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The Cage (2003)
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The Cage (2003)
Original name: Pinjar
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 188 min.
Story: In the days leading up to Partition, a Hindu woman is abducted by a Muslim man. Soon, she finds herself not only forced into marriage, but living in a new country as the borders between India and Pakistan are drawn
Style: social, patriotic, emotional, realistic, semi serious, cult film
Plot: muslim, hindu, women, indian history, politics, islam, fall in love, patriot, loveless marriage, punjabi, teacher, brother sister relationship, family relations, vengeance, family problems, family in crisis, death in the family, woman, bollywood, hindi
Time: 1940s, 40s, contemporary
Place: pakistan, india, middle east, asia

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Most similar movies to The Cage

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about bollywood, hindi, family relations, society, hindu, love and romance and parents and children mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Cage: Bol (2011), Gardener (2003), Silent Waters (2003), I Did Not Kill Gandhi (2005), String (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bol (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A female convict on death row, her last wish is to tell her story to the media.
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, inspirational, psychological ...
Plot: social issues, family relations, life is a bitch, family values, parents and children, strong female presence, feminist, society, murder, death sentence, media, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pakistan, middle east
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100%
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Gardener (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 181 min.
Story: Raj Malhotra and wife Pooja have four sons. The sons have settled down professionally and are quite independent. However, when Raj Malhotra retires, none of his children want to be burdened with the responsibility of taking care of their parents. ...
Style: realistic, romantic, captivating, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: family problems, moral dilemma, parents and children, family relations, estrangement, down on your luck, family in crisis, indians, hindu, humiliation, valentine's day, orphan ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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Silent Waters (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan, France, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ayesha is a widow with a secret past, living with her beloved son Saleem in a small town in Pakistan close to the Indian border. When the fires of Islamic nationalism invade their tranquil lives, Saleem and a few of the town's other young men ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, poignant
Plot: islam, wartime life, family life, self discovery, politics, hopes, mother son relationship, small town life, haunted by the past, death in the family, family in crisis, culture clash ...
Time: 70s, 1940s, year 1979, year 1947
Place: pakistan, asia, india, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
I Did Not Kill Gandhi (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Once known for his intellectual prowess, a retired professor (Anupam Kher) begins experiencing memory gaps and periods of forgetfulness. But while he tries to laugh it off, it soon becomes clear that the symptoms are a sign of a more serious ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: assassination, alzheimer's disease, college, parents and children, memory loss, mental illness, family problems, family relations, aging, elderly, politics, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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String (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Shankar Singh and his wife, Meera, live in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India along with widowed paternal grandmother, Laxmibai, his mom, Gowri, and dad, Randhir. The family feel that they are blessed after Meera's entry in this family. Shankar must go ...
Style: realistic, emotional, sincere, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, hopes, power of love, redemption, dishonesty, gender, friends, muslim, loss of spouse, social differences, women, female empowerment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Ramchand: The Untouchable Pakistani (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on a actual events, the story is about a Pakistani Hindu boy and his father who accidentally cross the border into India from their village in Pakistan at a time of extreme war like tension between the 2 countries and end up spending 5 years ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, serious, emotional, informative ...
Plot: prison, border, hindu, confined, life is a bitch, family problems, injustice, wartime life, parents and children, missing person, prison life, boy ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: pakistan, india
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39%
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Existence (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Astitva is a bold film with adultery. An ambitious male chauvinist and his loving wife are happily married but the guy is not able to give time to the family as he want to make it big in life. His work is of paramount importance to him. His work ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, social ...
Plot: seduction, independence, husband wife relationship, family relations, dysfunctional marriage, family problems, crumbling marriage, love and romance, dishonesty, breakup, infidelity, unsupportive spouse ...
Time: 90s
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Aarakshan (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 164 min.
Story: The decision by India's supreme court to establish caste-based reservations for jobs in education causes conflict between a teacher and his mentor.
Style: captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, political ...
Plot: politics, discrimination, education, social activism, prejudice, teacher, demonstration, fighting the system, family relations, society, friendship, teachers and students ...
Time: year 2011
Place: india, asia
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34%
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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
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34%
Shakthi: The Power (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: A couple visits the husband's family in India and finds itself in the middle of a fratricidal battle.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, village, battles, dysfunctional family, gory, family problems, estrangement, parents and children, death in the family, family in crisis, single parent, fall in love ...
Place: india, asia, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Wound (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Amidst religious riots, a son deals with his mother's life-threatening injuries, and her last request.
Style: cult classic, touching, powerful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: father son relationship, husband wife relationship, religious intolerance, religious fanatic, illegitimate child, single mother, hindu, bittersweet, religions or cults, family relations, uninhibited rivalry, state affairs ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
31%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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
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30%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
28%
Banaras: A Mystic Love Story (2006)
Genre: Musical, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Banaras: A Mystic Love Story is the name of an Indian Bollywood film directed by Pankaj Parashar released in 2006. The film takes place in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi (the city, once known as Banaras, serves as a destination for the pilgrimage ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot: hinduism, guru, family relations, social differences, love affair, culture clash, love and romance, society, fall in love, couples, family problems, religions or cults ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
In the Name of God (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Pakistan
Duration: 168 min.
Story: The film is about the difficult situation in which the Pakistanis in particular and the Muslims in general are caught up since 9/11. There is a war going on between the Fundamentalists and the Liberal Muslims. This situation is creating a drift not ...
Style: serious, tense, bleak, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: terrorism, false accusation, muslim, falsely accused, culture clash, extremism, immigration, social relations, family relations, life is a bitch, misfit, escape attempt ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: pakistan, chicago, usa, asia, middle east ...
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27%
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Mission Kashmir (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story: A police officer adopts the son and sole survivor of a family he has massacred while pursuing a terrorist. After some time the foster son finds out what the stepfather did.
Style: serious, captivating, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: family relations, vengeance, family problems, haunted by the past, criminal's revenge, death in the family, parents and children, militant, patriot, violence, wedding, murder ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: asia, kashmir, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Mutiny: A Love Story (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Amongst the communal riots that erupt in the city, Tara shelters a wayward Sakina from a crazed mob and a bond that blossoms into love is created. The two eventually get married and have a son. The happy family, now living in Amritsar, gets the ...
Style: romantic, realistic, serious, patriotic, suspense ...
Plot: family relations, against the odds, social differences, fall in love, against the rules, political unrest, society, love and romance, religions or cults, on the run, patriot, pursuit ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947, 1950s
Place: india, pakistan, middle east, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Water (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go to live with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two ...
Style: touching, bleak, melancholic, poignant, independent film ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hinduism, women, prostitute, prostitution, friendship, love, marriage, politics, relationships, mentor, sin, brutality ...
Time: 1930s, year 2005, 2000s, 20th century, year 1938
Place: india, asia
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26%
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Jasmine (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Lamington Road on Bombay's Western Railway is the nearest railway station that takes one to Kamathipura, notorious for it's red-light, in particular, and a crime-prone area in general.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, art film
Plot: love and romance, couples, opposites attract, women, prostitute, aids, hiding place, car, night, rain, police, pimp ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 5K
The Big City (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.
Style: cult classic, retro, contemplative, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: feminist, family relations, women, indian woman, money, mother-in-law, new job, family disapproval, gender, battle of the sexes, society, fighting the system ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s, 1950s
Place: kolkata, asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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 ⇓
25%
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 3K
Trishna (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, India
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When her father is killed in a road accident, Trishna's family expect her to provide for them. The rich son of an entrepreneur starts to restlessly pursue her affections, but are his intentions as pure as they seem?
Style: emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: tragic love, fall in love, couple relations, injustice, culture clash, society, innocence lost, love and romance, unfulfillment, couples, power relations, social injustice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Milenge Milenge (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Magic happens, if you let it; and sometimes even fate or destiny, or whatever you want to call it, steps in to lend a hand. But when it concerns love, and finding that special person you're going to spend the rest of your life with, should you ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, realistic, touching, humorous
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: lovers reunited, fall in love, love and romance, looking for love, hopes, fate, college student, diary, destiny, hindi, bollywood
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Truth (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: A young man named Satya comes to Mumbai from South India in search of a job. Jailed for something he did not do, the once-honest young man meets an underworld boss, Bhiku Mhatre in jail and joins his gang.
Style: cult classic, experimental, dark, black comedy, neo noir ...
Plot: underworld, gangster, mafia, revenge, anti hero, death of protagonist, crime boss, indian mafia, hindu, gang, rivalry, criminal underworld ...
Time: 90s
Place: india, asia, mumbai india
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 2K
Corporate (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Two corporate giants compete in order to recklessly maximize their respective profits.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, thought provoking
Plot: uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, workplace, society, politics, ambition, corporate world, business ethics, corporate executive, business, erotica, entrepreneurship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Train to Pakistan (1998)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, India
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Tensions run high near the border of British India, which is about to be partitioned with a new country called Pakistan. Sikhs living in this border town have heard numerous stories of Muslims killing, raping, and looting other Sikhs, Hindus, and ...
Style: art film
Plot: independence, muslim, politics, railway, premarital sex, lust, male nudity, sikh, village, hindi
Time: 1940s
Place: india, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Other Son (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two men discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional
Plot: switched at birth, teenage boy, family relations, family problems, parents and children, life turned upside down, disorder, introspection, society, occupation, family in crisis, interracial relations ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, palestinian authority
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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