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Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, realistic, semi serious
Best tv shows and movies like Waqt: The Race Against Time (2005):
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Action Replayy (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young man tries to revive his parents' wilting marriage in a unique manner - travel to the 1970s when their romance was budding and make it bloom. This is more complex than he expects.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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Baabul (2006)
Plot Summary:
When his only son dies in an accident, Balraaj urges his depressed daughter-in-law to marry a man who has long loved her in silence.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: India, France
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: serious, sincere, touching, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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Trident (1978)
Plot Summary:
Vijay Kumar is the illegitimate son of a construction baron, Raj Kumar Gupta and his first love, Shanti, whom he gives up in order to marry a wealthy heiress. Raj does not know of this son, who grows up and after his mother's death comes to Delhi to take revenge on the Gupta family by destroying the family's business and connections with each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: tense, sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic
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Khiladi 786 (2012)
Plot Summary:
The 8th installment in the Khiladi series.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense, light, 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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Gardener (2003)
Plot Summary:
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. Strangely, it is the adopted son who proves to be the most kind hearted of them all. Salman's girlfriend eventually marries him. The question is, will Raj and Pooja's sons learn the folly of their ways and turn over a new leaf?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 181 min
Plot tags: realistic, romantic, captivating, touching, gloomy, inspirational, entertaining, sad, crying, romantic drama
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Josh (2000)
Plot Summary:
Shah Rukh Khan and Sharad Kapoor are the leaders of the two rival gangs. Aishwarya Rai is Shah Rukh Khan's twin sister. Shah Rukh is in love with Priya Gill. Chandrachur Singh is Sharad Kapoor's younger brother who studies in a catering college in Bombay. He comes to Goa to visit his brother and plans to go back and start a restaurant there. He sees Aishwarya and falls in love with her. Chandrachur gives up the idea of going back to Bombay and opens a bakery in Goa. When Shah Rukh comes to know about the romance between Aishwarya and Chandrachur, the fight between the gang turns more violent. How the conflict is resolved is the rest of the story. Written by gavin@[email protected].
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, captivating, exciting, melancholic, romantic, hot, nostalgic
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Friends (2000)
Plot Summary:
A story about a girl named Priya (Preity Zinta) who is the apple of her parents' eyes. She defied the Indian culture when she got pregnant out of marriage by Saif Ali Khan.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, crying
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Sharabi (1984)
Plot Summary:
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and a peg of brandy instead of a glass milk, Vicky Kapoor, the only son of multi-millionaire industrialist, Amarnath, grows up to be an alcoholic, albeit with a good heart. Amarnath has detached himself completely from Vicky s life, and provides him money in lieu of affection and care, living this to be taken care off by Munshi Phoolchand. Vicky is very resentful of being ignored by his dad in this manner, and leaves no stone unturned to mock and belittle him at every available opportunity. Amarnath hopes to get his son married, but Vicky loves the daughter of a poor blind man, Meena, which is not acceptable to Amarnath. One day Amarnath decides he has had enough and decides to turn Vicky out of his house. He has him sign waivers, and asks him to get out, which Vicky does so. While Vicky is relieved of being freed from his dad s control, the question remains that with no skills at making a living, how is Vicky to survive in a cold-hearted world.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Hero No. 1 (1997)
Plot Summary:
Rajesh Malhotra (Govinda) is the son of a wealthy businessman Dhanraj Malhotra (Kader Khan). However, he is not happy at his home since his father does not let him live his life his way. He escapes from his home and reaches Europe. Meena (Karishma Kapoor) is the granddaughter of Dinanath (Paresh Rawal) and has secured a scholarship to study in Europe. She travels to Europe with her aunt Shannu (Himani Shivpuri).
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Chef (1972)
Plot Summary:
Squabbling Sharma family has a dubious reputation of not having any cook last there for more than a few months. Word spreads out about this family to such an extent that no person wants to be employed as a cook in this household, ironically named Shanti Nivas. Then one day a young man named Raghu offers to work as a cook, and he is hired. Raghu quickly gets a grip on his job and on each of the family members, and soon the squabbles and arguments come to an end. And then the Sharmas find the family jewels and Raghu missing.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: light, inspirational, entertaining, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Game of Love (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sapna, the daughter of the Saigal family's driver is a simple fun-loving girl, but her dreams are not as simple. She dreams about riches and day-dreams about her dream man. Vijay Saigal and Vicky Saigal, both heirs to Saigal Industries have almost all the qualities of a dream man. Almost. Because "All work and no play" makes Vijay a dull boy and "All play and no work" makes Vicky and outrageous flirt, as he does not believe in the affairs of the hearts, but only in affairs. But then even Sapna is not made of the stuff, dream girls are made of. Not until she becomes a successful model and transforms into a beautiful girl. That's when she become Vicky's dream girl. But Sapna's success hasn't changed her status. She is still the driver's daughter and Mrs. Shanti Devi may overlook her son's affairs with rich girls but not with a driver's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, remake of american film
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The Affair (1981)
Plot Summary:
Although orphaned at very young ages, Scriptwriter Amit and military pilot Shekhar are brothers and also very good friends. The latter is happily engaged to Shobha, while the former has just fallen in love with pretty, young Chandni. But tragedy strikes when Shekhar's plane is shot down in Kashmir. Amit feels it to be his obligation to leave the girl he loves and marry his brother's pregnant fiancée instead. But when, by an unexpected turn, Amit and the now also married Chandni meet again, their love for each other proves to be stronger than their marital vows.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags: romantic, cult classic, mesmerizing, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, saga, gloomy
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Let's Fall in Love... Again (2006)
Plot Summary:
College nerd, Agastya Rao alias Champu, has a crush on Piya Goel, and is thrilled when she invites him to a dance, only to be heart-broken when he finds out that she really digs another guy. Years later, when he finds out that his college sweetheart is about to divorce her husband, decides to try his hand at wooing her. He gets the unsolicited help of one-time Bollywood wonder Suhaan Kapoor, who accompanies Agastya to New York, assists him in successfully wooing and proposing to Piya. On the night of their engagement, Agastya will find out that Suhaan only wanted to help him because of Section 25 of the Hindu Marriage Act - so that could relieve him of the financial burden of paying alimony to Piya, who was the girl he had secretly married much against the wishes of the entire Goel clan. Watch what happens when Suhaan finds out that he has a daughter named Suhaani - and that he still has strong feelings about Piya.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, emotional, semi serious, romantic, crying, powerful, spoof, parody
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Cherished Memories (2001)
Plot Summary:
Raj Singh Puri has a very wealthy friend in Lalit Kumar Malhotra, and his wife, Nalini. After the passing away of his wife, Shalini, Raj has become more dependent on the Malhotras, and they have offered him support and solace in his time of need. Raj has also won over the affections of their son, Ronit Malhotra. When Ronit meets with Raj's daughter, Isha, both are attracted to each other and fall in love. They want to surprise Ronit's parents and Raj, and they accordingly decide to share this news with Raj, only to find out that Raj has been actively involved in trying to get Ronit married to Monishka Rai, the daughter of a very wealthy industrialist, who the Malhotras would like to have a business merger with.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Musical, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, romantic
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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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English Babu Desi Mem (1996)
Plot Summary:
Vikram Mayur, a wealthy Indian, born and raised in England, returns to his ancestral home in Bombay, India to look up his late brother's eight-year-old son Nandu raised by his caring aunt Bijuriya in which Vikram is torn between choosing to take Nandu back to England to learn his family's business, or risk throwing it all way by staying in India to be with Bijuriya whom he slowly falls in love with.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Happiness & Tears (2001)
Plot Summary:
Orthodox Indian, Raichand, would like his two sons to live together with him and his wife, and get married to girls' of his choice. One of his sons, Rahul, is adopted, while Rohan is his real son. Rahul falls in love with a poor Indian girl named Anjali, and incurs the displeasure of Raichand, they argue and fight, as a result Rahul leaves the house, moves to Britain, and settles down. Raichand now focuses his attention on his real son, Rohan, who has no plans to get married, but is determined to bring Rahul and Anjali back home so that they can be together again. Will Raichand permit Rohan to have his way, or will he also ask him to leave the house?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, UK
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: serious, sentimental, emotional, realistic, romantic, touching, feel good, entertaining, crying, romantic comedy
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Welcome (2007)
Plot Summary:
Dubai-based criminal don Uday takes it upon himself to try and get his sister Sanjana married - in vain, as no one wants to be associated with a crime family. Uday's associate Sagar Pandey finds a young man, Rajiv, who lives with his maternal uncle and aunt - Dr. and Mrs. Ghunghroo. Through extortion he compels Ghunghroo to accept this matrimonial alliance. But Rajiv has already fallen in love with young woman in South Africa. When the time comes to get Rajiv formally engaged to this woman, he finds out that Sanjana and she are the very same. With no escape from this predicament, the wedding is planned, with hilarious consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, semi serious, realistic, funny, touching, feel good, light, captivating, melancholic
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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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Dil Dhadakne Do (2015)
Plot Summary:
On a cruise to celebrate their parents' 30th wedding anniversary, a brother and sister deal with the impact of family considerations on their romantic lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, realistic, touching, captivating, melancholic, feel good
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Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam (2002)
Plot Summary:
Radha and Suraj have been friends since childhood. Gopal has been in love with Radha ever since they spent a few years together as kids. Years later, Gopal's guardian proposes to Radha a marriage with Gopal, and she accepts.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, emotional, realistic, romantic drama
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Shaadi Ke Side Effects (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young couple who struggle to rediscover love after their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Never Say Goodbye (2006)
Plot Summary:
Dev and Maya are both married to different people. Settled into a life of domestic ritual, and convinced that they are happy in their respective relationships, they still yearn for something deeper and more meaningful, which is precisely what they find in each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 193 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, sincere, emotional, realistic, romantic, touching, romantic drama, epic, sexual
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Paa (2009)
Plot Summary:
He suffers from a progeria like syndrome. Mentally he is 13 but physically he looks 5 times older. In spite of his condition, Auro is a very happy boy. He lives with his mother Vidya, who is a gynaecologist. Amol is young, progressive politician. He is a man with a mission. Auro is Amol's son. Paa is a 'rare' story about a father-son, son-father relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, uplifting, emotional, funny, entertaining
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Tomorrow May Never Come (2003)
Plot Summary:
Naina is a very serious girl with a very serious life. But one day, her soul is awakened by the happy-go-lucky Aman, who teaches her that life is meant to be lived. Naturally, she falls in love with him. But Aman is harboring a secret that keeps him from reciprocating Naina's love. But he cannot stand having her live a life without love, so he sets off on a mission to fill her life with someone else's love - someone she already knows.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India, Canada
Duration: 186 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, romantic, realistic, serious, crying, funny, light, depressing, entertaining
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Bhoothnath (2008)
Plot Summary:
Banku, his mother, Anjali Sharma and father move in to their new house -- the Nath villa, unaware of the fact that the house is inhabited by a ghost. It is learnt the ghost is not too happy with his new housemates. But what the ghost is not prepared for is his unlikely friendship with Banku. Now Banku must uncover the reason why his ghostly friend is stuck and help him to attain salvation.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, surprise ending
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We Are Family (2010)
Plot Summary:
Maya is the perfect mother. Her life revolves around her three childerens, Aleya ( Aachal Munjal ), Ankush ( Nominath Ginsberg ), and Anjali ( Diya Sonecha ). Who thinks nothing much then the world of her. Despite being divorced from her husband, Aman ( Arjun Rampal ). Maya has ensured that everything runs smoothly in her house, under her watch, and that they continue to remain a happy family unit. However, when Aman introduces his girlfriend, Shreya ( Kareena Kapoor ) a career oriented woman, who has a lot to learn about children's, to the family, the situation immediately takes an unexpected turn. When an incident changes their lives drastically, bringing the two women under the same roof, they find themselves putting to test an unusual situation; can two mothers make a home?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India, Australia, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sentimental, uplifting, touching, humorous, realistic, entertaining
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Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, offbeat
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Namastey London (2007)
Plot Summary:
Indian-born Manmohan Malhotra decided to re-locate to London, England, established himself, returned to India, got married to Bebo, and after a period of 4 years got a visa for her so that she could live with him. Shortly thereafter she gave birth to Jasmeet. Manmohan was always embarrassed of Bebo, as she was overly healthy and not quite sophisticated, as a result he always left her at home, while he socialized. Bebo did not want Jasmeet to end up like her, so got her admitted in an English Medium school, encouraged to mingle with Caucasian friends, and as a result Jasmeet was transformed in to Jazz - a stunningly beautiful young woman, British in looks, talk, habits, and heart. Manmohan's plans to get her married to an Indian boy are all in vain. His friend, Parvez Khan, is in a similar situation with his son, Imran, openly romancing a Caucasian blonde, Susan. Manmohan decides to take his family for a tour in India.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, patriotic, cult classic, stylized