Irrespective of highest grossing hit/flop, heroism/one-man show, the list is primarily based on the strong story, acting, screenplay, milestones and respected as cult classics in different periods of time since 90's.

I have extended my list to 150 on popular demand for their favourite and deserving movies.

Best Tamil movies - Top 100(150*) (1990-2018)

Sivaji Ganesan, Gautami, Kamal Haasan, Nassar, and Revathi in Thevar Magan (1992)

The Word "Biopic"-Biographical film reminds something like 'Great Personalities and their Success towards goals, dreams in their life'. But most of the occasions, our Indian cinema showed the bad personalities biopics to get the negative shades for the popularity and money. Anyways, the biopic movies are predominantly famous in Western countries but we rarely use to watch in our Indian movies, especially in Tamil movie Industry. Why is it so? What are all we have done in the past? There are some biopics of Kamarajar, Periyar, Bharathiar, Kappalotiya Thamizhan, Veerapandiya Kattabomman and very few more tops the list whereas negative shade characters were few more available in the database. For a film industry which is producing more than 200 movies a year that haven't produced a dozen good biopic movies in and around 100 years of cinema. Let us pick some of the personalities who are more than eligible for a biopic in Tamizh.

Best Biopics that can make our 'Tamizh' proud

The Standout performances in Tamil movies 2017

Madhavan, Ritika Singh, and Mumtaz Sorcar in Irudhi Suttru (2016)

The List is based on the movies that "Push you to sit back and kill some time". So, the list may not be the best movies of all time but it will give you the Nostalgic incidences, feel good scenarios or the memories of happy days with the awe of technology, the acting, Story, Narrations, Comedy scenes and much more.

* The List is random but year wise.

* I am very minimal in choosing Old Tamil classics as I have watched only very few ones. So, it may not be the perfect one for the Old movie lovers and I completely understand your feelings of being missed out your favorite fiesta. So, please bare with this young fellow's choice. Thank you! :)

100 Most Rewatchable Tamil movies of all time

My 30 Most Favourite Directors of Hollywood

Steven Spielberg at an event for The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007)

40 Hollywood movies that needs a multiple watch to understand its significant beauty

The list is completely based on HIS INDIVIDUAL performances which have zero connections towards Box office collections.

The Best 30 Movies of Kamal Hassan that you Must watch

The list is completely based on HIS INDIVIDUAL performances which have zero connections towards Box office collections.

Special mention: 1. Poove Unakaga 2. Love Today 3. Theri 4. Kaavalan

The Best 10 movies of Vijay that you can watch

Simran and Joseph Vijay in Thulladha Manamum Thullum (1999)

The list is completely based on HIS INDIVIDUAL performances which have zero connections towards Box office collections.

Special mentions:  1. Kandukonden Kandukonden 2. Poovellam Un Vasam 3. Kireedam 4. Citizen

The Best 10 movies of Ajith that you can watch

The Best 10 Movies of Madhavan that you should watch

Esha Deol, Madhavan, Bharathiraja, Meera Jasmine, Trisha Krishnan, Siddharth, Suriya, and Karthi in Aayitha Ezhuthu (2004)

Hello, Everyone!!! Thanks to all who have been watching my movies list. Hope you all have enjoyed it!!. Since this year is getting over in a month, so, let see what happened this year in Tamil cinema.

This year 2015 have seen many rare things happened in Tamil cinema. We had some great number of releases from superstars like 3 from Kamal, 1 from Vijay, 2 from Ajith, 2 from vikram, 1 from surya and much more. But the biggest of all is we had half a bunch of Horror movies released and ruled the box office. Along with those many Small budgeted movies made a greater impact than the showbiz heroic regulars. As per analysis of personal interest, the winners from each department are

Best film: Kaakkaa muttai Best Movie as a wholesome entertainment: Thani Oruvan Best actor: Kamal Hassan (Papanasam) Best actor in a supporting role: Arvind swamy (Thani Oruvan) Best actress: Nayanthara (Maya, Naanum Rowdydhaan) Best actress in a supporting role: Aishwarya Rajesh (Kaakka Muttai) Asha Sarath(Papanasam) Original Soundtrack: Ghibran (Uthamavillain) Best Music commercial: Hip-Hop Tamizha(Thani oruvan) Best Cinematography: P.C. Sreeram (OK kanmani/ AI) Best ScreenPlay: M.Raja (Thani Oruvan) Best Direction: M. ManiKandan (Kaakka muttai) Best Child arist: Vignesh and Ramesh (Kaakka muttai)

Now, we can look through the list of which movies have lauded by the audiences and critics as follows. As discussed earlier, this list is purely based on story, screenplay and acting substances rather than the showbiz Numbers and rankings.

Ramesh Thilaganathan and J. Vignesh in The Crow's Egg (2014)

I know many people can ask for the classic old Tamizh music directors who ruled the pre 80s era. But I am a person of  90s, it is unfair to say anything about our old classic music directors. The music and the song aren't just the sounds, they are holistically connected with the memories, the movie's content, actors performances, the picturization, the ragas and so on. So the list of modern music directors is a perfect pick for this generation of people.  The Ranking and Numbers are just cynical. Each of them is individually at their best.

Best Modern Tamil Music directors you should know (Post 80's -2017)

The list is completely based on his individual performances which have zero connections towards Box office collections.

The Best 5 movies of Simbu(STR) that you can watch

Silambarasan TR, Trisha Krishnan, and Samantha Ruth Prabhu in Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010)

The Best 5 Movies of Vishal that you can watch

The Best 7 movies of Jeeva that you can watch

Jiiva and Anjali in Kattradhu Thamizh (2007)

The Best 5 movies of Arya that should watch

Arya and Pooja Umashankar in Naan Kadavul (2009)

The list is solely based on his individual performances which has no relation towards his box office collections

The Best 10 Movies of Vikram that you must watch

Laila, Vikram, and Suriya in Pithamagan (2003)

The Best 5 movies of Karthi that you must watch

Priyamani, Saravanan, Karthi, and Ponvannan in Paruthiveeran (2007)

The list is solely based on his individual performances which has no relation towards his box office collections

Special mentions: 

1. Mounam Pesiyadhey 2. Sillunu Oru Kaadhal 3. Ayan

The Best 10 Movies of Surya that you should watch

Top 10 Movies of Dhanush that you should watch

Honorable mentions: 1. Velainu Vandhutta Vellaikaran 2. Sethupathy 3. Kodi 4. Appa 5. Devi

The list is solely based on Quality and Critical response than the Box office performances.

Siddharth, Lakshmi Menon, and Bobby Simha in Jigarthanda (2014)

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