Marco (2024 film)
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| Directed by | Haneef Adeni |
| Written by | Haneef Adeni |
| Produced by | Shareef Muhammed |
| Starring | Unni Mukundan |
| Cinematography | Chandru Selvaraj |
| Edited by | Shameer Muhammed |
| Music by | Ravi Basrur |
Production company | Cubes Entertainments |
| Distributed by | Cubes Entertainments |
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Running time | 145 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Budget | ₹30 crore |
| Box office | est.₹110 crore |
Marco is a 2024 Indian Malayalam-language neo-noir action thriller film written and directed by Haneef Adeni and produced by Shareef Muhammed under his Cubes Entertainments banner. The film stars Unni Mukundan in the titular role, alongside Siddique, Jagadish, Kabir Duhan Singh, Abhimanyu Shammi Thilakan, Anson Paul, Ishaan Shoukath and Yukti Thareja in supporting roles. The film is a standalone spin-off to Mikhael. Some of the characters from Mikhael are placed in a different story but in the same universe as Mikhael. The plot follows Marco Jr, a ruthless gangster and the adopted son of the Adattu crime family, who goes on a bloody rampage after the brutal death of his blind foster brother Victor.
The music was composed by Ravi Basrur, while cinematography and editing were handled by Chandru Selvaraj and Shameer Muhammed, respectively. Marco was released worldwide on 20 December 2024, coinciding with Christmas. The film received highly positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success at the box office and emerged as the highest-grossing A-rated Malayalam-language film of all time and the tenth highest-grossing Malayalam film of all-time.