Hindi Darker Films
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1. Udaan (2010)
Not Rated | 134 min | Drama
Expelled from his school, a 16-year old boy returns home to his abusive and oppressive father.
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane | Stars: Rajat Barmecha, Ronit Roy, Manjot Singh, Ram Kapoor
Votes: 47,409 | Gross: $0.01M
2. Masaan (2015)
109 min | Drama
Along India's Ganges River, four people face prejudice, a strict moral code and a punishing caste system as they confront personal tragedies.
Director: Neeraj Ghaywan | Stars: Richa Chadha, Sanjay Mishra, Vicky Kaushal, Pankaj Tripathi
Votes: 31,307
3. Bandit Queen (1994)
Not Rated | 119 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi who was sent to prison in 1983 and got free in 1994.
Director: Shekhar Kapur | Stars: Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Rajesh Vivek, Raghubir Yadav
Votes: 5,318 | Gross: $0.40M
4. Ugly (2013)
Not Rated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The case of a missing girl takes us through a journey of human greed and brushes upon the egos and repressed emotions of the characters.
Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Rahul Bhat, Ronit Roy, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Vineet Kumar Singh
Votes: 23,516
5. Psycho Raman (2016)
Not Rated | 133 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ramanna, a maniac murderer, finds a soulmate in Raghavan, a policeman, who inspects his murder cases. He tries to make Raghavan realize how they both are similar.
Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal, Sobhita Dhulipala, Mukesh Chhabra
Votes: 15,946
6. Godmother (1999)
150 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When an imminent drought threatens to ruin their crop, Rambhi and her husband Veeru move from their village to the city. Through threat, violence and blackmail, Veeru makes a career as a ... See full summary »
Director: Vinay Shukla | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Milind Gunaji, Nirmal Pandey, Govind Namdeo
Votes: 274
7. Gulaal (2009)
Not Rated | 140 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A law student witnesses deception, homicide, and crime after being elected as General Secretary of his college.
Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Kay Kay Menon, Raj Singh Chaudhary, Raja Chaudhary, Jesse Randhawa
Votes: 15,910
8. Sarkar (2005)
Not Rated | 124 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Subhash Nagre runs a parallel government in the city where he has a cult following. When his enemies plot to murder him, his son takes charge and stands up against them.
Director: Ram Gopal Varma | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Kay Kay Menon, Supriya Pathak
Votes: 17,437
9. Firaaq (2008)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Chronicles the devastating impact on vulnerable Muslims in Gujarat after riots.
Director: Nandita Das | Stars: Inaamulhaq, Nassar, Shahana Goswami, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Votes: 2,584
10. Lipstick Under My Burkha (2016)
117 min | Comedy, Drama
In order to be independent and break free from the conservative society, four women sets on a journey to discover freedom and happiness.
Director: Alankrita Shrivastava | Stars: Aahana Kumra, Ratna Pathak Shah, Konkona Sen Sharma, Plabita Borthakur
Votes: 7,249
11. Rangeela (1995)
Not Rated | 142 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A middle-class young woman who dreams of Bollywood fame is caught in a love triangle between her childhood friend and a famous actor.
Director: Ram Gopal Varma | Stars: Aamir Khan, Urmila Matondkar, Jackie Shroff, Gulshan Grover
Votes: 10,430
12. Kaminey (2009)
Not Rated | 130 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The desperate lives of two estranged twin brothers converge over missing drugs, politics, racial prejudice, corrupt cops and an unplanned pregnancy.
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj | Stars: Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Deb Mukherjee, Shivkumar Subramaniam
Votes: 18,128 | Gross: $1.29M
13. Shool (1999)
138 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A tale of an honest cop set against the backdrop of the brutal, lawless system prevailing in the Indian state of Bihar, and the endless suffering he tolerates before all hell breaks loose.
Director: Eeshwar Nivas | Stars: Manoj Bajpayee, Raveena Tandon, Sayaji Shinde, Yashpal Sharma
Votes: 3,876
14. Fashion (2008)
Not Rated | 167 min | Drama, Romance
A small-town girl finally realizes her dream of becoming a famous supermodel but soon finds out that her glamorous new life has a price.
Director: Madhur Bhandarkar | Stars: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Kangana Ranaut, Mugdha Godse, Arbaaz Khan
Votes: 13,116 | Gross: $0.19M
15. Shahid (2012)
Not Rated | 129 min | Biography, Drama
The account of Human Rights lawyer Shahid Azmi, an ordinary citizen with an extraordinary commitment to justice.
Director: Hansal Mehta | Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Prabhleen Sandhu, Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub, Baljinder Kaur
Votes: 17,750
16. Paan Singh Tomar (2012)
Not Rated | 135 min | Action, Biography, Crime
The story of Paan Singh Tomar, an Indian athlete and seven-time national steeplechase champion who becomes one of the most feared dacoits in Chambal Valley after his retirement.
Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia | Stars: Irrfan Khan, Mahie Gill, Rajesh Abhay, Hemendra Dandotiya
Votes: 37,873 | Gross: $0.04M
17. Chandni Bar (2001)
Not Rated | 150 min | Crime, Drama
A displaced woman is forced to become a beer-bar dancer, and sire children of a gangster.
Director: Madhur Bhandarkar | Stars: Tabu, Atul Kulkarni, Rajpal Naurang Yadav, Shri Vallabh Vyas
Votes: 2,793
18. LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha (2010)
Not Rated | 155 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A video camcorder, a store security camera, and concealed cameras candidly expose lives in three loosely-linked tales.
Director: Dibakar Banerjee | Stars: Nushrratt Bharuccha, Anshuman Jha, Neha Chauhan, Rajkummar Rao
Votes: 6,115
19. Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998)
186 min | Drama
Dibyanath Chatterji, his bank-employed wife, Sujata, and only child, a son, Brati, live a middle-class existence in Calcutta, West Bengal, India, circa early 1970s. Sujata is a quiet, ... See full summary »
Director: Govind Nihalani | Stars: Jaya Bachchan, Anupam Kher, Seema Biswas, Milind Gunaji
Votes: 304
20. Raat Akeli Hai (2020)
TV-MA | 149 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Follows a small town cop who is summoned to investigate the death of a politician which gets complicated by the victim's secretive family and his own conflicted heart.
Director: Honey Trehan | Stars: Ashish Chhipa, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte, Aditya Srivastav
Votes: 19,671
21. Gangaajal (2003)
Not Rated | 157 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An IPS officer motivates and leads a dysfunctional, corrupt police force of Tezpur to fight against the corrupt politician.
Director: Prakash Jha | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Gracy Singh, Mohan Joshi, Yashpal Sharma
Votes: 18,134
22. Haider (2014)
Not Rated | 160 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young man returns to Kashmir after his father's disappearance to confront his uncle, whom he suspects of playing a role in his father's fate.
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj | Stars: Shahid Kapoor, Tabu, Shraddha Kapoor, Kay Kay Menon
Votes: 57,897 | Gross: $0.90M
23. Bhumika (1977)
142 min | Drama
A girl learns music from her courtesan grandmother and breaks into the burgeoning show business industry of 1930s Bombay, which eventually leads to decades of superstardom as well as romantic entanglements.
Director: Shyam Benegal | Stars: Smita Patil, Anant Nag, Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri
Votes: 711
24. Mandi (1983)
167 min | Comedy, Drama
Forbidden love, fraying loyalties and flagrant hypocrisy emerge when sanctimonious politicians drive a madam's brothel from the heart of Hyderabad.
Director: Shyam Benegal | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri
Votes: 952
25. Vijeta (1982)
151 min | Drama
Angad is a confused teenager trying to find himself and is caught in between the marital problems of his Maharashtrian mother Neelima and Punjabi fat.
Director: Govind Nihalani | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Supriya Pathak, Kunal Kapoor
Votes: 326
26. Kalyug (1981)
152 min | Drama
This movie tells story of fierce and total competition of two related business families in the days of license raaj India. The overall plot is based on Mahabharat. This movie shows that how... See full summary »
Director: Shyam Benegal | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Raj Babbar, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Votes: 583
27. Aakrosh (1980)
144 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A public prosecutor discovers the harsh realities about life of the scheduled tribes in India during 1980s while defending a case of a tribesman charged of murdering his wife.
Director: Govind Nihalani | Stars: Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri
Votes: 1,183
28. Arth (1982)
138 min | Drama, Romance
A film-maker who is having an extra-marital affair with an actress decides to leave his wife. Arth is the story of this women's search for her identity.
Director: Mahesh Bhatt | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil, Raj Kiran
Votes: 1,560
29. Ardh Satya (1983)
130 min | Crime, Drama
A newly appointed police rookie deals with corruption, romance, and brutality.
Director: Govind Nihalani | Stars: Om Puri, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Shafi Inamdar
Votes: 2,043
30. Arohan (1983)
Not Rated | 144 min | Drama
Story of a poor farmer who suffers under a cunning and cruel landlord, amidst rising Naxalism in the 60s.
Director: Shyam Benegal | Stars: Victor Banerjee, Noni Ganguly, Pankaj Kapur, Sreela Majumdar
Votes: 86
31. Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Not Rated | 113 min | Crime, Drama
Young Krishna struggles to survive among the drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes in the back alleys and gutters of India.
Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Shafiq Syed, Anjaan, Amrit Patel, Murari Sharma
Votes: 10,093 | Gross: $2.08M
32. Maachis (1996)
Not Rated | 160 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A realistic, hard-hitting portrayal of terrorism and youth in the Punjab after the 1984 riots.
Director: Gulzar | Stars: Om Puri, Tabu, Chandrachur Singh, Kanwaljeet Singh
Votes: 2,439
33. Company (2002)
Not Rated | 142 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A small-time gangster named Chandu teams up with Malik, a low-level enforcer for a criminal syndicate. Together they eliminate all their enemies, becoming the most feared gangsters in Mumbai.
Director: Ram Gopal Varma | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Mohanlal, Manisha Koirala, Seema Biswas
Votes: 16,155
34. Omkara (2006)
Not Rated | 155 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A politically-minded enforcer's misguided trust in his lieutenant leads him to suspect his wife of infidelity in this adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Othello'.
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma
Votes: 22,102 | Gross: $0.79M
35. Paanch (2003)
Not Rated | 130 min | Crime, Thriller
Kidnapping plot gone wrong when four friends plans to kidnap their own friend who accidentally got killed.
Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Srivastav, Joy Fernandes, Vijay Maurya
Votes: 2,474
36. Black Friday (2004)
Not Rated | 143 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved --police, conspirators, victims, middlemen.
Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Kay Kay Menon, Pawan Malhotra, Aditya Srivastav, Dibyendu Bhattacharya
Votes: 22,000 | Gross: $0.03M
37. Soni (2018)
TV-MA | 97 min | Crime, Drama
While fighting crimes against women in Delhi, a short-fused policewoman and her level-headed female boss grapple with gender issues in their own lives.
Director: Ivan Ayr | Stars: Geetika Vidya Ohlyan, Saloni Batra, Vikas Shukla, Mohit Chauhan
Votes: 3,011
38. Agneepath (1990)
Not Rated | 174 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young boy's quest for revenge leads him to become a gangster as an adult, and with each day he becomes more and more like his enemies. Can he find vengeance and redemption?
Director: Mukul Anand | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Mithun Chakraborty, Madhavi, Neelam Kothari
Votes: 9,457
39. Dharavi (1992)
Not Rated | 120 min | Crime, Drama
Rajkaran lives in Dharavi, the biggest slum in the world. He aspires to start his own business and even manages to do it. But several misfortunes land him back to square one, penniless and alone.
Director: Sudhir Mishra | Stars: Somesh Agarwal, Shabana Azmi, Pramod Bala, Madhuri Dixit
Votes: 368
40. Damul (1985)
106 min | Drama
Damul (Bonded Until Death) highlights the ill effects of Bonded Labour System while narrating the story of a bonded labour who is left with no choice but to steal by his landlord.
Director: Prakash Jha | Stars: Manohar Singh, Annu Kapoor, Sreela Majumdar, Deepti Naval
Votes: 150
41. Anaarkali of Aarah (2017)
113 min | Drama
A village dancer is harassed by a local politician and is ridiculed by the police, but ends up plotting revenge to clear her name.
Director: Avinash Das | Stars: Pankaj Tripathi, Swara Bhasker, Sanjay Mishra, Mayur More
Votes: 2,002
42. Monsoon Shootout (2013)
Not Rated | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
As heavy rains lash Mumbai, a cop on his first assignment faces a life altering decision when he must decide whether to shoot a suspect or not.
Director: Amit Kumar | Stars: Vijay Varma, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Neeraj Kabi, Geetanjali Thapa
Votes: 1,440
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