Movies like Angamaly Diaries (2017)
The best movies like Angamaly Diaries (2017) are Drishyam (2013), Maheshinte Prathikaaram (2016) and Mumbai Police (2013). If Angamaly Diaries hooked you with its action and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDrishyam (2013)7.6/10 from 241 votes
- NewestSookshmadarshini (2024)Released 2024
- In MalayalamDrishyam (2013)Also in Malayalam
Drishyam (2013)
Georgekutty lives a happy life with his wife and daughters. Things take a turn when his daughter gets indecently filmed using a hidden camera, by the son of a police inspector.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMaheshinte Prathikaaram (2016)
Mahesh, a studio photographer and owner of the studio. As the story moves on, Mahesh encounters an anonymous fight ending up with taking revenge that leads to certain realizations in his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMumbai Police (2013)
ACP Antony Moses is on the verge of uncovering his friend’s murderer when an accident leaves him with partial memory loss. Reassigned to the same case, he must retrace his own forgotten steps to uncover a truth more shocking than he imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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
Action Hero Biju (2016)
Biju is an honest policeman who fights the injustice head-on. In his pursuit to keep things under control and clean, he encounters a series of events and cases which test his authority, honesty and integrity. With a week to his wedding, what ensues is a heartfelt story of a cop sans the cinematic hype.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThondimuthalum Driksakshiyum (2017)
Prasad and Sreeja are a couple planning to set up a new life in Kasargod. On a bus journey they end up being robbed by a thief also named Prasad and this lands them up in a police station.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKali (2016)
A young wife hopes to convince her husband to change his short-tempered attitude toward life, but an incident on a remote highway may finally decide the matter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJallikattu (2019)
An escaped buffalo triggers a frenzy of ecstatic violence in a remote village.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKumbalangi Nights (2019)
Four brothers living in the fishing hamlet of Kumbalangi share a love-hate relationship with each other. Their relationship progresses when Saji, Boney and Franky decide to help Bobby stand by his love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisVikramadithyan (2014)
The lives of two boys - one the son of a cop and the other the son of a thief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMukundan Unni Associates™ (2022)
Advocate Mukundan Unni wants to be successful and leaves no stone unturned to achieve growth, prosperity, and respect. But this steadfast nature aided with an ample dose of greed comes with a cost.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies 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: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAmbili (2019)
Revolves around the life of Ambili, a simple, innocent person, and how his adorable persona wins over the love of the people around him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Bhaskara, a conservative villager, hates the idea of his son relocating to Russia for a job. However, when his son brings a robot to care for him, he develops an unlikely bond with the machine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies 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: Fans watch both · both thriller & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEe.Ma.Yau. (2018)
Set in Chellanam, Kochi, the story revolves around the death of Vavachan Mesthiri in a coastal village. It showcases the events that unfold between two evenings and looks at death from different perspectives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAavesham (2024)
Three college freshmen in Bangalore befriend an eccentric gangster to get revenge on their senior bullies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMayaanadhi (2017)
A shady money deal goes wrong and in the aftermath Mathan ends up killing a police officer. Meanwhile in Kochi, his old flame Aparna an aspiring actress is struggling to prop up her career. Mathan meets up with Aparna and tries to rekindle the past, even as the police hunt for him gets intense.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBangalore Days (2014)
A fun roller coaster ride about three young people, Aju, Divya and Kuttan who are cousins, reach Bangalore to dream, discover & explore!
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMemories (2013)
Sam Alex, a former police officer haunted by the tragic loss of his family, drowns his grief in alcohol until duty calls him back. When a string of eerily similar murders emerges, he’s forced to confront both the case and the ghosts of his past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMalik (2021)
A past ridden with crime, death and pain is recounted to Freddy, a juvenile criminal, who has been assigned to eliminate his estranged uncle Sulaiman, an aging patriarch, while behind bars.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNayattu (2021)
Three police officers are forced to go on the run when they get tangled in the death of a youth, a few days before the election.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNeram (2013)
Mathew is a graduate in software engineering, but is now jobless. He is waiting for his good time to get a good job. Mathew has borrowed some money as loan. Now he cannot give it back as he has no job. Mathew's childhood friend Jeena Johnykkutty is ready to help him as she could. She has a job. Her father Johnykkutty does not like Mathew and he always tries to trouble Mathew whenever he gets a chance. At this time Mathew's good time arrives; but along with it many problems too. The gripping events that follow plot the rest of 'Neram'.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPaapam Cheyyathavar Kalleriyatte (2020)
Papam Cheyyathavar Kalleriyatte is a sarcastic Malayalam movie against all the communal myths and traditional social taboos. It exposes the double faced human mentality in the society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Operation Java (2021)
B. Tech graduates Antony and Vinay Dasan are talented, but unemployed. That changes, however, when they approach the cyber cell with a new perspective to a film piracy case.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Sudani from Nigeria (2018)
When a soccer club manager brings one of his injured foreign players home to recuperate, they form an unlikely bond despite their cultural differences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Thallumaala (2022)
Wazim is young, carefree and often drawn to fights. But when love blooms with a star vlogger, the impact of his fists could have disastrous effects.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRomancham (2023)
Set in 2007, in the outskirts of Bengaluru, a game of Ouija board goes hilariously wrong when seven bachelors unexpectedly invite a spirit and try to make the best out of the situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKing of Kotha (2023)
Kannan is a gangster who rules the crime-infested town of Kotha. After getting humiliated by Kannan and his men, CI Shahul Haasan tactfully plots the return of former gangster named Kotha Rajendran alias "Raju", thus leading to a transformative turn of events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi (2013)
Kasi and Suni are close friends who studied together in an engineering college. Assi, who comes to Kerala to study engineering under the North East quota falls in love with Kasi. Certain incidents that follow set Kasi and Suni on a road trip to Nagaland on two motorcycles. The incidents that happen during this road adventure forms the film.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Angamaly Diaries?
The closest matches to Angamaly Diaries are Drishyam (2013), Maheshinte Prathikaaram (2016) and Mumbai Police (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Angamaly Diaries?
People who watched Angamaly Diaries most often go on to Drishyam (2013), Maheshinte Prathikaaram (2016) and Mumbai Police (2013).
What is the highest-rated movie like Angamaly Diaries?
Drishyam (2013), rated 7.6/10 by 241 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Angamaly Diaries?
Sookshmadarshini (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Malayalam movies like Angamaly Diaries?
Yes: Drishyam (2013), Maheshinte Prathikaaram (2016) and Mumbai Police (2013).
How are movies similar to Angamaly Diaries chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Angamaly Diaries, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.