Movies like Partition (2007)
The best movies like Partition (2007) are Trishna (2011), 15 Park Avenue (2006) and Before the Rains (2007). If Partition hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedMy Name Is Khan (2010)8.0/10 from 1,527 votes
- NewestWinter Spring Summer or Fall (2024)Released 2024
Trishna (2011)
When her father is killed in a road accident, Trishna's family expect her to provide for them. The rich son of an entrepreneur starts to restlessly pursue her affections, but are his intentions as pure as they seem?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like this15 Park Avenue (2006)
An exploration of the impact of schizophrenia on a young woman and her family in today's Calcutta.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Before the Rains (2007)
Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caught in an inexorable web of forbidden romance and dangerous secrets. After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an idealistic young man finds himself torn between his ambitions and his family, his village and his past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Raanjhanaa (2013)
A small-town boy needs to break through the class divide to gain acceptance from his childhood sweetheart who is in love with big city ideals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCairo Time (2009)
In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband, Juliette finds herself caught in a whirlwind romance with his friend Tareq, a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city, they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParineeta (2005)
Childhood sweethearts Lalita and Shekhar wish to get married someday. However, Shekhar's growing suspicions about Lalita coupled with his conniving father's antics threaten to tear them apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThis Is My Father (1999)
When schoolteacher Kieran Johnson discovers that his father was not a French sailor (as he had been led to believe) but rather an Irish farmer, he looks to his mother for answers. When she refuses to provide any, Kieran travels to Ireland.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Painted Veil (2006)
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFire (1997)
In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Waiting City (2010)
An outwardly happy Australian couple journey to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements have yet to be finalized. Soon, the intoxicating mystic power of the Indian city pulls them in separate and unexpected directions, and the vulnerability of their marriage begins to reveal itself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Silk (2007)
French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages European silkworms, Hervé must travel to Japan to retrieve healthy eggs. After a long journey, Hervé finally arrives at a village where he can buy them. He becomes infatuated with a young concubine and goes to great lengths to see her again. But, when war breaks out in Japan, the concubine flees, forcing Hervé to return home to his wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisJab Tak Hai Jaan (2012)
Samar Anand, a London-based struggling musician falls in love with Meera Thappar. After a severe accident, a panicked Meera promises God to leave Samar if he lives. Heartbroken, Samar leaves for India to become a fearless bomb disposal expert in the army.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Journey (2004)
Kiran is mortified by her growing lesbian desire for the effervescent Delilah in an idyllic Indian village where arranged marriage is the only acceptable form of coupling.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
My Name Is Khan (2010)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisFiza (2000)
In 1993 Fiza's brother disappears during the riots in Mumbai. In 1999 Fiza is tired of waiting and goes looking for him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Ombak Rindu (2011)
Izzah a simple kampong teacher is sold to a brothel by her uncle on the pretext that they need money for her Aunt's surgery. Her first customer is Rich playboy Hariz whom she begs to marry her and take her out of the rat hole. He marries her, brings her home, the only good deed he has done in a long time. Unknowingly he falls in love with her, and wants to break his engagement to childhood family friend Mila, but due to family pressure has to marry Mila. Thus begins the triangle of a saga which entangles three lives into a myriad of emotions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Same Same but Different (2010)
Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post graduation summer trip. When Ben returns home to Germany he discovers that Sreyko is sick and he takes on the responsibility to save her. On the way he discovers a world where not everyone is dealt the same cards and where motivations are not always pure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRaincoat (2004)
Tells the story of two lovers, separated by destiny, who meet again one day. This encounter allows each to realize the truth about the lives they are living.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Lunchbox (2013)
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNorwegian Wood (2010)
Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWater (2005)
In 1938, Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies sweep across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go reside with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two of her compatriots.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAtonement (2007)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBeyond Borders (2003)
Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984, is married to the son of a wealthy British industrialist. She encounters Nick Callahan, a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa moves her deeply. As a result, Sarah embarks upon a journey of discovery that leads to danger, heartbreak and romance in the far corners of the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Light Between Oceans (2016)
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGuzaarish (2010)
Ethan, a magician rendered paralyzed in an accident, sets off a furor when he makes a petition to the court to end his own life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBol (2011)
The patriarch of a religious Muslim family refuses to accept his intersex child, tearing his family apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Intoxicated by Love (2024)
Story of Rumi, his friendship with Shams Tabrizi, the love he had for him and the great influence of Shams over him in his life, his poetry and his love for God.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Winter Spring Summer or Fall (2024)
Remi and Barnes, two very different teenagers, meet by chance in the winter of their senior year, then spend four days together over the course of a year that will change their lives forever.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFire with Fire (1986)
A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, they must fight the prison authorities, their parents and the law.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAshes in the Snow (2018)
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 drawings.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Partition?
The closest matches to Partition are Trishna (2011), 15 Park Avenue (2006) and Before the Rains (2007). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Partition?
People who watched Partition most often go on to Trishna (2011), 15 Park Avenue (2006) and Before the Rains (2007).
What is the highest-rated movie like Partition?
My Name Is Khan (2010), rated 8.0/10 by 1,527 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Partition?
Winter Spring Summer or Fall (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Partition?
Yes: Trishna (2011), 15 Park Avenue (2006) and Before the Rains (2007).
How are movies similar to Partition chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Partition, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.