Best dark & gritty English movies on Prime Video in India
By the KyaDekhu team · Updated · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb
556 movies on Prime Video in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 6.0. Newest addition: One Mile: Chapter One, added to Apple TV on 22 Oct. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity; showing the top 30.
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1. The Dark Knight (2008)
Movie · English · 2h 32m · UA · Action, Thriller · IMDb 9.1 (32.4L votes)
Visually stunningTwistyEdge-of-seatFast-paced
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising
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2. Schindler's List (1993)
Movie · English · 3h 15m · A · Drama, History · IMDb 9.0 (16.1L votes)
Visually stunningDark & grittyMatureEdge-of-seat
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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3. Pulp Fiction (1994)
Movie · English · 2h 34m · Thriller, Crime · IMDb 8.8 (24.8L votes)
TwistyMatureFunnyFast-paced
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
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4. The Matrix (1999)
Movie · English · 2h 16m · A · Action, Science Fiction · IMDb 8.7 (22.9L votes)
Visually stunningTwistyEdge-of-seatFast-paced
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
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5. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Movie · English · 1h 59m · A · Crime, Thriller · IMDb 8.6 (17.6L votes)
Dark & grittyMatureTwistyEdge-of-seat
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and
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6. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Movie · English · 2h 17m · A · Action, Thriller · IMDb 8.6 (13.1L votes)
Visually stunningFast-pacedEdge-of-seatMature
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.
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7. Django Unchained (2012)
Movie · English · 2h 45m · A · Drama, Western · IMDb 8.5 (19.2L votes)
Visually stunningMatureDark & grittyEdge-of-seat
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
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8. Gladiator (2000)
Movie · English · 2h 35m · Action, Drama · IMDb 8.5 (18.9L votes)
Visually stunningEdge-of-seatMatureDark & gritty
After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.
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9. The Departed (2006)
Movie · English · 2h 31m · A · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 8.5 (15.9L votes)
TwistyMatureEdge-of-seatFast-paced
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
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10. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Movie · English · 2h 45m · UA · Action, Crime · IMDb 8.4 (20.3L votes)
Visually stunningEdge-of-seatFast-pacedDark & gritty
Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader
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11. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Movie · English · 2h 33m · A · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 8.4 (18.3L votes)
TwistyVisually stunningMatureDark & gritty
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie thea
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12. Batman Begins (2005)
Movie · English · 2h 20m · UA · Drama, Crime · IMDb 8.2 (17.5L votes)
Visually stunningDark & grittyEdge-of-seatTwisty
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
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13. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Movie · English · 1h 51m · Action, Crime · IMDb 8.2 (13.3L votes)
MatureVisually stunningTwistyFast-paced
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
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14. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Movie · English · 1h 39m · UA · Crime, Thriller · IMDb 8.2 (11.9L votes)
TwistyMatureCold & detachedEdge-of-seat
A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.
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15. Prisoners (2013)
Movie · English · 2h 33m · A · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 8.2 (9.6L votes)
TwistyMatureEdge-of-seatDark & gritty
After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search descends into obsession and moral compromise.
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16. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Movie · English · 2h 1m · A · Action, Adventure · IMDb 8.1 (12.2L votes)
Visually stunningFast-pacedEdge-of-seatMature
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.
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17. The Terminator (1984)
Movie · English · 1h 48m · Action, Thriller · IMDb 8.1 (10.2L votes)
Visually stunningEdge-of-seatFast-pacedMature
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeg
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18. The Great Escape (1963)
Movie · English · 2h 53m · Adventure, Drama · IMDb 8.2 (2.8L votes)
Visually stunningEdge-of-seatDark & gritty
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true sto
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19. Blade Runner (1982)
Movie · English · 1h 58m · Science Fiction, Drama · IMDb 8.1 (8.9L votes)
TwistyVisually stunningSlow-burnCold & detached
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
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20. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Movie · English · 2h 12m · Drama · IMDb 8.1 (7.8L votes)
Dark & grittyMature
Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie's determined to go pro and to convince Dunn and his cohort to help her.
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21. Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Movie · English · 2h 19m · Drama, History · IMDb 8.1 (7.0L votes)
Visually stunningMatureEdge-of-seatDark & gritty
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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22. Raging Bull (1980)
Movie · English · 2h 9m · Drama, History · IMDb 8.1 (4.2L votes)
MatureVisually stunningCold & detachedDark & gritty
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
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23. Dune (2021)
Movie · English · 2h 35m · UA · Science Fiction, Adventure · IMDb 8.0 (11.0L votes)
Visually stunningEdge-of-seatTwistyDark & gritty
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in e
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24. Donnie Darko (2001)
Movie · English · 1h 54m · UA · Fantasy, Drama · IMDb 8.0 (9.2L votes)
TwistyDark & grittyEdge-of-seatMature
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
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25. Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Movie · English · 2h 16m · Action, Crime · IMDb 8.0 (8.8L votes)
MatureVisually stunningEdge-of-seatDark & gritty
The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.
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26. Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Movie · English · 2h 44m · Science Fiction, Drama · IMDb 8.0 (7.7L votes)
Slow-burnVisually stunningTwistyDark & gritty
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
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27. Casino Royale (2006)
Movie · English · 2h 24m · Adventure, Action · IMDb 8.0 (7.6L votes)
Visually stunningEdge-of-seatFast-pacedMature
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. W
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28. Blood Diamond (2006)
Movie · English · 2h 23m · Drama, Thriller · IMDb 8.0 (6.3L votes)
Visually stunningEdge-of-seatMatureDark & gritty
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of tortu
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29. Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Movie · English · 1h 57m · Drama, History · IMDb 7.9 (5.5L votes)
MatureDark & gritty
Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
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30. Apocalypto (2006)
Movie · English · 2h 18m · Action, Drama · IMDb 7.9 (3.7L votes)
Visually stunningFast-pacedDark & grittyMature
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will ma
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