01 A serial killer and the cop chasing him turn out to have more in common than either wants.
10 Best Indian Crime Dramas
By Vlad Zakh · October 20, 2025
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Indian crime cinema, especially the strain that came out of Mumbai’s “Mumbai noir” wave in the late ’90s, tends to skip the moralizing and just sit inside its underworld, which is why so many of these hold up as genuinely tense films rather than message movies.
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02 A child's disappearance exposes just how selfish every adult around her actually is.
03 A young Indian bride is secretly a spy embedded inside a Pakistani military family.
04 A double murder investigated three contradictory ways, based on a real, unresolved case.
05 A real murder case and the media campaign that eventually forced a conviction.
06 An ordinary young man's accidental slide into becoming a full-time gangster.
07 An honest cop slowly bends under pressure from the gangsters he's supposed to stop.
08 A dense, documentary-style account of the 1993 Bombay bombings and their investigation.
09 A gang boss and his protégé's falling-out plays out like a slow-motion civil war.
10 A nobody drifts into Mumbai's underworld and rises fast, one of the films that started the genre.
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