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Malayalam cinema is the Indian film industry based in the southern state of Kerala, dedicated to the production of motion pictures in Malayalam, also known as Mollywood in various print and online media. It is the fourth largest film industry in India. Elippathayam won the 'Sutherland Trophy' at the London Film Festival and 'Most Original Imaginative Film' of 1982 by the British Film Institute. In the early 1920s, the Malayalam film industry was based in Trivandrum but eventually shifted to Chennai and gained success by 1940s. After success, the Malayalam film industry returned and established itself in Kerala with the majority of locations, studios, production and post-production facilities being located in Kochi and Trivandrum. Several media sources describe Kochi as the hub of the film industry. Active Malayalam film production did not take place until the second half of the 20th century: there were only two silent movies and three Malayalam-language movies before 1947. However, with support from the Kerala state government, the production climbed from around 6 a year in the 1950s to 127 movies in 1980.

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