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Zakhariapothen Jeevichirippundu revolves around the life of Zacharias Pothen and his family from a small village named Peerumedu. Zacharia Pothen is a 40-year-old retired Major. Because of his passion for his profession, he got married only after his retirement and was living happily with his wife. Suddenly one fine day, some of his old friends came there with hidden intentions, which he was unaware of, leading to the occurrence of unexpected things around him. This turned his life into a completely different track. This is when the real story of the movie starts.

Varavelppu is a 1989 Malayalam film directed by Sathyan Anthikkad. The film stars Mohanlal, Revathi Menon, Murali and Sreenivasan in lead roles. The film depicted trade union problems plaguing Kerala in a satirical dark comedy

Vimaanam is based on the life of Saji Thomas, a differently-abled man from Kerala. It showcases how Saji, who had speech and hearing impairment, fought all odds and built a lightweight aircraft from recycled materials without any external support.

Aswathy and Ananthu are in love with each other but face a lot of obstacles owing to their rival families that oppose their relationship.

Mullankolli is a rustic remote village in northern Kerala. Velayudhan (Mohanlal) is an orphan who came floating during floods and he was brought up by Valiya Nambiar (Madhu) a do-gooder and a feudal landlord of the area. Velayudhan grows up into a riff-raff, drunkard and a local rowdy with a good heart. He hates injustice and has set his own rules for the villagers who are scared of him including local moneylender and politician - Member Kurupu (Jagathy) and Gopinathan Nambiar (Siddique), son-in-law of Valiya Nambiar who wants to rule over the village in his own way.

Ravi takes over his father's business after his demise. However, when his elder brother, Dasan, learns that Ravi is involved in illegal activities, he tries to save their family business.

Janathipathyam movie is all about the communist party wins the assembly election but their proposed chief minister candidate loses the election. The party chief Bhattathirippadu suggests the name of R D Nayanar (Suresh Gopi) for the top post in Kerala. Nayanar, who was the former asst city police commissioner of Trivandrum has his own reasons to come back to the city. He has to take the revenge.

Soman is brought up by his elder brother Raju and his shrewish wife Janu. Soman is in love with Lakshmi, the daughter of a poor village performer Kaniyan who belongs to a lower caste. Raju, employed by the zamindar and Janu resent the inter-caste marriage between Soman and Lakshmi.

A special battalion of police is deployed by the government to do away with Maoist menace (A banned Left organization) in a tribal village near forest. The police forcibly occupy a tribal primary school for their camp. One day, the police are on lookout for some people in the forest near the school at night. A policeman follows a person deep into the forest and nabs the person. The person arrested happens to be a woman. He tries to come out of the forest with the arrested person, but he loses his way in the wild. The woman knows the path to get out of the forest but she is not willing to show him the way. Thus, both the hunter and the hunted are stranded in the thick forest. Power, Crime, Man, Woman, the Hunter, the Hunted... all such equations change utterly and are no more what they used to be. The film has been very un-expected resemblance with Maoist hunt and killing happened last month in Kerala.

A poor music student Madhavan seeks accommodation in Menon's house. Menons daughter Malathi and Madhavan are drawn to each other.

Chandran and Balan are showered love and affection by their father and stepmother. But Chandran does not realise the value of this and grows into a bad boy.

Aryan movie is all about Devanarayan (Mohanlal) who is a Brahmin priest who is falsely accused of theft and forced to leave his village in Kerala. He moves to Bombay where he gets drawn into the underworld through an ageing don Kareem (Goga Kapoor). Some interesting comment initially on Brahmin priesthood in Kerala, but halfway through the film goes haywire.

Sudhi (Mohanlal) who is a poor auto-rickshaw driver who meets Meenakshi (Rekha) who is the granddaughter of a well to do family. Sudhi and Meenakshi falls in love for each other and faces strong opposition from her family but the lone support of her grand father, Krishna Pillai (Thikkurisi Sukumaran Nair).

Chandrika, the only daughter of the rich industrialist Janardanan Pillai falls in love with Gopi, the son of the maid servant. Gopi is aware of his social status and keeps away from Chandrika. But Chandrika does not leave him.

Raju, a young man, falls in love with Elizabeth, a beautiful woman, from his college. Though the couple start a life together, the doctor reveals to Raju that Elizabeth may not live long enough.

Nanda (Revathi) is in love with a leading architect Narendaran (Mohan Lal), both of whom are in Bangalore. While they are talking on top of a building Narendran slips and falls down dying instantly. Nanda escorts the corpse to his homeland in Kerala. To her surprise she sees Narendran's twin brother Unni (Mohan Lal), who looks exactly like Narendran. She thinks Narendran is not dead and everyone is trying to fool her. Narendran's parents want Nanda to marry Unni but he is already in love with Bhadra (Shobana).

Karutthamma, 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.

Set in southern India in the late 1930s, this provocative tale traces the story of three people caught in an inexorable web of forbidden romance and dangerous secrets. After a British spice planter falls in love with his alluring servant, an idealistic young man finds himself torn between his ambitions and his family, his village and his past.

The story takes a break from Bharath to introduce the main antagonist Mohan Thomas, a Delhi-based business tycoon, with strong political clout and a clear sociopathic agenda. It is revealed that Mohan Thomas had entrusted Saahib with the gold, which was confiscated by Bharath and is in fact the kingpin heading an unholy nexus of politicians, criminals and various officials including two high ranking cops, Rajan Felix, I.G. Vigilance and Menon, A.I.G., who are involved in criminal activities like instigating communal riots and large scale distribution of counterfeit currency.

The story revolves around two phases of the lives of three Comrades - before and after the imprisonment of Sakhav Nettoor Stephen, Sakhav T.K. Antony and Sakhav Sethulakshmi, members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

A group of 11 friends go away to a resort for a weekend bachelor party, but the day ends in a death.

Talks about the Hindu-Muslim politics and conflicts in Kerala which are connected to some of the feudal lords who incite the tension.

Vamanapuram Bus Route movie is all about Lever Johnny who is a bus conductor. e beats up everything and anybody who comes in his way and showers abuses at everybody. This drama every night disturbs the Vamanapuram village. The trouble of Lever Johny started with the railway gate that separates the village from other regions always lying closed and the road is not tarred due to which the bus does not come to the village. The village is filled with idiots (Vamanans) and their chief is Gopalan Nair. Panchayat president Gopalan Nair, a man famous for his wickedness wants to start a bus service in his village. The opposition party in the village panchayat is against this idea, as they suspect Nair

When a young village boy discovers that his brother, long believed to be in America, has actually gone missing, he begins to invent letters on his behalf to save their mother from heartbreak, all the while searching for him.

Madhavan (Dileep) is a clever thief who does robbery for a living. He is following the principles of his mentor Mullani Pappan (Mala Aravindan). Meesa Madhavan got his name by the popular saying that if Madhavan rolls his Mustache (Meesa in Malayalam) looking at someone, he will rob his house that night. His enemy was a local money lender Bhageerathan Pillai (Jagathy Sreekumar) who refused to give back his father's property. Madhavan falls in love in Bhageerathan Pillai's daughter Rukmini (Kavya Madhavan). The sub inspector in the village Eappen Pappachi (Indrajith) has an eye on Rukmini. He steals the idol from the local Temple with the intention of selling it and puts the blame on Madhavan. It becomes Madhavan's responsibility to find the culprits and he does that with his mentor's help and thus uniting with his girl friend.

Ten stories meet at Kerala Cafe.

The story of a bird charmer as he goes on to influence the lives of people while witnessing a change in his own.

The film revolves around T.P. Balagopalan (Mohanlal), a middle class post-graduate salaried person, who wants to build himself and also needs to take care of his extended family members. The film went over factors influencing Kerala of the 1980s such as widespread unemployment, poverty, and the poor economy.

James is a hardworking filmmaker in advertising and his girlfriend Alice works in banking. Against their parent's wishes, the two marry and the movie revolves around the misunderstandings between them caused by their busy lifestyles. Things take a turn when James meets with a freak car accident.

A story of homecoming from late 1970s, when 10 year old Vicky arrives at his grandparents home in rural Kerala to attend his grandfather's funeral. The disjointed family gathers together for the sixteen day long funeral period. During this period, Vicky discovers more about himself, his family and culture than he had expected to. The journey is narrated through the memories of an adult Vicky who returns to the same house to recount the experience.

Swami Ayyappan is a 1975 Indian bilingual film. Directed and produced by P Subramaniam, it was simultaneously shot in Malayalam and Tamil languages. The film met with critical acclaim and became a box office success. It won four Kerala State Film Awards.

Unni is the last male heir of a decaying feudal family in rural Kerala. His inability to accept the socio-economic changes of a new society causes him to gradually withdraw into isolation and paranoia.

Vishwam and Sita, who resist the opposition from their families, elope and marry. The unemployed couple begin a happier married life, but soon land in a sea of perils without a source of income.

Punyam Aham is set in a small village in northern Kerala. The protagonist is Narayan Unni (Prithviraj Sukumaran), a young man with a Brahmin father and low-caste mother, who separated, leaving the mother to raise him alone. The film tells the story of Unni leaving home and searching for his identity, and then repeating many of his father's mistakes in life. It is based on the story in traditional folklore about Naranath Bhranthan and his father Vararuchi.[1]

Nandan (Shankar) an introverted singer from a poor background falls in love with Devi (Urvashi). Their friends Sunny (Mohanlal) and his girlfriend Thara (Geetha) are quite the opposite and are extremely outgoing. When Devi's parents do not approve of her relationship with Nandan, they try to force her into an arranged marriage. Sunny and their other friends decide to help the couple elope. However things go awry when Sunny & Vinod (Jagathy) meet with a horrific accident.