Movies like Kalyug

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Kalyug (1981)
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Kalyug (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story: The film is tale of intrigue, plots and the inevitable war between the two families. Ramchand and Bhishamchand were two pioneering brothers in business. Bhishamchand, a lifelong bachelor brought up the two sons of Ramchand on his demise. He also gave the family business a firm foundation. Khubchand (Vinod Doshi) the elder son of Ramchand begets two sons, Dhanraj (Victor Banerjee) and Sandeepraj (Akash Khurana). Puranchand, Khubchand's younger brother had died a few years ago. His three sons are Dharamraj (Raj Babbar), Balraj (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) and Bharatraj (Anant Nag). Another player in the game is Karan (Shashi Kapoor) an orphan brought up by Bhishamchand.A series of events take place that bring the long hidden feud between the two families to light and despite Bhishamchand's efforts to mediate between the two, the situation gets out of hand and events take a tragic turn.
Style: parallel cinema
Plot: police, dinner, sex, business, wedding, truck, death, murder, car chase, birthday, restaurant, golf, suicide, family relations, matriarchy, rivalry, funeral, telephone call, blood, disco, classical music, family secret, factory, family business, bastard ...
Place: india
Keyword: matriarch

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and psychological films with plots about death, husband wife relationship, family relations, murder, father son relationship, police and sex mostly in Drama, Action and Comedy genres. Some movies like Kalyug: Corporate (2006), Gundagardi (1997), The Mourner (1993), Two Unknown (1976), The Ungrateful (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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Gundagardi (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story: The two brothers Kalicharan & Narshima cause havoc all over the city. The police calls in Karan Singh as the most effective police man to fight against them.His sister was married to a journalist.He encounters a murder of the minister by ...
Plot: police, police officer, death sentence, brother, death, brother brother relationship, cop, hindi
Place: india
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77%
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The Mourner (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In a small village in Rajasthan, India, a woman named Shanichari was born - so named, as shortly after her birth her father died; & her mother, Peewli, ran away with a rich lover, the owner of a drama company, abandoning her. When Shanichari ...
Style: art film, offbeat, crying, weeping
Plot: indian woman, female protagonist, death, prostitute, grief, landowner, death of husband, desert, death of mother, orphan, pregnancy, bollywood ...
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63%
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Two Unknown (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A man (Amitabh Bachchan) is found wounded on railway tracks and when he awakens he has no memory of who he is and doesn't remember anything about his life.
Plot: betrayal, adultery, boy, dancer, unhappy marriage, presumed dead, dysfunctional family, adoption, father son reunion, amnesia, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional marriage ...
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53%
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The Ungrateful (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Somnath (Somu) lives in a shanty house in a Delhi slum with his widowed mom, and unmarried sister, Sarla. He is friendly with Calcutta-based wealthy Vikram (Vicky) Maharaj. When Vicky's dad, Damodar, has a heart attack and is advised to take ...
Style: realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous, contemplative ...
Plot: factory worker, factory, anti capitalism, introspection, social differences, working class, hidden identity, hopes, family relations, father son relationship, capitalism, irony of fate ...
Time: 70s
Place: india, asia
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Body Scent (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Due to misunderstanding and hard life, a man divorces his wife and leaves the city. He comes to a new environment, meeting new people and new wife. Crucified between two worlds, he does everything to bring her two sons on the right track, and ...
Plot: singing, murder, police, sex, truck, boxing, friendship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, cafe, death, friend ...
Place: balkan, former yugoslavia
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Behind the Sun (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he ...
Style: bleak, intense, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: family feud, coming of age, circus, rivalry, family problems, uninhibited rivalry, youth, parents and children, family values, family in crisis, murder, death of brother ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s, year 2001
Place: brazil, latin america
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The Promised Land (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 170 min.
Story: The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional ...
Style: serious, realistic, biting, epic, crying
Plot: revolution, friendship, capitalist, renaissance, literary, identity, time machine, revolt, railway, artist, fire, adultery ...
Time: victorian era, year 1975, 19th century, turn of the century
Place: poland, eastern europe, middle east, berlin germany, europe ...
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The Dinner (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, biting, talky ...
Plot: family gatherings, life turned upside down, family life, parents and children, couples, under the surface, family problems, couple relations, siblings relations, family in crisis, disorder, suspicion ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
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Garm Hava (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: In post-Partition India, a Muslim businessman and his family struggle for their rights in a country which was once their own.
Style: art film, retro, insightful, parallel cinema, banned
Plot: independence, hindu, job interview, husband wife relationship, marriage proposal, mother daughter relationship, police, love triangle, neighbor, deportation, surrealism, death ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947
Place: india
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40%
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Chakra (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Amma (Smita Patil) is a woman who has been raped and then forced to flee her home with her husband and child after her husband kills the rapist. Her life plunges even lower in the overwhelming and crowded city when her husband, in turn, is killed by ...
Style: art film, parallel cinema, ambiguous ending
Plot: brothel, slum, syphilis, miscarriage, poverty, sexual awakening, realism, teenager, truck driver, quarrel, dream, police brutality ...
Place: mumbai india
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39%
Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Story of attractive cop Laurencia Bembenek, who, in 1982, was sentenced to prison for killing her husband's ex-wife in Milwaukee, WI.
Style: factual, stylized, talky, psychological, touching
Plot: serial killer, murder, female killer, police, model, husband wife relationship, uncover truth, police detective, love and romance, investigation, murderer, youth ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa
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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
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Three Brothers (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a ...
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: chess, terrorism, funeral, death, mafia, family relations, hopes, peasant, farm, family problems, social worker, estrangement ...
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Travellers (1992)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman's wedding becomes a ritual of mourning when her sister and family die in an auto accident on the way to the wedding. The sisters' mother refuses to accept her daughter's death, and in the midst of wedding guests and ...
Style: realistic, serious, beautiful
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama
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Story: Gregoire Canvel has everything a man could want: a wife he loves, three delightful children and his dream job - he is a film producer. Discovering talented filmmakers and developing films that fit his conception of the cinema, free and true to life, ...
Style: captivating, emotional, touching, sentimental, sincere ...
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Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 115 min.
Story: You don’t need politics to make a political film… Love, pleasure, beauty and food are serious enough.
Style: captivating
Plot: wedding, food, family relations, marriage, love, wedding preparations and rituals, arranged marriage, relationships, love affair, wedding planning, restaurant, chef ...
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Boy on the Bridge (2016)
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Country: Cyprus
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Story: In a seemingly idyllic Cypriot village, twelve-year-old Socrates finds himself in the centre of a murder investigation that exposes a dark family secret and changes his life forever.
Plot: coming of age, violence, funeral, death, murder, police, explosive
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Goodbye Julia (2023)
Genre: Drama
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Story: Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home. Unable to ...
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Mesmerized (1985)
Genre: Drama
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Domestic Life (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
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Place: paris france, france, europe
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Sign of Marriage (1979)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 164 min.
Story: Durga and Vikram Singh have been married for years. Vikram has taken to crime in a big way, and as a result has antagonized a rival gangster, Jaggi. Durga gives birth to twins, and Jaggi steals one of them, and sells him to a bootlegger, Pascal. ...
Plot: blind character, police, indians, blind man, drunkenness, drunken girl, handicapped, fraternal twins, attempted rape, undercover cop, black market, helicopter ...
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Damilola, Our Loved Boy (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
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Style: tense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, bleak ...
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Dancing in the Dark (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Via the New York Times: "To all outward appearances, Edna Cormick (Martha Henry) is the perfect housewife.... She's married to a man who'll stand up in public and say, "This is my wife," so that there'll be no confusion ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, psychological, serious ...
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Perfect Parents (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After a violent incident in Lucy's public school, her atheist parents Stuart and Alison decide to find her a safe 'traditional' school. The only one they can afford is St. Mary of the Veil, run by nuns whose 'preference' for ...
Style: crying
Plot: youth, pedophile priest, gay interest, bribe, forgery, dinner, hit and run, knife fight, religious faith, crucifix, nun, faith ...
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The Sole Witness (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 58 min.
Story: When a tired factory worker Christo Panov (Oleg Borisov) going home from work gets embroiled with a dispute with a bus driver, leading to threats of assault by the driver, that's bad enough. Then an irate passenger files charges against the ...
Plot: witness, father son relationship, legal system, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, bus, family relations, defamation, threat, factory, factory worker, false accusation ...
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30%
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Mrs. Harris (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean Harris.
Style: clever, realistic, serious, biting, witty ...
Plot: crimes of passion, murder, vengeance, destructive relationship, obsession, addiction, couples, couple relations, womanizer, love and romance, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s, year 1980, year 1976, 60s, 70s
Place: florida, virginia, philadelphia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Light Drops (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Mozambique
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Rui was raised in Mozambique in a small village at the frontier of a mysterious river. Son of Portuguese colonists, his best friend is Ana, a black girl godchild of his mother. At fourteen he is confronted with the tragic destruction of his ...
Plot: colonialism, interracial marriage, interracial friendship, murder, marriage, family relations, alligator, adultery, unfaithfulness, woods, killing, chauffeur ...
Time: year 1958
Place: africa
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29%
The Indian Runner (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An intensely sad film about two brothers who cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things ...
Style: psychological, realistic, rough, serious, independent film ...
Plot: small town, family problems, brother brother relationship, pregnancy, vietnam war, welder, brothers, melancholy, murder, childhood, violence, blood ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1991
Place: usa, nebraska, america, ohio, asia ...
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