Movies like Nadodikkattu

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Nadodikkattu (1987)
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Nadodikkattu (1987)
Original name: നാടോടിക്കാറ്റ്
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
Story: After loosing their jobs, Dasen and Vijayan don't see any chances to get work in Kerala. So both escape to Gulf , but can they find luck there?
Style: satirical, cult classic, detective, cult film
Plot: drug dealer, politician, unemployed, bow and arrow, timebomb, misunderstanding, friendship, hitman, office, boat, bachelor, photograph, cow, car accident, bicycle, immigration, graduate, loan, snob, fired from the job, roommate, disguise, gangster, con man, group ...
Place: dubai, india
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out satirical, captivating, semi serious and psychological films with plots about malayalam, satire, family relations, marriage, father son relationship, argument and misunderstanding mostly in Comedy, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Nadodikkattu: Minnaram (1994), Pattana Pravesham (1988), Akkare Akkare Akkare (1990), Vellanakalude Naadu (1988), Sandesham (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Minnaram (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Bobby (Mohanlal) is about to marry Tina (Anju) when his old college girlfriend Nina (Shobhana) arrives with a baby that she claims is his child. Tina’s father calls off the wedding and Bobby eventually prepares to accept Nina. Fate, however, has ...
Style: sad
Plot: tragic love story, cooking, attempted murder, suspicion, eavesdropping, ambulance, illegitimate daughter, children, death of sister, broken engagement, club, misunderstanding ...
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Pattana Pravesham (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Pattanapravesham movie is the sequel of Nadodikkattu. Just six months after the events of the prequel, C.I.D. Ramdas (Mohanlal) and C.I.D. Vijayan (Sreenivasan) who are called to Kerala to find the murderer of a police officer. The two incompetent ...
Plot: bicycle, gangster, police station, restaurant, argument, farce, pursuit, disguise, servant, bus, chase, police ...
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46%
Akkare Akkare Akkare (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story: After Nadodikkattu (1987) and Pattana Pravesham (1988), CIDs Ramdas and Vijayan are back for another wacky adventure. After a priceless gold crown is stolen from India, Ramdas (Mohanlal) and Vijayan (Srinivasan) are sent to the United States to ...
Style: detective
Plot: mission, fish out of water, restaurant, police, theft, crown, accidental killing, target practice, malayalam
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Vellanakalude Naadu (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Vellanakalude Nadu movie which is a political satire based against municipal mafia in the form of Buildings
Style: touching, satirical, political
Plot: satire, death of family, elephant, death of sister, mechanic, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, cover up, death, murder, flashback, corruption, malayalam ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Sandesham (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story: After his retirement, Raghavan Nair (Thilakan) is back at his home. His long cherished dream to spend his retired life along with his family is thwarted after seeing his two sons brawling each other over their political differences.
Style: political, cult classic
Plot: brother vs brother, political party, social satire, politician, lawyer, communist, family relations, satire, marriage, father son relationship, cigarette smoking, argument ...
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32%
Boeing Boeing (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: remake of american film
Plot: aviation, infidelity, rivalry, rivals, cooking, womanizer, stewardess, friends who hate each other, fiance fiancee relationship, malayalam, apartment
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Poochakkoru Mookkuthi (1984)
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Poochakkoru Mookkuthi movie tells Revathi (Menaka) who comes to the city from a small town in search of job and to have a good life and as it is with everyone her problem starts with finding a house. Shyam (Shankar) loves to become a popular singer. ...
Plot: suspicion of adultery, marital problem, multiple storylines, love triangle, dysfunctional marriage, farce, confusion, mistaken identity, screwball, misunderstanding, chaos, comedy of errors ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Thenmavin Kombath (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 164 min.
Story: The story revolves around Manikyan (Mohanlal), Sreekrishnan(Nedumudi Venu) and Karthumbi (Shobana) and the love triangle between them. Manikyan works for Sreekrishnan and Sreekrishnan sees him like a brother. Once when they both are returning from a ...
Plot: village, misunderstanding, love triangle, language barrier, rural setting, countryside, jealousy, feud, argument, celebration, honor, attraction ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Njan Prakashan (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Pining for a lavish life abroad, a lazy but lovable guy next door crafts a scam to avoid a career in nursing and find a wealthy spouse to secure a visa.
Style: satirical, entertaining, captivating, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot: scam, satire, ambition, cons and scams, escapades, embezzler, lifestyle, caper, malayalam
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Pullipulikalum Aattinkuttiyum (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Story: Gopan, a tourist guide's life takes a change as an unintentional statement by him lands his rival, Kuraichan, into the police station and ruins the later's family life.
Style: social
Plot: politician, brother, revenge, dancer, alcoholic, boat, malayalam, tourist guide, houseboat
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27%
Katha Parayumbol (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: the film is about how a barber's life is turned upside down when a film unit comes to the village for a shoot, and the news spreads that superstar Ashok Raj (Mammootty) is the barber's childhood friend. The script also by Srinivasan is so ...
Style: thrilling, semi serious, captivating, satirical, psychological
Plot: barber, friendship, old friend, movie star, family relations, superstar, childhood friend, lifestyle, family problems, relationships, satire, social problems ...
Time: year 2007
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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China Town (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Three childhood friends Mathukutty (Mohanlal), Binoy (Dileep) and Zachariah (Jayaram) re-unite in Goa to fight a Casino don who was responsible for the deaths of their fathers.
Plot: casino, illegal drugs, minister, halloween, death, marriage, sumo, malayalam, chinatown
Place: goa india
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Pavithram (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story: 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 (Mohanlal) and Meenakshi (Vinduja Menon) who have an ...
Style: sad
Plot: brother, father son relationship, flashback, teenage girl, argument, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, college, little sister, family relations, wooing, rebelliousness, unplanned pregnancy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Aadu 2 (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Aadu 2 revolves around Shaji Pappan and his group of misfits, who take part in another tug-of-war contest to win the golden cup. But along the way they unwittingly get drawn into a deal gone wrong, which involves dangerous smugglers.
Style: captivating, satirical, semi serious, entertaining, feel good
Plot: conspiracy, gang, problem, gangster, criminal gang, bandit, escapades, criminal, satire, game, malayalam
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Jagannathan, a political advisor, is hired to help John, a politician in California. He employs various shrewd tactics to help John's party win the elections.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, spoof
Plot: political satire, election campaign, politics, rise to the top, advisor, prostitute, single mother, widow, proposal, indian lead, malayalam
Place: california
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24%
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Spirit (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Raghunandan (Mohanlal) is a TV show host and a budding novelist. He is a loner and a compulsive alcoholic, the latter of which resulted in his divorce from Meera (Kaniha). Despite this Meera and her husband Alexy (Shankar Ramakrishnan) are his best ...
Style: satirical
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24%
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Hitler (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: This movie is about the life of Madhavankutty (locally known as Hitler), a bachelor protective brother of five younger sisters.
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
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23%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Vijayan, the village school teacher, believes that his degree in economics is sufficient for him to succeed in the business ventures he undertakes. Taking long leaves of absence from work, he roams around with his schemes, all of which turn out to ...
Plot: alienation, delusion, husband wife relationship, teacher, irresponsible, family relations, change of heart, abandonment, spirituality, pilgrimage, hypocrite, wife ...
Time: year 1998
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Vadakkunokki Yantram (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A man with a serious case of inferiority complex is married to a beautiful girl. Soon, his love and care turns into suspicion.
Style: ambiguous ending, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: marriage, inferiority complex, suspicion, love, married, psychiatric hospital, paranoia, husband wife relationship, uncle nephew relationship, drinking, suspicion of adultery, jealous husband ...
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Kakkakuyil (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Kakkakuyil movie is about Sivaraman(Mohanlal) who has come to Mumbai for a visa. But Sivaraman finds his friend Govindan Kutty (Mukesh) amidst a sea of problems. Sivaraman is forced to participate in a bank robbery planned by Thomas and his gang, ...
Plot: bank robbery, cheating, visa, stealing, deception, lawyer, impersonation, unemployment, malayalam
Place: dubai
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22%
Kilukkam Kilukilukkam (2006)
Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Kilukkam Kilukilukkam movie is a sequel of Kilukkam. Chandini (Kavya Madhavan) sees her father Krishnadas (Vijayaraghavan), Mayor of Cochin being killed by the rivals, but manages to escape from them and comes to Ooty. The needle of suspicion falls ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 158 min.
Story: The son of a popular martial arts expert, Manikkunnel Ittymaani is an impulsive man who keeps landing into trouble.
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating, satirical, semi serious
Plot: son, escapades, master warrior, fight, male protagonist, relationship problems, martial arts, satire, father son relationship, malayalam
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
Story: The film deals about the journey of two young American Malayalees to Kerala.
Style: captivating, light, funny, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot: journey, cultural difference, ethnic humor, multiculturalism, satire, culture clash, humour, homecoming, travel, college, communist, new love ...
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21%
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Bro Daddy (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story: John Kattady and his wife Annamma think about marrying off their son Eesho to Anna, who is the daughter of their long-time family friend Kurien. Eesho and Anna don’t act too impressed with each other, despite their parents’ interest in the ...
Style: feel good, satirical, semi serious, captivating, thrilling ...
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Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: India
Story: 2 Harihar Nagar is a sequel to In Harihar Nagar and a prequel to In Ghost House Inn. The films chronicle the story of four very close friends Mahadevan (Mukesh), Govindan Kutty (Siddique), Appukuttan (Jagadish), and Thomas Kutty (Ashokan).
Style: suspense, thrilling, psychological, captivating, satirical ...
Plot: friendship, friends, satire, problem, group of friends, confronting the past, secret, promiscuous past, plot twist, marriage, friend, past ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
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Style: satirical, entertaining, captivating, semi serious
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
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Style: clever, surprise ending
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19%
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Dasharatham (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story: This is one of the cult classic film of Mohanlal. A. K. Lohithadas won Kerala Film Critics Award for Best Script Writer. The movie is partly adapted from the Korean movie The Surrogate Woman.
Style: sad, tear jerker
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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