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Sainik (1993)
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Sainik (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Lieutenant Suraj Dutt has been in the Indian army for years. It is now time for him to take a leave of absence so that he can meet his father, Retired Colonel Yashpal Dutt, and sister, Minni. He travels home, and on the way rescues some school children held hostage by a group of armed men. The media portrays him as a hero, and it is here that he meets with a young woman named Alka, and both fall in love with each other. Alka and Suraj get the approval of their respective families' and get married. Minni also gets married to a young man named Vijay Ghai. Shortly after the marriage, Suraj leaves his pregnant wife and re-joins duty at the border. His father is the first one to get the news that he is missing, believed dead. He decides to keep his news from Alka and Minni. What Yashpal does not know that both Minni and Alka have already received this devastating news - and both have decided to keep a brave front and also hide it from each other...
Style: surprise ending, weeping, crying
Plot: martial arts, pregnancy, hostage, torture, tough guy, soldier, happiness, rescue, deception, courage, heroism, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, widow, grief, husband wife relationship, secret, presumed dead, father son reunion, brother sister reunion, bare chested male, hand to hand combat, father in law daughter in law relationship, dog, horse ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, exciting, serious and suspenseful films with plots about tough guy, flashback, beating, love, police officer, fistfight and murder mostly in Action, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Sainik: Zaalim (1994), Jai Kishen (1994), Jeet (1996), Diljale (1996), Tarazu (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Zaalim (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Judge Somnath lives with his wife, three sons, and a daughter. Two of his sons, Vikram and Mohan are married, while his daughter, Kaamna, and youngest son, Ravi, are of marriageable age. Somnath had wanted his sons to be a doctor, police officer, ...
Plot: fugitive, child murders a child, vengeance, death of father, rape, judge, anger, death of sister, temper, insult, law student, court ...
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Jai Kishen (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Inspector Pratap Singh is killed, while one of his son's, Kishen, goes missing, and the other, Jai, loses his vision. His wife is the only witness to his brutal death at the hands of three criminal dons. Years later, Kishen and Jai have both ...
Plot: blind man, blindness, blind character, revenge, murder, crime boss, mother son reunion, brother brother reunion, villain, single mother, police inspector, premarital sex ...
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Jeet (1996)
Genre: Action, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Homeless and orphan Karan works as a dreaded gangster for Gajraj Choudhary in return for a fee. Gajraj heads a vast criminal empire consisting of ammunition, illicit alcohol and drugs smuggling. When Karan goes to kill a man, Prof. Sidhant Sharma, ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, emotional, epic ...
Plot: true love, hindu, hitman, love triangle, contract killer, goon, courtesan, pregnancy, warehouse, honeymoon, arson, anti hero ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Diljale (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story: Captain Ranvir is assigned the task of apprehending two terrorists named Shaka and Dara. Upon arrival in the region, he meets with and falls in love with Radhika, the daughter of Rajasaheb, who also is a Mantri. The latter approves of him, and ...
Plot: politics, fugitive, surrender, redemption, anti hero, hostage, police brutality, revenge, torture, evil politician, self sacrifice, love ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Police Inspector Ram Yadav is a honest, handsome, and incorruptible young man. He lives with his sister-in-law, Shakuntala, and elder brother, Raj . A lovely yet petty thief, Pooja admires Ram so much that she moves in to his house in the guise of a ...
Plot: death of brother, anger, poisoning, police commissioner, villain, vigilante, murder of a pregnant woman, death of son, one man army, tough guy, tough cop, muslim ...
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Jaan (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Police Commissioner Suryadeo Singh hires Karan, a trained weapons expert, to protect his daughter Kajal. Later, Kajal, who is unaware of Karan's secret agenda, falls in love with him.
Plot: bodyguard, inheritance, betrayal, kidnapping, wedding, love, anti hero, attempted murder, grandfather granddaughter relationship, abduction, resentment, police commissioner ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story: International Khiladi is a Hindi action thriller film released in 1999. The film is directed by Umesh Mehra and It stars Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna in the lead roles. The film want to done moderately at the box office. News Reporter Payal ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: unrequited love, gangster, murder, rivalry, intergender wrestling, fall in love, torture, female reporter, death of brother, parachute, lie, deception ...
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Mahaan (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story: A man's family leaves him when he strays from the path of ideological living in his search for personal freedom. However, as he realizes his ambitions, he also misses the presence of his son in his life. Having fulfilled his dream of becoming a ...
Style: surprise ending, cult classic, independent film, epic, masterpiece
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Time: 2020s, 90s
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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 ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 148 min.
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Style: parody
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
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Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, exciting
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Ram and Belram (1980)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 169 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, rough
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
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Style: epic
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
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Time: future
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69%
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Spadikam (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Chacko Master is a school headmaster in Mathematics. He is a very strict teacher and does not go easy with his own son Thomas.When Thomas realizes that the school language headmaster was biased against him as told by Chacko in giving him a low ...
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Boss (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
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Duration: 143 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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