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Movies Like Vishkanya

If you liked Vishkanya (1991), a drama and thriller movie directed by Jag Mundhra, 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. 1Frank and Penelope

    Frank and Penelope (2022)

    ★ 7.3/10Also thriller and horror

    A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is…

  2. 2Caged

    Caged (2021)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller and horror

    An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an…

  3. 3Blindfire

    Blindfire (2020)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and thriller

    A police officer who while responding to a violent hostage call, kills the African American suspect only to later learn of his innocence. Sensing this was a set-up, and facing repercussions, he must track down the…

  4. 4Savaged

    Savaged (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and horror

    After thugs brutalize a deaf-mute woman, the spirit of an Apache warrior takes over her lifeless body and sets out on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge.

  5. 5Goodnight Mommy

    Goodnight Mommy (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10Also horror and thriller

    When twin brothers arrive home to find their mother’s demeanor altered and face covered in surgical bandages, they begin to suspect the woman beneath the gauze might not be their mother.

  6. 6Walking Tall: Lone Justice

    Walking Tall: Lone Justice (2007)

    ★ 5.8/10Also thriller and drama

    In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents becomes the only chance to keep him in prison. They are lodged in another safe-house, but the place is invaded and the…

  7. 7The Surrender

    The Surrender (2025)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and horror

    A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.

  8. 8Night of the Hunted

    Night of the Hunted (2023)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller

    When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her…

  9. 9D

    D (2005)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller and drama

    Deshu, a mechanic from Dubai, comes home to Mumbai, and gets embroiled in a crime by accident. The film shows his meteoric rise from common, law-abiding man to underworld kingpin.

  10. 10Lockdown

    Lockdown (2000)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and thriller

    Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and…

  11. 11Grindhouse

    Grindhouse (2007)

    ★ 7/10Also thriller and horror

    Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who…

  12. 12The Resurrected

    The Resurrected (1991)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror and thriller

    Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.

  13. 13A Good Woman Is Hard to Find

    A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller and drama

    The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local…

  14. 14Coffy

    Coffy (1973)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller and drama

    After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her…

  15. 15The Last House on the Left

    The Last House on the Left (2009)

    ★ 6.5/10Also thriller and horror

    When athletic teen Mari Collingwood opts to hang out with her friend Paige in town rather than spend an evening in with her parents vacationing at the family's remote lake house, it marks the beginning of a night no…

  16. 16Becky

    Becky (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller and horror

    A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.

  17. 17Hounds of Love

    Hounds of Love (2016)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and horror

    When Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple, she soon observes the dynamic between her captors and quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.

  18. 18Strange Darling

    Strange Darling (2024)

    ★ 6.9/10Also thriller and horror

    Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.

  19. 19Dark Angel

    Dark Angel (1990)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller and horror

    Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. While involved in an undercover operation to entrap…

  20. 20Ninja III: The Domination

    Ninja III: The Domination (1984)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror and thriller

    An aerobics instructor becomes a ruthless assassin after being possessed by a slain ninja's spirit, leading to a showdown with a martial arts expert.

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