Movies Like Mera Naam Joker

If you liked Mera Naam Joker (1970), a drama and romance movie directed by Raj Kapoor, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Water for Elephants (2011)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance
In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married…
2
All of You (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and drama
Laura and Simon have been best friends since college. Over the years, they've realized their bond is more than platonic. Can they—and should they—risk everything to explore a love that has existed all along?
3
Maestro (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and romance
A towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love letter to life and art, Maestro at its core is an emotionally epic…
4
Crazy/Beautiful (2001)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance
At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from the affluent neighborhood.
5
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous…
6
Meet Joe Black (1998)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance
Bill Parrish has it all - success, wealth and power. Days before his 65th birthday, he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger, Joe Black, who soon reveals himself as Death. In exchange for extra time, Bill agrees…
7
Autumn in New York (2000)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance
Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together the pair pursue a passionate affair that forces them both to…
8
Saiyaara (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and drama
Two artistic souls find harmony through music despite their contrasting worlds. As feelings deepen, age and circumstances challenge their undeniable bond.
9
Aashiqui 2 (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romance
A young woman meets a failing musician who launches her singing career, but their relationship is doomed when people assume he's with her for her fame and fortune.
10
Stealing Beauty (1996)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian…
11
Two Moon Junction (1988)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance
A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.
12
Monster's Ball (2001)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romance
A prison guard begins a tentative romance with the unsuspecting widow of a man whose execution he presided over.
13
Sanam Teri Kasam (2016)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and romance
Tough ex-convict Inder and traditional mousy Saraswati fall in love and get married, but a tragedy changes their lives forever. The film is a modern rendition of the legends of Shiva-Sati and the novel "Love Story" by…
14
Doing Life (2026)
★ 7.8/10Also romance and drama
A single mother and an incarcerated man forge an unlikely bond through heartfelt letters, unlocking a door to redemption, hope and love against all odds.
15
Untamed Heart (1993)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romance
Caroline, a young waitress who seems to have bad taste in men, is on her way home one night when thugs attempt to rape her. Adam, the mysterious busboy who works at the same diner, helps fight off the assailants, and…
16
Remember Me (2010)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romance
Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as…
17
Stomp the Yard (2007)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and music
After the death of his younger brother, a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black, Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. But his…
18
We Live in Time (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also romance and drama
An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.
19
About Time (2013)
★ 7.9/10Also drama and romance
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and…
20
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and music
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend…