Movies like Buddies

If you like "Buddies" you are looking for movies about / with lawyer, police officer, friendship, love triangle, torture, tough guy and smuggler themes of Action, Crime and Drama genre shot in India.

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Buddies (1980)

6.4

Original name: दोस्ताना

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 152 min.

Story: Vijay and Ravi are best friends (hence the name 'Dostana') who do not even question each other about their careers. Vijay, a police officer and Ravi, a lawyer, while the former catches the criminals who smuggle, Ravi on the other hand bail those criminals, employed by Daaga. One day, both Vijay and Ravi meet Sheetal at different places and times, and both fancy the same girl, Sheetal, but Vijay's love was more serious. Ravi admits his love for Sheetal to Vijay and is devastated but Vijay decides to sacrifice his love and give Sheetal's hand. However, there was a misunderstanding when Daaga decided to stir up Vijay and Ravi's friendship by showing a photo of Vijay and Sheetal to Ravi. They became rivals for the first time and Ravi started to turn to be an enemy of Vijay. Do their friendship recover? Does Ravi get to know the truth? Do Sheetal get back with Vijay?

Movie in categories

lawyer

3242

police officer

7480

friendship

17018

love triangle

4478

torture

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tough guy

2689

smuggler

268

friendship between men

2089

Most similar movies to Buddies

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about bollywood, murder, rivalry, revenge, police officer, gangsters and police mostly in Action, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Buddies: Don (1978), The Chain (1973), Ram and Belram (1980), Agneepath (1990), Trident (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.

Don (1978)

7.7

12K

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 175 min.

Story: A ruthless gangster named Don is killed during a scuffle with the police. Since only DSP DeSilva knows of this incident, he recruits another person named Vijay who is a spitting image of Don. Vijay is planted in Don's place in Don's gang ...

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95%

The Chain (1973)

7.5

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 145 min.

Story: The world erodes around Vijay, an honest police officer. He is jailed for 6 months on false charges, trapped by gang leader Teja. When Vijay is released from jail, he plans to take revenge.

⇓ similarity ⇓

86%

Ram and Belram (1980)

6.2

543

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 169 min.

Story: Ram and Balram are 2 young boys who live with their loving parents. Their scheming uncle, Jagatpal, however kills the boy's father and mother. Jagatpal lies to the boys that their parents have been killed in an accident and promises to raise ...

⇓ similarity ⇓

78%

Agneepath (1990)

7.6

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Musical

Country: India

Duration: 174 min.

Story: Vijay's father is brutally lynched by villagers after being framed by Kancha Cheena, and his family is forced to flee. The young Vijay vows revenge, and grows...

⇓ similarity ⇓

69%

Movie in collections

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1860

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Trident (1978)

7.6

Genre: Action, Drama, Musical, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 167 min.

Story: Vijay Kumar is the illegitimate son of a construction baron, Raj Kumar Gupta and his first love, Shanti, whom he gives up in order to marry a wealthy heiress. Raj does not know of this son, who grows up and after his mother's death comes to ...

⇓ similarity ⇓

68%

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Flames of the Sun (1975)

8.1

57K

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Thriller, Western

Country: India

Duration: 204 min.

Story: A Police Officer, whose family was killed by a bandit named Gabbar Singh, decides to fight fire with fire and recruits two convicts, Jai & Veeru, to bring Gabbar Singh to jail alive, but will they succeed in their mission and get their reward? ...

⇓ similarity ⇓

63%

Wall (1975)

8.0

11K

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 174 min.

Story: Reflecting the tumultuous politics of the early ’70s in India, Deewar tells the story of a pair of impoverished brothers who, after their family is betrayed by the misplaced idealism of their father, struggle to survive on the streets of Mumbai. ...

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61%

Akela (1991)

5.3

467

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 180 min.

Story: The 7th film of Ramesh Sippy.

⇓ similarity ⇓

59%

Movie in collections

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3138

revenge

10409

abduction

1349

party

4533

Parvarish (1977)

6.8

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 162 min.

Story: A policeman adopts the son of a bandit. A misunderstanding leads the officer's own biological son to believe he is the bandit's son and he takes up a secret life of crime; meanwhile, the adopted son becomes an officer of the law.

⇓ similarity ⇓

57%

Sign of Marriage (1979)

6.6

Genre: Action, Drama, Musical, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 164 min.

Story: Durga and Vikram Singh have been married for years. Vikram has taken to crime in a big way, and as a result has antagonized a rival gangster, Jaggi. Durga gives birth to twins, and Jaggi steals one of them, and sells him to a bootlegger, Pascal. ...

⇓ similarity ⇓

57%

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Yaar Meri Zindagi (2008)

4.8

Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance

Country: India

Story: A story of two friends, one is Thakur and the other a doctor. A journey how two friends egos clash and they turn foes.

⇓ similarity ⇓

56%

Destiny (1981)

7.1

Genre: Action, Musical, Romance, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 197 min.

Story: Naseeb, a story of destiny and fate, begins with a lottery ticket. A drunk who cannot pay his restaurant bill trades his recently purchased ticket with a waiter. Naseeb becomes a poignant story about love, friendship, sacrifice, deceit, revenge and ...

⇓ similarity ⇓

55%

Shakti (1982)

7.6

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 166 min.

Story: A scrupulously honest cop refuses kidnappers' demands at grave risk to the life of his son. The son is rescued but lives forever scarred by his father's willingness to sacrifice his own son for the sake of his principles. This works out to ...

⇓ similarity ⇓

55%

Toofan (1989)

5.0

946

Genre: Action, Crime

Country: India

Duration: 174 min.

Story: Two brothers (Toofan and Shyam) are separated at birth by their father, a police inspector. One grows up to be a magician, and the other, the legendary Toofan, hero of the poor. His father was falsely accused of stealing millions in gold and Toofan ...

⇓ similarity ⇓

54%

International Khiladi (1999)

4.8

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 175 min.

Story: International Khiladi is a Hindi action thriller film released in 1999. The film is directed by Umesh Mehra and It stars Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna in the lead roles. The film want to done moderately at the box office. News Reporter Payal ...

⇓ similarity ⇓

53%

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Sapoot (1996)

5.2

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 158 min.

Story: Film starring Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty and Karisma Kapoor

⇓ similarity ⇓

51%

Ram Gopal Varma's Indian Flames (2007)

1.4

Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Musical

Country: India

Duration: 171 min.

Story: Nasik-based Heerendra Dhaan and Raj Ranade are bodyguards of a politician, but after their employer is implicated in a scam, they end up assaulting a police officer and flee to Mumbai. Once there they meet with Rambhabhai, who in turn, gets them ...

⇓ similarity ⇓

51%

Acid (1988)

6.9

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 173 min.

Story: Mahesh Deshmukh has joined the nation's armed forces as that he can honestly and patriotically serve the country. During his college days he has a run-in with fellow-collegian Mohini. A bet between his friends and himself ends up with him ...

⇓ similarity ⇓

50%

Movie in collections

death

15466

murder

19953

court

1937

car chase

2922

Black Stone (1979)

7.6

Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 176 min.

Story: No overview found.

⇓ similarity ⇓

46%

The Uniform (2004)

7.4

16K

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 174 min.

Story: Just as he is preparing for his daughter's wedding, a veteran policeman is assigned to a crack team transporting a Pakistani secret agent to trial.

⇓ similarity ⇓

45%

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64 Squares (2016)

7.1

19K

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 103 min.

Story: 'Wazir' is a tale of two unlikely friends, a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and a brave ATS officer. Brought together by grief and a strange twist of fate, the two men decide to help each other win the biggest games of their lives. But ...

⇓ similarity ⇓

45%

Kasme Vaade (1978)

6.4

462

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance

Country: India

Story: Suman (Raakhee) and Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) love each other and plan to marry soon. Amit lives with his younger brother, Raju (Randhir Kapoor), and Raju already calls Suman "Bhabhi". Amit teaches in college, but Raju is unemployed and a ...

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45%

Diljale (1996)

5.8

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 159 min.

Story: Captain Ranvir is assigned the task of apprehending two terrorists named Shaka and Dara. Upon arrival in the region, he meets with and falls in love with Radhika, the daughter of Rajasaheb, who also is a Mantri. The latter approves of him, and ...

⇓ similarity ⇓

42%

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743

Arrested (1985)

6.0

494

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 167 min.

Story: Kishan Kumar Khanna is a well-rate film actor who falls head over heels in love with young, beautiful and attractive Anuradha Saxena much to the dislikeness of her gangster brother who wastes no time in entrapping Kishan in a web of lies and deceits ...

⇓ similarity ⇓

39%

Compulsed (1974)

7.1

760

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 155 min.

Story: A terminally ill man frames himself for murder to allow his family to collect the reward money. After a successful operation, he escapes police custody and searches for the real killer.

⇓ similarity ⇓

38%

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Yodha (1991)

4.5

214

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 142 min.

Story: Suraj Singh is addicted to drugs and as a result witnessed his girlfriend being raped in front of his eyes with him being helpless, from here on he vows to put an end to all drug dealers and started to work as a hit man for an underworld don, Daaga ...

⇓ similarity ⇓

35%

God Is My Witness (1992)

6.5

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 193 min.

Story: Baadshah Khan falls in love with Benazir, a member of a rival clan who has defeated him in a game of buzkashi. Benazir will not marry him unless he brings back the head of her father's killer, Habibullah, from India. He is successful, but he ...

⇓ similarity ⇓

34%

Mrityudaata (1997)

2.8

427

Genre: Action, Drama, Musical

Country: India

Duration: 158 min.

Story: Dr Ram Prasad Ghayal (Amitabh) is a surgeon whose scalpel proves to be a magic wand. He has a wife called Janaki (Dimple) and a brother called Bharat. Bharat is in love with a dancing doll Renu (Karishma) whom the baddie's brother (Deepak ...

⇓ similarity ⇓

33%

Aan: Men at Work (2004)

5.7

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 149 min.

Story: Crime is at its highest peak in Mumbai with it split in three ways. Walia has one-third, Manik Rao has one-third and Roshni has a third of the Mumbai territory. The crime rate rises with more smuggling, trading and illegal activities soaring.

⇓ similarity ⇓

33%

Gunday (2014)

2.6

59K

Genre: Action, Drama, Musical, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 152 min.

Story: Based in Calcutta during its most unsettled times in the 1970s, the film deals with the inseparable life of Bikram and Bala. The story of 2 boys, boys who became refugees. Refugees who became gun couriers. Gun Couriers who became coal bandits, coal ...