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Elippathayam (1981)

by Art House Cinema Desk | Jun 8, 2026 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Malayalam

Elippathayam, directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, is a 1981 film, that chronicles, with extraordinary restraint and formal control, the extinction of an entire social order through the fate of one thoroughly unremarkable man.

Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Malayalam

Anantaram (1987)

by Art House Cinema Desk | Jun 8, 2026 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Malayalam

Anantaram, directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, is a 1987 psychological drama that is considered one of Indian cinema’s most sophisticated meditations on the relationship between storytelling, memory, and psychological disintegration

Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Avant-Garde, Malayalam

Kodiyettam (1977)

by Art House Cinema Desk | Jun 7, 2026 | Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Avant-Garde, Malayalam

Kodiyettam, released in 1977 and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan, stands as one of the defining works of the Malayalam New Wave cinema.

M.T. Vasudevan Nair, Malayalam

Nirmalayam (1973)

by Madhu Eravankara | Jun 29, 2021 | M.T. Vasudevan Nair, Malayalam

Nirmalayam is a 1973 Malayalam film written and directed by M.T. Vasudevan Nair and has P.J. Antony and Kaviyoor Ponnamma
as the main cast. An adaptation of the short story ‘Pallivalum Kalchilambum’, the film went to win many State and National awards.

Malayalam, Zakariya Mohammed

Sudani From Nigeria (2018)

by Ishan | Sep 5, 2020 | Malayalam, Zakariya Mohammed

Sudani From Nigeria is a 2018 Malayalam film directed by Zakariya Mohammed. The film tells the story of a local football club in Kerala where the manager Majeed recruits three footballers from Nigeria for his team.

John Abraham, Malayalam

Amma Ariyan (1986)

by Puru | Nov 27, 2013 | John Abraham, Malayalam

Amma Ariyan is a 1986 Malayalam film directed by avant-garde filmmaker John Abraham. It was the first film of the Odessa Collective, made from donations received from the public, and the last made by Abraham. It is considered a landmark film in the history of Indian and Malayalam cinema.

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