Movies like 3

If you like "3" you are looking for tense, emotional and touching movies about / with tragic love, true love, couples, social differences, friendship, mental illness and society themes of Drama, Mystery and Romance genre shot in India.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
3 (2012)
 7.4
 6K
3 (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Ram and Janani are high school sweethearts who eventually get married. However, Janani is mystified when Ram commits suicide all of a sudden and she tries to find out the truth behind his death.
Style: tense, emotional, touching, captivating, psychological, psychological thriller, sentimental, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: tragic love, true love, couples, social differences, friendship, mental illness, society, meditation, bipolar disorder, suicide, doomed love, friends, misfit, rich and poor, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, school, death, truth, tamil, telugu, guilty pleasure, mystery, romance
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: india

Movie in categories

true love movies
1107
tense movies
16020
emotional movies
6204
couples movies
13883
friendship movies
18934
touching movies
11218

Most similar movies to 3

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about love and romance, couples, fall in love, love affair, society, love and couple relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like 3: The Waiting City (2009), Cuckoo (2014), You're My Home (2012), Kadhal Konden (2003), A Married Woman (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
The Waiting City (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An outwardly happy Australian couple journey to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements have yet to be finalized. Soon, the intoxicating mystic power of the Indian city pulls them in separate and unexpected ...
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, touching, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: adoption, couple relations, family relations, hopes, society, city life, love, rivalry, indian woman, culture shock, spirituality, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia, kolkata
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 784
Cuckoo (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Visually-challenged Tamizh and Suthanthirakodi fall in love with each other, but her self-centred brother wants to marry her off to his friend, which leads to the lovers' separation. Can their love help them find each other?
Style: emotional, realistic, captivating, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot: love and romance, blindness and impaired vision, friendship, disability, fall in love, love story, relationship vs career, couples, unfulfillment, journey, society, train travel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
You're My Home (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After returning back to family, Leyla tries to fix everytihng while starting a new life wit Iskender. Everything goes smoothly until troubles find Leyla...
Style: romantic, touching, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, tragic love, love and romance, family relations, couples, love, destiny, relationships, dialogue, friendship, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Kadhal Konden (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A genius-yet-introverted orphan, raised by a church priest, is sent to college where he turns out to be a social outcast. Although he is shunned by the majority of the other students, one girl shows him kindness and befriends him. Things take a turn ...
Style: disturbing, serious, suspense, psychological, romantic
Plot: psychopath, tragic love, sociopath, pervert, love interest, mentally unstable, love story, relationship problems, romantic relationship, life is a bitch, social problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Movie in collections
A Married Woman (2005)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: They fall in love before they know its meaning, Lolita, orphaned at an early age & Shekhar, who reaches out & gives her the security she craves.They share joys & sorrows through childhood & adolescence,unknown to them ...
Style: captivating, realistic, atmospheric, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, childhood sweetheart, family relations, couples, fall in love, couple relations, friendship, family problems, love affair, social differences, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: asia, india, kolkata
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
A Small September Affair (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A beautiful girl who has everything. Charming, playful, in her own words: 'too joyful to fall in love.' A sudden car crash, and her heart stops for a few minutes. When she wakes up, everyone assures 'every-thing's alright.' ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sincere ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, accident, couples, fall in love, true love, twists and turns, love and romance, sleepover
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.5
 2K
Love (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Eight people try to end their loneliness by searching for that one person to love, who can make their life complete.
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, captivating, romantic ...
Plot: friends, love affair, fall in love, wooing, couples, couple relations, looking for love, love and romance, urban, loneliness
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Paruthiveeran (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story: A village tough finally succumbs to the unconditional love of his angelic cousin, but his romance faces insurmountable challenges, including family opposition and his own delinquent personality.
Style: sentimental, serious, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Plot: village, forbidden love, love affair, fall in love, parents and children, vengeance, village life, uninhibited rivalry, misfit, love and romance, wedding planning, arranged marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Movie in collections
 5.0
 246
Picnic (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The son of the richest man in town wants to marry the town's beauty queen, but she meets a more interesting stranger who just got off the train.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, tense
Plot: love triangle, love affair, social differences, social relations, couples, fall in love, lifestyle, rivalry, society, friendship, small town, stranger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Engeyum Eppodhum (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Engeyum Eppodhum revolves around a group of passengers traveling in two different buses, each having their own past and a reason for their travel. The most prominent among these passengers is the love track between Kathiresan (Jai), Manimegalai ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, sincere, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: destiny, love affair, fall in love, store, wooing, couples, unlikely couple, hospital, friendship, society, tragic love, city life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.3
 1K
Rage (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain, Colombia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A romantic thriller about a construction worker in hiding for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend works as a maid.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, bleak, tense ...
Plot: couples, social differences, love and romance, society, master and servant, dishonesty, immigrant, misfit, jealousy, fashion, death, house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, ecuador
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.1
 782
G (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young Hip Hop star named Summer G falls for a middle to upper class sister while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip Hop empire, then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot: lovers reunited, unfulfilled love, love triangle, lifestyle, haunted by the past, tragic love, social differences, showbiz, love affair, infidelity, betrayal, society ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: new york, long island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Girl and Death (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Russia, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The Girl and Death tells us the impossible love story of Nicolai and the courtesan Elise. A love obstructed by materialism, wealth and death threat.
Style: realistic, emotional, serious, stylized, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: true love, tragic love, unfulfillment, couples, freedom, death threat, past, doctor, impossible love, materialism, love and romance, parallel story ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, 20th century
Place: europe, germany, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.0
 263
Together (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Comprised by two love stories: The first story features Donnie Yen as a traffic cop, “Mr. Cool” who never smiles due to a rare disease. He meets and falls in love with Michelle Chen, a patient with amnesia, and spends most of her time looking ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: fall in love, love affair, couples, friends, police officer, haunted by the past, dating, amnesiac, couple relations, love and romance, cop, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.5
 501
Deceit (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A man returns to his hometown after his father's death and soon enters into an affair with the wife of his old best friend.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, erotic ...
Plot: infidelity, obsession, destructive relationship, friendship, dangerous attraction, love affair, manipulation, love and romance, stalking, dishonesty, couples, tragic love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.1
 223
Desire (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A story bout a relationship that's ended. Khwahish traces the sexy, funny and intense relationship of Amar Ranawat(Himanshu Malik) and Lekha Khorzuvekar (Mallika Sherawat) from the time they meet in the last semester of college, their quirky ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, serious, sexy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, class differences, love and romance, young lovers, youth, couples, life is a bitch, hopes, fall in love, college, tragic love, rich and poor ...
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.8
 345
Empty Days (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An executive and a dowdy working-class woman, both unemployed, married and parents meet at a supermarket. They become friends but find it hard to accept that they may be in love with each other.
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot: infidelity, unemployment, friendship, society, love and romance, fall in love, dishonesty, life is a bitch, friends, couples, love affair, sexual content ...
Time: 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.0
 2K
Angel Baby (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...
Style: psychological, touching, neurotic, independent film, serious ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, insanity, mental disorder, mental health, psychosis, therapy, psychopath, destruction, illness, love story, pregnancy ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Movie in collections
suicide movies
5264
friends movies
11694
 7.5
 16K
Ghajini (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story: The film's story is around a rich business entrepreneur falling in love with an ad film actress. The entrepreneur and the actress fall in love, though she does not know that he is an entrepreneur. When she successfully saves a bunch of children ...
Style: tense, realistic, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: murder, memory loss, revenge, tragic event, injustice, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, uncover truth, haunted by the past, danger, fall in love, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.0
 3K
Trishna (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Sweden, India
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When her father is killed in a road accident, Trishna's family expect her to provide for them. The rich son of an entrepreneur starts to restlessly pursue her affections, but are his intentions as pure as they seem?
Style: emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: tragic love, fall in love, couple relations, injustice, culture clash, society, innocence lost, love and romance, unfulfillment, couples, power relations, social injustice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Japanese Wife (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Snehmoy (Rahul Bose) and Miyage (Chigusa Takaku) are pen friends who exchange wedding vows through letters. Fifteen years pass but they never meet. Yet the bond of marriage is strong between them. This unusual relationship comes under a cloud when a ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, philosophical, offbeat ...
Audience: date night
Plot: looking for love, love triangle, couples, unfulfillment, lovers apart, pen pal, friendship, society, interracial, telephone call, unfulfilled love, cure ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, india, kolkata, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.9
 500
Class (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Preppy and wealthy Whitt Sheffield is in his last semester of law school when a professor assigns him to act as an advocate for a young, single mother who needs help finding - and keeping - a job. Whitt, whose snooty father wants Whitt to follow him ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: single parent, law student, fall in love, couples, rich and poor, society, parents and children, law school, lawyers and clients, lawyer, social differences, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.8
 5K
Blind (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.
Style: touching, realistic, captivating, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: blindness, disability, love affair, love and romance, couples, dishonesty, writer's life, infidelity, blind man, novelist, moral dilemma, blind character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Movie in collections
Most Eligible Bachelor (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: A well-educated, ‘settled’ NRI falls for a stand-up comedian and wants to marry her. But when she knows what she wants from her husband, will he fit the bill?
Style: talky, emotional, touching, romantic
Plot: love, marriage, love and romance, husband wife relationship, fall in love, family relations, couple relations, couples, youth, lovers, true love, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Princess & the Marine (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Based on a true story, American Marine Jason Johnson (Goselaar) is sent on assignment to the Emirate of Bahrain. While there, he meets and falls in love with a spirited, lovely young woman, Meriam (Nichols), without realizing she is really a member ...
Style: touching, captivating, emotional, sincere
Plot: marine, military, princess, friendship, family relations, parents and children, social differences, class differences, couples, sailor, impossible love, injustice ...
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.7
 11K
Always (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Cheol-Min, a man with a dark, picks up a part-time night job as a parking lot attendant. He sits in the tiny pay booth in the parking lot and stares at the small television. A woman named Jung-Hwa walks into the booth. Cheol-Min realizes the woman ...
Style: touching, romantic, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, blindness, love and romance, attraction, couples, love affair, asian, blind man, love story, boxing, disability, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: east asia, korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Wuthering Heights (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Rivette's unique take on Bronte's famous novel "Wuthering Heights".
Style: serious, realistic, gloomy, atmospheric
Audience: girls' night
Plot: wuthering heights, haunted house, obsession, mental illness, couples, vengeance, orphan, love and romance, opposites attract, couple relations, forbidden love, impossible love ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Touched with Fire (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Carla and Marco are manic-depressive poets whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they go off their meds, they end up in the same psychiatric hospital. As the chemistry between them stirs up their emotions, it intensifies their mania. ...
Style: sincere, realistic, captivating, emotional, touching ...
Plot: bipolar disorder, mental illness, love, mental health, mental disorder, illness, couples, friendship, hospital, hopes, special needs, real world ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Christmas in August (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a quiet corner of Seoul, Jung-won runs a small photo studio. A humble shack passed down from his widower father, the studio is a space where Jung-won goes about his daily routine of dealing with fussy customers, enlarging photos of class ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: maid, fall in love, friendship, single parent, tragic hero, love affair, tragic love, teenage love, destiny, family relations, youth, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s
Place: korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.1
 163
Swann (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: small town, couple relations, womanizer, love and romance, artists and showbiz, couples, social relations, friends, countryside, murder, friendship, small town life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie