14 min · Malayalam · Thriller
A theft in the dark leads into an encounter whose other side stays unseen. A thirteen-minute Malayalam thriller.
Malayalam thriller short films
73 Malayalam thriller short films in the cafe, running 8 to 55 minutes. Many are suspenseful or thought-provoking. Each is a complete standalone short film, chosen by the cafe and played through its original video provider.
17 min · Malayalam · Thriller
Budget Lab's Malayalam crime thriller: an ordinary incident pulls its characters into a widening mystery. Seventeen dark minutes that only 12,000 YouTube viewers have found so far.
20 min · Malayalam · Drama · Thriller
A Malayalam drama-thriller about empathy and vengeance between a father, his son and the man who came between them. Twenty minutes, with English subtitles.
8 min · Malayalam · Thriller · Comedy
A small-time thief finds a bag of cash and two gangsters on the way out. This eight-minute Malayalam crime comedy from Yellow Submarine, directed by Viswanathan S, packs a full caper into a tea break.
12 min · Malayalam · Thriller · Drama
A barber's late-night customer brings an old wound back into his life. Twelve tense Malayalam minutes.
20 min · Malayalam · Horror · Thriller
Budget Lab's Malayalam horror-thriller: three friends drinking in an abandoned ancestral house find their evening turning into something they never planned.
22 min · Malayalam · Thriller · Horror
An offer to walk an elderly woman home takes Vishnu somewhere he did not expect. Choose Kavullakandi for a Malayalam horror story that turns an act of kindness into a chilling encounter.
17 min · Malayalam · Drama · Thriller
A stranger offers Ashley a new perspective, then becomes a source of uncertainty. Choose Fugue for a Malayalam psychological story that turns the search for connection into suspense.
41 min · Malayalam · Thriller · Drama
A home nurse caring for an elderly woman in a remote house starts to doubt his own sanity. A forty-one-minute Malayalam thriller.
26 min · Malayalam · Comedy · Drama · Thriller
One day in a small village exposes the secrets hidden under its everyday bustle. A twenty-five-minute Malayalam comedy-thriller.
20 min · Malayalam · Thriller · Fantasy
A sorcerer's apprentice and three volunteers try to break the curse on a haunted paddy field. A nineteen-minute Malayalam folk thriller.
22 min · Malayalam · Comedy · Romance · Thriller
Two village lads plot a 'love kidnapping' for a girl they're sure is in love with one of them, until her confession turns everything around. A playful Malayalam comedy with a romantic twist.
30 min · Malayalam · Thriller
Akarsh Ramakrishnan's thirty-minute Malayalam horror-thriller for Onboard Infotainments. Watch with the lights low.
17 min · Malayalam · Drama · Thriller
A patient and a visiting nurse share a conversation that brings painful truths about both their lives to the surface. A sixteen-minute Malayalam drama.
32 min · Malayalam · Thriller · Drama
A Malayalam drama-thriller: a man returns for his estranged father's last rites just as a temple festival fills the air with unease. Thirty-one slow-burning minutes.
26 min · Malayalam · Thriller
A writer is murdered in a Kerala lodge, and every guest is a suspect. A twenty-six-minute Malayalam whodunit.
12 min · Malayalam · Drama · Thriller
A bereaved couple's strained marriage spirals when a rat becomes the focus of their distress. A twelve-minute Malayalam drama-thriller, unsettling and unusual.
11 min · Malayalam · Horror · Thriller
A man clears a fallen tree from a lonely road, and the next day it's back in the same place. A ten-minute Malayalam chiller.
33 min · Malayalam · Horror · Thriller
An ancestral home turns a family reunion into a source of dread. Try this Malayalam horror short for a homecoming that becomes frighteningly unfamiliar.
19 min · Malayalam · Horror · Thriller · Drama
An elderly woman's longing to meet her granddaughter takes an unsettling turn in this Malayalam horror. Eighteen eerie minutes.
21 min · Malayalam · Thriller · Comedy · Fantasy
Onam gets unexpectedly spooky when Chathan, the mischievous spirit, joins the celebrations. A twenty-minute Malayalam festive fantasy-comedy.
13 min · Malayalam · Thriller · Drama
A Malayalam supernatural drama with English subtitles: after a temple visit, ordinary Vineeth can hear other people's thoughts, and the gift soon becomes a burden.
19 min · Malayalam · Drama · Thriller
A Malayalam relationship thriller about a husband whose 'love' turns controlling and frightening. Eighteen tense minutes.
18 min · Malayalam · Thriller · Drama
Sanjayan Markose's Malayalam thriller with Ann Saleem and Romi Rajan. Eighteen tense minutes.
21 min · Malayalam · Thriller · Drama
Investigators reopen a murder case from 1994, and long-buried secrets come back to the surface. A twenty-minute Malayalam crime thriller.
27 min · Malayalam · Thriller
The intruders expect an easy last job. Thalla turns that expectation into a Malayalam crime thriller where the person they target may be the one in control.
26 min · Malayalam · Thriller · Drama
A young man staying with a mysterious family friend grows suspicious of a locked room. A twenty-five-minute Malayalam thriller.
28 min · Malayalam · Thriller
The cafe's most-watched film: a city-born boy visits his ancestral home in Kerala and meets traditions and terrors that stay with him for years. Twenty-seven minutes of slow-building Malayalam dread.
10 min · Malayalam · Thriller · Horror
Strange nights, an invisible woman and clues to follow—13 D offers a short Malayalam mystery with a supernatural edge.
17 min · Malayalam · Thriller
Vijay Babu stars in debutant Deepak S Jay's Malayalam crime thriller about what can happen in forty-five seconds.
15 min · Malayalam · Fantasy · Thriller
A Malayalam noir fantasy: a man who has escaped every prison is sent to an island jail whose guards say no one leaves. Fourteen minutes that slowly tighten the screws.
21 min · Malayalam · Thriller
A stubborn private detective works his way through a case investigation in this Malayalam thriller starring Vijay Menon.
10 min · Malayalam · Thriller
Try Atom Bomb for a ten-minute Malayalam suspense short from writer-director and cinematographer Seekko Thomas.
39 min · Malayalam · Drama · Thriller
An ordinary school day gives way to a difficult choice. Watch Be Selin for a Malayalam drama about a young woman trying to regain control of her situation.
30 min · Malayalam · Drama · Thriller
Three doctors discover what their usual perspectives leave out. Watch for a Malayalam short about the human encounters behind medical work.
35 min · Malayalam · Thriller
A Malayalam suspense crime thriller based on the lives of three IT employees and an old goon who has turned delivery boy.
56 min · Malayalam · Horror · Thriller
A father's search for justice takes a supernatural turn. Try this Malayalam horror-crime story for a longer short steeped in revenge and family bonds.
17 min · Malayalam · Thriller · Horror
A voice from the past unsettles the life Joan has built. Try Cross for a Malayalam psychological thriller about buried truths and difficult choices.
40 min · Malayalam · Thriller
Make time for a Malayalam mystery built around a woman's attempt to untangle it. A pick for a longer dose of suspense.
31 min · Malayalam · Thriller · Action
A deaf former soldier loses everything to a crime that unfolds without him hearing a sound. Six months later, fate brings him face to face with the people or events behind it, and the silence he has lived with stops being a weakness as he sets out to settle the score.
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