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Movies Like Main Vaapas Aaunga

If you liked Main Vaapas Aaunga (2026), a romance and drama movie directed by Imtiaz Ali, 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.

  1. 1Heat and Dust

    Heat and Dust (1983)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and romance

    Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her grand-aunt, she is led to reconsider her own life.

  2. 2Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela

    Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance

    Ran and Leela are passionately in love with each other. The only problem is that their respective clans have been enemies for 500 years.

  3. 3A Jazzman's Blues

    A Jazzman's Blues (2022)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    A tale of forbidden love and family drama unravels 40 years of secrets and lies against a soundtrack of juke joint blues in the Deep South.

  4. 4Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

    ★ 8.1/10Also drama and romance

    Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and…

  5. 5Blue Valentine

    Blue Valentine (2010)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and romance

    Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause…

  6. 6China Girl

    China Girl (1987)

    ★ 6/10Also romance and drama

    Teenage lovers Tony and Tyan-Hwa tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.

  7. 7Blind

    Blind (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.

  8. 8The Village

    The Village (2004)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and mystery

    When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.

  9. 9The Piano

    The Piano (1993)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance

    When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited pre-teen daughter Flora to the wilderness of 19th-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged…

  10. 10Ashes in the Snow

    Ashes in the Snow (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and romance

    The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly documents her harrowing journey with her…

  11. 11Atonement

    Atonement (2007)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and romance

    A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

  12. 12“Wuthering Heights”

    “Wuthering Heights” (2026)

    ★ 6.6/10Also romance and drama

    Tragedy strikes when Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine Earnshaw, a woman from a wealthy family in 18th-century England.

  13. 13The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

    The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2018)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and mystery

    Over the course of 12 years, and three stages of life, Sidney Hall falls in love, writes the book of a generation and then disappears without a trace.

  14. 14Maestro

    Maestro (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and romance

    A towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love letter to life and art, Maestro at its core is an emotionally epic…

  15. 15My Policeman

    My Policeman (2022)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama and romance

    In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship between Tom and Patrick at a time when…

  16. 16A Love Song

    A Love Song (2022)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    Two childhood sweethearts, now both widowed, share a night by a lake in the mountains.

  17. 17The Edge of Love

    The Edge of Love (2008)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and romance

    When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's childhood sweetheart Vera. Despite her joy at seeing Dylan after so many…

  18. 18Malcolm & Marie

    Malcolm & Marie (2021)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and romance

    As a filmmaker and his girlfriend return home from his movie premiere, smoldering tensions and painful revelations push them toward a romantic reckoning.

  19. 19All the Bright Places

    All the Bright Places (2020)

    ★ 7.6/10Also romance and drama

    Two teens facing personal struggles form a powerful bond as they embark on a cathartic journey chronicling the wonders of Indiana.

  20. 20Sylvie's Love

    Sylvie's Love (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also romance and drama

    When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.

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