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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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Boeing Boeing (1985)
Plot Summary:
The movie is an adaptation of the 1960 French play of the same name and is considered to be a cult comedy classic in Malayalam. It was also one of the first commercial successes of the Mohanlal-Mukesh-Priyadarashan team. Shyam (Mohanlal) is a struggling journalist who gets an opportunity to be the caretaker of a flat in the city. Even while engaged to his childhood sweetheart Sreekutty (Menaka); he uses his charms and resourcefulness to make three air-hostesses (Lissie, Ashwini, Madhuri) fall in love with him. With the help of his maid (Sukumari) and friend (Raju) he carefully manages their schedule in the flat so that none of his girlfriends meet each other. Life is good for Shyam, till his former colleague and friend Anil (Mukesh) comes to visit him.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: remake of american film
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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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Angel John (2009)
Plot Summary:
Maradonna (Shanthnoo) is an aimless youngster who likes to waste his time doing practically nothing other than fooling around. For him everything in life is Oru Rasam (just fun). He likes to take the easy way out and lacks focus in his life. He is the only son of Joseph (Lalu Alex), a Banker and Mary (Ambika), who dotes on him. The only person who has a soft corner for him is the beautiful Sofia (Nithya Menon) who has a limp and is the daughter of a failed filmmaker, Kuruvilla (Vijayaraghavan). Maradonna messes up his life by getting into company of friends and starting an internet café that fails and to recoup his losses and attracted by ‘easy money’ he gets into drugs. Soon he is conned and loses everything after pledging his house to a ‘blade’ moneylender (Salim Kumar).
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 404
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
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Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala (1998)
Plot Summary:
Vijayan, the village school teacher, believes that his degree in economics is sufficient for him to succeed in the business ventures he undertakes. Taking long leaves of absence from work, he roams around with his schemes, all of which turn out to be downright failures.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags:
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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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Kalyanaraman (2002)
Plot Summary:
An old man (Dileep) narrates his love story and about the curse his family possess to a bunch of teenagers.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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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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Thalavattam (1986)
Plot Summary:
Vinod/Vinu (played by Mohanlal) is mentally ill and is hospitalized in the institution run by Dr. Ravindran ( M G Soman). Story progresses as Vinod recovers with the help of Dr. Savithri, Dr. Ravindran's daughter (Karthika) and Dr. Unnikrishnan (Nedumudi Venu) who finds that Vinu fell ill after the accidental death of his fiancée Anitha (Lizy). Later Vinu and Savithri fall in love but Savithri is already engaged to be married to her cousin, Hari(Mukesh). Plot progresses as Dr. Ravindran opposes the romance between the doctor and the recovered patient.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: touching
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Poochakkoru Mookkuthi (1984)
Plot Summary:
Poochakkoru Mookkuthi movie tells Revathi (Menaka) who comes to the city from a small town in search of job and to have a good life and as it is with everyone her problem starts with finding a house. Shyam (Shankar) loves to become a popular singer. His parents are dead against his will. So he runs away from home and needs a shelter. Revathi accidentally meets Shyam who too is in search of a house through the common Milkboy, Chikku(Baiju). Chikku offers them both a house if they are ready to pose as husband and wife in front of the house owners.Supran (Poojapura Ravi), a lender, a miser who doesn.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
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Panchagni (1986)
Plot Summary:
The movie revolves around Indira, who is serving life sentence in the jail. She has been charged for the murder of Avarachan, a landlord who killed a young tribal woman after raping her.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
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Pavithram (1994)
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A young man's relationship with his career, fiancee and brother is brought under stress by the birth of an unexpected sister.The film deals with the relationship between siblings Unnikrishnan (Mohanlal) and Meenakshi (Vinduja Menon) who have an almost 30 year age difference between them. The film won Mohanlal the 1994 Filmfare Award for Best Actor.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: sad
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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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Pakshe (1994)
Plot Summary:
Pakshe movie is all about Balachandran (Mohanlal) who had to sacrifice his childhood love (Shobhana), to marry into a rich family who only wanted his IAS Status, in order to save his poor family, lives a life of regret and despair for his decision.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
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Kireedam (1989)
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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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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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Yeh Teraa Ghar Yeh Meraa Ghar (2001)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his dad, Dayashankar Pandey (Sunil Shetty) arranges the marriage of his two sisters. In debt, he goes to the city to ask the tenants to leave his house, as he intends to sell it and repay his debts. A woman (Suhasini Mulay), her two daughters, Jyoti, Saraswati (Mahima Chaudhry), and one son, Chotu (Master Aditi) are living there. When Dayashankar asks them to vacate, they refuse. What results is Dayashankar's hilarious attempts to force them to vacate - from seeking legal advice; filing police reports; asking goons to remove them - moving in himself. Will Dayashankar succeed in his attempts to evict his tenants?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 944
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags:
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Spadikam (1995)
Plot Summary:
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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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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Nadodikkattu (1987)
Plot Summary:
After loosing their jobs, Dasen and Vijayan don't see any chances to get work in Kerala. So both escape to Gulf , but can they find luck there?.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: satirical, cult classic, detective, cult film
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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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Vadakkunokki Yantram (1989)
Plot Summary:
A man with a serious case of inferiority complex is married to a beautiful girl. Soon, his love and care turns into suspicion.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: ambiguous ending, black comedy, dark comedy
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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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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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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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Ustad Hotel (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ustad Hotel is a quaint place run by a foodie named Kareem, who is fondly called Ustad, on a beach in Kozhikode. He sells biriyani – not to make money but to ensure that his biriyani has his customers Faizie's stay in Kozhikode continues for a bit longer than what he had anticipated and during his stay with his grandfather, Faizie unearths a real world that exists beyond the sea and its shores. The film is about the bonding between Faizi and his grandfather and how a few days with his grandfather and Ustad Hotel changes his life for ever.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sincere, romantic, touching, humorous, captivating, feel good
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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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Jomon's Gospels (2017)
Plot Summary:
A wayward youth of a rich father, Jomon is a carefree youngster who doesn’t care about ‘being responsible enough’ for his age. When the family lands in a financial soup out of the blue, a different side of the youngster surprisingly emerges. .
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, inspirational