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Plot Summary:
Govinda Rajulu is a mesthri (construction worker) who drinks a lot and lives a care-free life. His son Siddartha, on the other hand, is a popular TV show host and is a more disciplined man — the opposite of his dad. The son gets his father married to Shanti to sober him. Siddartha is in love with Shwetha, who is the daughter of a big-time contractor, Veerendra. Veerendra agrees to get his daughter married but tries to distance the father-son duo as he does not like the father's influence on the son. The situation comes where Shwetha's engagement is called off and she turns vengeful to separate the family. She moves into the house and makes sketches to create differences but fails. The rest of the film is about if she succeeds or not.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
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Top of the Hill (1980)
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Michael Stone is a rising company executive decides to chuck his career and marriage to fulfill a fantasy to be a member of the U.S. Olympic bobsled team to partake in the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
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Paandurangadu (2008)
Plot Summary:
A playboy in the medieval times discovers his divinity towards Lord Krishna.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
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Annayya (2000)
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Rajaram (Chiranjeevi), owner of a fleet of lorries, meets Devi (Soundarya), a garment factory owner. After that acquaintance, she once seeks his help in dealing with two street ruffians, who were teasing her sisters, Lata (Chandini) and Geetha (Sishwa), and is shocked when the culprits turn out to be his brothers, Ravi (Ravi Teja) and Gopi (Venkat). Rajaram takes the incident lightly as the pranks of youngsters and is very lenient to them. With more such incidents, the two fall in love, with the brothers and sisters not far behind. On his brothers' request, Rajaram approaches Devi for her sisters' hands in marriage to his brothers. But she curtly refuses her consent on grounds that the two are wayward drunkards. Rajaram reacts sharply to it and vows to get his brothers married to her sisters. Since then on he is more exacting with his brothers and brings about a transformation in them. Devi agrees to their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
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Adavi Donga (1985)
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Adavi Donga is action romance based movie in which, Sharada who fights against the smuggling ring of Rao GopalRao in the forest loses her son as a child and her husband is help captive. She is disappointed when she seeks help from her brother (jaggayya) and vows on destroying the people who destroyed her life.The kid meanwhile grows up like a Tarzan in the jungle without knowing how to speak. Radha and her friends come to the jungle for sight seeing and Radha gets lost and is helped by chiru and she falls for his innocence and behavior.Chiranjeevi is once caught by the police when he tries to kill people who tried to smuggle animals. Then Sarada realises that Chiranjeevi is her son and names him as Kalidasu and educates him to fight with the criminals.He also realises that radha is the daughter of his uncle Jaggayya and they fall in love. Rest of story is about how Chiru takes revange upon Raogopal rao.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
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Kohram: The Explosion (1999)
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Major Balbir Singh Sodhi (Amitabh Bachchan) attempts to kill the Indian Home Minister Veer Bhadra Singh (Danny Denzongpa) but is unsuccessful. He has been identified, and the army is on the look-out for him to court-martial him. They suspect that he has assumed a new identity, that of Devraj Hathoda alias Dadabhai.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: detective
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Rebel (2012)
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Rebel is a romantic action revenge drama, which revolves around the story of a happy-go-lucky guy. The hero (Prabhas) is the son of a good-natured mafia don (Krishnam Raju). The hero becomes Rebel after his father is killed. How he takes revenge upon the people, who killed his father, will form the second half of the movie. Apart from directing, Raghava Lawrence also handles the choreography, screenplay and music direction for the film. The film is being produced by J. Bhaghawan and J. Pulla Rao under Sri Balaji Cine Media banner.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
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Swarg Yahan Narak Yahan (1991)
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Swarg Yahan Narak Yahan is the story of a dignified father (Mithun) and his conflict with his Brat son (Mithun in a double role). Sumalatha and Shilpa Shirodkar play the leading ladies for the father and the son respectively. The film resembles Ramesh Sippy's Shakti.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration:
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Jwala (1985)
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Jwala is action drama based movie in which, Chiranjeevi played dual roles in this movie as brothers Raju (chiru) and Yuvaraj (chiru) are brothers and sons of SP Chakravarthi. Sarvothama Rao and his son are indulged in smuggling and other illegal activities.During an attempt to catch their sumggled goods, one of their main henchmen is shot dead by Chakravarthi. Sarvottama rao plans to take revenge on chakravarti by trapping his son. Yuvaraj is already in love with with Bhanupriya. Meanwhile, Raju saves an innocent girl Janaki (radhika), from the clutches of those smugglers and marries her.Sarvothama Rao kills Basawaraj and traps Raju into this murder. Raju, unable to prove his innocence, is sentenced to death. Chakravarthi tries to prove his son.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
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Azaad (1978)
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This is the story of a eccentric young man, Ashok (Dharmendra) who believes in doing good without worrying about the consequences. This does not find any favor with his sister-in-law Sarla (Sulochana), and she decides to leave him. But he persuades her to come back, and he decides to relocate and not cause any more trouble for Sarla. On his way he has a skirmish with the a princess Rajkumari Seema (Hema Malini) who he teaches a lesson to respect the poor and food grown in the fields. When he arrives in the city, due to his misfortune, he lands a job at a factory run by the Rajkumari, and immediately gets in to the bad books of Prem (Prem Chopra) to whom the Rajkumari is engaged to be married.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
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Okka Magaadu (2008)
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Veeravenkata Satyanarayana Swamy a.k.a. Satyam (Nandamuri Balakrishna) is a beloved person for several villagers, having touched and changed many a life. His grandmother is Baby (Simran Bagga) whose husband dedicated his life to gain independence, taken later as a prisoner of war and missing henceforth. Meanwhile, corrupt doctors, lawyers and journalists are allegedly killed, but their bodies are missing. The suspicions are on Swamy who is arrested, but an old man calling himself Okka Magadu (Nandamuri Balakrishna) claims to have committed those acts. The point is, OM looks like the older version of Swamy whose sworn enemy is Namboodriyar(Ashutosh Rana), a politician whose son elopes with a middle-class girl under Swamy's protection. The story line is very much similar to that of the film Bharateyudu (Indian (1996 film)) starred by the iconic actor Kamal Haasan.Movie was a blockbuster hit.
IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
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Golden Son (2015)
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The happiness of Tamizh and his middle-class family is shattered when his dad commits suicide. The youngster tries to understand why his father took this extreme step and clear his name.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 122 min
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Alluda Majaka (1995)
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Sitaramaiah (Chiru) is the son of a fairly wealth village man. Two rich, spoiled girls come (Rambha and Ramyakrishna) and he teaches them a lesson and embarasses them. Alluda MazaakaTheir mother in order to take revenge takes over all the workers’ lands. Sitaramaiah’s sister falls in love and becomes pregnant. Their father commits suicide and they move to the city where his sister is false accused of being a prostitute and her lover leaves her. Sitaramaiah is falsely charged for killing the cop who arrested her and he escapes from prison and marries Ramya. At this point her father saves him and he tells him this whole story. Sitaramaiah goes to Ramya’s house and pretends to be two people, himself and a rich guy “Toyota.” After causing much havok, he saves his sister from the villains and reunites her with her lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Stalin (2006)
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The only mission in Stalin (Chiranjeevi)'s life is to help others and the make the world a better place. It turns out that Stalin served as a Major in the Indian Army. Although a war hero, he had quit the army after a rift with the Colonel (Mukesh Rishi) transfers him to administrative division from the battlefield as a disciplinary action. His family includes mother (Sharada Urvashi) as well as his sister (Khushboo), who is not in talking terms with their mother since she got married to a Punjabi. Stalin keeps helping a physically challenged girl Sumati to write her Intermediate examination and her suicide disturbs him. The death occurs as none of the people around her extend help. Then Stalin plans a chain system. The theme works on a principle that everyone should help others and in return they should not seek a mere thanks but tell those who get the help to help three more, with a condition that those who get help from them should also demand the same.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
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Master (1997)
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A popular college professor is unable to find true happiness because of his dark past, but the persistence of love and justice ultimately win the day.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 126 min
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Pratibandh (1990)
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Film starring Chiranjeevi, Juhi Chawla and Rami Reddy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
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Indra: The Tiger (2002)
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Indra opens in a village in Andhra Pradesh showing the rivalry between two families. A police officer wishing to end this hostility comes up with the proposal of marriage between the two families which ultimately is used by Shivraj as a trap to finish off his rival. After the funeral, no one is willing to stake claim for the leadership of the clan when the young Indrasena Reddy comes in and tells his grandmother that he will.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 173 min
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Tagore (2003)
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Tagore (Chiranjeevi) creates his own vigilante military network called the Anti-Corruption Force (ACF) that eliminates the most corrupt individuals, from all walks of life, in a systematic manner. As pressure builds on Police and Government to track down the Man who masterminds these killings, Balbir Singh (Puneet Issar), is specially summoned to head the task. He is aided by Suryam (Prakash Raj) who, though being just a constable in the mammoth Police force, is compelled by his instincts to see through the underlying design. Together they unravel the mystery and unveil the phenomenon called Tagore, but not before Badrinaryana (Sayaji Shinde), the human face of evil, finds out that his revelry in the belief of Tagore’s death was a mistake he can never make amends for.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
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Spadikam (1995)
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Chacko Master is a school headmaster in Mathematics. He is a very strict teacher and does not go easy with his own son Thomas.When Thomas realizes that the school language headmaster was biased against him as told by Chacko in giving him a low grade, he leaves home. After 14 years, Thomas returns to his village,now the owner of a stone quarry and a rowdy who has a number of unresolved cases on his head. How the father and son realize their mistakes and bonds together forms the rest of the plot.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
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Hitler (1996)
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This movie is about the life of Madhavankutty (locally known as Hitler), a bachelor protective brother of five younger sisters.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 153 min
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Bruce Lee 2 the Fighter (2015)
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When a stuntman is mistaken for a police officer, he begins fighting crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, entertaining, not serious
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Gopi Kishan (1994)
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Film starring Sunil Shetty, Karisma Kapoor and Shilpa Shirodkar.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 972
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 161 min
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Yeh to Kamaal Ho Gaya (1982)
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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
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Gharana Mogudu (1992)
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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
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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
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Run (2002)
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Siva (Madhavan) comes to Madras from a small Tamil Nadu town to study. He instantly falls in love with elusive stranger Priya (Meera Jasmine) who resists his charms quite persistently. Madhavan later discovers that romancing Priya can be a dangerous hobby. Good performances - especially by Raghuvaran as the brother-in-law who can't see eye to eye with Siva and by Vivek as the (unnecessary) comic relief in the film.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lingaa (2014)
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After being turned down by the ruling Britons, the rightful heir to a famous dynasty inspires local villagers to build a dam themselves. A small-time thief reforms after learning about the role played by his grandfather in building a dam.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
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Chennakesava Reddy (2002)
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Chennakesva Reddy (Telugu: చెన్నకేశవ రెడ్డి) is a 2002 Tollywood Faction Film, directed by V.V. Vinayak, released on 25 September 2002. The movie stars Nandamuri Balakrishna in double role father-son characther, while Shriya Saran and Tabu play the female lead.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 601
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
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Khaidi (1983)
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Khaidi is action oreinted movie in which, Suryam (chiranjeevi) works along with his widow sister in his field and studies in a college in the nearby town. His classmate madhavi falls in love with him, but later suryam realizes that she is RaoGopalrao’s daughter who gave loan to his father and is now trying to grab his land for that.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 157 min
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Bharat (2019)
Plot Summary:
At the cusp of India's birth as an Independent nation, a family makes an arduous journey to freedom at a cost. A young boy Bharat, makes a promise to his Father that he will keep his family together no matter what.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, captivating, disturbing, fast
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Dookudu (2011)
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A young policeman hunts down the men who caused the accident that put his politician father into a coma.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, captivating, tense, rough, realistic, semi serious