Movies like Serious Men: 20 to watch next
If you loved Serious Men (2020) — a drama and comedy film directed by Sudhir Mishra — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Serious Men most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like based on novel or book and อัจฉริยะหน้าตาย. 8 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Almost Friends 2017★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, Comedy
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.
Stream in India on Plex
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The House of Tomorrow 2019★ 6.8
Shares: Drama, Comedy
The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Jaane Jaan 2023★ 7.0
Shares: Drama
When a single mother her teenage daughter becomes ensnared in a deadly crime, find an unexpected ally in their neighbor, a simple, doting but genius teacher math teacher comes to aid, while a tenacious cop digs into the case.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Juniper 2021★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, Comedy
When a self-destructive teenager is suspended from school and asked to look after his feisty alcoholic grandmother as a punishment, the crazy time they spend together turns his life around.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Uncorked 2020★ 6.1
Shares: Drama, Comedy
Elijah must balance his dream of becoming a master sommelier with his father's expectations that he carry on the family's Memphis BBQ joint.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Gangubai Kathiawadi 2022★ 7.5
Shares: Drama
Duped and sold to a brothel, a young woman fearlessly reclaims her power, using underworld connections to preside over the world she was once a pawn in.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Hichki 2018★ 7.6
Shares: Drama, Comedy
After finally landing a teaching job, a kindhearted woman with Tourette Syndrome faces a flawed system to provide an education to her forgotten students.
Stream in India on Netflix
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House of D 2004★ 6.3
Shares: Comedy, Drama
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Savage House 2026★ 6.9
Shares: Comedy, Drama
Against the backdrop of 18th century England, a massive pox outbreak, and Jacobite uprising – Sir Chauncey Savage and Lady Savage blindly pursue a better life. It's not without a tinge of irony that their family name is the Savages, for this is a Savage House indeed, filled with duels, decadence, and bloodshed.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Fat Kid Rules The World 2012★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Comedy
A dropout comes to the aid of a chubby and suicidal high-school kid by recruiting him as the drummer for his upstart punk-rock band.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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CQ 2001★ 5.9
Shares: Comedy, Drama
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl 2024★ 7.5
Shares: Comedy, Drama
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Madgaon Express 2024★ 6.3
Shares: Comedy, Drama
Three childhood friends embark on a trip to Goa that goes completely off-track when they wake up in their hotel room to find a cache of cocaine belonging to a don.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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The Middle Man 2021★ 6.1
Shares: Comedy, Drama
Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Treasure 2024★ 6.4
Shares: Drama, Comedy
A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Somewhere in Queens 2023★ 6.3
Shares: Comedy, Drama
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Landline 2017★ 6.2
Shares: Comedy, Drama
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Jungleland 2020★ 6.4
Shares: Drama
Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a series of misadventures that threaten to break the bond between them.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Playing God 2021★ 6.0
Shares: Comedy, Drama
A brother and sister con-artist duo find themselves scamming a grieving billionaire by convincing him they can introduce him to God, face-to-face.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Monica, O My Darling 2022★ 7.1
Shares: Comedy, Drama
A slick robotics expert joins a murderous plot after a passionate affair takes a sudden turn, but nothing — not even death — is what it seems to be.
Stream in India on Netflix