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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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12 films

G.D.N
Biographical · Drama
Lead
R. Madhavan, Sathyaraj
Director
Krishnakumar Ramakumar
Music
Govind Vasantha
07 AUG 2026View film
emotional and true storyDrama · Biographical
Balaramana Dinagalu
Crime · Drama · Period
Lead
Vinod Prabhakar, Atul Kulkarni
Director
K. M. Chaitanya
Music
Santhosh Narayanan
26 JUN 2026View film
emotional and true storyDrama · Period
Pallichattambi
Action · Drama · Period
Lead
Tovino Thomas, Vijayaraghavan
Director
Dijo Jose Antony
Music
Jakes Bejoy
15 APR 2026View film
emotional and true storyDrama · Period
The Rise of Ashoka
Action · Drama · Period
Lead
Sathish Ninasam, B. Suresha
Director
Vinod V Dhondale
Music
Poornachandra Tejaswi
27 FEB 2026View film
emotional and true storyDrama · Period
Gatha Vaibhava
Drama · Fantasy · Period · Romance
Lead
Ashika Ranganath, S. S. Dushyanth
Director
Suni
Music
Judah Sandhy
14 NOV 2025View film
emotional and true storyDrama · Period
Arjun Chakravarthy
Biographical · Drama · Sports
Lead
Ajay, Ajay Ghosh
Director
Vikrant Rudra
Music
Vignesh Baskaran
29 AUG 2025View film
emotional and true storyDrama · Biographical
Swapna Mantapa
Drama · Historical
Lead
Vijay Raghavendra, Sundar Raj
Director
Baraguru Ramachandrappa
Music
Shamitha Malnad
25 JUL 2025View film
emotional and true storyDrama · Historical
Thirukkural
Biographical · Drama
Lead
O. A. K. Sundar, Kottachi Annamagan
Director
A. J. Balakrishnan
Music
Ilayaraaja
27 JUN 2025View film
emotional and true storyDrama · Biographical
Bachchala Malli
Drama · Period
Lead
Allari Naresh, Rao Ramesh
Director
Subbu Mangadevi
Music
Vishal Chandrasekhar
20 DEC 2024View film
emotional and true storyDrama · Period
Aaryamala
Drama · Period
Lead
R. S. Karthiik, G. Marimuthu
Director
James Yuvan
Music
Selvanambi
18 OCT 2024View film
emotional and true storyDrama · Period
Varshangalkku Shesham
Comedy · Drama · Period
Lead
Pranav Mohanlal, Nivin Pauly
Director
Vineeth Sreenivasan
Music
Amrit Ramnath
11 APR 2024View film
emotional and true storyDrama · Period
Razakar
Action · Drama · Epic · Historical
Lead
Raj Arjun, Bobby Simha
Director
Yata Satyanarayana
Music
Bheems Ceciroleo
15 MAR 2024View film
emotional and true storyDrama · Historical