Movies like The Mourner

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The Mourner (1993)
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The Mourner (1993)
Original name: रुदाली
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 grew up she was married to a male named Ganju who lived with his ailing mother. Shanichari gave birth to a boy and named him Budhwa. The local Landlord,
Style: offbeat, art film, crying, weeping
Plot: indian woman, prostitute, pregnancy, desert, death, orphan, female protagonist, grief, death of husband, death of mother, landowner, mother son relationship, squaw, bollywood, hindi, female director

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, art film, serious and offbeat films with plots about bollywood, hindi, death, women, husband wife relationship, love and father daughter relationship mostly in Drama, Romance and Musical genres. Some movies like The Mourner: Reshma Aur Shera (1971), Jasmine (2003), Gundagardi (1997), Corporate (2006), Page 3 (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Reshma Aur Shera (1971)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Reshma and Shera is a romantic drama from India. Well received by the critics, it tells a Romeo and Juliet-like love story and along the way sheds light on the plight of Indian widows, who are not allowed to remarry. This film is beautifully ...
Plot: forbidden love, death, sacrifice, revenge, tribe, mute, goddess, desert, oath, camel, bollywood, hindi ...
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Jasmine (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Lamington Road on Bombay's Western Railway is the nearest railway station that takes one to Kamathipura, notorious for it's red-light, in particular, and a crime-prone area in general.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, art film
Plot: love and romance, couples, opposites attract, women, prostitute, aids, hiding place, car, night, rain, police, pimp ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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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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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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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
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Audience: girls' night
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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.
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Genre: Drama
Country: India, USA, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In a rural Indian village, four ordinary women begin to throw off the traditions that hold them in servitude in this inspirational drama.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, sincere, erotic ...
Plot: tradition, female protagonist, feminist, countryside, marital problem, family problems, lifestyle, cultural difference, villager, relationship problems, coping, social problems ...
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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 ...
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Place: india, asia
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Fly Away Solo (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the ...
Style: offbeat, disturbing, psychological, captivating, mind blowing ...
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Traffic Signal (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Silsila is the "manager" of one traffic signal, that is he collects the "hafta" (protection tax) from each signal squatter plying his trade. There's Tsunami, a little scavenger boy, there's Rani - a Gujrati girl selling ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: prostitute, life is a bitch, social misfits, politics, society, misfit, disability, drug abuse, addiction, gangster, street kid, indians ...
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Sparsh (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Anirudh Parmar is blind, but he does not let this impairment bind him down. He runs a school for the blind as a Principal. He meets with social worker, Kavita. Kavita is attracted to him, and he slowly also gets attracted to her. When marriage is ...
Style: parallel cinema, offbeat, art film
Plot: blindness, blind character, blind man, teacher, friend, love, singing, dormitory, blind boy, determination, breakup, teacher student relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Uyare (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An aspiring pilot fights for her future -- and justice -- after surviving an acid attack from her abusive boyfriend.
Style: thought provoking, psychological, disturbing, captivating, sincere ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
Style: parallel cinema
Plot: police, dinner, matriarchy, business rivalry, killing, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, honeymoon, suicide, funeral, sex, restaurant ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Khilona (1970)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Thakur Suraj Singh lives a wealthy lifestyle with his wife; three sons - Kishore, his wife Laxmi & two children Pappu and Laali; Vijaykamal, & Mohan; and an unmarried daughter, Radha. Kishore looks after the family business, while ...
Plot: heartbreak, brother brother relationship, unrequited love, revelation, deception, hypocrisy, prostitute, grief, lie, rape, suicide, love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Mumbai Diaries (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, sincere, art film ...
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Hu Tu Tu (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 172 min.
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Existence (2000)
Genre: Drama
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
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Style: touching, bleak, melancholic, poignant, independent film ...
Audience: adult
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Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Woh Chokri (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
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Style: art film
Plot: indian woman, alcoholism, family relations, school expulsion, murder, school, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, drunkenness, death, betrayal ...
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47%
The Heart Knows the Truth (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 164 min.
Story: Laila, brought up in a brothel, is a cabaret dancer in Digvijay Singh's five star hotel. On day her dying mother informs her that Laila is her adopted child. Laila is aided by Karan in her search for the mother. Her search leads her to Razia, ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Dushmun (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
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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 ...
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Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Ship of Theseus (2012)
Genre: Drama
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Style: realistic, psychological, serious, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Suryaa: An Awakening (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Thakur Gangadhar Choudhary rules a small community in rural India with an iron hand, and will never permit anyone to speak up against him. He owns most of the land surrounding his palatial home - save for the small patch of land owned by Veer Singh. ...
Plot: faith, fear, disguise, doctor, horse, gas station, farmer, village, mansion, rescue, temple, landowner ...
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42%
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The Cage (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 188 min.
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Style: patriotic, social, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Time: 1940s
Place: pakistan, india, middle east, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.5
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The Namesake (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, Japan, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Clover (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Sara marries Gaten a single father who is African-American. Not long after they're married Gaten dies. So Sara has to take care of Gaten's daughter, Clover. Problem is she and Clover have not exactly bonded and several of Gaten's ...
Plot: interracial romance, stepmother, child's point of view, loss of husband, interracial marriage, african american, ghost, widow, death of father, death, grief, father daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.1
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Summer Snow (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Hallie Benson is a small girl with a big heart. Unfortunately, her creative ways of helping often create a mess. Dan Benson doesn't cook, do hair or know how to help his three children without his beautiful wife and her unshakable faith.
Style: suspenseful, touching, sincere, christian film
Plot: faith, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, strong female lead, grief, dead mother, friendship, strong female character, family tragedy, death of mother, death, tragedy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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