Best Bangladeshi Films of All Time
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1. 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
2. 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
3. Shankhonad (2004)
102 min | Drama
Osman return to his ancestral village on a stormy night, the village he had fled in the dark of the night 27 years ago. He finds shelter in the home of Mannaf Khan, a village elder. Osman ... See full summary »
Director: Abu Sayeed | Stars: Zahid Hasan, Fazlur Rahman Babu, K.S. Firoz, Nazma Anwar
Votes: 25
4. Aha! (2007)
128 min | Drama, Romance
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Enamul Karim Nirjhar | Stars: Sathi Yasmin, Humayun Faridi, Tariq Anam Khan, Ferdous Ahmed
Votes: 325
5. Eisenfresser (2007)
85 min | Documentary
Chittagong is a seaport in southern Bangladesh that has become the center of a thriving industry in the Third World -- breaking up old and obsolete ships and selling the scrap metal, usually to construction firms.
Director: Shaheen Dill-Riaz
Votes: 70
6. 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
7. 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
8. Shunte Ki Pao! (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
Rebuilding homes and lives after disaster strikes in Bangladesh.
Director: Kamar Ahmad Simon
Votes: 86
9. Under Construction (2015)
88 min | Drama
Under Construction is about a modern Muslim woman struggling to find herself in the sprawl of urban Bangladesh.
Director: Rubaiyat Hossain | Stars: Shahana Goswami, Rahul Bose, Mita Chowdhury, Shohel Mondol
Votes: 150
10. 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: 29,681
11. Jonmosathi (2016)
85 min | Documentary
It was 1972. Bangladesh just had her independence. Director Shabnam Ferdousi was born at Holy Family Hospital, Dhaka and 12 more babies were born in that hospital on that very day. Later, ... See full summary »
Director: Shabnam Ferdousi | Stars: Sudhir Barman, Monwara Clarke, Shabnam Ferdousi
12. 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: 5,804
13. Live from Dhaka (2016)
91 min | Drama
In a series of vignettes, a partially handicapped man lives his days in anguish as he tries to find a way to leave Dhaka.
Director: Abdullah Mohammed Saad | Stars: Mostafa Monwar, Tasnova Tamanna, Tanvir Ahmed Chowdhury, Mir Mosharrof Hossen
Votes: 325
14. Komola Rocket (2018)
95 min | Drama
As the lives of rich and poor passengers aboard a steamship unfold, buried secrets, lustful affairs and selfish desires are exposed.
Director: Noor Imran Mithu | Stars: Tauquir Ahmed, Mosharraf Karim, Joyraaj, Samia Said
Votes: 1,199
15. Doob - No Bed of Roses (2017)
85 min | Drama
A story surrounding a person named Javed Hasan and about his family, love, fallout and reunion.
Director: Mostofa Sarwar Farooki | Stars: Irrfan Khan, Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Parno Mittra, Rokeya Prachy
Votes: 2,110
16. Made in Bangladesh (2019)
95 min | Drama
Shimu fled her village as a child when her stepmother threatened to marry her off to a middle-aged man. Now 23 and living in the capital, she works grueling hours for paltry sums at a textile factory while her husband searches for work.
Director: Rubaiyat Hossain | Stars: Shahana Goswami, Rikita Nandini Shimu, Momena Chowdhury, Novera Rahman
Votes: 477
17. 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
18. Hawa (II) (2022)
131 min | Drama, Mystery
Miracles about the life story of fishermen.
Director: Mejbaur Rahman Sumon | Stars: Chanchal Chowdhury, Sariful Razz, Nasir Uddin Khan, Shohel Mondol
Votes: 6,397 | Gross: $0.36M
19. 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
20. Third Person Singular Number (2009)
124 min | Drama
A woman breaks with traditional Muslim culture by living with her boyfriend before getting married, but when the relationship ends, she must face the harsh consequences of being an outcast in her community.
Director: Mostofa Sarwar Farooki | Stars: Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Mosharraf Karim, Rashed Uddin Ahmed Topu, Abul Hayat
Votes: 2,930
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. Mad_e in Bangladesh (2007)
106 min | Comedy, Drama
An apparently passive young man, Khorshed (Zahid Hasan), comes to Dhaka from a rural area looking for a job and a better life. He gets to stay with an uncle (Ahsanul Haq Minu) who literally... See full summary »
Director: Mostofa Sarwar Farooki | Stars: Zahid Hasan, Shahiduzzaman Selim, Tariq Anam Khan, Masud Ali Khan
Votes: 2,542
25. Jibon Theke Neya (1970)
150 min | Drama, Family, War
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.
Director: Zahir Raihan | Stars: Razzak, Suchanda, Shaukat Akbar, Rosy Samad
Votes: 2,245
26. 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: 1,933
27. Rehana (2021)
107 min | Drama
An assistant professor at a local medical college, finds herself in a difficult position after witnessing a sexual assault where she knows both the victim and the perpetrator.
Director: Abdullah Mohammed Saad | Stars: Azmeri Haque Badhon, Afia Jahin Jaima, Kazi Sami Hassan, Afia Tabassum Borno
Votes: 1,505
28. 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
29. Kingdom of Clay Subjects (2016)
88 min | Drama, Family
10-year-old Jamal loves his carefree life with his mum in rural Bangladesh, until the day his childhood friend and playmate is forced to become a child bride. Isolated and lost, Jamal finds the world a harsh reality when his hopes of getting new friends and attending school collide with his mother's past.
Director: Bijon | Stars: Mahmudur Anindo, Sheuly Akther Jarin, Chinmoyee Gupta, Monir Ahmed
Votes: 196
30. Mukh O Mukhosh (1956)
99 min | Drama
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.
Director: Abdul Jabbar Khan | Stars: Abdul Jabbar Khan, Purnima Sen, Inam Ahmed, Zahrat Ara
Votes: 207
31. Chitra Nodir Pare (1999)
110 min | Romance
After the partition of India in 1947, Shashikanta's family, like millions of other Hindu families of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), faced the dilemma of whether to migrate from the land in... See full summary »
Director: Tanvir Mokammel | Stars: Momtazuddin Ahmed, Afsana Mimi, Tauquir Ahmed, Rawshan Zamil
Votes: 228
32. Forever Flows (2006)
95 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Abu Sayeed | Stars: Shabnur, Ilias Kanchan, Amirul Haque Chowdhury, Dolly Johur
Votes: 238
33. Ontorjatra (2005)
83 min | Drama
A mother and her son return to their home in Sylhet, Bangladesh after 15 years abroad and try to retrace their roots. Beginning with the death of the father of the family, the film proceeds... See full summary »
Directors: Catherine Masud, Tareque Masud | Stars: Sara Zaker, Jayanto Chattopadhyay, Abdul Momin Chowdhury, Nasrin Karim
Votes: 294
34. Ghuddi (1980)
Drama
The movie revolves around the protagonist Asad, a freedom fighter who still struggles to get out of the trauma of war. He meets Ghuddi at a film theatre and later falls in love.
Director: Syed Salahuddin Zaki | Stars: Raisul Islam Asad, Suborna Mustafa, Nasiruddin Yousuff, Golam Mustafa
Votes: 250
35. Lalon (2004)
120 min | Musical, Drama
The story of the life of Lalon Fakir, a great mystical saint, poet and folk singer, who is legendary in his native Bangladesh.
Director: Tanvir Mokammel | Stars: Raisul Islam Asad, Shami Kaiser, Tamanna Yasmin Tithi, Animesh Aich
Votes: 541
36. Rupkothar Golpo (2006)
Drama
An woman asks an unemployed guy to babysit her child. But she lost the baby and couldn't communicate the unemployed guy. He has to lead a miserable life with this child.
Director: Tauquir Ahmed | Stars: Tauquir Ahmed, Chanchal Chowdhury, Taskin Sumi, Ejazul Islam
Votes: 305
37. 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
38. Ora 11 Jon (1972)
Drama, History, War
The movie is about the liberation war of Bangladesh at 1971. This historical movie say about the sacrifice people had to do for the freedom of their country.
Director: Chashi Nazrul Islam | Stars: Khosru, Murad, Nantu, Baby Zaman
Votes: 476
39. Hangor Nodi Grenade (1997)
113 min | Drama, War
A tragic story of a mother who dedicates her only child for the sake of the freedom of the country during liberation war in 1971.
Director: Chashi Nazrul Islam | Stars: Suchorita, Sohel Rana, Aruna Biswas, Antora
Votes: 519
40. 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
41. Puroshkar (1983)
128 min | Family
A young boy was send to a child prison, where he tries to change the existed situation.
Director: C.B. Zaman | Stars: Sumon, Shakil, Bulbul Ahmed, Inam Ahmed
Votes: 35
42. Golapi Ekhon Traine (1978)
Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Amjad Hossain | Stars: Bobita, Farooque, Anwar Hossain, Rosy Samad
Votes: 135
43. Dubshatar (2010)
92 min | Drama
The story revolves a complicated relationship between a female social worker and a drug addict.
Director: Nurul Alam Atique | Stars: Jaya Ahsan, Shehzad Chowdhury, Ashok Bepari, Wahida Mollick Jolly
Votes: 82
44. Kokhono Asheni (1961)
Drama
A failed artist along with his family comes to city, then he falls in love with a woman who is an art piece of a rich art connoisseur amidst a national economic crisis.
Director: Zahir Raihan | Stars: Sumita Devi, Khan Ataur Rahman, Sanjib, Anima
Votes: 53
45. Chaka (1993)
65 min | Drama
With a tragic story of the life and death by 'Selim AL-Din', the famous director 'Morshedul Islam' created "Wheel". The movie "Chaka-The Wheel", released in 1994, revolves around a ... See full summary »
Director: Morshedul Islam | Stars: Golan Razul Babu, Afsar Uddin Bhuiyan, Amirul Haque Chowdhury, Abul Khair
Votes: 82
46. Emiler Goenda Bahini (1980)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
The only boy of a widow, went for a train trip to Dhaka to receive prize & visit his aunt's house. On this trip, he lost his money & suspected two men. He left the train & followed them. On... See full summary »
Director: Badal Rahman | Stars: Partho Shahid, Momtazuddin Ahmed, Sharmili Ahmed, Syed Akhtar Ali
Votes: 62
47. Bhat Dey (1984)
142 min | Drama
A story of poverty and hunger.
Director: Amjad Hossain | Stars: Shabana, Alamgir, Anwar Hossain, Anowara
Votes: 352
48. Boro Bhalo Lok Chhilo (1982)
158 min | Drama
The spiritual capability of a son of a pious man starts diminishing when he becomes weak onto a girl.
Director: Mohiuddin Ahmad | Stars: Razzak, Prabir Mitra, Anju Ghosh, Anwar Hossain
Votes: 23
49. The Father (1979)
Drama, Family
Director: Kazi Hayat | Stars: John Napier Adams, Suchorita, Bulbul Ahmed, Shaukat Akbar
Votes: 11
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