Movies Like Maqbool (2003)

Maqbool is a 2003 crime, drama film from Vishal Bhardwaj with a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Joji and Parinda.

Crime Drama

Joji

2021

Joji, an engineering dropout and the youngest son of a rich family lives with his aspirations of becoming super wealthy. Driven by greed and blind ambition, he decides to execute his plans following an unexpected event in the family.

7.5

MagicScore

Parinda

1989

Brothers Kishan and Karan grow up in Bombay. Karan soon leaves to study in America while Kishan enters into a life of crime, falling under the sway of Anna Seth, a drug lord. When Karan returns to Bombay, Kishan intends to keep him as far away from his criminal life as possible, but things don't go as planned.

7.0

MagicScore

Company

2002

Mallik is a henchman of Aslam Bhai, a Mumbai underworld kingpin. He inducts local hothead Chandu into the gang, and the two of them soon form a formidable faction within the gang, eventually displacing Aslam. As the empire grows, however, the two of them start drifting apart.

6.8

MagicScore

That Girl in Yellow Boots

2011

An Anglo-Indian woman works in a seedy Mumbai massage parlor while trying to find her long-lost father.

5.7

MagicScore

Mumbai Saga

2021

The film, set in the 1980s and 90s, chronicles the transformation of Bombay to Mumbai. The story is a cat and mouse game between a deadly don, Amartya Rao, who doesn’t think twice before killing, and there’s nobody who could stop him and a cop, who is dogging his every step.

5.6

MagicScore

My Name Is Khan

2010

Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.

8.0

MagicScore

Slumdog Millionaire

2008

A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".

7.7

MagicScore

Yeh Ballet

2020

Discovered by an eccentric ballet master, two gifted but underprivileged Mumbai teens face bigotry and disapproval as they pursue their dancing dreams.

7.6

MagicScore

Hotel Mumbai

2019

Mumbai, India, November 26, 2008. While several terrorists spread hatred and death through the city, others attack the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Both hotel staff and guests risk their lives, making unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and keep everyone safe while help arrives.

7.5

MagicScore

#10

The Lunchbox

2013

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

7.4

MagicScore

#11

Gully Boy

2019

A coming-of-age story based on the lives of street rappers in Mumbai.

7.3

MagicScore

#12

Bombay

1995

A Hindu man and a Muslim woman fall in love in a small village and move to Mumbai, where they have two children. However, growing religious tensions and erupting riots threaten to tear the family apart.

7.1

MagicScore

#13

Raman Raghav 2.0

2016

A corrupt cop and a serial killer obsessed with a psychopath from the '60s get caught up in a ruthless cat-and-mouse game.

7.0

MagicScore

#14

Mumbai 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.

7.0

MagicScore

#15

Dhobi Ghat

2010

Arun is a reclusive and lonely modern art painter. Shai is an American banker who is on a visit to Mumbai. Munna is a washerboy also living near Arun and Yasmin. The movie is about these four characters from different class of society and how the lives of four characters are intertwined.

6.4

MagicScore

#16

Umrika

2015

When a young village boy discovers that his brother, long believed to be in America, has actually gone missing, he begins to invent letters on his behalf to save their mother from heartbreak, all the while searching for him.

6.0

MagicScore

#17

Sister Midnight

2025

In Mumbai, an arranged marriage spirals into darkness as the spineless husband watches his wife morph into a ruthless, feral force within their marital confines.

6.0

MagicScore

#18

Loev

2016

When hot shot, Wall Street dealmaker Jai thinks of putting some pleasure into his 48 hour business trip to Mumbai, Sahil, his young, music-producer friend, drops everything, including his reckless boyfriend Alex, to help him execute the perfect getaway. Hiking the hills and canyons of Maharashtra, amidst half-attempted conversations and sudden silences, business calls and old jokes, the friends discover there is more than just time-zones keeping them apart. Things take another turn when Alex shows up with a new male-companion at his side, throwing up old conflicts and bringing unanswered questions to the fore.

5.3

MagicScore

#19

Extraction

2020

A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son.

7.3

MagicScore

#20

Tenet

2020

Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

7.2

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Maqbool?

The top films similar to Maqbool by MovieMagicScore are Joji (7.5), Parinda (7.0), Company (6.8). Each shares crime/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Maqbool worth watching?

Maqbool holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.9/10 from 61 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Maqbool?

Maqbool (2003) is a crime, drama film directed by Vishal Bhardwaj, starring Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Pankaj Kapur.

Where can I find more recommendations like Maqbool?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more crime recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Maqbool

This ranked list pairs Maqbool (2003), a crime and drama film from Vishal Bhardwaj, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Irrfan Khan take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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