Movies like Mahaan 1983

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Mahaan (1983)
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Mahaan (1983)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 181 min.
Story: Amitabh Bachchan in a triple role as father with twin sons. The standard plot of families separated then united many years later with a string of coincidences. Throw in a diamond necklace and Amjad Khan playing the bad guy, some musical numbers, comedy scenes, and some poorly staged fights make up this masala movie from 1983.
Style: crying, weeping
Plot: lawyer, drug dealer, single mother, drug smuggling, husband wife relationship, aspiring actor, police inspector, canoe, grandfather granddaughter relationship, presumed dead, husband wife reunion, husband wife separation, mafia, airplane, fight, snake, artist, drug addict, aviation, train, wedding, police, violence, queen, motorcycle ...
Place: delhi

Most similar movies to Mahaan

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about murder, bollywood, police, revenge, police officer, hindi and beating mostly in Action, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Mahaan: Inquilaab (1984), Amar Akbar Anthony (1977), We (1991), Mr. Natwarlal (1979), Coolie (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 343
Inquilaab (1984)
Genre: Action, Drama, Musical, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A wife becomes suspicious of her police officer-turned-politician husband.
Plot: righteous rage, anti hero, blackmail, crime wave, dysfunctional marriage, husband wife relationship, politician, massacre, good versus evil, politics, conspiracy, election ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Amar Akbar Anthony (1977)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: India
Duration: 184 min.
Story: Amar Akbar Anthony (Hindi: अमर अकबर अन्थोनी) is a 1977 Bollywood action comedy film with a lost and found theme, about three brothers separated during their childhood who grew up in three homes, adopting three religions. ...
Style: masala, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Plot: coincidence, indians, police, rebel, cop, smuggling, hindu, police officer, fight, destiny, orphan, female doctor ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 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 ⇓
52%
Mr. Natwarlal (1979)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Mr. Natwarlal is a 1979 Hindi Action comedy movie. Produced by Tony Glaad it is directed by Rakesh Kumar. Natwar is just a young boy when his beloved older brother and caretaker, police officer Gridharilal (Ajit), is framed for bribery by sinister ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: abduction, frame up, gangster, indians, rebel, con man, false accusation, revenge, quicksand, atheist, entrapment, brother in law sister in law relationship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.6
 3K
Coolie (1983)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story: A wealthy, but evil man named Zafar Khan, has fallen in love a girl named Salma and wants to marry her, but she and her father do not let him. Zafar is arrested for various crimes and is imprisoned for 10 years, but when he is discharged, he sees ...
Style: realistic, serious, humorous, freeze frame
Plot: muslim, hospital, disaster, forces of nature, life turned upside down, looking for love, village life, village, adoption, parents and children, society, politics ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.3
 500
Akela (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The 7th film of Ramesh Sippy.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: twins, murder, heartbreak, miscarriage of justice, police commissioner, drinking, death of brother, frustration, alcoholic, psychopath, alibi, death of friend ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Justice Chaudhury (1983)
Genre: Drama, Action, Comedy, Family
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story: An honest and upright lawyer becomes a judge; marries his disabled daughter to a crook, and is blackmailed to compromise his judicial judgements.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: frame up, honesty, dual role, father son relationship, court, judge, manipulation, police detective, family relations, misfit, vengeance, mute or deaf ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.2
 569
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 ⇓
47%
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 5.0
 814
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 ⇓
47%
 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 ⇓
46%
 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 ⇓
46%
Kachche Dhaage (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Aftab has been brought up his mother, Mariam, and has no knowledge as to the identity and whereabouts of his biological father. When Mariam gets news that Ramakant Pandit is dying, she asks...
Style: cult classic
Plot: on the run, death of father, male bonding, brother brother relationship, smuggling, terrorist, muslim, gypsy, two man army, hindu, illegitimate child, showdown ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Sign of Marriage (1979)
Genre: Action, Comedy, 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. ...
Plot: blind character, police, indians, blind man, drunkenness, drunken girl, handicapped, fraternal twins, attempted rape, undercover cop, black market, helicopter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.8
 1K
Parvarish (1977)
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.
Plot: rebel, woman in jeopardy, shootout, son, diamond, breaking the fourth wall, bandit, scuba diving, rescue, fake illness, underwater, pregnancy ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.3
 334
The Court (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Village bred farmer, brave, and honest, Dharamchand alias Dharma is thrilled when his wife, Radha, gives birth to a baby boy, who they decide to call Raju. Dharma comes to the rescue of Ajit, Suresh, and Sujit, when they are being attacked by a ...
Plot: wrongful imprisonment, loss of family, tiger, safe, hunting, village, drunkenness, revenge, dual role, whiskey, break in
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 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 ⇓
46%
 6.8
 2K
Aankhen (1993)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: A 1993 Bollywood Comedy starring Govinda and Chunky Pandey. This movie kick started a long line of Comedy movies for Govinda.
Style: funny, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: dual role, prank, fugitive, con man, impostor, framed for murder, father son conflict, plastic surgery, corrupt cop, father son relationship, liar, on the run ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.3
 431
Khuddar (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Honest Police Inspector Siddhant Suri takes it upon himself to bring to justice the people who are involved in human flesh trading business only to aggravate his fellow colleague inspector Adarsh Vardhan who is corrupt. Adarsh decides to teach ...
Plot: police, cop, corrupt cop, police station, anger, tough cop, humiliation, frustration, blind woman, election, riot, police inspector ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Kohram: The Explosion (1999)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Major Balbir Singh Sodhi (Amitabh Bachchan) attempts to kill the Indian Home Minister Veer Bhadra Singh (Danny Denzongpa) but is unsuccessful. He has been identified, and the army is on the look-out for him to court-martial him. They suspect that he ...
Style: detective
Plot: bribe, attempted murder, investigation, sikh, patriot, evil politician, female police officer, disguise, pigeon, surgery, fake identity, terrorist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.1
 20K
64 Squares (2016)
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 ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot: chess, murder, friendship, race against time, police, father daughter relationship, revenge, twists and turns, murder mystery, conspiracy, shootout, interrogation ...
Place: kashmir
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.5
 4K
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 ⇓
45%
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 ⇓
45%
 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 ⇓
45%
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Tough and Deadly (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A private eye helps an amnesiac CIA agent elude mobsters who don't want him to regain his memory of their drug operation.
Style: neo noir, dark comedy, black comedy, independent film
Plot: martial arts, wrestling, amnesia, buddy, mobster, drug, thug, bare chested male, shootout, fugitive, car crash, ex cop ...
Place: washington d.c., los angeles, langley virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.7
 491
Two Unknown (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A man (Amitabh Bachchan) is found wounded on railway tracks and when he awakens he has no memory of who he is and doesn't remember anything about his life.
Plot: betrayal, adultery, boy, dancer, unhappy marriage, presumed dead, dysfunctional family, adoption, father son reunion, amnesia, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional marriage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Family Comes First (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Virruddh... Family Comes First (English: Opposites) is a Hindi film, released in 2005, directed by Mahesh Manjrekar. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Sharmila Tagore, Sanjay Dutt and John Abraham. Viruddh is one among relatively few Hindi films that ...
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, sentimental, inspirational ...
Plot: life is a bitch, fighting the system, injustice, family problems, society, vengeance, introspection, legal, death in the family, truth, justice, fiance fiancee relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Labyrinth (1978)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Rajesh Khanna plays a man drawn unwillingly into a nest of enemy spies and intrigue with the future of his country riding on his shoulders.Chhaya (Neetu) and Amit Narayan (Rajesh) are in love and Chhaya wants to get married. Amit doesn’t see why ...
Plot: milkman, village, airport, fiance fiancee relationship, police, hitchhiking, cigarette smoking, motorcycle, train, diary, truck, race against time ...
Place: delhi
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Waqt: The Race Against Time (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: A chronic illness leaves Ishwar with only a few months to live. His son Aditya is extremely reckless. To make him realise his responsibilities, Ishwar throws his son out of the house.
Style: captivating, semi serious, realistic, touching
Plot: father son relationship, family life, teaching the ways of the world, love and romance, family problems, estrangement, living with parents, fish out of water, parents and children, redemption, life is a bitch, family in crisis ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 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 ⇓
44%
 7.1
 206K
American Made (2017)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Japan, Colombia, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
Style: exciting, black comedy, factual, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: drug cartel, pilot, cia, money laundering, aviation, smuggler, money, cocaine, fbi, trial, drug, sex scene ...
Time: 80s, year 1978, year 2017, 2010s, 70s ...
Place: colombia, latin america, usa, panama, nicaragua ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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