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Dr. Rohini Pranab (Shobana), a doctor who runs an NGO and a shelter home for destitute girls, is targeted by human-traffickers. Her shelter home is attacked and all the children are taken. Naveen (Dhyan Sreenivasan) finds her sister kidnapped right in front of his eyes by the same gang.

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Udal

A woman, looking after her ailing mother-in-law is at breaking point. What happens when she can't take any more?

Vellanakalude Naadu

Vellanakalude Nadu movie which is a political satire based against municipal mafia in the form of Buildings

Neti Siddhartha

Neti Siddhartha is a 1990 Telugu action film produced and directed by Kranthi Kumar under the Kranthi Chitra banner. The film stars Krishnam Raju, Akkineni Nagarjuna, Shobana and Ayesha Jhulka in the lead roles, with music composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal. This film is a remake of the Hindi film Dharmatma (1975) which inturn is based on The Godfather. The film was recorded Average at the box office.

Ore Mukham

The story depicts the campus life of the 80s. Zacharia Pothen is a rich and spoiled senior student who is also ruthless and arrogant. He is always accompanied by his friends for whose happiness, Pothen can go to any extent. Pothen and his friends have a lot of fun and experience many exciting events in the course of their campus life. The film is a campus love story with a lot of comic sequences to enjoy the 80s campus life.

Oru Kochu Bhoomikulukkam

Hari has a dark secret from his past. When his friend Ravi wants to marry a girl Indu , who knows him from college , Hari tries everything to prevent it from happening. So that his wife and friends won't find out about his dark secret.

River

In the south of Laos, an American volunteer doctor becomes a fugitive after he intervenes in the sexual assault of a young woman. When the assailant's body is pulled from the Mekong River, things quickly spiral out of control.

Kabhi Na Kabhi

Kachra Seth runs an empire of collecting garbage, which is merely a front to cover-up for his other business - drug trafficking. He recruits a select group of people to carry out unpleasant tasks - such as beating someone up, or even killing someone. One of his recruits is Jaggu, who will do anything for a price. Jaggu loves Tina but is afraid to tell her. When Jaggu's mom is hospitalized, he comes to Kachra for monetary assistance, he is assigned to a task instead, and unable to complete the task he is apprehended by the police with the assistance of a librarian, and is subsequently found guilty and sent to prison. Jaggu's place is taken by Rajeshwar alias Raja, who is also attracted to Tina and even rescues her from one of Kachra's goons, Chabiley, and they both fall in love. When Jaggu returns from prison, he finds his mom has passed away, and his sister is missing, believed to have committed suicide.

Kalikkalam

Mammootty plays the role of a burglar who is known by different names in different places.He is a kind person and uses the money burgled to help poor and orphans. During one of his burglaries, he happens to witness a murder for which a police officer named Shekharan is falsely accused. He helps Shekharan to prove his innocence.

Attack

Guru Raj, a powerful business man of Charminar Group of Companies who runs his own gang as a mafia don, gets brutally assassinated. This incident upsets Guru Raj’s elder son Kaali and he decides to take revenge on his father’s killers. But twist in the tale arises when he too gets killed like his father. Left with no choice, Guru Raj’s third son, Radha takes up things in his hands and decides an counter attack.Rest of the story is as to how Radha manages to take his revenge and where does Guru Raj’s second son feature in this setup.

Cartel Land

In the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," shepherds a citizen uprising against the Knights Templar, the violent drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley—a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley—Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to halt Mexico’s drug wars from seeping across our border.

Innale

After a serious accident a girl who was hospitalized forgets her past. She stops worrying about her past when she fall in love with a man and finds herself secure with him.

Mazhayethum Munpe

Nandakumar is a college professor who wants to get the best treatment for his paralyzed fiancee, Uma Maheshwari. Trouble starts brewing when Shruthi, Nandakumar's student falls in love with him. Will Shruti let Uma unite with Nandakumar weaves the rest of the story.

Rustic Oracle

Set in the late 90s, Rustic Oracle is a dramatic feature about Ivy, an 8-year-old girl trying to understand what happened to her big sister who has vanished from their small Mohawk community. With minimal clues, Ivy and her mother Susan embark on an unwelcome journey to find Heather which will ultimately bring the pair closer together despite challenging circumstances. Behind the story of desperation, told through the eyes of a child, lies one of hope, growth, awakening and love.

Trade

A Texas cop, whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who was promised a better life in America also becomes a victim.

The Doctor and the Girl

Dr. Michael Corday, a recent graduate of the Harvard Medical School, is the son of Dr. John Corday, an eminent New York City surgeon who has a tendency to continue to direct the lives of his grown children. The daughter, Fabienne, runs away from home, and Michael, after first following his father's advice of being callous to the point of cruelty toward patients, changes when he falls in love with a patient, marries her and sets up his practice on the lower East Side in New York.

Thenmavin Kombath

Sreekrishnan unknowingly falls in love with the woman his best friend, Manikyan, loves. Though Sreekrishnan tries his best to woo her, she resists, leading to a battle that ensues between the friends.

Pavithram

A young man's relationship with his career, fiancee and brother is brought under stress by the birth of an unexpected sister.The film deals with the relationship between siblings Unnikrishnan and Meenakshi who have an almost 30 year age difference between them.

Trade of Innocents

In the back streets of a tourist town in present-day Southeast Asia, we find a filthy cinder block room; a bed with soiled sheets; a little girl waits for the next man. Alex (Dermot Mulroney), a human trafficking investigator, plays the role of her next customer as he negotiates with the pimp for the use of the child. Claire (Mira Sorvino), Alex's wife, is caught up in the flow of her new life in Southeast Asia and her role as a volunteer in an aftercare shelter for rescued girls where lives of local neighborhood girl's freedoms and dignity are threatened. Parallel story lines intertwine and unfold twists against the backdrop of the dangerous human trafficking world, in a story of struggle, life, hope and redemption in the "TRADE of INNOCENTS."

Golanthara Vartha

The film revolves around an active social worker, Rameshan Nair. He was leading a happy family life but problems begin when a girl enters his life.

Adayalam

Latha (Rekha) who is running her father's business empire after he suffered a debilitating stroke, receives a call from a mysterious stranger Raji, threatening to reveal embarrassing details about her father unless she pays up Rs. 500,000. Since she has no idea how to deal with the blackmailer, she turns to Capt. Hariharan who runs a detective agency for help. Things take a grim turn when Raji, and then Latha's cousin Suresh, both turn up murdered one after the other. The evidence unearthed by Hariharan seems to implicate either Latha or her sister Malini - but are the girls up to murder to protect their dad's good name?

Sathyam Mathrame Bodhippikku

An IPS officer investigates the murder of a leading criminal lawyer in the city. Things become further suspicious when a middle-aged person named Mathews becomes the witness.

Bigil

A do-gooder don wants his footballer son to uplift the life of his people by becoming a champion, but fate draws the youngster into a life of violence. Will he be able to fulfill his father’s dream when an opportunity comes his way seven years later?

Shelter

A US Treasury Agent finds himself in opposition with his fellow agents who are involved in gun running.

Daulat

Honest mint employee, Ghanshyam (Shreeram Lagoo) gets framed for murder by Joseph D'Souza (Amjad Khan), and has to flee from the police. He is separated from his wife, Radhika (Seema Deo), two sons, and a blind daughter. Years later, Ghanshyam, after being forced to work for Joseph to print fake rupee notes, is rich and known as Vikram Singh; his daughter and wife are homeless and destitute; his elder son, Ravi (Vinod Khanna) is a burglar at night, and a rich and respectable man named Kunwar Dilip Singh during the day; his other son, Sushil (Raj Babbar) is a police inspector, adopted by the Police Commissioner (Om Shivpuri). Joseph, now known as Tripathi, comes to know that Ravi is Ghanshyam's son, and devices a scheme that will bring certain death to Ghanshyam and his family.

Kankettu

Babu (Sreenivasan) is a small time magician known by his stage name Prof. Rangoonwalla. He makes ends meet by doing odd shows. He reluctantly lets Raju (Jayaram), a pickpocket, to join him as his assistant. While performing a trick called The Vanishing Beauty with the help of his neighbour Sridevi (Geetha Vijayan), a woman (Sobhana) unknowingly stumbles in on stage. The show is spoilt and they end up running away to avoid brickbats. They confront the woman and gets pulled into her mysteries.

Guppy

The story revolves around a boy named Guppy(Master Chethan) who finds his living out of rearing and selling the small fish Guppy. Guppy has this dream of buying an automatic wheel chair for his ailing mother (Rohini). Things gets into turmoil when Engineer Thejus Varkey (Tovino Thomas) comes to the seaside village for the construction of a railway bridge. Many unexpected things occur when a small rivalry starts between Guppy and Engineer.

Love Action Drama

Dineshan is in love with Shoba, but she insists he give up smoking and drinking before marriage. It’s easier said than done, but will love triumph?

Prakashan Parakkatte

Das, who regularly bunks school, is unhappy with his family as they admire his brother for doing well at school. Tragedy strikes when an accident takes place, and at the same time, Das falls in love.

Adi Kapyare Kootamani

The story revolves around a bunch of college students living in a boy's hostel. The story unfolds over a period of four days in the hostel. Problems begin when a young woman enters the hostel.

Sreedharante Onnam Thirumurivu

Sreedharan is a single man in his late-20s who runs a car repair shop. He is on the lookout for a bride, but he is only interested in girls who did graduation since Sreedharan himself was unable to study so far. The movie deals with the introduction of his cousin and his wooing to marry her.

Kunjiramayanam

Kunjiraman, nephew of Well-done Vasu, plans to marry Vasu's daughter Thankamani. All plans are thwarted by Kunjiraman's dim-witted cousin brother Laalu. To avenge this he goes to Gulf to make money and returns to his hometown Desam.

Khali Purse of Billionaires

The journey of Vijay and Das, their passion, struggles, friendship and the challenges they face to fulfill their dreams.

Nadikalil Sundari Yamuna

A good-natured tale of misunderstandings, and political and romantic rivalry in a small town.

Sulemani Keeda

In this slacker bro-mantic comedy, writing partners Dulal and Mainak dream of shaking up the Bollywood film industry with their script “Sulemani Keeda” (Hindi street slang for “Pain in the Ass”). When they’re not being rejected by producers who refuse to read their script, they lurk around bookstores and poetry slams shamelessly hitting on girls. They find some hope when the drug addled, cat-obsessed Gonzo Kapoor, the son of a famous B movie producer, hires them to write an art house film billed as “Tarkovsky with orgies” for his directorial debut. All seems well until Dulal meets Ruma, a beautiful photographer who makes him question his choice to sell out.

Goodalochana

A group of four friends take the easy route to accomplish their dreams. Even when things go haywire, they try to find an easy way out but, fate has other plans for them and all hell breaks loose when their decisions go wrong.

Sayanna Varthakal

Dennis, an independent journalist, interviews whistleblower Ravi Kumar. As the interview progresses, it becomes clear that the situation is significantly more complicated than it appears to be, and it will forever alter their lives.

T. P. Balagopalan M.A.

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.

Sachin

Sachin revolves around a boy who born on the auspicious day when cricketer Sachin Tendulkar hit century. After watching Sachin's performance, Viswanathan got excited and named his son as Sachin.

Kuttymama

The film, titled Kutty Mama, is directed by Vm Vinu and Sreenivasan plays the title role in it.

Veekam

Three forensic surgeons get involved in a murder case due to a small negligence at their end. What unfolds next is their attempt to prove their innocence.

Diamond Necklace

Arun is an oncologist based in Dubai who lives life king size without worrying about the future. But he is in trouble when creditors start pestering him and he is restricted within the country.

Manobjomin

Kuhu, a young girl, runs an NGO named Manobjomin, that works for the development of the underprivileged girls from the rural sectors of Bengal. Sanket, her lover, a banker, is also very attached to Kuhu`s NGO. Stuck in a financial crisis, can they save Manobjomin?

Debshishu

This powerful and realistic film is a study of poverty, illiteracy, natural calamities and the toll they take on the human soul. the story of a rural couple who're trying to survive on the road with many others like them, after their village was destroyed by a flood. the wife gives birth to a deformed baby, which is pronounced as a 'child of the devil' by the local pundit (Hindu priest), who forces them to abandon the child and exiles them from the community. the journey takes the couple towards a bizarre and heart-breaking conclusion

Aa Karaala Ratri

Muthanna and his family, who live in abject poverty, receive a prediction that says their fortune will change overnight. The same day, a mysterious man arrives and requests them to let him stay back.

Amaravathi

Amravathi, a naive girl, runs away from home and finds shelter in Arjun's house, who takes good care of her. However, when Arjun falls in love with Amravathi, her life takes a turn.

Thipparaa Meesam

An extremely talented DJ who works at a local night club gets himself in an adventure where he must fight all odds to survive.

Ormayundo Ee Mukham

Goutham is a young businessman who lives with his mother and grandmother. Goutham's mother Vasundara Devi is the head of their family business. Vasundara Devi is a strict mother; but grand motheris extremely friendly with Goutham. Apporva is Goutham's best pal. Then enters Nithya, a sand animation artist. Goutham meets Nithya and after a series of incidents, the couple falls in love. But Nithya, who has a memory loss problem due to a major accident,can't remember anything more than a day. This problem creates obstacles in Goutham and Nithya's relationship and this forms the crux of the story.

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