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The Bengali Night (1988)
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Original name: La nuit Bengali
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Allan (Hugh Grant) is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen (Soumitra Chatterjee) which includes his wife, Indira (Shabana Azmi) and daughter Gayatri (Supriya Pathak). Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.
Style:
intercultural, emotional, intense, tragic ending, tension, multicultural, period drama, baroque
Plot:
forbidden love, love affair, tragic romance, literary, isolation, class differences, adaptation, family honor, sexual tension, regret, betrayal, jealousy, nostalgia, introspection, hospitality, retreat, love triangle, interracial romance
Time:
1930s
Place:
kolkata, himalaya
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, emotional, melancholic and intense films with plots about jealousy, love triangle, betrayal, forbidden love, tragic romance, love and obsession mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like The Bengali Night: Pan (1995), Confused Feelings (1981), Shah Jahan Regency (2019), Raama Raavanan (2010), Dede (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 115 min.
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Duration: 90 min.
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Story:
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adult
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Duration: 97 min.
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Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Duration: 75 min.
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Winner of the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Film in 1988
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Place:
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
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Duration: 163 min.
Story:
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Duration: 90 min.
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Country: Portugal
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
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