Movies like Aaram Thamburan

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Aaram Thamburan (1997)
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Aaram Thamburan (1997)
Original name: ആറാംതമ്പുരാന്‍
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story: Jagannathan faces several challenges when he goes to stay in Kanimangalam village. He promises the villagers that he will help in the preparations for the annual temple festival, but will his enemies leave him in peace?
Style: crying, weeping
Plot: festival, temple, palace, cat, businessman, priest, orphan, river, arrogance, revelation, secret, locked in a room, friend, feud, landlord, love, revenge, abduction, musician, police officer, motorcycle, sword, singer, rain, renovation ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, tense, serious and suspenseful films with plots about revenge, murder, malayalam, police officer, beating, violence and flashback mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Aaram Thamburan: Devasuram (1993), Narasimham (2000), Spadikam (1995), Bharatham (1991), Lucifer (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Spadikam (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
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Bharatham (1991)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
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Style: touching, weeping, crying
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Duration: 175 min.
Story: In God's own country, the supreme leader of the ruling party dies, leaving a huge vacuum, not only in the electoral and leadership sphere of the party but also that of the state. In the inevitable succession squabble and the power struggle that ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 168 min.
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Style: captivating, exciting, tense
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Sethumadhavan, the son of Achuthan Nair, a Police Constable who wishes to make his son an Inspector one day. Sethu, a recent college graduate, has many opportunities to enter different fields but he goes with his father's dream of becoming an ...
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Adwaytham (1991)
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