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Plot Summary:
Cockpit is a story based on true incidents. The story follows a flight that is going from Mumbai to Calcutta and gets hit from bad turbulent weather.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags:
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Strings of Passion (2014)
Plot Summary:
Strings Of Passion is an urban commercial flick which tells the story of three men, Neel, Aman and Amit. They are young and dynamic guys who run the band "Strings of Passion" but are shadowed by the influence of drugs, broken love and bad parenting.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sati (1989)
Plot Summary:
Uma, a mute Brahmin girl, lives with her uncle's family as she is an orphan. Since Uma has a faulty horoscope which indicate widowhood, the family finds it impossible to get her married off. According to a custom prevalent at the time, Uma is given in marriage to a tree.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags:
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Scream of the Ants (2006)
Plot Summary:
A girl believing in God marries an atheist, who is consumed by doubt. They decide to spend their honeymoon in India.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Iran, France, India
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: art house, islamic
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Subarnarekha (1965)
Plot Summary:
Made in 1962 (but not released until 1965), Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak’s film starts soon after the 1947 partition of Bengal. At a socialist refugee colony, Ishwar and his younger sister, Sita, adopt a low-caste boy, Abhiram, who has been separated from his mother. To keep the two children from poverty, Ishwar abandons the colony to take an administrative job at an iron mill. Years pass. During one school vacation, the now-grown Sita and Abhiram acknowledge their love for each other. Ishwar, turned grimly bourgeois, opposes their match, and his interference leads to disaster for all three.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags:
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Kanchenjungha (1962)
Plot Summary:
Played out in real time, several complex family dramas intersect in the landscape of the Himalayan foothills, allowing the Bengali auteur to examine the class and generational differences of postcolonial India while celebrating the hopes of a society in transition.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: art film
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Joi Baba Felunath (1979)
Plot Summary:
Set in the holy city of Benares, this is the second film about the detective Feluda, in which he goes for a holiday along with his cousin, Topshe and his friend, Lalmohan Ganguly. But the theft of a priceless deity of Lord Ganesh (the Elephant God) from a local household forces him to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: epic
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Hatyapuri (2022)
Plot Summary:
Pradosh C. Mitter AKA Feluda, Topshe, and Lalmohan Ganguly go to Puri for vacation. One evening, the trio spot odd footprints on the sand. Later, Lalmohan goes to meet Lakshman, an astrologer who is presumably gifted with extrasensory perception. Soon they stumble upon Roopchand's dead body lying on the beach. Feluda figures out the mystery and gathers everyone at Bhujanga Niwas and tells everyone that Bilas Majumdar is actually Animesh Kumar Sarkar, a smuggler by profession. Feluda tells them that the actual Bilas Majumdar had died three weeks ago in a hospital in Nepal. Why?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags:
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The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (1969)
Plot Summary:
Goopy and Bagha are banished from the kingdom for being bad musicians. However, with their skills, they succeed in pleasing the king of ghosts who grants them three wishes.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: horror spoof
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Ek Je Chhilo Raja (2018)
Plot Summary:
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, Chandrabati Devi, brother-in-law, Satya, and a family doctor, Ashwini. He apparently died in Darjeeling and was cremated there as well. After 12 years, a Sanyasi shows up at the estate, arousing people’s curiosity and leading to a rumour that he is the lost prince of the Bikrampur Estate.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags:
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Cloud Capped Star (2013)
Plot Summary:
Although inspired from Ritwick Ghatak's life, "Cloud Capped Star" is neither a biopic on Ritwick nor a remake of Ritwick's famous film. To director Kamaleswar, Ritwick is a true star, a legend, with immense contributions to the world of cinema. And yet he is still quite the unsung hero. Hence, he is the "meghe dhaka tara".
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: intellectual, independent film, art film, poetic
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Ramdhanu-The Rainbow (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mitali was a worried mother. This time, once again, her 5 year old son Gogol had failed to pass the admission test in a reputed school. Mitali was determined to get her son admitted into a reputed school. Gogol loved the song of birds, the flight of the kites, the rustling of the leaves, the wide expanse of the blue sky. Laltu Dutta, her husband, owned a chemist's shop. Mitali's desperation worries Laltu & he decide to approach a tout and is willing to pay him a handsome amount for his son's admission. Mitali decides to enroll herself along with Laltu in a school that coaches parents to conduct themselves at interviews. Laltu is very reluctant at first, but finally gives in to his wife's persuasions.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags:
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Bedroom (2012)
Plot Summary:
We market our picture perfect, Facebook-savvy lives, as we navigate our fabulous body-doubles past other people’s walls, collecting friends, being successful, living the life. Online, we are happy. Online rocks. It’s Offline that sucks - as we shut our laptop, shut our Bedroom door, rest our head on our pillow and sink into the familiar discomfort of being our unattractive, unaccomplished, pitiful selves. This is the allegorical “Bedroom” – our most private space where we retire to, night after night. Where we let our guards down and dare to be at our ugliest worst.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags:
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The Village Had No Walls (1996)
Plot Summary:
A young man from the city journeys to his first teaching post, the small hamlet of Bangarwadi, deep in the jungle, inhabited by a few shepherds and farmers as well as a criminal tribe known as the Ramoshis. After the initial shock of his strange new world wears off he learns to appreciate life in the village and stops longing for home.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags:
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Company Limited (1971)
Plot Summary:
The chronicles of Chatterjee, an ambitious and self-made young man, as he rises his way up the corporate ladder.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: art house, extraordinary
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The Coward (1965)
Plot Summary:
Amitabha Roy (Soumitra Chatterjee) is a Calcutta based scriptwriter who is driving around in the country to collect material for a film. His vehicle breaks down in a small town. A tea planter, Bimal Gupta, offers hospitality for the night. Amitabha is forced to accept the offer as he has no alternative.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: intelligent
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Nayak: The Hero (1966)
Plot Summary:
A matinee idol is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by a journalist who somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview. Arindam, won over by Aditi's naivete, starts to disclose his past, his fears and his secrets.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: black and white, serious, realistic, contemplative, talky, extraordinary
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The Adversary (1970)
Plot Summary:
Siddhartha Chowdhury, a brilliant medical student, is forced to leave his studies after his father's sudden demise. He is forced to navigate the high unemployment rate and the communist socio-political climate of 1960s Calcutta in search of a job.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: art house, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, biting, independent film, surreal, suspense
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The Middleman (1975)
Plot Summary:
A bright and idealistic young graduate steels himself for a dog-eat-dog world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls. When he eventually decides to start his own business as a middle-man, he discovers that the world of business does not live up to his lofty ideals.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: art house, tense, clever, serious, realistic, witty, biting, suspense
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The Stranger (1991)
Plot Summary:
A well-off Indian 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, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: India, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, thought provoking, contemplative, semi serious, extraordinary
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The Golden Fortress (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young boy becomes a target for crooks, after he claims to remember his past life and mentions precious jewels in a golden fortress.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: suspense
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The Bengali Night (1988)
Plot Summary:
Allan (Hugh Grant) is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen (Soumitra Chatterjee) which includes his wife, Indira (Shabana Azmi) and daughter Gayatri (Supriya Pathak). Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, UK
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: multicultural, baroque
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Gandu (2010)
Plot Summary:
Gandu hates his life. He hates his mother. Gandu raps out his hate, anger, dirt and filth of his existence. He and his rickshawpuller friend enter the world of smack, rap, porn and horror. Reality and fiction, surreal and bizarre come together. Can Gandu survive?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, surreal, disturbing, psychological, captivating, controversial, independent film, mind bending, offbeat
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Amazon Obhijaan (2017)
Plot Summary:
Amazon Obhijaan will see daredevil adventurer Shankar Choudhury traverse the length and breadth of South America, including the legendary Amazon in search of the mythical city of gold.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: India, Brazil, UK
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, tense, scenic
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Cosmic Sex (2015)
Plot Summary:
Cosmic Sex is a 2014 art-house Independent Bengali Film written and directed by Amitabh Chakraborty and produced by Putul Mahmood. The film deals with the connection between Sex and Spirituality.Cosmic Sex is the story of a young man Kripa who is on the run from sex and violence one night in Kolkata when he meets a woman Sadhavi who strangely resembles his dead mother. She gives him shelter and teaches him to travel inwards through sex. The film deals with Dehotatva (worshipping through one’s own body) and explores the connection between Sex and Spirituality. The film stars Rii Sen who won the best actress award at Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema for her bold act in the movie.[.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 835
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, sexy, art house
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Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)
Plot Summary:
Four friends from Calcutta who have very different personalities make a holiday excursion into the country, to a tiny village in the state of Bihar where they set themselves up in a bungalow. A series of minor events, all connected to their respective reactions to their new environment, reveals their characters more deeply.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: epic, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic
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Labour of Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, atmospheric, touching, serious, contemplative, silent, art house, silent film
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The Big City (1963)
Plot Summary:
Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: retro, cult classic, sincere, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
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The Japanese Wife (2010)
Plot Summary:
Snehmoy (Rahul Bose) and Miyage (Chigusa Takaku) are pen friends who exchange wedding vows through letters. Fifteen years pass but they never meet. Yet the bond of marriage is strong between them. This unusual relationship comes under a cloud when a young widow, Sandhya (Raima Sen), comes to stay with Snehmoy along with her eight-year-old son Poltu. Snehmoy and the little boy bond and the arithmetic teacher discovers the joy of palpable bonds and fatherhood. There develops an inexplicable thread of understanding with Sandhya too. But Snehmoy remained loyal to his unseen Japanese wife. When Miyage was ill from cancer, he took a long leave from his school and tried his best to find a cure for the illness. Meanwhile, malaria took a toll on him and he died. Coming of Miyage in a white sari to Sunderbans after his departure was really touching.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, philosophical, offbeat, touching, serious
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Mountains of the Moon (2013)
Plot Summary:
Chander Pahar follows Shankar Choudhury, a 20 year-old that takes a job working for the Uganda Railway, and winds up quitting his job in search of diamonds and the Kenya's Mountain of the Moon. Based on the popular Bengali adventure novel of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Mystery
Country: India, South Africa
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, entertaining, disturbing
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Queen (2013)
Plot Summary:
Rani, a 24-year-old homely girl, decides to go on her honeymoon alone when her fiancé calls off the wedding. Traveling around Europe, she finds joy, makes friends, and gains new-found independence.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 68000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: touching, entertaining, sweet, melancholic, humorous, inspirational, realistic, funny, light, feel good