The essentials
Malayalam movies
worth your time.
A running list of the films worth making time for — picked one at a time rather than ranked by an algorithm, each with a note on why it's here. New entries go in as we watch them.
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Manichitrathazhu
1993 · 2h 49m
The psychological thriller every later Malayalam film is measured against, and Shobana's National Award.
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Vidheyan
1993
Mammootty as a servant who cannot stop obeying, in Adoor's hardest look at power.
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32 on the list so far · 69 titles in the catalogue.