Movies like Yash Chopra's Moonlight

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Yash Chopra's Moonlight (1989)
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Yash Chopra's Moonlight (1989)
Original name: चाँदनी
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 era of violence in Bollywood and bringing back music into Hindi films. The film reaffirmed Sridevi's position as the top female star of the Eighties.
Style: sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: wedding, love triangle, women, true love, love and romance, fall in love, couples, love affair, social differences, lovers apart, starting over, disability, unfulfilled love, bittersweet, renewed love, helicopter, accident, rain, drunkenness, paraplegic, wooing, paralysis, bollywood, hindi, triangle ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: india, asia, switzerland

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Most similar movies to Yash Chopra's Moonlight

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and emotional films with plots about love and romance, bollywood, fall in love, hindi, love, couples and love triangle mostly in Romance, Drama and Musical genres. Some movies like Yash Chopra's Moonlight: Roy (2015), Bobby (1973), Moments (1991), A Married Woman (2005), White Nights (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Roy (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: A love triangle revolving around the lives of a filmmaker, a thief and their mutual love interest.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: love and romance, filmmaking, love triangle, dual role, thief, muse, writer's block, mysterious character, bollywood, hindi, cigar smoking, scotch whiskey
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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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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Bobby (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Raja is the 18-year-old son of a wealthy Bombay businessman who suffers from his parents coldness and neglect. Shortly after finishing school he meets Bobby, the 16-year-old daughter of a poor Christian fisherman. They fall head over heels for each ...
Style: romantic, mesmerizing, semi serious, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, true love, governess, affection, father son relationship, forbidden love, love at first sight, grandmother granddaughter relationship, teenage rebellion, motorcycle, party, christian ...
Time: 70s
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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
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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
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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, couples, lovers apart, fall in love, leaving home, longing, love triangle, rivalry, underdog, suffering ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new delhi, india
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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: couple relations, hopes, love and romance, fall in love, true love, love affair, couples, flashback, forbidden love, love, musician, death of mother ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: asia, india
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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
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Crazy (1992)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story: Kajal is a beautiful and talented young woman who loves songs and dances and attends various shows. At one of the shows she attended she gets to meet Ravi, a popular singer and both are head over heel in love with each other and they soon got ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, exciting, emotional, humorous ...
Plot: love triangle, attempted rape, remarry, tragic love, widow, uncle nephew relationship, presumed dead, mother in law daughter in law relationship, singer, rescue, husband wife relationship, grieving widower ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: asia, india
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31%
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The Affair (1981)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 182 min.
Story: Although orphaned at very young ages, Scriptwriter Amit and military pilot Shekhar are brothers and also very good friends. The latter is happily engaged to Shobha, while the former has just fallen in love with pretty, young Chandni. But tragedy ...
Style: romantic, cult classic, mesmerizing, saga, serious ...
Plot: love triangle, husband, politics, infidelity, unrequited love, couple relations, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love and romance, couples, family problems, lovers reunited ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Khamoshi: The Musical (1996)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Goa based Joseph Braganza and his wife Flavy, devout Catholics, are both deaf and mute. He makes a living selling soap bars door to door. Flavy gets pregnant and gives birth to a daughter who they name Annie, who can speak and hear much to their ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot: father daughter relationship, female empowerment, deaf, pregnancy, deaf mute, family in crisis, parents and children, death in the family, passionate interest, family life, wooing, couples ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india, asia
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29%
The Japanese Wife (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Snehmoy (Rahul Bose) and Miyage (Chigusa Takaku) are pen friends who exchange wedding vows through letters. Fifteen years pass but they never meet. Yet the bond of marriage is strong between them. This unusual relationship comes under a cloud when a ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, philosophical, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: looking for love, love triangle, couples, unfulfillment, lovers apart, pen pal, friendship, society, interracial, telephone call, unfulfilled love, cure ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, india, kolkata, asia
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29%
Let's Be Friends! (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Raj has always had a unrequited childhood crush on a friend named Tina, but Tina's best friend Pooja has always had a crush on Raj. When Raj's family move to England to get involved in an internet business, Raj promises Tina that he will ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: love triangle, friendship, mistaken identity, fall in love, starting over, nothing goes right, youth, disorder, comedy of errors, true love, tragic love, hindu ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, england, asia, europe, london
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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
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Time: 70s
Place: india, asia
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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 ...
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Audience: chick flick
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Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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26%
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
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26%
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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
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Desire (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A story bout a relationship that's ended. Khwahish traces the sexy, funny and intense relationship of Amar Ranawat(Himanshu Malik) and Lekha Khorzuvekar (Mallika Sherawat) from the time they meet in the last semester of college, their quirky ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, serious, sexy ...
Audience: date night
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Place: india, asia
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Romance 2 (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A young woman meets a failing musician who launches her singing career, but their relationship is doomed when people assume he's with her for her fame and fortune.
Style: emotional, serious, touching, realistic, romantic ...
Plot: tragic love, love and romance, musician's life, follow your dream, artist, alcohol abuse, relationship vs career, artists and showbiz, family disapproval, couples, celebrity culture, singer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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25%
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
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25%
Main Aurr Mrs Khanna (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Three people, each having different aspirations from life, are caught in a tangle of emotions and don’t know the way out. There’s a husband and wife with love eroding from their life. And there’s a single, happy-go-lucky dude who falls in love ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, emotional, humorous
Plot: couples, love triangle, fall in love, couple relations, starting over, hopes, love and romance, family problems, unemployment, women, hindu, businessman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: singapore, asia, india, new delhi, australia
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25%
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: touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, love triangle, bomb, power of love, couples, love and romance, soldier, encounter, artists and showbiz, journalist, doubts and hesitations, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, london, england, kashmir
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Para Para Sakura (2001)
Genre: Musical, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Story: Phillip (Aaron Kwok) is a dance instructor who holds a class devoted to the latest dance craze, Para Para. While in Shanghai, he meets Yee (Cecilia Cheung), a spoiled rich girl who is running away from her impending arranged marriage. Soon, Yee ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: true love, fall in love, couples, love affair, dancer's life, artists and showbiz, love and romance, twists and turns, wedding, bittersweet, love, dance
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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When Love Calls (1989)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 192 min.
Story: Karan (Alok Nath) lives in a small house with his only daughter, Suman (Bhagyashree). He decides to travel overseas in Dubai, in the Persian Gulf, so that he can accumulate enough wealth to get his daughter married. He decides to leave his daughter ...
Style: romantic drama, mesmerizing, romantic, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: tragic love, hindu, family relations, love of one's life, family life, love and romance, fall in love, father, fight, businessman, love, wealth ...
Time: 80s
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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 ⇓
24%
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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 ...
Style: serious, sincere, sentimental, tense, social ...
Plot: love triangle, family relations, soldier, fall in love, love affair, border patrol, terrorist, society, parents and children, mistaken identity, destiny, immigrant ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: pakistan, india, new delhi
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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 ⇓
24%
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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 ⇓
24%
Wuthering Heights (2003)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A musical version of the classic story set in the modern day.
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, stylized
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, teenage life, young lovers, love affair, social differences, tragic love, opposites attract, fall in love, infidelity, youth, couples, lovers reunited ...
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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 ⇓
23%
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