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A text-first record of South Indian cinema, year by year. It carries no posters, no stills and no photographs of anyone — by design, not by omission. Typography is the poster.

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Sources

Film data is drawn from Wikipedia’s curated year-by-language film lists and from Wikidata, through their public APIs. Wikipedia content is used under CC BY-SA 4.0; Wikidata is CC0. Every film page lists the sources it was built from.

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You said“a dark Malayalam thriller”

Reading that as tense and dark, in Mollywood. Looking for Thriller, Mystery, Survival, Spy, Crime, Psychological, Black Comedy and Slasher.

12 films

Kalamkaval
Crime · Psychological · Thriller
Lead
Mammootty, Vinayakan
Director
Jithin K. Jose
Music
Mujeeb Majeed
05 DEC 2025View film
tense and darkThriller · Crime · Psychological
Eko
Crime · Mystery · Thriller
Lead
Sandeep Pradeep, Saurabh Sachdeva
Director
Dinjith Ayyathan
Music
Mujeeb Majeed
21 NOV 2025View film
tense and darkThriller · Mystery · Crime
Pravinkoodu Shappu
Black Comedy · Crime · Thriller
Lead
Soubin Shahir, Basil Joseph
Director
Sreeraj Sreenivaasan
Music
Vishnu Vijay
16 JAN 2025View film
tense and darkThriller · Crime · Black Comedy
Thankamani
Crime · Survival · Thriller
Lead
Dileep, Manoj K. Jayan
Director
Ratheesh Reghunandan
Music
William Francis
07 MAR 2024View film
tense and darkThriller · Survival · Crime
Uyir
Crime · Thriller
Lead
Roshan Mathew, Baiju Santhosh
Director
M. Padmakumar
Music
Manikandan Ayyappa
26 JUN 2026View film
tense and darkThriller · Crime
Balan: The Boy
Drama · Psychological · Thriller
Lead
Tovino Thomas, Jean Paul Lal
Director
Chidambaram S. Poduval
Music
Sushin Shyam
19 JUN 2026View film
tense and darkThriller · Psychological
Drishyam 3
Crime · Thriller
Lead
Mohanlal, Siddique
Director
Jeethu Joseph
Music
Anil Johnson
21 MAY 2026View film
tense and darkThriller · Crime
Dridam
Crime · Thriller
Lead
Shane Nigam, Shobi Thilakan
Director
Martin Joseph
Music
Sreerag Saji
08 MAY 2026View film
tense and darkThriller · Crime
Bharathanatyam 2 Mohiniyattam
Black Comedy · Thriller
Lead
Saiju Kurup, Suraj Venjaramood
Director
Krishnadas Murali
Music
Electronic Kili
10 APR 2026View film
tense and darkThriller · Black Comedy
Anomie
Crime · Thriller
Lead
Rahman, Binu Pappu
Director
Riyas Marath
Music
Harshavardhan Rameshwar
06 FEB 2026View film
tense and darkThriller · Crime
Valathu Vashathe Kallan
Crime · Thriller
Lead
Biju Menon, Joju George
Director
Jeethu Joseph
Music
Vishnu Shyam
30 JAN 2026View film
tense and darkThriller · Crime
Dheeram
Crime · Thriller
Lead
Indrajith Sukumaran, Aju Varghese
Director
Jithin T Suresh
Music
Manikandan Ayyappa
05 DEC 2025View film
tense and darkThriller · Crime