Movies like Rocketry: The Nambi Effect: 20 to watch next
If you loved Rocketry: The Nambi Effect (2022) — a drama and history film directed by R. Madhavan — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Rocketry: The Nambi Effect most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like based on true story. 6 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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A Call to Spy 2020★ 6.8
Shares: History, Drama
The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Radium Girls 2020★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, History
Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Richard Jewell 2019★ 7.4
Shares: Drama, History
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
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Shattered Glass 2003★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, History
Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September 1998 Vanity Fair article - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks.
Stream in India on Movie Sphere+
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Won't Back Down 2012★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Scarlet and the Black 1983★ 7.1
Shares: Drama, History
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Munich - The Edge of War 2021★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, History
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Gigi & Nate 2022★ 7.6
Shares: Drama
A young man with a bright future suffers a near-fatal accident and recreates his new life with the help of an unlikely animal friend.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Boy in the Woods 2023★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, History
The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, based on Maxwell Smart's memoir.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan 2011★ 6.1
Shares: Drama, History
A story set in 19th century China and centered on the lifelong friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid cultural norms imposed on women.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Origin 2023★ 6.2
Shares: Drama, History
While investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the beauty of human resilience.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Belfast 2021★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, History
Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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The Book of Daniel 2013★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, History
Taken into slavery after the fall of Jerusalem in 605 B.C., Daniel is forced to serve the most powerful king in the world, King Nebuchadnezzar. Faced with imminent death, Daniel proves himself a trusted Advisor and is placed among the king's wise men. Threatened by death at every turn Daniel never ceases to serve the king until he is forced to choose between serving the king or honoring God. With his life at stake, Daniel has nothing but his faith to stand between him and the lions' den.
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Victoria & Abdul 2017★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, History
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Giant 2026★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, History
Follows Prince Naseem Hamed from his humble beginnings on the tough working-class streets of Sheffield and his discovery by Ingle, himself a steel industry worker turned boxing trainer. Their unlikely partnership, Naz’s unorthodox style, cocky persona, and sheer dominance in the ring propelled them to the top of boxing’s elite and unprecedented levels of global superstardom, all in the face of the rampant Islamophobia and racism of ’80s and 90’s Britain.
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The Current War 2018★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, History
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
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Jobs 2013★ 6.1
Shares: Drama, History
The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.
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Mary 2024★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, History
A miraculous conception. A merciless king. A murderous pursuit. Mary's journey to give birth to Jesus unfolds in this biblical coming-of-age epic.
Stream in India on Netflix
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2017★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, History
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Eight Men Out 1988★ 6.8
Shares: Drama, History
Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now