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The Dirty Picture (2011)
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The Dirty Picture (2011)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The love story between an actress and a director. Inspired by the life of the late south Indian actress Silk Smitha.
Style: sexy, serious, captivating, entertaining, erotic
Plot: ambition, actress, sex, dancing, suicide, film industry, female protagonist, filmmaking, movie star, movie actress, casting couch, women, sexuality, sexy woman, direction and purpose, male female relationship, aspiration, ambitious woman, sexploitation, sexual attraction, erotica, hindu, strong female character, indian woman, based on real people ...
Time: year 2011, year 2013
Place: india
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, entertaining and humorous films with plots about bollywood, hindi, love, women, couples, fall in love and love and romance mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Dirty Picture: Once Upon a Time in Mumbai (2010), A Married Woman (2005), M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016), No One Killed Jessica (2011), My Week with Marilyn (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Once Upon a Time in Mumbai (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A tale of two gangsters from the eras of past and present, whose lives enter parallel paths as they struggle to survive within Bombay's criminal underworld.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, gangster, rise and fall, law enforcement, cons and scams, thief, criminal heroes, rise to the top, dishonesty, ambition, black market, fall in love ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: india, mumbai india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
A Married Woman (2005)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: They fall in love before they know its meaning, Lolita, orphaned at an early age & Shekhar, who reaches out & gives her the security she craves.They share joys & sorrows through childhood & adolescence,unknown to them ...
Style: captivating, realistic, atmospheric, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, childhood sweetheart, family relations, couples, fall in love, couple relations, friendship, family problems, love affair, social differences, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: asia, india, kolkata
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 184 min.
Story: The film is based on the life of Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team, Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Style: uplifting, captivating, serious, realistic, patriotic ...
Plot: cricket, rags to riches, biopic, athlete's life, rise to the top, ambition, sport team, rivalry, contests and competitions, rising to stardom, patriot, meaning of life ...
Time: year 2011, 2000s, 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
No One Killed Jessica (2011)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A reporter teams up with the sister of a murdered model in order to bring her case justice.
Style: realistic, captivating, suspenseful, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot: courtroom, courtroom drama, murder, fighting the system, investigation, uncover truth, cover up, model, dishonesty, law enforcement, legal, loss of sibling ...
Time: year 2011, 20th century, 90s
Place: new delhi, india, asia, delhi
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sir Laurence Olivier is making a movie in London. Young Colin Clark, an eager film student, wants to be involved and he navigates himself a job on the set. When film star Marilyn Monroe arrives for the start of shooting, all of London is excited to ...
Style: sentimental, period piece, romantic, factual, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: movie star, historical figure, biopic, fame, hollywood, actress, actor's life, ambition, cultural icon, women, depression, celebrity ...
Time: 50s, 2010s, year 2011, 1900s, 1950s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Manjhi: The Mountain Man (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Dashrath Manjhi was a poor man from the lowest of the low castes, living in a remote village cut off from the world by a rocky mountain range. Life for him was a daily struggle for survival. He loved his wife, Phaguniya, beyond belief. One day, ...
Style: realistic, inspirational, psychological, captivating, art film ...
Plot: mountain, love, determination, poverty, caste system, husband wife relationship, loss of wife, family tragedy, mining, struggle for survival, tragic event, biopic ...
Time: year 2015, 70s, 60s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Angry Indian Goddesses (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Frieda, a fashioncommercial photographer trying to find her own art, gathers her closest girlfriends from all over India to travel to Goa for a surprise announcement: she’s getting married! Thus begins an impromptu bachelorette celebration that ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: lesbian, female protagonist, gay interest, lgbt, lgbtq, friendship, dancing, women, feminist, friends, society, entertainment ...
Time: year 2015
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Straight from the Heart (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, Hungary
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Indian-based traditional family of Pundit Darbar (Vikram Gokhale) gets a visit from Sameer Rafilini (Salman Khan), from Italy, who has come as a pupil to learn music and singing. Darbar and his family accept him. Sameer meets Nandini (Aishwarya ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, romantic, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: dancing, love triangle, unrequited love, forbidden love, tradition, loveless marriage, unfulfilled love, love of one's life, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, forced marriage ...
Time: 90s
Place: india, asia, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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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 ⇓
83%
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Deseo (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.
Style: sexy, captivating, sex comedy, psychological, humorous ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexy woman, sexual fantasy, erotica, lesbian, sexual attraction, seductive woman, seductress, sexual desire, seduction, looking for sex, relationships, sexual promiscuity ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Qismat Connection (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: This is a story about an architect Raj Malhotra. While he was a top student in his school and college days, he is not having much luck finding work, clients or projects. All he does seems to go wrong. Raj goes to a gypsy named Haseena Bano Jann who ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, romantic, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: true love, couples, nothing goes right, college, marriage proposal, rivalry, construction, architect, fall in love, activist, hindu, righting the wronged ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: canada, india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Life in a Metro (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Six different stories, about nine people, each with different issues and problems, all occurring within one place: the METRO.
Style: realistic, serious, romantic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: love triangle, adultery, infidelity, family relations, friendship, opposites attract, dysfunctional marriage, extramarital affair, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, couples ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: india, mumbai india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
You Don't Get Life a Second Time (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, Spain
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Mumbai-based Kabir Dhiman, who comes from a wealthy building construction family, proposes to his long-time girlfriend, Natasha, much to the delight of both their respective families. He then gets together with one of two of his close friends, Imran ...
Style: road movie, entertaining, realistic, philosophical, semi serious ...
Plot: adolescence vs adulthood, travel, friendship, extreme sport, friends, hindu, free spirited, obsessive quest, self discovery, fall in love, engaged, wedding preparations and rituals ...
Time: y2k, year 2011, 21st century
Place: spain, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Mary Kom (2014)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A chronicle of the life of Indian boxer 'Mary Kom' who went through several hardships before audaciously accomplishing her ultimate dream.
Style: realistic, exciting, captivating, serious, motivational ...
Plot: female boxer, boxing, biopic, training, contests and competitions, women, ambition, athlete's life, hopes, rivalry, boxer, follow your dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Carry On, Munna Bhai (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A hilarious underworld gangster known as Munna Bhai falls comically in love with a radio host by the name of Jahnvi, who runs an elders' home, which is taken over by an unscrupulous builder, who gets the residents kicked out ironically with the ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, buddy comedy, inspirational ...
Plot: friendship, friends, love and romance, contests and competitions, disorder, professor, fall in love, best friend, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, medicine, psychiatrist ...
Time: year 2006
Place: india, middle east, asia, bombay india, mumbai india ...
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81%
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Pam & Tommy (2022)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 340 min.
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Story: This comedic series takes on the true story behind the release of the first ever viral video in history — the sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee.
Style: sexy, captivating, sex comedy, dark comedy, disturbing
Audience: adult
Plot: sex tape, male nudity, scandal, toxic relationship, life, celebrity, women, couple relations, sex scandal, private vs public, male female relationship, subculture ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A slim uneducated guy is pressured into an arranged marriage with an overweight college girl. The mismatched couple is challenged to compete in the annual wife-carrying race.
Style: touching, sweet, light, melancholic, scenic ...
Plot: overweight woman, love, storytelling, love story, race issues, family drama, dysfunctional family, solitude, dysfunctional marriage, strong female character, wedding, odd couple ...
Time: year 2015, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 5.3
 413
Turning 30!!! (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Naina's story as she grapples with heartbreak, and a crisis in her advertising career in the face of her 30th birthday. And as she fights her anxiety and fears about being 30 years old, Naina realises there's a lot of growing up to be ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: city life, couples, female protagonist, fired from the job, breakup, fall in love, career, feminist, friendship, society, rivalry, erotica ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Movie in collections
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Ram & Leela (2013)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in violent times.
Style: serious, touching, stylized, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: forbidden love, wooing, love affair, true love, love, marriage, death of lover, shakespeare, accidental killing, mother daughter relationship, tragedy, vengeance ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Sex and the Central (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: May a recently recruited office worker finds she cannot fund her expensive lifestyle with her dismal paycheck. She later discovers her female work colleagues are playing strip poker or having sex with the management team. May soon learns she may ...
Style: erotic, psychological, thrilling, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: sex scene, office worker, women, sexual content, sexploitation, career, sex, office work, social problems, satire, lifestyle, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Harlow (1965)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the title role. One of two feature film biographies, both released in 1965 and both with the same title, about the '30s platinum blonde movie star.
Style: sexual, serious, realistic, entertaining, crying
Plot: hollywood, actor's life, rise and fall, film industry, women, wedding, filmmaking, showbiz, couples, fashion, celebrity culture, voyeurism ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Funny Girl (1968)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story: The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein.
Style: light, witty, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot: divorce, broadway, dancing, biopic, women, showbiz, love story, marriage, ambition, desire for fame, performer's life, couples ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, baltimore, new york state ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Dancing Queens (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story of Dylan Pettersson, a 23-year-old girl from a small island in the Swedish archipelago with big dancing aspirations.
Style: entertaining, sincere, captivating, humorous
Plot: dancing, lgbt, dancer, dancehall girl, dancer's life, woman, ambition, direction and purpose, longing, dance club, talented, dream ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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 7.4
 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 ⇓
79%
 6.7
 14K
Yes Boss (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story: There are lots of poor people in India who want to get rich soon. A woman named Seema is one of them. She is very beautiful and has an admirer by the name of Sidharth. This man is very rich, and says he wants to marry Seema. But Seema finds out that ...
Style: entertaining, romantic, semi serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: womanizer, affair, hindu, couple relations, dishonesty, fall in love, love and romance, model, couples, infidelity, chaos and mayhem, love triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 6.2
 6K
Funny Lady (1975)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: 1930s in New York – The famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the depression she has trouble finding work as an artist but meets Billy Rose, a newcomer who writes lyrics and owns his own nightclub.
Style: humorous, sentimental, anamorphic, hilarious, captivating ...
Plot: biopic, female protagonist, singer, nightclub, cabaret, couples, actor's life, fall in love, love and romance, human nature, couple relations, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 1930s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 7.5
 13K
Miss Lovely (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A meeting with a struggling actress (Niharika Singh) gives a mild-mannered filmmaker (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) the idea to break away from his controlling brother (Anil George) and direct a feature of his own.
Style: realistic, captivating, tense, psychological, serious ...
Plot: filmmaking, artists and showbiz, family relations, siblings relations, film industry, aspiring actress, fall in love, danger, hindu, erotica, murder, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: india, mumbai india, asia, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 7.1
 1K
Prem Rog (1982)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 183 min.
Story: Manorama, the daughter of a rich, orthodox family is married off, leaving her childhood friend Deodhar and his secret love for her, in despair. When tragedy befalls her, and traditions seem unfair, Deodhar must fight for what's right.
Style: romantic
Plot: women, daughter, family relations, secret, friend, married, car crash, tradition, love, hindu, tragic event, accidental death ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 5.4
 80
Sarah Q (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The adventures of a young woman who moves to New York City from a small town to become an actress.
Style: semi serious, captivating, thrilling, satirical, psychological
Plot: aspiring actress, actress, female protagonist, changing lives, ambitious woman, direction and purpose, satire, aspiration, ambition, woman
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 8.4
 15K
Mahanati (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Mahanati depicts the life and career of one of Telugu cinema's greatest and most iconic starlets, the first Indian female super star, Savitri.
Style: captivating, factual, touching, sentimental, telegu ...
Plot: tragedy, biopic, celebrity, movie star, actor's life, sensuality, historical figure, career, rivalry, ambition, couple relations, love story ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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