Best movies like Billu

A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like Billu Starring Irrfan Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Lara Dutta, Om Puri, and more. If you liked Billu then you may also like: Yaarana, Vellithira, Raincoat, Raja Chinna Roja, Return to Paradise and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.

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Yaarana

Bishan loses his fortune while helping his friend Kishan in his singing career. Now successful, will Kishan return the favour?

Vellithira

Counting on superstar Rajnikant's popularity, Raghuram and his motley crew of two, entertain residents of a small town, and gain fame almost overnight. Raghuram starts to call himself 'Style Raj', and decides to become a actor in his own right. He starts to woo local belle, Thatha, the daughter of a blacksmith. But it is only his crew that are aware that this self-styled 'Style Raj' has led a secret lifestyle that is inconsistent with his present background.

Raincoat

Tells the story of two lovers, separated by destiny, who meet again one day. This encounter allows each to realize the truth about the lives they are living.

Raja Chinna Roja

Raja, an aspiring actor from a village, relocates to a big city to follow his dream. There, he meets his childhood friend who promises him an acting job but later learns about his evil intentions.

Return to Paradise

Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays behind to work with orangutans. Two years later, Sheriff and Tony learn that, because of their past actions, Lewis has been arrested for drug possession. With Lewis facing a death sentence, the friends are left with a difficult decision: return to Malaysia and split Lewis' sentence, or let him die.

Joker

In 1947 when the maps of India and Pakistan were being drawn, an oversight ensured that the village of Paglapur didn't find a place in either country. Over 60 years later, Paglapur is isolated, and in need of help. The residents seek help, but as a direct result of being left off the map, they find no one willing to accept Paglapur, and its problems, as their jurisdiction. The villagers decide they need to draw media attention to Paglapur, and in so doing, gain acceptance and help from those who had previously denied them.

The Journey

Kiran is mortified by her growing lesbian desire for the effervescent Delilah in an idyllic Indian village where arranged marriage is the only acceptable form of coupling.

Aatish

Baba and Avinash are brothers who lives in a shanty house with their widowed mother, who makes a living as a housemaid. When a stalker attempts to rape their mother, Baba knives him to death, and the three, along with an orphan named Nawab, take shelter with a underworld don named Uncle. Baba would like Avinash to study and make something of his life, in order to help his brother study he decides to make crime his career. When Avinash completes his studies he becomes a police officer on his first assignment he learns his brother Baba and friend Nawab are on the most wanted criminal list.

The Stranger

A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.

Barbershop

A day in the life of a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Calvin, who inherited the struggling business from his deceased father, views the shop as nothing but a burden and waste of his time. After selling the shop to a local loan shark, Calvin slowly begins to see his father's vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he just sold it out.

Champion

The film CHAMPION is a tale about a man who has a quest, a dream to be the best of the best. The film centres on four main characters, namely Rajveer Singh (Sunny Deol), a simpleton from a village in Punjab, whose sole dream in life is to become a super-cop and wipe off all crime. After, training, he gets his first posting at Mumbai for a special assignment. Bubbling with enthusiasm, an arrival, he is shocked to find that his job is to protect a nine-year-old boy, Abbas Khan (Abhishek Sharma). A bodyguard, after all the rigorous training to eliminate hardcore criminals! Abbas is the sole heir to millions of riches left to him by his parents, who have expired in a drastic plane crash.

A Cottage on Dartmoor

A jealous barber's assistant becomes enraged by the attentions the manicurist he's obsessed with and a repeat customer pay to one another.

Staircase

An aging gay couple owns a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer. The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together and possible future without each other.

Devdas

Childhood sweethearts grow up in a small village with a love-hate relationship which changes to love when they mature.

Lage Raho Munna Bhai

Lovable goon Munna falls for a morning radio host by the name of Jahnvi, who also runs an elders' home which an unscrupulous builder seeks to attain. In order to gain Jahnvi’s attention, he cheats his way to winning a Mahatma Gandhi radio quiz. When Jahnvi consequently expresses interest in Munna, he and his best friend Circuit attempt to keep up the facade.

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

Three friends who were inseparable in childhood decide to go on a three-week-long bachelor road trip to Spain, in order to re-establish their bond and explore thrilling adventures, before one of them gets married. What will they learn of themselves and each other during the adventure?

Paradise

A 10-year-old boy spends a summer in the country with a childless couple and a precocious girl.

Mahakaal

A demon torments the family and friends of Anita in order to take revenge on his death, which was caused by her police-officer father. The rest of the movie is how Anita tackles the demon with the help of her boyfriend.

Mazhavilkavadi

Velayudham and his cousin Valli are in love since their childhood. Her father Shankarankutty hates Velayudham and looks for a groom for his daughter. One day, Velayudham and Valli try to elope but Shankarankutty finally capture them. Vexed by this misadventure, Velayudham leaves his village to Palani in order to find a job with the help of his friend Kunju Khader (Charle). Kunju Khader turns out to be a pickpocket.

Swades

A successful Indian scientist returns home to his village to take his nanny back to America with him, and in the process rediscovers his roots.

Last Night in Rozzie

When a New York lawyer returns to his Boston hometown to reunite his dying friend with his young son, he is forced to finally confront a childhood trauma.

Mithya

A two-bit actor faces challenges after he is asked by Police to impersonate a look-alike gangster.

Rustom

A naval officer is devastated to learn about his wife's extramarital affair with a rich businessman while he was away. He pays him a visit and shoots him to death, following which he surrenders himself but claims to be "not guilty" in the court, much to the surprise of the businessman's sister and the officers dealing with his case.

Billa

The intertwined stories of an international Don in Malaysia, David Billa, chased by the cops, an Indian police officer, a woman who wants to avenge the death of her brother, and a lowly thief, Velu who shares with Billa, an unusual connection.

Kuselan

Balakrishnan and Ashok are two childhood friends who lose touch with each other. One of them goes on to become a national figure and the other, a village barber.

Padayani

A remake of the 1973 Bollywood classic 'Yaadon Ki Baaraat', the movie stars Mammootty, Mohanlal, and Devan as long-lost brothers. In the end, they reunite to take revenge for their parents's death.

Rangeela

A poor young woman, who dreams of Bollywood fame, is caught in a love triangle between her childhood friend and a famous actor.

Will You Marry Me?

The film centres around three friends who love their bachelorhood so much that they place a bet among themselves that whoever decides to marry first will lose a huge amount in shares that were contributed by all three. All is well until one decides to take the plunge and make a commitment.

Seven and a Match

Seven college friends re-unite in the house where they used to spend summers. Some things have changed, some have stayed the same.

Katha Parayumbol

the film is about how a barber's life is turned upside down when a film unit comes to the village for a shoot, and the news spreads that superstar Ashok Raj (Mammootty) is the barber's childhood friend. The script also by Srinivasan is so layered that every frame has a comment to make about the world and every line of the dialogue, on the mores of the society. The craze for celebrities and the problems of leading a principled life are discussed without being preachy.

Celeste Barber: Challenge Accepted

Actor, Comedian, and Social Media Superstar Celeste Barber exposes the stories behind some of her most famous Instagram celebrity parody images, her new relationships with famous people, the pitfalls of being married to someone so much hotter than her, and what it’s like to be an Anti-Influencer.

96

Ram is a photographer and nature lover who travels all around India capturing moments. On a chance visit to his hometown Tanjavur, he goes into his school and begins to walk down memory lane to 1994 when he was a student harboring feelings for his classmate Janu.

Borunbabur Bondhu

Based on Ramapada Chowdhury's novel 'Chhaad', Borun Chakraborty is an irritable, old man whose wife is dead and the only people he talks to are his childhood friend and his grandson. Isolated from the rest of his family, he lives a lonely life but one day his school friend and the President of India, Pranabesh, does not pay him a visit that changes it all. All of sudden, Borun finds himself at the center of all attention.

Kathalo Rajakumari

Arjun is a superstar, famous for his roles as a menacing villain in many films. Shourya is an actor who doesn't get enough recognition despite playing roles of a justice-seeking hero on screen. What happens when the line between real life and reel blur for Arjun? Can his childhood friend, Sita, show him a way out?

Samrat & Co.

A young, beautiful and rich girl, Dimpy Singh, approaches Samrat Tilakdhari, a private investigator, with a strange case. Their garden got ruined for reasons that appear natural but are not known; leading horticulturists have examined the fading plants but they have not been able to identify the probable reason. Further, her father's favorite horse died; once again the reason for the pre-mature death remains a mystery. That's not the end; Dimpy's father Mahendra Pratap Singh, otherwise a very strong and balanced man, has been experiencing deteriorating health. All these aspects when combined makes the case sound weird and that grabs the attention of Samrat. Samrat along with his assistant friend, Chakradhar Pandey, visits the huge estate of Mahendra Pratap Singh. As he starts investigating, he discovers lots of mysterious facts.

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