Movies Like Gudumba Shankar
If you liked Gudumba Shankar (2004), a comedy and drama movie directed by Veera Shankar, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaTwo married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling…
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What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also romance and comedyTwo childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.
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The Other Sister (1999)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and dramaA mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college.
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Love Sarah (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and dramaA young woman wishes to fulfill her mother's dream of opening her own bakery in Notting Hill, London. To do this, she enlists the help of an old friend and her grandma.
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Tall Girl (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaJodi, the tallest girl in her high school, has always felt uncomfortable in her own skin. But after years of slouching, being made fun of, and avoiding attention at all costs, Jodi finally decides to find the…
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Hitch (2005)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and dramaDating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques…
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Nuvvu Naaku Nachav (2001)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and comedyVenky and Nandini's relationship changes from mere friendship to something that is more romantic. However, love only blossoms between the two after Nandini's marriage is fixed elsewhere.
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Madame (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also romance and comedyAnne and Bob, a well-to-do American couple, have just moved to a beautiful manor house in romantic Paris. To impress their sophisticated friends, they decide to host a lavish dinner party, but must disguise their maid…
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Peter Ibbetson (1935)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceWhen his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project…
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Jersey Girl (2004)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romanceOllie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having…
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Better Living Through Chemistry (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and comedyA straight-laced pharmacist's uneventful life spirals out of control when he starts an affair with a trophy wife customer who takes him on a joyride involving sex, drugs and possibly murder.
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Love Is in the Air (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedyA fiercely independent pilot fighting to keep her family business afloat starts to fall for the man sent by corporate to ground her operation forever.
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Afterlife of the Party (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and dramaA social butterfly who dies during her birthday week is given a second chance to right her wrongs on Earth.
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Easy Virtue (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and romanceA young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
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The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and romancePregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
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Emma (1996)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and dramaEmma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma…
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Ante... Sundaraniki! (2022)
★ 7/10Also comedy and romanceA man from a Brahmin family falls in love with a Christian girl. In order to convince their parents, they say contrasting lies which complicates the situation and leads to a comedy of errors.
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Let's Make Love (1960)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romanceWhen billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
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Mr. Lucky (1943)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and romanceA conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.
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The Nanny Diaries (2007)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and dramaA college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.