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.
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Amma Ariyan
1986 · Malayalam · 1h 55m
After a young Naxalite dies, his friends travel to a distant village to tell his mother that her only son is gone. The journey becomes a quiet, restless reckoning with what he left behind.
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Oridathu
1986 · Malayalam
In a 1950s Kerala hamlet, the arrival of electricity is celebrated as progress. But quarrels over felled trees and a string of misfortunes follow, and the village slowly has to reckon with what modernity costs.
Irakal
1985 · Malayalam
In a ruthless rubber baron's family, violence passes from father to sons like an inheritance, and the youngest becomes a disturbed killer. When the damage is finally laid bare, the father must face what his own life has made.
Elippathayam
1981 · Malayalam · 1h 56m
Elippathayam is a 1981 Malayalam-language drama film directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. It stars Sharada and Karamana Janardanan Nair. Music by M. B. Sreenivasan.
Bogeyman
1979 · Malayalam · 1h 30m
A mysterious magician named Kummatty visits a village and, in play, turns its children into animals. One boy, left behind as a dog, must wait a whole year for him to return and undo the spell.
Chemmeen
1965 · Malayalam
In a Kerala fishing hamlet, Karuthamma, a fisherman's daughter, is torn between the trader she loves and the life her community expects of her. The sea's old beliefs about a fisherman's wife give her choices a weight that reaches everyone she knows.
81 on the list so far · 207 Malayalam titles in the catalogue.