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Movies Like A Death in the Gunj

If you liked A Death in the Gunj (2016), a drama and thriller movie directed by Konkona Sen Sharma, 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. 1The Truth About Emanuel

    The Truth About Emanuel (2013)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and thriller

    A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

  2. 2Rogue Agent

    Rogue Agent (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller and drama

    Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.

  3. 3Reality

    Reality (2023)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and thriller

    Augusta, Georgia, United States, June 3, 2017. After running some errands, Reality Winner returns home, where she is approached by two men.

  4. 4A Dry White Season

    A Dry White Season (1989)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and thriller

    During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

  5. 5The Experiment

    The Experiment (2010)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller and drama

    20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

  6. 6I Believe in Unicorns

    I Believe in Unicorns (2015)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

  7. 7The Trials of Cate McCall

    The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

  8. 8Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

    Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

  9. 9Holy Lands

    Holy Lands (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife…

  10. 10Iron Jawed Angels

    Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

  11. 11The Safety of Objects

    The Safety of Objects (2002)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband…

  12. 12Hounddog

    Hounddog (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

  13. 13Not Without Hope

    Not Without Hope (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller and drama

    A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.

  14. 14The Operative

    The Operative (2019)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama and thriller

    A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.

  15. 15Bastard Out of Carolina

    Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…

  16. 16TalhotBlond

    TalhotBlond (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

  17. 17Guilty by Suspicion

    Guilty by Suspicion (1991)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and thriller

    Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for his rights and faces numerous challenges.

  18. 18Raajneeti

    Raajneeti (2010)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and thriller

    It is the story of a fiercely fought election campaign, where money power and corruption are the accepted norms, and where treachery and manipulation are routinely used weapons. As the personal drama of these…

  19. 19Road to Paloma

    Road to Paloma (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10Also thriller and drama

    While Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their reservation he crosses paths with Cash, a down and out musician who is…

  20. 20The Caveman's Valentine

    The Caveman's Valentine (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and thriller

    Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim…

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