Mollywood's first half of 2026 is the industry's most commercially and creatively significant in recent history. Drishyam 3 — Jeethu Joseph completing the trilogy with Mohanlal — crossed ₹241.92 crore at the box office and went to Prime Video on June 18. The catalog that supports it is the deepest in Indian regional cinema: Kumbalangi Nights, Joji, 2018, Manjummel Boys, Marco, Bheeshma Parvam. All streaming now. All essential.
Mollywood H1 2026: New Releases
Drishyam 3
Mohanlal's Georgekutty faces his most dangerous challenge yet — the weight of two buried secrets and an investigation that won't stop. Jeethu Joseph completes the trilogy. ₹241.92 Cr box office. Released June 18, 2026. Now streaming on Prime Video.
Prime VideoMalayalam Streaming Catalog: Essential Viewing
SonyLIV holds Mollywood's mass entertainment tier — Bheeshma Parvam, Kaduva, Ayyappanum Koshiyum, Nna Thaan Case Kodu, and Marco. Prime Video carries the new wave: Kumbalangi Nights, Joji, Malik, Manjummel Boys, 2018, Jallikattu, Trance, C U Soon, Jai Bhim, Soorarai Pottru. Netflix anchors the superhero and disaster corners with Minnal Murali and 2018. Neestream carries The Great Indian Kitchen. The combined catalog is the strongest it has ever been.
Drishyam 2
Six years later, Georgekutty's buried secret starts surfacing. The rare sequel that is essential rather than optional — watch before Drishyam 3. Prime Video.
Prime Video
Kumbalangi Nights
The film that announced Mollywood's new wave to a pan-India audience. Four brothers, one controlling villain, one backwater village. Prime Video.
Prime Video
Joji
Fahadh Faasil as a Macbeth figure in a Kerala rubber-estate family. Dileesh Pothan's finest film — literary adaptation done with complete confidence at budget level. Prime Video.
Prime Video
Minnal Murali
Tovino Thomas as Kerala's superhero. The villain's tragedy drives the film's emotional core — this is what origin stories look like when the script is more interesting than the spectacle. Netflix.
Netflix
Manjummel Boys
₹200+ crore global box office. No major stars. Pure survival tension. The cave rescue thriller that proved Mollywood blockbusters don't need marquee names. Prime Video.
Prime Video
2018
The Kerala floods disaster film. Ensemble cast, no melodrama, no manufactured emotion. The best Indian disaster film made to date. Netflix.
Netflix
Marco
Unni Mukundan's uncompromising action film. Hard violence, harder choices. Mollywood's most intense action entry and the film that opened up a new genre space for the industry. SonyLIV.
SonyLIV
Bheeshma Parvam
Mammootty's controlled mass entertainer. A Kochi patriarch holding his family together by force — exactly what the character needs and nothing else. SonyLIV.
SonyLIV
Ayyappanum Koshiyum
Biju Menon vs. Prithviraj Sukumaran. A battle of wills between a cop and a soldier. The conflict film every Mollywood director benchmarks against. SonyLIV.
SonyLIV
Malik
Fahadh Faasil as a minority community leader across decades of conflict. Mahesh Narayanan's political epic — the most ambitious OTT Malayalam production before Drishyam 3. Prime Video.
Prime Video
The Great Indian Kitchen
The most discussed Malayalam film of 2021. Domestic labour, patriarchal expectation, no sentimentality. The film that proved Mollywood could be genuinely political without being preachy. Neestream.
Neestream
Jallikattu
Lijo Jose Pellissery's formally wild thriller. A buffalo escape becomes a village-wide frenzy. India's Oscar selection 2020 — the most formally adventurous Malayalam film of the decade. Prime Video.
Prime Video
Kaduva
Prithviraj's planter vs. a vindictive police officer. Pure star swagger that delivers exactly what it advertises. SonyLIV.
SonyLIV
Trance
Fahadh Faasil as a motivational speaker turned cult leader. Anwar Rasheed's most ambitious work — the Malayalam film that most resembles an international prestige production. Prime Video.
Prime Video
Nna Thaan Case Kodu
Kunchacko Boban in a courtroom comedy where a minor accident becomes a full-scale legal disaster. SonyLIV's most-rewatched Mollywood comedy. SonyLIV.
SonyLIV
C U Soon
Shot during lockdown entirely on devices. Fahadh Faasil and Roshan Mathew hunt for a missing woman across screens. A technical and narrative achievement made under impossible conditions. Prime Video.
Prime VideoH2 2026: What Mollywood Has Scheduled
Mollywood's second half of 2026 has three confirmed major releases. Mohanlal's next theatrical film is the most anticipated Malayalam release of H2. SonyLIV's original pipeline has two projects confirmed that represent the platform's biggest Malayalam OTT investment. Drishyam 3's Prime Video numbers in June-July will determine the scale of what both the industry and streaming platforms plan next. If the first half set the standard, the second half is where Mollywood decides whether it can hold it.