Movies like Shootout at Wadala: 20 to watch next
If you loved Shootout at Wadala (2013) — a action, crime and drama film directed by Sanjay Gupta — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Shootout at Wadala most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like criminal underworld. 7 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Shootout at Lokhandwala 2007★ 6.2
Shares: Action, Crime, History
An account of the gangster Maya Dolas and his gang which terrorized Mumbai City, and the ensuing standoff between Mumbai Police and the gang on 16 November 1991.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Hungama Play, VI movies and tv
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Satya 1998★ 7.3
Shares: Crime, Drama
A young man named Satya comes to Mumbai from South India in search of a job. Jailed for something he did not do, the once-honest young man meets an underworld boss, Bhiku Mhatre in jail and joins his gang.
Stream in India on VI movies and tv
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Belly 1998★ 6.4
Shares: Crime, Drama
Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign last?
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Run 1991★ 6.0
Shares: Action, Drama, Crime
When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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D 2005★ 6.4
Shares: Crime, Drama
Deshu, a mechanic from Dubai, comes home to Mumbai, and gets embroiled in a crime by accident. The film shows his meteoric rise from common, law-abiding man to underworld kingpin.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Hoodlum 1997★ 6.5
Shares: Crime, Drama
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
Stream in India on MGM Plus Amazon Channel
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Al Capone 1959★ 6.6
Shares: Action, Crime, Drama
In this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder, extortion, and political fraud. He becomes head of Chicago's biggest "business," but moves inexorably toward his downfall and ignominious end.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Code of Silence 1985★ 5.9
Shares: Action, Crime
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Diablo 2025★ 7.3
Shares: Action, Crime, Drama
Ex-con Kris Chaney seizes the daughter of a Colombian gangster to fulfill a noble promise to the young girl's mother. When her father enlists both the criminal underworld and a psychotic killer to exact his revenge, Kris relies on everything he's ever learned to stay alive and keep his word.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Organization 1971★ 6.2
Shares: Drama, Action, Crime
After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Mobsters 1991★ 6.3
Shares: Action, Crime, Drama
The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Company 2002★ 7.0
Shares: Action, Crime, Drama
Mallik is a henchman of Aslam Bhai, a Mumbai underworld kingpin. He inducts local hothead Chandu into the gang, and the two of them soon form a formidable faction within the gang, eventually displacing Aslam. As the empire grows, however, the two of them start drifting apart.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, VI movies and tv, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Havoc 2025★ 6.4
Shares: Action, Crime, Drama
When a drug heist swerves lethally out of control, a jaded cop fights his way through a corrupt city's criminal underworld to save a politician's son.
Stream in India on Netflix
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In Too Deep 1999★ 6.4
Shares: Drama, Action, Crime
Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop Jeffrey Cole. But as Cole takes on an assumed identity to penetrate Gittens' criminal empire, he makes a disturbing discovery -- he kind of likes being a gangster.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The System 2022★ 7.3
Shares: Action, Crime
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Rise of the Footsoldier 2007★ 6.4
Shares: Action, Crime
Carlton Leach rises from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late '80s and early '90s.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Welcome to the Punch 2013★ 5.9
Shares: Action, Crime
When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Blood Ties 2013★ 6.1
Shares: Crime, Drama
Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Absolution 2024★ 5.9
Shares: Action, Crime
An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children. He is determined to leave a positive legacy for his grandson, but the criminal underworld isn’t done with him and won’t loosen their grip willingly.
Stream in India on Lionsgate Play, Lionsgate Play Apple TV Channel, Lionsgate Play Amazon Channel
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Black Mass 2015★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, Crime, History
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
Stream in India on Netflix