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Plot Summary:
Peshwa Bajirao married to Kashibai, falls in love with Mastani, a warrior princess in distress. They struggle to make their love triumph amid opposition from his conservative family.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, intense, touching, captivating, costume drama, fast, epic, period drama
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You Have My Heart (2000)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the Telegu (southern Indian) film, "Pelli Chuskundam," the plot follows the life of a rape victim (Aishwarya Rai). Now, a disgrace to her family, she is turned away from her house after the sexual assault. But she finds shelter in the character played by Anil Kapoor.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, serious, melancholic, tense, sincere, sexual, sexy
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Padmaavat (2018)
Plot Summary:
Rani Padmavati - the wife of Maharawal Ratan Singh, is known for her beauty and valour in 13th century India. She captures the fancy of the reigning Sultan of Delhi, the tyrant Alauddin Khilji, who becomes obsessed with her and goes to great lengths to fulfill his greed.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: epic, captivating, costume drama, exciting, touching, suspenseful, visually appealing, visual, fast, banned
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Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following the roguish terrorist attacks at Uri Army Base camp in Kashmir, India takes the fight to the enemy, in its most successful covert operation till date with one and only one objective of avenging their fallen heroes.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: patriotic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, realistic, visually appealing, cult classic, fast, mind blowing
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Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Aurangzeb recruits his trusted soldier Udaybhan to control the Kondhana fort, Shivaji's military leader Tanhaji Malusare and his army of Maratha warriors set out to recapture the fortress.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: epic, exciting, serious, captivating, patriotic, cult classic, fast
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Gunday (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based in Calcutta during its most unsettled times in the 1970s, the film deals with the inseparable life of Bikram and Bala. The story of 2 boys, boys who became refugees. Refugees who became gun couriers. Gun Couriers who became coal bandits, coal bandits who became Calcutta's Most Loved, Most Celebrated, Most Reckless, Most Fearless, Most Powerful! A story of two happy-go-lucky renegades who came to be known as...GUNDAY!.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Action, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, romantic drama, humorous, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious
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Kill Dil (2014)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time in North India, two killers – Dev (Ranveer Singh) and Tutu (Ali Zafar) - roamed free. Abandoned when young and vulnerable, Bhaiyaji (Govinda) gave them shelter and… nurtured them to kill! All is normal in their lives until destiny throws free-spirited Disha (Parineeti Chopra) into the mix. What follows is a game of defiance, deception and love.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, realistic
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Khamoshi: The Musical (1996)
Plot Summary:
Goa based Joseph Braganza and his wife Flavy, devout Catholics, are both deaf and mute. He makes a living selling soap bars door to door. Flavy gets pregnant and gives birth to a daughter who they name Annie, who can speak and hear much to their delight. Flavy soon gives birth to a son, Sam, who can also hear and speak. A few years later, Sam accidentally passes away, making Joseph lose faith. Joseph, unable to make a living selling soap, opens a toy making factory and the family prospers. Annie grows up, takes to music and singing in a great way, meets with a young man named Raj and both fall in love. Joseph dislikes Raj, mainly because he is Hindu, is able to speak and hear, not a resident of Goa, and the fear of losing Annie forever and thus their contact with the world. When Annie gets pregnant, Joseph is enraged, he asks her to abort, when she refuses, he asks her to leave his house. What will Annie do next? Will Joseph, Flavy and Annie ever re-unite.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Japanese Wife (2010)
Plot Summary:
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 young widow, Sandhya (Raima Sen), comes to stay with Snehmoy along with her eight-year-old son Poltu. Snehmoy and the little boy bond and the arithmetic teacher discovers the joy of palpable bonds and fatherhood. There develops an inexplicable thread of understanding with Sandhya too. But Snehmoy remained loyal to his unseen Japanese wife. When Miyage was ill from cancer, he took a long leave from his school and tried his best to find a cure for the illness. Meanwhile, malaria took a toll on him and he died. Coming of Miyage in a white sari to Sunderbans after his departure was really touching.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, philosophical, offbeat, touching, serious
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Umrao Jaan (2006)
Plot Summary:
Bollywood film about the famous courtesan of the title. Aishwarya Rai stars in the lead role. The film is directed by J.P. Dutta and also stars Shabana Azmi, Sunil Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Divya Dutta, Himani Shivpuri and Kulbhushan Kharbanda.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, captivating, emotional, serious, realistic, stylized
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My Heart Is Yours (2002)
Plot Summary:
Some twenty years ago Sarita promised to raise her husband's love child (Shalu) together with their own daughter (Nimmi). The girls grow up as the best of friends but Sarita has never been able to forgive Shalu her background. It doesn't make it better when she sees Shalu getting close to the man Nimmi is also in love with.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, captivating, romantic drama
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Ram & Leela (2013)
Plot Summary:
Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in violent times.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, stylized, realistic, romantic, independent film, fast, exciting, captivating, tear jerker
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Kisna: The Warrior Poet (2005)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in the India of the tumultuous 1930's when nationalists fighting for the country's independence rose up as one, urging the British to quit. At this time, a young Indian, Kisna befriends and then shields a British girl Katherine, from an enraged mob of nationalists including Kisna's own uncle and brother. Katherine is the young daughter of a ruthless British collector. Kisna takes it upon himself to escort Katherine to the safety of the British High Commission in New Delhi, who will arrange for her to board a ship home. A tender attraction develops between Kisna and Katherine during the journey, a love story that is torn between 'Karma' (the noble deed) and 'Dharma' (the duty). Laxmi, the Indian girl Kisna is engaged to, forms the third point in an emotional triangle involving the Indo-British romantic pair.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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Oh, My Love (2007)
Plot Summary:
Orphaned and homeless Ranbir Raj re-locates to a small town and orders a glass of milk in the RK Bar. He befriends a prostitute by the name of Gulabji, who invites him to spend the night with her, and when he refuses, she re-directs him to Lillian who rents out rooms. Ranbir meets with Lillian, who has been living alone for 37 years after her son, Vincent, left to join the army and did not return.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, stylized, visual, visually stunning, modern day adaptation
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Born to Hate... Destined to Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
While fighting for the political supremacy of their respective families, a Hindu man and a Muslim woman share a forbidden romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, serious, romantic, tense, captivating, entertaining, sad, exciting
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White Nights (2006)
Plot Summary:
For a fee of Rs.200/- Ankush Ramdev acted as one among four witnesses to couples who come to register their marriages at the Registrar of Marriages in Dariyaganj, Delhi. One day he comes across a single woman from Nainital and offers his services, but the girl tells him that she is waiting for her to-be groom, Dheeraj Ansaria. At the end of the day, when he does not show up, Ankush feels sorry for her, Megha Joshi, and offers to assist her until he gets back. They spend the night at a Dargah, and then go to wait for Dheeraj, who does not show. A penniless and tearful Megha now asks Ankush to help, he helps her again, and falls in love with her, so much so that he considers learning English and re-locating to Bombay. Then he comes across a young man, who later identifies himself as Dheeraj, who is desperately looking for his bride-to-be. Watch what Ankush does or does not do to assist Dheeraj.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, captivating, serious
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Devdas (2002)
Plot Summary:
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 & leaves home. He becomes an alcoholic womanizer and falls in love with a courtesan. Paro tries to get Devdas away from drinking before he self destructs.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, weeping, sentimental, serious, captivating, romantic, rough, sincere, thought provoking
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A Married Woman (2005)
Plot Summary:
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 the relationship of an unspoken right they hold over eachother metamorphs into an intense love, they don't even sense coming. It Takes and outsider for them to realize their love.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: sentimental, atmospheric, touching, captivating, realistic, emotional, semi serious, romantic, mesmerizing, stylized
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When Love Calls (1989)
Plot Summary:
Karan (Alok Nath) lives in a small house with his only daughter, Suman (Bhagyashree). He decides to travel overseas in Dubai, in the Persian Gulf, so that he can accumulate enough wealth to get his daughter married. He decides to leave his daughter with his friend, Kishen Kumar choudhury (Rajiv Verma), wife Mrs. Kaushalya (Reema Lagoo), and son Prem (Salman Khan). Prem is supposed to marry Seema (Pervin Dastur), who is the only daughter of Kishen's business partner, Ranjeet (Ajit Vachani). But Prem falls in love with Suman. He woos her until she also falls in love with him. Kaushalya approves of Suman, but Kishan does not, and asks her to get out of his house and life, as he feels that she has taken advantage of his hospitality. Karan returns and is enraged at Kishan's behaviour. Prem is unhappy with his dad's decision, and he decides to leave home and be near Suman.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 192 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic drama, mesmerizing, touching, captivating, emotional, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Yash Chopra's Veer-Zaara (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story of the love between Veer Pratap Singh, an Indian, and Zaara Hayaat Khan, a Pakistani...a love so great it knows no boundaries.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 192 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, captivating, emotional, romantic, sad, entertaining, touching, poignant, crying
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1942: A Love Story (1994)
Plot Summary:
In 1942 the British ruled India, a time when people were either working for the British or rallying for underground meetings and protests against them. Amidst this background, Naren Singh, falls in love with Rajeshwari Pathak. But their romance is not an easy one, for Naren comes from a wealthy, British supporting, family. But Rajeshwari is poor and is fighting against the British.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: romantic, patriotic, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Baahubali: The Beginning (2015)
Plot Summary:
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 held captive for the last 25 years. Shividu sets off to rescue her, discovering his own origins in the process.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: epic, lyrical, colorful, scenic, visual, cult classic, entertaining, intellectual, twist ending, grindhouse
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Jodhaa Akbar (2008)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: India
Duration: 213 min
Plot tags: epic, realistic, romantic, entertaining, mysterious, visually appealing, cult classic, romantic drama, historical drama, mesmerizing
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As Long as I Live (2012)
Plot Summary:
An ex-army man, leading a double life in London, must choose between his wife and muse. Jab Tak Hai Jaan movie is a love triangle,and also marks the return of Yash Chopra as a director after eight years. In Jab Tak Hai Jaan, Shahrukh Khan plays the character of Samar who is an angry, unforgiving, with loads of emotional baggage. His role will span two ages, one in his late twenties as a musician based in London and the other at an older age as an introverted, composed, dutiful army officer in Kashmir. Katrina as Meera play as a seductress, an unattainable beauty. And Anushka as Akira who is 21 year old and works for Discovery Channel and makes documentaries.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 198 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, romantic, serious, entertaining, sad, scenic, fast, cute
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Ashoka the Great (2001)
Plot Summary:
In India, about 260 BC in the Empire of Magadha, the Prince Asoka (Shah Rukh Khan) survives to many betrayals of his brothers, leaded by the evil Susima (Ajit Kumar), who wants to kill him to inherit the throne. His mothers orders Asoka to leave Magadha, and while traveling, he meets Princess Kaurwaki (Karriena Kapoor) and her brother, Prince Aryan (Sooraj Balaji) from Kalinga, who are undercover and protected by General Bheema (Rahul Dev). Asoka and Kaurwaki falls in love for each other, but the mother of Asoka calls him back to Magadha. When he returns, he does not find Kaurwaki, who was attacked by traitors of Kalinga. When Asoka's mother is killed by a man of Susima, Asoka becomes mad, kills all his evil brothers but Sugatra, who escapes to Kalinga. Asoka decides to conquer Kalinga, but in the end, he concludes that he has not built an empire, but conquered only corpses and destroyed everything, and he decides to spread love and the Buddhism.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: India
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: epic, exciting, suspense, intense, period piece, romantic, realistic, lyrical, patriotic, historical drama
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Earth (1998)
Plot Summary:
It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witnesses to tragedy as her ayah is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Drama, Romance, War
Country: India, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, touching, offbeat, poignant, art house, romantic drama, tense, sincere, serious
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Cocktail (2012)
Plot Summary:
Gautam is an incorrigible flirt, who runs after every girl he sees. Meera is a pretty girl with desi values and attire, who comes to London from Delhi for a fresh start. Veronica is the spoilt bombshell who loves partying and drinking. Though different from each other, these three are perfect friends staying under one roof until friendship becomes confusing, and love becomes complicated.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, romantic comedy
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Chennai Express (2013)
Plot Summary:
Rahul embarks on a journey to a small town in Tamil Nadu to fulfill the last wish of his grandfather: to have his ashes immersed in the Holy water of Rameshwaram. En route, he meets a woman hailing from a unique family down South. As they find love through this journey in the exuberant lands of South India, an unanticipated drive awaits them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, semi serious, funny, romantic, entertaining, fast, masala, humorous
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Barfi! (2012)
Plot Summary:
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 with Barfii - the Chalu Chaplin!.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, sentimental, inspirational, sweet, light, humorous, romantic, sad, funny
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Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)
Plot Summary:
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 fiancé. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family. Thus begins a saga.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 189 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, entertaining, feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, light, sincere, captivating
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Anna and the King (1999)
Plot Summary:
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860s. Anna teaches the children and becomes romanced by the King. She convinces him that a man can be loved by just one woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: romantic, epic, serious, emotional, captivating, period piece, stylized, sentimental, factual, sweet