Best Tamil movies to stream (November 2026)
The highest-rated is Jai Bhim (2021), IMDb 8.6, streaming on Prime Video, ManoramaMax, MX Player, Prime Video Free.
Updated 3 November 2026 · 25 titles · How we choose
1. Jai Bhim
Streaming on Prime Video, ManoramaMax, MX Player, Prime Video Free
A pregnant woman from a primitive tribal community, searches desperately for her husband, who is missing from police custody. So as to find her husband and seek justice for them, as their voice, a High Court advocate ri…
2. Soorarai Pottru
Streaming on Prime Video, MX Player, Prime Video Free
Nedumaaran Rajangam "Maara" sets out to make the common man fly and in the process takes on the world's most capital intensive industry and several enemies who stand in his way.
3. Rocketry: The Nambi Effect
Streaming on Prime Video, JioHotstar, MX Player, Prime Video Free
The story of the great Indian rocket scientist, Shri Nambi Narayanan's life, a true patriot, who was turned into a villain in the blink of an eye after being falsely accused of treason.
4. Anbe Sivam
Streaming on Prime Video, Sun Nxt
Anbarasu, young and arrogant, and Nallasivam, damaged - physically but not spiritually - by life, are thrown together by circumstances, and find that they are in some ways bound together by fate.
5. Nayakan
Streaming on Prime Video
Velu Naicker, who witnesses the brutal murder of his father, kills a corrupt policeman and escapes to Mumbai, only to become a gangster.
6. Pariyerum Perumal
Streaming on Prime Video
A law student from a lower caste begins a friendship with his classmate, a girl who belongs to a higher caste, and the men in her family start giving him trouble over this.
7. Meiyazhagan
Streaming on Netflix
Twenty-two years after losing his home, Arulmozhi Varman returns to his native Thanjavur to attend his cousin's wedding. Amidst the celebrations, Arul is reintroduced to an upbeat man whom he cannot recall. With the hel…
8. Thalapathi
Streaming on ManoramaMax
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.
9. Kaithi
Streaming on aha, JioHotstar, MX Player, Prime Video Free
Dilli, a convicted criminal, is out on parole to meet his daughter. However, a drug bust sets him off on a mission to save the life of police officers.
10. 96
Streaming on Sony Liv, Sun Nxt, ManoramaMax, aha
Ram is a photographer and nature lover who travels all around India capturing moments. On a chance visit to his hometown Tanjavur, he goes into his school and begins to walk down memory lane to 1994 when he was a studen…
11. Asuran
Streaming on Prime Video
A family from the underprivileged class is on the run after the teenaged son kills a rich man from the upper caste. Can the pacifist father be able to save his hot-blooded son?
12. Sarpatta Parambarai
Streaming on Prime Video, ManoramaMax, MX Player, Prime Video Free
When Sarpatta Parambarai is challenged to a do-or-die match, Kabilan, a young labourer, must choose whether to put on the gloves himself and lead his clan to victory, or be dissuaded by his disapproving mother and dange…
13. Anniyan
Streaming on Zee5, Sun Nxt
Unable to tolerate society's injustices and devastated by rejection from the woman he loves, a meek lawyer develops a split personality: one side a vengeful vigilante killer punishing evildoers, the other a dashing play…
14. Vada Chennai
Streaming on JioHotstar
Anbu, a young carrom player in North Chennai becomes inadvertently involved in an ongoing conflict between two local gangsters.
15. Thani Oruvan
Streaming on Sun Nxt, MX Player, Prime Video Free
An idealistic cop and an ambitious scientist-businessman indulge in a high-stake battle of wits.
16. Iruvar
Streaming on Prime Video
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.
17. Vikram
Streaming on JioHotstar
Amar is assigned to investigate a case of serial killings. When Amar investigates the case, he realizes it is not what it seems to be and following down this path will lead to nothing but war between everyone involved.
18. Maharaja
Streaming on Netflix
A barber seeks vengeance after his home is burglarized, cryptically telling police his "Lakshmi" has been taken, leaving them uncertain if it's a person or object, jeer at his request until they learn what they're reall…
19. Ratsasan
Streaming on Sun Nxt, JioHotstar
A serial killer is murdering school girls, and a newbie cop has to track him down before the victim count increases.
20. Aruvi
Streaming on Prime Video
A gentle girl born and brought up amidst the ever growing eco-social-consumeristic environment finds it difficult to fit in the society. She decides to take it hard on the people.
21. Kannathil Muthamittal
Streaming on Prime Video, ManoramaMax
A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her birth mother, her family eventually agrees to take her to Sri Lanka, where they encounter the militant group known as the Tamil Tigers.
22. Kaaka Muttai
Streaming on JioHotstar
Two slum kids yearn to taste a pizza after being enticed by the pizza shop that has opened near their locality. What happens when they manage to find the money to buy one?
23. Vikram Vedha
Streaming on ManoramaMax, JioHotstar, Zee5
A notorious gangster Vedha surrenders himself to encounter specialist Vikram whom he challenges every step of the way by narrating his life events in the form of riddles that needs to be solved in order to capture him.
24. Super Deluxe
Streaming on aha
An unfaithful newly-wed wife, an estranged parent, a priest and an angry son suddenly find themselves in the most unexpected predicaments, each poised to experience their destiny, all on one fateful day.
25. Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru
Streaming on Prime Video, aha, JioHotstar, MX Player, Prime Video Free
A hardnosed cop goes after a gang of ruthless dacoits who have been terrorising residents along the highway for a decade.
Questions
- What is the highest-rated title on this list?
- The highest-rated is Jai Bhim (2021), IMDb 8.6, streaming on Prime Video, ManoramaMax, MX Player, Prime Video Free.
- How does Kunbah choose these titles?
- Well-known titles streaming on a subscription or free app in India, ranked by IMDb rating. Each needs at least 2,000 IMDb votes, so a title rated by a handful of fans doesn't top the list.
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- Every day. It was last updated on 3 November 2026.
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