Movies like Akela

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Akela (1991)
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Akela (1991)
Original name: Akayla
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The 7th film of Ramesh Sippy.
Style: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: twins, murder, prison, revenge, lawyer, psychopath, loneliness, police officer, love triangle, tough guy, criminal, court, alcoholic, unrequited love, villain, doctor, anger, christian, drunkenness, grief, tough cop, alibi, miscarriage of justice, car, death of friend ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: india
Keyword: gangsters, movie theatre

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Most similar movies to Akela

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about murder, vengeance, revenge, rivalry, police, bollywood and police officer mostly in Action, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Akela: Allah-Rakha (1986), The Chain (1973), Flames of the Sun (1975), Don (1978), Mahaan (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Allah-Rakha (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Karim Khan is employed as driver for a gangster named Don, who has an accident with his car, and asks Karim to take the blame for it for a hefty sum of cash, which Karim does so, and is imprisoned. But Don does not fulfill his promise, and as a ...
Plot: orphan, blind woman, woman in jeopardy, bandage over eyes, death of child, attempted child murder, released from prison, imprisonment, pilgrimage, frame up, fistfight, police officer ...
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 7.5
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The Chain (1973)
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.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: frame up, hide and seek, revenge, gangster, police, indians, police officer, cop, rebel, police station, frustration, cemetery ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Flames of the Sun (1975)
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? ...
Style: cult classic, exciting, freeze frame, epic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, fight, revenge, bandit, martial arts, partner, best friend, harmonica, flashback, villain, widow, bounty hunter ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1975
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.7
 13K
Don (1978)
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 ...
Style: fast, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Plot: dual role, gangster, gang, undercover, on the run, mistaken identity, lookalikes, underworld, undercover cop, indians, rebel, revenge ...
Time: 70s
Place: india, asia, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 7.6
 18K
Mahaan (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story: A man's family leaves him when he strays from the path of ideological living in his search for personal freedom. However, as he realizes his ambitions, he also misses the presence of his son in his life. Having fulfilled his dream of becoming a ...
Style: surprise ending, cult classic, independent film, epic, masterpiece
Plot: violence, friendship, gangster, mafia, revenge, father son relationship, fight, gang, mob boss, crime family, patriarch, brutality ...
Time: 2020s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 8.0
 12K
Wall (1975)
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. ...
Style: inspirational, realistic, serious, poliziottesco
Plot: anti hero, death of protagonist, mother son relationship, heroic bloodshed, indians, underworld, rebel, revenge, gangster, sibling relationship, criminal, police ...
Time: 70s
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.0
 1K
Toofan (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
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 ...
Plot: superhero, tough guy, adopted son, gold, mistaken identity, vigilante, bandit, magician, storm, airplane, corrupt cop, body swapping ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.9
 3K
We (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 184 min.
Story: Tiger works for the local Don Bhaktawar but never hesitates to revolt against him if he harms his friends or family. When his girlfriend Jumma's brother Gonsalves is killed by Bhakhtawar for revolting against him, Tiger promises revenge.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: gangster, police, cop, family relations, heroes, treason, slum, police inspector, bribe, traitor, dark past, tank ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Family: Ties of Blood (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The story is on the concept of karma and bad deeds. It follows Viren Sahai (Amitabh Bachchan), underworld don who rules over India. His son Abhir (Sushant Singh) is spoilt and believes he can do anything due to his father's power. When ...
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, kidnapping, vengeance, hostage, dishonesty, confined, danger, rivalry, vigilantism, dysfunctional family, chef, gangster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
God Is My Witness (1992)
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 ...
Style: realistic, serious, epic, crying, weeping
Audience: boys' night
Plot: love, marriage, kidnapping, dual role, battles, villain, machismo, hindu, imprisonment, death of brother, mental breakdown, tough guy ...
Time: 90s
Place: afghanistan, asia, middle east, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.9
 515
Arrested (1985)
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 ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: gangster, prison, escape, family relations, love and romance, on the run, criminal's revenge, rivalry, dishonesty, actor's life, artists and showbiz, confined ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.4
 17K
The Uniform (2004)
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.
Style: exciting, rough, bleak, suspenseful, masala ...
Plot: terrorism, murder, muslim, dishonesty, rivalry, law enforcement, danger, vengeance, rookie, heroes, small town, small town life ...
Place: asia, mumbai india, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.6
 2K
Shakti (1982)
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 ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: drug dealing, father son relationship, gangster, kidnapping, ransom, working undercover, parents and children, mistaken identity, manhood, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, master criminal ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
International Khiladi (1999)
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 ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: unrequited love, gangster, murder, rivalry, intergender wrestling, fall in love, torture, female reporter, death of brother, parachute, lie, deception ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: india, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Ram and Belram (1980)
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 ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough
Plot: orphan, ship, smuggler, police inspector, cripple, revenge, mechanic, mistress, tough guy, attempted rape, secret, psychological abuse ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: goa india, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Fire (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Karan is a former soldier. One day when Karan finds out that his father committed suicide in prison after he is falsely charged with a crime, he suspects Ravi Verma, a city attorney who has a wife and a kid. When Karan spots Ravi on the street with ...
Plot: guilt, crooked lawyer, murder disguised as suicide, redemption, grief, shootout, soldier, courtroom, corruption, violence, revenge, death of wife ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.6
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Pratibandh (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story: Film starring Chiranjeevi, Juhi Chawla and Rami Reddy
Plot: tragedy, husband wife relationship, childbirth, threat, gangster, police brutality, corrupt cop, court, prison, corrupt politician, pregnancy, woman in jeopardy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Boiling Point (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; ...
Style: suspense, exciting, neo noir, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: undercover cop, murder, organized crime, prison, redemption, revenge, vengeance, investigation, undercover, tough heroes, working undercover, master criminal ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Indian (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 178 min.
Story: DCP Raksekhar Azad (Raj) is an invincible cop with a great aim. He arrests a terrorist by the name of Khan. But Khan lands in a prison cell that looks cushier than the Buckingham Palace. However, this gets Raj promoted, and he is congratulated by ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, vigilantism, one man army, arrest, terrorist, dishonesty, partners against crime, confined, danger, frame up, tough heroes, police investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Compulsed (1974)
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.
Style: suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: murder, brain tumor, anti hero, murder mystery, tumor, hospital, disability, abduction, uncover truth, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, moral dilemma ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Kaakha Kaakha (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Kaakha Kaakha is a 2003 Tamil crime thriller film written and directed by Gautham Menon. The film released to highly positive reviews in August 2003 and went on to become the first Biggest Blockbuster in Suriya's career, and was considered a ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, vengeance, criminal's revenge, law enforcement, corrupt law enforcer, organized crime, danger, criminal heroes, murder, police officer, betrayal, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story: On a calm summer day in 1991, in the bustling Lokhandwala Complex, five criminals including Maya and Dilip were counting 70 lakhs in flat no. 32 B, when 286 policemen, headed by ACP Khan, took strategic positions around their building. A gunfire ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, suspense thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, police shootout, criminal underworld, vengeance, society, rivalry, undercover, dishonesty, criminal's revenge, police investigation, danger, fighting crime ...
Time: year 2007, 90s, year 1991
Place: india, asia, mumbai india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.5
 6K
One 2 Ka 4 (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Javed Abbas (Jackie Shroff) is widowed Police Officer with four children. His partner is Arun Verma (Shahrukh Khan). Both Javed and Arun are honest, hard-working and diligent. And this leads to the "death" of Javed in mysterious ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, exciting, entertaining ...
Plot: drug lord, investigation, vengeance, police investigation, fighting crime, partner, danger, dishonesty, uncover truth, law enforcement, dysfunctional family, loss of partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Truth (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: A young man named Satya comes to Mumbai from South India in search of a job. Jailed for something he did not do, the once-honest young man meets an underworld boss, Bhiku Mhatre in jail and joins his gang.
Style: cult classic, experimental, dark, black comedy, neo noir ...
Plot: underworld, gangster, mafia, revenge, anti hero, death of protagonist, crime boss, indian mafia, hindu, gang, rivalry, criminal underworld ...
Time: 90s
Place: india, asia, mumbai india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Blackmail (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Inspector Abhay Rathod is a honest and diligent Police Inspector employed with Bombay Police. He was assigned the case of racketeer and criminal don, Shekhar Mohan. Abhay successfully entraps and arrests him, and has him sentenced to a long jail ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting ...
Plot: criminal, prison, police, law enforcement, friendship, parents and children, tough heroes, family relations, criminal's revenge, danger, tough law enforcer, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.2
 2K
Karma (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 193 min.
Story: When senior police inspector Vishwa Pratap Singh arrests Dr. Michael Dang, the leader of the international terrorist group PSO, the group blast the jail Dang is lodged in killing huge numbers of inmates including two of Vishwa's sons and his ...
Style: masala, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: revenge, death row, prison, terrorism, false accusation, prison life, disability, vigilantism, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, on the run, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.4
 514
Farz (2001)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Farz 2001 - Sunny Deol
Plot: husband wife relationship, videotaped sex, police, cop, bomb, brother brother relationship, grudge, vendetta, police station, father daughter relationship, mind game, psychopath ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.8
 4K
The Pigeon (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story: At an early age, Kishen, to provide a better life for himself and his younger brother Karan, entered the underworld. To prevent the same fate from happening to Karan, he sent him abroad, but before this had happened, Karan had fallen in love with ...
Style: cult classic, entertaining, serious, realistic, weeping ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, murder of friend, assassination, wedding, gangster, friendship, murder, anger, teacher, love, organized crime, corrupt cop ...
Time: 80s
Place: mumbai india, new delhi, asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Aatish: Feel the Fire (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Baba and Avinash are brothers who lives in a shanty house with their widowed mother, who makes a living as a housemaid. When a stalker attempts to rape their mother, Baba knives him to death, and the three, along with an orphan named Nawab, take ...
Style: heroic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: heroic bloodshed, gangster, friendship, family relations, hitman, urban ghetto, disagreement, murder, down on your luck, frame up, siblings relations, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.1
 36K
Get Carter (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Remake of the British classic. Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, travels back to his hometown of Seattle for his brother's funeral. During this visit, Carter realizes that the death of his brother was not accidental, but a ...
Style: stylized, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, gangster, lone wolves, revenge, murder, vengeance, brutality, criminal heroes, rivalry, criminal's revenge, assassin, adaptation ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, seattle, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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