20th Century's Best Telugu Films

The son of a priest falls in love with a Harijan girl and elopes with her. The film was a social drama that deals with untouchability prevalent in pre-independent India.

Reformist melodrama about widow remarriage. Villain Janardhanarao Panthulu has his 6-year-old daughter Lalitha married to an old man who dies shortly after. Lalitha (Kanchanmala) is brought up by her father under the strictures of widowhood. She meets the reformist Sundarrao (Y.V. Rao) who eventually defies tradition and marries her. The first instance of Telegu cinema of the use of playback.

Elaborate melodrama, presented the problems of uneven development in terms of an emotional conflict between and innocent feudal rural female and a worldly-wise capitalist urban male. Hero Raghu (Nagaiah), an unemployed graduate, insists on marrying the village girl Janaki (Kanchanmala) despite the opposition of his scheming mother who wants a dowry. Raghu's unemployment problems continue despite his migration to the city, leaving his wife in the clutches of her mother-in-law. When Raghu wins a lottery for Rs. 5 lakhs and returns home, he finds his wife and infant son have left. Although his mother insists he marry again, Raghu goes to the city and dedicates himself to social work, including building factories in order to create employment opportunities. In this he is assisted by his rich female college friend, provoking gossip about their relationship. Raghu's wife, now a poor flower seller, sees her husband with his new friend and believes he has remarried.

Venugopala Murthy after completing his studies in England, returns to India and falls in love with Lakshmi, the daughter of the servant in their house. They need to overcome all the hurdles to get united again.

Murthy and Kalyani live together happily with their children. But when Murthy notices Subbalakshmi, he falls in love with her and neglects his family. At the end, he realizes his mistake and returns to his family.

A wealthy businessman, Changayya, and Ramayya are neighbors in a village and Changayya wants to marry off his son to Ramayya's daughter. But due to unprecedented circumstances, the Two families are estranged and get into frequent quarrels.

Nagaraju and Malliswari want to get married. The mother of Malliswari, Nagamma, sends her to rani vasam at Krishnadevaraya palace. Nagaraju tries to get her back at the risk of getting beheaded if caught in the palace.

A poor man, in love with a princess, is persuaded by an evil sorcerer to help him get the blessing of a Goddess.

A young man's father is a old fashioned man. He wants dowry from his son's wife. The young man along with his friend teaches a lesson to his father then.

Adapted from a popular Bengali novel, Devadasu narrates the story of a rich guy and poor girl separated by class system of India. Parvati is forcefully married off to a middle-aged rich man and Devadasu becomes a drunkard.

Considered one of the greatest Telugu movies of all time, Peddamanushulu ("Respectable people") is a corruption themed social drama in a village setting.

Bangaru Papa Staring S. V. Ranga Rao, Kongara Jaggaiah, Krishna Kumari, Hemalatha, Jamuna, Ramana Reddy is a 1955 Telugu film directed by B. N. Reddi. It is based on the 1861 English novel Silas Marner of George Eliot. B. N. Reddi personally considered it as his best cinematic work. It showcased the acting skills of S. V. Ranga Rao. This film introduced the famous writer Palagummi Padmaraju to the cine-world. Watch the full movie Bangaru Papa online, only on Eros Now.

Ramudu (Akkineni Nageshwara Rao) after serving a jail sentence for a theft he had committed during childhood to buy medicines for his mother (Hemalatha) lands in a job as a servant at moneylender Veerabhadraiah's (Relangi) house. He finds his sister Lakshmi (Jamuna) in an orphanage and promises to pay her college fee. To raise the money, he steals at Bhadraiah's house but is caught and jailed. Lakshmi escapes an attack by Babulu (R. Nageswara Rao) a local thug, with the help of Seetha (Savitri) the vegetable vendor with whom Ramudu is in love. Seetha gets shelter for her at Dr. Mohan's (Jaggaiah) house. Impressed by her virtues, the doctor decides to marry Lakshmi. Ramudu joins as a driver with Mohan. He warns his sister not to reveal that they are siblings. But Veerabhadraiah who is angry that the doctor has not married his daughter (Swarajyalakshmi), reveals their identity and that Ramudu is a thief. Veerabhadraiah is murdered by Babulu but the blame falls on Ramudu. Seetha helps prove Ramudu's innocence by bringing Babulu to book. The story ends on a happy note.

A rom-com involving Rao and Mary, two unemployed new graduates, who decide to act as a married couple so that they qualify for two teaching jobs at a High School and eventually fall in love.

This film is based on a famous Telugu poet " Tenali Ramakrishna "

Balarama promises Subhadra to get his daughter married to her son. But when the Pandavas loses their kingdom to the Kaurava's, Balarama breaks his promise.

Krishna Rao and Rukmini loves each other and gets married. But after some years, Krishna Rao becomes fed - up with Rukmini's behavior and starts avoiding her. So Pratap, Rukmini's brother decides to make Krishna Rao realize his mistake.

The story of a young prince named Prathap who dreams of marrying a Devakanya.

Anand, the spoiled son of a public prosecutor finds his exorbitant and Casanova-like lifestyle curbed by his disapproving father and maternal uncle. He is more or less compelled to get married to a woman, Sarada, who he initially dislikes, but subsequently falls in love with. All appears to be fine, until his father finds out that Anand is leading a double life, and has been seeing other women on the sly. Before he could initiate any corrective steps, he finds that his son has been arrested by the Police for allegedly killing a pregnant girlfriend.

Gundamma has two children and a stepdaughter whom she mistreats; she hopes to get a 'resident' son-in-law who will look after the family; two brothers decide to teach the old woman a lesson.

Prime minister Timmarasu faces false allegations for attacking the King Shri Krishnadevaraya. So he should prove his innocence.