best indian movies
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1. 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
2. Monsoon Wedding (2001)
R | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.
Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shah, Vijay Raaz
Votes: 26,689 | Gross: $13.88M
3. Parched (2015)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama
In the arid landscape of Rajasthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural difficulties.
Director: Leena Yadav | Stars: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte, Surveen Chawla, Lehar Khan
Votes: 6,106
4. Village Rockstars (2017)
87 min | Drama
In small-town Assam, the 10-year-old daughter of a widow defies societal norms as she befriends a group of boys and dreams of having her own rock band.
Director: Rima Das | Stars: Bhanita Das, Basanti Das, Boloram Das, Rinku Das
Votes: 1,028
5. Bangalore Days (2014)
Not Rated | 171 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A fun roller coaster ride about three young people, Aju, Divya and Kuttan who are cousins, reach Bangalore to dream, discover and explore.
Director: Anjali Menon | Stars: Dulquer Salmaan, Nivin Pauly, Nazriya Nazim, Fahadh Faasil
Votes: 22,539 | Gross: $0.13M
6. Masaan (2015)
109 min | Drama
Along India's Ganges River, four people face prejudice, a strict moral code and a punishing caste system as they confront personal tragedies.
Director: Neeraj Ghaywan | Stars: Richa Chadha, Sanjay Mishra, Vicky Kaushal, Pankaj Tripathi
Votes: 31,316
7. Sir (I) (2018)
99 min | Drama, Romance
A prosperous young Indian man falls in love with his servant, a widow with the dream of becoming a fashion designer.
Director: Rohena Gera | Stars: Tillotama Shome, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Rahul Vohra
Votes: 8,560
8. October (II) (2018)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A group of interns are going through the usual grind when suddenly an accident changes their lives. The protagonist can't get let go of it and becomes obsessed with it. What does it all lead to? Is it love or something else?
Director: Shoojit Sircar | Stars: Varun Dhawan, Banita Sandhu, Gitanjali Rao, Sahil Vedoliyaa
Votes: 17,918
9. The Fourth Direction (2015)
115 min | Drama, History
Fear and paranoia pervade life in rural Punjab of the '80s, before and after Operation Blue Star, as separatists clash with security forces.
Director: Gurvinder Singh | Stars: Suvinder Vicky, Gurpreet Bhangu, Rajbir Kaur, Kanwaljeet Singh
Votes: 282
10. Peepli [Live] (2010)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
An impoverished farmer's threat to end his life invites attention from politicians and media.
Directors: Anusha Rizvi, Mahmood Farooqui | Stars: Onkar Das Manikpuri, Raghubir Yadav, Shalini Vatsa, Farrukh Jaffar
Votes: 12,772 | Gross: $0.75M
11. Eeb Allay Ooo! (2019)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
A young migrant battles hordes of monkeys in the heart of New Delhi as a contractual monkey repeller.
Director: Prateek Vats | Stars: Shardul Bharadwaj, Mahender Nath, Nutan Sinha, Shashi Bhushan
Votes: 1,782
12. Miss Lovely (2012)
Not Rated | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A Hindi feature film set in the lower depths of Bombay's "C" grade film industry. Miss Lovely follows the devastating story of two brothers who produce sleazy horror films in the mid-1980s.
Director: Ashim Ahluwalia | Stars: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Niharika Singh, Anil George, Zeena Bhatia
Votes: 12,763
13. Paan Singh Tomar (2012)
Not Rated | 135 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The story of Paan Singh Tomar, an Indian athlete and seven-time national steeplechase champion who becomes one of the most feared dacoits in Chambal Valley after his retirement.
Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia | Stars: Irrfan Khan, Mahie Gill, Rajesh Abhay, Hemendra Dandotiya
Votes: 37,874 | Gross: $0.04M
14. Nasir (2020)
85 min | Drama
Salesman Nasir lives a contended life with his mother Fatima, wife Taj and nephew Iqbal in a closely populated ghetto. Employed in an apparel shop at the heart of a busy city, the middle ... See full summary »
Director: Arun Karthick | Stars: Valavane Koumarane, Balasubramanian, Jensan Diwakar, Gayathri
Votes: 330
15. 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: 5,277
16. Rang De Basanti (2006)
Not Rated | 167 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The story of six young Indians who assist an English woman to film a documentary on the freedom fighters from their past, and the events that lead them to relive the long-forgotten saga of freedom.
Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | Stars: Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Siddharth, Sharman Joshi
Votes: 122,369 | Gross: $2.20M
17. Hotel Salvation (2016)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Faced with his father's untimely and bizarre demand to go and die in the holy city of Varanasi and attain Salvation, a son is left with no choice but to embark on this journey.
Director: Shubhashish Bhutiani | Stars: Adil Hussain, Lalit Behl, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Palomi Ghosh
Votes: 2,393
18. Ravening (2019)
107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Two chaste lovers bow down to social taboos and repress their feelings, but doing so pushes them towards a horrific crime.
Director: Bhaskar Hazarika | Stars: Lima Das, Arghadeep Baruah, Neetali Das, Sagar Saurabh
Votes: 3,701
19. Fandry (2013)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Family
It is about a teenager from a Dalit (Oppressed caste) family, who lives at the village fringe, and falls in love with an upper caste girl.
Director: Nagraj Manjule | Stars: Somnath Awghade, Rajeshwari Kharat, Suraj Pawar, Kishore Kadam
Votes: 2,571
20. Highway (I) (2014)
Not Rated | 133 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Imtiaz Ali | Stars: Alia Bhatt, Randeep Hooda, Durgesh Kumar, Pradeep Nagar
Votes: 30,443 | Gross: $0.53M
21. Nainsukh (2010)
Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Drama, History
A depiction of royalty in former hill state of Guler in form of paintings by a lineage of period artists. These depictions are recreated for visual understanding of the circumstances behind... See full summary »
Director: Amit Dutta | Stars: Manish Soni, Nitin Goel, Rajesh. K.
Votes: 276
22. Haider (2014)
Not Rated | 160 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young man returns to Kashmir after his father's disappearance to confront his uncle, whom he suspects of playing a role in his father's fate.
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj | Stars: Shahid Kapoor, Tabu, Shraddha Kapoor, Kay Kay Menon
Votes: 57,907 | Gross: $0.90M
23. 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: 7,774
24. 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: 6,177
25. 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: 17,753
26. LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha (2010)
Not Rated | 155 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A video camcorder, a store security camera, and concealed cameras candidly expose lives in three loosely-linked tales.
Director: Dibakar Banerjee | Stars: Nushrratt Bharuccha, Anshuman Jha, Neha Chauhan, Rajkummar Rao
Votes: 6,119
27. Soni (2018)
TV-MA | 97 min | Crime, Drama
While fighting crimes against women in Delhi, a short-fused policewoman and her level-headed female boss grapple with gender issues in their own lives.
Director: Ivan Ayr | Stars: Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, Saloni Batra, Vikas Shukla, Mohit Chauhan
Votes: 3,011
28. Titli (2014)
Not Rated | 116 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Titli, the youngest member of a car-jacking brotherhood wants to escape the family business. He and his wife form a pact to set free from their family roots. But is escape possible?
Director: Kanu Behl | Stars: Shashank Arora, Ranvir Shorey, Shivani Raghuvanshi, Amit Sial
Votes: 5,159
29. The Lunchbox (2013)
PG | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.
Director: Ritesh Batra | Stars: Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Lillete Dubey
Votes: 60,885 | Gross: $4.23M
30. Gangs of Wasseypur (2012)
Not Rated | 321 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A clash between Sultan and Shahid Khan leads to the expulsion of Khan from Wasseypur, and ignites a deadly blood feud spanning three generations.
Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Manoj Bajpayee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Richa Chadha
Votes: 103,874
31. The Wayfarers (2019)
85 min | Drama
The Wayfarers (Raahgir) is an emotional portrayal of encounters between poverty-stricken strangers that, in order to find new economic opportunities, have to traverse the vast country of ... See full summary »
Director: Goutam Ghose | Stars: Adil Hussain, Tillotama Shome, Neeraj Kabi, Onkar Das Manikpuri
Votes: 47
32. Kaafiron Ki Namaaz (2013)
149 min | Drama, Thriller
"Kaafiron Ki Namaaz" is about a recently court martialed army officer, a writer and a musician who confess their most personal secrets to each other on a rainy Christmas Eve somewhere in ... See full summary »
Director: Ram Ramesh Sharma | Stars: Alok Chaturvedi, Chandra Shekhar Dutta, Joydip Mukhopadhyay, Megh Pant
Votes: 303
33. Manto (2018)
112 min | Biography, Drama
The film is a biographical account of writer Saadat Hasan Manto's life and is set in 1940s India.
Director: Nandita Das | Stars: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Rasika Dugal, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Nazma Ali Shaikh
Votes: 4,687
34. 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
35. Cat Sticks (2019)
94 min | Drama
On a rainy night in Calcutta a group of desperate addicts chase brown sugar, but the permanent intoxication they seek proves elusive. Cat Sticks weaves their stories into a chiaroscuro, ... See full summary »
Director: Ronny Sen | Stars: Tanmay Dhanania, Joyraj Bhattacharya, Sumeet Thakur, Rahul Dutta
Votes: 247
36. Liar's Dice (2013)
104 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A mother and her daughter embarks on a desperate journey to find her missing husband. She met an guy who promised to help her for money. With limited money it become difficult to continue the search which leads to anxiety and despair.
Director: Geethu Mohandas | Stars: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Geetanjali Thapa, Manya Gupta, Vikram Bhagra
Votes: 1,161
37. Sunrise (I) (2014)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Before sunrise, Joshi must catch the elusive figure that destroys the lives of children.
Director: Partho Sen-Gupta | Stars: Adil Hussain, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Gulnaaz Ansari, Komal Gupta
Votes: 319 | Gross: $0.00M
38. Bakita Byaktigato (2013)
145 min | Drama
Pramit, an independent filmmaker who is yet to experience the spell of love in his otherwise not-so exciting life, starts shooting a documentary film on love. His exploration leads him to ... See full summary »
Director: Pradipta Bhattacharyya | Stars: Sudipa Basu, Ritwick Chakraborty, Debesh Roy Chowdhury, Aparajita Ghosh Das
Votes: 537
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