Movies like Refugee

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Refugee (2000)
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Refugee (2000)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 207 min.
Story: The films tells the story of an un-named Indian Muslim, who helps illegal refugees from both India and Pakistan to cross the border through the Great Rann of Kutch. The film is attributed to have been inspired by the short story "Love Across the Salt Desert" by Keki N. Daruwalla.
Style: serious, sentimental, sincere, tense, romantic, social, bleak, realistic
Plot: love triangle, soldier, family relations, fall in love, love affair, terrorist, border patrol, parents and children, destiny, society, mistaken identity, orphan, estrangement, immigrant, wedding, desert, politics, love, forbidden love, torture, smuggling, childbirth, patriotism, border crossing, illegal immigrant ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: pakistan, india, new delhi

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about bollywood, love and romance, fall in love, hindi, family relations, love and couples mostly in Drama, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like Refugee: Yash Chopra's Veer-Zaara (2004), Cherished Memories (2001), Umrao Jaan (2006), 1942: A Love Story (1994), Happiness & Tears (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Yash Chopra's Veer-Zaara (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 192 min.
Story: The story of the love between Veer Pratap Singh, an Indian, and Zaara Hayaat Khan, a Pakistani...a love so great it knows no boundaries...
Style: serious, atmospheric, emotional, captivating, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, impossible love, muslim, rescue, uncover truth, social differences, false accusation, love affair, against the odds, hopes, legal, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2004
Place: india, pakistan, asia, middle east
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Cherished Memories (2001)
Genre: Musical, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 171 min.
Story: Raj Singh Puri has a very wealthy friend in Lalit Kumar Malhotra, and his wife, Nalini. After the passing away of his wife, Shalini, Raj has become more dependent on the Malhotras, and they have offered him support and solace in his time of need. ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, romantic
Plot: family relations, young lovers, fall in love, siblings relations, win over, parents and children, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, love, father daughter relationship, hindu, materialism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, london, malaysia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Umrao Jaan (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Bollywood film about the famous courtesan of the title. Aishwarya Rai stars in the lead role. The film is directed by J.P. Dutta and also stars Shabana Azmi, Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Divya Dutta, Himani Shivpuri and Kulbhushan Kharbanda.
Style: captivating, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Plot: courtesan, forbidden love, life is a bitch, social differences, prostitute, society, destiny, impossible love, curses spells and rituals, medieval, abduction, brothel ...
Time: 19th century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
1942: A Love Story (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 157 min.
Story: In 1942 the British ruled India, a time when people were either working for the British or rallying for underground meetings and protests against them. Amidst this background, Naren Singh, falls in love with Rajeshwari Pathak. But their romance is ...
Style: romantic, patriotic, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Plot: revolution, politics, patriot, independence, struggle, freedom, love story, wartime, revolutionary war, rebellion, bomb, horse riding ...
Time: 1940s
Place: india, england, asia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Happiness & Tears (2001)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, UK
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, sentimental, emotional, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: forbidden love, reconciliation, father son relationship, love, wealth, brother brother relationship, unrequited love, separation from family, love and romance, couple relations, estrangement, parent child relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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 ⇓
54%
I Will Love Him Till the End of Time (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 197 min.
Story: Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon is the story of Sanjana (Kareena Kapoor), a girl of today's generation full of life and vibrant ecstasy. She lives life on her own terms and gets very upset when her mother Susheela (Himani Shivpuri), arranges for her ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, flamboyance
Plot: true love, fall in love, love triangle, family relations, love affair, destiny, hindu, couples, hopes, love and romance, mistaken identity, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 8.1
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Bombay (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A love story of a good-hearted Hindu man and a beautiful devout Muslim woman who leave their village to marry against the wishes of their parents and move to Bombay to start a fresh life. There they have twin sons and a daughter. But turmoil engulfs ...
Style: romantic drama, cult classic, patriotic, social, romantic ...
Plot: politics, family reunited, hindu, integration, war crime, islam, indians, music, village, journalism, forbidden love, twins ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, year 1992
Place: mumbai india, asia, india, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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, immigrant, boss and employee, battle of the sexes, infidelity, young lovers, uninhibited rivalry, urban, family relations, mentally unstable ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: rome italy, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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, romantic drama
Plot: true love, sister sister relationship, forbidden love, love affair, unlikely couple, fall in love, family relations, parents and children, love triangle, rivals, hindu, secret admirer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Devdas (2002)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story: Devdas is sent away by his father so he can improve himself but upon his return his father still doesn’t welcome him back. Devdas and Paro are in love but Paro is a lower caste and is set to be married to an older widower. Devdas is devastated ...
Style: touching, emotional, weeping, serious, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, love triangle, alcoholic, forbidden love, tragic love, prostitution, unrequited love, prostitute, drunkenness, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, hindu, death of protagonist ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 1900s, 21st century
Place: india, london, kolkata, europe, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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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, mesmerizing, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love story, true love, dual role, unrequited love, older man younger woman relationship, couples, fall in love, unfulfillment, love and romance, opposites attract, unfulfilled love, love affair ...
Time: 90s
Place: london, england, india, asia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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, disability, couples, renewed love, love affair, social differences, lovers apart, unfulfilled love, true love ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: asia, india, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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, family relations, couples, parents and children, family business, homecoming, mistaken identity, love and romance, on the run, fall in love ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
A Life of Devotion (1969)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Vandana and Arun fall in love the instant they meet. On a trip to a Shiv temple, they get married in an impromptu ceremony in front of God. A chance rainshower strands them at a remote hotel where Vandana gets pregnant. With their legal marriage ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: dual role, politics, pregnancy, adoption, family relations, couples, orphan, babies and infants, love and romance, last wish, love at first sight, air raid ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.2
 8K
Oh, My Love (2007)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Orphaned and homeless Ranbir Raj re-locates to a small town and orders a glass of milk in the RK Bar. He befriends a prostitute by the name of Gulabji, who invites him to spend the night with her, and when he refuses, she re-directs him to Lillian ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: unrequited love, couples, friendship, love and romance, prostitute, couple relations, fall in love, love affair, tragic love, hopes, idealism, small town life ...
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.4
 11K
QsQT (1988)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Both Dhanraj Singh and Randhir Singh are two bitter and old time enemies. They faced a disastrous situation when there children, Raj and Rashmi falls deeply in love. They openly declares there hatred for one another and will do anything in there ...
Style: emotional, romantic, touching, romantic drama, mesmerizing ...
Plot: love affair, family relations, couples, love and romance, fall in love, tragic love, die, perfectionist, main character dies, death of protagonist, shakespeare, forbidden love ...
Time: 80s
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Love Sublime (1978)
Genre: Drama, Musical, 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: serious, realistic, emotional, stylized, sexual
Plot: women, village, bittersweet, couples, family relations, single parent, social misfits, love and romance, misfit, society, fall in love, parents and children ...
Time: 70s
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa, India, Pakistan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl, ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot: interracial relations, sikh, love and romance, forbidden love, fall in love, couples, soldier, society, political unrest, social relations, village, muslim ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: pakistan, india, africa, middle east, south africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: true love, indians, rebel, unrequited love, love and romance, young lovers, fall in love, unfulfillment, step siblings, destiny, lovers apart, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.0
 33K
Love Stories (2000)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 216 min.
Story: In India, open romance is forbidden, as is showing affection in public. A college principal named Narayan is a strong believer in this, aware that a male student named Vicky is in love with Ishika; while another male student is hopelessly in love ...
Style: romantic, touching, serious, realistic, entertaining
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: true love, forbidden love, father daughter relationship, friendship, tradition, love and romance, fall in love, youth, love affair, teenage life, teachers and students, buddies ...
Time: 90s
Place: india, england, asia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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: entertaining, romantic, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: wedding, stepmother stepson relationship, family relations, family business, remorse, brother brother relationship, brother sister relationship, tradition, happiness, husband wife relationship, celebration, vacation ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.4
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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 ⇓
49%
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Kisna: The Warrior Poet (2005)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 171 min.
Story: The film is set in the India of the tumultuous 1930's when nationalists fighting for the country's independence rose up as one, urging the British to quit. At this time, a young Indian, Kisna befriends and then shields a British girl ...
Style: serious, captivating, touching, emotional, realistic
Plot: forbidden love, chase, love triangle, woman in danger, social differences, couple relations, fall in love, society, family relations, political unrest, state affairs, rebel ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: india, new delhi
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Paruthiveeran (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story: A village tough finally succumbs to the unconditional love of his angelic cousin, but his romance faces insurmountable challenges, including family opposition and his own delinquent personality.
Style: sentimental, serious, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Plot: village, forbidden love, love affair, fall in love, parents and children, vengeance, village life, uninhibited rivalry, misfit, love and romance, wedding planning, arranged marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Main Hoon Na (2004)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 182 min.
Story: An army major goes undercover as a college student. His mission is both professional and personal: to protect his general's daughter from a radical militant, and to find his estranged half-brother.
Style: humorous, semi serious, exciting, masala, light ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: terrorism, college, family relations, siblings relations, couples, fall in love, rescue, love and romance, danger, estrangement, undercover, chase ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: india, asia, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.4
 3K
Inheritance (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, 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: cult classic, romantic drama, realistic, serious
Plot: village life, love triangle, hindu, dual role, rivalry, village, love and romance, small town, meet the parents, small town life, parents and children, homecoming ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
To Fall in Love (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story: Prem Kapoor, an aspiring popstar, lives with his elder sister, Neelu, and brother-in-law, Vinod. Prem is in love with Nisha and both hope to marry soon...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, crying, weeping ...
Plot: wedding, true love, friendship, love affair, looking for love, fall in love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, brother sister relationship, friendship between men, couples, unfulfilled love, family life ...
Time: 90s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Something Is Happening (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Anjali is left heartbroken when her best friend and secret crush, Rahul, falls in love with Tina. Years later, Tina's young daughter tries to fulfil her mother's last wish of uniting Rahul and Anjali.
Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: friendship, love triangle, best friend, childhood friend, love, love and romance, youth, family life, crumbling relationship, unhappiness, family relations, couples ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india, middle east, scotland, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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, forbidden love, trip, love story, opposites attract, family relations, tradition ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century
Place: india, switzerland, england, middle east, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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