Movies Like Maha Badmaash

If you liked Maha Badmaash (1977), a movie directed by R.G. Thaker, 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
Suicide Kings (1997)
★ 6.6/10
Carlo, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Carlo plays mind games, however, his captors splinter -- each wondering…
2
Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2 (2012)
★ 7.8/10
After the death of his father and brother Danish, Faizal Khan vows to take revenge by destroying Ramadhir Singh's gang.
3
Diablo (2025)
★ 7.3/10
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…
4
Code of Silence (1985)
★ 6/10
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.
5
Sleepless (2017)
★ 5.9/10
Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs, who has a lot of enemies, is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. When a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal…
6
Avengement (2019)
★ 6.9/10
While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.
7
Colombiana (2011)
★ 6.7/10
After witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, Cataleya Restrepo grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante…
8
Nick of Time (1995)
★ 6.2/10
An ordinary man is suddenly forced into a plot to kill a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom.
9
Dragged Across Concrete (2019)
★ 6.6/10
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options…
10
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
★ 6.7/10
Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team…
11
Scarface (1983)
★ 8.2/10
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes…
12
Bugsy (1991)
★ 6.3/10
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies…
13
Heist (2015)
★ 6.1/10
A father is without the means to pay for his daughter's medical treatment. As a last resort, he partners with a greedy co-worker to rob a casino. When things go awry they're forced to hijack a city bus.
14
The Air I Breathe (2007)
★ 6.3/10
A gambler’s bet spiraling into chaos, a gangster's prophetic visions, a pop star’s dark entanglement, a doctor’s desperate race against time to rescue his beloved... Four interconnected stories reveal life unfolding…
15
Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
★ 7.5/10
Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to…
16
High Rollers (2025)
★ 6.5/10
A master thief must pull off a dangerous casino heist when his nemesis kidnaps his lover. Caught between rival criminals and FBI pursuit, he risks all to save her and score big.
17
Ava (2020)
★ 5.8/10
A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
18
The Alto Knights (2025)
★ 6.2/10
Two of New York's most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, vie for control of the city's streets. Once the best of friends, petty jealousies and a series of betrayals place them on a…
19
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
★ 7.5/10
Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
20
Triple 9 (2016)
★ 6/10
A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.