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Plot Summary:
A amateur writer who seems to have nothing to live for, finds himself as the only hope of three people.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 671
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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The Red Rooster (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Red Rooster is a feature film by Terry Miles.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Alexander The Great (2010)
Plot Summary:
The film revolves around Alexander Varma, who survives with his IQ, but fate has something else stored for him.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
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Mayavi (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mahi, a seasoned convict who is well-known for attacking his enemies stealthily, decides to murder someone in order to raise money for his friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags:
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Bhaskar The Rascal (2015)
Plot Summary:
Businessman Bhaskaran Pillai builds a large commercial empire until his wife dies. Under pressure from his son, Bhaskaran goes on a trip where he meets Hima, a small-business owner.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
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Spirit (2012)
Plot Summary:
Raghunandan (Mohanlal) is a TV show host and a budding novelist. He is a loner and a compulsive alcoholic, the latter of which resulted in his divorce from Meera (Kaniha). Despite this Meera and her husband Alexy (Shankar Ramakrishnan) are his best friends. His alcoholism however starts taking a huge toll on his life and things take a turn for the worst. At this point he meets Maniyan (Nandu) a plumber who is a bigger alcoholic than he is which makes Raghu re-evaluate his relationship with alcohol.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: satirical
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Palunku (2006)
Plot Summary:
Monichan shifts to the city from his village to provide better education to his children. But will things go as planned?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: sad
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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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Mela (1980)
Plot Summary:
Govindan Kutty (Raghu) is a clown who works in the circus. He comes to his village looking for a bride. Sharada (Anjali Naidu) is impressed by his charms and seemingly rich lifestyle and agrees to marry him. When they reach back the circus after getting married, things however change considerably. Govindan is an insignificant figure there and is frequently ignored by everyone else. The frustrated Sharada meets a stuntman Vijayan (Mammootty) and gets close to him much to the discomfort of Govindan.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min
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Vidheyan (1994)
Plot Summary:
Thommy, a Christian migrant labourer from Kerala is an obedient slave of his aggressive, tyrannical landlord Bhaskara Pattelar. Thommy obeys all the orders of his master, whether it is to make his own wife sexually available to his master or in killing Pattelar's kindly wife, Saroja. When Pattelar escapes to a jungle, due to his own deeds, Thommy escorts him like a pet. But when Pattelar is killed Thommy exults in freedom.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: slang, sexual, cult classic, sexy, cult film
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Untitled Lal Jose Movie (2007)
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Against his wishes, 'Cuba' Mukundan (Sreenivasan) goes to Dubai to make good his father's alleged misappropriation of funds from the local cooperative bank. It is there that he learns the true meaning of the term 'working class' and realizes the irrelevance of the Communist movement back home.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: political
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A Place Among the Living (2003)
Plot Summary:
A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha (1989)
Plot Summary:
Chanthu (Mammootty), a poor orphan and Aromal (Suresh Gopi) are cousins and belong to the Chekavar clan, a warrior clan who hire themselves out as duellers to settle disputes among the rich and powerful. Aromal, jealous of the much more talented Chanthu, makes life miserable for him and Chanthu decides to leave and live with Aringodar (Captain Raju), a rival chekavan, as his pupil. When the two sons of a local landlord have a property dispute and decide to hire Aromal and Aringodar to duel it out, Chanthu has to decide where his loyalty lies - with the family of the uncle who brought him up or with Aringodar who provided him with sanctuary.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: epic, period piece
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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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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)
Plot Summary:
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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The Forgettable Life of Liam White (2021)
Plot Summary:
Liam White's career has peaked—to put it kindly. Uninspired and burnt-out, the titular character loses his will to finish his next novel and even shirks his public appearance commitments. To top it all off, Liam is told by his oncologist that his cancer has returned. Resigned to the fact that his life will soon come to an end, he begins a journey of reflection as he comes to grips with his life thus far and the people who shaped him, for better and worse.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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How Old Are You (2014)
Plot Summary:
36 year-old Nirupama Rajeev (played by Manju Warrier) is an UD clerk in Revenue Department. The role of her husband is played by Kunchaka Boban. There is nothing interesting about her life as she leads a life which is determined by her usual daily activities. The movie focusses on the society's obsession with the age and how individual's ability is overlooked by the fact how old he or she is.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating
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Hitler (1996)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags:
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Mazhayethum Munpe (1995)
Plot Summary:
Nandakumar is a college professor who wants to get the best treatment for his paralyzed fiancee, Uma Maheshwari. Trouble starts brewing when Shruthi, Nandakumar's student falls in love with him. Will Shruti let Uma unite with Nandakumar weaves the rest of the story.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags:
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Pranchiyettan & The Saint (2010)
Plot Summary:
Chirammal Enashu Francis, a.k.a. Pranchiyettan (Mammootty), is a successful businessman based in Thrissur. He is a devotee of Saint Francis of Assisi and often has imaginary conversations with the saint. His ancestors were rice traders, but he has grown beyond the small rice shop to expand his business into jewellery, real estate, finance, shopping complexes and lot more. Even though he is successful and wealthy, he is not well-educated and he is unhappy with his name and also wants to become a celebrity. He is called Ari ("rice") Pranchi by everybody, citing his ancestors' business as a colloquial taunt. He wants to change his image from Ari Pranchi to something great and is ready to spend a fortune for it. The film deals with how Pranchi tries to get a good name and what changes that brings to his life.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, slang, motivational, feel good, satirical
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Evidam Swargamanu (2009)
Plot Summary:
'Ividam Swargamanu' concerns the story of a hard-working farmer known as Mathews and his fight against a land mafia which tries to take over his farmland.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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Ghost Writer (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two women are bound by their mutual passion for writing. Tono Risa is already a successful writer. Her books are all best sellers and have been made into movies, putting increasing pressure on Risa to keep churning out masterpieces. The professional pressures and her personal responsibilities begin to make Risa feel overwhelmed and dejected. Yuki is a young woman who moves to Tokyo with the dream of becoming a published writer someday. When she is about to give up on that dream, Yuki is offered a job to work as Risa’s assistant by her editor. The two women start off a little stilted but eventually form a friendship and a productive working relationship. As Yuki’s role gradually increases from being an assistant to a ghostwriter for Risa, will Risa feel threatened by Yuki’s ambition?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Aadaminte makan abu (2011)
Plot Summary:
Abu and Aisumma are an aging Muslim couple. Their aspiration is to go for Hajj and they make many sacrifices to achieve this aim. Now in their late 70s, they decide that they will go for Hajj that year. Abu, being a true Muslim, wants to go for Hajj only according to all diktats of Islam. Good-natured people try to help him by loaning the amount, but since this is against the accepted practices of the religion, he refuses to take them. Finally, they are not able to go. On the dawn of the Hajj, Abu tells his wife that they will go the next year. He goes to the mosque to pray on the Hajj morning.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: contemplative, sincere, emotional, captivating, psychological, touching, serious, realistic
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Uyare (2019)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring pilot fights for her future -- and justice -- after surviving an acid attack from her abusive boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Crashing (2007)
Plot Summary:
It sounds like a budding writer's dream: a bestselling first novel, a luxurious house in Malibu, and a trophy wife... But it all unravels when writer's block and a failed marriage send Richard McMurray (Campbell Scott, The Exorcism of Emily Rose) out into the streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, realistic, captivating, emotional, humorous, semi serious, sexual