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Lesser Known Good Indian Movies

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  • 99 (2009)

    1. 99

    20092h 15mNot Rated
    7.3 (3.4K)
    A gangster deputes two of his men to recover money from an out of town compulsive gambler.
    DirectorsKrishna D.K.Raj NidimoruStarsKunal KemmuBoman IraniSoha Ali Khan
  • Imaaduddin Shah and Rajvvir Aroraa in 404: Error Not Found (2011)

    2. 404: Error Not Found

    20112h 1mNot Rated
    7.3 (3.5K)
    A brilliant student starts hallucinating after moving into a room that was occupied by another who committed suicide.
    DirectorPrawaal RamanStarsRajvvir AroraaImaaduddin ShahNishikant Kamat
  • Prosenjit Chatterjee, Emraan Hashmi, Abhay Deol, and Kalki Koechlin in Shanghai (2012)

    3. Shanghai

    20122hNot Rated
    7.2 (11K)
    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.
    DirectorDibakar BanerjeeStarsAbhay DeolEmraan HashmiKalki Koechlin
  • Tere Bin Laden (2010)

    4. Tere Bin Laden

    20101h 35mNot Rated
    7.2 (11K)
    A reporter casts a fake Bin Laden to act in his video message to America, so he can immigrate there.
    DirectorAbhishek SharmaStarsAli ZafarPradhuman SinghPiyush Mishra
  • Vinay Pathak, Naseeruddin Shah, and Ranvir Shorey in Mithya (2008)

    5. Mithya

    20081h 50m
    7.0 (2.3K)
    A two-bit actor faces challenges after he is asked by Police to impersonate a look-alike gangster.
    DirectorRajat KapoorStarsRanvir ShoreyNeha DhupiaNaseeruddin Shah
  • Rajat Kapoor, Sanjay Mishra, Neha Dhupia, and Sushil Pandey in Phas Gaye Re Obama (2010)

    6. Phas Gaye Re Obama

    20101h 48mNot Rated
    7.5 (6.1K)
    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.
    DirectorSubhash KapoorStarsRajat KapoorNeha DhupiaSanjay Mishra
  • Ferrari Ki Sawaari (2012)

    7. Ferrari Ki Sawaari

    20122h 20mNot Rated
    6.4 (6.1K)
    How the pursuit of an Indian cricket legend's Ferrari makes a young boy's dreams of playing cricket at Lords a reality.
    DirectorRajesh MapuskarStarsSharman JoshiBoman IraniRitvik Sahore
  • Filmistaan (2012)

    8. Filmistaan

    20121h 57mNot Rated
    7.3 (3.7K)
    A Bollywood assistant director is kidnapped by terrorists who mistake him for an American. While held captive in Pakistan, he discovers his captor deals in pirated Hindi films, leading to unexpected cultural connections.
    DirectorNitin KakkarStarsSharib HashmiInaamulhaqKumud Mishra
  • Shahid (2012)

    9. Shahid

    20122h 9mNot Rated
    8.2 (18K)
    The account of Human Rights lawyer Shahid Azmi, an ordinary citizen with an extraordinary commitment to justice.
    DirectorHansal MehtaStarsRajkummar RaoPrabhleen SandhuMohd. Zeeshan Ayyub
  • Loins of Punjab Presents (2007)

    10. Loins of Punjab Presents

    20071h 28mNot Rated
    7.1 (811)
    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!
    DirectorManish AcharyaStarsShabana AzmiAjay NaiduAyesha Dharker
  • Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni, Pradeep Joshi, Vira Sathidar, Usha Bane, and Shirish Pawar in Court (2014)

    11. Court

    20141h 56m83Metascore
    7.6 (5.6K)
    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.
    DirectorChaitanya TamhaneStarsVira SathidarVivek GomberGeetanjali Kulkarni
  • Rajkummar Rao in Omerta (2017)

    12. Omerta

    20171h 38m
    7.1 (3.9K)
    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.
    DirectorHansal MehtaStarsRajkummar RaoRajesh TailangSatwant Kaur
  • Emraan Hashmi in Tigers (2014)

    13. Tigers

    20141h 34m
    7.2 (1.9K)
    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.
    DirectorDanis TanovicStarsEmraan HashmiGeetanjali ThapaDanny Huston
  • Aaditya Pratap Singh in Mantostaan (2017)

    14. Mantostaan

    20171h 32m
    5.5 (112)
    A DARK SATIRE ON INDIA PAKISTAN PARTITION IN 1947
    DirectorsRahhat Shah KazmiBhanu Pratap SinghStarsSonal SehgalShoib Nikash ShahAaditya Pratap Singh
  • Rajkummar Rao in Trapped (2016)

    15. Trapped

    20161h 45m
    7.5 (14K)
    A man struggles to survive after he unintentionally locks himself up in a high rise devoid of food, water and electricity.
    DirectorVikramaditya MotwaneStarsRajkummar RaoGeetanjali ThapaShiladitya Sen
  • A Death in the Gunj (2016)

    16. A Death in the Gunj

    20161h 50mNot Rated
    7.4 (6.6K)
    Life for a shy young Indian student slowly falls to pieces during a family road trip.
    DirectorKonkona Sen SharmaStarsKalki KoechlinVikrant MasseyGulshan Devaiah
  • Umrika (2015)

    17. Umrika

    20151h 38m
    6.6 (1.6K)
    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.
    DirectorPrashant NairStarsAashish BhattUplaksh KochharMegh Pant
  • Stanley Ka Dabba (2011)

    18. Stanley Ka Dabba

    20111h 36mNot Rated
    7.8 (7.9K)
    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.
    DirectorsAmole GupteMukesh KumarStarsPartho A. GupteNumaan SheikhAbhishek Reddy
  • Sanjay Mishra in Ankhon Dekhi (2013)

    19. Ankhon Dekhi

    20131h 47m
    7.9 (13K)
    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.
    DirectorRajat KapoorStarsSanjay MishraSeema PahwaRajat Kapoor
  • Ronit Roy, Rahul Bhat, Vineet Kumar Singh, and Girish Kulkarni in Ugly (2013)

    20. Ugly

    20132h 8mNot Rated
    7.9 (24K)
    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.
    DirectorAnurag KashyapStarsRahul BhatRonit RoyTejaswini Kolhapure
  • Manoj Bajpayee and Rajkummar Rao in Aligarh (2015)

    21. Aligarh

    20151h 54mNot Rated
    7.8 (8.1K)
    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.
    DirectorHansal MehtaStarsManoj BajpayeeRajkummar RaoAshish Vidyarthi
  • Radhika Apte in Phobia (2016)

    22. Phobia

    20161h 52mNot Rated
    6.8 (3.4K)
    An agoraphobic young woman, traumatized by past events, finds herself trapped and terrorized in her own home.
    DirectorPavan KirpalaniStarsRadhika ApteAmrita BagchiNivedita Bhattacharya
  • Flavors (2003)

    23. Flavors

    20031h 58m46Metascore
    7.2 (480)
    Flavors tells the stories of 13 different main characters in 5 parallel story lines.
    DirectorsKrishna D.K.Raj NidimoruStarsReef KarimAnjan SrivastavBharti Achrekar
  • Rajat Kapoor, Cyrus Sahukar, Tara Sharma, Ranvir Shorey, Shruti Seth, Kalki Koechlin, Mansi Multani, and Sagar Deshmukh in Kadakh (2019)

    24. Kadakh

    20191h 48m
    6.9 (2K)
    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.
    DirectorsRajat KapoorAlmudena LongaresStarsRanvir ShoreyMansi MultaniPalomi Ghosh
  • Killa (2014)

    25. Killa

    20141h 47mNot Rated
    7.8 (1.9K)
    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.
    DirectorAvinash ArunStarsAmruta SubhashDevadhar ArchitParth Bhalerao

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