Best Hindi Movies on Netflix, Sorted by Mood

The Hindi film India has watched longest on Netflix lately is Dhurandhar, a spy thriller that stayed in Netflix’s own weekly Top 10 for India for 18 weeks, four of them at number one. Skip it if violence puts you off: Maa Behen and Toaster are comedies that also reached number one, and Dangal is still the easy choice when the whole family is in the room.

That Top 10 comes out for films and for series, and it is the quickest way to see which new Hindi releases people are watching.

Spy films, thrillers and courtroom dramas

Dhurandhar (2025) sends an undercover operative into Karachi’s underworld in the early 2000s, working towards its inner circle and aiming to bring a violent network down from inside. Ranveer Singh leads a cast that includes Akshaye Khanna, Sanjay Dutt and R. Madhavan, and Aditya Dhar directs. Its run in the Top 10 was the longest of any film in about a year of those charts. Netflix tags it violent and gory, so this is one for adults. The sequel, Dhurandhar The Revenge, is on Netflix as well.

Raazi (2018) is the gentler spy film, rated 13+ against Dhurandhar’s 18+. During the 1971 war, a young woman marries a Pakistani military officer so that she can pass intelligence to India. Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal star, Meghna Gulzar directs, and Netflix lists it as based on real life.

Taapsee Pannu leads Gandhari (2026), a thriller about a mother left without her sight and without her daughter after a kidnapping, who decides to find the kidnappers herself. Devashish Makhija directs.

Ikka (2026), a courtroom thriller, forces a well-known lawyer to defend a man he thinks is guilty, with the life of someone close to him hanging on it. Sunny Deol and Akshaye Khanna head the cast and Siddharth P Malhotra directs.

The courtroom in Haq (2025) belongs to Shazia Bano, whose husband walks out on her and who takes him to court. The case turns into a national argument over women’s rights. Netflix says it is inspired by a landmark judgment. Emraan Hashmi and Yami Gautam Dhar star; Suparn Verma directs.

If the underworld is what draws you, there are more among the gangster movies on Netflix, including Hindi ones.

Hindi comedies, some of them dark

Maa Behen (2026) is the pick for a laugh, and its 13+ rating means most of the house can watch. A mother and her estranged daughters try to hide a crime in a housing colony where the neighbours miss nothing. Madhuri Dixit and Triptii Dimri lead, and Suresh Triveni directs. Comedies outside Hindi, from Red Notice to Ricky Gervais, are in the best comedies on Netflix.

The other dark comedy is Toaster (2026), in which a miser tries to take back the toaster he gave as a wedding present after the couple call the wedding off, and gets pulled into a murder. Rajkummar Rao and Sanya Malhotra star. It is the only film here whose plot turns on a kitchen appliance.

Bhooth Bangla (2026) is a horror comedy from director Priyadarshan, with Akshay Kumar and Tabu. A man inherits a palace and decides to hold his sister’s wedding there, and the building’s past gets in the way.

In the comedy drama Chopsticks (2019), a talented woman with little confidence has her car stolen, and turns to a con man to get it back from the oddball crook who has it. Mithila Palkar and Abhay Deol star; Sachin Yardi directs.

Hindi romances, old and new

Diya and Kunal have been together a long time in Cocktail 2 (2026), a romantic comedy. On holiday in Sicily they meet Diya’s old friend Ally, and start to question what they have. Shahid Kapoor, Kriti Sanon and Rashmika Mandanna star; Homi Adajania directs.

Tere Ishk Mein (2025) is the heavier film of the two: Netflix tags it psychological and emotional where Cocktail 2 gets “heartfelt”. Years after a stormy romance, a short-tempered fighter pilot and a psychologist meet again. Both have new lives, and neither has quite let go. Dhanush and Kriti Sanon star and Aanand Rai directs.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) has Raj trailing the quiet Simran from London all the way to India, hoping to win her, even though she is engaged to someone else. Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol star and Aditya Chopra directs. Netflix files it under classics, and it is the oldest film here by two decades.

Hindi movies to watch with family

With children in the room, Dangal (2016), a sports drama, has the lowest age rating of any film here, 7+. A wrestler who never won the gold medal he wanted trains two of his daughters to compete at the Commonwealth Games. Aamir Khan stars and Nitesh Tiwari directs. Netflix says ratings can vary by region, so check the film’s page for your country.

Daadi Ki Shaadi (2026) is next at 10+, a family comedy in which a grandmother decides to remarry just as her granddaughter’s wedding is being planned, and the family has to face its old rifts. Neetu Kapoor and Kapil Sharma lead.

Two brides are swapped by mistake on the way to their new husbands’ homes in the comedy drama Laapataa Ladies (2024), and each has to find her feet somewhere she never expected to be. Kiran Rao directs.

Rajma Chawal (2018) is a film about family more than one for all the family, rated 16+. A widower who is new to the internet pretends to be a young woman online, hoping to mend things with his resentful son. Rishi Kapoor stars and Leena Yadav directs.

Lust Stories, strictly for adults

Lust Stories (2018) is four short films about desire and relationships in present-day India, one each from Zoya Akhtar, Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee and Anurag Kashyap. Netflix has since added Lust Stories 2 (2023) and Lust Stories 3 (2026), the newest with shorts from Vishal Bhardwaj, Vikramaditya Motwane, Kiran Rao and Shakun Batra. All are rated 18+.

Tamil and Telugu films dubbed in Hindi

Much of Netflix’s Top 10 for India is Tamil and Telugu cinema, and many of those films carry a Hindi audio track. Vishwanath & Sons (Tamil, with Suriya), Peddi (Telugu, with Ram Charan) and Gatta Kusthi 2 (Tamil) all list Hindi among their audio languages. They are not Hindi films, but if dubbing does not bother you they widen the choice a good deal. The audio languages are listed on every title’s page.

Will your Netflix have them?

The titles and age ratings here are the ones Netflix serves in Nigeria, and its catalogue differs by country and changes every month. Every film here from 2025 or 2026 also appeared in Netflix’s Top 10 for India, so those have been in the Indian catalogue as well. Click a title: if Netflix does not have it where you are, the page says so.

Netflix originals are the safest bets, because Netflix says it holds worldwide rights to most of them. Here those are Gandhari, Ikka, Maa Behen, Toaster, Chopsticks, Rajma Chawal and Lust Stories, which makes Gandhari the thriller most likely to be there if your country’s catalogue is thin. The rest are licensed, so they come and go.

Garbage, Game Over, Tottaa Pataaka Item Maal and Haraamkhor still have Netflix pages, each saying the film is not available to watch in Nigeria. They may be in your country’s catalogue, so search for them, but we would not plan an evening around it.