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Pad Man (2018)
32K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Concerned about his wife Gayatri's menstrual hygiene, Lakshmikant Chauhan urges her to ditch the cloth and opt for sanitary napkins. Gayatri is reluctant to go for disposable pads as they are expensive. Lakshmi obsessing over a 'ladies problem' makes her cringe but he insists on bringing upon a change by addressing the taboo topic. Subjected to hostility for ruffling the religious and age-old beliefs of people around, can the man brave the resistance and get his point across?
Style:
inspirational, feel good, rough, uplifting, touching, compassionate, sentimental, realistic, mind blowing, social ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
taboo, menstruation, village, invention, superhero, life is a bitch, entrepreneurship, survival, poverty, society, street life, ambition, life philosophy, rags to riches, against the odds, marriage, entrepreneur, hindu, social issues, biopic, based on real people, train, wife, bicycle, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
india
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, feel good and semi serious films with plots about bollywood, hindi, family relations, society, love and romance, village and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Pad Man: Toilet: A Love Story (2017), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), The Intouchables (2011), Guru (2007), The Falling (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Keshav and Jaya are from two villages near Mathura, where at least 80% of households are without any access to a lavatories. Conflict comes knocking on the first day of their marriage, when Jaya leaves Keshav's house for good, after discovering ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
taboo, village, traditional versus modern, tradition versus modernity, propaganda, marriage, media, family problems, marital problem, social problems, dancing, indian woman ...
Place:
india
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
inspirational, emotional, sentimental, uplifting, motivational ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
Style:
feel good, inspirational, touching, uplifting, sincere ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 166 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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captivating, realistic, touching, inspirational, serious ...
Plot:
couples, success, society, research, businessman, ambition, industrialist, idealism, rise to power, newspaper, doubts and hesitations, entrepreneurship ...
Time:
50s, year 2007, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
asia, india, mumbai india, istanbul turkey, turkey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Natha a poor farmer from Peepli village in the heart of rural India is about to lose his plot of land due to an unpaid bank loan. A quick fix to the problem is the a government program that aids the families of indebted farmers who have committed ...
Style:
black comedy, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
media circus, satire, dark humor, farmer, media, society, nothing goes right, media hype, suicide attempt, poverty, corrupt politician, social injustice ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
india, asia
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37%
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:
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Place:
india, delhi, middle east, asia
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
There's more at stake than just failed crops when a drought strikes a rural community in this comedy-drama from India.
Style:
semi serious, atmospheric, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
farm, family life, couple relations, parents and children, family relations, unfulfillment, poverty, farmer, farming, village, life is a bitch, rural setting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, entertaining, humorous, inspirational, melancholic ...
Plot:
business, ambition, salesman, rise to the top, follow your dream, workplace situations, working class, workplace, misfit, college graduate, fish out of water, success ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A 25-year-old man tries to suppress his embarrassment when his mother announces that she is pregnant.
Style:
funny, light, captivating, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
wedding, gossip, pregnancy, middle class, mother, estrangement, father, hindu, mother son relationship, knocked up, poet, son ...
Time:
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Place:
india
Similarity:
36%
306K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
Style:
feel good, inspirational, light, sweet, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, family outing, girls' night, teens
Plot:
workplace, mentor, friendship, elderly, office, destiny, prejudice, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, fashion, workplace situations, life ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, peru, san francisco ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
politics, dishonesty, ambition, love and romance, hopes, rebelliousness, couple relations, campaign, social relations, couples, small town, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Six newly-married, diverse, honeymooning couples face marital bliss and discord, finding out more about themselves, their significant others and life in this happy-go-lucky, quirky drama.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
honeymoon, closeted homosexual, newlyweds, couple relations, love and romance, social differences, couples, tour guide, crumbling marriage, society, on the road, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, goa india
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Three handsome Sydney bachelors Aroush, Tanmay and Al – are having the time of their lives in Sydney. They flirt around, and have numerous conquests to their credit. They suddenly find their dating and mating rituals destroyed when a dimpled ...
Style:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
friendship, baby, family relations, fall in love, couples, down on your luck, babies and infants, single parent, indians, hindu, friends, love and romance ...
Time:
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Place:
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35%
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Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: India
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An overweight girl, Maggie Baker, is elected Homecoming queen by the mean girls in the high school.
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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18K
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Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, not serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
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Plot:
true love, comedy of errors, nothing goes right, looking for love, couples, love and romance, lifestyle, couple relations, change of luck, farce, disorder, lie ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, feel good, semi serious, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
35%
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Country: India
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
thrilling, psychological, satirical, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
35%
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Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, sentimental, sweet, touching, cute ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, date night, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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34%
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Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: India, USA, Thailand, China
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: India
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
humorous, captivating, light, inspirational, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
india
Similarity:
34%
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Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
A chronic illness leaves Ishwar with only a few months to live. His son Aditya is extremely reckless. To make him realise his responsibilities, Ishwar throws his son out of the house.
Style:
captivating, realistic, semi serious, touching
Plot:
father son relationship, teaching the ways of the world, family life, love and romance, family problems, estrangement, living with parents, parents and children, fish out of water, redemption, life is a bitch, family in crisis ...
Time:
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Place:
asia, india
Similarity:
34%
5K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
india, new delhi, asia, delhi
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Comedy - This entry in director Jean-Claude La Marre's Pastor Jones series sees the beleaguered clergyman coping with a gap in the church budget. When he can't make a payment on one of the church's loans, the pastor fears he may have ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere, inspirational ...
Plot:
friendship, ambition, music band, rescue, clergy, society, family relations, hopes, family problems, contests and competitions, collision, church ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
feel good, uplifting, funny, dramatic, entertaining ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
village, driver, rickshaw, filmmaking, drought, dream, optimism, hopes, heartwarming, resilience, rural setting, cinema ...
Place:
india
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34%
22K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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34%
93K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
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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:
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Place:
india, middle east, asia
Similarity:
34%
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