Movies like Thudarum (2025)
The best movies like Thudarum (2025) are Trance (2020), Narivetta (2025) and Officer on Duty (2025). If Thudarum hooked you with its action and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedPrisoners (2013)8.1/10 from 13,750 votes
- NewestDrishyam 3 (2026)Released 2026
- In MalayalamTrance (2020)Also in Malayalam
Trance (2020)
A disheartened motivational speaker gets hired by a corporate to become a preacher until his live stint on television puts him and his service under the scanner.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNarivetta (2025)
A police officer uncovers a conspiracy based around state-sanctioned violence against victimized villagers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
Officer on Duty (2025)
A demoted police inspector investigates a counterfeit jewelry racket, becoming entangled in a dangerous web of crime that puts his life at stake.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPatriot (2026)
When a Malayali DRW analyst tries to expose a corrupt regional politician from Kerala and his malpractices regarding spyware, he goes on the run, becomes a vlogger, and must clear his name of the false allegations levelled against him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Collateral (2004)
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNightcrawler (2014)
When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies 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 & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMan on Fire (2004)
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSicario (2015)
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPrisoners (2013)
After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search descends into obsession and moral compromise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisEnemy of the State (1998)
When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean, he is framed for the murder. With the help of the mysterious Brill, Dean attempts to throw the NSA off his trail and prove his innocence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLucifer (2019)
In God's own country, the supreme leader of the ruling party dies, leaving a huge vacuum, not only in the electoral and leadership sphere of the party but also that of the state. In the inevitable succession squabble and the power struggle that ensues, the thin line that separates good and bad becomes irrecoverably blurred and out of this seemingly endless mayhem, emerge forces that are hitherto unheard of.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Fugitive (1993)
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKala (2021)
The life of Shaji, a laid-back youngster, turns upside down when someone from his past pays him a visit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Identity (2025)
A sketch artist and a cop work together to unravel the identity of an elusive killer using the descriptions of his face, etched into the memory of an eye-witness to the brutal crime
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Taken (2008)
Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes true. While on the phone with his daughter shortly after she arrives in Paris, she and her friend are abducted by a gang of human traffickers. Working against the clock, Bryan relies on his extensive training and skills to track down the ruthless gang that abducted her and launch a one-man war to rescue his daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRifle Club (2024)
A historic rifle club in the Western Ghats becomes the center of a thrilling fight for survival when a dangerous arms dealer and his gang come seeking revenge. The club’s members, skilled hunters with a shared passion, work together to protect their lives and their legacy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Iratta (2023)
After a cop is found dead, a policeman's investigation sparks a chilling search for the truth connected to his estranged twin and their fraught past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBougainvillea (2024)
A family entangled in a police investigation surrounding the mysterious disappearance of tourists in Kerala.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Drishyam 3 (2026)
To protect his family and their dark secret, Georgekutty faces an organized new threat. As walls close in and cracks widen, how much more is he willing to sacrifice?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
L2: Empuraan (2025)
Five years after becoming Chief Minister of Kerala, Jathin Ramdas' move to align with communal forces led by Balraj 'Baba' Bajrangi, triggers Stephen Nedumpally aka Khureshi Ab'raam to return with his Man Friday Zayed Masood to save his home state and settle scores.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Khuda Haafiz (2020)
When the 2008 recession leaves Sameer Chaudhary and his wife Nargis jobless, they struggle to make a living and after three months, succeed when they find jobs in a Middle East country named Noman. Due to delay in arrival of documents, Sameer stays in India while Nargis heads to Noman, upon arriving where she is abducted as she pleads for help over a phone call to Sameer. Enraged and helpless, Sameer heads to Noman and teams up with a local taxi driver to find Nargis before it is too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHighest 2 Lowest (2025)
When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisGone Girl (2014)
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisNocturnal Animals (2016)
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies 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 & drama
Asphalt City (2024)
A young paramedic is paired with a seasoned partner on the night shift in New York revealing a city in crisis. Discovering the chaos firsthand, he is tested with the ethical ambiguity that can be the difference between life and death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne Night in Bangkok (2020)
A hit man named Kai flies into Bangkok, gets a gun, and orders a cab. He offers a professional female driver big money to be his all-night driver. But when she realizes Kai is committing brutal murders at each stop, it's too late to walk away. Meanwhile, an offbeat police detective races to decode the string of slayings before more blood is spilled.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSAS: Red Notice (2021)
An off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham, must thwart a terror attack on a train running through the Channel Tunnel. As the action escalates on the train, events transpire in the corridors of power that may make the difference as to whether Buckingham and the civilian passengers make it out of the tunnel alive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisSeeking Justice (2011)
After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Thudarum?
The closest matches to Thudarum are Trance (2020), Narivetta (2025) and Officer on Duty (2025). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Thudarum?
People who watched Thudarum most often go on to Trance (2020), Narivetta (2025) and Officer on Duty (2025).
What is the highest-rated movie like Thudarum?
Prisoners (2013), rated 8.1/10 by 13,750 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Thudarum?
Drishyam 3 (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Malayalam movies like Thudarum?
Yes: Trance (2020), Narivetta (2025) and Officer on Duty (2025).
How are movies similar to Thudarum chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Thudarum, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.