Movies like Photograph (2019)
The best movies like Photograph (2019) are Lootera (2013), October (2018) and Qarib Qarib Singlle (2017). If Photograph hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Lunchbox (2013)7.4/10 from 861 votes
- NewestCactus Pears (2025)Released 2025
- In HindiLootera (2013)Also in Hindi
Lootera (2013)
In a village, a young archaeologist falls in love with a landlord's daughter. Their union seems doomed. But destiny brings them together a year later. Will they live happily ever after?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOctober (2018)
Dan, a 21-year-old carefree boy is always surrounded by a bunch of friends and fellow hotel interns who feed off each other's everyday moments, their ups and downs. Shiuli is also an intern working in the same hotel, who at times is at a receiving end of Dan's audaciousness. Everything was normal in their life until a sudden turn of events smashes Dan and Shiuli's lives together, into a bond.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisQarib Qarib Singlle (2017)
Yogi and Jaya, who have polar opposite personalities and sensibilities, meet via an online dating app. This encounter turns into so much more when the two travel to Rishikesh.
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 thisSir (2018)
A prosperous young Indian man falls in love with his servant, a widow with the dream of becoming a fashion designer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMeenakshi Sundareshwar (2021)
Forced to live apart due to a unique job prospect, two newlyweds face the hassles, hiccups — and hilarity — that arise from their long-distance marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSonali Cable (2014)
Sonali, a spunky self-made internet operator, proudly runs a small outfit along with her band of ghetto boys catering to a sprawling Mumbai suburb. Complications arise when Sonali's childhood sweetheart, Raghu returns from the United States and helps bring her small enterprise into the 21st century. But not all forces of modernization are as kind and as loving as Raghu. SHINING INC, a huge corporation wants her out to complete their monopoly of Shining Broadband in the city. Sonali refuses... and it's war! This is a character driven, edgy survival drama of an ordinary girl, a sizzling love interest and her rag-tag family of internet cable technicians for whom Sonali Cable Centre is more than a livelihood... it's their home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Life in a Metro (2007)
A group of Mumbai up-and-comers search for love and struggle for success in this ensemble drama that centers on an eager young call centre executive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThree of Us (2023)
Shailaja embarks on a confrontational journey with her husband and childhood-love as she finds herself at the cusp of her past, present and future. Stitched with a very delicate thread of emotions, this film is about love, loss, healing, awareness and liberation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Gehraiyaan (2022)
Alisha Khanna, 30, ambitious, now finds herself at crossroads in life. Her six year long relationship has grown monotonous, her career seems to be going nowhere. But just when she had begun to accept this reality as unchangeable, her life is usurped by the arrival of her cousin, Tia and her fiancé, Zain, with whom she bonds over a troubled past and a common wish to break from its confines.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisManmarziyaan (2018)
A spirited girl finds herself caught in a complicated love triangle while burdened with societal and familial pressures.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMasaan (2015)
Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCactus Pears (2025)
Anand, a 30-something city dweller compelled to spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in the rugged countryside of western India, tenderly bonds with a local farmer who is struggling to stay unmarried. As the mourning ends, forcing his return, Anand must decide the fate of his relationship born under duress.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Lust Stories (2018)
An anthology of four stories that sheds light on modern relationships from the viewpoint of the Indian woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNotebook (2019)
An ex-army officer, Kabir, becomes a teacher in Kashmir in a school that is in a miserable condition. Things take a turn when Kabir finds a notebook, left behind by the previous year's teacher Firdaus.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (2019)
Sweety has to contend with her over-enthusiastic family that wants her to get married but the ultimate truth is that her love might not find acceptance in her family and society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMargarita with a Straw (2015)
A rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves India to study in New York. On her journey of self-discovery, she unexpectedly falls in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChandigarh Kare Aashiqui (2021)
Manu, a bodybuilder from Chandigarh, India, falls in love with Maanvi, a Zumba teacher. All seems well until a revelation causes turmoil in their love story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSairat (2016)
Archi, a local politician’s daughter, and Parshya, a fisherman’s son, fall in love resulting in violence between the families due to the stringent casteism in the village.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBombay Talkies (2013)
One hundred years of Hindi cinema is celebrated in four short stories showcasing the power of film.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTum Bin 2 (2016)
The film centers around the life of Taran, who loses her fiance Amar in a skiing accident. Her life changes when she meets Shekhar, who has seen the best and worst of times. The story explores old friendship, newfound love and a difficult decision.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
All We Imagine as Light (2024)
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend. A trip to a beach town allows them to find a space for their desires to manifest.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUdaan (2010)
Upon returning to his industrial hometown, a young man must decide whether to follow his own dreams or acquiesce to his father's plans for his future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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 thisMonsoon (2020)
Kit can’t remember much of his native Vietnam. When he returns to the Land of the Golden Star for the first time in over thirty years, he takes in his local surroundings as any Western tourist would, and the environment is as exotic as the language is incomprehensible. The aim of Kit’s travels – to find a place to scatter his parents’ ashes – thus becomes part of a journey back to his roots and to the discovery of his identity, which external circumstances have rendered ambiguous and complex.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisCobalt Blue (2022)
When an aspiring author and his free-spirited sister both fall for the enigmatic paying guest at their home, ensuing events rock their traditional family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Shikara (2020)
Shikara is the untold story of Kashmiri Pandits' forced exodus. It is the story of resilience in the face of insurmountable odds. It is also the story of a love that remains unextinguished through 30 years of exile. A timeless love story in the worst of times.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Highway (2014)
Right before her wedding, a young woman finds herself abducted and held for ransom. As the initial days pass, she begins to develop a strange bond with her kidnapper.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Sky Is Pink (2019)
After succumbing to her terminal illness, a teenager posthumously narrates her parents’ tenacious relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHunterrr (2015)
An ordinary bachelor pursues girls like a hunter, but not with the intention of settling down in life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Photograph?
The closest matches to Photograph are Lootera (2013), October (2018) and Qarib Qarib Singlle (2017). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Photograph?
People who watched Photograph most often go on to Lootera (2013), October (2018) and Qarib Qarib Singlle (2017).
What is the highest-rated movie like Photograph?
The Lunchbox (2013), rated 7.4/10 by 861 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Photograph?
Cactus Pears (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Hindi movies like Photograph?
Yes: Lootera (2013), October (2018) and Qarib Qarib Singlle (2017).
How are movies similar to Photograph chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Photograph, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.