20 best movies like Maheshinte Prathikaaram (2016)

List of the best movies like Maheshinte Prathikaaram (2016): Dedh Ishqiya, Bluffmaster!, Sharkskin, The Lobster, The One I Love, Trim, The Divide, What to Do in Case of Fire?, Sonatine, The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine.

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Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryIndia

A team of con men fall for a Begum and her female confidante. Does their love fructify?

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryIndia
Duration02:17

Roy is a professional conman, who has raised his work to the level of an art. The only true thing he has is his love for Simmi someone who is so rooted, honest and sincere, that he can't bring himself to tell her the reality of who he is. But when his past catches up with him, she cannot forgive him for the deceit their relationship is built on. He loses her forever. That's when Aditya Srivastav enters the picture. He is the counterpoint to everything that Roy is as frantic as Roy is calm, as dumb as Roy is smart, as messy and untidy as Roy is smooth. They have only one thing in common. Aditya is a conman too. At least he thinks of himself as one. In Roy's book, he's an embarrassment. But one that won't go away!

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA

The Post War II story of Manhattan born Mike Esposito, a practiced tailor of custom mens clothing; a man of dignity and honor, whose developing involvements with the Italian mob wraps him up in a world of moral dilemma and clashing values.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Greece, France, Netherlands, USA
Duration01:36

    In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

      On the brink of separation, Ethan and Sophie escape to a beautiful vacation house for a weekend getaway in an attempt to save their marriage. What begins as a romantic and fun retreat soon becomes surreal, when an unexpected discovery forces the two to examine themselves, their relationship, and their future.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA

      A misguided personal trainer struggles to clean up his life after he's sued by one of his clients, knocks up two women and suffers a major heart attack. Stars Jonathan Wade-Drahos, Ryan Bottiglieri, Bruce Dern.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
      CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
      Duration02:02

      Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:41

      What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former eastern Germany. At the end of the 80s they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to grips with the reason they separated 12 years ago.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryJapan
      Duration01:34

      Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang war, supposedly to mediate between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, Murakawa's headquarters are bombed and he and his gang are ambushed in a bar.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA

      A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville, Indiana in an attempt to uncover a notorious safecracker, believed to be masquerading as one of the town's upstanding citizens.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryCanada

      An unexpected heroine is plunged into a world of forged identities, corporate intrigue and organized crime.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
      CountryNorway
      Duration01:27

      Anna lives with her father Karl someplace in the outskirts of northern Norway. Karl killed his ex-wife and threw her newborn coloured child into the sea when he discovered that she obviously had been unfaithful. Now Karl is being haunted by her ghost and is developing a serious drinking problem. Anna is looking for the love of her life, but there aren't many bachelors around - until they discovers another small family on the other side of the mountain. They meet a semi-alcoholized widow on Karl's age, her son Peder, and her black adopted son, Ante, that arrived from the sea on a piece of wood.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      A drama revolving around a group of strangers brought together by a common occurrence as well as listening to the same radio station.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:56

      A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryFrance, Canada

      Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it's wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose's mother Carole is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend Francois and some of his criminal cohorts.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      Apocalyptic comedy finds a socially-challenged grad school student as one of the last two men on Earth with a beautiful woman.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante who takes it upon herself to right the wrongs in the world by whatever means necessary. For Miss Meadows, bad behavior is simply unforgivable.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      In 1900, strong-willed widow Lucy Muir goes to live in Gull Cottage by the British seaside, even though it appears to be haunted. On her very first night she meets the ghost of the crusty former owner, Captain Gregg—and refuses to be scared off. They eventually become friends and allies, after Lucy gets used to the idea of a man's ghost haunting her bedroom.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      A group of teenagers spend the night in a furniture shop for a graduation party. When one of them talks her boyfriend into a game of hide-and-seek, a psycho killer starts hunting them down one by one.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Romania
      Duration01:43

      While traveling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      Leanne is salutatorian when she needs to be valedictorian to get her scholarship to Harvard. The only class she is worse than the leader in is history, taught by Mrs. Tingle, and the teacher hates her. When an attempt to get ahead in Mrs. Tingle's class goes awry, mayhem ensues and friendships, loyalties and trust are tested by the teacher's intricate mind-games.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:25

      The adventures of an upper-class suburban family abruptly confronted with the younger brother's discovery of his homosexuality, the elder sister's suicide attempt and sado-masochist tendencies, and the intrusion of a very free-spirited maid and her husband... And it all started with the arrival in the family of an innocent looking rat...

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, family, crime
      CountryTurkey

      Celal Tan is a well-respected constitutional law professor who lives in a provincial city has two children from his first marriage. Many years after the death of his first wife, he married a woman much younger than him, a university student, whose life he has saved in some way. In the third year of their marriage, the extremely tragic story of Celal Tan and his family begins after a big crisis happened in front of the whole family. While trying to hide the secret, the family falls into absurd and tragicomic positions. Regardless of all happenings, Celal Tan tries to keep the family together.




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