, betrayal, redemption, machismo, hopes, coming of age, slow burn
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, realistic, intense and melancholic films with plots about hopes, resilience, survival, poverty, friendship, social realism and redemption mostly in Drama, Action and Comedy genres. Some movies like Khadaan: All Screwed Up (1974), Libertad (2017), Vaazhai (2024), Ikshu (2022), Thudarum (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A group of immigrants from the south of Italy live collectively in the Milano's suburbia in the 1974.
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
italy, milan italy, europe
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
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Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A taxi driver finds himself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy after his car is confiscated by a corrupt police officer.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
refugee, identity, character study, humanity, resilience, empathy, soul searching, social issues, migration, journey, hopes, realism ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
action drama, psychological, thrilling, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
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2010s
Place:
india
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime drama, realistic, emotional, tense, heartfelt ...
Plot:
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Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, neorealism, melancholic, sentimental
Plot:
poverty, coming of age, social realism, survival, working class, friendship, childhood, loss of innocence, desperation, emigration, diaspora, community ...
Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, melancholic, compassionate
Plot:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
heartfelt, inspirational, emotional
Plot:
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Country: Iran
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
empathy, character study, humanism, working class, resilience, slice of life, social realism, dignity, mortality, solidarity, hopes, melancholy ...
Place:
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57%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Three brothers brought together by chance navigate their love lives while jealousy from village elders brews.
Style:
emotional, tense, sentimental, tragic
Plot:
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446
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Blood, and broken bones is a part of being an underground fighter, but for L.G., Jeremy and Conrado there is much more to it. For them it's a way out, it's a way to support a family, and a way to carry on a tradition. However, Mack and ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 145 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
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Story:
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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