Movies Like Parinda (1989)

Parinda is a 1989 action, crime, drama film from Vidhu Vinod Chopra with a MovieMagicScore of 7.0/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Company and Mumbai Saga.

Action Crime Drama

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

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

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

Maqbool

2003

The Scottish tragedy 'Macbeth' set in the contemporary underworld of India's commercial capital; two corrupt, fortune telling policemen take the roles of the weird sisters, and "Duncan" is Abbaji, the head of a crime family.

6.9

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

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

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

#10

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

#11

Gully Boy

2019

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

7.3

MagicScore

#12

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

#13

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

2011

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

7.1

MagicScore

#14

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

#15

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

#16

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

#17

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

#18

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

#19

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

#20

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

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Parinda?

The top films similar to Parinda by MovieMagicScore are Company (6.8), Mumbai Saga (5.6), Hotel Mumbai (7.5). Each shares action/crime/drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Parinda worth watching?

Parinda holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.0/10 from 21 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Parinda?

Parinda (1989) is a action, crime, drama film directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, starring Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar.

Where can I find more recommendations like Parinda?

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

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About movies like Parinda

This ranked list pairs Parinda (1989), a action and crime and drama film from Vidhu Vinod Chopra, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Jackie Shroff 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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