20 movies like Chandni Bar, ordered by similarity : Billu Barber(2009), Min and Bill(1930), Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.(2003), Class of 1984(1982), The Regeneration(1915), The Public Enemy(1931), Sorry We Missed You(2019), The Man Inside(2012), Madhumati(1958), Sarkar(2005), Himmatwala(2013), Angels With Dirty Faces(1938) ...
Drama
India
2001
125 Minutes
Tabu Atul Kulkarni Rajpal Yadav Vinay Apte Vishal Thakal Minakshi Sahani
niece uncle child gangster rapist murderer bleak melodramatic sad mumbai, india bar village juvenile detention center household rape poverty prostitution gangsters mother/child relationship dysfunctional family
A displaced woman is forced to become a beer-bar dancer, and sire children of a gangster.
Musical, Comedy, Drama
India
2009
137 Minutes
Irrfan Khan Lara Dutta Shah Rukh Khan Om Puri Rajpal Yadav Asrani Manoj Joshi Kareena Kapoor Priyanka Chopra Deepika Padukone Rasika Joshi
barber wife child movie star businessman friend emotional spirited india barbershop school village house unlikely friendship fame poverty family village life deception discovery
In an Indian village, a struggling barber sees his luck begin to turn when residents learn that a famous actor he once knew is coming to town.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1930
66 Minutes
Marie Dressler Wallace Beery Dorothy Jordan Marjorie Rambeau Don Dillaway DeWitt Jennings Russell Hopton Frank McGlynn Greta Gould Jack Pennick Hank Bell
hotel manager sweetheart daughter mother principal boyfriend bleak melodramatic intense hotel waterfront house boarding school ship adoption poverty mother/child relationship business murder jealousy
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
India
2003
146 Minutes
Sunil Dutt Sanjay Dutt Gracy Singh Arshad Warsi Rohini Hattangadi Boman Irani Jimmy Sheirgill
father mother son gangster childhood friend doctor india village city house bungalow hospital wish fulfillment cheating lying college admission doctor-patient relationship father/son relationship love rivalry
A gangster sets out to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a doctor.
Drama
Canada
1982
93 Minutes
Perry King Timothy Van Patten Merrie Lynn Ross Roddy McDowall Al Waxman Lisa Langlois David Gardner Stefan Arngrim Keith Knight Neil Clifford Erin Flannery
teacher music teacher student security guard rape victim gang member bleak melodramatic sad brutal intense gripping school house stage classroom gangs school band violence revenge
A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with the delinquent leader of a punk posse that runs the school.
Drama
USA
1915
82 Minutes
Rockliffe Fellowes Anna Q. Nilsson William A. Sheer Carl Harbaugh James Marcus Johnny McCann Maggie Weston Harry McCoy
gang leader socialite district attorney gangster alcoholic orphan rousing fascinating emotional new york city tenement house bar graveyard gangs redemption murder child abuse fire poverty love
A boy surrounded by violence grows up to become an infamous gangster.
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
84 Minutes
James Cagney Jean Harlow Mae Clarke Edward Woods Beryl Mercer Donald Cook Joan Blondell
gangster bootlegger police officer veteran friend melodramatic brash gripping suspenseful prison chicago slum nightclub bar organized crime gangs prohibition great depression family dysfunction growing up
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Drama
UK|France|Belgium
2019
100 Minutes
Kris Hitchen Debbie Honeywood Rhys Stone Katie Proctor Mark Birch Alfie Dobson Charlie Richmond
entrepreneur employee father wife husband mother child boss bleak brooding dark disheartening emotional gritty melancholy moving profound raw sad solemn
Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
UK
2012
99 Minutes
Michelle Ryan Peter Mullan David Harewood Theo Barklem-Biggs Bhasker Patel Ray Panthaki Ashley Thomas Jason Maza Jenny Jules Carl Barât
young man boxer gangster father trainer bleak brutal brooding cool gripping gritty gutsy london boxing ring prison street life boxing violence gangsters
A thriller centered on a young boxer trying to distance himself from his father's gangster past and the relationship with his trainer.
Drama, Romance
India
1958
163 Minutes
Dilip Kumar Vyjayanthimala Johnny Walker Pran Jayant Ramayan Tiwari Misra Baij Sharma Bhudo Advani Jagdish Sagar
engineer wife child friend caretaker tribeswoman emotional gripping intense suspenseful sad india village city house street estate rebirth reincarnation revenge
A young man takes shelter in a mansion when a landslide blocks his route to the railway station. Then, he finds the mansion familiar and soon learns about the story of his previous birth.
Crime, Drama
India
2005
124 Minutes
gangster son wife daughter-in-law henchman bleak intense suspenseful thrilling emotional moving mumbai, india house bungalow street office police station gangsters family relationships brotherhood
The authority of a man, who runs a parallel government in Mumbai, is challenged. His son rises to face his enemies.
Comedy, Action, Drama
India
2013
150 Minutes
Ajay Devgn Tamannah Mahesh Manjrekar Paresh Rawal Zarina Wahab Riteish Deshmukh Anil Dhawan Rajendra Gupta Leena Jumani Chunky Pandey Vindu Dara Singh
father mother son family member priest murderer emotional bleak disheartening intense inspiring india indian village mumbai city murder threats left for dead revenge revenge
When a temple priest commits suicide after being dishonored by an evil landlord, his son returns to his native village on a mission of vengeance.
Crime, Drama
USA
1938
97 Minutes
James Cagney Pat O'Brien Humphrey Bogart Ann Sheridan George Bancroft William Pawley John Hamilton Earle Dwire William Worthington
gangster priest child lawyer gritty emotional hell's kitchen street friendship crime corruption gangs sacrifice growing up rise 1930s
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
Drama
Sweden|France|West Germany
1982
188 Minutes
Pernilla Allwin Bertil Guve Erland Josephson Gunn Wållgren Allan Edwall Ewa Fröling Jan Malmsjö Harriet Andersson Lena Olin Jarl Kulle
brother sister mother bishop stepfather sibling bleak emotional moving frightening sweden household childhood home family childhood authority living with parents subjugation cruelty fall
Two young Swedish children experience the many comedies and tragedies of their family, the Ekdahls.
Drama
USA
1977
80 Minutes
Henry Sanders Kaycee Moore Charles Bracy Angela Burnett Eugene Cherry Jack Drummond
patriarch wife child friend bleak moving solemn los angeles slaughterhouse house street poverty inner-city life family unusual occupations underdog sacrifice love 1970s
Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.
Drama
1961
108 Minutes
Jean-Paul Belmondo Serge Reggiani Fabienne Dali Monique Hennessy Michel Piccoli René Lefèvre Jean Desailly Philippe March
friend jewel thief informant ex-convict gangster superintendent suspenseful melodramatic tense france prison police station house car undercover operations theft murder gangs deception mystery
A former convict (Serge Reggiani) suspects his best friend (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a burglar with police contacts, of being a stool pigeon.
Drama
India
2000
160 Minutes
Hrithik Roshan Sanjay Dutt Jackie Shroff Preity Zinta Abhay Chopra Gopi Desai Rajendra Gupta Sonali Kulkarni Manoj Mishra Master Mohsin Neha
orphan adopted son adoptive father terrorist police officer engaging emotional patriotic sad somber india valley village house accidental killing abandoned child revenge terrorism terrorism prevention resilience
A police officer adopts the son and sole survivor of a family he has massacred while pursuing a terrorist. After some time the foster son finds out what the stepfather did.
Drama, Action
India
1988
180 Minutes
Rekha Kabir Bedi Sonu Walia Kader Khan A. K. Hangal Sulabha Deshpande
widow child uncle nephew killer best friend chilling brutal melodramatic india estate lake city naivete murder conspiracy plastic surgery physical appearance resurrection love
A man marries a rich widow for her money and tries to murder her but she survives, gets a new face due to plastic surgery and returns for revenge.
Action, Crime, Adventure, Drama
Canada
2011
86 Minutes
Rutger Hauer Gregory Smith Molly Dunsworth Brian Downey Nick Bateman Pasha Ebrahimi Robb Wells Brian Jamieson
homeless person prostitute robber gangsters santa claus pedophile gory dark shocking profound disturbing brutal city street dark room outdoors alley bordello street fighting justice
A homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun.
Drama
India
1956
105 Minutes
Pinaki Sengupta Kanu Bandyopadhyay Karuna Bannerjee Ramani Sengupta Charuprakash Ghosh Smaran Ghosal Santi Gupta Ranibala Sudipta Roy Ajay Mitra Subodh Ganguli
young boy mother father widow sad moving india calcutta, india village mother/child relationship family death school loneliness loss growing up discovery 1950s
Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.
Drama
USA
2018
104 Minutes
Carey Mulligan Jake Gyllenhaal Ed Oxenbould Bill Camp Zoe Colletti Travis W. Bruyer Darryl Cox Mollie Milligan
teen boy golfer housewife firefighter mother friend bleak emotional tense intricate raw montana forest school house car small town mother/child relationship father/child relationship marriage
A teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job.