During the 1960s Naxalite movement in Calcutta, an Economics professor sympathetic to the movement is arrested, tortured, and imprisoned for ten years. Upon his release, he returns to a transformed city, only to discover that the traumas of the past continue to haunt him.
Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent and iron-willed Ruth.
A villager, Gurukant Desai, arrives in Bombay in 1958, and rises from its streets to become the biggest tycoon in India.
The story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England, growing up in the country that is nothing like their parent's generation. A Canadian-British film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel of the same name.
A team of Indian scientists at ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) take on the extraordinary task of successfully sending a satellite into the orbit of planet Mars in a country's maiden attempt.
Unable to see, hear, or speak after a childhood illness, a young woman grows up prone to violent outbursts until an eccentric tutor changes her life.
After being molested, Minal and her friends try to file an FIR against a politician's nephew. When the subsequent case gets rigged, a retired lawyer helps them to fight the case.
Abyakto is a poignant tale of a mother and son. The story encapsulates the unusual journey of Indra from his childhood and adolescence to adulthood. A series of unexplained events turn him into a man he never ought to be.
Lalitha, a rich woman, marries a professor against her mother Meenakshi's wishes. She separates from her husband after Meenakshi creates misunderstandings between them.
Sulekha is in awe of her brother-in-law Raghavendra for his intelligence. Parimal, her husband, decides to take up the challenge of fooling Raghavendra and goes to work for him as a driver.
Baba is an atheist who always questions the existence of a higher power. But when a turn of events bestows him with divine powers, he uses the opportunity to help other people.
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, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.
Ashoke Gupta is an idealistic doctor working in a town near Calcutta. He discovers that the water at a popular temple is the source of an outbreak of typhoid and hepatitis. In order to save lives, he risks his career to try and call attention to this polluted water source, while a local group of building contractors attempt to discredit him in various ways.
When a wealthy patriarch falls ill on his 70th birthday, three of his sons rush in from Calcutta, leading to a reunion filled with painful ironies and lingering disillusionment. As the family—including an addled fourth son who lives with the old man—watches and waits, the static occasion brings out simmering tensions in their family dynamics, from the father’s moral rectitude to the business ambition of two sons and the withdrawal of their siblings.
This film is a complex family drama based on the theme of a mother's immense love and sacrifice. The plot is about a woman who is ill-treated by her husband and in-laws and is forced to abandon her newborn son. The son is adopted by a wealthy family and grows up to be a handsome young man (Prosenjit Chatterjee). The film explores the journey of the separated family members, the hardships the mother faces, and their eventual reunion, highlighting the profound bond between a mother and her child
Lili, who runs the family business, strives for the well-being of her sister Mili. Fate plays a cruel hand when Lili unknowingly falls in love with Mili's lover.
Mrinal Sen is in his early days around the time of India’s independence, where he is a struggling idealist with an all-consuming hunger for cinema but unable to feed himself or his young wife, to 1950s Calcutta, where (alongside Satyajit Ray) he helped start the Indian New Wave cinema movement.
Set against the backdrop of an unexpected wedding invitation, a chance reunion after two years of estrangement forces two women to confront their deeply entangled, hidden past. As their unresolved history resurfaces in the shadows of the Chatterjee household, an unsuspecting husband finds himself increasingly caught in a web of unspoken anxieties.
‘Pinjar’ is an evocative meditation on captivity—of bodies, of spirits, of choices—unfolding through the entangled lives of five individuals and a wild bird.
This film to be a family drama based on the theme of parenting. The film revolves around the upbringing of a young boy by his grandparents and his working parents and also deals with the legal fight over parenting as the plot unfolds. His grandpa wins.
A young woman is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies. Based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore.
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.
The film features the characters from Satyajit Ray's Aranyer Din Ratri, returning to the forest over thirty years later. Ashim, Sanjoy, Harinath and Aparna have grown old in this film; Shekhar has died. They set out on a journey to break off every link with civilisation for a few days. However, the trip turns sour when Ashim and Aparna's daughter, Amrita, goes missing. It transpires that she is being held for ransom by local tribespeople. Police intervene and the kidnapped girl is returned to her parents, albeit against her own wishes.
Perturbed with her married responsibilities, a writer and a school teacher’s identity issues trigger when she is denied access to the terrace - her open space. A story of longing, resilience, and the quiet strength of a woman
A neighbour envies the love shared between a joint family. Unable to see them happy, the person devises a conspiracy to create a rift in the family.
The story revolves around a hotel named "Shah Jahan Regency" and lives of people associated with that hotel. The hotel is one of a kind and very different from others as it strongly believes in the rich culture of India and tries to imply and maintain that in every aspect of the hotel - starting from the decor, to uniforms of the staff members, to the names given to various parts of the hotel.
Family tension runs high when four grown siblings reunite at their elderly mother’s home. When the mother reveals that she might sell off the estate, the announcement stirs up painful memories and uncovers a long-buried secret.
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, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.
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Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.
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Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
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94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
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South America, 1960. A lonely and grumpy Holocaust survivor convinces himself that his new neighbor is none other than Adolf Hitler. Not being taken seriously, he starts an independent investigation to prove his claim, but when the evidence still appears to be inconclusive, Polsky is forced to engage in a relationship with the enemy in order to obtain irrefutable proof.
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Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.
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Ashoke Gupta is an idealistic doctor working in a town near Calcutta. He discovers that the water at a popular temple is the source of an outbreak of typhoid and hepatitis. In order to save lives, he risks his career to try and call attention to this polluted water source, while a local group of building contractors attempt to discredit him in various ways.
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When a wealthy patriarch falls ill on his 70th birthday, three of his sons rush in from Calcutta, leading to a reunion filled with painful ironies and lingering disillusionment. As the family—including an addled fourth son who lives with the old man—watches and waits, the static occasion brings out simmering tensions in their family dynamics, from the father’s moral rectitude to the business ambition of two sons and the withdrawal of their siblings.
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A devout upper-class Hindu has a vision in a dream that his daughter-in-law is the human incarnation of the Goddess Kali and begins worshipping her.
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After surviving an IED explosion in combat overseas, a young soldier with the Army Motorcycle Unit is medically discharged with a broken back and leg. Against all odds he trains to make an impossible comeback as a motocross racer in order to support his family.
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Manohar and his family move into a new apartment on the 13th floor. However, their peace is disturbed by a spirit that uses the television set as a medium to communicate with them.
Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems.
Kasi and Suni are close friends who studied together in an engineering college. Assi, who comes to Kerala to study engineering under the North East quota falls in love with Kasi. Certain incidents that follow set Kasi and Suni on a road trip to Nagaland on two motorcycles. The incidents that happen during this road adventure forms the film.
Ananta, Sujoy, Ananda and Rajasaunkar Dhol –four friends find themselves in a complicated situation when they are forced to live in a house together as paying guests and the homeowner catches them causing trouble with their girlfriends.
Fuleshwari, a beautiful young woman, falls in love with Brindaban, a simpleton who arrives in her village. She plans to marry him but is hesitant when she learns that he is involved in a crime.
It is a film of the childhood tragedic story of three siblings, wher their father lost his job and his family people killed him. The childhood life of those people was in the ancient Darjeeling during the british rule. One of the sibling was recalling the whole past and was writing about that after the independence of Inida. he then went to meet his siblings in distance places, but found them in much much more traumatising and proverty situations, but could not help them.
Three generations of a family live together but they are very different from each other. The three young sons learn various lessons from life and end up as better human beings.
Biswajit is a renowned barrister. He has two younger brothers, named Indrajit and Abhisek. He along with his two younger brothers creates a very happy family. Indrajit joins the police force by the recommendation of MLA Suprakash Sanyal. Indrajit is a honest, sincere and brave police officer, on the other hand Abhisek slowly enters into a wrong path. Indrajit does not concentrate properly in family. So he has some conflicts and differences with his wife. At this juncture a rape case investigation is handed over to him. A member of the Sanyal's gang named Raja has done that crime. So Indrajit arrested him and placed the file before court. When the trial is almost at the end of its proceedings, then Sanyal's men kidnapped Indrajit's son. Release of Raja is their only demand and they convey it to Indrajit. On the other hand Sanyal's daughter Rupa loves Abhisek. So she helps Indrajit. After refusing the demand of Sanyal, Indrajit defeats all evil forces and reveals Sanyal in front of ...
Kalo Bhromor is a murder mystery in which Hari the caretaker of the guest house Kalo Bhromor and Saathi, the daughter of the owner of the Kalo Bhromor are murdered and Smriti, Saathi’s sister is raped. Smriti and Saathi’s sisters Saswati, Srija, Nilabha, Saswati’s husband, Sabuj, Nilabha’s brother are the suspects with other residents of the guest house. The story unfolds gradually to uncover the real culprit.
Kajol Chowdhury, a managing director, and Sagar, the chief mechanic at the Chowdhury firm, are always at loggerheads. A series of events bring them closer hinting at ending their mutual animosity.
Chandru has a strong hatred towards prostitutes and would kill any such woman he encounters. He falls in love with Rekha and believes marrying her will end his psychological distress.
