The episodic film tells of a soldier who befriends the circus strong man in a toddy bar Read More »
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Sagina Mahato (1971) Tapan Sinha, Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu, Anil Chatterjee
Sagina Mahato, a factory laborer,an aggressive, honest and lovable character who was the first to fight against Read More »
Two Acres of Land AKA Do Bigha Zamin (1953) Bimal Roy, Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Rattan Kumar
A small Bengali landowner and his young son are in danger when their two-acre farmland Read More »
Bombay (1995) Mani Ratnam, Arvind Swamy, Manisha Koirala, Nassar
Based on true incidents, a south Indian Hindu man falls in love with a Muslim woman–taboo in the small village from which they hail. Read More »
The Vicious Circle AKA Chakra (1981) Rabindra Dharmaraj, Savita Bajaj, Arun Bakshi, Suresh Bhagwat
Amma lives in Bijapur with her husband and son, Benwa. When a man attempts to sexually molest her, he is killed by her husband Read More »
The Elephant God AKA Joi Baba Felunath (1979) Satyajit Ray, Soumitra Chatterjee, Parinita Banerjee, Haradhan Bannerjee
This is the second film about the detective Feluda (Soumitra Chatterjee) set in the holy city of Benares Read More »
Enchantment (1994) Sammohanam
Sammohanam tells the story of a mysteriously seductive girl, Pennu (Archana) in a quiet village to which she has temporarily relocated Read More »
Four Chapters AKA Char Adhyay (1997) Kumar Shahani, Sumanto Chattopadhyay, Nandini Ghosal, Kaushik Gopal
Based on Rabindranath Tagore’s last novel, Char Adhyay is set in the Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s. Read More »
The Great Mughal AKA Mughal-E-Azam (1960) K. Asif, Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala, Dilip Kumar
Set in the 16th century AD, the movie brings to life the tale of the doomed love affair between the Mughal Crown Prince Saleem Read More »
A River Called Titas AKA Titas Ekti Nodir Naam (1973) Ritwik Ghatak, Rosy Samad, Farid Ali, Fakrul Hasan Boiragi
A fisherman, Kishore, marries Basanti when he visits a nearby village. Read More »