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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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Book of Swords (1996)
Plot Summary:
An Asian cop returns to Chicago to revenge his brother's death, only to come up against a psycho threesome on a killing spree.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 84 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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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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Loham (2015)
Plot Summary:
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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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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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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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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Pavithram (1994)
Plot Summary:
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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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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Black Water (1996)
Plot Summary:
Govardhan, a doctor by profession, is wrongly accused of bombing a train and is jailed by the British in Cellular Jail, also known as Kala Pani in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He witnesses sufferings of hundreds of Indian prisoners there.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: patriotic
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Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded (2009)
Plot Summary:
An underworld don who operates internationally, Sagar Alias Jacky had to deal with the likes of Naina (Suman) and Goa based Rozario brothers who want to do away with Sagar. But each time Sagar with his fearlessness and brilliance in plotting, outplays them. The film starts off very interestingly when Indhu(Shobhana), the daughter of the state chief minister (Nedumudi Venu) calls Sagar to save her husband Manu (Manoj K Jayan) from the clutches of Rozario brothers.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: stylized
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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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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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Sobharaj (1986)
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Sobharaj is the leader of an underworld gang. He gets killed in an encounter with the police. The DSP uses his lookalike brother to pose as him in order to capture the rest of his gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration:
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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)
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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Nirnayam (1995)
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Dr. Roy (Mohanlal) is a surgeon who works in a private hospital. He falls in love with his colleague Dr. Annie (Heera Rajgopal). When Annie discovers a frightening organ-smuggling operation in her hospital, it proves to be a turning point in the story.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
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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
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Mannar Mathai Speaking (1995)
Plot Summary:
The hilarious trio from 'Ramji Rao Speaking' faces a new trouble when the heroine of their drama group quits.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: suspense
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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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Run Baby Run (2012)
Plot Summary:
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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Grandmaster (2012)
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Chandrashekhar lives alone in a dark and violent city. Even with crime occurring all around him, he withdraws from all responsibility and lives quietly. Soon, change is forced upon him in order to catch a serial killer. Like a grandmaster who anticipates his opponents moves well in advance, he proceeds forward. But only once, just once, he makes a fatal mistake.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, suspense thriller, captivating, exciting, realistic, detective
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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
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Hamilton 2: But Not If It Concerns Your Daughter (2012)
Plot Summary:
Swedish intelligence officer Carl Hamilton's 7-year-old goddaughter Nathalie is kidnapped. When the kidnapping's underlying motive becomes known, the Swedish authorities assume a passive role, forcing Hamilton to action. With the help of international contacts, Hamilton manages to get them on track. Hamilton, along with some military colleagues, plans a daring rescue mission.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, rough, realistic