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Fandry (2013)
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Fandry (2013)
Original name: फँड्री
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Nagraj Manjule’s film is a scorching indictment of the caste system that persists in modern India despite legislation introduced since independence. It is depicted through the eyes of an intelligent Dalit (untouchable) teenager, Jabya, who has a deeply rooted inferiority complex about his looks, caste and his family’s staggering poverty. These feelings prevent him from expressing his affection for his fellow classmate and cherished love, the fair-skinned Shalu, who is the daughter of a higher-caste family. His father is against him going to school and aspiring too highly and fellow villagers expect him to do menial work like the rest of his clan.
Style: realistic, sincere, emotional, touching, captivating, inspirational, offbeat, intellectual, experimental, mind blowing ...
Plot: racism, fall in love, teenage life, love and romance, village life, injustice, society, youth, poverty, humiliation, social differences, boy, discrimination, ethnicity, curses spells and rituals, love, teenager, dancing, teenage love, truck, first love, schoolboy, unrequited love, bird, teenage girl ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: india

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sentimental films with plots about youth, family relations, society, love and romance, coming of age, teenage life and fall in love mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like Fandry: Engeyum Eppodhum (2011), Darling Child (1971), Little Zizou (2008), Family Comes First (2005), The Sweetest Gift (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Engeyum Eppodhum (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Engeyum Eppodhum revolves around a group of passengers traveling in two different buses, each having their own past and a reason for their travel. The most prominent among these passengers is the love track between Kathiresan (Jai), Manimegalai ...
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Plot: destiny, love affair, fall in love, store, wooing, couples, unlikely couple, hospital, friendship, society, tragic love, city life ...
Time: 21st century
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Darling Child (1971)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Family
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A teenage girl will not accept her family's attempt to arrange a marriage for her, as her heart is currently too full of love for the movies and heartthrob actor "Dharmendra."
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Plot: middle class, indians, love and romance, youth, obsession, actor's life, fall in love, artists and showbiz, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: india, asia
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Little Zizou (2008)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of a Pasie boy's view of his community in modern day Mumbai.
Style: realistic, captivating, sentimental, emotional, serious
Plot: family relations, rivalry, society, soccer, religions or cults, bigger dreams, brother brother relationship, love, friendship, city life, boy, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Family Comes First (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Virruddh... Family Comes First (English: Opposites) is a Hindi film, released in 2005, directed by Mahesh Manjrekar. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Sharmila Tagore, Sanjay Dutt and John Abraham. Viruddh is one among relatively few Hindi films that ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Sweetest Gift (1998)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two neighboring families in Florida, one black and one white, struggle with the problems of race, poverty, prejudice, and absent fathers, as their children become friends over the course of one summer and fall.
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, emotional, touching ...
Audience: family outing
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: florida
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Trader (1973)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, touching
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Time: 20th century, 70s
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
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Elle: A Modern Cinderella Tale (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Duration: 93 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
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