Lesser Known Good Indian Movies
by viditb | created - 19 Jan 2016 | updated - 21 Jul 2020 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. 99 (I) (2009)
Not Rated | 135 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A gangster deputes two of his men to recover money from an out of town compulsive gambler.
Directors: Ashu, Ashu, Krishna D.K., Javed Eijaz, Roshan Machado, Raj Nidimoru, Mahesh Shankar, Shamir Tandon | Stars: Kunal Kemmu, Boman Irani, Soha Ali Khan, Cyrus Broacha
Votes: 3,125
2. 404: Error Not Found (2011)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A brilliant student starts hallucinating after moving into a room that was occupied by another who committed suicide.
Director: Prawaal Raman | Stars: Rajvvir Aroraa, Imaaduddin Shah, Nishikant Kamat, Ruchir Raj
Votes: 3,244
3. Shanghai (2012)
Not Rated | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Prime leader of a campaign against a big government project is killed in what appears to be a road accident. An IAS officer is ordered to probe the incident and the veils of falsehood begin to drop.
Director: Dibakar Banerjee | Stars: Abhay Deol, Emraan Hashmi, Kalki Koechlin, Prasenjit Chatterjee
Votes: 10,522
4. Tere Bin Laden (2010)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
A reporter casts a fake Bin Laden to act in his video message to America, so he can immigrate there.
Director: Abhishek Sharma | Stars: Ali Zafar, Pradhuman Singh, Piyush Mishra, Nikhil Ratnaparkhi
Votes: 10,792
5. Mithya (2008)
110 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A two-bit actor faces challenges after he is asked by Police to impersonate a look-alike gangster.
Director: Rajat Kapoor | Stars: Ranvir Shorey, Neha Dhupia, Naseeruddin Shah, Saurabh Shukla
Votes: 2,163
6. Phas Gaye Re Obama (2010)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Om Shastri, a recession victim comes to India to sell his ancestors property to clear is debt. On reaching he comes to know that selling the property will make his family homeless in India. Later he is kidnapped by goons thinking a rich NRI.
Director: Subhash Kapoor | Stars: Rajat Kapoor, Neha Dhupia, Sanjay Mishra, Manu Rishi Chadha
Votes: 5,870
7. Ferrari Ki Sawaari (2012)
Not Rated | 140 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
How the pursuit of an Indian cricket legend's Ferrari makes a young boy's dreams of playing cricket at Lords a reality.
Director: Rajesh Mapuskar | Stars: Sharman Joshi, Boman Irani, Ritvik Sahore, Paresh Rawal
Votes: 5,891 | Gross: $0.42M
8. Filmistaan (2012)
Not Rated | 117 min | Comedy
In Mumbai, affable Bollywood buff and wanna-be-actor Sunny, who works as an assistant director, fantasizes on becoming a heart-throb star. However, at every audition he is summarily thrown ... See full summary »
Director: Nitin Kakkar | Stars: Sharib Hashmi, Inaamulhaq, Kumud Mishra, Gopal Datt
Votes: 3,660
9. Shahid (2012)
Not Rated | 129 min | Biography, Drama
The account of Human Rights lawyer Shahid Azmi, an ordinary citizen with an extraordinary commitment to justice.
Director: Hansal Mehta | Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Prabhleen Sandhu, Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub, Baljinder Kaur
Votes: 17,754
10. Loins of Punjab Presents (2007)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Music
A small New Jersey town is caught in the grips of Bollywood fever as five Indian-Americans and one Jewish Indophile step up to the mic to crown the one and only DESI IDOL!
Director: Manish Acharya | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Ajay Naidu, Ayesha Dharker, Michael Raimondi
Votes: 803 | Gross: $0.04M
11. Court (2014)
116 min | Drama
When an aging activist is arrested, the lives of the accused, the lawyers, and the judge intertwine to reveal bigotry that underscores the judicial system.
Director: Chaitanya Tamhane | Stars: Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Pradeep Joshi
Votes: 5,278
12. Omerta (2017)
98 min | Action, Biography, Crime
A recounting of the story of infamous British-born terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who kidnapped and murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002.
Director: Hansal Mehta | Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Rajesh Tailang, Satwant Kaur, Abhimanue Kamboj
Votes: 3,734
13. Tigers (2014)
94 min | Drama
Ayan, a pharmaceutical salesman in Pakistan, takes on the multinational health care corporation he works for after he realizes they knowingly marketed a baby formula that's responsible for the death of hundreds of babies everyday.
Director: Danis Tanovic | Stars: Emraan Hashmi, Geetanjali Thapa, Danny Huston, Khalid Abdalla
Votes: 1,828
14. Mantostaan (2017)
92 min | Drama, History
A DARK SATIRE ON INDIA PAKISTAN PARTITION IN 1947
Directors: Rahhat Shah Kazmi, Bhanu Pratap Singh | Stars: Sonal Sehgal, Shoib Nikash Shah, Aaditya Pratap Singh, Raghubir Yadav
Votes: 110
15. Trapped (XVII) (2016)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Thriller
A man struggles to survive after he unintentionally locks himself up in a high rise devoid of food, water and electricity.
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane | Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Geetanjali Thapa, Shiladitya Sen, Rahul Patel
Votes: 13,689
16. A Death in the Gunj (2016)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Thriller
Life for a shy young Indian student slowly falls to pieces during a family road trip.
Director: Konkona Sen Sharma | Stars: Kalki Koechlin, Vikrant Massey, Gulshan Devaiah, Ranvir Shorey
Votes: 6,179
17. Umrika (2015)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
An ambitious man leaves his small Indian village for America. But when his letters to home stop coming, his brother sets out on his own adventure.
Director: Prashant Nair | Stars: Aashish Bhatt, Uplaksh Kochhar, Megh Pant, Mayur More
Votes: 1,587
18. Stanley Ka Dabba (2011)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A school-teacher, who forces children to share their food with him, forbids one from entering the school until he brings his own Tiffin/Lunch-box.
Director: Amole Gupte | Stars: Partho A. Gupte, Numaan Sheikh, Abhishek Reddy, Sai Shara Shetty
Votes: 7,621
19. Ankhon Dekhi (2013)
107 min | Comedy, Drama
After a distressing incident, a Delhi man vows to believe only what he can see, but his new ideals soon take his life in extreme directions.
Director: Rajat Kapoor | Stars: Sanjay Mishra, Seema Pahwa, Rajat Kapoor, Taranjit Kaur
Votes: 12,819
20. Ugly (2013)
Not Rated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The case of a missing girl takes us through a journey of human greed and brushes upon the egos and repressed emotions of the characters.
Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Rahul Bhat, Ronit Roy, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Vineet Kumar Singh
Votes: 23,520
21. Aligarh (2015)
Not Rated | 114 min | Biography, Drama
A gay, linguistic professor living in a small orthodox city must deal with the aftermath of a sting operation that puts his sexual orientation in front of the entire nation.
Director: Hansal Mehta | Stars: Manoj Bajpayee, Rajkummar Rao, Ashish Vidyarthi, Balaji Gauri
Votes: 7,775
22. Phobia (I) (2016)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An agoraphobic young woman, traumatized by past events, finds herself trapped and terrorized in her own home.
Director: Pavan Kirpalani | Stars: Radhika Apte, Amrita Bagchi, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Yashaswini Dayama
Votes: 3,214
23. Flavors (2003)
118 min | Comedy
Flavors tells the stories of 13 different main characters in 5 parallel story lines.
Directors: Krishna D.K., Raj Nidimoru | Stars: Reef Karim, Anjan Srivastav, Bharti Achrekar, Pooja Kumar
Votes: 464 | Gross: $0.09M
24. Kadakh (2019)
108 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Sunil is home alone when the doorbell rings. The stranger at the door is the husband of Chhaya, a woman that Sunil is having an affair with. The man asks many uncomfortable questions about their affair, becoming more and more intrusive.
Directors: Rajat Kapoor, Almudena Longares | Stars: Ranvir Shorey, Mansi Multani, Palomi Ghosh, Rajat Kapoor
Votes: 1,869
25. Killa (2014)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
A 11-year-old Indian boy who has just lost his father is forced to adapt to a new school in a small village. The story is about how he copes up and how life has to move on transforming a young mind into an adult day by day.
Director: Avinash Arun | Stars: Amruta Subhash, Devadhar Archit, Parth Bhalerao, Gaurish Gawade
Votes: 1,863
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