Movies like Samrajyam (1990)
The best movies like Samrajyam (1990) are Chief of Station (2024), No Name on the Bullet (1959) and The Blue Lamp (1950). If Samrajyam hooked you with its thriller and action, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedChief of Station (2024)6.3/10 from 280 votes
- NewestOscar Shaw (2026)Released 2026
- In MalayalamAyyappanum Koshiyum (2020)Also in Malayalam
Chief of Station (2024)
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNo Name on the Bullet (1959)
When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Blue Lamp (1950)
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOscar Shaw (2026)
After retiring from the police force, a relentless detective haunted by the tragic loss of his closest friend sets out on a perilous quest for vengeance, seeking redemption and fighting to restore justice to the streets he once swore to protect.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAyyappanum Koshiyum (2020)
Ayyappan, a police officer, is an upright man who always strives to do the right thing. However, things change when a retired army havildar, Koshy, settles in his village and the two egos clash.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRace with the Devil (1975)
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIndemnity (2022)
An ex-fireman with PTSD goes on the run when accused of a crime he doesn't even remember committing, leading him down a rabbit hole of conspiracy to the highest degree.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRorschach (2022)
When Luke Antony's wife goes missing, he sets off to search for her and stumbles upon the Balan family. However, terrorising events start occurring as Luke grows closer to them.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Glass Key (1942)
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSookshmadarshini (2024)
Manuel returns with his mother to their former home in a middle-class neighbourhood. Suspicious of his intentions, Priyadarshini and her friends begin gathering clues, convinced he may be hiding something sinister.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisManiac (1963)
When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Lady Vanishes (2013)
Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlack Widow (1987)
Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple identities, Alexandra can't prove anything with conventional detective work. With no other option, she goes undercover, pursuing the same man as Catherine, and hoping that Catherine will slip up and reveal her true identity.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEach Dawn I Die (1939)
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDouble Threat (2022)
With ruthless mobsters on her tail, a young woman with a split personality becomes entangled with a man on a pilgrimage across the country to scatter his brother's ashes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnweshippin Kandethum (2024)
A team of four expert policemen go through extreme trials and tribulations to find the killer of a young woman.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTime Without Pity (1957)
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIratta (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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAnjaam Pathiraa (2020)
A psychologist with a keen interest in criminology gets entangled in a tough serial killer case which the police find hard to crack.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPasivadi Pranam (1987)
After his wife's death, Madhu lives in a drunken stupor until Raja, a child with hearing and speech impairment, enters his life. But Raja's parents' murderers are searching for him to hide the truth.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & thriller
Janathipathyam (1997)
Janathipathyam movie is all about the communist party wins the assembly election but their proposed chief minister candidate loses the election. The party chief Bhattathirippadu suggests the name of R D Nayanar (Suresh Gopi) for the top post in Kerala. Nayanar, who was the former asst city police commissioner of Trivandrum has his own reasons to come back to the city. He has to take the revenge.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller
Kodama Simham (1990)
Chiranjeevi has to get back the treasures hidden by his father by fighting the bad guys to release his mother from jail.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action
Parashuram (1989)
Parashuram is a private detective who leads a content life with his family. However, everything changes when he encounters MD, a crime lord who gets impressed with him and wants to hire him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action
Uppukandam Brothers Back In Action (2011)
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action
Black Dalia (2009)
Black Dalia movie tells the story about a gang of ten NRI girls studying in Sacred Heart Medical College after a hard night partying, hits and runs over someone on the road when returning to their hostels. But the group conspires to keep away the clues to the murder, by hiding all the associated elements including the hit and run car and the corpse.But with in few days a series killer assassinated all the girls. At this instance firebrand D I G Daisy Wilfred (Vaani Viswanath) who is a strong willed officer all set to solve the case that left the community in clueless fear.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller
Yamudiki Mogudu (1988)
Kaali, a ruffian, is killed by a rival when he falls in love with his daughter. When Kaali fights with the god of death, he is sent back in the body of a soft-spoken man who is harassed by his family.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action
Rakta Sindhuram (1985)
A criminal makes Gopi, an honest police officer, save a bonded labourer from the clutches of a moneylender, in order to save himself from capital punishment.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Samrajyam?
The closest matches to Samrajyam are Chief of Station (2024), No Name on the Bullet (1959) and The Blue Lamp (1950). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Samrajyam?
Start with Chief of Station (2024), the closest match to Samrajyam.
What is the highest-rated movie like Samrajyam?
Chief of Station (2024), rated 6.3/10 by 280 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Samrajyam?
Oscar Shaw (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Malayalam movies like Samrajyam?
Yes: Ayyappanum Koshiyum (2020), Lucifer (2019) and Rorschach (2022).
How are movies similar to Samrajyam chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Samrajyam, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.