Films set in Lucknow

1981 Indian musical film by Muzaffar Ali

1977 film by Satyajit Ray

2016 Hindi film directed by Karan Johar

Pakeezah (; ) is a 1972 Indian musical romantic drama written, directed, and produced by Kamal Amrohi. The film stars Meena Kumari as the eponymous lead, alongside Ashok Kumar and Raaj Kumar. It tells the story of Sahibjaan, a Lucknow-based tawaif. While asleep on a train, Sahibjaan receives a note from a stranger praising her beauty. Later, evacuating from a broken boat, she takes shelter in a tent and finds out its owner, a forest ranger named Salim, wrote the letter. Sahibjaan and Salim plan to get married, causing conflicts with Sahibjaan's professional background.

2010 Indian film directed by R. Balki

2006 Indian film by J. P. Dutta

1950 adventure film directed by Victor Saville

2018 Indian film directed by Raj Kumar Gupta

1978 film by Shyam Benegal

Ishaqzaade () is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language romantic action film written and directed by Habib Faisal, and produced by Aditya Chopra under the Yash Raj Films banner. The film stars Arjun Kapoor in his debut and Parineeti Chopra in lead roles, alongside Gauahar Khan, Natasha Rastogi, Anil Rastogi, and Shashank Khaitan in supporting roles. Set in the fictional town of Almor in Uttar Pradesh, the narrative follows Parma Chauhan and Zoya Qureshi, members of rival political families, whose passionate romance challenges deeply rooted religious and societal divides.

2011 film by Anand L. Rai

2019 film directed by Muddassar Aziz

2017 Indian Hindi-language film by Subhash Kapoor

1965 film by James Ivory

2016 film by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

Indian film

2017 film by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

2007 film by Manish Jha

Daawat-e-Ishq () is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by Habib Faisal, and produced by Aditya Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films. It stars Parineeti Chopra, Aditya Roy Kapur and Anupam Kher in the lead roles. The soundtrack was composed by Sajid–Wajid.

2019 film directed by Seema Bhargav

1963 film by H. S. Rawail

1960 film

2017 film

2019 film directed by Amar Kaushik

1960 film

1967 film

2017 film by Ranjit Tiwari

Sehar () is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language crime drama film directed by Kabeer Kaushik, starring Arshad Warsi, Mahima Chaudhry, Sushant Singh and Pankaj Kapur. The film depicts organized crime in the state of Uttar Pradesh in the 1990s, and how the police worked to tackle it. It is said to be loosely based on the encounter of gangster Shri Prakash Shukla, who was eliminated by the newly formed Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh Police.

1968 film by Vinod Kumar

1965 film

2025 Indian film

Bawaal () is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language adventure romantic drama film directed by Nitesh Tiwari, and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala and Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari under Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment and Earthsky Pictures. It stars Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor as a troubled married couple.