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10 Best Movies Like City Lights

If you loved City Lights, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Talaash

Talaash

2012★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to City Lights for fans of Thriller & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A cop, investigating the mysterious death of a filmstar, meets a sex-worker, while he faces some personal problems psychologically. The mystery connects these people in a way, that...

#2
Mulk

Mulk

2018★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to City Lights for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The youngest son of a Muslim family settled in Benaras gets involved in terrorist activities, leading to a bomb blast massacre. His actions have an adverse effect on the family who...

#3
Phir Hera Pheri

Phir Hera Pheri

2006★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to City Lights for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Raju, Shyam and Baburao are living happily after having risen from rags to riches. However, they lose it all after falling victim to a chit fund scam due to their greed for more m...

#4
The Shaukeens

The Shaukeens

2014★ 4.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to City Lights for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Three friends in their 60s try to do everything that they couldn't do in their younger days - before death arrives....

#5
Chameli

Chameli

2003★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to City Lights for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Lamington Road on Bombay's Western Railway is the nearest railway station that takes one to Kamathipura, notorious for it's red-light, in particular, and a crime-prone area in gene...

#6
Gangoobai

Gangoobai

2013★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to City Lights for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Gangoobai, a childless, elderly widow, has lived her whole life in the tiny colonial hill station of Matheran, set in the spectacularly beautiful Sahyadri mountain range about 4 ho...