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The Lunchbox (2013)
67K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India, France, Germany, USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.
Style:
realistic, touching, sweet, melancholic, heartbreaking, emotional, serious, romantic, independent film, art house ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
food, cooking, happy ending, housewife, relationships, unlikely relationship, chef, destiny, retirement, unconventional romance, cooking and food, depression, character study, honest, unlikely friendships, love and romance, everyday life, letter, art, love story, heartwarming, illicit affair, bittersweet, hindu, self discovery ...
Time:
year 2013, y2k, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, romantic and feel good films with plots about love and romance, love, destiny, love story, fall in love, dialogue and beautiful scenery mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Lunchbox: Barfi! (2012), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Cairo Time (2009), Queen (2013), When We Met (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
93K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
He is cute. He's shrewd. The girls love him. The cops hate him. He can't speak but is always talked about. His naughty antics will make you scream, but he will never listen. Cos he can't! Next summer ride a rollercoaster of emotions ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, inspirational, sweet, sad ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
mute or deaf, true love, happy ending, lovers, love and romance, autism, wedding, beautiful scenery, wedding planning, love triangle, young man, society ...
Time:
future, year 2012, y2k, 70s, 20th century
Place:
india, middle east, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, United Arab Emirates, USA, India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose ...
Style:
feel good, touching, sentimental, uplifting, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
elderly, hotel, loneliness, self discovery, aging, goodhearted, old age, marital problem, life changing experience, choice, retirement home, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia, delhi, mumbai india, seattle ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Ireland, Egypt
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches ...
Style:
touching, emotional, heartbreaking, romantic, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
passion, love, infidelity, tourist, marriage, character study, fall in love, dishonesty, couples, love and romance, chess, passionate love ...
Time:
1920s, 21st century
Place:
egypt, middle east, africa, alexandria egypt, cairo egypt ...
Similarity:
83%
71K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Rani, a 24-year-old homely girl, decides to go on her honeymoon alone when her fiancé calls off the wedding. Traveling around Europe, she finds joy, makes friends, and gains new-found independence.
Style:
entertaining, touching, sweet, inspirational, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
young woman, friendship, self discovery, honeymoon, naivete, life changing experience, wedding preparations and rituals, encounter, vacation, overcoming, traditional versus modern, canceled wedding ...
Time:
y2k, 21st century
Place:
middle east, indiana, paris france, amsterdam, new delhi ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Depressed after the passing of his father, Dharamraj; as well as his gorgeous girlfriend ditching him, Mumbai-based businessman Aditya Kashyap takes a BEST bus, goes to Chatrapati Shivaji Train Terminus, and boards a train. This is where he meets ...
Style:
light, romantic, semi serious, humorous, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
true love, couple relations, fish out of water, love affair, family relations, disorder, marriage, odd couple, love, male female relationship, urban, train ...
Time:
y2k, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
100%
32K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Right before her wedding, a young woman finds herself abducted and held for ransom. As the initial days pass, she begins to develop a strange bond with her kidnapper.
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
stockholm syndrome, on the road, fall in love, self discovery, unlikely couple, freedom, character change, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, on the run, travel, road trip, tourism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, realistic, rom com ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love, vineyard, happy ending, love and romance, interracial romance, pretend relationship, rich woman poor man, wine, love story, parents and children, estate, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, post world war two, 90s
Place:
san francisco, california, sacramento california, usa
Similarity:
100%
210K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A fable of emotional liberation and chocolate. A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, sweet, fairy tale ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
small town, chocolate, love story, prejudice, food, women, cooking and food, love and romance, culture clash, single mother, mother daughter relationship, lovers ...
Time:
50s, year 2000, 1950s, y2k, year 2001 ...
Place:
france, europe, america, central america, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
Style:
romantic, atmospheric, touching, sad, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love story, photographer, adultery, love affair, passion, impossible love, relationships, housewife, couples, photography, extramarital affair, lovers ...
Time:
year 1995, 90s, 20th century, year 1965, post world war two ...
Place:
iowa, usa, midwest
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
Style:
touching, romantic, sentimental, sexy, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, true love, high school sweetheart, small town, love affair, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, lovers reunited, young love, road not taken, teenage love ...
Time:
year 2014, year 1992, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, new orleans, canada
Similarity:
100%
106K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.
Style:
feel good, romantic, sentimental, sexy, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
wine, vineyard, countryside, fall in love, love story, character change, inheritance, love and romance, workaholic, stock broker, starting over, doubts and hesitations ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place:
provence, france, europe, england, london ...
Similarity:
100%
325K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Style:
touching, sad, emotional, philosophical, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
redemption, depression, life philosophy, self sacrifice, life changing experience, motivation, true love, sacrifice, existentialism, life & death, melancholy, love ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
477K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
In the tradition of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” comes this refreshing comedy about a rebellious prankster with a crafty mind and a heart of gold. Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like ...
Style:
inspirational, entertaining, funny, touching, educational ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
friendship, motivation, coming of age, rebelliousness, friends, teachers and students, talented, student life, twists and turns, life philosophy, buddies, heartwarming ...
Time:
future, 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
india, delhi, middle east, asia
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood ...
Style:
touching, romantic, entertaining, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
wedding, fall in love, love and romance, love, patriarchy, trip, forbidden love, love story, wedding preparations and rituals, opposites attract, domineering father, tradition ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s
Place:
india, switzerland, england, london, middle east ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined ...
Style:
feel good, romantic, sentimental, sweet, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
cooking, restaurant, chef, opposites attract, love story, love, cooking and food, fall in love, initially antagonists, love and romance, guardian, food ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
new york, italy, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Harry and Sue Lewis met in the 40s as teenagers living in the Bronx. He was an aspiring architect, she was the most beautiful girl in school, and both had a fondness for bran muffins. They fell in love, got married, moved to Los Angeles, and had two ...
Style:
sweet, melancholic, romantic, intense, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
fall in love, love story, unlikely friendships, happy ending, friendship, midlife crisis, couple relations, couples, self discovery, lifestyle, memory, love ...
Time:
1940s, year 1980, 70s
Place:
usa, bronx new york city, new york, argentina
Similarity:
26%
213K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia, France, Canada, Germany, Brazil, UK, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
love story, amnesia, memory loss, marriage, love and romance, love, true love, relationships, couple relations, power of love, wooing, destiny ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After being stood up, Abbey gets inspired to open her heart in a letter, put it in a bottle and toss it out to sea. Months later, a man fishing discovers it and opts to reach out.
Style:
touching, realistic, tear jerker, light, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
dating, message in a bottle, relationships, love, love and romance, couples, love letter, anonymous letter, bittersweet, workplace intrigue, unfulfillment, fall in love ...
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When ...
Style:
touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, fall in love, college, tragedy, death, true love, ice hockey, love story, dying young, graduation, cancer, tragic love ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, paris france, boston, massachusetts ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India, USA, Italy, Germany, France, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
From an exciting Indian wedding comes a relationship from two different times not only showing the modern but also the traditional. Different characters and stories interact with each other in director Mira Nair film where she used an ...
Style:
emotional, humorous, touching, romantic, talky ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
wedding, wedding planning, culture clash, adultery, arranged marriage, honest, confession, disagreement, understanding, leaving home, first love, family secret ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
india, new delhi, asia, pakistan, delhi ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Style:
romantic, touching, emotional, scenic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
love, couples, true love, fall in love, happy ending, love and romance, couple relations, destiny, love story, enemies to lovers, hospital, moral dilemma ...
Time:
year 1946, year 1989, year 1988, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, south carolina
Similarity:
26%
25K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Primo & Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.
Style:
sentimental, witty, sincere, melancholic, culinary ...
Plot:
food, cooking, chef, immigrant, italian restaurant, wine, restaurant, character study, self discovery, human nature, great ending, jazz ...
Time:
50s, year 1996, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
new jersey, usa, italy
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Magic happens, if you let it; and sometimes even fate or destiny, or whatever you want to call it, steps in to lend a hand. But when it concerns love, and finding that special person you're going to spend the rest of your life with, should you ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
looking for love, fate, lovers reunited, love and romance, fall in love, hopes, love story, diary, lost love, soul mate, second chance, longing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, mumbai india, bangkok thailand, america, asia
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Dr. Burke Ryan is a successful self-help author and motivational speaker with a secret. While he helps thousands of people cope with tragedy and personal loss, he secretly is unable to overcome the death of his late wife. It's not until Burke ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, romantic comedy, light, touching ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
florist, grief, happy ending, family drama, love story, motivational speaker, life philosophy, love and romance, unfulfillment, writer's life, love affair, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
seattle, new jersey, hawaii, new york
Similarity:
26%
312K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Nine years ago two strangers met by chance and spent a night in Vienna that ended before sunrise. They are about to meet for the first time since. Now they have one afternoon to find out if they belong together.
Style:
philosophical, emotional, sentimental, romantic, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, couples, dialogue, love story, lovers reunited, love and romance, true love, chance meeting, one day, lovers, passion, destiny ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york, warsaw poland ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A romantic comedy centered on two young cooks and a female sommelier working in a famous Zurich luxury restaurant.
Style:
captivating, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot:
restaurant, food, cooking and food, couples, lifestyle, love, chef, cooking, friendship, society, backpacking, wine ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and the three individuals who will undeniably change his life forever. Through the ...
Style:
romantic, heartbreaking, emotional, sexy, costume drama ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
inheritance, art, artist, destiny, love story, childhood, passion, literary, amor, fall in love, understanding, stranger ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 80s, 90s, 70s ...
Place:
new york, florida, usa, london
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, sexy, art house, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, lovers, love affair, marriage, unrequited love, newspaper, true love, love story, relationships ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, y2k, 60s, 20th century ...
Place:
hong kong, japan, china, east asia, shanghai ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that he can move ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sincere, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, love story, destiny, sailing, haunted by the past, single parent, anonymous letter, love letter, grief, women, sea voyage, father son relationship ...
Time:
2010s, year 1999, 90s
Place:
north carolina, virginia, chicago, usa, new york
Similarity:
25%
19K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 181 min.
Story:
Raj Malhotra and wife Pooja have four sons. The sons have settled down professionally and are quite independent. However, when Raj Malhotra retires, none of his children want to be burdened with the responsibility of taking care of their parents. ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, romantic, gloomy, touching ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, parents and children, loyalty, estrangement, family in crisis, down on your luck, family relations, humiliation, valentine's day, hindu, indians, large family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
25%
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