Movies like India Lockdown (2022)
The best movies like India Lockdown (2022) are Bheed (2023), A Thursday (2022) and Ghoomketu (2020). If India Lockdown hooked you with its drama and adventure, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedGully Boy (2019)7.3/10 from 230 votes
- NewestMexicali (2026)Released 2026
- In HindiBheed (2023)Also in Hindi
Bheed (2023)
8 hours, complete lockdown in the whole of India, movement shut and state borders sealed. Thousands of migrants without food, water and mode of transport were forced to return to their homes. A crisis that shook the whole nation, a time when borders of disparity divided the people and one man stood for humanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
A Thursday (2022)
When a kindergarten teacher takes her 16 students hostage and makes a set of demands, it not only rattles the Mumbai police and the city but also sends shockwaves through the country and its leaders as the motive behind the hostage situation is unearthed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 drama
Dasvi (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
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 drama
Airlift (2016)
When Iraq invades Kuwait in August, 1990, a callous Indian businessman becomes the spokesperson for more than 170,000 stranded countrymen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Goat Life (2024)
Indian migrant worker Najeeb Muhammad goes to Saudi Arabia to earn money. However, in a twist of fate, he finds himself living a slave-like existence, herding goats in the middle of the desert.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Vaccine War (2023)
Faced with the catastrophic challenge of fighting a global crisis like no other, Indian scientists take on the mantle of producing vaccine despite not having enough resources and infrastructure to save the nation's sixteen million citizens.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Aligarh (2016)
A sympathetic journalist covers the true story of Ramchandra Siras, an esteemed linguistic professor at Aligarh University who was suspended on charges of homosexuality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFire in the Mountains (2022)
A mother toils to save money to build a road in a Himalayan village to take her wheelchair-bound son for physiotherapy, but her husband, who believes that an expensive religious ritual is the remedy, steals her savings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
A 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 thisTrapped (2017)
A man gets stuck in an empty high rise without food, water or electricity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTraffic (2016)
An emotional thriller based on a road trip from Mumbai to Pune. Inspired from the real events that happened in Chennai.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Karwaan (2018)
Avinash, a dejected soul stuck in a dead-end job shares a strange relationship with his father. He holds him responsible for crushing his dreams. However, he is left pondering upon this longstanding hatred when he hears of his father’s untimely demise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTorbaaz (2020)
At an Afghanistan refugee camp, an ex-army doctor seeks to bring children joy through cricket and soon realizes that the stakes go beyond the sport.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Faraaz (2023)
A terrifying hostage crisis unfolds over one fateful night in 2016 when heavily armed militants attack a popular cafe in Dhaka.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
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 drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNil 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 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 thisBatla House (2019)
Following a gunfight with suspects believed to be innocent by the media and public, an honest cop struggles to justify police actions before beginning the hunt for fugitives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGully Boy (2019)
Murad, an underdog, struggles to convey his views on social issues and life in Dharavi through rapping. His life changes drastically when he meets a local rapper, Shrikant alias MC Sher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDoor Ke Darshan (2020)
When the matriarch of a dysfunctional family wakes up after a long induced coma, the members of the household set aside their differences to help her adapt to the changes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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 drama
Tottaa Pataaka Item Maal (2019)
Four women from Delhi, NCR and Gurgaon, tired of dealing with the incessant fear or rape, decide to teach one man how it feels to be afraid of being raped, on a daily basis.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Gulmohar (2023)
Batra family has just four days left to vacate their house of 34 years. Amidst the mayhem and uncertainties of the future, insecurities and secrets surface.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Warrior (2001)
In feudal India, a warrior who renounces his role as the longtime enforcer to a local lord becomes the prey in a murderous hunt through the Himalayan mountains.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAl Capone (1959)
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSarfarosh (1999)
When terrorists kill a cop's brother and disable his father, he fights back against the smuggling of guns and drugs which plagues his country.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMexicali (2026)
A former special forces contractor is forced out of retirement as an avocado farmer in Mexico when local gangsters try to force him and his family off their farm.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisConvict (2014)
Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and does everything possible to break Ray even going after his fiance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like India Lockdown?
The closest matches to India Lockdown are Bheed (2023), A Thursday (2022) and Ghoomketu (2020). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after India Lockdown?
People who watched India Lockdown most often go on to Bheed (2023), A Thursday (2022) and Ghoomketu (2020).
What is the highest-rated movie like India Lockdown?
Gully Boy (2019), rated 7.3/10 by 230 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like India Lockdown?
Mexicali (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Hindi movies like India Lockdown?
Yes: Bheed (2023), A Thursday (2022) and Ghoomketu (2020).
How are movies similar to India Lockdown chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside India Lockdown, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.