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Dear Krishna (2025)
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A gripping tale of an intense and pure bond between a father and son, woven with threads of joy, anguish, fear, and tranquility.
Style:
heartfelt, tear jerker, poignant, melancholic, meditative, tearjerker, nostalgic
Plot:
fatherhood, family drama, parents, sacrifice, tenderness, bittersweet, protective parent, resilience, empathy, heartwarming, redemption, slice of life, family secret, moral dilemma, coming of age, small town life, urban, family secrets
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, melancholic, realistic and poignant films with plots about family drama, slice of life, bittersweet, empathy, intimate, coming of age and sacrifice mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Dear Krishna: Upstream (2024), Reach the Sky (2019), Madras Matinee (2025), Ilayaraja (2019), Pelli Kaani Prasad (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Montenegro
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, reflective, poignant, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
slice of life, humanism, working class, resilience, realism, domestic drama, sacrifice, bittersweet, creative block, tamil
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446
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Vanajan hails from a modest household and lives with his ailing father, wife and children. One day, he finds himself at a crossroads when his moneylender makes him an unusual offer.
Style:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Caught between tradition and his father's greed, prasad struggles to fulfill his dream of marriage.
Style:
emotional, sentimental
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, social commentary, sacrifice, moral dilemma, arranged marriage, family honor, empathy, personal growth, redemption, greed, coming of age ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman struggles with her own need for independence and the obligation she feels for her deaf parents in this depression-era drama. A friend sees her turmoil and tells her she must find happiness on her own. However, the initial joy she finds ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A teenage girl considered by everybody as "difficult" is sent to the village to live with her grandfather.
Style:
heartfelt, poignant, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
character study, family drama, personal growth, stuttering, female protagonist, coming of age, alienation, empathy, village life, isolation, bittersweet, rebirth ...
Time:
80s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Simple yet smart, sexagenarian Keshu has a loving family and a driving school to call his own. Everything's perfect until he wins a lottery worth crores.
Style:
realistic, comedy drama, sentimental, lighthearted
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
To please his dying daughter, a father tries to create the Durga Puja festival, usually held in October, during the month of April, in Kolkata.
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Vera and Wolf Küper live in Berlin with their 5-year-old daughter Nina and their one-year-old son Simon. Vera takes care of the children and the household alongside a part-time job, while Wolf works as a scientific advisor to the UN, trying to ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family drama, parenthood, disability, domestic drama, parents, everyday life, stress, diagnosis, love, responsibility, slice of life, intimate ...
Place:
berlin germany
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51%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
LifeStories is a film about 6 short stories taking the audience through the lives of the protagonists. Oscillating between joy, companionship, loneliness, camaraderie, guilt and unadulterated love.
Style:
emotional, anthology, realistic, reflective, poignant ...
Plot:
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50%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Pampered by his loving and caring parents, an eight-year-old boy's life takes a turn for the worse when he learns a hidden truth about himself. Soon, he begins to distance himself from his mother.
Style:
heartfelt, melancholic, psychological, tension
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Place:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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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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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: India
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Story:
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