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Movies that feel like Mohabbatein (2000)

If you loved Mohabbatein, the closest films we have are A Short Film About Love (1988), Breaking the Waves (1996) and My Name Is Khan (2010). All three share Mohabbatein's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.

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A Short Film About Love
1988 · dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
🍅 95%8.1drama · romance

Common ground: hopeful

19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...

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Breaking the Waves
1996 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 84%7.8drama · romance

One thread runs through both: tradition

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.

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My Name Is Khan
2010 · dir. Karan Johar
🍅 87%7.9drama · romance

Both are built on the same subject: hopeful

Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.

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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
2008 · dir. Aditya Chopra
🍅 78%7.2comedy · drama · romance

Aditya Chopra working the same nerve twice

The difference: None of the hope Mohabbatein is built on

A boring, reserved husband secretly becomes a lively, confident stranger to woo his own unaware wife only to make her fall head over heels for his dashing alter ego.

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Kal Ho Naa Ho
2003 · dir. Nikkhil Advani
🍅 75%7.9comedy · drama · romance

Common ground in both: musical and loving

The difference: Missing the hope of Mohabbatein

An uptight MBA student falls for the charismatic new neighbor who charms her troubled family – but he has a secret that forces him to push her away.

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Veer-Zaara
2004 · dir. Yash Chopra
🍅 93%7.8drama · romance

The same preoccupation in both: musical

Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian Air Force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.

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Late Marriage
2001 · dir. Dover Koshashvili
🍅 88%7.1comedy · drama · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: tradition

The difference: Sits closer to comedy than Mohabbatein does

Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged. What his parents don't know is that Zaza is already in love. Judith is sensuous, strong and intriguing. She's also a divorcée with a 6-year-old daughter. So Zaza has kept Judith a secret from his family. He will have to choose between respect of the strict confines of family and tradition, or the love of his life.

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Departures
2008 · dir. Yojiro Takita
🍅 80%8drama

Both land stillness and hope at once

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.

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Through the Olive Trees
1995 · dir. Abbas Kiarostami
🍅 89%7.7drama · romance

The same mix in both: romance, then tenderness

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

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In America
2003 · dir. Jim Sheridan
🍅 90%7.7drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

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Dil Chahta Hai
2001 · dir. Farhan Akhtar
🍅 100%8.1drama · romance

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Three inseparable childhood friends are just out of college. Nothing comes between them - until they each fall in love, and their wildly different approaches to relationships creates tension.

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Medicine for Melancholy
2009 · dir. Barry Jenkins
🍅 85%6.6drama · romance

Tender drama in both cases

Waking from a one-night stand that neither remembers, Micah and Joanne find themselves wandering the streets of San Francisco, sharing coffee and conversation and searching for a deeper connection.

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