Movies like Toofan (2024)
The best movies like Toofan (2024) are Sarkar (2005), Dhurandhar (2025) and Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 (2012). If Toofan hooked you with its crime and action, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedVikram (2022)7.6/10 from 201 votes
- NewestKhalifa: The Ruler (2026)Released 2026
- In BengaliMirror Game (2016)Also in Bengali
Sarkar (2005)
Subhash Nagre runs a parallel government in the city where he has a cult following. When his enemies plot to murder him, his son takes charge and stands up against them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDhurandhar (2025)
In the early 2000s, an undercover operative infiltrates Karachi's underworld, breaking into its inner circle to dismantle a violent nexus from within.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 (2012)
In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHaider (2014)
A young man returns to Kashmir after his father's disappearance to confront his uncle - the man he suspects to have a role in his father's fate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRakht Charitra 2 (2010)
The sequel carries forward the tale of power and revenge which exploded in Rakht Charitra 1. The rebel leader turned politician, Pratap consolidates his political base but is forced to retread the path of vengeance once again after a rival from the past, Surya Narayan Reddy chooses to avenge the assassination of his family. Surya swears vengeance against Pratap after his family is wiped out in a bomb attack and Pratap is hell bent on decimating his enemy, even if it means separating ways with his mentor and political veteran, Shivaji.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007)
An account of the gangster Maya Dolas and his gang which terrorized Mumbai City, and the ensuing standoff between Mumbai Police and the gang on 16 November 1991.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMirror Game (2016)
Ayna is an actor, and the prison is his stage. Unable to pursue his passion in a rigid society, he turns real life into his theater—taking money from the powerful to serve their prison sentences in their place. Everything changes when he falls for the girl next door, inspiring him to pull off one final swap and leave the dark trade forever. But his last performance plunges him deep into a treacherous rabbit hole. To survive a merciless system and break free from a criminal game he helped build, this underdog must execute the ultimate escape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisGangs of Wasseypur - Part 2 (2012)
After the death of his father and brother Danish, Faizal Khan vows to take revenge by destroying Ramadhir Singh's gang.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCompany (2002)
Mallik is a henchman of Aslam Bhai, a Mumbai underworld kingpin. He inducts local hothead Chandu into the gang, and the two of them soon form a formidable faction within the gang, eventually displacing Aslam. As the empire grows, however, the two of them start drifting apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRaees (2017)
Set in the early ’80s and ’90s in Gujarat, India, ‘Raees’ is a fictitious story of a crime lord named Raees, who builds an entire empire from scratch, and a police officer who is determined to bring him down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNayakan (1987)
Velu Naicker, who witnesses the brutal murder of his father, kills a corrupt policeman and escapes to Mumbai, only to become a gangster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBlack Friday (2004)
Bombs tear through Bombay in 1993, wreaking havoc and polarising the citizens. With perpetrators at large, the state launches a massive man-hunt to unmask the perpetrators behind these events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVikram Vedha (2017)
A notorious gangster Vedha surrenders himself to encounter specialist Vikram whom he challenges every step of the way by narrating his life events in the form of riddles that needs to be solved in order to capture him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOnce Upon a Time in Mumbaai (2010)
A tale of two gangsters from the eras of past and present, whose lives enter parallel paths as they struggle to survive within Bombay's criminal underworld.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBloody Daddy (2023)
Sumair Azad, a dirty cop and his friend, Jaggi, steal Sikandar Chowdhary's cocaine bag. As a result, Sikandar kidnaps Sumair's son, but things take a turn when he loses the cocaine bag as he faces off Gurugram’s drug lords, a crime boss, murderous narcs and straight cops on one fateful night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSpecial 26 (2013)
In 1980s India, a gang of con artists posing as government officials swindle wealthy businessmen and politicians through fake raids, but their biggest heist is threatened by a relentless police officer closing in on them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVikram (2022)
Amar is assigned to investigate a case of serial killings. When Amar investigates the case, he realizes it is not what it seems to be and following down this path will lead to nothing but war between everyone involved.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSatyagraha (2013)
A corporate go-getter sees his priorities shift when a personal tragedy brings him face-to-face with political corruption.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSatya (1998)
A young man named Satya comes to Mumbai from South India in search of a job. Jailed for something he did not do, the once-honest young man meets an underworld boss, Bhiku Mhatre in jail and joins his gang.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIndian (2001)
DCP Raksekhar Azad (Raj) is an invincible cop with a great aim. He arrests a terrorist by the name of Khan. But Khan lands in a prison cell that looks cushier than the Buckingham Palace. However, this gets Raj promoted, and he is congratulated by none other than his father-in-law, who is also a very high ranking policeman. Then all of a sudden, Raj finds out that many policemen would like to see Khan go free. He discusses this issue with his father-in-law, and to his surprise, does not find any support from him. Disagreements and arguments ensue, and as a result, his father-in-law gets killed. The Police suspect Raj of killing him, they begin the process of arresting him, he runs away, while Khan is all set to get freed to do whatever he likes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Khalifa: The Ruler (2026)
Aamir Ali, a notorious gold smuggling kingpin who inherited his multi-million dollar criminal enterprise from a lineage of gangsters, is drawn into a web of vengeance, legacy and power.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Omkara (2006)
Half-caste bandit Omkara Shukla abducts his lady love, Dolly Mishra, from her family. Thanks to his cleverness, he gets away with the kidnapping. A conspiracy, however, forms against him when he denies his right-hand man, Langda Tyagi, a promotion. Ultimately, this plot threatens not only his relationship with Dolly, but their lives and those of their associates as well.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSonchiriya (2019)
A legion of warring bandits terrorizes India's Chambal Valley.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & action
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDon (2006)
DCP DeSilva sees a way to bring to justice the feared head of a criminal empire by recruiting a man named Vijay, who looks exactly like the crime boss. The ruse works too well, and soon Vijay finds his life in danger when DeSilva, the only one who knows his true identity, dies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDhaka Attack (2017)
A stealthy criminal gang targets Dhaka city for a series of attacks. To bust the terrorist organization, an elite police force embarks on a risky operation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Maqbool (2003)
The Scottish tragedy 'Macbeth' set in the contemporary underworld of India's commercial capital; two corrupt, fortune telling policemen take the roles of the weird sisters, and "Duncan" is Abbaji, the head of a crime family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMumbai Saga (2021)
The film, set in the 1980s and 90s, chronicles the transformation of Bombay to Mumbai. The story is a cat and mouse game between a deadly don, Amartya Rao, who doesn’t think twice before killing, and there’s nobody who could stop him and a cop, who is dogging his every step.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Vikram Vedha (2022)
Vikram, an honest officer with the Lucknow police, is on a mission to find and eliminate gangster Vedha. However, when Vedha surrenders himself to the police and starts narrating stories to Vikram, it blurs the lines between good and evil. Vedha questions Vikram's righteousness while the latter believes he is fair and just. But is he?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFoxy Brown (1974)
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRun (1991)
When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & crime
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Toofan?
The closest matches to Toofan are Sarkar (2005), Dhurandhar (2025) and Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 (2012). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Toofan?
People who watched Toofan most often go on to Sarkar (2005), Dhurandhar (2025) and Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 (2012).
What is the highest-rated movie like Toofan?
Vikram (2022), rated 7.6/10 by 201 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Toofan?
Khalifa: The Ruler (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Bengali movies like Toofan?
Yes: Mirror Game (2016) and Dhaka Attack (2017).
How are movies similar to Toofan chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Toofan, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.