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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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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

Kantara: Chapter 1
Action · Drama · Epic · Mythological
Lead
Rishab Shetty, Gulshan Devaiah
Director
Rishab Shetty
Music
B. Ajaneesh Loknath
02 OCT 2025View film
epicEpic · Mythological
Kalki 2898 AD
Epic · Mythological · Science Fiction
Lead
Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan
Director
Nag Ashwin
Music
Santhosh Narayanan
27 JUN 2024View film
epicEpic · Mythological
Razakar
Action · Drama · Epic · Historical
Lead
Raj Arjun, Bobby Simha
Director
Yata Satyanarayana
Music
Bheems Ceciroleo
15 MAR 2024View film
epicEpic · Historical
Malaikottai Vaaliban
Action · Drama · Epic · Fantasy · Period
Lead
Mohanlal, Danish Sait
Director
Lijo Jose Pellissery
Music
Prashant Pillai
25 JAN 2024View film
epicEpic · Period
Balaramana Dinagalu
Crime · Drama · Period
Lead
Vinod Prabhakar, Atul Kulkarni
Director
K. M. Chaitanya
Music
Santhosh Narayanan
26 JUN 2026View film
epicPeriod
Ananthan Kaadu
Action · Period · Political · Thriller
Lead
Arya, Vijayaraghavan
Director
Jiyen Krishnakumar
Music
B. Ajaneesh Loknath
25 JUN 2026View film
epicPeriod
Ananthan Kaadu
Action · Period · Political · Thriller
Lead
Arya, Indrans
Director
Jiyen Krishnakumar
Music
B. Ajaneesh Loknath
25 JUN 2026View film
epicPeriod
Pallichattambi
Action · Drama · Period
Lead
Tovino Thomas, Vijayaraghavan
Director
Dijo Jose Antony
Music
Jakes Bejoy
15 APR 2026View film
epicPeriod
Neelira
War
Lead
Naveen Chandra, Sananth
Director
Someetharan
Music
K
03 APR 2026View film
epicWar
The Rise of Ashoka
Action · Drama · Period
Lead
Sathish Ninasam, B. Suresha
Director
Vinod V Dhondale
Music
Poornachandra Tejaswi
27 FEB 2026View film
epicPeriod
Salliyargal
War
Lead
Karunas, Sathyadevi
Director
T. Kittu
Music
Ken Karunas
01 JAN 2026View film
epicWar
Gatha Vaibhava
Drama · Fantasy · Period · Romance
Lead
Ashika Ranganath, S. S. Dushyanth
Director
Suni
Music
Judah Sandhy
14 NOV 2025View film
epicPeriod