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Lipstick Under My Burkha  (2016)
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Lipstick Under My Burkha  (2016)
Original name: Lipstick Under My Burkha
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Four ordinary women, inflicted by silly societal norms, have to steal, lie, cheat and hide in order to lead the lives that they rightfully deserve.
Style: clever, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic, stylized, erotic, offbeat, mumblecore, avant garde
Plot: sexuality, women, patriarchy, social satire, muslim, small town, friendship, family relations, feminist, equality, parents and children, ambition, self esteem, husband wife relationship, strong female presence, countryside, taboo, indian woman, masturbation, rural area, sexual relations, islam, sex, squaw, innovation ...
Place: india
Keyword: avant-garde

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and captivating films with plots about bollywood, hindi, family relations, love and romance, parents and children, friendship and couples mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Lipstick Under My Burkha : M.K.B.K.M. (2013), Turning 30!!! (2011), Badhaai Ho (2018), Through My Own Eyes (2013), Welcome to Sajjanpur (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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M.K.B.K.M. (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Harry is an industrialist who loves his daughter Bijlee, and the bond they share with Harry's man friday, Matru. Bijlee's plan to wed the son of a politician, however, brings twists and turns in the lives of Matru, Bijlee and Mandola.
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, independent film ...
Plot: couples, supportive parent, parents and children, on the road, family relations, social relations, politician, landowner, feminist, alcoholism, femininity, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, seattle, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.3
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Turning 30!!! (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Naina's story as she grapples with heartbreak, and a crisis in her advertising career in the face of her 30th birthday. And as she fights her anxiety and fears about being 30 years old, Naina realises there's a lot of growing up to be ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: city life, couples, female protagonist, fired from the job, breakup, fall in love, career, feminist, friendship, society, rivalry, erotica ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Badhaai Ho (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A 25-year-old man tries to suppress his embarrassment when his mother announces that she is pregnant.
Style: funny, light, entertaining, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gossip, pregnancy, family relations, wedding, middle class, mother, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, estrangement, father, hindu, mother son relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Through My Own Eyes (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Raje Bauji is a man in his late fifties, living out a dreary but eventful life in a small house in old Delhi where he lives with his extended family. A random incident is going to change his life in a dramatic way- though he does not realize it ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, psychological, humorous, experimental ...
Plot: family relations, eccentricity, midlife crisis, life turned upside down, anger, life lesson, renaissance, meaning of life, self awareness, hindu, cause and meaning, belief ...
Time: y2k, 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Welcome to Sajjanpur (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Mahadev (Shreyas Talpade) is an unemployed graduate with a Bachelor of Arts from Satna college, who is forced to make a living writing letters for the uneducated people of his village. His real ambition is to become a novel writer. Through his ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching
Plot: politics, ambition, love and romance, dishonesty, hopes, rebelliousness, couple relations, campaign, couples, social relations, parents and children, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Daddy Cool: Join the Fun (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
Story: So, what can happen at a funeral? Even, if it's the funeral of Daddy Cool Douglas Lazarus? It's in Goa, tears, sad speeches, melancholia... right? Wrong! When... The coffin makers deliver the wrong body, all hell breaks loose in this witty ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, entertaining, captivating, realistic
Plot: family relations, nothing goes right, family gatherings, disorder, funeral, love, woman in a bikini, death, beach, death of father, bollywood, exercising ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Angry Indian Goddesses (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Frieda, a fashioncommercial photographer trying to find her own art, gathers her closest girlfriends from all over India to travel to Goa for a surprise announcement: she’s getting married! Thus begins an impromptu bachelorette celebration that ...
Style: humorous, light, entertaining, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: lesbian, female protagonist, gay interest, lgbt, lgbtq, friendship, dancing, women, feminist, friends, society, entertainment ...
Time: year 2015
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 7.4
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The Falling (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Natha a poor farmer from Peepli village in the heart of rural India is about to lose his plot of land due to an unpaid bank loan. A quick fix to the problem is the a government program that aids the families of indebted farmers who have committed ...
Style: black comedy, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, suspenseful ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: media circus, farmer, satire, media, society, dark humor, nothing goes right, media hype, suicide attempt, bureaucracy, farming, social injustice ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Bobby Jasoos (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A film that celebrates the aspiration of Bobby, who wants to become the number one detective in the old city area of Hyderabad.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, tense, detective ...
Plot: investigation, private detective, workplace, partner, follow your dream, ambition, missing person, rivalry, urban, strong female presence, bollywood, hindi
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Do Dooni Chaar (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A middle-class father in India struggles through a series of unexpected events for upholding respect and smiles.
Style: semi serious, humorous, sincere, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick
Plot: family relations, working class, society, social differences, ambition, parents and children, family life, friendship, road trip, middle class, hardcore, respect ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, new delhi
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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 ⇓
48%
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A bus is setting out to Calcutta from a village in West Bengal. Meenakshi Iyer, who is from a strict orthodox Hindu background, is leaving to Chennai for her husband, with her young child, after the vacation with her parents. By chance, she gets a ...
Style: serious, captivating, atmospheric, emotional, thinking ...
Plot: forbidden love, society, love and romance, culture clash, social differences, political unrest, liberal, conservative, parents and children, rebellion, religious differences, journey ...
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Namastey London (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India, UK
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, family relations, couples, love triangle, looking for love, parents and children, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, wedding planning, tragic love, diaspora ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: india, london, england, europe, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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In Custody (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, India
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of extinction as political trends and modernization obscure its contributions to Indian culture. ...
Style: parallel cinema, insightful, biting, realistic, semi serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Maan Karate (2014)
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Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
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Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting, semi serious
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Khoobsurat (2014)
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Country: India
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Story: A vibrant, hopelessly romantic physiotherapist meets a handsome young Rajput prince who is the complete opposite of her – and is engaged to someone else.
Style: sentimental, realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: love and romance, family relations, family life, parents and children, party, love affair, happy ending, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, romantic relationship, relationships, couple relations ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.5
 969
Mirch (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Maanav is a struggling filmmaker who will not compromise on the script he has written. His girlfriend Ruchi, a successful film editor, arranges for him to meet film producer Nitin, who is not very convinced about Maanav's script. Maanav then ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, stylized, anthology ...
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Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.0
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Heyy Babyy (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Three handsome Sydney bachelors Aroush, Tanmay and Al – are having the time of their lives in Sydney. They flirt around, and have numerous conquests to their credit. They suddenly find their dating and mating rituals destroyed when a dimpled ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, funny
Audience: date night
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Time: year 2007
Place: australia, india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 5.6
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Gippi (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gippi is a coming-of-age story of an ordinary, overweight girl, who, through the course of the film, learns to love herself for exactly who she is. It is also a tale of an underdog, who picks herself up from nothing and finds herself at the top of ...
Style: humorous, captivating, light, inspirational, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
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Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.6
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Piku (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
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Style: melancholic, emotional, light, road movie, humorous ...
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Place: delhi
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
We Are Family (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India, Australia, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Maya is the perfect mother. Her life revolves around her three childerens, Aleya ( Aachal Munjal ), Ankush ( Nominath Ginsberg ), and Anjali ( Diya Sonecha ). Who thinks nothing much then the world of her. Despite being divorced from her husband, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, uplifting, humorous, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Aisha (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Aisha is a girl with a simple diktat - everyone's business is her business. Arjun is a boy with even a simpler set of beliefs - Aisha should mind her own business. Caught in the Delhi upper class world with its own set of social rules, Aisha ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: india, new delhi, asia, delhi
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Golmaal: Fun Unlimited (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Gopal, Lucky, Madhav and Laxman - four guys bound together by their child-like notoriety, aimlessness and petty business of conning people for fun and money. Laxman is an intelligent student who is not allowed to pass by his mischievous band of ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, feel good, funny ...
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Time: year 2006, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 7.3
 669
Lost Islands (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, twins, coming of age, love triangle, family in crisis, teenage love, parents and children, family problems, fall in love, small town, friendship, rivalry ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.0
 458
Two-Bit Waltz (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Suspension from school, the loss of a friend, a broken heart and lack of inspiration lead to Maude's downfall in this romp through teenage error. Your teenage years are never easy… but for Maude, things couldn't be worse. Within one ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, witty, realistic ...
Plot: siblings relations, dysfunctional family, teenage love, teenage life, family life, family relations, best friend, parents and children, eccentric family, love and romance, family problems, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Wonder Weeks (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three modern couples juggle relationships and demanding careers while navigating the unpredictable terrain of parenthood.
Style: captivating, humorous, dramatic, exciting, entertaining
Plot: parenthood, domestic drama, young mother, kids and family, club, parents and children, strong female presence, parents, children, women, young
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.8
 636
I Belong (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A nurse gets into a dispute at work because she switches to speaking English when she gets nervous. A translator compromises her integrity when persuaded to translate a book she doesn't believe in. An elderly woman and her daughter are ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: communication, workplace situations, communication problem, workplace, human nature, translator, family relations, parents and children, all female cast, inheritance, women, strong female presence
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Mistress America (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. MISTRESS AMERICA is a comedy about dream-chasing, ...
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Audience: teen drama
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Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.4
 13K
Lust Stories (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
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Style: anthology, touching, sincere, captivating, tense ...
Plot: vengeance, parents and children, dishonesty, family relations, betrayal, college, youth, fall in love, disorder, danger, friendship, escapades ...
Place: india, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.3
 7K
Page 3 (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story: 'Page 3' takes a behind-the-scenes look at the lifestyles of the A-list celebrities in metro cities. It explores the networking and the power play between the air-kissing
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, social ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: journalism, lifestyle, life is a bitch, love and romance, social differences, pregnancy, extramarital affair, betrayal, female friendship, hypocrite, stewardess, women ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india, mumbai india
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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