| Devdas (2002) | 7.6 | |
| City of Joy (1992) | 6.5 | |
| I Origins (2014) | 7.3 | |
| Water (2005) | 7.7 | |
| Jodhaa Akbar (2008) | 7.5 |
Movies and TV shows set in india
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in india ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, emotional, romantic and feel good films and TV shows about / with society, culture clash, indians, bollywood, love and romance, love, mentor, destiny, storytelling and love story plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in India, USA, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as india: The Lunchbox (2013), Water (2005), Before the Rains (2007), Trishna (2011), Sold (2014), I Origins (2014), Lion (2016), A Passage to India (1984), City of Joy (1992), Hotel Mumbai (2018).
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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. ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sweet, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
food, cooking, happy ending, housewife, relationships, unlikely relationship, destiny, chef, unconventional romance, retirement, cooking and food, honest ...
Time:
year 2013, y2k, 21st century
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia
Is relevant?
16K
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA, India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go to live with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two ...
Style:
touching, melancholic, philosophical, poignant, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hinduism, prostitute, women, prostitution, love, politics, friendship, relationships, brutality, couple relations, marriage, mentor ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938, year 2005, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
india, asia, canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, India, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caught in an inexorable web of forbidden romance and dangerous secrets. After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an ...
Style:
sincere, touching, costume drama, sentimental, disturbing ...
Plot:
forbidden love, interracial romance, taboo, british raj, master and servant, love affair, social differences, love and romance, society, dishonesty, indian woman, hindu ...
Time:
1930s, year 2007, year 1937
Place:
india, europe, asia, england
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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, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
tragic love, fall in love, couple relations, injustice, culture clash, unfulfillment, innocence lost, society, love and romance, couples, power relations, doomed love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Is relevant?
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. When the Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's father says she must leave home and take a job to ...
Style:
suspense, serious, rough, disturbing, social
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
child prostitution, sex trafficking, child trafficking, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, forced prostitution, poverty, new job, salvation, teenager, dilemma, moral dilemma, street walker ...
Place:
nepal, india
Is relevant?
140K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab ...
Style:
thought provoking, mind bending, spiritual, philosophical, enigmatic ...
Plot:
reincarnation, eye, metaphysics, genetics, buddhism, religion, atheism, death, spirituality, love story, sex scene, elevator ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 90s, year 1998, year 2005 ...
Place:
india, usa, new york, asia, delhi ...
Is relevant?
265K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, inspirational, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, family friendly, date night, kids
Plot:
adoption, poverty, loneliness, courage, survival, childhood, mother son reunion, foster child, foster home, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
year 1986, 2010s, year 2016, year 2012, year 2010 ...
Place:
india, australia, tasmania, kolkata, melbourne
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
The film is set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj. It begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested (Judy Davis), who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate ...
Style:
epic, costume drama, scenic, suspense, talky ...
Plot:
british raj, politics, british empire, lawyer, small town, racism, tourist, colonialism, culture clash, investigation, false accusation, dishonesty ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 1984, 70s
Place:
india, asia, london, kashmir, himalaya ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In this drama, a wealthy American doctor learns some important lessons about life in one of the poorest cities on Earth. Max Lowe (Patrick Swayze) is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a ...
Style:
sincere, touching, social, philosophical, uplifting ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
friendship, hopes, hospital, survival, poverty, social commentary, abroad, humanist, aid worker, medicine, hinduism, philosophy ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
india, houston texas, kolkata, asia, san francisco ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK, Singapore, India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Based on the 2009 documentary Surviving Mumbai about the Mumbai attacks in 2008 at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, factual, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist attack, terrorist, jihad, hotel, courage, religious fanatic, islamic terrorism, hostage, shooting, survival, cruelty ...
Time:
year 2019, 2000s, year 2008
Place:
india, mumbai india, australia, bombay india, pakistan ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and ...
Style:
touching, motivational, inspirational, captivating, educational ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
dyslexia, teacher, teachers and students, childhood, self discovery, coming of age, teaching the ways of the world, dedicated educator, shyness, young heroes, hopes, school ...
Time:
future, year 2007, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
india, middle east, asia, mumbai india, africa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story:
The British Raj: though their position seems secure, thoughtful English men and women know that "their" time in India is coming to an end. The story begins with an unjust arrest for rape, and the consequences of this echo through the ...
Style:
sincere, costume drama, captivating, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
forbidden love, british raj, closeted homosexual, politics, unwanted pregnancy, world war two, rape, racism, life is a bitch, tragic love, culture clash, state affairs ...
Time:
1940s, 50s
Place:
india, asia
Is relevant?
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
Style:
touching, uplifting, motivational, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
poverty, childhood, destiny, orphan, rags to riches, against the odds, love, street life, society, journey, true love, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 90s, year 2005 ...
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia, taj mahal, britain
Is relevant?
52K
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
Devdas is sent away by his father so he can improve himself but upon his return his father still doesn’t welcome him back. Devdas and Paro are in love but Paro is a lower caste and is set to be married to an older widower. Devdas is devastated ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, weeping, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
unfulfilled love, forbidden love, love triangle, alcoholic, losing-it hero, true love, love, unrequited love, prostitution, prostitute, drunkenness, stepmother stepdaughter relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, 1900s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
india, london, kolkata, asia, europe ...
Is relevant?
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 ...
Is relevant?
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 ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.
Style:
realistic, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative, touching ...
Plot:
love and romance, couple relations, couples, society, working class, introspection, solitude, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, bittersweet, love, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, kolkata
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.
Style:
humorous, realistic, romantic, light, talky ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
workplace, self discovery, arts and culture, human nature, travel, boss, office, fish out of water, call center, boss and employee, love and romance, corporate world ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, seattle, asia, bombay india, san francisco
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: India
Duration: 213 min.
Story:
Jodhaa Akbar is a sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a great Mughal Emperor, Akbar and a Rajput princess, Jodhaa.
Style:
romantic drama, realistic, romantic, entertaining, mesmerizing ...
Plot:
emperor, true love, culture clash, royal family, dishonesty, love and romance, arranged marriage, politics, royal court, ruler, historical character, indian history ...
Time:
16th century, year 2008, future, 50s
Place:
india, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Epic drama set in the summer of 1932 where India dreams of independence, but the British are clinging to power.
Set against the sweeping grandeur of the Himalayas and tea plantations of Northern India, the drama tells the rich and explosive story ...
Style:
epic, realistic, serious, captivating, costume drama ...
Plot:
class differences, racism, revolution, political unrest, state affairs, society, culture clash, rebellion, british, independence, world war one, interwar period ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
india, himalaya, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
Style:
sweet, sentimental, romantic, bad ending, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
hotel, elderly lovers, elderly, wedding, middle aged woman, twists and turns, love story, aging, mistaken identity, mentor, culture clash, honest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia, london
Is relevant?
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 ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, sweet, touching, cute ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, date night, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
cooking, cooking and food, restaurant, food, culture clash, chef, interracial relations, prejudice, interracial romance, beautiful scenery, small town, immigrant ...
Time:
year 2014, 19th century, 21st century
Place:
france, india, mumbai india, paris france, switzerland ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story:
The daughter of a traditional, rich Indian family falls in love for a Dalit, and "untouchable" man.
Style:
soap opera, captivating, sentimental, touching, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
culture clash, forbidden love, couple relations, couples, family problems, social differences, fall in love, society, love and romance, parents and children, lovers apart, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, latin america, brazil, asia, mumbai india ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada, South Africa, India, Pakistan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Determined to leave the ravages of war behind, 38 year old Gian Singh resigns from the British Indian Army to a quiet life. His world is soon thrown in turmoil, when he suddenly finds himself responsible for the life of a 17 year old girl, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
interracial relations, forbidden love, sikh, love and romance, fall in love, couples, society, soldier, political unrest, social relations, muslim, male female relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
pakistan, india, africa, middle east, south africa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA, India, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A Bollywood update of Jane Austen's classic tale, in which Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitable husbands for her four unmarried daughters. When the rich single gentlemen Balraj and Darcy come to visit, the Bakshis have high hopes, though ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, rom com, romantic comedy, light ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
love and romance, wedding, opposites attract, initially antagonists, society, love, arranged marriage, fall in love, love story, culture clash, happy ending, heir ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
india, london, england, asia, usa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's ...
Style:
touching, fairy tale, heartbreaking, feel good, costume drama ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
boarding school, imagination, childhood, princess, orphan, servant, little girl, fantasy life, child, girls' boarding school, coming of age, children ...
Time:
20th century, edwardian era, future, victorian era, 90s ...
Place:
india, new york, england, britain, africa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
The young Shivudu is left as a foundling in a small village by his mother. By the time he’s grown up, it has become apparent that he possesses exceptional gifts. He meets the beautiful warrior/princess Avanthika and learns that her queen has been ...
Style:
lyrical, colorful, scenic, visual, cult classic ...
Plot:
medieval, hinduism, beautiful scenery, kingdom, warrior, dual role, vengeance, politics, love interest, battles, hardcore, love and romance ...
Time:
medieval times, year 2015
Place:
india, australia, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Shankar is an orphan raised by a sincere police officer Raja Rao. In an unexpected situation, Raja Rao's son Bharath kills a kid and Shankar takes the blame, and is imprisoned while Raja Rao warns him not to meet him again.
Style:
exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
fighting crime, village, rivalry, law enforcement, save the day, parents and children, danger, police, orphan, corruption, revenge, construction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Is relevant?
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