Best movies like Ishk Actually
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Gia is at a crossroads in her life, with the arrows pointing towards Neil in one direction and Kabir in the opposite direction. She grapples with making a decision as she's torn between the two worlds that she's been living in. Love is the unanswered emotion that leads to a series of life altering situations . Amazed at life's sense of timing, she treads along a path that she believes will lead to her true love.
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The Will
Early in her life, Josephine Malone learned the hard way that there was only one person she could love and trust: her grandmother, Lydia Malone. Out of necessity, unconsciously and very successfully, Josephine donned a disguise to keep all others at bay. She led a globetrotting lifestyle on the fringes of the fashion and music elite, but she kept herself distant. While Josephine was trotting the globe, retired boxer Jake Spear was living in the same small town as Lydia. There was nothing disguised about Jake. Including the fact he made a habit of making very bad decisions about who to give his love. But for Josephine and Jake, there was one person who adored them. One person who knew how to lead them to happiness. And one person who was intent on doing it. Even if she had to do it as her final wish on this earth.
Antony and Cleopatra
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. The story concerns Marc Antony's attempts to rule Rome while maintaining a relationship with the queen of Egypt (Hildegarde Neil), which began while Antony was still married. Now he is being forced to marry the sister of his Roman co-leader, and soon the conflict leads to war.
A Foreign Affair
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.
The Love of Sunya
A young woman at life's crossroads is granted mystic visions of how her decisions will affect her future life.
Modern Life Is Rubbish
Brought together by their shared love of music, ten years on Liam and Natalie are at breaking point. In their case opposites attract but don't necessarily work long-term. Making the difficult decision to separate, they must split their prized music library. But the soundtrack that defined their relationship keeps pulling them back together.
Everything But a Man
Comedic, dramatic and sexual tensions collide when a man and a woman from two different worlds meet, fall in love, and then discover they have totally opposite beliefs and ideas about life, love and what it takes to be happy.
Note to Self
Curtis King, a handsome and popular student athlete, may know his way around the court, but his heart still needs a game plan. When he decides to keep a journal to give his life a new direction, the path leads him straight to the love he needed most.
Tholi Prema
Aaditya is an impulsive individual who takes decisions spontaneously and is unafraid to speak his mind. The love of his life Varsha is his extreme opposite — she chooses not to let her emotions control her actions or words. Will these two differing individuals ever make their relationship work?
Twisted Pair
Identical twin brothers become hybrid A.I (artificial intelligence) entities, yet torn in different directions to achieve justice for humanity.
Careful
In the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad at the turn of the century, people talk quietly and restrain their movements lest avalanches come and kill them. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown through the parallel stories of butler student Johann lusting after his mother (an old flame of the mysterious Count Knotkers) and Klara's attraction to her father (who lusts after his other daughter), leading to duels and suicidal plunges galore. All this is shot in the style of an early German sound film, complete with intertitles, deliberately crackly soundtrack and 'hand-tinted' colour effects.
Hearts are Trump
America finds itself at a crossroads. Hearts of Trump explores that dilemma through three generations of a white family and two generations of a black family. Their lives intersect as racial and political tensions ratchet up and both families seek to do the Lord's will in sorting through the mess and arriving at a decision on whom to throw their support on November 3 at the ballot box. Minds are changed as information and hearts are sifted and logic and common sense applied to determining the truth in a vast ocean of emotionalism, information, misinformation and disinformation.
Aakhir Kyon?
Nisha believes she is happily married until she discovers that her successful businessman husband, Kabir, has been having an affair with her cousin, Indu. Distraught, Nisha abandons her husband and newborn daughter and leaves for the city, where she finds love in the arms of a sensitive writer, Alok. But Nisha's past soon catches up to her and forces her into a soul-searching decision over whether or not to return to her family and old life.
The Affair
A young woman named Jennifer is propositioned by an older woman to have sex with her husband for money. Jennifer has trouble with this decision as it is morally wrong to her but she really needs the money to help her fiancee out of debt so they can get married. There may be more to the situation than meets the eye.
The Thief of Baghdad
A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful princess.
Dum
Uday dreams of becoming a police officer and serving his country. His dream is accompanied by a fierce determination and drive to make his dream come true. Even as he courageously treads on his chosen path, he is confronted by the face of evil in the form of a crooked police officer, Shankar. But Uday soon meets with a television employee named Kaveri and once again finds his life upside down.
Infamously in Love
A frustratingly micromanaged popstar who dreams of the “ordinary” that life has to offer finds herself torn between her celebrity ex, the machinations of her controlling manager, and a developing romance with a down-to-earth record store owner. Will she gain more autonomy over her life – especially her love life – and start making decisions for herself, or will the celebrity machine be too powerful for her to ever feel even remotely normal?
Mumbai Delhi Mumbai
Pia, a typical “Mumbai” girl, makes her first ever day trip to Delhi and agrees to meet a possible match for marriage on her mother’s insistence. She lands in Delhi determined to reject the guy after meeting him because after all he’s from “Delhi”. However, as it turns out she loses her phone while fighting with an auto driver and meets Goli Kohli, a witty “Delhi” boy who grudgingly agrees to help her. One thing leads to another and they end up spending the entire day together. They fight, they argue, they laugh and share a lifetime of emotions in one day. When they meet in the morning they are strangers with strong biases about Mumbai & Delhi, when they part in the evening, the biases have turned into affection for each other’s quirks and finally, love.
Come Out Fighting
A classic tale of love and survival in the brutal world of bare knuckle fighting. Powerfully told and acted by a wonderful ensemble of actors. Jazz and Gia each struggle to survive in their "other-side-of-the-tracks worlds. He desperately looks for a way out of the dark past that haunts him and the violence he faces daily as a bare knuckle fighter. Gia leads a bitter and lonely life trying to main
Paul Merton's Weird and Wonderful World of Early Cinema
Paul Merton goes in search of the origins of screen comedy in the forgotten world of silent cinema - not in Hollywood, but closer to home in pre-1914 Britain and France. Revealing the unknown stars and lost masterpieces, he brings to life the pioneering techniques and optical inventiveness of the virtuosos who mastered a new art form. With a playful eye and comic sense of timing, Merton combines the role of presenter and director to recreate the weird and wonderful world that is early European cinema in a series of cinematic experiments of his own.
A Week Away
Troubled teen Will Hawkins has a run-in with the law that puts him at an important crossroad: go to juvenile detention or attend a Christian summer camp. At first a fish-out-of-water, Will opens his heart, discovers love with a camp regular, and sense of belonging in the last place he expected to find it.
Medium Spicy
Chef Nissim, a millennial in Mumbai, finds himself at a crossroads in his love life-- Chef Gowri is a feisty go-getter who likes to live life off the beaten path while Prajakta assures a more serene and stable life. Whether to go all-in with the spice or to choose a sweeter flavour for life, is a choice that Nissim has to make. His liberal, upper middle-class family with a mixed bag of viewpoints doesn't make his decision easier.
Indu Sarkar
Indu’s husband, a government employee, believes in using the state of Emergency to advance his career, but a moral and ideological discrepancy sets her on a own path.
Between Forever
This is a day in the lives of two completely different people. One is steady empowered woman -April that works for the EPA and married to the right person for everyone else but herself. By total accident she meets the complete opposite to her estranged husband, Marlon a cook that has too many mishaps in his life. He too is at the crossroads to choose how to straighten his life. Their serendipitous meeting not only changes their outlook on life but alters their future and what happens between forever.
Love & Drugs 2
A man who believed his life was going in the right direction is faced with a decision to either betray the woman he loves or turn on his best friend.
Tenzin
There are situations in which the love of close ones does not reach the limits achieved in personal development. Tenzin, who has grown up in a Tibetan community in Canada, has reached the milestone of his twenties and finds himself standing at a bewildering crossroads of life. The previously unwavering belief in fighting for the eternal preservation of the Tibetan people collapses when Tenzin’s brother decides to set himself on fire in the course of a protest held in China. How do you feel pride and gratitude for your brother’s suicide together with others? Unable to find answers in the fields of meaning of spirituality, Tenzin sets out to seek these in the madness of the modern culture.
Crew 2 Crew
Lucas joins a break dancing troupe and, traveling the world, finds himself torn between the life he knows and the chance to do something more. Inspired by true events.
Viruddha
VIRUDDHA is a Psychological Thriller revolving around 2 close friends named Uday and Ravi , who fall in love for the same girl Nayana. Uday being an Introvert struggles to convey his love towards Nayana , before she gets engaged to his friend Ravi. Ravi being a flirt tries to betray his present girlfriend named Pooja who is adamant on marrying Ravi. Knowing this Uday decides to get rid of Ravi with the help of his old time mysterious friend Aasif who influences Uday in making this dreadful decision. The story takes unexpected twists with the entry of a Psychiatrist Dr Ramesh, as things turns OPPOSITE in all character's favor and also in the eyes of viewers who realize that whatever they believed is completely Opposite. The climax surprises the viewers with an open-end leaving a big question mark at the end shot of the movie.
Celluloid
A psychological drama/thriller, that takes you into the heart of dysfunctional family life. Dawn's struggle with her past is played out not only upon the couch during regression therapy but also within the family home. With the help of Josh's method of escapism; a penchant for viewing life through a lens, we learn from his footage the extent and impact this situation has had over the years. Vulnerable and unable to articulate their worries, teenagers Josh & Nicola struggle with their mum's more recent bout of outbursts and her increasing instability. They forge relationships outside of the family unit; to escape in Nicola's case and for support whilst they try to maintain some sense of a 'normal' existence. As relationships at home become frayed, suspicions about Dawn's therapist's integrity & motivations arise. Dawn is sectioned and social services are informed.
Ranbhool
Lokesh, an innocent kid who loves playing his guitar, is turned into a psychotic killer thanks to a traumatic childhood experience, courtesy his ruthless father. Lokesh's passion for playing the guitar turns into an obsession for making disturbing tunes for spreading a message to the world, a message by God, and Lokesh believes himself to be God's Messenger. Whoever is unfortunate enough not to understand his music and his message doesn't deserve the right to live. Reva, a lonely young girl, torn apart by her parent's separation, feels the pain and the passion behind Lokesh's music, but oblivious to his psychotic killing spree, she puts herself, her friend and her kid sister, in danger of Lokesh's wrath!
Makayla's Voice: A Letter to the World
In the heartwarming short documentary, “Makayla’s Voice: A Letter to the World”, we are introduced to a remarkable young girl whose spirit and determination defy all expectations. Makayla, a black teenage girl, has spent her life grappling with a rare form of autism that rendered her essentially nonverbal. However, her parents, filled with unwavering belief in their daughter's potential, embarked on a transformative journey to discover the true depth of Makayla's inner world.
Uncertainty
Every choice has a consequence. But what if the flip of a coin could trigger two separate but parallel destinies? Bobby and Kate are a young New York couple at a crossroads whose lives are about to take very different directions. A seemingly ordinary July 4th is cleaved in two by the flip of a coin. One path leads them to gentle discoveries about family, loss and each other on a visit to Brooklyn, and the other plunges them into an urban nightmare of pursuit, suspense and murder in Manhattan.