The 100 Greatest Bengali Movies Of All Time
by swarupbasak | created - 19 Sep 2012 | updated - 17 Sep 2020 | PublicBengali cinema refers to the Bengali language film making industries in the West Bengal and the Bangladesh.A lots of people does not know more about Bengali Cinema because they are less popular.Here are the top 100 Bengali movies of all time you must see. Hope you like it.
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1. The Hero (1966)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
En route to Delhi to receive an award, a Bengali film star reevaluates his success through his fellow passengers, dreams, and past experiences.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Uttam Kumar, Sharmila Tagore, Bireswar Sen, Somen Bose
Votes: 5,117
2. 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: 3,240
3. Jalsaghar (1958)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Music
Depicts the end days of a decadent zamindar (landlord) in Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when faced with economic adversity.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Chhabi Biswas, Gangapada Basu, Padmadevi, Kali Sarkar
Votes: 6,764 | Gross: $0.09M
4. Pather Panchali (1955)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Banerjee, Chunibala Devi
Votes: 38,559 | Gross: $0.54M
5. Charulata (1964)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, Romance
The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhavi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal
Votes: 7,202 | Gross: $0.08M
6. Subarnarekha (1965)
Not Rated | 143 min | Drama
A man (Abhi Bhattacharya) opposes the love between his sister and the orphan (Satindra Bhattacharya) they adopted years earlier.
Director: Ritwik Ghatak | Stars: Madhavi Mukherjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Abhi Bhattacharya, Indrani Chakrabarty
Votes: 1,337
7. Aranyer Din Ratri (1970)
115 min | Drama
A group of Calcutta city slickers, including the well-off Asim (Soumitra Chatterjee), the meek Sanjoy (Subhendu Chatterjee) and the brutish Hari (Samit Bhanja), head out for a weekend in the wilderness.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Sharmila Tagore, Kaberi Bose, Simi Garewal, Soumitra Chatterjee
Votes: 2,922
8. The Unnamed (2016)
100 min | Drama
The coffin of an expatriate worker with manipulated identity intense the identity crisis when another person's corpse is found inside.
Director: Tauquir Ahmed | Stars: Shahiduzzaman Selim, Ashraful Tushar, Mosharraf Karim, Nipun
Votes: 5,803
9. The Clay Bird (2002)
95 min | Drama, History
A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
Director: Tareque Masud | Stars: Nurul Islam Bablu, Russell Farazi, Jayanto Chattopadhyay, Rokeya Prachy
Votes: 4,236
10. The Big City (1963)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
Life at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Anil Chatterjee, Madhavi Mukherjee, Jaya Bachchan, Haren Chatterjee
Votes: 4,965
11. Deep Jweley Jai (1959)
132 min | Drama, Romance
A psychiatric nurse is tasked to pretend to love a patient in order to make him better but falls in love with him.
Director: Asit Sen | Stars: Suchitra Sen, Tulsi Chakraborty, Ajit Chatterjee, Anil Chatterjee
Votes: 185
12. The World of Apu (1959)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty, Swapan Mukherjee
Votes: 16,758 | Gross: $0.02M
13. Aparajito (1956)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Pinaki Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal, Kamala Adhikari, Rani Bala
Votes: 15,995 | Gross: $0.17M
14. Pratidwandi (1970)
110 min | Drama
A young college graduate is struggling to find a job. He lives in a flat with his younger, employed sister, revolutionary brother and widowed mother. The strain of the situation ultimately causes him to hallucinate.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Dhritiman Chatterjee, Asgar Ali, Arabinda Banerjee, Soumitra Bannerjee
Votes: 1,914
15. Seemabaddha (1971)
110 min | Drama
Chatterji is an ambitious and self-made young man who becomes the director of the company he works for.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Sharmila Tagore, Barun Chanda, Paromita Chowdhury, Ajoy Banerjee
Votes: 1,406
16. Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969)
132 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Goopy wants to sing, and Bagha wants to play the dhol. They meet accidentally and are helped by King of Ghosts. With newly endowed abilities, they land in kingdom of Shundi, where their adventure begins.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Tapan Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Ajoy Banerjee, Iva Banerjee
Votes: 2,755
17. Kony (1984)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sport
Kony is an inspirational story of a coach Khidda and his trainee Kony who fight all odds to achieve their aims.
Director: Saroj De | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sreeparna Bannerjee, Snigdha Banerjee, Dipankar Bandyopadhyay
Votes: 196
18. Saptapadi (1961)
163 min | Drama, Romance
Set in World War II, the reverend Krishnendu runs a military hospital in Bankura. A drunken Anglo-Indian woman soldier is brought to him for treatment and he recognized her as his former love Rina Brown.
Director: Ajoy Kar | Stars: Suchitra Sen, Uttam Kumar, Khitish Acharya, Panchanan Bhattacharya
Votes: 486
19. Mirror Game (2016)
147 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A struggling actor becomes a professional impostor, hired to impersonate people for financial gain, but as he delves deeper into his work he becomes embroiled in trouble that threatens to unravel his life.
Director: Amitabh Reza Chowdhury | Stars: Chanchal Chowdhury, Masuma Rahman Nabila, Partha Barua, Lutfur Rahman George
Votes: 29,679
20. Chinnamul (1951)
117 min | Drama
A group of farmers from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) who were forced to migrate to Calcutta because of the partition of Bengal in 1947.
Director: Nemai Ghosh | Stars: Gangapada Basu, Bijon Bhattacharya, Jalad Chatterjee, Shanta Devi
Votes: 55
21. Kanchenjungha (I) (1962)
102 min | Drama
An upper-class Bengali family is on vacation in Darjeeling, a popular hill station and resort near Kanchenjungha.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Chhabi Biswas, Karuna Bannerjee, Pahadi Sanyal, Anil Chatterjee
Votes: 1,207
22. Neel Akasher Neechey (1959)
Not Rated | 133 min | Drama
A poor Chinese hawker, Wang Lu, sells his merchandise, China silk in the streets of Calcutta.
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Kali Bannerjee, Manju Dey, Smriti Biswas, Bikash Roy
Votes: 146
23. The Expedition (1962)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama
A taxi driver attempts to introduce his cab service in rural Bengal against many odds.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Waheeda Rehman, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Gyanesh Mukherjee
Votes: 1,338
24. Dipu Number 2 (1996)
154 min | Adventure, Family
An adventure story for young boys.
Director: Morshedul Islam | Stars: Arun Saha, Shubashish, Bulbul Ahmed, Bobita
Votes: 2,572
25. The Goddess (1960)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
A young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Sharmila Tagore, Soumitra Chatterjee, Chhabi Biswas, Karuna Bannerjee
Votes: 2,805 | Gross: $0.09M
26. Distant Thunder (1973)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
As food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation while his generous wife Ananga conversely tries to help and support the community.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Bobita, Sandhya Roy, Chitra Banerjee
Votes: 1,721
27. Jana Aranya (1975)
131 min | Drama
A bright and idealistic young man steels himself for the dog-eat-dog business world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Pradip Mukherjee, Rafique Ahmed, S. Bagchi, Ajit Banerjee
Votes: 1,820
28. Monpura (2009)
136 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
A housemaid is killed by a local landlord's son. His servant takes the blame for the murder, to save the landlord's mentally ill son and is marooned in an island named Monpura. There the servant comes across a fisherman's daughter.
Directors: Md. Hafizur Rahman, Giasuddin Selim | Stars: Chanchal Chowdhury, Farhana Mili, Shirin Alam, Mohiuddin Bahar
Votes: 9,142
29. Alor Pipasa (1965)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama
A mother who is a dancer by profession wants to see his son successful man in future.
Director: Tarun Majumdar | Stars: Sandhya Roy, Vasant Choudhury, Pahadi Sanyal, Anup Kumar
Votes: 31
30. 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
31. Three Daughters (1961)
Passed | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Based on popular Indian stories of the great writer Rabindranath Tagore, these short films reveal definitive moments in the lives of three young girls.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Anil Chatterjee, Chandana Banerjee, Aparna Sen, Sita Mukherjee
Votes: 1,695 | Gross: $0.08M
32. 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
33. 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: 1,344
34. Tahader Katha (1992)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Shibnath is released from prison after eleven years of incarceration for murdering a British officer.
Director: Buddhadev Dasgupta | Stars: Mithun Chakraborty, Anusuya Majumdar, Dipankar Dey, Subrata Nandy
Votes: 171
35. The Reincarnate (2014)
TV-PG | 150 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life and notable works of Anthony Firingee, a 19th-century Bengali-language folk-poet of Portuguese origin. The time frame of the storyline jumps between two different time periods: the 19th century and the present day.
Director: Srijit Mukherji | Stars: Prasenjit Chatterjee, Jisshu Sengupta, Swastika Mukherjee, Mamata Shankar
Votes: 3,047
36. Subhas Chandra (1966)
Not Rated | 130 min | Biography, Drama, History
This film is based on the life of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose from a child to a great patriotic leader.
Director: Piyush Bose | Stars: Amar Dutta, Samar Chatterjee, Ashish Ghosh, Baijuram
Votes: 52
37. 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
38. Runway (2010)
90 min | Drama
The story of the film centers around the youth Ruhul, who lives with his family in a small hut next to the runway of the international airport. His mother Rahima struggles to support the ... See full summary »
Director: Tareque Masud | Stars: Fazlul Haque, Rabeya Akter Moni, Ali Ahsan, Nazmul Huda Bachchu
Votes: 1,428
39. Sonar Kella (1974)
Not Rated | 136 min | Adventure, Family, Mystery
A young boy becomes a target for crooks, after he claims to remember his past life and mentions precious jewels in a golden fortress.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Santanu Bagchi, Ajoy Banerjee, Haradhan Bannerjee
Votes: 2,766
40. 22 Shey Shraban (2011)
Not Rated | 139 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ex-cop is hired to track down a serial killer who carries out his killings according to Bengali poetry.
Director: Srijit Mukherji | Stars: Prasenjit Chatterjee, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Raima Sen, Abir Chatterjee
Votes: 6,083
41. In Search of Famine (1981)
115 min | Drama
A film crew comes to a village to make a film about a famine, which killed five million Bengalees in 1943.
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Satya Banerjee, Radhamohan Bhattacharya, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Reba Roy Chowdhury
Votes: 362
42. Antarjali Jatra (1987)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama
A father encourages his daughter to marry a dying man in order to inherit his wealth.
Director: Goutam Ghose | Stars: Vasant Choudhury, Promode Ganguly, Rabi Ghosh, Shampa Ghosh
Votes: 147
43. 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
44. The Branches of the Tree (1990)
130 min | Drama
Four brothers converge around an ailing father.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Ajit Banerjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey
Votes: 852
45. Pathetic Fallacy (1958)
102 min | Drama
Bimal is a taxi-driver in a small town. His taxi is his only companion and, although very battered, it is the apple of Bimal's eye. The film shows the love of taxi driver Bimal and his pathetic vehicle Jagaddal.
Director: Ritwik Ghatak | Stars: Kali Bannerjee, Gangapada Basu, Satindra Bhattacharya, Tulsi Chakraborty
Votes: 617
46. 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
47. Chowringhee (1968)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama
Sata Bose, the receptionist of hotel Shahjahan and other crew members work hard to make the hotel first choice of the upper class for socializing in Kolkata. The movie revolves around ... See full summary »
Director: Pinaki Bhushan Mukherji | Stars: Uttam Kumar, Supriya Choudhury, Anjana Bhowmik, Subhendu Chatterjee
Votes: 233
48. Joi Baba Felunath: The Elephant God (1979)
112 min | Adventure, Crime, Family
This is the second film about the detective Feluda (Soumitra Chatterjee) set in the holy city of Benares, where he (along with his cousin, Topshe and friend, Lalmohan Ganguly) goes for a ... See full summary »
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Utpal Dutt, Santosh Dutta, Siddhartha Chatterjee
Votes: 2,299
49. And Quiet Rolls the Dawn (1979)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
The daughter of an economically middle-class family fails to return home one night.
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Satya Bannerjee, Gita Sen, Mamata Shankar, Sreela Majumdar
Votes: 241
50. The Home and the World (1984)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama
When the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by ... See full summary »
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Swatilekha Sengupta, Gopa Aich
Votes: 1,895
51. Parashuram (1979)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
A rural migrant comes to the city and shares a temporary shelter with an old beggar in an abandoned graveyard.
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Arun Mukherjee, Bibhas Chakraborty, Sreela Majumdar, Samaresh Banerjee
Votes: 64
52. 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
53. Autograph (2010)
131 min | Drama
The plot revolves around three lives - a superstar, a young director and a theatre actress - and how their coming together during the process of making a film, changes them forever. The ... See full summary »
Director: Srijit Mukherji | Stars: Prasenjit Chatterjee, Indraneil Sengupta, Nandana Sen, Rudraprasad Sengupta
Votes: 2,519
54. Jhinder Bandi (1961)
103 min | Adventure, Romance, Thriller
A person comes to meet with Gauri Shankar Roy (Uttam Kumar) living in Kolkata. He introduces himself as a 'fauji Sardar' of Jhind, Jhind being a small kingdom in Madhya Pradesh. He says ... See full summary »
Director: Tapan Sinha | Stars: Uttam Kumar, Arundhati Devi, Soumitra Chatterjee, Radhamohan Bhattacharya
Votes: 231
55. Shyamol Chhaya (2004)
110 min | Drama
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.
Director: Humayun Ahmed | Stars: Meher Afroz Shaon, Riaz, Swadhin Khosru, Ahmed Rubel
Votes: 2,415
56. Haajar Bachhar Dhorey (2005)
137 min | Drama, Family, Musical
Sets around some rural people and their village dealing with their lifestyle, struggle of survival, religion, marriage, relations, death and this ongoing process.
Director: Suchanda | Stars: Riaz, Sharmin Zoha Shoshee, A.T.M. Shamsuzzaman, Syeda Kamrun Naher Shahnoor
Votes: 1,147
57. The Kingdom of Diamonds (1980)
Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
The musical duo of Goopi and Bagha make a comeback when they are invited to play for a king.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Tapan Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Utpal Dutt, Soumitra Chatterjee
Votes: 3,050
58. 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: 1,798
59. Surja Dighal Bari (1979)
131 min | Drama
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.
Directors: Sheikh Niamat Ali, Masihuddin Shaker | Stars: Dolly Anowar, Rawshan Zamil, Sitara Begum, Sufia
Votes: 380
60. The Coward (1965)
70 min | Drama, Romance
A chance meeting rekindles old memories between a screenwriter and his ex-girlfriend, who is by now married to a well-to-do man.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhavi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Santi Chatterjee
Votes: 2,416
61. The Stranger (1991)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long-lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Utpal Dutt, Dipankar Dey, Mamata Shankar, Bikram Bhattacharya
Votes: 4,386
62. An Enemy of the People (1989)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama
In this adaption of the Ibsen stage play, an idealistic physician discovers that the town's temple waters are dangerously contaminated. But with the community relying on the holy attraction for tourist dollars, his warnings go unheeded.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey, Ruma Guha Thakurta
Votes: 1,573
63. Deya Neya (1963)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama
The son of a wealthy industrialist aspires to be a singer against the wishes of his father.
Directors: Sunil Bannerjee, Sabbir Hossain Raj | Stars: Uttam Kumar, Tanuja Samarth, Ratan Banerjee, Sudhir Basu
Votes: 491
64. Lalsalu (2001)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
In this tragic-comic study of religious hypocrisy, a disreputable cleric convinces villagers that their community is home to a famous holyman's grave.
Director: Tanvir Mokammel | Stars: Raisul Islam Asad, Munira Yusuf Memy, Chandni, Aly Zaker
Votes: 1,017
65. Chiriyakhana (1967)
Not Rated | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Byomkesh Bakshi, a detective, is hired by a rich man to investigate the name of an actress appeared in a movie decades ago, who has eloped ever since. The case became complicated when the rich man is murdered by someone for that.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Uttam Kumar, Kalipada Chakraborty, Nripati Chatterjee, Shekhar Chatterjee
Votes: 1,119
66. Praktan (2016)
142 min | Comedy, Drama
A married woman (Rituparna Sengupta) who is on journey from Mumbai to Howrah by train, meets her ex-husband (Prasenjit Chatterjee).
Directors: Shiboprosad Mukherjee, Nandita Roy, Jyoti Hazra | Stars: Prasenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Aparajita Adhya, Biswanath Basu
Votes: 2,468
67. Aguner Poroshmoni (1994)
123 min | Drama, War
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Humayun Ahmed | Stars: Bipasha Hayat, Asaduzzaman Noor, Abul Hayat, Dolly Johur
Votes: 3,426
68. Sudden Rain (1998)
182 min | Drama, Romance
A man and a woman fall in love through exchanging letters but destiny keeps separating them.
Director: Basu Chatterjee | Stars: Ferdous Ahmed, Priyanka Upendra, Sreelekha Mitra, June Malia
Votes: 947
69. Guerrilla (2011)
140 min | Drama, History, War
Common people struggle during independence war of Bangladesh.
Director: Nasiruddin Yousuff | Stars: Jaya Ahsan, Ferdous Ahmed, Shampa Reza, Ahmed Rubel
Votes: 2,756
70. Srabon Megher Din (1999)
150 min | Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Humayun Ahmed | Stars: Meher Afroz Shaon, Mukti, Zahid Hasan, Mahfuz Ahmed
Votes: 2,703
71. The Holy Man (1965)
65 min | Comedy
A devout Hindu family falls victim to a charlatan posing as a holy man.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Charuprakash Ghosh, Rabi Ghosh, Prasad Mukherjee, Gitali Roy
Votes: 1,711
72. 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
73. Joyjatra (2004)
119 min | Drama
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.
Director: Tauquir Ahmed | Stars: Bipasha Hayat, Azizul Hakim, Mahfuz Ahmed, Abul Hayat
Votes: 897
74. Padma Nadir Majhi (1993)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama
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.
Director: Goutam Ghose | Stars: Raisul Islam Asad, Champa, Roopa Ganguly, Amirul Haque Chowdhury
Votes: 1,014
75. The Philosopher's Stone (1958)
111 min | Comedy, Fantasy
An underpaid middle-aged clerk finds a 'parash pathar', a stone that changes iron to gold on touch.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Tulsi Chakraborty, Kali Bannerjee, Rani Bala, Gangapada Basu
Votes: 1,317
76. Hemlock Society (2012)
Not Rated | 135 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The plot revolves around a man who runs a school called "Hemlock Society" which teaches aspirants how to successfully commit suicide. He develops a bond with one of its students, Meghna (... See full summary »
Director: Srijit Mukherji | Stars: Koyel Mallick, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Roopa Ganguly, Dipankar Dey
Votes: 3,507
77. The Case Is Closed (1982)
95 min | Drama
The servant boy, a minor, engaged in a middle class family dies mysteriously locked in a kitchen.
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Anjan Dutt, Mamata Shankar, Sreela Majumdar, Indranil Moitra
Votes: 233
78. Moner Manush (2010)
150 min | Biography
The movie is about a poet and singer Lalon Fakir who belongs to a mystic music cult called Baul and who believes and inculcates that the value of a human being is above the narrow belief of religions.
Director: Goutam Ghose | Stars: Prasenjit Chatterjee, Shahed Ali, Raisul Islam Asad, Champa
Votes: 1,462
79. Sabyasachi (1977)
Not Rated | 145 min | Adventure, Drama
The film portrays a charismatic and passionate freedom fighter 'Sabyasachi', taken from the novel 'Pather Dabi' by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, in his repeated struggle against the full might of the colonial British rule.
Director: Piyush Bose | Stars: Anil Chatterjee, Tarun Kumar Chatterjee, Supriya Choudhury, Sulata Chowdhury
Votes: 54
80. Bhooter Bhabishyat (2012)
123 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A rib-tickling comedy about a group of spirits who, in their various idiosyncrasies, try and save their only haunt, their resting place, when some unscrupulous builders try and break it down to build a modern monstrosity.
Director: Anik Datta | Stars: Swastika Mukherjee, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Samadarshi Dutta
Votes: 4,241
81. 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
82. Television (2012)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
As a leader of the local community, Chairman Amin bans every kind of image in his water-locked village in rural Bangladesh. He even goes on to claim that imagination is also sinful since it... See full summary »
Director: Mostofa Sarwar Farooki | Stars: Shahir Huda Rumi, Chanchal Chowdhury, Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Mosharraf Karim
Votes: 5,905
83. Baksa Badal (1970)
105 min | Comedy
A hilarious romantic-comedy where two people have their luggage exchanged during a train journey. One of them (Soumitra) is a psychiatrist, and he develops a keen interest in knowing the ... See full summary »
Director: Nityananda Datta | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Aparna Sen, Mumtaz Ahmed, Satindra Bhattacharya
Votes: 231
84. Thana Theke Aschi (1965)
Not Rated | 103 min | Mystery, Thriller
Sub-Inspector Tinkari Haldar comes to the house of the Industrialist Chandra Madhab Sen to inquire about a Suicide and Mystery starts to Unfold.
Director: Hiren Nag | Stars: Uttam Kumar, Dilip Mukherjee, Kamal Mitra, Chhayadevi
Votes: 145
85. Oka Oori Katha (1978)
116 min | Comedy, Drama
The father of a son living on the fringes of a village believes that working is a fools game, for the lord takes what little the workers make. When a young woman enters their home tensions begin to rise and their idle life is threatened.
Director: Mrinal Sen | Stars: Krishna A.R., Pradeep Kumar, G. Narayana Rao, M.V. Vasudeva Rao
Votes: 77
86. Sriman Prithviraj (1973)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama
The story revolves around a mischievous teenager, Rasik, who is the only son of a wealthy landlord. One day, Rasik makes some misdeeds in school and gets suspended. He escapes from home but... See full summary »
Director: Tarun Majumdar | Stars: Ayan Banerjee, Mahua Roy Chowdhury, Sandhya Roy, Biswajeet Chatterjee
Votes: 205
87. 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: 1,824
88. Pathey Holo Deri (1957)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Romance
A doctor falls in love with the granddaughter of a rich man. She helps him to pursue his dream of higher education by giving him her mother's jewellery to sell. The fate of the two lovers ... See full summary »
Director: Agradoot | Stars: Shishir Batabyal, Anil Bhattacharya, Mihir Bhattacharya, Chhabi Biswas
Votes: 120
89. Kokhono Megh (1968)
Not Rated | 117 min | Mystery, Romance
After her diamond-smuggling uncle is murdered, a woman is terrorized by the fortune-seeking former associates the uncle once double-crossed. She meets a charming stranger, but can he be trusted?
Director: Agradoot | Stars: Uttam Kumar, Anjana Bhowmik, Kali Bannerjee, Shiben Bandyopadhyay
Votes: 55
90. Belaseshe (2015)
141 min | Drama, Family
A story of relationships that explores the intricacies of the married life, of life-long companionship, of promises and expectations and love.
Directors: Shiboprosad Mukherjee, Nandita Roy, Jyoti Hazra | Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Swatilekha Sengupta, Rituparna Sengupta, Aparajita Adhya
Votes: 2,933
91. Utsab (2000)
119 min | Drama, Family
Two middle-aged daughters of Bhagabati come together with their families in their old house to celebrate Durga Puja.
Director: Rituparno Ghosh | Stars: Madhavi Mukherjee, Pradip Mukherjee, Bodhisattva Mazumdar, Alakananda Ray
Votes: 532
92. Shimana Periye (1977)
117 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
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... See full summary »
Director: Alamgir Kabir | Stars: Jayasree Kabir, Bulbul Ahmed, Kaffey Khan, Maya Hazarika
Votes: 188
93. Noukadubi (2011)
135 min | Drama, Romance
Months after an accident following his marriage, a husband finds that the veiled woman he brought home is not his wife.
Director: Rituparno Ghosh | Stars: Jisshu Sengupta, Riya Sen, Raima Sen, Prasenjit Chatterjee
Votes: 1,011
94. Ghetuputra Komola (2012)
101 min | Drama, Musical
Story of a teenage boy who is hired by a colonial era landlord to entertain him until the annual flood is over.
Director: Humayun Ahmed | Stars: Mamun, Tariq Anam Khan, Munmun Ahmed, Jayanto Chattopadhyay
Votes: 1,932
95. 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: 604
96. Byomkesh Bakshi (2010)
136 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Byomkesh Bakshi is a Bengali detective who is called on for a spine-chilling case with his assistant/friend Ajit.
Director: Anjan Dutt | Stars: Abir Chatterjee, Saswata Chatterjee, Arindol Bagchi, Dhrubajyoti Bhowmick
Votes: 1,101
97. Shabdo (2012)
104 min | Drama
Tarak is a professional foley artist whose obsession with creating sound effects for films makes him oblivious to all the talking around him. As his family and friends struggle to cope up ... See full summary »
Director: Kaushik Ganguly | Stars: Ritwick Chakraborty, Raima Sen, Churni Ganguly, Srijit Mukherji
Votes: 1,457
98. Apur Panchali (2013)
97 min | Drama, Family, History
This is a real life story inspired by Subir Banerjee,the little child actor who played the iconic role of Apu in Pather Panchali.
Director: Kaushik Ganguly | Stars: Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Parno Mittra, Ardhendu Banerjee, Gaurav Chakrabarty
Votes: 1,364
99. Harano Sur (1957)
162 min | Drama, Romance
A lady doctor rescue an amnesiac patient and fells in love with him.
Director: Ajoy Kar | Stars: Khitish Acharya, Shishir Batabyal, Parijat Bose, Ira Chakraborty
Votes: 292
100. Swayamsiddha (1975)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama
Swayamsiddha is the story of woman power and narrates how a woman can transform a society through her courage and will.
Director: Sushil Mukherjee | Stars: Mithu Mukherjee, Ranjit Mallick, Ajoy Banerjee, Bani Banerjee
Votes: 20
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