Movies like Srikanth (2024)
The best movies like Srikanth (2024) are Super 30 (2019), Like Stars on Earth (2007) and 12th Fail (2023). If Srikanth hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedGood Will Hunting (1997)8.2/10 from 14,568 votes
- NewestHanuman Ansh (2026)Released 2026
- In HindiSuper 30 (2019)Also in Hindi
Super 30 (2019)
Based on life of Patna-based mathematician Anand Kumar who runs the famed Super 30 program for financially weak IIT aspirants in Patna.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLike Stars on Earth (2007)
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like this12th Fail (2023)
Based on the true story of IPS officer Manoj Kumar Sharma, 12th Fail sheds limelight on fearlessly embracing the idea of restarting the academic journey despite the setbacks and challenges and reclaiming one's destiny at a place where millions of students attempt the world's toughest competitive exam: UPSC.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisTanvi the Great (2025)
Autistic young Tanvi Raina learns of her deceased Indian Army father's dream to salute the flag at Siachen Glacier. Despite barriers facing those neurodivergent in military service, she resolves to complete his mission.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Rashmi Rocket (2021)
Born in the small-town of Kutch, Rashmi overcomes all societal barriers to become a national-level athlete. But her glory is hindered when she is asked to undergo a gender test.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Chandu Champion (2024)
9 bullet wounds (one still in the body), three different sports and an unshakable determination to fulfill the dream of an Olympic Gold later, Muralikant Petkar, India's first Paralympian to finish at the top of the podium, got the recognition by his own country 45 years after he achieved what no athlete from his country could.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Sarfira (2024)
A young man from a remote village dreams of launching his own airline service. However, he must overcome several obstacles and challenges in order to be successful in his quest.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Spare Parts (2015)
With the help of their high school's newest teacher, four Hispanic students form a robotics club. Although they have no experience, the youths set their sights on a national robotics contest. With $800 and parts scavenged from old cars, they build a robot and compete against reigning champion MIT. Along the way, the students learn not only how to build a robot but something far more important: how to forge bonds that will last a lifetime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLion (2016)
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisIqbal (2005)
This is all about chasing your dreams, no matter what the obstacles. The story involves a young deaf and dumb boy who is crazy about cricket.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSwades (2004)
A successful Indian scientist returns home to his village to take his nanny back to America with him, and in the process rediscovers his roots.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChhalaang (2020)
Chhalaang humorously addresses the value of Sports Education in the school curriculum. It follows a hilarious, yet an inspirational journey of a typical PT Master from a semi government-funded school in Northern India, Montu, for whom it’s just a job and is forced to do what he has never done - Teach.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisQueen of Katwe (2016)
A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGood Will Hunting (1997)
Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisHichki (2018)
After finally landing a teaching job, a kindhearted woman with Tourette Syndrome faces a flawed system to provide an education to her forgotten students.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisLife of a King (2013)
The true story of one man's mission to give inner city kids of Washington DC something he never had - a future. After being incarcerated for eighteen years, Eugene Brown established the Big Chair Chess Club to get kids off the streets and working towards lives they never believed they were capable of. This is his inspirational story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBudhia Singh: Born to Run (2016)
Budhia Singh – Born To Run is an Indian biographical sports film directed by Soumendra Padhi. It is based on Budhia Singh, who ran 48 marathons — one of which was from Bhubaneshwar to Puri, when he was a five-year-old.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Nil Battey Sannata (2016)
Behind the magnificent Taj Mahal lies a cluster of dingy homes where Chanda (35), a domestic help, lives with her 14-year-old daughter Appu. Chanda aspires and dreams that her daughter will study and embrace a better fate. When Appu tells her she wants to quit school and become a maid like her, Chanda takes a strong decision: she will herself go back to school, and even join the class of her daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRule Breakers (2025)
In a nation where educating girls is seen as rebellion, a visionary woman dares to teach young minds to dream. When their innovation draws global attention, their success sparks hope—and opposition. As threats loom and sacrifices are made, their courage and unity ignite a movement that could forever transform the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Zwigato (2023)
Manas, an ex-factory floor manager loses his job during the pandemic. He is then forced to work as a food delivery rider, grappling with the app and the world of ratings and incentives. Life is relentless for him, but not without shared moments of joy with his wife, Pratima. The film captures the life of invisible 'ordinary' people, hidden in plain sight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009)
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisFront of the Class (2008)
A boy with Tourette's syndrome overcomes criticism and discrimination to achieve his dream of becoming a teacher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDarbaan (2020)
Based on the 1891 short story by Rabindranath Tagore, follows life of a caretaker whose life is disturbed due to a single act of carelessness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Costao (2025)
The story of the civil servant who worked unafraid to fix the system's failures
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The White Tiger (2021)
An ambitious Indian driver uses his wit and cunning to escape from poverty and rise to the top. An epic journey based on the New York Times bestseller.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisShakuntala Devi (2020)
Based on the life of Shakuntala Devi who is a well-known mathematical genius and calculating progidy from India. She has been nicknamed 'Human Computer' because of her extraordinary talent and skill in solving complex mathematical problems without any mechanical aid.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMarvellous (2014)
Dramatisation of the true story of the life of Neil "Nello" Baldwin. Born with a mild learning disability but without the burden of social embarrassment & how his inexhaustible ability to see the good in any situation overcame any stigma society tried to label him with.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFarrey (2023)
An orphan genius, Niyati, gets a scholarship to attend an elite school. But she soon gets entangled in a cheating racket after she helps a rich but academically weak classmate during the exams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Hanuman Ansh (2026)
A grieving boy seeks God to meet his departed mother, and in finding the divine, learns to serve humanity with miracles of love, food and silent blessings, becoming Hanuman Ansh, Neem Karoli Baba.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Srikanth?
The closest matches to Srikanth are Super 30 (2019), Like Stars on Earth (2007) and 12th Fail (2023). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Srikanth?
People who watched Srikanth most often go on to Super 30 (2019), Like Stars on Earth (2007) and 12th Fail (2023).
What is the highest-rated movie like Srikanth?
Good Will Hunting (1997), rated 8.2/10 by 14,568 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Srikanth?
Hanuman Ansh (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Hindi movies like Srikanth?
Yes: Super 30 (2019), Like Stars on Earth (2007) and 12th Fail (2023).
How are movies similar to Srikanth chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Srikanth, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.