Movies like Swades: 20 to watch next
If you loved Swades (2004) — a drama film directed by Ashutosh Gowariker — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Swades most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like nasa, social issues and non-resident indian. 9 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Blue Miracle 2021★ 7.3
Shares: Drama
To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Crooked Arrows 2012★ 6.1
Shares: Drama
A native-American lacrosse team makes its way through a prep school league tournament.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Beasts of the Southern Wild 2012★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe—for a time when he’s no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack—temperatures rise and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink’s health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Flicka 2006★ 6.9
Shares: Drama
Katy McLaughlin desires to work on her family's mountainside horse ranch, although her father insists she finish boarding school. Katy finds a mustang in the hills near her ranch. The headstrong 16 year old then sets her mind to tame a mustang and prove to her father she can run the ranch. But when tragedy happens, it will take all the love and strength the family can muster to restore hope.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Homebound 2025★ 7.7
Shares: Drama
Two childhood friends from a small North Indian village chase a police job that promises them the dignity they’ve long been denied. But as they inch closer to their dream, mounting desperation threatens the bond that holds them together.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Hidden Figures 2016★ 8.1
Shares: Drama
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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A Million Miles Away 2023★ 7.6
Shares: Drama
The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Viceroy's House 2017★ 6.7
Shares: Drama
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Soul 2020★ 8.1
Shares: Drama
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
Stream in India on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
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The Greening of Whitney Brown 2011★ 5.9
Shares: Drama
Whitney, a spoiled pre-teen from Philadelphia, is forced to move to the country when her parents feel the squeeze of economic hard times. A fish out of water, far from her comfort zone, she befriends an amazing horse, and undertakes a misguided journey back to her old life, only to discover that her family is her home.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Things to Come 1936★ 6.4
Shares: Drama
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
Stream in India on Artiflix
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The Color of Friendship 2000★ 6.7
Shares: Drama
Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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All Is Lost 2013★ 6.6
Shares: Drama
During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and barely escapes with his life. With any luck, the ocean currents may carry him into a shipping lane -- but, with supplies dwindling and the sharks circling, the sailor is forced to face his own mortality.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Beautiful Game 2024★ 6.3
Shares: Drama
A group of advocates to end homelessness organize an annual tournament for homeless people to compete in a series of football matches known as The Homeless World Cup.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull 1973★ 6.1
Shares: Drama
Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his seagull clan. He rather experiments with new, always more daring flying techniques. Since he doesn't fit in, the elders expel him from the clan. So he sets out to discover the world beyond the horizon in a quest for wisdom.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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A Passage to India 1984★ 6.8
Shares: Drama
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Stream in India on MGM Plus Amazon Channel
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12th Fail 2023★ 7.9
Shares: Drama
Based on the true story of IPS officer Manoj Kumar Sharma, 12th Fail sheds limelight on fearlessly embracing the idea of restarting the academic journey despite the setbacks and challenges and reclaiming one's destiny at a place where millions of students attempt the world's toughest competitive exam: UPSC.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Skin 2009★ 6.4
Shares: Drama
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Like Stars on Earth 2007★ 8.0
Shares: Drama
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Max 2015★ 7.2
Shares: Drama
A dog that helped soldiers in Afghanistan returns to the U.S. and is adopted by his handler's family after suffering a traumatic experience.
Stream in India on MGM Plus Amazon Channel