If You Liked Velaikkaran, Watch These Next
Finished Velaikkaran (2017) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Velaikkaran, most of them are drama, thriller.
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19 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.The Truth About Emanuel(2013)
6.0DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
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2.The House on Carroll Street(1988)
5.9DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house, being conducted largely in German and involving her HUAC prosecutor. She begins to investigate,…
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3.I Am David(2003)
6.8DramaAdventureAlso drama
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
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5.Resurrecting the Champ(2007)
6.3DramaAlso drama
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his…
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6.It's a Free World...(2007)
6.6DramaAlso drama
Working-class Angie, sacked from a recruitment agency for bad public behaviour, teams up with her flatmate to run a similar business from their kitchen. With immigrants desperate for work, the opportunities are considerable, particularly for two girls so in tune with these times.
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7.Killer's Kiss(1955)
6.3ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and drama
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced…
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8.The Independent(2022)
6.5ThrillerMysteryCrimeAlso thriller
It's the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history. America is poised to elect either its first female president or its first viable independent candidate. Reporting history as it's made, an idealistic young journalist teams up with her idol, legendary journalist Nick Booker, to uncover a…
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9.The Caveman's Valentine(2001)
5.9DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim the death is accidental. Romulus is convinced the man was murdered by a prominent art photographer but…
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10.6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain(2017)
5.8ThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
An adrenaline seeking snowboarder gets lost in a massive winter storm in the back country of the High Sierras where he is pushed to the limits of human endurance and forced to battle his own personal demons as he fights for survival....
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11.Quiz Show(1994)
7.2HistoryDramaAlso drama
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out…
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12.Fast Girls(2012)
6.0DramaAlso drama
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
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13.Riot in Cell Block 11(1954)
7.1CrimeDramaAlso drama
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
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14.The Sound of Silence(2019)
5.8DramaAlso drama
A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
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15.Animal Farm(1954)
7.1AnimationDramaAlso drama
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.
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16.2073(2024)
6.7ThrillerScience FictionDramaAlso thriller and drama
Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.
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17.Norma Rae(1979)
7.2DramaAlso drama
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
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18.The Rainmaker(1997)
7.0DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Fresh out of law school and desperate for work, idealistic rookie Rudy Baylor takes on a powerful insurance company accused of denying a dying boy’s claim. Teaming up with a scrappy, unlicensed paralegal, he finds himself in a David-versus-Goliath courtroom battle that tests his ethics, courage, and belief in justice.
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19.Max Winslow and The House of Secrets(2020)
5.9FamilyScience FictionThrillerAlso thriller
Five teenagers compete to win a mansion owned by entrepreneur and scientist Atticus Virtue. To win the teens must face-off against a super computer named HAVEN who controls the mansion.
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