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Pestonjee (1988)
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Pestonjee (1988)
Original name: पेस्तनजी
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Phirojshah (Naseeruddin Shah) and Pestonjee (Anupam Kher) are two close friends. They attempt to do everything together, and they hope that they will marry the same day as well. Unfortunately, both go to see the same young lady, Jeroo (Shabana Azmi), and Pestonjee ends up getting married to Jeroo. Phirojshah has been stricken by Jeroo's beauty and decides not to marry, and takes a transfer away from the couple. During the years, he keeps in touch with the couple by mail. While on a visit to the couple, he finds out that Pestonjee has a mistress, and Jeroo does not know of this. How will this effect Phirojshah's friendship with Pestonjee? Does Phirojshah stand a chance with Jeroo?
Style: art film
Plot: adultery, friendship between men, love, loneliness, wedding, friendship, religion, party, love triangle, death, unrequited love, happiness, fiancee, infidelity, male female relationship, platonic, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, marriage, friend, dysfunctional marriage, heart attack, middle class, infatuation, unfaithfulness ...
Time: 1930s
Place: mumbai india, bombay india

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and independent film films with plots about adultery, husband wife relationship, infidelity, marriage, extramarital affair, unfaithfulness and love mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Pestonjee: Silsiilay (2005), Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), Life in a Metro (2007), Feeling Sexy (1999), Round Numbers (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Silsiilay (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A group of women find solidarity with each other as they negotiate their complicated love-lives.
Plot: affair, women, group, unfaithfulness, love, marriage, adultery, infidelity, extramarital affair, love triangle, betrayal, husband wife relationship ...
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Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, ...
Style: sexy, romantic, semi serious, realistic, biting ...
Plot: infidelity, feminist, love triangle, satire, women, child abuse, domestic violence, abuse, domestic abuse, adultery, housewife, marital problem ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: new york
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Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dumitru is a two-faceted killer: he kills animals and called a hunter, and kills people, and branded as an assassin. Dumitru is just out of prison, for the first time since the fall of communism. Even on the train taking him home, he is planning to ...
Style: semi serious, disturbing, suspenseful, humorous, black comedy
Plot: serial murder, loneliness, adultery, murder, love, marriage, betrayal, extramarital affair, gambler, husband wife relationship, self loathing, journey ...
Place: romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Life in a Metro (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Six different stories, about nine people, each with different issues and problems, all occurring within one place: the METRO.
Style: realistic, serious, romantic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: love triangle, adultery, infidelity, family relations, friendship, opposites attract, dysfunctional marriage, extramarital affair, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, couples ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: india, mumbai india, asia
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Duration: 50 min.
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Style: sexy
Plot: sex, porn, unfaithfulness, female pubic hair, nudity, male female relationship, doctor, female nudity, infidelity, extramarital affair, adultery, husband wife relationship ...
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Round Numbers (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A housewife who despises society's obsession with health and looks suspects her husband of cheating on her with a hot model in a local health spa. She decides to infiltrate the spa, find the woman and get her revenge. But is it that simple?
Style: independent film, sex comedy
Plot: fitness, adultery, husband wife relationship, marriage, friend, infidelity, friendship, female nudity, jealousy, extramarital affair, satire, male female relationship ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: independent film
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Time: year 1982
Place: minneapolis minnesota
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 154 min.
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Style: independent film, contemplative, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: midlife crisis, friendship, hotel, friends, marriage, aging, alcoholic, grief, unhappy ending, minimalism, time travel, divorce ...
Time: year 1970
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: humorous, entertaining, captivating, sexy, sensual ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: swingers, swinger, adultery, wife swapping, swinger couple, extramarital affair, best friend, looking for sex, friendship, sexual fantasy, infidelity, couple relations ...
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