Top 250 Movies Like 420
A list of the best movies similar to 420. If you liked 420 then you may also like: The Wanderer, Wrong Number, Naqaab, No Bed of Roses, The River Named Modhumoti and many more great movies featured on this list.
A story of two-man who won everything through politics comes from nothing. 420 is a Bangladeshi political thriller drama series starring-Mosharraf Karim, Lutfur Rahman George, Nusrat Imrose Tisha. Directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki.
Wrong Number
The story revolves around different comical events regarding telephonic conversation. Athoi (Shrabanti), a young girl loves to dial wrong numbers and through such an incident, gets involved with a boy Abir (Riaz). The story advances through a series of humorous events.
No Bed of Roses
As a noted filmmaker’s infidelity becomes a media firestorm, his fractured family privately navigates the fallout of his actions for years to come.
The River Named Modhumoti
During the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh, in a remote village, a landlord collaborated with the Pakistani army. After the death of his brother, he married his sister-in-law who had a young son. A teacher in the village, with a widowed daughter, taught the young man had a daughter. When the war broke out, the young man joined the Bengali guerrillas, shattering his innocence. In the village, the landlord's action get worse and worse, until he kills the teacher and compels the daughter to marry him. Now the young man must return to his village with new determination.
Our Brand Is Crisis
Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.
The Report
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.
Jalal’s Story
Just as Moses was found in the river Nile, an infant is rescued from a river, and adopted by Miraj, Karim and Sajib in turns over the years, only to be abandoned at the various stages of his life. From innocence to becoming a gangster, the unpredictable currents of Jalal's journey prove that he is truly a child of the river.
The Glass Wall
The story is about a girl who grows up almost like an orphan in a joint family of two brothers and their families. She has lost her mother (a sister of the brothers) in childhood and her father is a habitual gambler with a bad luck. She develops romance with one of the two cousins in the house.
Khoj, the Search
With the help of Captain Bobby, Major Mahmud battles an international arms syndicate headed by the notorious Nino.
All the President's Men
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
The Assassination Bureau
In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.
Bachelor: The Circle
Intertwined story of a group of friends living together and their romantic complications.
Big Daddy
A visitor to the Everglades swamps in Florida encounters and falls in love with an uneducated girl. But he finds competition for her affections from the unlikely and mysterious A. Beauregard Lincoln. He also discovers danger from nature in the form of vicious alligators and from the mystical in the form of a voodoo witch doctor.
The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar
Based on her book, this World Premiere film follows Simone Biles through the sacrifices and hard work that led her to win 19 Olympic and World Championship medals.
The Counterfeit Traitor
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
Munich
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
Syriana
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
The Glass Key
When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and right-hand man, must decide which side he is on.
The Politician's Love Story
A haughty politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the cartoonist is a pretty woman, he falls instantly in love and wastes no time in trying to woo her.
The Seventh Cross
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.
Untitled Gladiator Sequel
Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find strength and honor to return the glory of Rome to its people.
Brick Lane
The grind of daily life as a Brick Lane Bangladessi as seen through the eyes of Nazneen (Chatterjee), who at 17 enters an arranged marriage with Chanu (Kaushik). Years later, living in east London with her family, she meets a young man Karim (Simpson).
The County Chairman
Based on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in Wyoming, with women's-right-to-vote playing a large role. Here, Jim Hackler, local party-boss in a Wyoming county, has to decide to do what's right and lose the election, or what's wrong and win it.
Kathbirali
Hasu is a young, innocent village boy. He has none to be called as a family in this world. That's why he has made all the villagers his family members. Hasu's life revolves around the love of his life-Kajol and his childhood friend-Anis. When finally Hasu is going to be settled and live happily ever after with Kajol, life takes an unexpected turn and everything falls apart. When Hasu's love and friendship are at stake, what will Hasu do?
The Beautiful Beast
La Belle Bête is a powerful study of the conflict between beauty and ugliness, hate and love. The story revolves around three main characters. At the center, Patrice, a beautiful but mindless youth stands gazing at his image in the water. Around him move his ugly sister Isabelle-Marie, and his frivolous mother Louise, the first lost in love and hate for her brother's beauty, the second seeing it as an adornment for herself. Into this small, obsessed universe come a blind boy and an elegant fop from the outside world. At once, the pattern breaks and events move forward into a terrifying denouement.
Espionage Agent
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
Salting the Battlefield
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. Johnny Worricker goes on the run with Margot Tyrell across Europe, and with the net closing in, the former MI5 man knows his only chance of resolving his problems is to return home and confront prime minister Alec Beasley.
Masud Rana
Masud Rana faces the consequences of disrupting the result of a fight rigged by a powerful businessman.
Dhaka 2040
Young Sigi Nelson came to Bangladesh from Switzerland. When he came, he used to travel around the country with his familiar rust. It was once known that Sigi grew up in Switzerland but was born in Bangladesh. Sigi has come to the country to find his past. A search of the past reveals an unknown chapter in Sigi’s life.
The Sandpit Generals
Inspired by the classic novel by Brazilian cultural icon Jorge Amado, this is the story of a gang of homeless children lead by Pedro Bala. Set in Bahia, the film follows the adventures of Bala's gang of under aged outlaws as they steal, rape, find love, "capoeira" (a Brazilian form of martial arts) and African-Brazilian religion.
The Mental
An underworld mafia steals valuable mineral resources and sell them over to international crime organization. A news reporter finds out and exposes the whole criminal chain to the media and her lover come up to help her.
The Red Corvette
Life turns upside down when a high school senior with no friends and plenty of teenage angst takes a spin with the popular girl in her red corvette.
420 High Desert Way
With the High Desert drug game getting out of control, the police are forced to use an undercover street-cop to infiltrate the extreme world of drugs and violence. With his new identity, D-Dogg must prove himself by mastering the criminal way of life. However, his cover is about to be blown when the drug lord gets word of the disloyalty in his camp.
Networker Baire
A group of four friends, on the verge of the end of their academic life sets on a tour to Cox's Bazaar. Expecting to live their life at the fullest. But some unexpected events that take place on the tour make their worlds go upside down.
Emiler Goenda Bahini
Emil came to Dhaka from Khulna to receive the prize of essay competition titled 'Don't Capture Free Birds'. On the way back, he lost 500 taka on the train. The money was given by his mother to his grandmother. Then the rescue operation started. He finds a group of local children in Dhaka as his companions.
Mujib: The Making of a Nation
Biopic on the father of the nation of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The film will showcase his growing up as a child to his standing up against all injustice in his youth to fighting for the independence of his country. How he led a country to it's independence with his inspirational presence and fight for the justice.
My Father Mujib
The film portrays the childhood and political inception of the father of the nation of Bangladesh, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The story-line apprises his outgrowth as the greatest Bengali of all time.
Television
A devout village leader prohibits an array of modern devices, but when his strict measures go too far, the locals rise up in popular rebellion.
Bring Me the Head of Lance Henriksen
When '80s B-movie icon Tim Thomerson wakes up one day to realize the acting roles are not coming his way any more, he sets out on a quest to find his former co-star Lance Henriksen to discover his secret of Hollywood longevity and gets more than he bargained for in the process.
Ei Muhurte
Every now and then, occurrences take place on the streets, alleys and highways of this city like the accumulation of moss on a concrete wall. Though majority of these fresh deposits appear true to us, they could really be otherwise. Nonetheless, wrapped under the folds of these truth and lies, three tales are carved to be called “Ei Muhurte”.
Mad_e in Bangladesh
An apparently passive young man comes to Dhaka from a rural area looking for a job and a better life.
Piprabidya
After realizing his stolen phone belongs to a famous actress, a scheming daydreamer uses the opportunity to blackmail her.
Traveling the Stars: Ancient Aliens with Action Bronson and Friends - 420 Special
4/20 special of Action Bronson and friends getting high on the holiday watching his favorite show.
Mirror Game
Ayna is an actor and the prison is his stage. He slips into the characters of the powerful convicted in exchange of money and take their place in prison. This strange profession is borne out of a society that doesn't give him a chance to follow his passion of acting, but forces him to act in the real life. Falling in love with the girl next door changes his life equation and he decides to end this career with one last performance. But this one takes him too deep in the rabbit hole. The story unfolds on how an underdog survives in a society that is merciless and struggles his way out from the clutch of crime game which he is a part too.
Poran
A street level drug supplier falls in love with a college student. Despite avoiding him at first, the girl later uses him for her own benefit by acting of being in love with him. Later she falls in love with another boy but still can't break the relationship with the first lover as he accepts all her demands and changes himself leaving all his drug supplying works behind. The girl falling in dilemma hands the boy to Police. But fate brings them face to face again to experience some tragedy.
Janowar
Based on a true story- A group of robbers broke into a house at night with the intention of committing robbery. The house was inhabited by two young girls and a disabled child and their mother. Not getting the desired money, the robbers started torturing them. And they were raped them more than once and after the rape everyone was killed by cutting their throats.
Munshigiri
After the sensational 'Titas Gas Employee Murder' case was handed to the Detective Branch of the Police, the investigation was handed over to Masood Munshi, ADC of the detective branch. Masood Munshi, in collaboration with his wife Parveen Sultana, uses his old method of revealing secrets. The story of secret revenge. It is a breathtaking story about the involvement of Ishtiaq Mirza, the accused writer in the murder case.
Torn from Innocence
The real story behind sex trafficking. New York Detective Jack Spencer takes on a human trafficking ring that is tied to the United Nations as he risks his life to save the lives of innocent young women from a life of sex slavery and human depravity.
Every Breath She Takes
After suffering years of mental abuse from her husband, Jules thinks she's finally free when a physical struggle ends in a fire that takes his life. However, she's soon pushed to the edge as she starts to believe she's seeing him at every turn.
No Land's Man
In 2019, a man named Naveen disappears from a memorial park in Sydney while traveling with his girlfriend Cathy. Having arrived in New York two years ago, Naveen finds a job at a restaurant and meets Cathy there. As their relationship deepens, Naveen′s lies become bolder. The man known as Naveen, or Sameer, cannot tell the truth about anything, including his name, nationality, religion, family, and past.
Twice Bitten
An unmitigated and sexy conman targets his next mark, the widowed Monique, for his latest swindle. But his routine scam hits a snag when suspicion mounts and his scheme quickly escalate into desperation, betrayal and murder.
The Unnamed
A migrant worker's passing leads authorities on a wild goose chase on his identity and what to do with his corpse.
Bishwoshundori
Bishwoshundori is a story about humanity, a story of the triumph of life. The story revolves around Shadhin (Siam Ahmed) and his mother Fatema Ferdousi (Chompa). Because of a disastrous past relationship with X-Miss Bangladesh Ema (Heera), Shadhin has decided not to marry any girl, especially a beautiful girl.
Broken Keys
In a war-torn Middle Eastern city where music has been banned by Islamic extremists, Karim, a brilliant musician, struggles to rebuild his destroyed piano while trying to escape to Europe.
Kiss Me, Kill Me
A female investigator in the district attorney's office sets out to track down the person who murdered a young schoolteacher.
Saturday Afternoon
An unprecedented terrorist attack takes place in a peaceful café in the center of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, on a nice Saturday afternoon. The terrorists use religion to divide and to kill people, while the surviving hostages, all of them also Muslims, try to defend their own humanistic values. The film unravels the clashes and contradictions of religion, ideology, and civilizations through a terror drama shot in a single take.
Jibon Theke Neya
A political satire of Bangladesh under the rule of Pakistan metaphorically, where an autocratic woman in one family symbolizes the political dictatorship of Ayub Khan in East Pakistan.
Sincerely Yours, Dhaka
In this omnibus, 11 Bangladeshi filmmakers create a love letter to the city of Dhaka. From young girls looking for a drink in a dry town to a bank scammer's attempted murder to a plumber creating a refugee crisis, the city co-stars every time.
Quickening
A Pakistani Canadian teenager struggles to find a sense of belonging after losing her virginity at college.
Third Person Singular Number
A woman breaks with traditional Muslim culture by living with her boyfriend before getting married, but when the relationship ends, she must face the harsh consequences of being an outcast in her community.
Under Construction
Roya is a middle-class Muslim woman that struggles to find herself in the sprawl of urban Bangladesh. When she discovers that she will be replaced by a younger actor for the role of Nandini —a central character of Rabindranath Tagore’s political play Red Oleanders —she battles to reconstruct the part, reclaiming her identity and sexuality in the process. As she sets the play in a modern day ready-made garment factory in Dhaka, her journey to establish her individuality is juxtaposed with the journey of her housemaid Moyna, who later joins the industrial workforce.
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
It’s 1786 and King George III is the most powerful man in the world. But his behaviour is becoming increasingly erratic as he succumbs to fits of lunacy. With the King’s mind unravelling at a dramatic pace, ambitious politicians and the scheming Prince of Wales threaten to undermine the power of the Crown, and expose the fine line between a King and a man.
Aha!
Mr. Rafiq is given an option to develop the ancestral property by a privet developer agent. The house carries the style of typical historic buildings of old Dhaka; which are being pushed aside by urban modernization. With the decision hanging, Ruba, his daughter, leaves her husband in the US and returns to Dhaka. The cause being her husband's excessive misbehave. Ruba tries to find peace in her memory soaked old home but could not as the decision to reconstruct the property is discussed and debated over and over again. Another character, Soleman, obedient servant of Mr. Rafiq becomes irritating to Ruba since he has a rivalry with the local power holders. As Ruba seeks her memories in the home, she occasionally watches a man on a neighboring flat. The man notices this. With the man's efforts they finally get to be friends. But the orthodox mindset of the father desperately looks for ways to stop the developing relationship or perhaps a new hope for Ruba.
Chhutir Ghonta
A 12-year old schoolboy mistakenly gets locked in the school's washroom by the caretaker.
Sat Bhai Chompa
Based on a perennially popular Bengali folk tale, Sat Bhai Chompa has had many cinematic outings in both India and Bangladesh. This, the 1968 version directed by Dilip Shom, is one of the most delightful. A king has three wives. The two elder wives connive to throw the pregnant third wife out of the palace. The third wife gives birth to eight children - seven sons and a daughter. The enraged elder wives, with the help of a sorcerer, turn the seven sons into flowers. It is now up to the daughter to turn her brothers back into humans and regain their rightful place in the palace.
In Spring Breeze
Fagun Haway is a Bangladeshi historical drama film based on the novel Bou Kotha Kou by Tito Rahman. This movie based on the language movement during 1952 in East Pakistan.
The Me Nobody Knows
Complex, introspective children in low-income neighborhoods of New York City tell their stories.
Roktakto Bangla
Pakistani army gang rape Bangladeshi women before they are liberated by Indian army.
A Thought of Ecstasy
August 2019. Frank recognizes his own story of twenty years ago in a recently published book. He remembers Marie, with whom he had a relationship before she moved to the United States and disappeared from his life. Frank sets out in search of her and finds himself in a USA petrified by a heat wave and lost in suspicion and political paranoia. He heads into the desert in pursuit of Marie.
Feel So Good
A desperate hypnotist uses a young woman to unknowingly perform crimes, leaving her with strained relationships and fragmented memories.
The Survivors
The movie directed by Abdullah Al Mamun was adapted from a novel by noted writer Shahidullah Kaiser. The film based on the lives of people living in our costal areas, was admired by many while stirring up controversy for some bold statements it made.
Circle of Desire
In 1971, renowned Bangladeshi writer Ahmed became refugee in Kolkata. He had been to earn his livelihood as a writer. Then he comes to know about his missing fiance named Tayeba admitted in a nearby hospital in the same city.
The Farewell of the Bride
Badhu Biday is a 1978 Bangladeshi film directed and co-written by Kazi Zahir, starring Bulbul Ahmed, Shabana and Kabori Sarwar.
The Great Hack
Data—arguably the world’s most valuable asset—is being weaponized to wage cultural and political wars. The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable, personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.
Lonesome Soldier
Based on a true American story, Lonesome Soldier immerses viewers in the captivating journey of Jackson Harlow, a young man hailing from the heart of Tennessee to the war-torn lands of Iraq. Haunted by the vivid memories of war, Jackson's homecoming proves to be a profound turning point in his life, as he discovers that the battle he faces is far from over—it’s just different. Lonesome Soldier vividly portrays the profound challenges and profound triumphs experienced by those who have bravely faced the crucible of war, only to return to a world that may never fully comprehend their struggles.
A story of two-man who won everything through politics comes from nothing. 420 is a Bangladeshi political thriller drama series starring-Mosharraf Karim, Lutfur Rahman George, Nusrat Imrose Tisha. Directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki.
A list of the best movies similar to 420. If you liked 420 then you may also like: The Wanderer, Wrong Number, Naqaab, No Bed of Roses, The River Named Modhumoti and many more great movies featured on this list.
The Wanderer
Jether, a shepherd, is lured from his home by Tisha, priestess of the goddess Ishtar. He journeys to the city of Babylon, where he lavishes Tisha with gifts and spends his share of his father's wealth on riotous living.