Movies like Newton (2017)
The best movies like Newton (2017) are Peepli Live (2010), Ankhon Dekhi (2014) and Dasvi (2022). If Newton 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 thisAnkhon Dekhi (2014)
Bauji resists his daughter's request to let her marry the man she loves as the neighbours incessantly shame him. However, his opinion changes after he meets him and he decides to change his viewpoint.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDasvi (2022)
Jailed under a tough cop, an uneducated politician decides to spend his time studying for high school while his scheming wife has plans of her own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
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
Piku (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 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 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
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 thisGulabo 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 thisGhoomketu (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
Hisaab Barabar (2024)
Radhe Mohan, an honest TC working for Indian Railways and a self-proclaimed accounts expert, sets out to uncover a massive financial fraud by banker Mickey Mehta. As Mickey puts the entire system against Radhe, what lies next for him?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
OMG 2 (2023)
Life is bliss until one day Kanti Sharan Mudgal’s son Vivek is blamed for immoral conduct and expelled from school. Overwhelmed, Kanti plans to leave town until a divine intervention leads him to seek justice by taking those responsible to court.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChhalaang (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 thisSherdil: The Pilibhit Saga (2022)
Inspired by the real events that took place in the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve where people used to leave their elderly family members for tigers to prey on, and then claim compensation from the administration, it is a story of Gangaram, a patriarch of a farmer family entrenched in poverty because of three consecutive failed monsoons. He enters the forests to adopt the infamous Tiger practice to give up his life so that his family can have two square meals, however, what follows next is a series of unprecedented events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Homebound (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 thisJolly LLB 3 (2025)
The third part of the Jolly LLB trilogy brings back Jagdish Tyagi and Jagdishwar Mishra for the biggest face-off as penurious widow Janki Devi Solanki awaits justice against business tycoon Haribhai Khaitan in a satire on the judiciary, justice and the gulf between the privileged and the people on the other side of the spectrum.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKathal (2023)
When two prized jackfruits disappear from a politician's garden, a spirited cop's investigation takes an unexpected turn as she digs for the truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisSharmaji Namkeen (2022)
Late Rishi Kapoor in his swansong plays B. G. Sharma, a 58-year old middle-class widower living in West Delhi. After being laid off from the company he has worked for his entire life, Sharmaji struggles to deal with the beast called retirement. His struggle to stay relevant in front of his two sons finally ends when he rekindles his love for cooking through a kitty party. A bunch of merry women rekindle in Sharma, a passion for cooking and chutzpah in general, that help him find his true calling.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Jolly LLB (2013)
Wanting to earn fame and fortune, a small time lawyer files a PIL for an infamous hit-and-run, and thus learns what it really is like to be a lawyer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBrij Mohan Amar Rahe! (2017)
Faking his death to escape the realities of his uneventful life worked out well for Brij Mohan -- until he was sentenced to death for his own murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Nil Battey Sannata (2016)
Behind the magnificent Taj Mahal lies a cluster of dingy homes where Chanda (35), a domestic help, lives with her 14-year-old daughter Appu. Chanda aspires and dreams that her daughter will study and embrace a better fate. When Appu tells her she wants to quit school and become a maid like her, Chanda takes a strong decision: she will herself go back to school, and even join the class of her daughter.
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 thisMrs. Chatterjee Vs Norway (2023)
An immigrant Indian mother fights the Norwegian foster care system and legal machinery to win back custody of her children.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMandela (2021)
An underprivileged hairdresser becomes the game changer in a local body election in a village where caste politics rules the roost. Will he be able to bring some changes to people's lives?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Ramprasad Ki Tehrvi (2021)
Ramprasad's entire family gathers under one roof for 13 days after his death, to perform and observe the Hindu traditions and rituals called the tehrvi. During the course, the family’s dynamics, politics, and insecurities come out, and then they realise that the importance of people and things are only evident in retrospect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Kaamyaab (2020)
The human drama is based on an interesting premise of a seasoned character actor who decides to come out of retirement and begin a quest for a record of some sorts, that elusive 500th role, the one for which he shall be remembered forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Shamitabh (2015)
A mute, aspiring actor joins forces with a man who has a powerful voice. Together they take the film industry by storm, but will their egos get in the way?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Sabarmati Report (2024)
A Hindi reporter struggles with a deadly fact when a train full of Karsewaks is set ablaze in Godhra. Years later, he is asked to help expose the Sabarmati Incident backed by a buried report.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Newton?
The closest matches to Newton are Peepli Live (2010), Ankhon Dekhi (2014) and Dasvi (2022). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Newton?
People who watched Newton most often go on to Peepli Live (2010), Ankhon Dekhi (2014) and Dasvi (2022).
What is the highest-rated movie like Newton?
Hindi Medium (2017), rated 7.4/10 by 225 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Newton?
Homebound (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Hindi movies like Newton?
Yes: Peepli Live (2010), Ankhon Dekhi (2014) and Dasvi (2022).
How are movies similar to Newton chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Newton, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.