Movies Like Mahishasur Marddini

If you liked Mahishasur Marddini (2022), a drama movie directed by Ranjan Ghosh, 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.

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   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.

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   Goodbye June (2025)

   ★ 6.5/10Also drama

   Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

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   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…

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   Skin (2009)

   ★ 6.4/10Also drama

   Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

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   The Girl in the Book (2015)

   ★ 5.8/10Also drama

   The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

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   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.

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   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.

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   All Day and a Night (2020)

   ★ 6.3/10Also drama

   While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

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   The Truth About Emanuel (2013)

   ★ 6/10Also drama

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

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    Here (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

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    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…

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    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.

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    A Question of Faith (2017)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs

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    Eleanor the Great (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

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    Strange Weather (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

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    A Dry White Season (1989)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    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.

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    Gracie (2007)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

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    For Colored Girls (2010)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A film about existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in…

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    Trees of Peace (2021)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Four women from different backgrounds forge an unbreakable sisterhood while trapped and in hiding during the genocide in Rwanda.

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    Lucky Them (2013)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what…