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- Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations.
- The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
- After Nihilistic rapper Gandu steals from his mother's lover, he embarks on a drug-fueled rampage with a rickshaw puller in this abstract film.
- Astronomer Carl Sagan leads us on an engaging guided tour of the various elements and cosmological theories of the universe.
- A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.
- American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
- Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.
- An American doctor, a British nurse, and an illiterate Indian farmer unite to transform a Calcutta ghetto in this uplifting, inspirational movie starring Patrick Swayze and Pauline Collins.
- Life at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman.
- All he wanted was to see her just once. Manu was from a village in the backwoods. Neeru was the girl next door, his lost love.
- Saketh Ram's wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced that Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for all the problems happening in the country and sets out to kill him.
- In the hope of earning enough money to pay off his debts and save his land, a poor farmer becomes a rickshaw puller in Calcutta and faces many difficulties.
- Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
- In order to give her son a good future, Ganga sets out on a journey to Kolkata to find her husband who left her.
- While playing matchmaker to a pair of their friends, two young university students begin developing feelings for each other.
- In 1856, two obsessed noblemen ignore everything while playing chess and fail to notice British rule extending into their Indian province.
- 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.
- Michael, Arjun and Lallan, three men from three different strata of society, cross paths one morning in Calcutta and change one another's lives forever.
- Award of the American academy of cinematographic arts and sciences, from 1940 known as "Oscar", - American film award created in 1929 and traditionally handed to the figures of cinematographic art for their contribution to creation of movies.
- The lifelong romance between Lolita (Balan) and Shekar (Khan) is upset by the arrival of another man.
- Bishan loses his fortune while helping his friend Kishan in his singing career. Now successful, would Kishan return the favour?
- The film, which is about the last five years of the Indian leader Subhas Chandra's life, also includes his life's story in flashback sequences.
- A comprehensive historical survey of the British Isles.
- A different concept of destiny for a love story.
- 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 holiday. But the theft of a priceless deity of Lord Ganesh (the Elephant God) from a local household forces him to start investigation. Feluda comes in direct confrontation with Maganlal Meghraj (Utpal Dutt), a ruthless trader. Maganlal makes the mild-mannered Lalmohan a knife-thrower's target and threatens Felu to stop investigation. But there are several other suspects as an innocent artisan is brutally murdered, a shady 'holy man' holds court on the banks of the Ganges and an adventure-loving little boy (and his grand-father), brought up on crime thrillers. The climax is a shoot-out on the Ganges, followed by the unraveling of the mystery.
- A rich young man woos a proud girl against her father's wishes.
- A man (Amitabh Bachchan) is found wounded on railway tracks and when he awakens he has no memory of who he is and doesn't remember anything about his life. Six years later he is living with a wealthy couple and is now named Naresh Dutt. One day he begins to regain his memory when he watches a film and realizes that the actress in the film is related to him somehow. It is then that he discovers the actress in the film is none other than his wife Rekha Roy (Rekha). He finds out that she is now a very successful film actress changing her name to Sunita Devi and her manager is none other than Ranjeet Malik (Prem Chopra) who used to be his best friend. In flashbacks he remembers that his real name is Amit Roy and Ranjit was the one who attempted to kill him six years earlier by throwing him off the train he was traveling on with Rekha. Amit also discovers that his young son who is now 10 years old has been sent to a boarding school and sets out a plan to regain custody of his son. First however he plans on taking revenge against Ranjit. Amit comes up with a plan to re-enter Rekha and Ranjit's lives by disguising himself as a film producer. He meets with Rekha and Ranjit and offers Rekha the opportunity to act in his new film titled Do Anjaane. Rekha and Ranjit grow suspicious of Naresh Dutt as they start to realize that he bears a striking resemblance to Rekha's supposedly deceased husband Amit Roy and the storyline of his film eerily mirrors Rekha's past life. Will she discover the true identity of Naresh Dutt? and what revenge has Amit/Naresh got planned for Ranjit?
- The servant boy, a minor, engaged in a middle class family dies mysteriously locked in a kitchen.
- The wealthy patriarch of a Mumbai family learns more than wants to about his own origins after his refusal to accept his sons' chosen spouses drives them and his own wife away.
- An underpaid middle-aged clerk finds a 'parash pathar', a stone that changes iron to gold on touch.
- In Calcutta, a man searches for his son who has been kidnapped by his father-in-law.
- A man (Abhi Bhattacharya) opposes the love between his sister and the orphan (Satindra Bhattacharya) they adopted years earlier.
- A mystic-infused love story that follows a young couple's journey to India to collect their adopted baby.
- An Interpol agent is killed by gangsters after he saves the life of a wealthy industrialist who stood in their way. When the rest of his family is killed in a car crash, the Interpol agent's badly injured son is fitted with heavy-duty artificial limbs.
- Chatterji is an ambitious and self-made young man who becomes the director of the company he works for.
- This is Goutam Ghose's speculative commentary on poverty and exploitation in rural Bihar, based on Bengali story Paathi.
- An innocent guy who has arrived from a village to Kolkata gets himself involved into trouble in search of water after he gets thirsty in the middle of the night.
- A simple-minded small-time singer joins a group of bandits and becomes the cause for their moral transformation and turnaround.
- After marriage of her niece, Rosemary, Anglo-Indian school-teacher Violet Stoneham lives a lonely life in her single room flat located at 36 Chowringhee Lane in Calcutta.
- Vasanth, son of an MP, falls in love with Heena. But Heena seems to be the main suspect for a bomb attack on his father. Vasanth secretly helps her return to Kolkata and soon follows to meet her.
- Ravi has settled in his dreary fate as indented boy-laborer in a textile plant outside Calcutta, making sure he earns and saves more then other boys to buy his release. Yet when young, naive Masha is sold into service by her debt-crushed father, Ravi falls in love with her and rather the see her sold as private all-purposes servant, spends his savings on her release. They agree to meet in Calcutta's largest Shiva temple once he's free. Being the captive of his own skill, that takes years, while she becomes a brothel's star. Ravi arrives as a man, and unable to find her accepts to become an old carpet trader's brilliant right hand and near-fiancé of his beloved granddaughter Deepa. Fate makes her marry affluent customs official Yani and Ravi re-orphaned Deepa before the true lovers meet again.
- A child princess gets a harmonium from her father. Through fate and manager she is orphan, then widow and penniless. The harmonium, sold, changed hand and bringing ill-luck wherever it went. Will they ever meet? Under what circumstances?
- On a rainy night in Calcutta a group of desperate addicts chase brown sugar, but the permanent intoxication they seek proves elusive. Cat Sticks weaves their stories into a chiaroscuro, traverses with them through states high and low, spaces real and unreal. A relentless downpour plays backdrop to lives balanced on a precarious high. Some of them seek a release, while others do not seem to want the night to end.
- A British engineer becomes entangled in a forbidden romance with his Indian employer's eldest daughter. As their passion ignites, the East-meets-West clash of cultures leads to surprising and tragic consequences.
- A kaleidoscopic panorama of the world. A visual anthology of twelve short stories by twelve innovative directors from all over the world.
- A much-experienced police detective, Mr. Shabor Dasgupta (Saswata Chatterjee), is assigned to do the task of solving the mystery of the murder of Mitali Ghosh (Swastika Mukherjee), a woman with a messy past, who was killed on the night she had thrown a house party for her close friends and family. Finding the real victim proves to be very difficult for Shabor; he encounters many twists.
- A 1981 U.S. Gallop Poll asked Americans, "If you could ask God any question, what would it be?" Don't Ask Me, Ask God takes the top five questions from that survey and analyzes them from both intellectual and Biblical perspectives. The questions are: What does the future hold for me and my family? Why is there suffering in the world? Why is there evil in the world? Will man ever love his fellow man? Will there ever be lasting world peace? Is there life after death? These questions are analyzed using creative dramatic vignettes followed by interviews from leading experts in their field. Then Pat Robertson opens up the Bible and explores what God says about these five questions. This very creative and thought-provoking program aired in January 1984 across the U.S. as a syndicated primetime special, drawing sixteen million viewers, the largest audience ever to watch an hour-long inspirational program. It ranked #1 in the Neilson ratings for its time slot.
- With minimal narration by the director and very little context this is a kaleidoscope of stunning visuals from Calcutta, a city of 8,000,000 in the late 1960's: rich and poor, exotic and mundane, secular and religious, children and adults, animate and inanimate. Given only the images, the viewer can read any meaning she or he wants into the film.
- The film is based on the lives of Bengali's across the world, especially on those settled abroad. It attempts to delineate the pain and dilemma of Bengali's estranged from their places of origin. It seeks to explore sensitive souls singing to the tunes of Tagore.
- A failed opera singer rises to the leader of a new religious community. Satirical film about the new religious movements of the 1970s and 1980s.