Best movies & TV Shows like Samantar

Urge to Build is a 1981 American short documentary film directed by Roland Hallé about individuals building their own homes. They share the experience and the different phases of construction, providing a background for more human issues: stress, confidence, and control of one's own life. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

The loving relationship between a small boy Nandu and a Nautch girl Pushpa. Pushpa is seperated from her Husband and is brought to Calcutta to work as a Nautch girl. Here she meets Anand Babu and thus begins the journey of Pushpa where love enters and leaves her life in different form.

A graduate of an elite training school is determined to discover the identity of her lost father. She begins a dangerous journey, meeting an array of characters as she discovers her past. Stars Henry Czerny, Michael Luke.

An Urban Fairy Tale set in Manchester. A story of how a series of tragic events, that blight a young boy's life on Christmas Eve, take him on a journey where a chance meeting with a mysterious stranger may have the key to help and give him a perfect Christmas.

Vennela has fallen for Aranya aka Ravanna’s poetry and the man both. What happens when she sets out on an arduous journey to be with him?

Avinash/Seenu is a street urchin brought up by his loving adoptive parents Saru and Prakash. The love of his life is the girl he meets during childhood Junnu/Priya, whom fate had snatched away from him. Fourteen long years and they still wait for the day they will meet again. Will destiny help them?

A married couple die in an accident, leaving behind a son. As he grows up and becomes successful, he comes across reincarnations of his father and mother as youngsters, and vows to bring them back together.

For Gaurav Mehra and Pooja Misra, it could well have been a one-night stand which was a moment to remember, only to be erased over a period of time. However, when there is a lot more to it with dancing, talking and making merry accompanied by drinking, partying and making love, a connect is bound to be formed. A connect, which is subconscious, only to be realized when destiny has its own games to play! They are happy and content as individuals. But together they are happier, more at peace. They believe that they have already found love in respective lives. Together, they realize that this intense love they have for each other is something very different. Gaurav and Pooja may not be hunting for love as they truly feel that they have it all. But can one truly ignore the signs of something special that bonds the two together?

Fate brings two individuals together after their flight to Hyderabad is forced to land in Goa. Along the way, they forge a special bond that changes their lives forever.

Daal Mein Kuch Kaala Hai is a tale of a budding actress (Veena Malik) who is over motivated to become a successful in Bollywood. The story starts with Mr. Dabu who is a middle aged man in his forties, a total looser absconded and is being left unaccompanied in life. All of a sudden he gets rich after hitting a roll-over prize of birthright, and then decides to walk off to this actress to share his destiny and his future in the company of her. The starlet gets surprised and shocked after witnessing so much of wealth with him in cash. She initially agrees what his boyfriend had planned out to con Mr. Dabu, but is totally puzzled on what to carry out. They both sooner or later travel to the mysterious island, which is further followed by her boyfriend and a couple of unknown friends. The entire journey is filled with full humor, enjoyment and entertainment. Written by Aanand Balraj

On the day he agreed to sign a mutual divorce in court, Siddharthan, who is also a lawyer, cheats on his wife Lakshmi, and goes on an inland drive. He urges Lakshmi to postpone the divorce, citing their daughter Tara's future, but the attempt fails. On his way back, he meets Sathi and her dumb daughter who are leaving their home due to marital issues. The meeting changes Siddharthan's outlook on life.

Vikramaditya, a world-renowned palmist, believes love does not exist in his stars, until he meets Prerana. But when destiny tries to pull them apart, will love prevail?

Amid tension in 1980s India, three friends of different faiths unite in a noble yet dangerous effort to save hundreds in their town.

Satya is a highly successful corporate executive who looks forward to a bright future with her fiancé, Vishal. One night, when she is about to board a flight to Delhi, Satya finds herself trapped within the office premises. What dangers await her?

Kuntol and Sudarshan meet at the railway track where they have come to commit suicide.

'The Quest [Ringan]' is a story about the boundless love between father and son. Their life is hell on earth. Father Arjun's problems are getting too much for him: His land is affected by drought, their livelihood is threatened. Seeing no way out, he considers to take his own life. Only the unconditional love for his son motivates him to not give up and look for work, to be able to keep his land. Will the father be strong enough to secure his son's future? A film and an appeal for morality, reflecting important issues such as integrity, honesty, and mutual responsibility in times of need.

Morning Raga is about the meeting of worlds. It is a story that brings the modern and traditional together, unites the past with present, Carnatic music with Western music, as never before in the history of humanity, fate and coincidence with individual choices. It is a story of our times where our worlds are interacting with each other.

'Tales of Us' the film, is a thirty minute journey through five individual stories, each one based on a song from the new Goldfrapp album 'Tales of Us'. Stranger, Laurel, Jo, Drew and Annabel interconnect subtly, sharing themes of love, loss, madness, passion and identity.

Shobha Mathur lives a wealthy lifestyle with her Professor dad, who is now carrying out experiments on various issues. One day while doing so, he makes an employee named Manohar drink a potion, which results in his death. Rajan comes to their rescue, gets rid of the body, and starts blackmailing Mathur, which can only end when Shobha marries Rajan. Then one day Shobha meets a poet by the name of Sudarshan and both of them fall in love. When he asks for her hand in marriage, Shobha refuses. The next day Shobha finds a note addressed to her from Sudarshan in which he has stated that he is going to kill himself. Thereafter, every night she starts to hear Sudarshan's voice, blaming her for his death, as his soul is unable to find solace. With Sudarshan out of the way, Rajan readies himself for marrying Shobha - and it looks like he may have his way with the Mathurs after all - without having to encounter any more obstacles.

The movie features the lives of six different persons from different strata of the social life of the city, interconnected due to unexpected events beyond their control. The narrative is patterned like a Rubik's Cube; it's a brainy entertainer that mixes various genres.

Five friends playfully read passages of doom from a book that can predict an individual’s future. Can they overcome the tragedies that fate has in store for them and rewrite their destinies?

Pappu is a barber whose son Chakrapani has been promised in marriage to Sunanda, the daughter of Gunasekharan. Gunasekharan has a change of heart after coming into a fortune, and so Chakrapani must strive to win Sunanda's heart.

Prema Geema Jaane Do is a soft romantic comedy. The movie is about the protagonist setting up a journey to a new place and meeting new people. Why he hates love and what is in his past forms the main crux of the story.

When the entire world blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds, everyone sees a flash of their own future 6 months from the present. For some, the future is hopeful, while for others, it is unexpected. For a few, it doesn't seem to exist. Knowing their fate will alter each person's life, destinies will be changed.

TLC's My 600-lb Life documents the seven-year journey four individuals undertake to escape obesity and regain control of their lives.

A story of trials and tribulations of four young entrepreneurs who quit their day jobs in order to pursue their start up venture.

Everyone can have a bad day now and then, but we meet Valerie on a morning that divides her life neatly into before and after. It took one inconsequential setback – a silly thing, really – to cause a slight delay in Valerie’s schedule, resulting in a regrettable distraction, causing an unfortunate incident, which leads her to the police station….. making her miss the single most important event she had on her agenda: The Meeting! That’s when the dam breaks. All that control to build the fragile framework of her life collapses instantly. Valerie gets fired, is obliged to restrain her lifestyle, and now with the shared custody of her son in question, Valerie has to review her priorities and reorganize her life.

Ultra Shorts presents What's Your Status, a web series of 3 different people, going through the 3 different phases of relationships - single, committed and married.

Separated at childhood, Divya and Drishti attain super powers - to not only see the future, but also manipulate it. However, their own future lies in the hands of an evil Pishachini.

Broken Bread showcases inspiring people who are making a difference in their communities through food. Restaurant entrepreneur, social activist and acclaimed chef Roy Choi takes viewers on a journey through his hometown, the city of Los Angeles, exploring complex social justice issues while meeting inspiring individuals and organizations who use food as a platform for activism as well as a catalyst for change.

A remote village becomes the arena of a breathless battle when an undead East India Company officer and his battalion of zombie redcoats attack a squad of modern-day soldiers.

A ground-breaking documentary series uncovering new history from 12,000 feet deep below the Atlantic Ocean. With the use of cutting-edge technology, the unique collection of artifacts salvaged from the underwater resting site of the wreck tells us brand new stories of love, deception, fate and heroics. Presented by Victor Garber, who featured as Thomas Andrews in James Cameron’s Titanic, each episode follows the individual journeys of these artifacts from their recovery, to their connection to specific passengers on the ship and their connection to someone living today.

Raghu Jadhav and Dhanak Parekh are two individuals with contrasting personalities tied by the string of marriage, alliance and love. Raghu is a petty goon of Maharashtra. Savitri Jadhav, his mother acts as the matriarch of their village. Savitri wants her son to loot people so they can gain money and create a fearful reputation. Enter Dhanak, an aspiring IPS Officer. Raghu falls in love with Dhanak at first sight. Dhanak initially hates Raghu but later falls for him and the two marry. Savitri tries to create misunderstandings between Raghu and Dhanak but the two eventually sort things out.

How do you stop a dead man from killing in the future ? This is the story of Ajayan (VK Sreenivas), a failed writer, who turns up at a television show and announces that he is going to commit the perfect 7 murders in 7 days. He starts off by killing his first victim. The rest of the series finds an able police team, under DySP Jacob Anookkaran (Ashwin Kumar), trying to stop a well planned and immaculate series of murders

Extraordinary individuals share stories from their lives that exemplify the incredible diversity of the human experience as well as the resiliency of the human spirit.