Movies like Luck by Chance

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Luck by Chance (2009)
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Luck by Chance (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Not wanting the same fate as befell her sisters, Sona Mishra re-locates to Mumbai to try to make a living making movies, but she soon finds that the path she has chosen is not an easy one.
Style: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult classic, meta, cult film
Plot: underdog, ambition, rise to the top, showbiz, lifestyle, actor's life, starlet, artists and showbiz, introspection, friendship, rehearsal, selfishness, meaning of life, women of color, luck, mirror, following a dream, film industry, screenwriter, female protagonist, chance meeting, female boss, new beginning, satire, monologue ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: goa india, asia, new delhi, india

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Most similar movies to Luck by Chance

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and captivating films with plots about artists and showbiz, love and romance, ambition, bollywood, hindi, society and lifestyle mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Luck by Chance: Page 3 (2005), Rock On!! (2008), Rangeela (1995), Starstruck (1998), Dancing in September (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Page 3 (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story: 'Page 3' takes a behind-the-scenes look at the lifestyles of the A-list celebrities in metro cities. It explores the networking and the power play between the air-kissing
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, social ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: journalism, lifestyle, life is a bitch, love and romance, social differences, pregnancy, extramarital affair, betrayal, female friendship, hypocrite, stewardess, women ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india, mumbai india
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95%
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Rock On!! (2008)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Sakshi Shroff, the lonely and neglected wife of busy banking executive, Aditya, decides to give him a surprise on his birthday on July 22nd, but ends surprising him multiple times. While Aditya is thrilled to know that he is going to be a dad, he is ...
Style: realistic, serious, inspirational, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, music, follow your dream, buddies, hopes, contests and competitions, boyfriend, bittersweet, music band, music business, second chance, chance meeting ...
Time: y2k, year 2008
Place: india, asia, goa india
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
They Shoot Movies, Don't They? ...The Making of 'Mirage' (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: They Shoot Movies, Don't They? is a voyeuristic look at first time director Tom Paulson and the movie he wrote called Mirage. Frank Gallagher is the documentarian whose camera waits and watches as Paulson navigates through a jungle of ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, captivating, mockumentary ...
Plot: lifestyle, ambition, obsession, actor's life, addiction, showbiz, filmmaking, hollywood, blind ambition, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, media ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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 10K
Rangeela (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A poor young woman, who dreams of Bollywood fame, is caught in a love triangle between her childhood friend and a famous actor.
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, meta
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, women, perfectionist, unrequited love, artists and showbiz, fall in love, rise to the top, lifestyle, couple relations, love and romance, actor's life, dancer's life ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, india, goa india
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Movie in collections
 4.7
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Starstruck (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A screenwriter befriends a washed up teen idol.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, humorous
Plot: hollywood, disorder, dark humor, dull life, friends, love and romance, artists and showbiz, rise and fall, unfulfillment, actor's life, buddies, ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Dancing in September (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A black female TV producer struggles in Hollywood.
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, realistic, independent film
Plot: lifestyle, friendship, ambition, love and romance, artists and showbiz, unlikely couple, media satire, workplace romance, journalism, society, hollywood, african american ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
London Dreams (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: India, UK
Duration: 146 min.
Story: They were childhood friends. But they had little in common except their family's vague connection with music. While Arjun's life was consumed by a passionate drive to get on stage and realize his grandfather's unfulfilled dream, Mannu ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, captivating, realistic, powerful
Plot: friendship, love triangle, childhood, rising to stardom, love and romance, buddies, musician's life, lifestyle, desire for fame, rock, music band, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: "Meat Loaf" Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic, abusive father. Tormented by his father and schoolmates over his size, he strikes out on his own after his mother's death, ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, semi serious
Plot: showbiz, ambition, desire for fame, rise to the top, love and romance, rising to stardom, life is a bitch, artists and showbiz, musician's life, lifestyle, music band, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 70s
Place: texas, usa, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Happy Days (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: The movie revolves around eight youngsters, who become good friends in their freshman years when they join the college for their Bachelors in Engineering (B.E.). The life of these young minds, be it personal or that in college, is dealt with aplomb. ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic, romantic ...
Plot: friendship, college, graduation, student life, couples, university, teachers and students, buddies, lifestyle, couple relations, coming of age, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Bollywood Calling (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: India
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An alcoholic, cancer-ridden American film-maker decides to produce a Bollywood movie.
Style: captivating, realistic, semi serious, humorous, spoof
Plot: filmmaking, actor's life, fish out of water, culture clash, misfit, society, showbiz, love, film industry, artists and showbiz, unemployment, wedding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Uttama Villain (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 171 min.
Story: Superstar Manoranjan learns that he has only a few days to live and approaches his mentor, director Margadarisi to direct his next project — a folklore-ish comedy about a man who keeps cheating death and his role in saving a kingdom. Meanwhile, he ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
Plot: desire for fame, last wish, fall in love, love and romance, rising to stardom, ambition, artists and showbiz, showbiz, mentor, cancer, illicit love, forced marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Mumbai Diaries (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Arun is a reclusive and lonely modern art painter. Shai is an American banker who is on a visit to Mumbai. Munna is a washerboy also living near Arun and Yasmin. The movie is about these four characters from different class of society and how the ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, sincere, art film ...
Plot: friendship, love and romance, painting, social differences, artist, society, love affair, age difference, indians, flirting, rain, performer's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, mumbai india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Last Stand (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The Last Stand, a drama that chronicles the life of four very different people attempting success as performers in Los Angeles until life becomes too much to handle.
Style: humorous, realistic, captivating, tragicomedy, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, ambition, hollywood, rise to the top, showbiz, best friend, actor, rivalry, supportive friend, society, comedian, performer's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Lisa Picard Is Famous (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when ...
Style: cynical, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: satire, rise to the top, desire for fame, workplace romance, filmmaking, workplace situations, lifestyle, actor's life, love and romance, workplace, rising to stardom, best friend ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Do Dooni Chaar (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A middle-class father in India struggles through a series of unexpected events for upholding respect and smiles.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick
Plot: family relations, working class, society, social differences, ambition, parents and children, family life, friendship, road trip, middle class, hardcore, respect ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, new delhi
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Namastey London (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Indian-born Manmohan Malhotra decided to re-locate to London, England, established himself, returned to India, got married to Bebo, and after a period of 4 years got a visa for her so that she could live with him. Shortly thereafter she gave birth ...
Style: romantic, realistic, feel good, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: culture clash, family relations, couples, love triangle, looking for love, parents and children, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, wedding planning, tragic love, diaspora ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: india, london, england, europe, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Real Lies (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Marco Valois wants to direct a serious movie inspired by the life of a soldier living with post-traumatic stress disorder. He soon realizes that the young soldier home from Afghanistan won't open up that easily. Marco, willing to do just about ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: friends, filmmaking, artists and showbiz, showbiz, mental illness, introspection, bittersweet, hopes, misfit, buddies, unfulfillment, male protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.0
 404
The Wager (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An actor at the pinnacle of his Hollywood career finds himself buckling to temptation after he accepts the lead in a classic tale of good versus evil. Michael Steele has just been nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards. In the wake of that ...
Style: christian film, realistic, serious, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot: christianity, hollywood, actor's life, desire for fame, human spirit, introspection, ambition, relationship vs career, couples, society, hotshot hero, rising to stardom ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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An American in Hollywood (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A talented young filmmaker from New York sets off to Los Angeles in pursuit of the Hollywood dream, only to discover through his relationship with a beautiful feisty young actress, that Hollywood is not all that it seems.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: filmmaking, ambition, follow your dream, fall in love, hopes, buddies, showbiz, love and romance, hollywood, friends, artists and showbiz, young
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
A Beautiful Soul (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An R&B singer snagged by the trappings of superstardom loses his way and turns his back on his church and faith-filled beginnings. Tragedy strikes, leaving a chance for redemption in its wake. But with rebirth, first comes death.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: redemption, introspection, self discovery, one more chance, musician's life, religions or cults, celebrity culture, hopes, lifestyle, ambition, showbiz, hip hop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Ungrateful (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Somnath (Somu) lives in a shanty house in a Delhi slum with his widowed mom, and unmarried sister, Sarla. He is friendly with Calcutta-based wealthy Vikram (Vicky) Maharaj. When Vicky's dad, Damodar, has a heart attack and is advised to take ...
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, contemplative ...
Plot: factory worker, factory, anti capitalism, introspection, social differences, working class, hidden identity, hopes, family relations, father son relationship, capitalism, irony of fate ...
Time: 70s
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Corporate (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Two corporate giants compete in order to recklessly maximize their respective profits.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, thought provoking
Plot: uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, workplace, society, politics, ambition, corporate world, business ethics, corporate executive, business, erotica, entrepreneurship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Milenge Milenge (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Magic happens, if you let it; and sometimes even fate or destiny, or whatever you want to call it, steps in to lend a hand. But when it concerns love, and finding that special person you're going to spend the rest of your life with, should you ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, realistic, touching, humorous
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: lovers reunited, fall in love, love and romance, looking for love, hopes, fate, college student, diary, destiny, hindi, bollywood
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Bending All the Rules (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When single photographer Kenna finally gets her own exhibition, she turns her attention to her love life. Yet two different men, sensitive Jeff and strong-willed Martin, are determined to win her heart, pulling her free spirit in opposite directions.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sexy, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, love and romance, lifestyle, couples, ambition, wooing, radio dj, bartender, art exhibition, carnival, artists and showbiz, singleness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Love Breakups Zindagi (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Love Breakups Zindagi is a movie which tries to answer the question related to love, breakups and life. A couple and many of their friends experience changes and challenges in their respective lives after attending a wedding.
Style: feel good, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: couples, looking for love, buddies, breakup, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, friendship, lifestyle, lgbt, wedding, punjabi ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Nayak: The Hero (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A matinee idol is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by a journalist who somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview. Arindam, won over by Aditi's naivete, starts to disclose his past, his fears and ...
Style: black and white, contemplative, serious, realistic, talky ...
Plot: train, actor, voyeurism, voyeur, railway, self awareness, memory, suicidal thoughts, reflection, celebrity, glory, celebrity interview ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: kolkata, india, new delhi
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 8.3
 5K
The Big City (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.
Style: cult classic, retro, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: feminist, family relations, women, indian woman, money, mother-in-law, new job, family disapproval, gender, battle of the sexes, society, fighting the system ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s, 1950s
Place: kolkata, asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Three-Way Wedding (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A play writer entertains the actors of his next play, including his ex-wife and her new lover. Everyone is finding his new place.
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: love triangle, writer's life, introspection, artists and showbiz, couples, playwright, society, rivalry, friendship, nude women, nudity, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Lipstick Under My Burkha  (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Four ordinary women, inflicted by silly societal norms, have to steal, lie, cheat and hide in order to lead the lives that they rightfully deserve.
Style: humorous, stylized, captivating, realistic, entertaining ...
Plot: sexuality, women, social satire, patriarchy, small town, muslim, equality, friendship, family relations, feminist, strong female presence, parents and children ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 8.1
 18K
Iqbal (2005)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story: This is all about chasing your dreams, no matter what the obstacles. The story involves a young deaf and dumb boy who is crazy about cricket.
Style: realistic, uplifting, inspirational, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: cricket, disability, ambition, human spirit, lifestyle, prodigy, follow your dream, against the odds, struggle, hopes, rise to the top, obsession ...
Time: y2k, 21st century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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