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Plot Summary:
The story follows Abdullah (Mohanlal) who is hired by the members of a wealthy royal family to assassinate the family head Maharaja Udayavarma (Nedumudi Venu). Abdullah comes into the royal palace under the disguise Ananthan Namboothiri, a classical singer, and tries to use this mask to softly kill the Maharaja.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Musical, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
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Thazhvaram (1990)
Plot Summary:
A man comes to an isolated valley to take revenge on his friend who murdered his wife. Set in the backdrop of a village in a valley along Palakkad, it is influenced by the spaghetti western genre, and has achieved a cult status in Kerala since its release. Considered as the best thriller of all time in Malayalam cinema. Mohanlal's acting skills and Bharathan's direction are at the peak in this film.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Crime, Drama, Musical, Western
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: sexual, sexy
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Rock N' Roll (2007)
Plot Summary:
Rock N Roll is a 2007 Malayalam film directed by Renjith. The film stars Mohanlal, Lakshmi Rai, Mukesh and Rahman in lead roles.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration:
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Shylock (2020)
Plot Summary:
A ruthless moneylender must tackle a wicked man's plan to outsmart his way out of the debt to achieve what's rightfully his.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
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Uyarangalil (1984)
Plot Summary:
Jayarajan (Mohanlal), an over-enthusiastic assistant manager at a tea plantation plans to loot a huge amount. He lures two debt-ridden subordinates, Chandran (Rahman) and Johnny (Nedumudi Venu), into his conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Sadayam (1992)
Plot Summary:
The story is about convict Sathyanathan (Mohanlal) sentenced to death following multiple murders (of two adult men and two girl-children) he has committed and his subsequent prison life till death. The film focuses on his past and the chain of events leading to the crime and how a retelling of the tale, inadvertently, impacts the prison doctor Dr. Nambiar (Thilakan), who is the father of the male victim Vijayan (Mahesh).
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 982
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: sad
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Bharatham (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bharatham (Malayalam: ഭരതം) is a 1991 musical-drama Malayalam film written by A. K. Lohithadas, directed by Sibi Malayil, and produced by Mohanlal under the banner of Pranavam Arts. It stars Mohanlal, Urvashi, Nedumudi Venu, Lakshmi, and Murali in the main roles. The film is especially known for its music that is largely Carnatic Classical and Semi Classical. The songs were composed by M. Raveendran. Bharatham is interpreted as a modern day adaptation of the Ramayana from Bharath's perspective. How, in the absence of his elder brother, Bharath takes the responsibility of the family and hides his griefs is the core of the story. It won three National Film Awards that year; for Best Actor (Mohanlal), in the category of Special Jury for Raveendran's music, and Best Male Singer (K. J. Yesudas) for the song "Rama Katha Ganalayam".
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: touching, crying, weeping
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Guru (1997)
Plot Summary:
Guru is a fantasy film. It is highly symbolic and makes a statement on terrorism by religions and the evils of the world. The story starts in small peaceful village in India. There is peace between the Hindus and the Muslims that live there. They all get along like family. Raghurāman (Mohanlal) is the son of the local Hindu temple's priest. When an ambitious politician's (NF Varghese) goons disguised as Muslims cause trouble at the local temple, tensions break out between the two communities. The tensions soon flame into a religious riot. Muslims and Hindus began killing each other for the sake of their own religions. Raghurāman joins Hindu gang which is about to attack a group of Muslims who have taken refuge in a guru's asram (a place where a holy guru lived and worked). But at a point Raghurāman has an out of the world experience in the asram.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: mysterious, experimental, avant garde
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Kamaladalam (1992)
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Nandagopan (Mohanlal) is a respected dance teacher at the Kerala Kala Mandiram (alluding to the famed Kerala Kalamandalam repertory which performs Kerala's temple arts). However, his wife Sumangala (Parvathi) commits suicide, causing him to turn into an alcoholic and a compulsive rule breaker. He is suspected of having killed his wife and is suspended from his job for drunken misbehaviour. The new secretary of the institute Velayudhan (Nedumudi Venu) wants him to be sacked but his former reputation gives him a reprieve. He trains the talented student Malavika (Monisha) to perform in his ambitious composition of the Sita Kalyanam, but her jealous young lover Soman (Vineeth) poisons him.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
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Rajavinte Makan (1986)
Plot Summary:
The film follows underworld don Vincent Gomas (Mohanlal) and his rivalry against the Kerala Home minister N. Krishnadas (Ratheesh).
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 819
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
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Maanthrikam (1995)
Plot Summary:
Maanthrikam is a 1995 Malayalam film directed by Thampi Kannanthanam. The film stars Mohanlal, Priya Raman, Jagadish and Vinita in lead roles.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
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Chenkol (1993)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to Kireedam (1989), Chenkol continues the story of Sethumadavan who hopes to regain his lost life after 8 years in prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: touching, tragic ending
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Chithram (1988)
Plot Summary:
Kalyani (Ranjini) is the daughter of a wealthy NRI Ramachandra Menon (Poornam Vishwanathan) who resides in the United States. Kalyani, brought up in Chennai by her father's friend Kaimal (Nedumudi Venu), falls in love with another man and decides to marry against the wishes of her father. When her boyfriend finds out that she will be disinherited, he ditches her at the altar. After a short while her father decides to retract his disapproval and spend a fortnight's vacation with his daughter and son-in-law in his estate near a tribal community where Menon is the chief. Because her father is already ill and because this may be his last vacation, Kalyani and Kaimal want to make it as happy for him as possible. They decide to conceal the fact that her boyfriend dumped her.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sad, crying, tragic ending, weeping
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Ittymaani: Made In China (2019)
Plot Summary:
The son of a popular martial arts expert, Manikkunnel Ittymaani is an impulsive man who keeps landing into trouble.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
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Summer in Bethlehem (1998)
Plot Summary:
Summer in Bethlahem movie tells the story is all set in a hill station (Ooty) where a rich man comes with his five grand daughters for vacation. The fifth girl Abhirami(Manju Warrier) who is very smart, and she is the favourite of the grandfather. But she has some secret, which nobody knows. The girls meet two guys, one of them their own cousin who are their neighbours and they all play pranks on them.One of them Dennis (Suresh Gopi) falls in love with Aami, but she tells him that she loves Niranjan (Mohanlal) who is in jail and she will only marry him. This forms the climax of the movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: romantic
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Dasharatham (1989)
Plot Summary:
This is one of the cult classic film of Mohanlal. A. K. Lohithadas won Kerala Film Critics Award for Best Script Writer. The movie is partly adapted from the Korean movie The Surrogate Woman.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: sad, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Passenger (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film narrates how two guys, Sathyanath and Adv. Nandan Menon, who never had anything to do with one another, come into each others lives and what all things happen consequently.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 118 min
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Mizhikal Sakshi (2008)
Plot Summary:
A mother finds it hard to believe that her son is convicted as a terrorist and is sent to gallows. Eventually, she loses her mental balance.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching
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Aaram Thamburan (1997)
Plot Summary:
Jagannathan faces several challenges when he goes to stay in Kanimangalam village. He promises the villagers that he will help in the preparations for the annual temple festival, but will his enemies leave him in peace?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: crying, weeping
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Irupatham Noottandu (1987)
Plot Summary:
Aishwarya (Ambika) is a reporter for a newsmagazine looking to investigate the connection between politics and crime in Kerala. She is drawn to the life of Sagar alias Jacky (Mohanlal) who runs a clandestine gold smuggling business for Shekharan (Suresh Gopi), the son of a the state Chief Minister. Jacky is an enigmatic character who stops the smuggling business from growing because of ethical issues with narcotics, and spends his personal time pining for a girlfriend (Urvashi) who is serving time for murder. Ambika publishes a sensational article connecting Jacky to the minister, and pushes the uneasy relationship between Shekharan and Jacky into an open confrontation.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
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Ulladakkam (1991)
Plot Summary:
Reshma is a patient of psychiatrist Dr Sunny. She gets romantically obsessed with him even though this is not reciprocated by the doctor. The arrival of the doctor's fiancee Annie causes a lot of conflict in the mind of Reshma.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
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Kireedam (1989)
Plot Summary:
Sethumadhavan, the son of Achuthan Nair, a Police Constable who wishes to make his son an Inspector one day. Sethu, a recent college graduate, has many opportunities to enter different fields but he goes with his father's dream of becoming an Inspector.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: touching, sad
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Iratta (2023)
Plot Summary:
After a cop is found dead, a policeman's investigation sparks a chilling search for the truth connected to his estranged twin and their fraught past.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 112 min
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Madambi (2008)
Plot Summary:
In a village named Ilavattam there lives a man by the name of Gopalakrishna Pillai. He is a man with diverse qualities. Basically he is a moneylender, but not the avaricious kind. He lends money at very low interest-rates but makes it a point to get his money back on the date agreed upon. The story takes a turn when a bank, named Grand Bank opens up in the village, offering to give out loans at very low interest. The manager of the bank is a young lady named Jayalakshmi. She has made her entry into the village with a very definite purpose. All this, plus the very different kind of bonding between Gopalakrishna Pillai and his mother, form the plot, which develops towards a very interesting climax.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
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Bro Daddy (2022)
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John Kattady and his wife Annamma think about marrying off their son Eesho to Anna, who is the daughter of their long-time family friend Kurien. Eesho and Anna don’t act too impressed with each other, despite their parents’ interest in the alliance. Little do the families know what is going on behind the curtains in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: feel good
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Thanmathra (2005)
Plot Summary:
A man leading a happy life with his loving wife and two children suddenly starts getting forgetful and lost. Then, he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease leaving his family devastated.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, touching, sad
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Christian Brothers (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the daughter of a minister gets kidnapped, Christy is called upon to rescue her. Although he manages to save her, he himself gets embroiled in the kidnapper's murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative
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Devasuram (1993)
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Neelakantan, heir to his father's fortunes, is an apparent menace to society. He once belittles a dancer but later they fall in love. Shekharan, an arch enemy, kidnaps his lover due to an old enmity.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 187 min
Plot tags: crying, weeping
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Thenmavin Kombath (1994)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around Manikyan (Mohanlal), Sreekrishnan(Nedumudi Venu) and Karthumbi (Shobana) and the love triangle between them. Manikyan works for Sreekrishnan and Sreekrishnan sees him like a brother. Once when they both are returning from a Mela after shopping, Sreekrishnan sees Karthumbi and gets attracted.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 164 min
Plot tags:
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Drishyam 2 (2021)
Plot Summary:
7 years after the events of Drishyam, the family lives with the trauma from that fateful night. A gripping tale of an investigation and a family threatened by it. Will Georgekutty be able to protect his family this time?.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, twisted
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Shikkar (2010)
Plot Summary:
The story of Shikkar takes place at Chittazha, a mountainous terrain where bamboo reeds flourish. After much wandering from place to place, Balraman (Mohanlal) a lorry driver has finally settled down with his daughter (Ananya) at Chittazha. Peace evades the man as his past catches up with him, and Balaraman has to take risky everything to safeguard his own life and that of his daughter's.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, serious, captivating