Movies like Son of India

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Son of India (1962)
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Son of India (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Film starring Kamaljit Singh, Simi Garewal and Jayant
Plot: criminal, singer, boy, wealth, child protagonist, newspaper, homelessness, marriage for money, song
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: mumbai india

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Most similar movies to Son of India

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, touching and realistic films with plots about boy, family relations, homelessness, singer, coming of age, singing and song mostly in Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Son of India: In His Steps (2013), Anurodh (1977), Strings of Passion (2014), Glue Sniffer (1999), The Heartbreakers (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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In His Steps (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When a homeless man interrupts the comfortable routine of First Church of Raymond, life will never be the same for the apathetic congregation. Convicted by the vagrant's words, Pastor Henry Maxwell, Rachel Winslow, Virginia Page, Alex Powers, ...
Style: independent film, christian film
Plot: christian, faith, faith based, homelessness, minister, girl, wealth, singer, singing, homeless man, preacher, christianity ...
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95%
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Anurodh (1977)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Mr. Choudhary does not approve of his son, Arun, indulging in singing songs and music. He wants him to be a businessman like himself. Out of fear of his father finding out about his continued indulgence, Arun changes his name to Sanjay Kumar. He ...
Plot: radio station, mechanic, dual identity, poet, illness, flashback, singer, friendship, radio, friend, boy, wealth ...
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73%
Strings of Passion (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Strings Of Passion is an urban commercial flick which tells the story of three men, Neel, Aman and Amit. They are young and dynamic guys who run the band "Strings of Passion" but are shadowed by the influence of drugs, broken love and bad ...
Style: independent film
Plot: friend, college, male rape
Place: mumbai india, kolkata
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72%
 6.3
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Glue Sniffer (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Oliver flees from abuse of his family and seeks refuge in the violent streets of Caracas, where survival is only possible in an environment of corruption, crime and sniffing glue to escape hunger, like other children in the same situation. Soon, the ...
Plot: juvenile delinquent, homelessness, child in peril, survival, poverty, children, misery, street life, street kid, desperation, brutality, police brutality ...
Place: venezuela
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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The Heartbreakers (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Four teenagers in the German Ruhr region try to succeed as a rock band in 1966. A girl tries to join them as a singer but is rejected by them.
Plot: girl, teenager, money problems, dance school, hairdresser, mechanic, car theft, rock band, rock, organist, singer, fall in love ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
The Greenhouse Effect (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Rita is a naïve 18-year-old from the sticks who has come to Moscow to meet up with the man who impregnated her a few months earlier. Unfortunately, his name and address was written on a piece of paper in her luggage, which was promptly stolen upon ...
Plot: coming of age, boy, homelessness, female nudity, nudity, male nudity, death, teenage boy, police, singing, age difference, stranded ...
Place: russia
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58%
 7.3
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Our House (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A lonely socialite (Roberts) opens up her mansion to homeless people after a young woman (Reyes) saves her life.
Style: powerful
Plot: homeless, poverty, smuggling, suicide attempt, chore, drug trade, drinking, jail, medical examination, theft, wealth, kindness ...
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56%
Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in fascist Argentina.
Style: neorealism, depressing, crying
Plot: coming of age, boy, adolescence, children, orphanage, fascism, escape, orphan, freedom, poverty, psychological abuse, family abandonment ...
Time: 60s
Place: buenos aires argentina
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55%
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Mondo (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Mondo is a homeless young boy, with a big smile, who wanders around Nice looking for food and a place to sleep.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, feel good
Plot: boy, homelessness, orphan, homeless, coming of age, child, tramp, hobo, gypsy, beggar, social misfits, society ...
Time: year 1995, 20th century, 90s
Place: nice france, french riviera, italy, france
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54%
 7.7
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Guru (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Gurukant Desai hails from Idhar, a small village in Gujarat, but dreams of setting up his own business in Mumbai. After he returns from Turkey, he marries Sujatha for getting the dowry and arrives in Mumbai to start his business. This film ...
Style: realistic, captivating, touching, serious, inspirational ...
Plot: couples, society, research, ambition, rise to power, industrialist, idealism, newspaper, success, doubts and hesitations, businessman, entrepreneurship ...
Time: 60s, 50s, year 2007, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: asia, india, istanbul turkey, mumbai india, turkey
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52%
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Father (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The beginning shows Hungary devastated by the war and the postwar reconstruction with its communist government. Our hero (played first by Dániel Erdély and later, as a young man, by András Bálint) is clearly determined to find out what he can ...
Plot: boy, father, partisan, elementary school, communism, single mother, young boy, teenager, 12 year old
Time: year 1966, post world war two
Place: hungary
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52%
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5000 Blankets (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When her husband has a mental breakdown and goes missing, a determined woman and her young son set out to find him on the streets, sparking a movement of compassion towards those in need and inspiring a city.
Style: captivating, entertaining, exciting, touching
Plot: fishing, mental illness, homelessness, son, husband, family relations, mother and son, missing man, missing person, missing husband, family problems, boy ...
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52%
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Half-Price (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 63 min.
Story: Demi-Tarif follows the low-key adventures of three young siblings, Romeo, Launa, and the youngest - Leo, left on their own in a rundown Paris apartment. One of them narrates, wistfully explaining how their mother abandoned them and calls them once ...
Plot: child protagonist, children, home invasion, boy, shoplifting, little boy, little girl, female nudity, nudity, abandoned baby, train travel, public nudity ...
Place: paris france, france
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51%
Voyage of the Yes (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Two teenagers set out on a 2000-mile sailboat journey from California to Hawaii and en route combat the natural challenges and their inner shortcomings.
Plot: boat, sailing, spy, survival, accident, teenager, sailboat, interracial relations, singing, singer, guitarist, hospital ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Happy Days (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Happy Days is an adaptation of Samuel Beckett's challenging absurdist drama, a play most would deem unfilmable. Faithfully adhering to Beckett's minimalist original, a black parody of love, marriage, and our search for meaning in an ...
Plot: nostalgia, music box, mirror, optimism, loneliness, buried alive, singing, newspaper, brushing teeth, hat, looking at self in mirror, filmed play ...
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Last Island (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alicia is a selfish brat who is crazy about video games. As her parents work and nobody cares about her, her mother decides to send her to an island where old Aunt Belinda lives. No running water or electricity, by the sea and at the foot of ...
Plot: youth, child protagonist, boy girl friendship, city, ocean, aunt, isolation, swimming, girl, fog, boy, little girl ...
Place: canary islands
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Someone You Love (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Someone You Love is a story about world famous singer-songwriter Thomas Jacob who lives in Los Angeles. He is a successful man with a lot of burned bridges. After years abroad Thomas travels back to Denmark to record a new album. There his estranged ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Plot: grandfather grandson relationship, boy, introspection, musician's life, disorder, family relations, parents and children, bittersweet, artists and showbiz, single parent, homecoming, child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
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48%
What the Sun Has Seen (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three strangers living in Silesia - a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner - are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true.
Style: independent film
Plot: poverty, street vendor, money, girl, female nudity, singer, father son relationship, escape, small town, bare breasts, husband wife relationship, boy ...
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Kites Over Helsinki (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son ...
Plot: nordic, family relations, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, wealth, business ethics, business, wealthy family, family business, businessman, rock, yuppie ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 80s
Place: helsinki finland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Northern Borders (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: 'Northern Borders' tells the story of ten year-old Austen Kittredge who is sent by his father to live on his grandparents' Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets. It's 1956 ...
Style: captivating, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: boy, child protagonist, family relations, childhood, child with gun, marital strife, coming of age, old man, bereavement, heist, youth, young boy ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
Place: vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Thappu Thalangal (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Thappu Thalangal is a saga of emotional and selfish world of human feelings. Devu, a local thug whose weapon of choice is a bicycle chain he sports casually around the neck. On one of his nightly rounds, Devu is pursued by a cop and seeks refuge at ...
Plot: prostitute, ex prostitute, remorse, redemption, abortion, male female relationship, criminal, rape, thug, recovering alcoholic, coughing
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Under the Stars of Paris (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Christine’s life has not been easy lately. Her lonely routine is divided between free food banks distributions and wandering the streets. On a cold winter night she founds Suli, an 8-year-old Eritrean boy, sobbing in front of her shelter. ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: refugee, homeless woman, homeless, search for mother, boy, illegal immigrant, homelessness, life is a bitch, social problems, social issues, urban setting, immigrant ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Tree We Hurt (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Shot over a capricious summer, this film reveals a world of innocence shattered for some children in their school by corporal punishment. It moves at its own pace to reveal a world of children and adults with animals, birds, nature and sea. The film ...
Plot: boy, summer, friendship, reconciliation, meeting, greek, loyalty, greek island, tree, wasp, sea, group of friends ...
Time: 60s
Place: greece, hellas
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Sanctuary (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.
Style: sad
Plot: stepfather, coming of age, boy, violence, lgbt, gay, nationalism, boyhood, traumatic childhood, childhood, distopia, parent child relationship ...
Time: 60s, year 1968
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: 18 year-old Peter lives with his parents in a middle-class Toronto suburb and rebels constantly against their imposed middle-class goals and conventions and the materialist values they represent. He constantly mocks and belittles his family with his ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boy, juvenile delinquent, teenager, rebel, probation officer, breaking the law, pregnant girl, boat ride, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, job interview, lie ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Masquerade (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Banned for over a decade because of its "explicit" sexual situations, when this film was released in Yugoslavia in 1983 the "explicit" scenes had become tame. Other than the notoriety it obtained through censorship, the film has ...
Style: erotic, homoerotic, weird
Plot: older woman younger man sex, boy, husband rapes wife, husband wife relationship, adultery, jealousy, basketball, married, marriage, woman, blackmail, orgy ...
Time: 60s
Place: former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Harmony Lessons (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: During a medical examination, 13-year-old Aslan is humiliated in front of a load of his fellow pupils. The incident unleashes his latent personality disorder. Plagued by self-doubt, he strives for cleanliness and perfection and is obsessed with ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, disturbing, gloomy
Audience: teen drama
Plot: boy, coming of age, youth, life is a bitch, village, bullying, social misfits, misfit, vengeance, teenage boy, humiliation, youth gang ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: kazakhstan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Original Intent (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Matthew Cameron (Jay Richardson) is a lawyer undergoing a midlife crisis despite having a seemingly perfect life with his wife, advertising executive Jessica (Candy Clark), and his young son. When he champions a homeless shelter facing eviction, his ...
Style: independent film, captivating, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: couples, family relations, power relations, injustice, family life, courtroom drama, heroic mission, against the odds, midlife crisis, life is a bitch, ambition, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Magic Box (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: no overview yet
Plot: arab, male female relationship, uncle nephew relationship, van, drunkenness, singer, father son relationship, marriage, flash forward, drinking, sex, flashback ...
Place: tunisia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.1
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Godaan (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 1963 Indian Film
Plot: estranged brother, murderer, milkman, pregnancy, village, tragic event, honor, cow, poverty, farmer, poison, wealth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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