Movies to Watch From India

Superboys of Malegaon

Dir. Reema Kagti

Based on the life of a real small town filmmaker, this coming-of-age film is a familiar underdog story. After their…

Black Warrant

With the fresh-faced cast and the sleek camerawork, Black Warrant, at first, didn’t seem to be the gritty adaptation of…

Dupahiya

Dir. Sonam Nair

A town with no crime is a dream everywhere. It means safety, security, and trust for the residents within, so…

Killer Soup

Dir. Abhishek Chaubey

How far would you go to please the one you love? You might indulge your spouse with a white lie…

All We Imagine as Light

Dir. Payal Kapadia

All We Imagine as Light is a political film that has many smart and moving things to say about the…

Poacher

Dir. Richie Mehta

In Poacher, two passionate but low-level wildlife preservers are tasked to bring down a massive crime ring that murders elephants…

Maamla Legal Hai

Dir. Rahul Pandey

With the stakes involved in plenty of cases, legal dramas tend to be more serious and dramatic. However, sometimes, ludicrous…

The Romantics

Dir. Smriti Mundhra

Bollywood is the biggest film industry in the world, in terms of output. After all, the Indian film industry churns…

Kaala Paani

Dir. Amit Golani & Sameer Saxena

There’s a lot happening in Netflix’s first Hindi survival thriller series Kaala Paani. The main plot follows the discovery of…

Kohrra

Dir. Randeep Jha

Netflix India has been dominating the police procedural and mystery market, and Kohrra, its latest addition, is one of its…

Amar Singh Chamkila

Dir. Imtiaz Ali

At times of great societal turmoil, sometimes stars are born, not just to entertain the masses but to challenge the…

Last Film Show

Dir. Pan Nalin

Like many coming-of-age films about films, it’s easy to assume that Last Film Show would be a derivative of all-time…

Trial by Fire

Dir. Avani Deshpande & Prashant Nair

Tragedy can strike at any time, but some instances are preventable, and rare is the instance where people do seek…

Kumari Srimathi

Dir. Gomtesh Upadhye

Sometimes the ability to create good drama (and comedy!) just depends on one’s attentiveness to how the world works and…

Captain Miller

Dir. Arun Matheswaran

Set in the British colonial era, Captain Miller is more unapologetically violent than its counterparts, but it’s not mindlessly so.…

Rainbow Rishta

Dir. Hridaye Nagpal & Jaydeep Sarkar

It’s refreshing to watch stories about queer people in the Global South unfold with this much joy and love and…

Dhuin

Dir. Achal Mishra

Dhuin is evidently influenced by the Iranian filmmaker whose work its characters discuss: Abbas Kiarostami. Featuring non-professional actors and full…

Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam

Dir. Lijo Jose Pellissery

Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam might not immediately make sense to audiences new to director Lijo Jose Pellissery, but it’s still an…

Aachar & Co

Dir. Sindhu Sreenivasa Murthy

With elaborate sets, musical numbers, and an ensemble cast, Aachar and Co doesn’t feel like a regular budget-bound debut feature.…

All That Breathes

Dir. Shaunak Sen

Though it doesn’t proceed like most animal/nature-centered documentaries that you’ve seen, the Oscar-nominated All That Breathes is instantly memorable in…

My Love: Six Stories of True Love

Dir. Carolina Sá & Chico Pereira

This docuseries follows six couples from Japan, the U.S., Spain, Brazil, and India, as they share their stories of a…

Hi Nanna

Dir. Shouryuv

When your dad is single, and he isn’t in a relationship with someone else, naturally, a kid would wonder about…

The Railway Men - The Untold Story of Bhopal 1984

Dir. Shiv Rawail

The 1984 Bhopal gas leak is the world’s worst industrial disaster, and with the success of HBO’s Chernobyl, YRF Entertainment…

Star Wars: Visions

More a showcase of various styles of animation than an expansion of Star Wars lore (and all the better for…

Ray

Ray is a captivating anthology series that pays tribute to the genius of renowned Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray. With four…

The White Tiger

Dir. Ramin Bahrani

The White Tiger only occurs once in 10,000 births naturally, so it’s a fitting title for this film’s protagonist, as…

12th Fail

Dir. Vidhu Vinod Chopra

When everyone around you is cheating, the temptation to join in is tempting, especially if you’re not confident in your…

Against the Tide

Dir. Sarvnik Kaur

Shot and edited in an immersive, unembellished style that makes it seem more like a work of narrative fiction than…

To Kill a Tiger

Dir. Nisha Pahuja

To Kill a Tiger should not be an easy watch. It’s about the gang rape of 13-year-old Kiran, a girl…

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Dir. Aaron Sorkin

From Aaron Sorkin, the creator of every liberal’s favorite 2000s political drama, The West Wing, The Social Network, and the…

Jaane Jaan

Dir. Sujoy Ghosh

Jaane Jaan is one of those thrillers where you hope that the main characters would get away with murder. Based…

American Animals

Dir. Bart Layton

This crazy heist movie is told in a very original way. Because it’s based on a true story, the movie…

Ghoul

Dir. Patrick Graham

Though relatively low on scares, this three-episode Indian miniseries fully believes in horror of a different kind: governments that indiscriminately…

Aavesham

Dir. Jithu Madhavan

When it comes to examining the cycle of violence college students get into just to get their degree, Aavesham falls…

Guns & Gulaabs

Young love, gunslinging, and the players of an opium ring open the first episode of the Indian comedy-crime-thriller, Guns &…