Greatest Malayalam Movies Ever Made
This article listup the best malayalam films.
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- DirectorT. HariharanStarsMammoottyMadhaviDevanThe film offers an alternative version of the fight between two legendary Chekavars from Chanthu's perspective.
- DirectorP. PadmarajanStarsMohanlalSumalathaParvathiJayakrishnan falls in love with two girls, Radha and Clara, and fights his confusion about whom he should marry and spend his life with.
- DirectorK.S. SethumadhavanStarsSathyanPrem NazirSheelaAn amoral, hypocritical worker with Communist leanings learns the consequences of his callousness and redeems himself.
- DirectorRamu KariatStarsSathyanSheelaMadhuKaruthamma, the daughter of a Hindu fisherman, falls in love with a Muslim fish trader. However, social prejudices seem to ruin their love life and invite the wrath of their communities.
- DirectorFazilStarsShobanaMohanlalSuresh GopiWhen a forbidden room in an old bungalow is unbolted, the spirit of a vengeful dancer is unleashed.
- DirectorAdoor GopalakrishnanStarsMammoottyThilakanKaramana Janardanan NairIts a story of Basheer, an author who experiences his prison life. In it he finds friendship, loneliness, fear and finally love, but that remains questionable.
- DirectorGovindan AravindanStarsMaster AshokanSivasankaran DivakaranKothara GopalkrishnanKummatty, a magician, appears and transforms village children into animals. A boy turned into a dog misses reversal. He awaits Kummatty's return for a year to regain human form. Kummatty eventually undoes the spell and departs into nature.
- DirectorGovindan AravindanStarsMohanlalNeelanjana MitraNeena GuptaThe story is told through the eyes of Venu, a Malayali government officer sent on a mission to rehabilitate refugees from Calcutta to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
- DirectorAdoor GopalakrishnanStarsMammoottyAshokanShobanaA young man narrates two conflicting accounts of his life, changing the details and incidents in both, as he slowly approaches madness.
- DirectorSibi MalayilStarsMohanlalAugustineJanardananSadayam follows the final days of a condemned prisoner, for murdering two little girls.
- DirectorM.T. Vasudevan NairStarsOduvil UnnikrishnanNirmala SreenivasanJayakrishnanAn elderly married couple celebrates life by finding happiness in each and everything.
- DirectorM.T. Vasudevan NairStarsP.J. AnthonyKaviyoor PonnammaKottarakkara Sridharan NairAn ancient temple is neglected to ruins and is tended only by the Velichappadu 'village oracle'. When the priest goes on leave, a young man takes up his job and forms a relationship with Velichappadu's daughter.
- DirectorRajeev RaviStarsDulquer SalmaanVinayakanShaun RomyKrishnan, who has been living away from his family and friends in Mumbai, gets a call from his friend Ganga in Kerala, out of the blue. He senses danger, and leaves for Kammattipadam, where both of them grew up.
- DirectorShaji N. KarunStarsMohanlalSuhasiniMattanoor Shankara MararAn illicit relationship between a Kathakali dancer and a young woman from an upper caste family results in an illegitimate child. He faces hardships when she refuses to let him see their child.
- DirectorGovindan AravindanStarsRamdasVenkateswarluChinnapuliahRama, who doubts about the chastity of Sita at last finds his own children and went for salvation.
- DirectorAdoor GopalakrishnanStarsAdoor BhawaniBharat GopyK.P.A.C. LalithaVishwam and Sita, who resist opposition from their families, elope and marry. The unemployed couple begin a happy married life but later land in a sea of perils without a source of income.
- DirectorN.N. PisharadyStarsKedamangalam AliAmbikaP.J. Anthony
- DirectorK.S. SethumadhavanStarsSathyanAdoor BhasiPrem NazirA poor man living in Kerela follows his heart and instincts to save a child from the gutter, brings her up with love, only to find later in life that inevetibly she becomes spoilt and arrogant. However, lessons of universal life are finally learned together.
- DirectorAdoor GopalakrishnanStarsBharat GopyK.P.A.C. LalithaThikkurissy Sukumaran NairSankarankutty, a village simpleton, lives a carefree life, indulges in childish pursuits, lives off the money given to him by his sister (working elsewhere as a servant), and eats quite voraciously. Then one day he gets married, but the wife is frustrated by his aimless lifestyle & irresponsible attitude (even after she gets pregnant). So she goes back to her parents. Meanwhile, his sister who is now living with her lover, can no longer provide for him, and a kind widow who used to care for him passes away. He has nowhere & nobody to fall back on, and from this point on, as he starts a job as assistant to a lorry driver, he starts looking at life in a whole new way and begins to mature as well.
- DirectorAdoor GopalakrishnanStarsOduvil UnnikrishnanSukumariMallikaKaliyappan, the last hangman of Travancore dynasty is dragging his remaining life by consuming alcohol and worshipping the Mother Goddess.
- DirectorRajeev RaviStarsFarhaan FaasilAhaana KrishnaAlencier Ley LopezA college student witnesses a gang attack and as his curiosity behind the encounter tries to get the better of him, he realizes that his dad and the police are involved.
- DirectorJayan CherianStarsKallen PokkudanSarithaPrakash BareA band of displaced untouchables in Western Ghats of India embrace Buddhism in order to escape from caste oppression.
- DirectorShyamaprasadStarsMammoottyMeera JasmineNarainA married woman falls in love with an Economics Professor and becomes pregnant and insane by the physical relationship outside her married life.
- DirectorA.K. LohithadasStarsMammoottySreelakshmiCherthala LalithaVidyadharan (Mammootty) is in jail and while working finds a link/hole to the outside world. But his vision is distorted through the eye magnifying lens he uses to view because of his fateful past.
- DirectorAdoor GopalakrishnanStarsJalajaKaramana Janardanan NairRajam K. NairThe protagonist is trapped within himself and is unable to comprehend the changes taking place around him.