Movies like 3 (2012)
The best movies like 3 (2012) are Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010), Vaaranam Aayiram (2008) and Sachein (2005). If 3 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 ratedLife in a Year (2020)8.2/10 from 2,026 votes
- NewestKamali from Nadukkaveri (2021)Released 2021
- In TamilVinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010)Also in Tamil
Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010)
A young, aspiring filmmaker falls in love with a girl who moves into the house above his, but her sophisticated nature does more harm than good to him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVaaranam Aayiram (2008)
A son deals with the death of his father and examines how their relationship influences him through growing up, romance, tragedy and adventure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSachein (2005)
A happy-go-lucky college student falls in love with a beautiful young woman at first sight, but decides to use a unique approach to get close to her, as she has many admirers in the college. How will their relationship evolve?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Dil Ka Rishta (2003)
Wealthy Jai Mehta is a young man with a heart that has gold. He supports many charitable organizations in India and one day when he visits a deaf and dumb school, he falls in love with the teacher there, Tia Sharma, expresses his love to her and is openly humiliated when she introduces her fiancé, Raj. Soon after Raj and Tia gets married and are proud parents of a baby boy, Anshu. A heart broken Jai takes to alcohol and one night under the influence of alcohol, Jai's car collide with Raj and Tia's car mysteriously killing Raj and seriously injuring Tia about the head. Tia is treated by doctor, recovers but is unable to remember anything from her troubled past. Jai makes it his responsibility to take care of her, slowly she falls in love with him and proposes marriage. But will this marriage takes place or will Tia remembers her past and takes revenge from Jai for the death of her husband and for her current condition
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJaan-E-Mann (2006)
Agastya a NASA scientist comes in search of his crush Piya. In order to make her fall for him, he gets Suhaan to help this out. However, everything goes well till a shocking past stands in front of them, turning their lives upside down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisDil Chahta Hai (2001)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like this180 (2011)
Ajay (Siddharth) comes to Kasi, where his thoughts and ideas on life and death undergo a sea change after he meets a young boy. He relocates to Chennai and stays in a house owned by a couple S V S Murthy (Mouli) and Jayam (Geetha). They treat him as their own son. A do-gooder, Ajay with his jovial nature wins the heart of all those whom he comes across. Vidya (Nithya Menen), a photo journalist meets Ajay and falls for his good nature. Ajay with the help of Vidya even gets street children obtain sponsorship for their education. But things take a turn when Vidya expresses her love to Ajay. He quietly walks off the place and decides to leave Chennai. But a rude accident to Vidya puts the responsibility on Ajay's shoulders to get her back to health. He takes her to USA for a surgery. Meanwhile a flashback reveals that Ajay was a successful doctor in the United States and who led a happy life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Moondram Pirai (1982)
A young woman suffers a major head injury in a car accident after which she begins behaving like a child. Trapped at a brothel, she finds hope in a lonely school teacher who decides to rescue her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Dil Se.. (1998)
Journalist Amar falls for a mysterious woman on an assignment, but she does not reciprocate his feelings. However, when Amar is about to get married, the woman shows up at his doorstep asking for help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDil Hai Tumhaara (2002)
Hiding her husband's affair from the world after his death, Sarita raises his love child alongside their daughter. When the girls grow up and fall in love with the same man, Sarita is forced to deal with her biases.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Aarya (2004)
Aarya is a happy-go-lucky young man who goes to college. When he falls in love with Geetha at first sight, he proposes to her - in front of her boyfriend Ajay, who recently also proposed to her. She bluntly refuses, but ...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKaavalan (2011)
Bhoominathan aka Bhoomi highly respects Muthuramalingam and his daughter Meera. While appointed as Meera's bodyguard, he falls in love with a girl he has never met, unaware that she is none other than Meera.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisKamali from Nadukkaveri (2021)
Kamali is a happy-go-lucky girl from a small town. She is a weak student who is hardly interested in studies when she falls in love with a studious boy in Chennai who aspires to make it to IIT Madras. She decides to take her studies seriously and convinces her father to go for higher studies. With the help of a retired professor in her village, she starts preparing for exams to join IIT Madras if only to meet her love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Alaipayuthey (2000)
Karthik and Shakthi marry against the wishes of their families and start their new life. However, they soon realize that marriage is not the bed of roses they had imagined it would be.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisM. Kumaran S/O Mahalakshmi (2004)
Kumaran's life is all about his mother Mahalakshmi, who is separated from her husband Eshwar. Kumaran is passionate about kickboxing and he shares a very special relationship with his mother. In between, Kumaran falls in love with Malabar. But his life is destroyed after his mother's death. On the deathbed she tells her son to meet his father, a kick boxing champion, who lives in Malaysia. Kumaran goes to Malaysia to meet him and he comes...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
The 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
Sammohanam (2018)
A cartoonist, who detests films and movie stars, finds himself in an awkward situation when he falls in love with a film actress
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Iyarkai (2003)
Marudhu, a sailor, falls in love with Nancy, a fruit vendor. However, she waits for the captain who had promised that he would return and marry her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Taramani (2017)
An orthodox youngster and a free-spirited lady fall in love, only to understand that they are different in all aspects of life. How do they realise their complex requirements and mistakes?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Bommarillu (2006)
Siddu is the son of an over-protective business man. Every decision of his is made by his father, which leads him into frustration. He half-heartedly agrees to become engaged to a rich man's daughter, but then falls for a middle-class man's daughter called Haasini. The film focuses on his realization that he has to stand on his own and come out of his father's protective shell - and try to succeed in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein (2001)
Maddy impersonates Rajeev, the person his love interest, Reena, is about to marry and attempts to woo her. However, he is unprepared for the moment when the truth will be revealed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOmbak 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
Aandavan Kattalai (2016)
A young man, on the advice of an agent, lies that he is married, to go to London. But his visa application is rejected and now, he has to follow-up with a string of lies to hide one lie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDharmadurai (2016)
A once-promising village doctor, burdened by personal loss and family betrayal, spirals into alcoholism and becomes an outcast. His journey of pain, resilience, and rediscovery takes him from despair to a chance at redemption, as he confronts his past and searches for purpose, love, and reconciliation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Humko Deewana Kar Gaye (2006)
Aditya, an engineer, travels to Canada for training. There he meets Jia, a beautiful woman from an influential family. Fate keeps pushing the pair together, and even though both are already betrothed to others, Adi and Jia fall in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
O Kadhal Kanmani (2015)
Aadi and Tara fall in love but both hate the idea of marriage and plan to separate when their lives take them to different countries. However, as they grow closer, their emotions are not easily managed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKushi (2000)
College friends Jenny and Shiva part ways due to a misunderstanding. Although they are in love and realize they cannot live without each other, their egos prevent them from uniting.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Thulladha Manamum Thullum (1999)
A struggling singer feels guilty about a girl losing her eyesight; to meet the cost of her eye transplant surgery, he offers his kidney to a rich man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Life in a Year (2020)
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisNot Easily Broken (2009)
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like 3?
The closest matches to 3 are Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010), Vaaranam Aayiram (2008) and Sachein (2005). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after 3?
People who watched 3 most often go on to Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010), Vaaranam Aayiram (2008) and Sachein (2005).
What is the highest-rated movie like 3?
Life in a Year (2020), rated 8.2/10 by 2,026 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like 3?
Kamali from Nadukkaveri (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Tamil movies like 3?
Yes: Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010), Vaaranam Aayiram (2008) and Sachein (2005).
How are movies similar to 3 chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside 3, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.