Best movies like Priyan Ottathilaanu

After the death of his dad, Dayashankar Pandey arranges the marriage of his two sisters. In debt, he goes to the city to ask the tenants to leave his house, as he intends to sell it and repay his debts. A woman, her two daughters, Jyoti, Saraswati, and one son, Chotu are living there. When Dayashankar asks them to vacate, they refuse. What results is Dayashankar's hilarious attempts to force them to vacate - from seeking legal advice; filing police reports; asking goons to remove them - moving in himself. Will Dayashankar succeed in his attempts to evict his tenants?

Gopan, Kora, and Bhakthavalsan are three college students who share same house along with Prem, another classmate. While the trio is more interested in loafing their time by flirting with girls, Prem is more serious in his attitude towards life. On a usual encounter, the trio meets Major Nair, a retired man in his fifties, who but loves romancing young girls. After a series of ego clashes, Nair learns that the trio is trying to woo his daughter Minu. Nair, enraged, challenges them to make his daughter fall for them.

The film is about an ordinary middle class man whose life turns upside down when a criminal tries to control him. It's about his struggles and how he comes to terms with his life.

Well-known musician Viswanathan was in love with his college mate and a dancer Janani. After facing opposition from all quarters, they finally get married. But soon their ego and professional jealousy start causing problems in their life making Viswanathan leave home with their son. Years later, Janani is to receive the Natyasree award in dance and he challenges her to dance to his voice.

Susheelan aka Sushee, is a 29-year-old man, who suffers from low self-esteem. Radhenathan aka Rad, Susheelan's cousin, colleague and mentor is an antitheses to him and has multiple affairs and one night stands. On Rad's advice, a depressed Susheelan gets in touch with Smita aka Dr. Smita, a high-class escort. He soon develops a special bond with her, resulting in a positive streak in his life. But one day, Susheelan travels to another city to meet Dr. Smita, not knowing that the ensuing events are going to change his and Rad's life for ever.

Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.

The movie is an adaptation of the 1960 French play of the same name and is considered to be a cult comedy classic in Malayalam. It was also one of the first commercial successes of the Mohanlal-Mukesh-Priyadarashan team. Shyam (Mohanlal) is a struggling journalist who gets an opportunity to be the caretaker of a flat in the city. Even while engaged to his childhood sweetheart Sreekutty (Menaka); he uses his charms and resourcefulness to make three air-hostesses (Lissie, Ashwini, Madhuri) fall in love with him. With the help of his maid (Sukumari) and friend (Raju) he carefully manages their schedule in the flat so that none of his girlfriends meet each other. Life is good for Shyam, till his former colleague and friend Anil (Mukesh) comes to visit him.

A middle-class father in India struggles through a series of unexpected events for upholding respect and smiles.

David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.

A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.

Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them, they realize the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.

A young girl is seduced and raped by an older middle class man in Victorian England. After moving on with her path, she gets married. All is well until her husband discovers her past. Leading her on a life of wandering, murder, and execution.

A young woman is dumped by her boyfriend just before the wedding as she will not be inheriting any wealth from her father. When the girl's father pays her a visit, she hires a man to act like her husband.

Naive and easily impressionable Vidya Bhalla would like her husband to be a dashing hero, one who is not afraid of anybody, one who can easily jump into a fire to rescue someone, one who is strong & romantic. She sees all of these qualities in Shiva Sathe (Jackie Shroff), the son of Havaldar Purshotam Sathe, whose only dream is to see Shiva become a Police Inspector. Vidya informs her dad, Prithviraj, that she has found her dream man, the Bhallas and the Sathes meet and get the couple formally engaged.

Plain, myopic, Vanishka Mathur has a college-day crush on handsome Abhay Sinha, and as luck would have it, she is hired by his dad, Satyaprakash Sinha to be his Personal Secretary. But Abhay does not like her, he is busy painting the town red with his maternal uncle, Rakesh Nath, and a young lady by the name of Simran Garewal. Satyaprakash entrusts Vanishka that she is to remain with Abhay at all time, and Abhay retaliates by blind-folding her, and blocking her eardrums, as well as stranding her without any transportation. Things come a head when she saves Satyaprakash's life, and must accompany Abhay on a trip overseas, little knowing that Abhay is not going alone with her, he has someone else accompany him; And the events abroad will change their lives forever.

Vasu and Radhika try to avoid Radhika's arranged marriage by saying that she loves Ramesh, a fictional man. However, they get into trouble when a man named Ramesh really walks into their life.

A smart, uptight attorney and a disorganized yet passionate and creative woman meet in a stuck elevator, and sparks ignite instantly. Will opposites attract, or are they simply passing time before getting off on different floors?

Raghava, who runs a breakfast center in his village, dreams of starting a small hotel in nearby city, Guntur. Accompanied by his friend Gopal, Raghava plans to buy an old shop in city against the interest of his father, which co-incidentally belongs to Nageswara Rao, father of his love interest, Sandhya. How Raghava's love life and his dream to establish his own hotel clash, forms the crux of the story.

A young man tries to rescue the woman he loves after she is forced into marrying another.

Madhavan, a lawyer and the breadwinner of his family, finds it difficult to enjoy his married life due to his family's issues.

Surreal events force a depressed suburbanite to confront his failures of communication.

Mukunthetta Sumitra Vilikkunnu is a 1988 Malayalam film directed by Priyadarshan. The film stars Mohanlal, Renjini, Sreenivasan and Nedumudi Venu in lead roles.

Adithya Varma, his wife Subhadra and daughter Kaveri live in the same compound where Sasi and his wife Parvathy lives. Sasi and Parvathi go to the office along with Varma. Kuttan Pillai, a gossip manager, does not like their relationship. He tries to drive a wedge between Varma and Sasi families. Varma asks his advocate to look for a man for his company. Advocate recommends Jayan, son of his friend for the job. Jayan is appointed in the company. Kuttan Pillai tells Varma's wife that it was not fair for Varma to go with Sasi and Parvathi. One day Parvathi come late from the office. A quarrel takes place between her and her husband on this account.

The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.

A family drama dealing with real life events. It tells the story of a typical middle class family living in the United States and the dramatic real-world issues they confront that threatens to break the family unity apart.

Terror stalks a small California community when a broke and depressed animal owner and trainer is forced to abandon his tigers and let them fend for themselves in the nearby wilderness.

Depressed at the thought of losing his family ranch to settle his divorce, cowboy Clint Brannan decides to drive his cattle up to their high pasture.

A romantic story about a wealthy boy whose life revolves around wine and women and a middle class girl who changes him. They fall in love but his mother opposes the match.

On one hand, a renowned film producer, Adinath Mullick, comes to Anish's place to make a policy of INR 10 crores. Adinath wants Bharat Seva Ashram as the nominee of his policy. Then in the course of events, he wants to replace his nominee by someone called Chitralekha Sen. In the meantime, Adinath's son, Amitabha, and daughter, Gargi, both get greedy and start running after this money. They both want their names as the nominee and Anish falls into their trap. On the other, Gouranga's daughter Champakali sets a trap for Anish. She wants to marry Anish in exchange of convincing his father to make the deal done. In course of events, Anish meets Riyanka, a famous TV star, and coincidentally at that point of time, her husband Bobby takes his own life and Anish falls again into that trap again. Would he ever set free or fall into an unending nadir?

Mr. Rudolpho is an Italian fashion designer: Rich, famous, and depressed. Surrounded by luxury, monitored 24/7 by a security team, hated by the CEO of Rudolpho Inc., he’s a prisoner of success. Rudolpho’s been sketching something in his moleskin book for months, but nobody knows what it is. Turns out he’s making plans for suicide. Good timing, because the CEO is planning to bump him off. Rudolpho heads to Berlin for Fashion Week to end it all, with the killers not far behind. But, this being a Bright Blue Gorilla film, things don’t always go as planned... He’s thrown in with some off-the-grid artists - the Boheems - who have no idea who he is. Thinking he’s destitute, they invite him to stay. Meanwhile, cops, killers, reporters, and Interpol all search for him. Rudolpho, happy in his hide-out, is hanging with the Boheems - and maybe falling for one of them... MRJ is a surreal comedy romance, told by two “Musical Angels”, aka Bright Blue Gorilla as the Greek Chorus.

Leslie is a busy event planner who recently lost her husband and business partner. Thankfully, her responsible teenage daughter, Ava, is a huge help at home, keeping an eye on brother, Ryan, while Leslie works long hours. But Leslie doesn’t know that Ava is swiping Ryan’s ADHD medication, abusing the meds not only to help her excel at school but also to use them as a party drug with her new, dangerous friends led by Madison. When Ava goes missing and is implicated in a hit and run that has put another teen in the hospital, Leslie must uncover all the secrets her so-called “perfect” daughter has been hiding from her if she hopes to bring her daughter home safely. Christy Bruce, Keara Graves star. (2022)

Vamsi Krishna suffers from ADHD and therefore suffers miserably at school life. Due to his lack of performance in class and deviltry issues, he is constantly nagged by his parents. His studding mother Pooja spends time over his betterment but couldn’t comply with the difficulties of coping with a ADHD child since she has no clue what Bunny aka. Vamsi was going through. One fine day, parents decide to send him to boarding, thinking this to be the only viable option available for his improvement. And that’s where Bunny starts getting abnormal and starts getting connected to Diya. Who is Diya? Why did Parents consult a Psychiatrist Geetha? What happens next forms the rest of the story line.

A man chooses an old widower's home for his first robbery, kicking off a set of events that have them both look at life in a new way and with new companions in the starkness of the city of Mumbai.

"LIFE WILL KNOCK YOU DOWN. THIS FILM WILL PICK YOU UP." This true story is about ordinary people who discover that faith happens in the midst of lifes twists and turns. Every incident in this film is based on actual events that came from the same small church. What do a drug addict, a feisty old lady, an African refugee, an ex-boxer, a salesman and a Chinese entrepreneur have in common? They are all connected through Heights Community Church.