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Madras Matinee (2025)
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Original name: மெட்ராஸ் மேட்னி
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
An aging sci-fi writer is challenged by his caretaker to write about the life of a common man. Reluctantly, he begins the story of Kannan, an auto rickshaw driver, and his family—only to discover that ordinary life holds unexpected depth and drama.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, poignant, reflective, melancholic, nostalgic
Plot:
humanism, working class, slice of life, realism, resilience, domestic drama, sacrifice, creative block, bittersweet, tamil
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, emotional, realistic and reflective films with plots about slice of life, intimate, resilience, bittersweet, working class, sacrifice and social realism mostly in Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Madras Matinee: My Father's Wings (2016), Nanban Oruvan Vantha Piragu (2024), Pekamedalu (2024), A Hundred Sundays (2023), #Lifestories (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
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Style:
realistic, melancholic
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
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Style:
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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:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
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Style:
heartfelt, poignant, tear jerker, melancholic, meditative
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 90 min.
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
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Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The driver of a Metro water lorry falls in love with a girl from a very affluent and powerful family, and faces objections and threats to their relationship.
Style:
romantic drama, heartfelt, emotional, realistic, sentimental
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Thailand
Story:
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Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: India
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Story:
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Country: USA
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