Movies like Zerograd: 20 to watch next
If you loved Zerograd (1988) — a comedy, mystery and drama film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Zerograd most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like phantasmagoria. 4 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Family Weekend 2013★ 6.3
Shares: Comedy, Drama
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Short Stories 2012★ 6.0
Shares: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A young writer brings a collection of short stories to a big Moscow publishing house. The manuscript stays at the office and mysteriously influences the lives of anyone who opens it and reads at least one page. There are four stories in the manuscript, and four readers whose lives are changed after reading them. The situations range from realistic to absurd to thrilling to create a rich portrait of life in contemporary Russia and showcase the thoughts, feelings and ambitions of people who live there.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Clique 2008★ 5.9
Shares: Comedy, Drama
A young girl tries to fit in with a clique of popular middle school girls after moving into the guest house of one of their homes.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Soulless 2012★ 5.8
Shares: Comedy, Drama
It's a story of 29-year-old top-manager Max who is really sure he is absolutely successful. All his life is around earning and spending money. But one day he meets a girl who is from another, real, world. And his own world starts to crash down.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Hooking Up 2020★ 6.3
Shares: Comedy, Drama
Bailey and Darla embark upon a misguided and mutually deceitful form of therapy, one in which they must drive across the country, re-enacting Darla's colorful history as a sex addict. As their true motivations for the road trip come to light, the unlikely pair force one another to confront their issues, discovering that there might actually be more to love than just sex.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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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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In the Soup 1992★ 6.8
Shares: Comedy, Drama
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.
Stream in India on Brew
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The Overnight 2015★ 5.9
Shares: Mystery, Comedy
Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family “playdate” becomes increasingly interesting as the night goes on.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Super 2010★ 6.5
Shares: Comedy, Drama
After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, though he lacks for heroic skills.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Fritz the Cat 1972★ 6.2
Shares: Comedy, Drama
In late 1960s New York City, fed up with monotonous college life and police repression, free-spirited Fritz, an impenitent seducer and unrestrained party-animal, decides to explore the world. And just like that, as he flees NYC, heading to San Francisco, Fritz embarks on an endless adventure of illumination. Immersed in a world surrounded by drugs and sex, Fritz participates in mad orgies, brings about a revolution, incites mass urban riots, and crosses paths with drug-addled Nazi bikers.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Generation P 2011★ 6.4
Shares: Comedy, Drama
Set in the ground zero of gangster globalism and driven by a truly manic energy, Generation P is at once a comedy, a tragedy and a fantasy about the rise of a poet-turned-adman through Russia’s nascent advertising business during the Moscow roaring 1990s.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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A Gentle Creature 2017★ 5.9
Shares: Drama, Mystery
A woman lives in a small village in Russia. One day she receives the parcel she sent to her husband, serving a sentence in prison. Confused and angered, she sets out to find why her package was returned to sender.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Kinds of Kindness 2024★ 6.5
Shares: Comedy, Drama
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
Stream in India on VI movies and tv
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The Big Kahuna 1999★ 6.8
Shares: Comedy, Drama
Three salesmen working for a firm that makes industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's "hospitality suite" at a manufacturers' convention for a "big kahuna" named Dick Fuller to show up, in hopes they can persuade him to place an order that could salvage the company's flagging sales.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Needle 1989★ 6.8
Shares: Drama, Mystery
Moro returns to Alma-Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit and to fight the local drug mafia responsible for her condition.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Totally F***ed Up 1994★ 6.6
Shares: Comedy, Drama
Gay, alienated Los Angeles teens have a hard time as their parents kick them out of their homes, they don’t have money, their lovers cheat, and they are harassed by gay-bashers.
Stream in India on MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel
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Band Aid 2017★ 6.3
Shares: Comedy, Drama
A couple who can't stop fighting embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage: turning their fights into songs and starting a band.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Heavy Traffic 1973★ 6.5
Shares: Comedy, Drama
A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an Italian father and a ditzy nutcase of a Jewish mother, he's ridiculed and looked down upon by his friends, hypocrites who run with violent gangs and the Italian Mafia, and a shallow Black girl who makes her living downtown with the pimps and pushers. The cartoonist gets a chance to pitch a film idea to a movie mogul, but the story proves too outrageous: a far-future Earth, depleted by war and pollution, where a mutant antihero challenges and kills God.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Dope 2015★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, Comedy
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
Stream in India on Sony Liv, Sonyliv Amazon Channel
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Farewell, My Lovely 1975★ 6.6
Shares: Mystery, Drama
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now