Movies like Ankhon Dekhi (2014)
The best movies like Ankhon Dekhi (2014) are Peepli Live (2010), Newton (2017) and Do Dooni Chaar (2010). If Ankhon Dekhi hooked you with its comedy and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHindi Medium (2017)7.4/10 from 225 votes
- NewestHomebound (2025)Released 2025
- In HindiPeepli Live (2010)Also in Hindi
Peepli Live (2010)
Natha decides to commit suicide to get the farmers' compensation. However, the media and politicians learn about his intentions and descend on their village to capture the rare event.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNewton (2017)
A government clerk on election duty in a conflict-ridden jungle of Central India tries his best to conduct free and fair voting despite the apathy of security forces and the looming fear of guerrilla attacks by communist rebels.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDo Dooni Chaar (2010)
A middle-class father in India struggles through a series of unexpected events for upholding respect and smiles.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Badhaai Ho (2018)
A 25-year-old man tries to suppress his embarrassment when his mother announces that she is pregnant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPiku (2015)
A taxi driver is caught between a dysfunctional relationship between a woman and her father as he drives them to Kolkata.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHomebound (2025)
Two childhood friends from a small North Indian village chase a police job that promises them the dignity they’ve long been denied. But as they inch closer to their dream, mounting desperation threatens the bond that holds them together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMasaan (2015)
Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCourt (2015)
A sewerage worker's dead body is found inside a manhole in Mumbai. An ageing folk singer is tried in court on charges of abetment of suicide. He is accused of performing an inflammatory song which might have incited the worker to commit the act. As the trial unfolds, the personal lives of the lawyers and the judge involved in the case are observed outside the court.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisShip of Theseus (2012)
Three stories about persons forced to think about the ethics and moral issues raised by medical advances.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUdaan (2010)
Upon returning to his industrial hometown, a young man must decide whether to follow his own dreams or acquiesce to his father's plans for his future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChopsticks (2019)
A gifted but insecure woman is in for a transformative experience when she enlists the help of an enigmatic con artist to recover her stolen car.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisManjhi: The Mountain Man (2015)
After his wife passes away trying to cross a mountain, Manjhi, out of sheer rage, sets on a quest to carve a road through the treacherous mountain.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Dirty Picture (2011)
After running away from home in search of movie stardom, a village girl rises to become a prominent sex symbol.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMast Mein Rehne Ka (2023)
A man chooses an old widower's home for his first robbery, kicking off a set of events that have them both look at life in a new way and with new companions in the starkness of the city of Mumbai.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Gulabo Sitabo (2020)
Set in present-day Lucknow, Gulabo Sitabo is a social satire about two impossibly peculiar human beings, Mirza Chunnan Nawab, who stays in a dilapidated mansion and one of the tenants, Bankey Rastogi.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Death in the Gunj (2016)
Life for a shy young Indian student slowly falls to pieces during a family road trip.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisAxone (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
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
Angrezi Medium (2020)
When his daughter decides to further her studies in London, a hardworking Haryanvi businessman does everything in power to make her dreams come true.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTitli (2015)
A young man in Delhi tries to break free from his controlling, criminal brothers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKaagaz (2021)
Kaagaz (transl. Paper) is a biographical drama about a farmer, Lal Bihari's 19-year struggle to make himself come alive again when he is declared dead in Government records by interests keen to take over his assets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Kaalakaandi (2018)
Unfolding through a course of a night in Mumbai, Kaalakaandi showcases three parallel tracks — a man who discovers he has terminal illness decides to let go of his principles and live a little; a woman involved in a hit-and-run seeks redemption and two goons must decide if they can trust each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Chhalaang (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 comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChaman Bahaar (2020)
An ambitious young man, in a small town in Central India, sets up a paan shop to a floundering start. His fortunes start to change dramatically when a family shifts in the house across the road. Hordes of boys start following the teenage girl from the family and set up an "adda" at Billu's shop. His business flourishes tremendously but Billu is now more unhappy than ever, as he has fallen for the girl himself!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Dev.D (2009)
Dev, after spurning his childhood love Paro due to a misunderstanding, turns to drugs and alcohol for solace. Paro moves on but Dev remains in remorse. He then meets Chanda, an escort navigating her own past trauma, but Dev’s chauvinistic attitude and penchant for self-destruction stands in the way of their developing bond.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSerious Men (2020)
Tormented with his 'under-privileged' societal status, a father capitalizes on his son's newfound fame as a boy-genius. Little does he realize that the secret he harbors will destroy the very thing he loves the most.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPagglait (2021)
Widowed soon after marriage, a young woman grapples with an inability to grieve, quirky relatives and a startling discovery about her late husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPataakha (2018)
In a dusty Rajasthan village, two sisters, Badki and Chhutki, are constantly at each other's throats over trivial matters. Their father, a widower, struggles to keep them from tearing each other apart. Their meddling neighbour, Dipper, enjoys stirring up trouble between them. But when marriage takes them to different worlds, they discover how much they need each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Kirik Party (2016)
Karna from a small town has joined this engineering college and he gangs up with his hostel mates Loki, Alexander, Manja and others to fuel a lot of mischief in the college.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Ankhon Dekhi?
The closest matches to Ankhon Dekhi are Peepli Live (2010), Newton (2017) and Do Dooni Chaar (2010). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Ankhon Dekhi?
People who watched Ankhon Dekhi most often go on to Peepli Live (2010), Newton (2017) and Do Dooni Chaar (2010).
What is the highest-rated movie like Ankhon Dekhi?
Hindi Medium (2017), rated 7.4/10 by 225 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Ankhon Dekhi?
Homebound (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Hindi movies like Ankhon Dekhi?
Yes: Peepli Live (2010), Newton (2017) and Do Dooni Chaar (2010).
How are movies similar to Ankhon Dekhi chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Ankhon Dekhi, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.