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Shamitabh (2015)
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Shamitabh (2015)
Original name: शमिताभ
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A mute, aspiring actor joins forces with a man who has a powerful voice. Together they take the film industry by storm, but will their egos get in the way?
Style: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
Plot: deaf mute, actor, mute, film industry, selfishness, price of fame, ego clash, success, team, ego, relationship problems, ambition, egoism, movie business, movie star, movie actor, aspiring actor, hindi, star, voice
Place: india

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, disturbing and thought provoking films with plots about relationship problems, ambition, male female relationship, relationships, couple relations, actor and family problems mostly in Drama, Comedy and Biography genres. Some movies like Shamitabh: Bollywood Diaries (2016), Rough Play (2013), 1st Time 16mm (2008), Uyare (2019), Devathayai Kanden (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bollywood Diaries (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The passionate journey of three Bollywood fanatics who wish to make it big in the industry.
Style: psychological, captivating, sincere, disturbing, avant garde
Plot: aspiring actor, desire for fame, ambitious, direction and purpose, ambition, multiple storylines, actor, aspiration, passion, tribute, dream, bollywood
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Rough Play (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Young is a nameless actor who dreams of becoming a big movie star. Then one day, he makes his breakthrough with a film and becomes a star overnight.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking
Plot: blind ambition, relationship vs career, glory, price of fame, rising to stardom, movie star, relationship problems, defiant, actor's life, actor, film industry
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1st Time 16mm (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Miguel, a debutant director, and his young team live a series of tribulations during the shootings of their first film, which unrolls between Lisbon, Venice, Paris and Madrid.
Style: psychological, captivating, experimental, disturbing
Plot: movie business, filmmaking, film producer, filmmaker, ambition, film industry, financial problem, money problems, award
Place: portugal
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Uyare (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An aspiring pilot fights for her future -- and justice -- after surviving an acid attack from her abusive boyfriend.
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Devathayai Kanden (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Babu, a tea vendor, loves Uma, a rich girl. She too loves him for his sincerity. When she receives a proposal from a doctor, she accepts for the sake of a secure future. Babu sues her for cheating.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: relationship problems, in love, fall in love, love story, life is a bitch, couple relations, relationships, love affair, male female relationship, unfulfilled love, love and romance, family problems ...
Place: india
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Upstarts (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
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Autumn Fall (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Oslo in beautiful autumn. Ingvild is a stage manager at the National Theatre, and trying to make a life change, with her artistic ambitions. Not liking actors, she still manages to get into two very different affairs.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, romantic
Plot: love story, romantic relationship, love affair, male female relationship, love and romance, couple relations, relationships, relationship problems, love interest, actor, couples, actor's life ...
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Black (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Black is an adaptation of Helen Keller's autobiography. Black revolves around a blind and deaf girl, and her relationship with her teacher who himself later develops Alzheimer's disease.
Style: touching, inspirational, uplifting, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: communication problem, mute or deaf, disability, teacher, deaf, teachers and students, blindness, age difference, struggle, determination, graduation, human spirit ...
Time: year 2005, y2k
Place: middle east, india
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Putham Pudhu Kaalai (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
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Style: anthology, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: relationships, relationship problems, family problems, parents and children, lifestyle, family life, family relations, multiple storylines, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, tamil
Place: india
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Adventures in Pornoland (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Largely improvised with only two people privy to the "secret" - that a fictional movie was being made using the players, crew, and settings of the adult movie industry as its background. Canadian television director Ethan dreams of making ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological
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Last Film Show (2021)
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Country: India, France, USA
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Ball (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lester, the star player of their community basketball team who dreams of playing at the country's premier league, but encounters a problem on the way to PBA (Philippine Basketball Association). He meets Pandy (Arnel Ignacio), a couturier who is ...
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense, disturbing
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Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Corporate (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
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Entertainment (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense, surreal ...
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The Movie Emperor (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 125 min.
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Style: entertaining, suspenseful, captivating, serious, exciting
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
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