The essentials

Malayalam movies
worth your time.

A running list of the films worth making time for, newest first. New entries go in as we add them to the catalogue.

  1. Aarkkariyam

    Aarkkariyam

    Malayalam

    Ittyavira, a retired maths teacher, lives alone in Palai through the 2020 lockdown. When his daughter and her husband arrive from Mumbai, the quiet house begins to hold secrets nobody expected.

  2. Aattam

    Aattam

    Malayalam

    After a celebration, a theatre troupe's only actress accuses one of the men of groping her. The troupe's men meet to decide what to do, and a rehearsal-room trial slowly turns into a test of every one of them.

  3. Aavasavyuham

    Aavasavyuham

    Malayalam · 1h 54m

    An injured stranger washes up on a backwater island, and suddenly the fishermen's nets come up heaving with fish and prawns. When he falls for a fisherman's daughter, the village's luck turns into suspicion.

  4. Balan: The Boy

    Balan: The Boy

    Malayalam

    A woman leaves prison with her young son and a past she must hide, and the two find a fragile peace in the hills. Years later, the boy returns to search for the truth about his mother.

  5. Bharathanatyam 2 Mohiniyattam

    Bharathanatyam 2 Mohiniyattam

    The family from the first film travels to Sreekandapuram to settle matters with Bharathan Nair's second wife and son. A secret from the past leads to an unexpected crime, and they scramble to cover it up.

  6. Iratta

    Iratta

    Malayalam · 1h 52m

    A policeman is shot dead inside a hill-town police station, and the prime suspects are his own colleagues. The case is taken up by his estranged twin brother, and old wounds reopen.

  7. Ronth

    Ronth

    Senior officer Yohannan and rookie Dinanath take the night patrol in a police jeep, answering one small call after another across a sleeping town. Before dawn, a single case pulls them toward trouble that could cost them their uniforms.

  8. Super Sharanya

    Super Sharanya

    Malayalam

    Sharanya, shy and easily flustered, arrives at engineering college hoping to keep her head down. Between a crowded hostel, loyal friends and a few boys who won't stop noticing her, staying invisible turns out to be impossible.

  9. Thudakkam

    Thudakkam

    Meenu lives with her father in a quiet Idukki hill town and trains in martial arts. When she travels to the city for an exam and does not come home, her ordinary life turns into a fight for survival.

  10. Bethlehem Kudumba Unit (BKU)

    Bethlehem Kudumba Unit (BKU)

    2026 · Malayalam · 2h 35m

    Ashley comes home from abroad just as the house next door gets ready for a wedding. Across the compound wall lives Justin, the music-loving neighbour who was her first love, and he still isn't married.

  11. Sarvam Maya

    Sarvam Maya

    2025 · Malayalam · 2h 26m

    Prabhendu, a guitarist who stopped believing in gods, is pushed back into his family's priestly work to pay the bills. Then he starts seeing a cheerful ghost girl who remembers nothing about who she was.

  12. Eko

    Eko

    2025 · Malayalam

    In the misty hills of Kaattukunnu, an old woman lives quietly with her young caretaker and a pack of watchful dogs. The police are still hunting her husband, a legendary dog breeder, and the hills keep his secrets.

  13. Diés Iraé

    Diés Iraé

    2025 · Malayalam · 1h 53m

    Rohan, a rich young man rattling around an empty mansion, takes home a hairclip from the house of a girl who has just died. Soon footsteps, whispers and wet marks follow him from room to room.

  14. Ponman

    Ponman

    2025 · Malayalam · 2h 5m

    In coastal Kollam, gold agent Ajesh lends a bride's family her wedding jewellery, to be paid back from the gifts. When the money falls short, he sets out to reclaim the gold from a groom nobody dares to cross.

  15. Hridayapoorvam

    Hridayapoorvam

    2025 · Malayalam · 2h 31m

    Sandeep, a caterer living with a donated heart, travels to Pune for the engagement of his donor's daughter. When the engagement falls apart and he can't leave, a family of strangers starts to feel like his own.

  16. Vyasanasametham Bandhumithradhikal

    Vyasanasametham Bandhumithradhikal

    2025 · Malayalam · 1h 56m

    When Savithriyamma dies, her relatives pour into the house for the funeral, each bringing an old grudge or a quiet scheme. Her daughter, sitting through the squabbling, starts to question the life she has chosen.

  17. Rifle Club

    Rifle Club

    2024 · Malayalam · 2h 30m

    A young couple fleeing a vengeful underworld don take refuge at a remote hill-country rifle club, just as a film star arrives there to research his next role. When the don and his volatile son come hunting, the club's sharpshooters must turn their trophy guns on real prey.

  18. Kishkindha Kaandam

    Kishkindha Kaandam

    2024 · Malayalam · 2h 6m

    In a forest reserve, a retired army officer and his forest-officer son live in a house full of old memories. When the officer's gun goes missing, a quiet search begins and uncovers secrets the family had buried.

  19. Aavesham

    Aavesham

    2024 · Malayalam

    Three college students in Bengaluru, fed up with their seniors, befriend a loud, unpredictable local don to help them hit back. Soon the don is more than they bargained for, and the favour turns into a friendship.

  20. Manjummel Boys

    Manjummel Boys

    2024 · Malayalam · 2h 15m

    A group of friends from Manjummel in Kerala go on a trip to Kodaikanal and visit the Guna Caves. When one of them falls into a deep pit, the rest must risk everything to bring him back.

  21. Premalu

    Premalu

    2024 · Malayalam · 2h 36m

    Sachin, a Kerala graduate nursing a broken heart, moves to Hyderabad to start over and meets Reenu, a sharp, confident software engineer. What follows is a clumsy, funny chase of a crush in a city that isn't his own.

  22. Malaikottai Vaaliban

    Malaikottai Vaaliban

    2024 · Malayalam

    Vaaliban, a wrestler who has never lost, roams a sunbaked land by bullock cart with his ageing mentor and a loyal boy, taking on every challenger. Each victory spreads his legend, and stirs up enemies who want him broken.

  23. Romancham

    Romancham

    2023 · Malayalam · 2h 9m

    In 2007 Bengaluru, seven jobless bachelors sharing a rented room try a Ouija board out of boredom, thinking it a harmless joke. Then something starts answering, and the night turns funny and frightening.

  24. Saudi Vellakka

    Saudi Vellakka

    2022 · Malayalam

    A childhood quarrel in Kochi ends with an old woman being taken to court for slapping a boy. Years pass, the hearings drag on, and the case starts to weigh on her life and his.

  25. Appan

    Appan

    2022 · Malayalam · 2h 9m

    Bedridden and furious, old Itty still rules his hillside home with insults and threats, refusing to let go of anything. His son Njoonju, worn down by years of it, starts wondering how much longer the family can endure him.

81 on the list so far · 207 Malayalam titles in the catalogue.