What to watch with family on ZEE5
By the KyaDekhu team · Updated · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb
Of 2,321 titles streaming on ZEE5 in India, 1,541 (66%) are rated U or U/A or score as family-safe. 573 of those also pass KyaDekhu's parents check — AI-estimated sexual content, violence, strong language and substance use are all "unlikely" — 504 movies and 69 web series. Here are the best-rated 30.
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1. Our Planet (2019)
Web series · English · 2 seasons · U/A 7+ · Documentary, Family · IMDb 9.2 (64.1K votes)
Visually stunningSlow-burnFamily-friendlyLow-stakes
Experience our planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts all living creatures in this ambitious documentary of spectacular scope.
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2. TVF Pitchers (2015)
Web series · Hindi · 2 seasons · Comedy, Drama · IMDb 9.0 (80.3K votes)
FunnyLow-stakesLight-heartedDialogue-driven
A story of trials and tribulations of four young entrepreneurs who quit their day jobs in order to pursue their start up venture.
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3. Jersey (2019)
Movie · Telugu · 2h 40m · U · Drama · IMDb 8.5 (30.8K votes)
Family-friendlyHeartwarmingTwistyLow-stakes
After his career fails to take off, a gifted cricketer in his mid-thirties decides that he’s not ready to give up quite yet.
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4. Broken But Beautiful (2018)
Web series · Hindi · 3 seasons · Drama · IMDb 8.5 (17.6K votes)
HeartwarmingDialogue-drivenLow-stakes
Broken is Veer and Sameera's story where their hearts were left broken and damaged after they lost their love. Destiny has brought love in to their lives again, will they give it a second chance?
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5. Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo (2016)
Web series · Korean · 1 season · Comedy, Drama · IMDb 8.3 (17.7K votes)
HeartwarmingLight-heartedLow-stakesFunny
A competitive swimmer crosses paths with his childhood friend, a rising weight lifting star, and realizes that she has a secret crush on his cousin.
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6. The Tashkent Files (2019)
Movie · Hindi · 2h 24m · UA · Drama, Mystery · IMDb 8.0 (39.6K votes)
Cold & detachedDialogue-drivenTwistySerious
The Tashkent Files is a thriller that revolves around the mysterious death of India's 2nd Prime Minister Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri and attempts to uncover if he had actually died a natural death, or, as alleged, was assassinated.
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7. Iqbal (2005)
Movie · Hindi · 2h 30m · Drama · IMDb 8.1 (18.6K votes)
HeartwarmingFamily-friendly
This is all about chasing your dreams, no matter what the obstacles. The story involves a young deaf and dumb boy who is crazy about cricket.
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8. Karthikeya 2 (2022)
Movie · Telugu · 2h 25m · U/A 7+ · Mystery, Adventure · IMDb 7.8 (65.4K votes)
Visually stunningTwistyEdge-of-seatFast-paced
Before the Kalyug begins, Lord Krishna hands over an anklet that holds the answer to all of world’s miseries. Years later a doctor finds himself in the thick of things when the pursuit for the anklet carries on. A doctor with a curious mind, Karthikeya, aka Karthik, believes in pursuing the truth. The quest leads Karth
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9. Soodhu Kavvum (2013)
Movie · Tamil · 2h 18m · U · Comedy, Thriller · IMDb 8.2 (13.7K votes)
FunnyTwistyFast-pacedCold & detached
Dass specialises in small time kidnapping and has his own set of rules. The primary and most important among them is not to get involved with influential people. Three jobless youngsters meet Dass and the four take up an assignment for a hefty sum that throws away this primary rule and end up being chased by a dreaded
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10. English Vinglish (2012)
Movie · Hindi · 2h 14m · U · Comedy, Drama · IMDb 7.8 (45.7K votes)
HeartwarmingFamily-friendlySlow-burnLow-stakes
In the United States for the first time, an Indian housewife with a limited command of English turns Manhattan into her personal language school.
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11. Pad Man (2018)
Movie · Hindi · 2h 20m · UA · Comedy, Drama · IMDb 7.8 (33.2K votes)
HeartwarmingLow-stakesFunnyStraightforward
Upon realizing the extent to which women are affected by their menses, a man sets out to create a sanitary pad machine and to provide inexpensive sanitary pads to the women of rural India.
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12. Nil Battey Sannata (2016)
Movie · Hindi · 1h 40m · Drama, Family · IMDb 8.2 (9.9K votes)
HeartwarmingFamily-friendlyLow-stakesSlow-burn
Behind the magnificent Taj Mahal lies a cluster of dingy homes where Chanda (35), a domestic help, lives with her 14-year-old daughter Appu. Chanda aspires and dreams that her daughter will study and embrace a better fate. When Appu tells her she wants to quit school and become a maid like her, Chanda takes a strong de
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13. The Devil (2025)
Movie · Kannada · 2h 47m · U/A 13+ · Action, Drama · IMDb 8.5 (6.0K votes)
Rajashekar (Chief Minister of Karnataka) is framed, so his secretary recruits Krishna, a kindhearted lookalike, to impersonate the violent heir Dhanush. When the real Dhanush returns, both men clash for political power and Rukmini’s love. Krishna must protect Rukmini from Dhanush while also rising as a leader the peopl
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14. Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain (2015)
Web series · Hindi · 3 seasons · U/A 13+ · Comedy, Drama · IMDb 8.6 (5.1K votes)
FunnyLight-heartedLow-stakesDialogue-driven
"Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain!" is a popular Hindi sitcom that premiered in 2015 on And TV and is available on ZEE5. Produced by Binaifer Kohli, the show follows two neighboring couples—the Mishras and the Tiwaris. The husbands, Vibhuti Narayan Mishra and Manmohan Tiwari are dissatisfied in their marriages and secretly admire
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15. Mr. India (1987)
Movie · Hindi · 2h 59m · U · Action, Science Fiction · IMDb 7.7 (20.9K votes)
Visually stunningEdge-of-seatFamily-friendlyHeartwarming
A poor but big-hearted man takes orphans into his home. After discovering his scientist father's invisibility device, he rises to the occasion and fights to save his children and all of India from the clutches of a megalomaniac.
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16. Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran (2018)
Movie · Hindi · 2h 9m · U · Drama, History · IMDb 7.6 (26.9K votes)
Visually stunningEdge-of-seatFamily-friendlySerious
A look at India's second confidential nuclear test series at Pokhran lead by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, during the time of PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee's tenure.
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17. Masoom (1983)
Movie · Hindi · 2h 18m · Drama, Family · IMDb 8.3 (4.8K votes)
HeartwarmingFamily-friendlySlow-burn
A loving husband and father's joyful family life is rocked to its core upon the discovery that he has a young son borne from a past extramarital affair.
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18. Bareilly Ki Barfi (2017)
Movie · Hindi · 2h 3m · UA · Comedy, Romance · IMDb 7.5 (29.0K votes)
TwistyHeartwarmingFunnyLight-hearted
Bitti Mishra is a bohemian Bareilly girl who falls deeply in love with Pritam Vidrohi, an author because she admires his progressive way of thinking. Finding him though proves to be as hard as looking for a needle in the haystack. So Bitti seeks the help of the local printing press-owner, Chirag Dubey on her journey of
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19. Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994)
Movie · Hindi · 3h 27m · U · Drama, Romance · IMDb 7.5 (24.6K votes)
HeartwarmingSlow-burnFamily-friendlyLow-stakes
Prem and Nisha meet and fall in love at the wedding of their elder siblings, but their plans to be together are put in jeopardy when Nisha's sister dies, leaving behind a baby.
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20. Oh My Kadavule (2020)
Movie · Tamil · 2h 34m · UA · Comedy, Romance · IMDb 8.0 (6.3K votes)
FunnyTwistyLight-heartedDialogue-driven
Arjun is conveniently married to his best friend Anu and their marriage turns out to be a nightmare since he is not really in love with her. When things get tough Arjun gets a second chance in life that could change his path and perspective altogether.
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21. Operation Java (2021)
Movie · Malayalam · 2h 26m · UA · Thriller, Crime · IMDb 8.0 (6.1K votes)
Edge-of-seatCold & detached
B. Tech graduates Antony and Vinay Dasan are talented, but unemployed. That changes, however, when they approach the cyber cell with a new perspective to a film piracy case.
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22. Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana (2017)
Movie · Hindi · 2h 17m · UA · Romance, Family · IMDb 7.5 (20.3K votes)
Twisty
Satyendra aka Sattu and Aarti meet for a proposed arranged marriage and fall in love in the process. On the night of their marriage, an unexpected turn of events turns their world upside down. Set in the backdrop of India's civil services, Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana explores the challenges that Satyendra and Aarti face as
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23. Katyar Kaljat Ghusali (2015)
Movie · Marathi · 2h 42m · U · Music · IMDb 8.7 (2.9K votes)
Family-friendly
Katyar Kaljat Ghusli is a 2015 Marathi film based on a play by the same name. Directed by Subodh Bhave, the film stars Sachin Pilgaonkar, Shankar Mahadevan, and Subodh Bhave in lead roles. The film marks the acting debut for Mahadevan and directorial debut for Bhave. The original play premiered in 1967 in Mumbai, where
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24. 30 Rojullo Preminchadam Ela? (2021)
Movie · Telugu · 2h 23m · UA · Romance, Fantasy · IMDb 8.1 (4.9K votes)
TwistyHeartwarming
Two college students, Arjun and Akshara, get off on the wrong foot and develop an instant hatred for each other. However, they land in a pickle and realise their connection from a past life.
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25. Ayothi (2023)
Movie · Tamil · 2h 1m · U · Family, Drama · IMDb 8.2 (4.2K votes)
Family-friendlyHeartwarmingSerious
A four member family from Ayodhya, headed by conservative, religious patriarch, Balram, his wife Janaki, daughter Shivani and son Sonu goes on a spiritual trip to Rameswaram. Things get complicated when Janki dies in an accident and the two kids endures at the hands of their fervently devout father. A Rameswaram locali
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27. Pareeksha (2020)
Movie · Hindi · 1h 42m · U · Drama · IMDb 8.0 (5.0K votes)
Family-friendlyHeartwarmingStraightforwardSerious
The film revolves around the story of an ordinary rickshaw driver in Bihar who aspires and dreams of providing maximum possible quality education to his son by making arrangements for him to study at a private English medium school.
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28. Srimanthudu (2015)
Movie · Telugu · 2h 43m · UA · Action, Drama · IMDb 7.5 (14.6K votes)
Visually stunningHeartwarming
Harsha, a multi-millionaire guy who has everything but there is something else he's looking for and in the process he adopts a complete village trying to bring change in the people.
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29. Extraordinary You (2019)
Web series · Korean · 1 season · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy · IMDb 7.7 (8.0K votes)
TwistyHeartwarmingFunny
When a high-school girl finds that she is merely a character from a comic book whose destiny is decided by the writer, she decides to change the plot to suit her desires and find the love of her life.
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30. Bharat Ane Nenu (2018)
Movie · Telugu · 2h 53m · UA · Drama, Action · IMDb 7.4 (20.4K votes)
Bharat, a graduate from Oxford, is forced to take up his father's position as the chief minister after his sudden demise. He is not happy with the way government is functioning in the state and tries to reform the corrupt society but faces obstacles from his enemies.
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What can I watch with family on ZEE5?
Top family picks on ZEE5 in India right now: Our Planet (2019), TVF Pitchers (2015), Jersey (2019), Broken But Beautiful (2018), Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo (2016). All are U/UA (or family-safe) and pass the parents check.
How many family-friendly titles does ZEE5 have?
1,541 of 2,321 titles (66%) on ZEE5 India are family-friendly by certificate or family score; 573 also pass the parents check (as of 23 October 2026).
What is the parents check?
An AI estimate, from public plot information, of how likely a title contains sexual content, violence, strong language or drug/alcohol use. A title passes when every estimate is below 30% ("unlikely"). It is a guide, not a guarantee — check the certificate and trailer too.