Movies like The Queen of My Dreams (2024)
The best movies like The Queen of My Dreams (2024) are Axone (2019), Sukhee (2023) and The Braid (2023). If The Queen of My Dreams hooked you with its drama and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Braid (2023)7.4/10 from 273 votes
- NewestSister Midnight (2025)Released 2025
Axone (2019)
This bittersweet comedy follows North-east Indians in Delhi who are attempting to organize a wedding party, but soon find everything going wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Sukhee (2023)
Sukhpreet ‘Sukhee’ Kalra, a 38-year-old Punjabi housewife, goes to Delhi to attend her school reunion. Sukhee relives the 17-year-old version of herself whilst going through a plethora of experiences in a span of just seven days, coming out rekindled, reborn and making the most difficult transition in her life – from being a wife and a mother to being a woman again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
The Braid (2023)
India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident, she discovers that the family business is ruined. Canada. Sarah, a successful lawyer, is about to be promoted to the head of her firm when she learns that she is ill. Three lives, three women, three continents. Three battles to fight. Although they don’t know each other, Smita, Giulia and Sarah are unknowingly linked by their most intimate and singular bond.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Namesake (2007)
The American-born son of Indian immigrants strives to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThithi (2016)
In a remote village in South India, three generations of sons react to the death of Century Gowda, their grandfather, a 101-year-old man. The three story lines intertwine before converging at Century Gowda's "Thithi", the final funeral celebration eleven days after a death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Lipstick Under My Burkha (2017)
Four ordinary women, inflicted by silly societal norms, have to steal, lie, cheat and hide in order to lead the lives that they rightfully deserve.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Farewell (2019)
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLimbo (2020)
An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted asylum on a fictional remote Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a young Syrian musician who is burdened by the weight of his grandfather’s oud, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Lift Boy (2019)
A coming of age story of a 24-year-old vagabond who is forced to work at a posh building in Mumbai as a Lift Boy when his bread-winning father falls ill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Sweetheart (2019)
A working woman, mother a three children, realizes that, when her youngest one is about to go to Canada to continue her education, she will end up out of her most precious goal, being a mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOn Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAngry Indian Goddesses (2015)
A photographer invites her closest friends to vacation at her family's home in Goa in celebration of her upcoming marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRathnan Prapancha (2021)
Rathnakara is an insurance agent living a mundane life with his unapologetically loud mother Saroja. An uncomfortable truth about his life leads him to go on a trail to find his world. What does he learn eventually?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Queen (2014)
Rani, a 24-year-old homely girl, decides to go on her honeymoon alone when her fiancé calls off the wedding. Traveling around Europe, she finds joy, makes friends, and gains new-found independence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFremont (2023)
Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWater (2005)
In 1938, Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies sweep across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go reside with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two of her compatriots.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTadka (2022)
A middle-aged Tukaram is passionate about food and archaeology but it’s a misplaced call from Madhura that adds the tadka to his life. While love simmers, Nicole and Sidharth’s story spices up too.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (2019)
Sweety has to contend with her over-enthusiastic family that wants her to get married but the ultimate truth is that her love might not find acceptance in her family and society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHindi Medium (2017)
Mita and Raj Batra, an affluent couple from Delhi’s Chandni Chowk, are grappling with getting their daughter admission into an English medium school. But there is one big problem. Their zubaan is Hindi, and the elitist snobs won’t let the Hindi speaking hoi-polloi fit in.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMutt (2023)
Over the course of a single hectic day in New York City, three people from Feña's past are thrust back into his life: his foreign father, his straight ex-boyfriend, and his 13-year old half-sister. Having lost touch since transitioning from female to male, Feña must navigate the new dynamics of these old relationships while tackling the day-to-day challenges that come with living a life in-between.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Reading Lolita in Tehran (2024)
In 1979, amidst censorship and religious extremism, a revolutionary literature professor in Tehran gathers seven of her most dedicated female students to immerse themselves in banned literary classics.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRose Matafeo: Horndog (2020)
Rose Matafeo has kissed nearly 10 men in her life, AKA she’s a total horndog. But what is horniness? Is it that intangible essence of excitement and adventure that has inspired humankind since the dawn of time? An understanding of the overwhelming power of love as the key to true personal flourishing? Or is it simply wanting to bone everyone, all the time? Recorded at The Ambassadors Theatre, London.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Sister Midnight (2025)
An arranged marriage in Mumbai, a cowardly, slacker husband and a slum of a house: the very ingredients that cause Uma to slowly transform into a feral and ruthless figure guided by her wildest impulses.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Persian Version (2023)
When a large Iranian-American family gathers in New York City for the patriarch’s heart transplant, a family secret is uncovered and catapults the estranged mother and daughter into an exploration of the past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
The Tiger Hunter (2017)
A young Indian man relocates to 1970s Chicago to become an engineer, but when his job falls through, he resorts to an elaborate charade with misfit friends in order to woo his childhood sweetheart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Ghoomketu (2020)
An aspiring writer from a small town in U.P. runs away to Mumbai. He gives himself 30 days to try and prove his worth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Go Back to China (2019)
When party girl Sasha Li blows through most of her trust fund, she is cut off by her father and forced to go back to China and work for the family toy business.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Sometimes Always Never (2019)
Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son and solve the mystery of an online player who he thinks could be Michael, so he can finally move on and reunite his family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Own Love Song (2010)
A wheelchair-bound singer and her best friend embark on a roadtrip to Memphis.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSubUrbia (1997)
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this
Like The Queen of My Dreams and something else?
Blend two favourites and we’ll find the films in between.
Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Queen of My Dreams?
The closest matches to The Queen of My Dreams are Axone (2019), Sukhee (2023) and The Braid (2023). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Queen of My Dreams?
People who watched The Queen of My Dreams most often go on to Axone (2019), Sukhee (2023) and The Braid (2023).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Queen of My Dreams?
The Braid (2023), rated 7.4/10 by 273 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Queen of My Dreams?
Sister Midnight (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Queen of My Dreams?
Yes: The Braid (2023), The Namesake (2007) and The Farewell (2019).
How are movies similar to The Queen of My Dreams chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Queen of My Dreams, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.