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Best Bangla Movies of All-Time

by lifeasfiction • Created 13 years ago • Modified 13 years ago
It's incredibly hard to find a good compilation of great Bengali films, specifically those made and produced in Bangladesh. This is a list I found via Google that seems to have a great air of legitimacy because the author went the additional step of explaining why each film was included.

In addition, I've included the all of the Bangladeshi submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (first submitted in 2002).

If any of you have further recommendations, please do let me know via the comments section of a personal message.

Films currently missing on IMDb:
Shutorang (1964)
Roopban (1965)
13 No. Feku Ostagar Lane (1966)
Ora Egaro Jon (1972)
Boshundhara (1977)
Dumurer Phool (1978)
Chhutir Ghonta (1980)
Guddi (1980)
Devdas (1982)
Boro Bhalo Lok Chhilo (1982)
Shubhoda (1986)
Chandni (1991)
Hothat Brishti (1999)
Meghla Akash (2002)
Bachelor (2004)

Source: [link]http://www.banglacommunity.com/showbiz-talk/2017.htm[/link]
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  • Inam Ahmed in Mukh O Mukhosh (1956)

    1. Mukh O Mukhosh

    19561h 39m
    8.4 (209)
    A group of bandits found a little injured boy and took him with them. Day by day, their cruelty level was rising. The police officer took bribes from the bandits leader. So some rebellious people had to fight against them.
    DirectorAbdul Jabbar KhanStarsAbdul Jabbar KhanPurnima SenInam Ahmed
  • Sumita Devi in Asiya (1960)

    2. Asiya

    1960
    8.7 (30)
    DirectorFateh LohaniStarsSumita DeviShahidKazi Khaliq
  • Shabnam and Rahman in Harano Din (1961)

    3. Harano Din

    1961
    8.1 (19)
    A new maried couple escaped from some bandits & took shelter in a house. They found the house as haunted. The house caretaker told them an old love story that belonging this house.
    DirectorMustafizul HaqStarsShabnamRahmanGolam Mustafa
  • Khan Ataur Rahman, Rani Sarkar, Sumita Devi, and Anwar Hossain in Kancher Deyal (1963)

    4. Kancher Deyal

    19632h
    8.6 (65)
    Helpless orphan girl living in uncle's house, often is mistreated. Suddenly with a little fortune, fate changes but it doesn't last long. She has to break the dogma and get out of the glass walls.
    DirectorZahir RaihanStarsKhan Ataur RahmanSumita DeviAnwar Hossain
  • Anwar Hossain in Nawab Sirajuddaula (1967)

    5. Nawab Sirajuddaula

    19672h 11m
    8.0 (223)
    Mirza Muha Siraj ud-Daulah, more commonly known as Siraj ud-Daulah (1733 - July 2, 1757), was the last independent Nawab of Bengal. The end of his reign marked the start of British East India Company rule over Bengal and later almost all of South Asia. Siraj succeeded his maternal grandfather, Alivardi Khan as the Nawab of Bengal in April 1756 at the age of 23. Betrayed by Mir Jafar, then commander of Nawab's army, Siraj lost the Battle of Plassey on 23 June 1757. The forces of the East India Company under Robert Clive invaded and the administration of Bengal fell into the hands of the Company.
    DirectorKhan Ataur RahmanStarsAnwar HossainKhan Ataur RahmanAnowara
  • Amjad Hossain, Rawshan Zamil, Rosy Samad, Razzak, Anwar Hossain, and Suchanda in Jibon Theke Neya (1970)

    6. Jibon Theke Neya

    19702h 30m
    9.3 (2.3K)
    A political satire of Bangladesh under the rule of Pakistan metaphorically, where an autocratic woman in one family symbolizes the political dictatorship of Ayub Khan in East Pakistan.
    DirectorZahir RaihanStarsRazzakSuchandaShaukat Akbar
  • Rangbaaz (1973)

    7. Rangbaaz

    1973
    8.0 (57)
    DirectorZahirul HaqueStarsRazzakKabori SarwarKamal Ahmed
  • A River Called Titas (1973)

    8. A River Called Titas

    19732h 39mNot Rated
    7.2 (1.4K)
    After their wedding night, a fisherman's young wife is kidnapped on the Titas River in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh.
    DirectorRitwik GhatakStarsRosy SamadKabori SarwarRawshan Zamil
  • Bulbul Ahmed and Jayasree Kabir in Shimana Periye (1977)

    9. Shimana Periye

    19771h 57m
    8.3 (195)
    The main setting of the movie was a disastrous cyclone and tidal bore which attacked Bangladesh in 1970. That vast spate washed away an opulent girl and a destitute man to a secluded island where no sign of other human was found. Dumping the class-distinction, they fell in love and founded that isolated island as their paradise. Even after their rescue, brutal social prejudices could not separate them and thus they forded across that primitive fringe with the message of love and equal-ism.
    DirectorAlamgir KabirStarsJayasree KabirBulbul AhmedKaffey Khan
  • Kabori Sarwar and Farooque in Sareng Bou (1978)

    10. Sareng Bou

    1978
    8.1 (309)
    Release Date: Jun 16, 1978 The movie directed by Abdullah Al Mamun and Writer Shahidullah Kaiser. The movie story on the lives of people living in the costal areas of Bangladesh. Story-plot: Kadam-sareng returns home after a long day working in ship, then Nabitanake married love. A few days after the wedding he goes back to the ship, sometimes he sent letters and money to his wife. But the influential leader of the village took the money, so the lack of Nabitanera world moves. The influential leader want to make Nabitanake his lust, but by no means Nabitana herself depend on hard work in rice field. The illegal cargo pocket of his uncle lay Montu kadamake the police took away the end of the prison term, he returned to his native village. There plotter foreman with kadamera nabitanera cousin marriage, but they all come back to the cold leg was filled with joy nabitanera book.
    DirectorAbdullah Al MamunStarsKabori SarwarFarooqueSyed Akhtar Ali
  • Rawshan Zamil, Rosy Samad, Anwar Hossain, Farooque, Abdullah Al Mamun, Tele Samad, A.T.M. Shamsuzzaman, Anowara, Bobita, and Tarana Halim in Golapi Ekhon Traine (1979)

    11. Golapi Ekhon Traine

    1979
    8.1 (143)
    Mondol (A.T.M. Shamsuzzaman) is an influential person in the village. His son Milon (Farooque) likes the girl of a street singer (Anwar Hossain) Golapi (Bobita). In the meantime, Mondol brings a bridegroom for Golapi but they demand a cycle. Golapi's father cannot afford this so Milon pay for the cycle. But for some reason the marriage does not take place and Golapi's father commits suicide. As a result, Golapi's family fall into grief and she starts to work in different places by train. The people from the village do not take this positively and sit to desert them to work on trains.
    DirectorAmjad HossainStarsBobitaFarooqueAnwar Hossain
  • Surja Dighal Bari (1979)

    12. Surja Dighal Bari

    19792h 11m
    8.7 (398)
    A poor family returns to their village from Dhaka after The Great Bengal Femine 1943. This movie centers on their struggling life during the World War II period.
    DirectorsSheikh Niamat AliMasihuddin ShakerStarsDolly AnowarRawshan ZamilSitara Begum
  • Anju Ghosh, Ilias Kanchan, Prabir Mitra, Shaukat Akbar, and Dildar in Beder Meye Josna (1989)

    13. Beder Meye Josna

    19892h 37m
    6.9 (423)
    A love story between a gypsy girl and a prince.
    DirectorTojammel Haque BokulStarsAnju GhoshIlias KanchanMithun
  • Champa, Raisul Islam Asad, Utpal Dutt, Roopa Ganguly, Rabi Ghosh, and Abul Khair in Padma Nadir Majhi (1993)

    14. Padma Nadir Majhi

    19932h 6mNot Rated
    8.2 (1K)
    Hossain, a Bengali Muslim wants to establish a little Utopia on an island in the Padma delta. He doesn't care if the people who populate it are Hindu or Muslim.
    DirectorGoutam GhoseStarsRaisul Islam AsadChampaRoopa Ganguly
  • Dolly Johur, Asaduzzaman Noor, Dilara, Shila Ahmed, Abul Hayat, Bipasha Hayat, Mozammel Hossain, Lutfur Rahman George, and Waliul Islam Bhuiyan in Aguner Poroshmoni (1994)

    15. Aguner Poroshmoni

    19942h 3m
    9.1 (3.5K)
    In the middle of the 1971;curfew is going on all over the Bangladesh. The liberation army is operated as effective guerrilla force - Badiul Alam is one them. Alam plans for starting guerrilla operation in the capital and hides himself in Mr. Matin's house. Mr. Matin lives with his loving wife Surma and two beautiful daughters Ratri and Opala. In association with other freedom fighters, Alam operates some successful guerrilla attacks against barbarous Pakistani military . But one after another his fellow freedom-fighters are getting caught by the military, tortured , murdered. Alam being shot and seriously injured is taken to Matin's house ; can he survive? Can he see the light of morning again ?
    DirectorHumayun AhmedStarsBipasha HayatAsaduzzaman NoorAbul Hayat
  • Bulbul Ahmed, Abul Khair, Shubashish, Bobita, and Arun Saha in Dipu Number 2 (1996)

    16. Dipu Number 2

    19962h 34m
    8.9 (2.7K)
    An adventure story for young boys.
    DirectorMorshedul IslamStarsArun SahaShubashishBulbul Ahmed
  • Meher Afroz Shaon and Zahid Hasan in Srabon Megher Din (1999)

    17. Srabon Megher Din

    19992h 30m
    8.6 (2.8K)
    The second movie directed by Humayun Ahmed. A village drama interweave around a charming girl, a folk singer, his love interest and the local aristocratic family's involvement, the movie provide with some beautiful songs.
    DirectorHumayun AhmedStarsMeher Afroz ShaonMuktiZahid Hasan
  • Raisul Islam Asad, Pijush Bandyopadhyay, Azad Abul Kalam, Mamunur Rashid, and Tamalika Karmakar in Kittonkhola (2000)

    18. Kittonkhola

    20001h 36m
    7.8 (60)
    This story describe the life stories of theatre artists.
    DirectorAbu SayeedStarsRaisul Islam AsadJayanto ChattopadhyayMamunur Rashid
  • The Clay Bird (2002)

    19. The Clay Bird

    20021h 35m75Metascore
    8.4 (4.3K)
    A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
    DirectorTareque MasudStarsNurul Islam BabluRussell FaraziJayanto Chattopadhyay
  • Raisul Islam Asad in Lalsalu (2001)

    20. Lalsalu

    20011h 50m
    7.7 (1.1K)
    In this tragic-comic study of religious hypocrisy, a disreputable cleric convinces villagers that their community is home to a famous holyman's grave.
    DirectorTanvir MokammelStarsRaisul Islam AsadMunira Yusuf MemyChandni
  • Joyjatra (2004)

    21. Joyjatra

    20041h 59m
    8.3 (910)
    It's a story of boat journey of Bangladesh in 1971 of helpless people was going towards the safe border.Pakistan military had unleashed genocide in the country. Heroic sons of the soil started a war of liberation.
    DirectorTauquir AhmedStarsBipasha HayatAzizul HakimMahfuz Ahmed
  • Humayun Faridi, Riaz, Meher Afroz Shaon, Ahmed Rubel, Ejazul Islam, Tania Ahmed, Monir Khan Shimul, Faruque Ahmed, and Challenger in Shyamol Chhaya (2004)

    22. Shyamol Chhaya

    20041h 50m
    8.5 (2.5K)
    Twelve people are passengers on board.The boatmen are taking them to safety, far away from the fierce clutches of war. All the people on board are devastated by the horrors of war. As the story advances, different events unravel.
    DirectorHumayun AhmedStarsMeher Afroz ShaonRiazShadhin Khosru
  • Shabnur in Forever Flows (2006)

    23. Forever Flows

    20061h 35m
    7.3 (243)
    A lower-middle class family in Bangladesh's capital city of Dhaka is going through hard times. Their father has gone blind and can no longer work, and most of the family's money has been wasted on their unemployed son Hiru, who refuses to work. All the family's problems fall on the shoulder of their beautiful daughter Tithi, who works as a prostitute to help the family. The film is a fairly non-judgmental look at the lives of Tithi, her family and the people she comes in contact with through her job.
    DirectorAbu SayeedStarsShabnurIlias KanchanAmirul Haque Chowdhury
  • Mahmuduzzaman Babu in Swopnodanay (2007)

    24. Swopnodanay

    20071h 24m
    7.1 (167)
    A poor villager finds some high priced foreign notes. For exchanging notes easily, he secretly tells his friend. They both trying to get the money & change their poor condition.
    DirectorGolam Rabbany BiplobStarsMahmuduzzaman BabuRokeya PrachyFazlur Rahman Babu
  • Aha! (2007)

    25. Aha!

    20072h 8m
    7.3 (331)
    Mr. Rafiq is given an option to develop the ancestral property by a privet developer agent. The house carries the style of typical historic buildings of old Dhaka; which are being pushed aside by urban modernization. With the decision hanging, Ruba, his daughter, leaves her husband in the US and returns to Dhaka. The cause being her husband's excessive misbehave. Ruba tries to find peace in her memory soaked old home but could not as the decision to reconstruct the property is discussed and debated over and over again. Another character, Soleman, obedient servant of Mr. Rafiq becomes irritating to Ruba since he has a rivalry with the local power holders. As Ruba seeks her memories in the home, she occasionally watches a man on a neighboring flat. The man notices this. With the man's efforts they finally get to be friends. But the orthodox mindset of the father desperately looks for ways to stop the developing relationship or perhaps a new hope for Ruba. The story ends with a pathetic turn of events; just like the title AHA!; (what a pity!) exemplifying the enigmatic sorrow wrapped with the old infrastructure of old Dhaka even today.
    DirectorEnamul Karim NirjharStarsSathi YasminHumayun FaridiTariq Anam Khan

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