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1. The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama
A selfless young woman (Supriya Choudhury) sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.
Director: Ritwik Ghatak | Stars: Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Gyanesh Mukherjee, Bijon Bhattacharya
Votes: 3,245
2. A River Called Titas (1973)
Not Rated | 159 min | Drama
After their wedding night, a fisherman's young wife is kidnapped on the Titas River in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh.
Director: Ritwik Ghatak | Stars: Rosy Samad, Kabori Sarwar, Rawshan Zamil, Rani Sarkar
Votes: 1,345
3. Unishe April (1994)
Not Rated | 138 min | Drama
Potrays a sentimental mother daughter relation. How a female dancer sets her priority and became famous but loses her relationship with her daughter on the way .
Director: Rituparno Ghosh | Stars: Aparna Sen, Debashree Roy, Dipankar Dey, Chitra Sen
Votes: 572
4. Antony Firingee (1967)
Not Rated | 157 min | Musical, Drama
Antony Firingee was a Portuguese-Indian who became a famous Bengali poet musician and fell in love with Shakila. She agreed to marry him after revealing her tragic history. But his fame was... See full summary »
Director: Sunil Bannerjee | Stars: Uttam Kumar, Tanuja Samarth, Lolita Chatterjee, Asitbaran
Votes: 204
5. Kabuliwala (1957)
116 min | Drama
Rahmat a middle-aged fruit seller from Afghanistan, comes to Calcutta to hawk his merchandise and befriends a small Bengali girl called Mini.
Director: Tapan Sinha | Stars: Chhabi Biswas, Oindrila Tagore, Radhamohan Bhattacharya, Manju Dey
Votes: 340
6. Antaheen (2009)
120 min | Drama, Romance
Abhik loses faith in the people around him and develops an online relationship with Brinda, a young woman who works as a journalist.
Director: Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury | Stars: Rahul Bose, Aparna Sen, Radhika Apte, Kalyan Ray
Votes: 1,799
7. Bhalo Theko (2003)
Not Rated | 119 min | Family
The film revolves around Anandi and her relation with nature. Her boyfriend goes abroad and marries another girl. The film ends with a symbolic reference of the immersion of Anandi in nature.
Director: Gautam Haldar | Stars: Vidya Balan, Soumitra Chatterjee, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Joy Sengupta
Votes: 71
8. Chorus (1975)
Not Rated | 124 min | Fantasy, Drama
It begins like a fairy tale. It starts with a ritual. A bard appears on the screen and sings.Glory be the new gods who have descended to the Earth.The chairman of the gods, concerned over ... See full summary »
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Utpal Dutt, Ajit Banerjee, Shekhar Chatterjee, Radhamohan Bhattacharya
Votes: 117
9. Ekhoni (1970)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
Ekhonee depicts the lives and frustrations of a bunch of youth struggling to cope with the adversities of a bureaucratic society. There's a bunch of college students Arun, Tiklu, Shambhu, ... See full summary »
Director: Tapan Sinha | Stars: Gita Dey, Swarup Dutt, Anubha Gupta, Chinmoy Roy
Votes: 20
10. Atanka (1986)
122 min | Drama
Soumitra Chatterjee school master witnesses a murder committed by his ex-student. The students restrict him from reporting the matter to the cops. Fed up, the school master gathers courage ... See full summary »
Director: Tapan Sinha | Stars: Prasenjit Chatterjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Satabdi Roy
Votes: 31
11. Interview (1971)
101 min | Drama
Ranjit cannot get a middle-class job just because he cannot get hold of a suit.
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Karuna Bannerjee, Shekhar Chatterjee, Ranjit Mallick
Votes: 326
12. Calcutta 71 (1972)
132 min | Drama
An angry young man on trial in 1971,a rainstorm in a slum in 1933,a lower-middle-class family during the 1943 famine,teenage smugglers in 1953 and a middle-class group in a posh hotel in 1971.
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Madhavi Mukherjee, Gita Sen, Binota Roy, Ranjit Mallick
Votes: 296
13. The Guerilla Fighter (1973)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
A political activist escapes the prison van and is sheltered in a posh apartment owned by a sensitive young woman.
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Dhritiman Chatterjee, Simi Garewal, Pravas Sarkar, Bijon Bhattacharya
Votes: 337
14. Apanjan (1968)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama
Set against the backdrop of the political violence that rocked India, and West Bengal in particular, in the late 1960s, it tells the story of an aged widow in a village who goes to Calcutta... See full summary »
Director: Tapan Sinha | Stars: Chhayadevi, Swarup Dutt, Samit Bhanja, Romi Choudhury
Votes: 66
15. Sagina Mahato (1971)
148 min | Drama
Sagina Mahato, a factory laborer, an aggressive, honest and lovable character who was the first to fight against the tyranny of the British bosses in the Tea gardens of North-Eastern India.
Director: Tapan Sinha | Stars: Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu, Anil Chatterjee, Bhanu Bannerjee
Votes: 55
16. Podokkhep (2006)
90 min | Drama
The story is about the trials and tribulations faced by Shashanka, a retired bank manager and widower, and his daughter Megha, while trying to maintain their professional lives and relationships.
Director: Suman Ghosh | Stars: Savitri Chatterjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Nandita Das, June Malia
Votes: 50
17. Shubho Mahurat (2003)
150 min | Crime, Mystery
An actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt investigate.
Director: Rituparno Ghosh | Stars: Sharmila Tagore, Nandita Das, Kalyani Mandal, Moumita Gupta
Votes: 605
18. Aamaar Bhuvan (2018)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Family
A triangle love story between viz Meher (Kaushik Sen), Noor (Saswato Chaterjee) and Sakina (Nandita Das).
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Saswata Chatterjee, Nandita Das, Kaushik Sen, Asit Basu
Votes: 99
19. Tasher Ghawr (2020 TV Movie)
47 min | Drama
Sujata, homemaker of an upper-middle-class family, is caught between the world around her and the one within her. This is the story of her world and her search for "herself." Will she be able to find what she seeks?
Director: Sudipto Roy | Stars: Swastika Mukherjee, Judhajit Sarkar
Votes: 246
20. Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002)
120 min | Drama
During a bus journey, a devout Hindu Brahmin woman protects a Muslim man when communal rioting breaks out.
Director: Aparna Sen | Stars: Rahul Bose, Konkona Sen Sharma, Bhisham Sahni, Surekha Sikri
Votes: 4,941
21. Choker Bali: A Passion Play (2003)
167 min | Drama
Binodini is a young widow who lives with a woman and her son, Mahendra, who had once refused to marry her. Their lives are thrown into disarray when there is deceit and adultery between Binodini, Mahendra, his wife and his friend.
Director: Rituparno Ghosh | Stars: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Raima Sen, Lily Chakravarty
Votes: 1,826
22. Bagh Bahadur (1989)
91 min | Drama
Bagh Bahadur is a 1989 Bengali drama film directed and written by Buddhadev Dasgupta. The film is about a man who paints himself as a tiger and dances in a village in Bengal. The movie ... See full summary »
Director: Buddhadev Dasgupta | Stars: Pawan Malhotra, M.V. Vasudeva Rao, Archana, Biplab Chattopadhyay
Votes: 100
23. Charachar (1994)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A bird catcher's empathy for the birds interferes with his livelihood.
Director: Buddhadev Dasgupta | Stars: Shankar Chakraborty, Indrani Haldar, Rajit Kapoor, Sadhu Meher
Votes: 123
24. Uttara (2000)
99 min | Drama
Two railway signal men, Nemai and Balaram, share a passion for wrestling and spend their days wrestling after working hours. However, things change when Balaram marries Uttara.
Director: Buddhadev Dasgupta | Stars: Jaya Seal, Tapas Pal, Shankar Chakraborty, R.I. Asad
Votes: 201
25. Red Door (1997)
95 min | Drama, Mystery
Dr. Nabin Datta is a prominent dentist in Calcutta, 47, disengaged, with little affect, and fearful that his hands and feet are turning to metal. His wife leaves him to live alone. His son,... See full summary »
Director: Buddhadev Dasgupta | Stars: Champa, Raisul Islam Asad, Sunetra Banerjee, Haradhan Bannerjee
Votes: 76
26. A Tale of a Naughty Girl (2002)
90 min | Drama
Based on a short story by Bengali writer Prafulla Roy, the central idea developed by director Dasgupta, tells the story of a girl, Lati, whose mother Rajani is a prostitute living and ... See full summary »
Director: Buddhadev Dasgupta | Stars: Samata Das, Rituparna Sengupta, Arpan Basar, Tapas Pal
Votes: 274
27. Kalpurush (2005)
120 min | Drama
A man struggles with his memories of his powerful father.
Director: Buddhadev Dasgupta | Stars: Mithun Chakraborty, Rahul Bose, Sameera Reddy, Sudipta Chakraborty
Votes: 279
28. Dooratwa (1979)
96 min | Drama
A professor in Kolkata marries a young woman. But when he learns that she is pregnant with someone else's child, he decides to leave her.
Director: Buddhadev Dasgupta | Stars: Mamata Shankar, Pradip Mukherjee, Ajoy Banerjee, Snigdha Banerjee
Votes: 35
29. Swapner Din (2004)
89 min | Drama
The film follows Paresh, a government projectionist who travels through remote areas of rural India with his driver Chapal. The two men show educational films to disinterested villagers, ... See full summary »
Director: Buddhadev Dasgupta | Stars: Prasenjit Chatterjee, Rimi Sen, Rajesh Sharma, Raima Sen
Votes: 117
30. The Eunuch and the Flute Player (2017)
115 min | Drama
The film stars Riddhi Sen as Parimal, a trans woman from rural Bengal, and Ritwick Chakraborty as Madhu, a flute player from the Kirtaniya town of Nabadwip.
Director: Kaushik Ganguly | Stars: Riddhi Sen, Ritwick Chakraborty, Bidipta Chakraborty, Kaushik Ganguly
Votes: 932
31. Paroma (1985)
139 min | Drama
A 40-year-old married woman falls in love with a young man.
Director: Aparna Sen | Stars: Rakhee Gulzar, Aparna Sen, Mukul Sharma, Dipankar Dey
Votes: 209
32. Paromitar Ek Din (2000)
130 min | Drama, Family
Explores the dual themes of friendship and loneliness. Sanaka and Paromita are mother and daughter-in-law who, despite differences in age, backgrounds and temperaments, build a strong bond together.
Director: Aparna Sen | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Aparna Sen, Rituparna Sengupta, Sumitra Mukherjee
Votes: 396
33. Chotushkone (2014)
148 min | Thriller
Four famous directors and old friends are reunited together by an unknown producer to make a film. They make four short story in this film with one theme: Death.
Director: Srijit Mukherji | Stars: Aparna Sen, Chiranjit, Goutam Ghose, Parambrata Chattopadhyay
Votes: 3,992
34. Ek Je Chhilo Raja (2018)
147 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Mahendra Kumar Choudhuri, the middle prince of the Bhawal Estate (also known as the Bikrampur Estate), was affected by syphilis and was taken to Darjeeling for treatment along with his wife... See full summary »
Directors: Srijit Mukherji, Jyoti Hazra | Stars: Jisshu Sengupta, Jaya Ahsan, Anirban Bhattacharya, Barun Chanda
Votes: 1,482
35. 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981)
122 min | Drama, Romance
After marriage of her niece, Rosemary, Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham lives a lonely life in her single room flat located at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta.
Director: Aparna Sen | Stars: Jennifer Kendal, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Geoffrey Kendal
Votes: 434
36. Yugant (1997)
135 min | Drama
Discords within a marital relationship are discovered to have parallels to ecological concerns.
Director: Aparna Sen | Stars: Anjan Dutt, Roopa Ganguly, Pallavi Chatterjee, Kunal Mitra
Votes: 76
37. 15 Park Avenue (2005)
116 min | Drama
An exploration of impact of schizophrenia on a young woman and her family in today's Calcutta.
Director: Aparna Sen | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Konkona Sen Sharma, Rahul Bose, Dhritiman Chatterjee
Votes: 1,076
38. The Japanese Wife (2010)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Romance
Pen pals decide to get married and carry on a long-term relationship.
Director: Aparna Sen | Stars: Rahul Bose, Chigusa Takaku, Raima Sen, Moushumi Chatterjee
Votes: 2,555
39. Cat Sticks (2019)
94 min | Drama
On a rainy night in Calcutta a group of desperate addicts chase brown sugar, but the permanent intoxication they seek proves elusive. Cat Sticks weaves their stories into a chiaroscuro, ... See full summary »
Director: Ronny Sen | Stars: Tanmay Dhanania, Joyraj Bhattacharya, Sumeet Thakur, Rahul Dutta
Votes: 247
40. Galpa Holeo Satyi (1966)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
A mysterious man arrives as a servant in a dysfunctional and fragmented joint family and over time, helps them to rebuild the love and compassion within the family.
Director: Tapan Sinha | Stars: Mumtaz Ahmed, Bhanu Bannerjee, Tapan Bhattacharya, Krishna Bose
Votes: 619
41. Land of Cards (2012)
112 min | Fantasy
A royal prince arrives on an island of fascist rule and inspires a rebellion among its women in this hallucinogenic adaptation of a classic play.
Director: Qaushiq Mukherjee | Stars: Anubrata Basu, Joyraj Bhattacharya, Soumyak Kanti DeBiswas, Sayani Gupta
Votes: 438
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