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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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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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His Highness Abdullah (1990)
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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Sadayam (1992)
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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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Loham (2015)
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2015 Malayalam thriller film written and directed by Ranjith. It features Mohanlal as Raju and Andrea Jeremiah as Jayanthi in lead roles along with Ajmal Ameer, Siddique, Mythili, Tini Tom, Vijayaraghavan, Renji Panicker and V. K. Prakash in significant roles. The film is produced by Antony Perumbavoor under the banner Aashirvad Cinemas.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
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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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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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NO:20 Madras Mail (1990)
Plot Summary:
The film deals with a murder of a young woman on a train to Madras. Almost half of the film is shot inside the train.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspense thriller
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Yodha (1992)
Plot Summary:
Ashokan (Mohanlal) goes on a trip to Nepal to meet his uncle (MS Thripunithura) who is settled there. To his surprise, his rival from his village Appukuttan (Jagathy) is already there impersonating him. He is unable to convince his uncle about the truth and gets kicked out of the house. While trying to find shelter he meets a young Nepalese boy (Sidharth Lama). Though they don't understand each others' language, they quickly form a bond. Meanwhile Ashokan is able to convince his cousin Aswathy (Madhubala) that Appukuttan is an imposter. Aswathy who is a student researching ancient Nepalese traditions realises that the young Nepalese boy is actually a Rimpoche, the spiritual leader of his tribe and is on the run from evil forces who want to banish him. Ashokan gets sucked in to the scenario unknowingly and ends up being the Rimpoche's protector.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 149 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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Spirit (2012)
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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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Ittymaani: Made In China (2019)
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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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Plot Summary:
Muthuvel Pandian lives a peaceful life with his family, but a sudden intrusion of unwelcome parties in the lives of his family forces him to turn to a path he had long left behind.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min
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Adwaytham (1991)
Plot Summary:
Advaitham is a 1991 Malayalam film directed by Priyadarshan. The film stars Mohanlal, Jayaram, Revathi Menon and Srividhya in lead roles.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 181 min
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Naran (2005)
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Mullankolli is a rustic remote village in northern Kerala. Velayudhan (Mohanlal) is an orphan who came floating during floods and he was brought up by Valiya Nambiar (Madhu) a do-gooder and a feudal landlord of the area. Velayudhan grows up into a riff-raff, drunkard and a local rowdy with a good heart. He hates injustice and has set his own rules for the villagers who are scared of him including local moneylender and politician - Member Kurupu (Jagathy) and Gopinathan Nambiar (Siddique), son-in-law of Valiya Nambiar who wants to rule over the village in his own way.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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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)
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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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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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Christian Brothers (2011)
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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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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
Plot tags:
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Khauff (2000)
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While returning home from the marriage of her friend, Ritu Pereira, Neha Verma, an air hostess, witnesses the brutal death of Superintendent of Police Jaidev Singh,.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, touching
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2 Harihar Nagar (2009)
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2 Harihar Nagar is a sequel to In Harihar Nagar and a prequel to In Ghost House Inn. The films chronicle the story of four very close friends Mahadevan (Mukesh), Govindan Kutty (Siddique), Appukuttan (Jagadish), and Thomas Kutty (Ashokan).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, suspense thriller
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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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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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Meesa Madhavan (2002)
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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
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Run Baby Run (2012)
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Venu, a cameraman working for Reuters, happens to meet Renuka, his old lover, while trying to cover a case involving a politician. Together they go to investigate a murder planned by Bharatan Pillai.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, tense, suspense, twist ending, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Lucifer (2019)
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In God's own country, the supreme leader of the ruling party dies, leaving a huge vacuum, not only in the electoral and leadership sphere of the party but also that of the state. In the inevitable succession squabble and the power struggle that ensues, the thin line that separates good and bad becomes irrecoverably blurred and out of this seemingly endless mayhem, emerge forces that are hitherto unheard of.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, political, surprise ending
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Shikkar (2010)
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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