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Plot Summary:
Film starring Kamal Hassan, Vijayshanti and Charan Raj.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: political
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Kalyanaraman (1979)
Plot Summary:
Kalyanam (Kamal Haasan) is the naive and infantile son of a rich estate owner Chinnadurai ( V S Raghavan) and he is in love with Shenbagam (Sridevi), an ordinary estate worker. The estate manager (Major Sundarrajan) and his cohorts covertly plot to kill Chinnadurai and usurp the property from Kalyanam. Chinnadurai gets killed but before his death reveals to Kalyanam that he has a twin elder brother who lives with his mother in Madras. The manager and his henchmen befool Kalyanam and loot the estate with ease but eventually murder him by throwing him off a cliff when he discovers their true designs. Shenbagam who witnesses the murder turns mentally unstable. However Kalyanam is not finished entirely as his spectre contacts his twin brother Raman (the elder Kamal Haasan) and the rest of the story revolves around how they together seek to bring the perpetrators to justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags:
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Bombay Dreams (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ebba and her friend Camilla go looking for her mother in India.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Yeh to Kamaal Ho Gaya (1982)
Plot Summary:
Shady and corrupt lawyer, Rashik Bihari Saxena, frames an innocent child, Mahesh Chander, the son of a convicted thief, for murder. Mahesh is sent to juvenile jail for several years. His father, Shankar, swears vengeance against Advocate Saxena, and abducts one his children, a boy, and names him Ratan. He and his wife, Shanta, nurture him and let him grow with them. Shankar teaches him all the tricks that would make him a master cat burglar. Years later, Ratan has grown up to be a master cat burglar while his lookalike brother, Ajay Saxena, is studying in London. Ajay returns home with a Caucasian wife, Kathryn, who is not welcomed by Advocate Saxena, as a result Ajay too leaves the house. Then a woman named Ruby Gupta is killed, and the evidence links this crime to Saxena.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags:
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Dalecarlians (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mia returns from Stockholm to her parents' home in a small town in Dalecarlia (Dalarna) to celebrate her father's 70th birthday. Her elder sisters Eivor and Gunilla welcome her, but their different lifestyles prevent them from really communicating. The tension builds, and the party that should be a celebration turns out to be a turning point for the family and their friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, contemplative, witty
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Sandesham (1991)
Plot Summary:
After his retirement, Raghavan Nair (Thilakan) is back at his home. His long cherished dream to spend his retired life along with his family is thwarted after seeing his two sons brawling each other over their political differences.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: political, cult classic, cult film
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Minnaram (1994)
Plot Summary:
Bobby (Mohanlal) is about to marry Tina (Anju) when his old college girlfriend Nina (Shobhana) arrives with a baby that she claims is his child. Tina’s father calls off the wedding and Bobby eventually prepares to accept Nina. Fate, however, has other things in store for them.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: sad
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Live Is Life (2021)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1985. As every year, Rodri travels from Catalonia to Galicia and is reunited with his four friends. As real-world problems begin to undermine their friendship, the five of them embark on a nighttime adventure in search of a mythical object.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min
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Delinquent School Girls (1975)
Plot Summary:
Three mental patients escape their asylum and sexually assault their way into a girl's private school. The girls education includes wrestling and karate, so the three mad men will find stern opposition when they least expected.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, independent film, grindhouse
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Muskurahat (1992)
Plot Summary:
Gopichand Verma is a retired Judge of the Supreme Court of India. He re-locates to scenic Ooty and decides to live there in a palatial home. He has a cook/servant in Badriprasad Chaurasia. When Chaurasia wins a lottery, he quits, and Verma hires a woman by the name of Nandini in his place. He soon finds out that there is a mystery behind Nandini and her presence in his house, apart from the fact that she is mentally imbalanced. When he probes further, he finds that she is claiming to be his illegitimate daughter. He does accept her and decides to let her live there, but his wife, his son, his sister, his son-in-law, and daughter have other plans - for they have hired notorious hit-man Samar Khan to abduct and kill Nandini at any cost. Is Nandini really Verma's daughter? Why would the Verma family want her dead?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags:
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Gharana Mogudu (1992)
Plot Summary:
Gharana Mogudu is a remake of tamil movie Mannan and it is a drama based movie in which, Raju (Chiranjeevi) is a do-gooder who helps his fellow co-workers while working in Visakhapatnam shipyard, but when his mother suffers a paralytic stroke, he moves back to Hyderabad and looks for a job.Uma Devi (Nagma) daughter of industrialist Bapineedu (Raogopal Rao) takes over the business from her father and helps it to reach new heights which also sees her head strongness reach new heights as well. In this scenario, she not only rejects Ranganayakulu.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags:
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Vellanakalude Naadu (1988)
Plot Summary:
Vellanakalude Nadu movie which is a political satire based against municipal mafia in the form of Buildings.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: touching, political, satirical
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Tejasvini (1994)
Plot Summary:
India's capital Delhi is the center-point of this story, depicted as a degenerate and corrupt city with Members of Parliament with big criminal rap sheets, ruling the roost, transferring or killing honest police officers, promotion their own corrupt cops, openly collecting weekly bribes (haftas) from local businesses, pimps, prostitutes ET AL, even openly holding an auction for bidders to bid for areas for black-marketing purposes. Lala Khurana is the uncrowned king of Delhi and he runs it with the help of a Member of Parliament, & the Director General of Police. His advocate Chintamani Chaubey wants him to contest the next elections, ensuring his win, and making his own laws, appointing his own police officers, who will do his bidding, carrying on without any checks and balance. Khurana likes this idea, but feels he is getting too old, but would like his son, Devendra Kumar, to run and be the next State Chief Minister.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags:
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Kaakki Sattai (1985)
Plot Summary:
Kaakki Sattai starring by kamal haasan and ambika. Desperate to enroll in the Police force, Kamalhassan finds support from Ambika at all times during his attempts. The love songs with Ambika were quite a hit.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
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Athaku Yamudu Ammayiki Mogudu (1989)
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When young Rekha falls in love with unemployed Kalyan, her high-hat mother, Chamundeshwari, disapproves of the match and devises numerous schemes to drive the lovebirds apart. But Kalyan proves a tougher adversary than Chamundeshwari expects, and soon an intense battle of wills ensues.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags:
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Meesa Madhavan (2002)
Plot Summary:
Madhavan (Dileep) is a clever thief who does robbery for a living. He is following the principles of his mentor Mullani Pappan (Mala Aravindan). Meesa Madhavan got his name by the popular saying that if Madhavan rolls his Mustache (Meesa in Malayalam) looking at someone, he will rob his house that night. His enemy was a local money lender Bhageerathan Pillai (Jagathy Sreekumar) who refused to give back his father's property. Madhavan falls in love in Bhageerathan Pillai's daughter Rukmini (Kavya Madhavan). The sub inspector in the village Eappen Pappachi (Indrajith) has an eye on Rukmini. He steals the idol from the local Temple with the intention of selling it and puts the blame on Madhavan. It becomes Madhavan's responsibility to find the culprits and he does that with his mentor's help and thus uniting with his girl friend.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags:
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Sarileru Neekevvaru (2020)
Plot Summary:
A tough army major is deployed to Kurnool on a mission to keep the country safe from external threats.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, atmospheric, captivating
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Thenali (2000)
Plot Summary:
Tenali is a comedy based movie in which, Panchabhootam (Delhi Ganesh) is a senior psychiatrist in Vizag. Kailash (Jayaram) is an upcoming psychiatrist. As Kailash takes over Panchabhootam over popularity.Panchabhootam wants to ruin the happiness of Kailash by sending him the coward 'Tenali' as the patient. Since Kailash wanted to go for family vacation to Kodaikanal with his wife Jalaja (Devyani) and two kids, he asks Tenali to wait for a month so that he can begin the treatment after Kailash Vacation.Panchabhootam, who wants to make the life of Kailash miserable,.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 164 min
Plot tags:
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Avvai Shanmugi (1996)
Plot Summary:
A divorced husband desperately misses his daughter. In order to be with her, he takes up a job in his father-in-law's house. The only catch is that the job is that of a female governess.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: cult film
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We (1991)
Plot Summary:
Tiger works for the local Don Bhaktawar but never hesitates to revolt against him if he harms his friends or family. When his girlfriend Jumma's brother Gonsalves is killed by Bhakhtawar for revolting against him, Tiger promises revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 184 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Scopone Game (1972)
Plot Summary:
An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, crying, dark comedy
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Mandi (1983)
Plot Summary:
This classic film is based on a classic Urdu short story 'Aanandi' by Pakistani writer Ghulam Abbas. It deals with a brothel at the heart of a city, in an area that some politicians want for its prime locality. They rally up against the brothel and its inhabitants in the name of morality, and soon everyone in the area jumps on the bandwagon. The politicians offer to put up an alternative residence for the prostitutes, only this place is miles away, isolated from the city. The madam of the house has no choice but to comply, but by the end things take a (logical) turn for the better. After all, men will be men.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 933
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: satirical, art film, parallel cinema, black comedy
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Aaltra (2004)
Plot Summary:
In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their rage on each other but on the manufacturer of the tractor, in Helsinki. So get ready for a hilarious wheelchair road movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, black and white, black comedy, dark, offbeat, tragic
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Manmadhan Ambu (2010)
Plot Summary:
Madhan is convinced that Ambu is unfaithful and refuses to pay detective Mannar when he reports otherwise. Wanting to make money to help a friend, Mannar cooks up stories about Ambu's infidelity.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags:
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Panchathantiram (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ram is a playboy pilot. His marriage to Mythili disintegrates after a series of misunderstandings. To cheer him up, his buddies arrange for a steamy evening with a prostitute Maggie, but things go wrong and the men are stuck with a dead body and a load of diamonds. The corpse disappears, and Ram's efforts to cover up the event are thwarted by a pesky father-in-law of one of the friends who thinks Maggie was Ram's wife.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing, feel good
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Uttama Villain (2015)
Plot Summary:
Superstar Manoranjan learns that he has only a few days to live and approaches his mentor, director Margadarisi to direct his next project — a folklore-ish comedy about a man who keeps cheating death and his role in saving a kingdom. Meanwhile, he has to sort out his personal lives, which involves an estranged son and a daughter from the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Michael Madana Kamarajan (1990)
Plot Summary:
The film tells a story of quadruplets, Michael, Madhanagopal, Kameshwaran, and Raju, all played by Kamal Haasan. Kamal had distinguished each of those characters with his body language and language lingo. Michael has a husky voice, Madan has an English accent, Kameshwaran speaks Palakkad Tamil and Raju speaks Madras Tamil in keeping with their diverse upbringing as per the plot.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, realistic
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The Love Chariot (1987)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed youth dreams of living well. One evening, he finds a drunken industrialist passed out in a gutter, and takes the opportunity to switch places with him. He finds love, intrigue, and the good life in his new home, Pushpak, a hotel where the industrialist was staying. A silent masterpiece.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: silent, touching, satirical, experimental, cult classic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, silent film
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Vasool Raja MBBS (2004)
Plot Summary:
A goon, Rajaraman, enrols himself in a medical college to fulfil his father's dream. He defies the college rules and creates problems for Dr Vishwanathan.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, cult film
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Anbe Sivam (2003)
Plot Summary:
Nalla Sivam and Anbarasu meet under different circumstances and their lives are changed as they take the journey of their life.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, experimental, talky, inspirational, road movie, feel good, epic, crying, entertaining
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Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003)
Plot Summary:
A gangster sets out to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a doctor.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, funny, inspirational, entertaining, motivational, light, touching, feel good