Explore the definitive list of the top 100 movies in Urdu. From timeless classics to modern hits, discover the best stories told in Urdu.
Top 100 Urdu Movies
Cinema is a universal language, but every culture brings its own unique flavor, rhythm, and perspective to the screen. Urdu cinema has a rich history and a vibrant present, offering some of the most compelling stories in the world.
This dynamic list brings together the highest-rated and most significant Urdu films, updated live to reflect audience preferences and critical acclaim.
The Global Impact of Urdu Film
In recent years, movies in Urdu have gained increasing international recognition, breaking through traditional barriers and reaching audiences around the globe. Whether you're a native speaker or a curious cinephile using subtitles, these films offer an unparalleled window into the culture and creativity of the Urdu-speaking world.
Explore the live-updated list below to find your next favorite Urdu movie.
The Definitive Collection
Our proprietary algorithm analyzed thousands of titles to bring you this definitive, real-time updated ranking.
Joyland
As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for its transgender starlet.
Waar
The efforts of the Pakistani security forces in their fight against terrorism and how the lives of security officials are affected. A retired security officer returns to save Pakistan from a major terrorist attack.
The Glassworker
A young glassworker-in-training living with his pacifist father finds his apprenticeship upended by an impending war and the arrival of an army colonel to their seaside town.
Bol
The patriarch of a religious Muslim family refuses to accept his intersex child, tearing his family apart.
Dukhtar
In the mountains of Pakistan, a mother and her ten-year-old daughter flee their home on the eve of the girl's marriage to a tribal leader. A deadly hunt for them begins.
Khuda Kay Liye
The film is about the difficult situation in which the Pakistanis in particular and the Muslims in general are caught up since 9/11. There is a war going on between the Fundamentalists and the Liberal Muslims. This situation is creating a drift not only between the Western world and the Muslims, but also within the Muslims. The educated and modern Muslims are in a difficult situation because of their approach towards life and their western attire. They are criticized and harassed by the fundamentalists and on the other hand the Western world sees them as potential suspects of terrorism just because of their Muslim names.
Hell's Ground
After lying to their parents and running off to see a rock concert, five teens leave their suburb neighborhood of Islamabad and travel into the wild only to have their van break down and they get set upon by not only flesh eating zombies, but a ghoulish hitchhiker, and a blood-soaked, burqa-wearing killer.
Teefa in Trouble
Teefa goes to Poland to get Anya to Pakistan to marry Butt gangster's son but lands up in trouble with Anya's gangster father and the Polish police.
Jinnah
Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his soul tries to find eternal rest. The flashbacks start in 1947 as Jinnah pleads for a separate nation for the Muslim minority, infuriating Lord Mountbatten. Mountbatten then tries to enlist Gandhi & Nehru to persuade Jinnah to stop his efforts. Gandhi sides with Jinnah, which upsets Nehru. However, Jinnah turns down the offer to become prime minister and the film takes another slide back to 1916, which reveals all of the political implications that have occurred.

Umrao Jaan
Amiran is sold to a brothel by a corrupt cop after her father testifies against him. Many years later, she grows up to be an accomplished poetess and a renowned courtesan, Umrao Jaan.

In Flames
After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart. They must find strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to engulf them.



The Donkey King
A struggling donkey unexpectedly wins Azad City's first election after the ruler abdicates. He becomes "The Donkey King," leading the nation in an unusual turn of events and proving that though by looks he is a donkey, by heart he is a hero.

Actor in Law
An aspiring actor succumbs to pressure from his father and takes up the role of lawyer.


Silent Waters
Ayesha is a widow with a secret past, living with her beloved son Saleem in a small town in Pakistan close to the Indian border. When the fires of Islamic nationalism invade their tranquil lives, Saleem and a few of the town's other young men are soon gripped by a religious fervour, and they attempt to bring radical Islamic law to their friends and neighbours. After a group of Sikh pilgrims arrive in town, tensions reach boiling point as Ayesha's haunted past comes rushing back.

Na Maloom Afraad
An incident brings together three reckless and struggling souls who are chasing their ambitions and desires.

Cake
A woman who takes care of her aging parents and their land is joined by her sister when their parents' health worsens.

Yalghaar
Based on a true story, over 76 hours of a successful military operation conducted in the Piochar region of Swat district, Yalghaar goes up close to follow the lives of the young, passionate officers and soldiers whose patriotism is throbbing with every heartbeat for their country (Pakistan).

Maalik
A man of Pakistan's Elite Special Forces whose life gets entangled with Politics. They soon realize that serving the nation is more complicated than simple following of orders.

Towers of Silence
A Pakistani boy develops into a young revolutionary and confronts love, religious conflict, and his own death through Zoroastrian rituals of purification.



Jawani Phir Nahi Ani
The movie revolves around three childhood friends, who are married and settled in their lives but are afraid of their wives.

Bin Roye
An ambitious girl seeks out her destiny and true love , when tables start to take a turn she meets a man who gives her a completely new perspective to life and love.

Mother
After the death of the family's matriarch, her husband and son must confront not only the corruption in society around them but the corruption within themselves.

Ramchand Pakistani
Based on a actual events, the story is about a Pakistani Hindu boy and his father who accidentally cross the border into India from their village in Pakistan at a time of extreme war like tension between the 2 countries and end up spending 5 years in an Indian prison while the mother left behind wonders what has happened to them.

Garm Hava
In post-Partition India, a Muslim businessman and his family struggle for their rights in a country which was once their own.

My Pure Land
A mother and her two daughters fight to protect their home.

Ho Mann Jahaan
Three college friends are passionate for music and face difficulties for their common dream.

Zinda Bhaag
Three young men try to escape the reality of their everyday lives and succeed in ways they had least expected.

The Living Corpse
A rendition of the Dracula tale with many similarities to the British 1950s Dracula.

Laal Kabootar
He's looking for a way out of the city. But his only escape is through a woman looking for revenge.

Load Wedding
A guy falls in love but can’t get married before his older sister.

Punjab Nahi Jaungi
A man vows to win the heart of the woman he loves.

Na Maloom Afraad 2
After three hapless souls plan a big heist, things go hysterically wrong along the way.

Shah
This film covers the story of this Legend's journey from homeless child in the streets of Layari,Karachi to become Olympian for his country PAKISTAN.

Wrong No.
A story of a middle class guy, passionate about becoming an actor and prove his worthiness to his family. Ditching a job interview as a favor from a father to his son, the story leads to new endeavors.

Good Morning Karachi
Good Morning, Karachi is the story of a young girl (Amna Ilyas) who wants to be a model while struggling towards her dream against the backdrop of the Benazir Bhutto assassination.

Razia Sultan
The film is based on the life of Razia Sultan (1205–1240), the only female Sultan of Delhi (1236–1240) and her speculated love affair with the Abyssinian slave, Jamal-ud-Din Yakut.

Main Hoon Shahid Afridi
A boy who dreams of becoming the next Shahid Afridi finds himself down on his luck when the only club he ever knew goes bankrupt.

John
A rollercoaster of emotions, where friendship and love collide with betrayal and heartbreak.

Kamli
A young married woman, who lives with her blind sister-in-law, has been waiting eight years for her husband to return home. One day she is about to drown in the nearby pond when a mysterious wanderer named Amaltas rescues her, unexpectedly changing her life and putting her in a dilemma between her husband and her savior. Will she be able to restrain the force of desire or will she give in to temptation?

The Evil Marriage
Once upon a time, in a far away, across the dark jungle, a castle in the sky, there lived a king of Evils with his evil guards. One day, one of his magicians showed the magic mirror and shows a beautiful human girl in this mirror, and told that if he wants to continue to be a king he must marry this girl. The story of "The Evil Marriage movie" revolves around the character of "Nur" (a human girl) who was kidnapped by the Evil's king guards and took her to unfamiliar world where she will have to marry the evil in order for others to live. But, there is someone who sneaks into the dark jungle to reach the evil castle and rescues her.

Allahyar and the Legend of Markhor
The story follows Allahyar, a young and mischievous boy who ends up dealing with circumstances he never thought possible. The movie aims to shed light on the preservation and illegal hunting of wildlife.

Day Shall Dawn
Based on he daily lives of the fishermen of East Bengal.

Josh: Independence Through Unity
Fatima, a teacher living her elite life in Karachi, shattered, when her nanny Nusrat, inexplicably disappears. Fatima travels to investigate her disappearance and finds a dangerous truth about Nusrat and her village.

Saawan
A handicapped 9-year old boy who lives in a valley in the mountains of Balochistan is rejected by his father, intimidated by society, harassed by friends and left alone due to his disability. Strengthened by memories and dreams of the love of his mother, he begins a perilous journey back to his family in the main city.

Balu Mahi
When a young man crashes the wrong wedding, the bride seizes the opportunity to make a run for it and together they attempt to evade her overbearing grandfather.

Lahore Se Aagey
Moti journeys from Lahore to the northern areas of Pakistan where he meets a female rock star.

Janaan
The story of a Pakhtun girl who returns from Canada to attend her cousin's wedding in Swat, Pakistan and falls in love.

Karachi Se Lahore
A road trip from Karachi to Lahore where 5 friends discover themselves and the country amidst getting to their destination.

O21
Two men only have 21 hours to stop a war between Afghanistan and Pakistan. An Afghan militant steals a microchip containing the names of people who want to exploit Afghanistan's mineral reserves.

The School Bag
The bond between a mother and her son is indeed a special one. It was the same between Farooq and his Ammi, but depends with he always longed for his father. They reside in the small town of Peshawar, Pakistan. Farooq, a child with a simple demand, wants to meet his father , whom he had not seen for long as his birthday gift. But his mother, did not really know how on earth she could fulfill her child's plea , coz his father had abandoned them for another woman. Unknown to Farooq, there is something waiting for him on his birthday.
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Widow of Silence
In a conflict ridden Kashmir, a Muslim half-widow finds herself, her 11 year old daughter and ill mother-in-law in a crisis when she attempts to get her missing husband's death certificate

Pari
When their daughter exhibits strange behavior after moving into their new home, a couple must come to terms with who she really is.

Ek Thi Marium
Marium Mukhtar (Sanam Baloch) achieves her dream of becoming a fighter pilot and becomes the first female flying officer of Pakistan to embrace martyrdom.

Dobara Phir Se
A divorced Pakistani woman visits an upscale Connecticut suburb in an attempt to reconnect with her estranged ex-mother-law.

Mulhapar
Mulhapar is a village in the wide expanses of the Punjab in Pakistan. A country associated with violence and intolerance. Beyond this sombre prejudice, the film plunges into the brimming life of a community of poor and rich people, Muslims and Christians, the young and the old, women and men. In Mulhapar, their family and individual destinies, as well as their stories and anecdotes are condensed into a vivid mosaic.

Mirza Ghalib
A fictionalized account of the life of poet and nobleman Mirza Ghalib during the reign of the last Mughal Emperor, told through the lens of his ill-fated love for a beautiful courtesan he called Chaudhvin.

Pukar
A love affair and two feuding families who play out a Romeo and Juliet type drama in 17th century India, under the Emperor Jehangir.

Tamanna
The story of a struggling actor who meets Mian Tariq Ali, a relic of the once thriving film industry. The struggling actor is there to convince Ali to divorce his wife. A contest of male dominance between the two men ensues, starting quite reasonably, playfully even, but eventually turning angry and violent.
Band Toh Ab Bajay Ga

Dosti
A Pakistani man goes abroad his country for earning money.

Jawani Phir Nahi Ani 2
Now settled into married life, Pervez and Sheikh jump at the chance to travel to Turkey with their wives to visit Pervez's well-to-do brother-in-law, Rahat.

7 Din Mohabbat In
The story follows a young man on a quest to find his true love in a crowded Karachi neighbourhood. He must overcome the obstacles, both spiritual and physical, to achieve his goals.

Rangreza
Conflict arises when, Reshmi, a young woman who has been engaged since childhood to her cousin, is courted by a famous pop star.

3 Bahadur: The Revenge of Baba Balaam
3 children now have a task of defeating babe balm who is rising again.

Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hay
It's the story of a young couple struggling with challenges of life. Both are aggressive and follow their own thoughts which affect their relationship. Their reunion becomes complicated gradually.

Siyaah
Zara loses her child due to miscarriage. Bilal and Zara decide to adopt a child but they don't know what is going to happen to them.

3 Braves
Three Braves is the story of three extraordinary children who rise from the most unlikeliest of places and save their town from the evils plague it. Equipped with courage and super powers,11 year old Amna, Saadi and Kamil battle against the odds and stand up to injustice to restore peace and harmony in their once thriving community And live a very happy life.

Love Guru
Sophia, a talented architect has been dreaming of marrying her true love. But when a new man walks into her life, everything changes. Torn between family expectations and the stirrings of her heart, Sophia embarks on a journey of self-discovery, love, and difficult choices.

Beauty Parlor
The story revolves around three women and a transvestite working in a beauty salon, whose interaction with one another engenders facets of personality and suppressed desires in each one hitherto unknown to them.

Quaid-e-Azam Zindabad
The idea of "showing money and getting things done" is widespread. Gulab Mughal is the son of an honest policeman and grew up watching his father walk the right path, but it's not the path to happiness. Activist Jia has even worse plans for illegal money in the country.

Aik Hai Nigar
Based on the inspiring true story of Pakistan Army’s first female Three Star (⭐⭐⭐) General. ‘𝗔𝗶𝗸 𝗛𝗮𝗶 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗿’ traces the life and career of 𝗟𝗶𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗿 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗮𝗿, a name synonymous to strength, determination and professional excellence. Gen Nigar Johar rose through the ranks of Pakistan Army and continues to have a meritorious service. She overcame personal tragedy and societal pressures to break the glass ceiling for all the women of the country. A tribute to one of the biggest symbols of women empowerment in Pakistan.

Shama Parwana
Gul Mirza is a poet who sings ghazals at Shahenshah Arkat-Ul-Daula's palace and wins the heart of his daughter, Sahebzadi Aalam. They agree to marry once he finishes his service in the royal army. But when his widowed mother is murdered one night, Gul Mirza speaks out against Arkat and gets labeled a rebel, perhaps never able to meet Aalam again. Inspired by a famous legend from the Mughal era.

City of Smiles
Pakistan, 2071. There have been no reported instances of terrorism or violent crime in over 30 years. The cost: the systemic subjugation of all human emotion.

Darling
Naive Shani helps his transgender friend and crush audition for the lead in an erotic dance show.

Yeh Dil Aap Ka Huwa
The romance of Falak,a young Pakistani living in Switzerland,who has unidentified yearnings for eastern culture, and Sitara.
Daku Ki Larki

Pinky Memsaab
The lives of a gullible maid; a beautiful socialite; an ambitious investment banker and a happy go lucky chauffeur are entwined together in Dubai, in this bitter-sweet tale of self discovery.

Dia

Apna Khana Khud Garam Karlo
Story of a self centered women Jamila who pretends to be biggest supporter of women empowerment gets actively involved with newly wed couple in her neighbors and things gets out of hand…

Shanakht
Pakistan's first transgender movie.

Chupan Chupai
Inept kidnappers need both luck and logic to stay one step ahead of the determined cop who is hot on their trail, but are laughably lacking both.

Husbandhood
In January of 2014, five filmmakers suddenly disappear while shooting in the nearby Drigh Lake Larakana woods. One week later, their camera was found.

Saiqa
The drama revolves around a child who is considered unlucky because of her gender.
The Bar

Hide & Seek
A transgender college student, a gay man, a dancer, and an activist struggle to live openly and find acceptance of their sexuality in Pakistan.

Chalay Thay Saath
An adventurous doctor meets a handsome Chinese backpacker while travelling with friends on a journey of self-discovery.

Manto
The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.

Mah e Mir
A modern poet Jamal who is against the traditional Urdu Poetry reads the biography of Mir Taqi Mir,one of the greatest poets of the 18th century. And sees Mir's reflection on his personality.

Gubbaare
An unexpected delay at the railway station sparks an unlikely relationship between two people.

Ishq Positive
The story of a girl who can't decide whether she should be with the one she loves or should continue pursuing her career as a drama artist.

Behadd
"Behadd" reflects upon the relationship dynamics of a 'Parent' and a 'Child', and shows how their love for one another becomes the cause of their heartache and the reflection of 'selflessness' verses 'selfishness' in Love.

Ghost School
Rabia, a ten-year-old Pakistani girl sets out to find why her only school in the village is closed. This fable is a ghost story with a tinge of magical-realism that explores corruption from a child's perspective.

Circus
A glimpse in the life of a roadside mascot costume artist.

Money Back Guarantee
Money Back Guarantee is the most awaited multi-starrer Pakistani film directed by Faisal Qureshi.

Very Good Dunya Very Bad Log
A Pakistani Comedy Movie

Ghunghat
kamal and Afreen are married recently,they are living happily with Kamal's family.But soon Afreen's past come to haunt them.

Jo Darr Gaya Woh Marr Gaya
A man and his family trapped by a con-man

Ruposh
Ruposh is a passionate and soul-stirring tale of romance that perfectly embodies the agonizing pain suffered in love. As the feeling of love slowly escalates into obsession, sorrow and grief are destined to follow.

Salma
Lucknow-based Nawabzada Aslam lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his dad, Bakar, and mom. He writes poems under the pen name of Raj Lakhnavi, and is a close friend of Iqbal. One day he meets and falls in love with Salma Banarsi, a Banaras-based Courtesan. When his parents arrange his marriage with his foreign-returned cousin, Mumtaz, he informs them that he loves Salma and incurs their displeasure so much so that his dad shoots him, and he gets hospitalized. When he recovers fully he is shocked to find that Salma has not only accepted Iqbal as her lover, but has also taken a lot of money and jewelry from his mother. He takes to alcohol in a big way and swears to exact vengeance against Salma by getting married to Mumtaz and forcing Salma to sing and dance at his wedding.
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