Movies like Guide
If Guide hooked you with its romance and drama, these are the films to watch next. Every pick says why it matches.
Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959)
The film tells, in flashback, the story of Suresh Sinha, a famous film director and his relationship with an aspiring actress.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Big City (1963)
Arati takes a job as a door-to-door saleswoman in Calcutta's wealthy neighbourhoods, in defiance of her traditionally-minded husband, Subrata, and his live-in parents. Emulating her Anglo-Indian friend Edith, who speaks equal to the men she encounters on the job, Arati quickly becomes her firm's top salesperson. When Subrata loses his job, the power dynamic begins to shift.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPyaasa (1957)
Vijay, a destitute poet, searches for true love while attempting to get his work published. With the assistance of two women in his life, his dream comes true - but at a cost that causes Vijay to rethink his worldview.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Girl with the Red Scarf (1977)
İlyas, a truck driver from Istanbul, arrives in a remote village to work on a dam construction project and meets a young village woman named Asya. They fall madly in love and get married. However, their life together is fraught with conflict. When İlyas cheats on Asya, the final straw in their relationship, she takes her son and begins wandering without knowing where she is going, until a familiar hand reaches out to help her selflessly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMadhumati (1958)
Two men take shelter in a derelict mansion situated in the countryside during a storm. One of the men suddenly becomes aware that he once visited this mansion in a past life; he recounts a story about when he was Anand, a painter, who fell in love with a tribal girl named Madhumati.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Mother India (1957)
A poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, always sticks to her own moral code.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAwaara (1951)
A petty thief is put on trial for the attempted murder of a lawyer. Through a series of flashbacks, the intertwining lives of the thief, the lawyer, and the thief's defense lawyer are illustrated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMughal-e-Azam (1960)
In the 16th century, when Prince Salim falls in love with a beautiful courtesan named Anarkali, Emperor Akbar's disapproval leads to a battle between father and son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSangam (1964)
An air force pilot, upon returning home from war after being assumed dead, weds the woman he had long loved, unaware that she had been planning to marry his best friend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Devdas (2002)
In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMera Naam Joker (1970)
Raju faces many hurdles and disappointments in matters of the heart throughout his life. But as a clown in a circus, he tries to make his audience laugh at the cost of his own sorrows. Along the way, Raju loves and loses, but must always keep a smile on his face because, in the words of his circus manager, "The show must go on."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962)
A debauchee Zamindar greatly neglects his wife. The decadence of the Bengali Zamindar milieu in the late 19th century, seen through the eyes of a young upward mobile rustic seeking fortune in Calcutta, fascinated by the lonely lady of the house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Shree 420 (1955)
The story of a small-town man who comes to make it big in the city, where he is almost instantly relieved of all his possessions. Homeless and penniless, he is taken in by a woman who looks after him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Sadma (1983)
A head injury causes a woman to regress to childhood. Lost and confused, she is eventually befriended by a school teacher. A Hindi remake of the 1982 film "Moondram Pirai" by the same team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013)
Ran and Leela are passionately in love with each other. The only problem is that their respective clans have been enemies for 500 years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAbhimaan (1973)
A popular singer encourages his wife to sing, but tensions mount between the pair when his career begins to falter and her own musical career and popularity surpasses his own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Maine Pyar Kiya (1989)
After Suman's father leaves her in the care of another family while he travels abroad, she falls in love with Prem. However, in order to for them to marry, Prem has to prove to Suman's father that he is not the same as his own dad.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAradhana (1969)
Vandana's husband, Arun, gets killed in an air crash after they secretly get married but no one accepts their marriage. Thereafter, she is forced to put her child up for adoption and later work as his nanny to stay by his side.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Padosan (1968)
A simple man from a village falls in love with his new neighbor. He enlists the help of his musical-theater friends to woo the lovely girl-next-door away from her music teacher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Charulata (1964)
In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSparsh (1980)
An independent visually impaired man who runs a school for blind children deals with troubles and triumphs of his profession and finds love when a withdrawn recent widow volunteers at the school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Disco Dancer (1982)
Street singer Anil is humiliated and—with his mother—driven out of Bombay. He soon becomes an acclaimed performer but the enemies from his past plot to destroy his hard-earned career.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Bajirao Mastani (2015)
Peshwa Bajirao married to Kashibai, falls in love with Mastani, a warrior princess in distress. They struggle to make their love triumph amid opposition from his conservative family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAaja Nachle (2007)
Dia is a divorced mom living in New York and must go back to India after she receives news that her guru is on his death bed. When she arrives she finds he is gone and has left her the responsibility of saving and reviving the Ajanta Theater where she used to dance. The problem is that the political officers want it torn down and turned into a shopping mall. The storyline follows Dia and her challenge to stand up for what she believes in and fight the cause to the end, while trying to win back the love and support of the people of the town whom she walked out on ten years prior.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSeven Hills of Rome (1957)
After having a fight with his girl friend, Marc follows her to Rome to try and win her back. On the train he meets a girl who is on her way to stay with her uncle. He gives her a lift to her uncle's, but they discover he has gone to South America. So as she has nowhere else to go, she stays with Marc and his cousin, which inevitably leads to romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
America America (1963)
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGol Maal (1979)
A man's simple lie to secure his job escalates into more complex lies when his orthodox boss becomes suspicious.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKaala Patthar (1979)
Vijay Singh is a disgraced former Merchant-Navy officer who is branded as a coward after he abandons his crew during an emergency. Guilt-ridden and trying to forget his past, he takes up work at a coal mine where he gets trapped with other miners after a flood hits them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Sholay (1975)
After his family is slain by notorious bandit Gabbar Singh, former Inspector Thakur Baldev Singh enlists low-level outlaws Jai and Veeru to capture Gabbar and seek revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Guide?
The closest matches to Guide are Kaagaz Ke Phool, The Big City, Pyaasa.
How are movies similar to Guide chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Guide, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.
Are there Hindi movies like Guide?
Yes: Kaagaz Ke Phool, Pyaasa, Madhumati.