Indian films about unrequited love

List of the best Indian films about unrequited love according to visitors: Raanjhanaa, Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!, Tevar, Jathi Ratnalu, 10 Things I Hate About You, (500) Days of Summer, Raajneeti, Mirchi, Ishqiya.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Country
Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryIndia
Duration02:20

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.

Markimdb: 8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryIndia
Duration02:37

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.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia
Duration01:03

In war torn Calcutta during the 1940's, Byomkesh Bakshy, fresh out of college, pits himself against an evil genius who is out to destroy the world.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama
CountryIndia
Duration02:38

A Kabaddi player rescues a young woman from an unwanted marriage and hides her in his home.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy
CountryIndia

Srikanth and his friends Sekhar and Ravi head to the city in pursuit of some izzat. Once there, they realise that maybe they were better off back home in Jogipet.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

Bianca, a tenth grader, has never gone on a date, but she isn't allowed to go out with boys until her older sister Kat gets a boyfriend. The problem is, Kat rubs nearly everyone the wrong way. But Bianca and the guy she has her eye on, Joey, are eager, so Joey fixes Kat up with Patrick, a new kid in town just bitter enough for Kat.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryIndia
Duration02:43

It is the story of a fiercely fought election campaign, where money power and corruption are the accepted norms, and where treachery and manipulation are routinely used weapons. As the personal drama of these conflict-ridden characters unfolds against this gritty backdrop, love and friendship become mere baits, and relationships get sacrificed at the altar of political alignments. The darkness that rises from their souls threatens to envelope all that they hold precious. Until eventually, in the crescendo of increasing violence, the line between good and evil blurs, making it impossible to distinguish heroes from villains. Raajneeti is the story of Indian democracy. And its ugly underside. It is about politics. And beyond.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, drama
CountryIndia
Duration02:35

A man returns to his country in order, ostensibly, to reform his girlfriend's violent family, but he seems to have a strange connection and a rather dark past.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryIndia
Duration01:55

While on the run from goons, a man and his nephew fall for a kidnapper's seductive widow.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genreaction, melodrama, musical
CountryIndia
Duration02:45

A group of friends are forcibly transported to a village and kept imprisoned, as the village head, who believes that they have helped in his daughter's elopement with her lover.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryIndia

Vijay Govind, a young college lecturer who dreams of marriage falls for Geetha, a level-headed woman who's wary of strangers and isn't easy to convince. While things seem to go smoothly, Vijay makes a terrible mistake which not only derails any hope for his love story, but also potential repercussions with his family.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genredrama, family
CountryIndia

Jabya, a teenager from a lower caste, falls in love with Shalu, a higher caste girl. While Jabya is struggling in his love life, his family is on the lookout for a way to hunt down a wild pig to earn some money.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical
CountryIndia, Hungary

Nandini has to choose between Sameer, the man who taught her to fall in love; and Vanraj, the man from whom she learnt how to abide and fulfill promises of love.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, thriller
CountryIndia

Aadhi, an aspiring musician, travels to another state in hopes of making it big. While there, an unexpected event leaves him trapped, unable to return to his family and running for his life.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryIndia
Duration02:10

An Indian intelligence agent journeys to a war-torn coastal island to break a resolute rebel group and meets a passionate journalist.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
CountryIndia
Duration02:05

A young man tries to revive his parents' wilting marriage in a unique manner - travel to the 1970s when their romance was budding and make it bloom. This is more complex than he expects.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryIndia
Duration02:16

A slim uneducated guy is pressured into an arranged marriage with an overweight college girl. The mismatched couple is challenged to compete in the annual wife-carrying race.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction
CountryIndia

A loan recovery agent takes on a corrupt head of an educational institution to save his girlfriend.​

Markimdb: 7.5
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama
CountryIndia

Mathew is a graduate in software engineering, but is now jobless. He is waiting for his good time to get a good job. Mathew has borrowed some money as loan. Now he cannot give it back as he has no job. Mathew's childhood friend Jeena Johnykkutty is ready to help him as she could. She has a job. Her father Johnykkutty does not like Mathew and he always tries to trouble Mathew whenever he gets a chance. At this time Mathew's good time arrives; but along with it many problems too. The gripping events that follow plot the rest of 'Neram'.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genreaction, drama, military, history
CountryIndia
Duration03:05

In 1897, an army of 21 Sikhs battles 10,000 Afghans to prevent the Saragarhi Fort from being taken down.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genreaction, melodrama, drama, family
CountryIndia

When a charming NRI girl falls in love with a wealthy businessman, she unwittingly sparks conflict within his large joint family. How will her lover find a way to marry her, while still ensuring that his large family remains happy and harmonious?

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, melodrama
CountryIndia
Duration03:10

Baaghi is the story of Ronny, a rebellious 23-year-old from Delhi. Fearing his unruly and angry temperament his father sends him to a disciplinary academy set in a sleepy town in Kerala. While traveling to the academy he meets Siya who also carries a rebellious streak but nonetheless spark fly between them. After his enrollment, Ronny encounters the star student Raghav and things get awry between them when Raghav falls for Siya as well. Years later Ronny is informed that Siya is abducted and is called upon for help to rescue her from the gritty underbelly of Thailand. Lost in the midst of a new city Ronny comes face to face with his nemesis, Raghav. They both still love Siya unconditionally and are in a battle to win her heart. But there will be only one person who will. Who will it be the rebellious Ronny or the furious Raghav?

Markimdb: 8.9
Genredrama, family
CountryIndia

Appa, a veteran theatre actor who has primarily worked in adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, falls upon hard times in his old age.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryIndia
Duration02:27

On the request of his friend Kabir, SP Adil Sends him to the Naxal group as an informer. When Kabir finds the truth he becomes one of their gang leader.

Markimdb: 2.4
Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, family
CountryIndia
Duration01:44

In 1947 when the maps of India and Pakistan were being drawn, an oversight ensured that the village of Paglapur didn't find a place in either country. Over 60 years later, Paglapur is isolated, and in need of help. The residents seek help, but as a direct result of being left off the map, they find noone willing to accept Paglapur, and its problems, as their jurisdiction. The villagers decide they need to draw media attention to Paglapur, and in so doing, gain acceptance and help from those who had previously denied them.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy
CountryIndia

On-the-run from the London mafia, Omi returns to his ancestral village – a place he’d flown from with his grandad’s money and grander ‘London Dreams’. Will Omi be able to hide his failures while chasing love, and the lost recipe of the infamous dish, ‘Chicken Khurana’?

Markimdb: 8.2
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryIndia

Shahid Khan is exiled after impersonating the legendary Sultana Daku in order to rob British trains. Now outcast, Shahid becomes a worker at Ramadhir Singh's colliery, only to spur a revenge battle that passes on to generations. At the turn of the decade, Shahid's son, the philandering Sardar Khan vows to get his father's honor back, becoming the most feared man of Wasseypur.

Markimdb: 3.3
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryIndia, Austria
Duration02:24

A man meets his lookalike, who's not just a killer of evil, but also a kind hearted man. Together, they team up to fight against a dreaded gangster.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama
CountryIndia
Duration02:44

The decision by India's supreme court to establish caste-based reservations for jobs in education causes conflict between a teacher and his mentor.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, family
CountryIndia
Duration02:19

London-based Luv Agnihotri decides to end his bachelorhood and asks his Bollywood film-maker brother, Kush, to find a bride for him - much to the displeasure of his Dehradun-based father. Kush accordingly meets and interviews a variety of women, and finally selects Delhi-based Dimple Dixit, a woman he had known before, to be the perfect match. Dimple and Luv meet on-line, are attracted to each other, and the former travels to India where the two families get the couple formally engaged. It is then Dimple decides that she prefers Kush. Watch as things spiral out of control when she insists that Kush must elope with her.

Markimdb: 2.6
Genreaction, melodrama, drama, musical
CountryIndia

Based in Calcutta during its most unsettled times in the 1970s, the film deals with the inseparable life of Bikram and Bala. The story of 2 boys, boys who became refugees. Refugees who became gun couriers. Gun Couriers who became coal bandits, coal bandits who became Calcutta's Most Loved, Most Celebrated, Most Reckless, Most Fearless, Most Powerful! A story of two happy-go-lucky renegades who came to be known as...GUNDAY!

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountryIndia

A narcotics officer engages in a cat-and-mouse chase to capture a powerful criminal kingpin.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, thriller
CountryIndia

Four Indian agents spend nine years under cover to track down India's most wanted criminal.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryIndia
Duration02:35

The story is about two Davids living in different parts of India whose lives eventually come together in a twist of events., who are about to take a step which is going to change their lives forever.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryIndia
Duration02:15

Dolly, an attractive woman, fakes marriages and runs away stealing all the precious belongings of the groom and his family. Dolly's modus operandi is to get her fake brother to identify prospective grooms & then entice these men to fall in love with her. Attracted by her charms, these prospective grooms are ready to do anything for dolly including going against their parents' wishes to marry her.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genredrama, biography
CountryIndia

In 1895, Shivkar Bapuji Talpade constructs and flies India's first unmanned plane, despite having the odds stacked against him.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genredrama, family, history
CountryCanada, India

This is the story of a mother and her missing son set in the backdrop of 1984 Punjab, when the state was going through a terrible time of terrorism. The film depicts the longing of a mother for her son and her search for her son, who is labelled a terrorist because of the bad times in Punjab.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genremelodrama, drama, history
CountryIndia
Duration02:42

The movie begins as an old English woman Amy Wilkinson (Carole Trungmar) almost at her death bed in London, wants to come down to Chennai in search of a young man Parithi (Arya) whom she last saw on 15 August, 1947 to return Thali necklace (sacred thread tied around the neck of the bride by her groom) of his mother, which he gives as a sign of stating that she belongs to India and nobody can separate them. She wants to return that back to him, as she gets married to other man in her home town and it no more belongs to her.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryIndia

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.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, detective
CountryIndia

When Paaru sees a fairy tale she heard from from a stranger as a child painted across the walls of a costal town, she goes in search of the man who painted it - Maara.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama
CountryIndia
Duration02:08

Seenu loves Sunaina but they're chased by a stalking cop, an infatuated beauty and her mafia don dad - can Seenu's heroics work?

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryIndia

Two millennials get into a relationship where they are allowed to meet only on 'Tuesdays & Fridays'.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama
CountryIndia

A team of Indian scientists at ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) take on the extraordinary task of successfully sending a satellite into the orbit of planet Mars in a country's maiden attempt.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, drama
CountryIndia

A man raised by gangsters tries to reform them, and a hired job to protect a village presents him with the perfect opportunity.

Mark
Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryIndia

A tailor from a small town in Kerala acquires special powers after being struck by lightning in this superhero origin story. Starring Tovino Thomas.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genredrama, biography, sport
CountryIndia
Duration03:25

Dangal is an extraordinary true story based on the life of Mahavir Singh and his two daughters, Geeta and Babita Phogat. The film traces the inspirational journey of a father who trains his daughters to become world class wrestlers.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genredrama, biography
CountryIndia

Mahanati depicts the life and career of one of Telugu cinema's greatest and most iconic starlets, the first Indian female super star, Savitri.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, India

Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the great corporate and environmental scandals of the last half-century. It dramatises the dependence of the local community on the chemical plant that will eventually cause catastrophe, and the series of oversights that led to an event that stands as a benchmark for corporate irresponsibility in the developing world.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryIndia
Duration02:13

A girl from Ambala, Kavya Pratap Singh, is about to be married. When she visits Delhi to shop for her 'dhai lakh ka Ghagra'(wedding dress worth Rs. 2 Lakh), she meets Humpty Sharma, a carefree Delhiite, and falls in love with him.




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