Movies like Kurbaan (2009)
The best movies like Kurbaan (2009) are Lakshya (2004), The Hero: Love Story of a Spy (2003) and Black Friday (2004). If Kurbaan hooked you with its crime and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDhurandhar (2025)7.3/10 from 384 votes
- NewestDhurandhar (2025)Released 2025
- In HindiLakshya (2004)Also in Hindi
Lakshya (2004)
An aimless, jobless, irresponsible grown man joins the army and matures into a battlefield hero.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hero: Love Story of a Spy (2003)
Arun Khanna is a spy for the Indian government whose aid is enlisted to stop ISI Chief Ishak Khan. Khan is trying to build a nuclear bomb with which he can liberate Kashmir from the Indians. A battle of wits ensues. When Khan detonates a bomb at Khanna's engagement party to a fellow spy, Khanna's resolve is only strengthened. Now not only does he have to fight Khan, but he also has to track down his missing fiancee.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Black 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 & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOmertà (2018)
A dramatization of the complex and dangerous life of Omar Sheikh. A convicted terrorist who many believe had financial connections to 9/11, Sheikh is widely known as the man responsible forthe 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Baby (2015)
A nascent elite team of the Indian intelligence system perpetually strives to detect and eliminate terrorists and their plots. Officer Ajay leads his team to destroy one such potentially lethal ploy in their biggest operation yet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUri: The Surgical Strike (2019)
Following the roguish terrorist attacks at Uri Army Base camp in Kashmir, India takes the fight to the enemy, in its most successful covert operation till date with one and only one objective of avenging their fallen heroes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPhantom (2015)
Daniyal, whose journey to seek justice takes him from India to Europe, America and the volatile Middle East. However, he finds out that in a mission like this, there is always a price to pay, in this case, a very personal price.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisMadras Cafe (2013)
An Indian intelligence agent journeys to a war-torn coastal island to break a resolute rebel group and meets a passionate journalist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKahaani (2012)
Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Kerala Story (2023)
A converted Muslim woman narrates her ordeal of how she once wanted to become a nurse but was abducted from her home and manipulated by religious vanguards and turned into an ISIS terrorist and landed in Afghanistan jail.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSaheb Biwi Aur Gangster (2011)
After the death of his first wife, wealthy Raja Aditya Pratap Singh, re-marries another woman, simply known as Chhoti Rani, who subsequently becomes mentally unstable. His father's former mistress, Badi Rani, controls the wealth, while he himself has a mistress. Unable to procure contracts through Mantri Prabhu Tiwari, he decides to stand for elections, while his rival, Ghenda Singh, recruits an assassin, Babalu, who is also the nephew of Sunder, Chhoti Rani's chauffeur, to kill Aditya. After Sunder is unable to drive due to an injury, he recommends Babalu, and Aditya hires him. Babalu settles down in his new job, attempts to get accepted by everyone, including Chhoti Rani, who he finds attractive. He soon finds out that she, too, has feelings for him, and then starts making plans of not only carrying out his assigned task but also becoming the next Saheb.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
Khuda Kay Liye (2007)
The film is about the difficult situation in which the Pakistanis in particular and the Muslims in general are caught up since 9/11. There is a war going on between the Fundamentalists and the Liberal Muslims. This situation is creating a drift not only between the Western world and the Muslims, but also within the Muslims. The educated and modern Muslims are in a difficult situation because of their approach towards life and their western attire. They are criticized and harassed by the fundamentalists and on the other hand the Western world sees them as potential suspects of terrorism just because of their Muslim names.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Fanaa (2006)
Zooni Ali Beg is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels without her parents for the first time with a dance troupe to Delhi to perform in a ceremony for independence day. On her journey, she meets Rehan Khan, a casanova and tour guide who flirts with her. Although her friends warn Zooni about him, she cannot resist falling in love with him and he takes her on a private tour of New Delhi. But there is more to Rehan than meets the eye and Zooni will have to make a heartbreaking decision.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNayak: The Real Hero (2001)
Shivajirao, a TV reporter, gets a chance to be the Chief Minister of Maharashtra for a day after being challenged by incumbent Chief Minister Balraj Chauhan. After his one-day stint turns out to be a huge success, his life spirals out of control and he is embroiled in political intrigue.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKites (2010)
A wounded man searches for his sweetheart in the Mexican desert while on the run from the police, bounty hunters, and others.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEk Tha Tiger (2012)
A top Indian agent is sent to observe the actions of a scientist but the mission complicates when he falls in love with the scientist's Pakistani caretaker.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thriller & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisQayamat: City Under Threat (2003)
CBI Officer Akram Sheikh is on the verge of nabbing three dreaded Pakistan-backed arms dealers, the brothers Ali and Abbas and their common moll Laila. When Sheikh busts an important arms deal conducted by his three targets, Ali-Abbas join forces with Gopal, a corrupt scientist to get hold of a deadly virus and take the tourists at the Elphinstone Jail resort as hostage. Akram Sheikh is now compelled to get help from Rachit, a criminal serving jail time who was a former associate of Ali-Abbas and the only person in history to have successfully escaped the Elphinstone jail . Along with a commando team, they try to pull off a rescue attempt by breaking in the jail and rescuing the hostages.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Article 370 (2024)
Ahead of a major constitutional decision which rendered the Article 370 of the Indian state ineffective, special agent Zooni Haksar is tasked with a secret mission to quell violence in the conflict-ridden region.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGhajini (2008)
A man suffering from anterograde amnesia as a result of a violent attack in the past sets out to avenge his girlfriend's death with the aid of photographs, notes and tattoos all over his body.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRang De Basanti (2006)
After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Inspired by the freedom fighters they represent in the film, the friends collectively decide to avenge the killing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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 & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Wednesday! (2008)
Prakash Rathod, a retired police commissioner recounts the most memorable case of his career wherein he was informed about a bomb scare in Mumbai by an ordinary commoner.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGangster (2006)
An alcoholic barmaid is distraught when her former lover, a notorious gangster, re-enters her life. She is forced to relive painful past experiences and choose between the gangster and a pleasant singer she has found comfort in.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRaazi (2018)
An Indian spy is married to a Pakistani military officer during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKhuda 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 thisMajor (2022)
This biopic follows the life of Indian Army officer Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, from his childhood to his heroic actions during the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHoliday (2014)
Virat Bakshi, an Indian army soldier on vacation stumbles upon a terror plot to rip Mumbai apart with a series of bomb blasts and must hunt down the sleeper cell of the terror organisation before it's too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKaabil (2017)
Rohan is a kind, happy young man who has been blind since birth and works as a voice-over artist for a living. Through friends, he meets Supriya, a working woman who is also blind, but proudly independent. The two start liking each other and get married. Rohan toughest journey starts in his quest of vengeance for Supriya's indirect murderers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAjab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (2009)
When his love interest doesn't show up for a meeting, a man and his friends go to Goa in order to find her, where they discover she loves someone else.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Kurbaan?
The closest matches to Kurbaan are Lakshya (2004), The Hero: Love Story of a Spy (2003) and Black Friday (2004). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Kurbaan?
People who watched Kurbaan most often go on to Lakshya (2004), The Hero: Love Story of a Spy (2003) and Black Friday (2004).
What is the highest-rated movie like Kurbaan?
Dhurandhar (2025), rated 7.3/10 by 384 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Kurbaan?
Dhurandhar (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Hindi movies like Kurbaan?
Yes: Lakshya (2004), The Hero: Love Story of a Spy (2003) and Black Friday (2004).
How are movies similar to Kurbaan chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Kurbaan, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.