1990s Tamil-language Movies

280 movies found (page 1/10):

Bombay(1995)

3.6/5 (with 28 votes)

A Hindu man and a Muslim woman fall in love in a small village and move to Mumbai, where they have two children. However, growing religious tensions and erupting riots threaten to tear the family apart.

Directed by Mani Ratnam - With Manisha Koirala, Arvind Swamy, Nassar, Prakash Raj, Kitty

Roja(1992)

2h 17min | Drama, Action, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 22 votes)

Roja lives in a Tamil village, and her sister is about to marry a man from the city, who decides to marry Roja instead and gets a job assignment in Kashmir, where some militants decide to kidnap them.

Directed by Mani Ratnam - With Arvind Swamy, Madhoo, Pankaj Kapur, Nassar, Janagaraj

Baasha(1995)

2h 25min | Action

3.8/5 (with 26 votes)

Auto rickshaw driver Manickam avoids violence at all costs. When some thugs begin to intimidate Manickam's family, it triggers the revival of Manickam's old self.

Directed by Suresh Krissna - With Rajinikanth, Nagma, Raghuvaran

Muthu(1995)

2h 45min | Comedy, Drama, Action

3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

A lavish Maharaja lived with his sister-in-law and stepbrother Rajasekhar, helping people incessantly. His sister-in-law has a son, to whom the Maharaja bequeaths a major portion of his property. At this juncture, a new baby is born to the Maharaja.His wife dies soon after. Brother Rajasekhar cheats the Maharaja as he fears that his son's property might be taken back and given to the Maharaja's own son. When the cheating comes to light, the Maharaja hands over all his property and his baby to his sister-in-law...

Directed by K. S. Ravikumar - With Rajinikanth, Meena, Sarath Babu, Raghuvaran, Radha Ravi, Senthil, ...

Padayappa(1999)

2h 52min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 24 votes)

Padayappa, a mechanical engineer whose father gives up his property to his foster brother, and then dies of shock soon after. Neelambari initially loves Padayappa, but plans to humiliate him after his family humiliates her father. The rest of the plot deals with Padayappa overcoming all the obstacles placed by Neelambari.

Directed by K. S. Ravikumar - With Sivaji Ganesan, Rajinikanth, Ramya Krishnan, Soundarya, Radha Ravi, Nassar, ...

Indian(1996)

3h 5min | Drama, Action

3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

Senapathy, a veteran freedom fighter, is angry. He is angry against the rampant corruption at every level of the bureaucracy. He will clean it up at any cost.

Directed by S. Shankar - With Kamal Haasan, Manisha Koirala, Urmila Matondkar, Sukanya

Annamalai(1992)

3h | Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 11 votes)

A class-divided friendship goes through highs and lows through several decades.

Directed by Suresh Krissna - With Rajinikanth, Khushbu Sundar, Sarath Babu, Radha Ravi, Manorama, Janagaraj, ...

Raja Kaiya Vacha(1990)

2h 25min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Raja (Prabhu) is a thief who falls in love with Vijaya (Gouthami). First, she thinks that he was a police officer, she asks him to find lost stuffs and he steals to fulfill her wishes. One day, the police arrests him front of Vijaya and he's sent to jail, he's welcome like a king in jail. Vijaya leaves the town with her father. When, he's released, he decides to find Vijaya.

Directed by Suresh Krissna - With Prabhu Ganesan

Sadhu(1994)

Romance / Love, Action

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by P. Vasu - With Arjun Sarja, Raveena Tandon

Vaali(1999)

2h 38min | Romance / Love, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

A man struggles to deny his attraction to his twin brother's new bride.

Directed by S. J. Surya - With Ajith Kumar, Simran, Jyothika

Nerrukku Ner(1997)

2h 31min | Drama, Kids & Family

3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Raghu and Shanti are divorced couple which sparks problems between both respective younger brothers.

Directed by Vasanth - With Suriya, Vijay, Simran, Kausalya

Jeans(1998)

2h 55min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

Vishu and Ramu are a pair of Indian twins living in America with their father, Rajamani. When Madhumita (Aishwarya Rai) and her brother come to America to get medical treatment for their ailing grandmother, Vishu and Ramu end up meeting them at the airport. Vishu falls in love with Madhumita, and the couple has everyone's blessing, except for Rajamani, who is estranged from his own twin brother. He only wants his sons to marry twin sisters, so Madhumita pretends to have a twin in order to please him. As Madhumita puts on a charade by creating Vaishnavi, all goes well, until Ramu falls in love with Vaishnavi. Now the truth must come out, before Madhumita has to marry both of Rajamani's twin sons.

Directed by S. Shankar - With Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Nassar, Prashanth, Yaragudipati Venkata Mahalakshmi, Raadhika Sarathkumar, Senthil, ...

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Michael Madana Kama Rajan(1990)

2h 47min | Comedy

3.7/5 (with 13 votes)

A wicked man separates a set of quadruplets after their birth and one of them ends up with their biological father, while the other three find new homes. Things take a turn after they meet each other.

Directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao - With Kamal Haasan, Khushbu Sundar, Urvashi, Rupini, Nassar, Delhi Ganesh, ...

Poovellam Kettuppar(1999)

2h 28min | Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A young couple needs to get the rivalry between their families sorted out so that they can get married with full consent of their parents.

Directed by Vasanth - With Suriya, Jyothika, Nassar, Vijayakumar, Vadivelu

Iruvar(1997)

2h 20min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 14 votes)

A fictionalized account of the lives of 1980s Tamil Nadu political icons M. G. Ramachandran and M. Karunanidhi, continuing the tryst between Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics.

Directed by Mani Ratnam - With Mohanlal, Prakash Raj, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Gautami Tadimalla, Tabu, Revathi, ...

Uzhaippali(1993)

2h 36min | Drama, Crime, Action

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Rajini is working as a coolie in a factory. He is asked by three brothers to act as a foreign-returned rich man the heir of a property. Rajini acts but always escapes as he doesn't want to face consequences. But then he comes to know that he is the heir to the property, his father was killed by three brothers to take away the property and mother became a mental patient. He avenges the death of his father by killing the villains. At last, he says he doesn't want to be an heir to money and always remains as a coolie.

Directed by P. Vasu - With Rajinikanth, Roja, Radha Ravi, S. S. Chandran, Nizhalgal Ravi, Mayilsamy, ...

Kadhala Kadhala(1998)

2h 40min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Two friends, both with the name of Lingam, create a comedy of errors and consequent chaos with their girlfriends and their families.

Directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao - With Kamal Haasan, Prabhu Deva, Soundarya, Rambha

Gunaa(1991)

2h 47min | Romance / Love, Thriller, Drama

3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Guna, a mentally-disturbed man, imagines a fictitious character of a woman to be his future wife. One day, he sees a girl in a temple and assumes that she is his imaginary love and kidnaps her.

Directed by Santhana Bharathi - With Kamal Haasan, Rekha, S. Varalakshmi, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Janagaraj, Girish Karnad, ...

Arunachalam(1997)

2h 45min | Action, Drama, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 11 votes)

Arunachalam, the son of a prominent village elder, discovers the truth about his past.

Directed by Sundar C. - With Rajinikanth

Maruthu Pandi(1990)

2h 10min | Romance / Love, Crime, Action

In the village Ammapatti, Maruthu Pandi is a coracle operator in day and the village protector at night. The villagers give him food in exchange of his work. Maruthu Pandi has a mentally ill sister Lakshmi who is pregnant and he takes care of Lakshmi like a mother. Kanagavalli, a dancer, slowly falls in love with Maruthu Pandi. Kanagavalli is in fact a police officer who wants to arrest Maruthu Pandi. Maruthu Pandi's real name is Manickam, and after a revealed flashback, police team come to Ammapatti to arrest Manickam. What transpires later forms the crux of the story.

Directed by Manoj Kumar

Mr. Romeo(1996)

2h 42min | Action, Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Romeo lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bangalore, India, along with his widowed mother. He had received considerable assistance and encouragement from Raj Mohan to dance and sing, and as a result gets very popular with young women. He meets and is attracted to Madhu, who is also his fan. His mother meets with Madhu's grandfather and both arrange their wedding. Then Romeo finds out that Raj Mohan has been stealing body parts, especially kidneys, from patients in the Satya Moorthy Hospital, and then getting them killed via bus accidents. He meets with Raj and warns him that he is going to expose him publicly. Before he could that Romeo is shot, taken by ambulance, and thrown off of a cliff.

Directed by K. S. Ravi - With Prabhu Deva, Shilpa Shetty

Thalapathi(1991)

2h 35min | Crime, Action, Drama

3.9/5 (with 18 votes)

Surya, a courageous man who was raised in the slums, fights for the rights of the poor and befriends Deva, who hires him as his commander and changes his life completely.

Directed by Mani Ratnam - With Rajinikanth

Avvai Shanmugi(1996)

2h 40min | Comedy, Drama

3.8/5 (with 11 votes)

A divorced husband desperately misses his daughter. In order to be with her, he takes up a job in his father-in-law's house. The only catch is that the job is that of a female governess.

Directed by K. S. Ravikumar - With Kamal Haasan, Meena, Gemini Ganesan, Nagesh, Manivannan, Nassar, ...

Kaadhale Nimmadhi(1998)

Drama

An archaeologist gets involved in a situation where the brother of a girl holds him captive because he suspects him to be the girl's lover. Although he escapes, he is soon arrested for her kidnap.

With Suriya, Murali

Pavithra(1994)

2h 12min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Pavithra starring Ajith Kumar in the main role. The name denotes Sanskrit for purity. The film is about a quasi-mother-son relationship between Radhika and Ajith. Ajith is a patient suffering from Cancer and Radhika is a nurse in the hospital where Ajith is being treated. Due to a few reasons, Radhika showers maternal affection on Ajith, which Radhika's husband mistakes as something else. Confusion ensues and Radhika misunderstands Ajith and the climax is how all confusions are laid to rest, along with the hero!

Directed by K. Subash - With Raadhika Sarathkumar, Nassar, Ajith Kumar

Periyanna(1999)

2h 28min | Drama

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Suriya kills the people who murdered his family and goes to jail. A young girl learns music and singing from Suriya and they elope. They witness a murder when they move to a village.

Directed by S. A. Rajendran - With Vijayakanth, Suriya, Meena

Sendhoorapandi(1993)

2h 40min | Kids & Family, Drama

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Sendhoorapandi is a Tamil film, released in 1993 directed by S. A. Chandrasekhar. The cast for the film include Vijay, Vijaykanth, Manorama and Yuvarani.

Directed by S. A. Rajendran - With Vijayakanth

Singaravelan(1992)

2h 30min | Comedy, Romance / Love

4.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Singaravelan film revolves around a young man (Kamal Hassan) living in a village with his mother. He gets to know that his mother was estranged from her brother's family owing to her marriage with his father.She tells him that while her brother and his wife met with a fatal car accident soon after, they have a daughter (Khushboo) who since grew up in the city of Chennai. She hands him a photo of a baby Khushboo and asks him to track her down and marry her.Accordingly, Kamal sets out for the big city and heads for his friend Mano's house who is living with his 3...

Directed by R. V. Udayakumar - With Kamal Haasan, Khushbu Sundar, Jaishankar, Goundamani, Charle, Vadivelu, ...

Dharma Durai(1991)

2h 30min | Action, Drama

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Dharmadurai, a simple villager, helps his brothers financially against his father's wishes. He goes to jail when one of them kills a man, unaware that his brothers are nothing short of evil.

Directed by Rajashekar - With Rajinikanth, Madhu, Gautami Tadimalla, Nizhalgal Ravi, Charan Raj

Thulladha Manamum Thullum(1999)

2h 50min | Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 5 votes)

A struggling singer feels guilty about a girl losing her eyesight; to meet the cost of her eye transplant surgery, he offers his kidney to a rich man.

Directed by Ezhil - With Vijay, Simran, Manivannan, Vaiyapuri, Dhamu, Ponnambalam, ...