Movies like Hawa (2022)
The best movies like Hawa (2022) are Debi (2018), The Fable (2025) and Paheli (2005). If Hawa hooked you with its drama and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedPan's Labyrinth (2006)7.8/10 from 11,908 votes
- NewestBonolota Express (2026)Released 2026
- In BengaliDebi (2018)Also in Bengali
Debi (2018)
A girl with extraordinary powers goes to a psychiatrist for a solution. Debi: Misir Ali Prothombar or simply Debi is a 2018 Bangladeshi supernatural thriller film based on Humayun Ahmed's novel of the same name. It is directed by Anam Biswas, starring Chanchal Chowdhury as Misir Ali, Jaya Ahsan, Iresh Zaker, Animesh Aich, and Sabnam Faria.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
The Fable (2025)
In the late 1980s in the Himalayas, a man's life is turned upside down by a series of mysterious fires destroying his fruit orchards. As he struggles to stop the outbreaks, the escalating mystery forces him to confront not only the truth behind the blazes but also the long-hidden secrets of his family and his own past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Paheli (2005)
Kishanlal marries the beautiful Lachchi, but the day after the wedding, he leaves on business for five years. When Kishanlal reappears only a few days later, Lachchi is delighted, but this new Kishanlal is in fact a spirit who has taken the form of Lachchi's husband, after having seen her by chance and fallen in love with her. Four years later, the real Kishanlal returns and the townsfolk must determine who is who.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDwitiyo Purush (2020)
Dwitiyo Purush is a sequel of Baishe Srabon were Prosenjit Chatterjee dies at the end. In this film we will see Parambrata chattopadhyay as a police inspector who follows the path that Prasenjit Chatterjee showed him in Baishe Srabon to fight with criminals in various regions of kolkata.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
The Hero (1966)
Arindam, a matinee idol, is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by Aditi, a journalist who somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview. Arindam, won over by Aditi's naivete, starts to disclose his past, his fears, and his secrets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisPan's Labyrinth (2006)
In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Unnamed (2016)
A migrant worker's passing leads authorities on a wild goose chase on his identity and what to do with his corpse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Television (2012)
A devout village leader prohibits an array of modern devices, but when his strict measures go too far, the locals rise up in popular rebellion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Antaheen (2009)
Antaheen follows the lives of three couples in tumultous relationships, who lead different lives but are connected by the infinite struggles and pain each of them goes through.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Clay Bird (2002)
A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSleepwalk (1986)
When Nicole, a young copy-shop employee, is hired to translate an ancient Chinese manuscript, she soon finds that the document has strange powers that little by little begin to exert an eerie influence over her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & drama
Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997)
When young Lili's mother dies in childbirth, her father remarries Lady Claudia, a woman ruled by an evil mirror with the power to make her queen of all living things. After escaping an attempt on her life, Lili finds herself lost in a dark forest, where living happily ever after seems unlikely.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Golden Thread (1965)
After an old college friend offers him a job at an iron foundry, the upright and honest Ishwar leaves a shanty town on the outskirts of Calcutta where he lives with a group of refugees from East Bengal. With plans to forge a solid living for himself, sister Sita and Abhiram, an orphaned boy he offers a home to, Ishwar is accused of selling out and deserting his people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGeneration Aami (2018)
Apu, a 17-year-old boy's relationship with his parents is tested as he discovers teenage rebellion and fun in the company of Durga, a cool but troubled 19-year-old girl who shakes things up giving him the courage to be true to himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Bonolota Express (2026)
On a foggy winter journey, the Bonolota Express carries strangers burdened by secrets whose lives begin to collide within the train’s confined corridors. As the night unfolds, personal and political crises erupt, exposing hidden grief, moral decay, and moments of unexpected compassion amid chaos and revolt. By dawn, the train moves on, leaving its passengers irrevocably changed by a single journey where illusions collapse and human truths emerge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Dipu Number Two (1996)
An adventure story for young boys, Dipu Number Two is the second film of a talented director from Bangladesh who is one of the few who concentrate on quality filmmaking in a country with a rich commercial film industry. The story is taken from a youth-oriented novel in which Dipu, a boy belonging to the educated class, is teased by the school bully but eventually forms a deep relationship with him. The rest is totally escapist in nature, including a scene in which the two youths manage to capture single-handedly an entire group of robbers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
City Lights (2014)
Deepak Singh was an ex army person and owned a small garment shop in a Rajasthani village. When his life struck by a tragedy, he migrates to Mumbai, with his wife and young child, hoping for a better life. However, upon arriving, he soon discovers the challenges of life in a big city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Boy and the Heron (2023)
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the "long-awaited one."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAjantrik (1958)
Bimal is a taxi-driver in a small provincial town. He lives alone, his taxi (an old 1920 Chevrolet jalopy which he named Jagaddal) is his only companion and, although very battered, it is the apple of Bimal's eye.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Aparajito (2022)
A young filmmaker prepares for the debut of his first feature film.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
KASANE –Beauty and Fate– (2018)
Kasane Fuchi is the daughter of a beautiful, legendary actress. Kasane has excellent acting skills as well, but she is not attractive. She has a hard time due to her unattractiveness. Kasane has a lipstick left behind by her late mother. The lipstick holds a strange power. Whenever Kasane applies the lipstick and kisses someone, she takes that person's face. Meanwhile, Nina Tanzawa is a beautiful actress with poor acting skills. She meets Kasane Fuchi and their fates change.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & fantasy
Ship of Theseus (2012)
Three stories about persons forced to think about the ethics and moral issues raised by medical advances.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZwigato (2023)
Manas, an ex-factory floor manager loses his job during the pandemic. He is then forced to work as a food delivery rider, grappling with the app and the world of ratings and incentives. Life is relentless for him, but not without shared moments of joy with his wife, Pratima. The film captures the life of invisible 'ordinary' people, hidden in plain sight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Labour of Love (2015)
Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain (2021)
Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisToo Late (2016)
Private investigator Mel Sampson is tasked with tracking down the whereabouts of a missing woman from his own past.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStranger on the Third Floor (1940)
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLost Highway (1997)
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Tenant (1976)
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Hawa?
The closest matches to Hawa are Debi (2018), The Fable (2025) and Paheli (2005). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Hawa?
People who watched Hawa most often go on to Debi (2018), The Fable (2025) and Paheli (2005).
What is the highest-rated movie like Hawa?
Pan's Labyrinth (2006), rated 7.8/10 by 11,908 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Hawa?
Bonolota Express (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Bengali movies like Hawa?
Yes: Debi (2018), Dwitiyo Purush (2020) and The Hero (1966).
How are movies similar to Hawa chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Hawa, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.