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10 Best Movies Like Nellu

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

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#1
Padayappa

Padayappa

1999★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Nellu for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Padayappa, a mechanical engineer whose father gives up his property to his foster brother, and then dies of shock soon after. Neelambari initially loves Padayappa, but plans to hum...

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 6.9

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

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#3
Salomé

Salomé

2013★ 6.2

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

After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his k...

#4
The Road Dance

The Road Dance

2022★ 6.7

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

A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy b...

#5
The River

The River

1984★ 6.3

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

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer a...

#6
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

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