Movies like Beta

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Beta (1992)
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Beta (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 171 min.
Story: Beta is the story of Raju, the only child of a widowed multi millionaire. Raju's father can provide him anything he wants but Raju's only desire is to get mother's love, in order to please Raju, his father gets married to Nagmani, thinking that she will take care of Raju more than his real mother would. Raju becomes completely devoted to his stepmother, doing whatever she wishes. Time passes by, Raju grows up and gets married to Saraswati. Saraswati discovers that Nagmani's motherly love for Raju is fake and all what Nagmani is interested in, is capturing Raju's wealth.
Style: sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot: true love, mother son relationship, false accusation, stepmother stepson relationship, villainess, poison, family relations, parents and children, family life, love and romance, fall in love, couples, rivalry, manipulation, supportive spouse, strong female presence, poisoning, change of heart, dishonesty, couple relations, love, dog, snake, wedding, motorcycle ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: india, asia

Most similar movies to Beta

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about love and romance, bollywood, couples, fall in love, family relations, love and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like Beta: Inheritance (1997), Those Seven Days (1983), Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain (1999), Call (2000), Never Say Goodbye (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Inheritance (1997)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 165 min.
Story: After completing his studies in London, England, Shakti Thakur returns home to India in a small town where his family resides.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: village life, love triangle, cult, village, rivalry, couples, social relations, estate, disability, meet the parents, family relations, homecoming ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india, london, england
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Those Seven Days (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Maya, coming from poor family, is married to the affluent Dr. Anand; but she tries to commit suicide on the nuptial night. She tells Anand that she was in love with Prem whose ambition was to be a music director. He too was in love with her but ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: hopes, love and romance, couples, fall in love, true love, love affair, couple relations, sick mother, suicide attempt, flashback, musician, love ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: india, asia
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74%
Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Vishwanath is a multi-millionaire industrialist, who lives in a palatial house, with his only chid, a son named Vijay. Vijay has been literally born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and indulges in life's temptations and weaknesses to the ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: wedding, pregnancy, police detective, couples, family relations, fall in love, parents and children, family business, homecoming, mistaken identity, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india
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73%
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Call (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 176 min.
Story: Major Jaidev Rajvansh (Anil Kapoor) and his fellow officer Hussein (Om Puri) manage to rescue a leading politician as well as capture his kidnapper, Abhrush (Danny Denzongpa). The terrorist has been wanted for years and he is finally captured by the ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, romantic ...
Plot: criminal's revenge, love and romance, rivalry, master villain, vengeance, unfulfilled love, love triangle, frame up, terrorist, unrequited love, betrayal, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india, asia
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Never Say Goodbye (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 193 min.
Story: Dev and Maya are both married to different people. Settled into a life of domestic ritual, and convinced that they are happy in their respective relationships, they still yearn for something deeper and more meaningful, which is precisely what they ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: true love, infidelity, family relations, couple relations, love affair, couples, family problems, lifestyle, crumbling marriage, love and romance, parents and children, jealous spouse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Acid (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 173 min.
Story: Mahesh Deshmukh has joined the nation's armed forces as that he can honestly and patriotically serve the country. During his college days he has a run-in with fellow-collegian Mohini. A bet between his friends and himself ends up with him ...
Style: entertaining, non-linear, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: redemption, deportation, crime boss, frame up, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, acid, criminal, tough cop, courage, showdown, injustice, ex convict ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Friends (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A story about a girl named Priya (Preity Zinta) who is the apple of her parents' eyes. She defied the Indian culture when she got pregnant out of marriage by Saif Ali Khan
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, touching
Plot: pregnancy, family relations, hopes, against the rules, redemption, family problems, family life, love and romance, unfulfillment, single parent, siblings relations, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 189 min.
Story: Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood ...
Style: romantic, touching, entertaining, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: wedding, fall in love, love and romance, patriarchy, train, love, arranged marriage, forbidden love, love story, opposites attract, family relations, tradition ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century
Place: india, switzerland, britain, punjab, england ...
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65%
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White Nights (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story: For a fee of Rs.200/- Ankush Ramdev acted as one among four witnesses to couples who come to register their marriages at the Registrar of Marriages in Dariyaganj, Delhi. One day he comes across a single woman from Nainital and offers his services, ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, captivating, serious
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: true love, generosity, wedding, fall in love, lovers apart, couples, leaving home, longing, love triangle, rivalry, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new delhi, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Moments (1991)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 187 min.
Story: Viren (Anil Kapoor) who travels to Rajasthan with his governess, affectionately called Dai Jaa (Waheeda Rehman). He meets the beautiful Pallavi (Sridevi) and he instantly falls in love with her. However, she also happens to be older then him, though ...
Style: romantic, realistic, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love story, true love, older man younger woman relationship, couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, opposites attract, unfulfilled love, love affair, love triangle, fall in love, bittersweet ...
Time: 90s
Place: india, london, europe, england, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 174 min.
Story: Radha and Suraj have been friends since childhood. Gopal has been in love with Radha ever since they spent a few years together as kids. Years later, Gopal's guardian proposes to Radha a marriage with Gopal, and she accepts.
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, emotional
Plot: friendship, family relations, dysfunctional marriage, best friends, unfulfillment, family problems, misunderstanding, jealousy, wedding, husband wife relationship, blind woman, insecurity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
My Heart Is Yours (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 210 min.
Story: Some twenty years ago Sarita promised to raise her husband's love child (Shalu) together with their own daughter (Nimmi). The girls grow up as the best of friends but Sarita has never been able to forgive Shalu her background. It doesn't ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot: true love, love affair, forbidden love, family relations, unlikely couple, fall in love, parents and children, love triangle, sister sister relationship, rivals, couples, politics ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Chalte Chalte (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Priya Chopra is a fashion designer and Raj Mathur owns a small trucking company. They meet on the road, quarrel, and then fall for each other. Priya, who is already engaged, must decide whether she will marry her fiancé or leave him for Raj. Love ...
Style: semi serious, sincere, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, friendship, family life, hopes, family relations, couple relations, on the road, infidelity, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, wooing, car accident ...
Place: india, greece, asia, europe
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Sometimes (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story: A story spanning two generations, where two lovers are forced to marry against their will, but hold onto memories of their romance. Years later circumstances force them to confront their spouses, their children and each other.
Style: romantic, saga, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: true love, indians, step siblings, lovers apart, young lovers, unfulfillment, love and romance, fall in love, parents and children, love affair, love triangle, unfulfilled love ...
Time: 20th century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
You Have My Heart (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Inspired by the Telegu (southern Indian) film, "Pelli Chuskundam," the plot follows the life of a rape victim (Aishwarya Rai). Now, a disgrace to her family, she is turned away from her house after the sexual assault. But she finds shelter ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, melancholic, sincere ...
Plot: life is a bitch, prostitute, love and romance, love, illegitimate child, rape victim, adulterer, love triangle, mother son relationship, society, father son conflict, ostracism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Dil Dhadakne Do (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: On a cruise to celebrate their parents' 30th wedding anniversary, a brother and sister deal with the impact of family considerations on their romantic lives.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: cruise, family relations, ship, family vacation, couples, family problems, love and romance, couple relations, ocean, dysfunctional family, dysfunctional marriage, wedding anniversary ...
Place: india, mediterranean sea, istanbul turkey
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62%
The Oath of Love (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Raja Bhaiya (Mithun Chakraborty) and his friend Charan (Satish Kaushik) come to a city to make a living. Failed in their attempts to find a job, one day, they are teased and ragged by Kallu Dada (Ranjeet). The quarrel gets physical, which Raja ...
Style: sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual ...
Plot: parents and children, love affair, society, gangsters, master and servant, love and romance, couples, wedding, jail, death, love, death of father ...
Time: 80s
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61%
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Aaina (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Unhappy with her plans for the future, a man (Jackie Shroff) leaves his fiancee (Amrita Singh) and marries her sister (Juhi Chawla).
Style: semi serious, realistic
Plot: love triangle, unlikely couple, wedding, infidelity, fall in love, boss and employee, uninhibited rivalry, couples, battle of the sexes, city life, social differences, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: india, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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As Long as I Live (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 198 min.
Story: An ex-army man, leading a double life in London, must choose between his wife and muse. Jab Tak Hai Jaan movie is a love triangle,and also marks the return of Yash Chopra as a director after eight years. In Jab Tak Hai Jaan, Shahrukh Khan plays ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, romantic, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, love triangle, bomb, power of love, couples, love and romance, soldier, encounter, artists and showbiz, doubts and hesitations, journalist, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, london, england, kashmir
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61%
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Love Love Love (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Widowed businessman, Sudhirbhai lives a wealthy lifestyle with his son, Vikram, who is student at National College. He is very affectionate toward Vikram and will do anything for him. His business partner is Goswami, who is also widowed, and has two ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: college, opposites attract, intrigue, vengeance, betrayal, love and romance, taxi, family relations, couples, love affair, fall in love, parents and children ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: india
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60%
Yash Chopra's Moonlight (1989)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 186 min.
Story: Chandni was a blockbuster in 1989 and is one of the most successful films of Indian cinema. The huge profits of this musical brought an end to director Yash Chopra's lean phase. The platinum success of its music was instrumental in ending the ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, love triangle, women, bittersweet, lovers apart, couples, renewed love, disability, fall in love, unfulfilled love, true love, love affair ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: india, asia, switzerland
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60%
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: realistic, captivating, touching, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, childhood sweetheart, couple relations, friendship, fall in love, couples, family relations, family in crisis, parents and children, social differences, love affair, family problems ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: india, asia, kolkata
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60%
We Stand United (1999)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story: The trials and challenges of a joint family in India, whose parents are Ramkishen and second wife Mamta, and have three sons and a married daughter. The eldest son is handicapped since birth, and is from Ramkishen's first wife. Mamta, the ...
Style: romantic, entertaining, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: wedding, family relations, family business, remorse, brother sister relationship, brother brother relationship, tradition, vacation, husband wife relationship, celebration, happiness, workplace ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india, asia
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60%
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The Lonely Wife (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband Bhupati devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage, he sees her loneliness and asks his brother-in-law,Umapada to keep her company. At the same time ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: swinger, affair, summer, family relations, newspaper editor, infidelity, writers, swing, unfulfillment, couple relations, crumbling marriage, dishonesty ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: india, kolkata
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Namastey London (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
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, couples, family relations, love triangle, arranged marriage, looking for love, parents and children, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations, diaspora, love story ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, london, europe, england, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Love Sublime (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 172 min.
Story: As Pandit Shyam Sunder prayed in Bhagwan Shivji's temple on the occasion of Janamashtami, his wife gives birth to a daughter, Rupa, and passes away, leaving her child to bear the brunt of being an ill-omen. Years later, Rupa burns her face from ...
Style: sexy, realistic, serious, sexual, stylized ...
Plot: women, village, bittersweet, family relations, couples, society, social misfits, single parent, love and romance, misfit, parents and children, village life ...
Time: 70s
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Raja Babu (1994)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Raja Babu (Govinda) is a poor orphan adopted by a wealthy village couple (Kadar Khan and Aruna Irani). He is a typical country bumpkin, good-hearted but lacking in urban manners. He falls ...
Style: funny, realistic, serious, epic, sentimental
Plot: village, culture clash, rich and poor, social differences, teenage love, against the odds, fall in love, village life, unfulfilled love, social relations, family relations, power relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Permission (1987)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Mahendra is in love with Maya and would like to marry her. But Maya is a woman of the 20th century, who does not believe in marriage, but would like to continue having a relationship. Mahendra's family pressures him into getting married, and he ...
Style: emotional, parallel cinema, realistic, serious
Plot: female empowerment, introspection, gender, unfulfillment, feminism, crumbling marriage, love and romance, family problems, couples, couple relations, true love, breakup ...
Time: 20th century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Happiness & Tears (2001)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 210 min.
Story: Orthodox Indian, Raichand, would like his two sons to live together with him and his wife, and get married to girls' of his choice. One of his sons, Rahul, is adopted, while Rohan is his real son. Rahul falls in love with a poor Indian girl ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: forbidden love, arranged marriage, reconciliation, wealth, love, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, separation from family, estrangement, love and romance, couple relations, parent child relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
English Babu Desi Mem (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Vikram Mayur, a wealthy Indian, born and raised in England, returns to his ancestral home in Bombay, India to look up his late brother's eight-year-old son Nandu raised by his caring aunt Bijuriya in which Vikram is torn between choosing to ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: pregnancy, family relations, couples, love and romance, moral dilemma, couple relations, orphan, death in the family, family gatherings, fall in love, family life, marriage ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%