Tobe Tai Hok (2012)

Relata la juventud de Apu en Benarés, su deseo de independizarse y estudiar en Calcuta para poder llevar una vida diferente a la que han conocido sus padres. Segundo film de la "Trilogía de Apu".

Apu, que ha logrado trágicamente su ansiada independencia, siente reforzada su ansia de conocimiento. Sus deseos de escribir, soñar y amar parecen cumplirse cuando conoce a Aparna y se casa con ella. Tercera y última parte de la "trilogía de Apu".

Devdas es enviado lejos por su padre para que pueda mejorar a sí mismo, pero a su regreso su padre todavía no le da la bienvenida. Devdas y Paro están enamorados, pero Paro es de una casta inferior y está lista para casarse con un viudo mayor. Devdas está devastado y se va de casa. Se convierte en un mujeriego alcohólico y se enamora de una cortesana. Paro intenta alejar a Devdas de la bebida antes de que se autodestruya.

Nita es una bonita joven que vive con su familia, refugiados del este de Pakistán, en los suburbios de Calcuta. Shankar, su hermano mayor, aspira ser cantante. Nita aplaza su matrimonio con el científico Sanat para ayudar a su familia, que necesita dinero para pagar los estudios de los hermanos más jóvenes. Cuando su padre y su hermano menor sufren un accidente, ella se convierte en el único sostén de la familia, pero la enfermedad que padece no deja de empeorar.

Drama basado en el best-seller homónimo de Dominique Lapierre, sobre las miserables condiciones en que viven los desheredados en la India. Un cirujano norteamericano, tras perder a un paciente, se desmorona y decide viajar a la India en busca de paz espiritual. En Calcuta, tras ser golpeado y robado, es ayudado por un granjero que lo lleva a una clínica en la "Ciudad de la alegría", una de las zonas más pobres de la ciudad.

En Calcuta, Subrata Majumdar se esfuerza por mantener a su familia (esposa, hijo, hermana menor y padres) con el modesto e insuficiente sueldo que percibe como empleado de banca. Dadas las circunstancias, su esposa Arati plantea la posibilidad de ponerse a trabajar, pero Subrata lo descarta como algo contrario a la tradición familiar india. Sin embargo, al final, no tendrá más remedio que aceptar la necesidad de que Arati trabaje. (FILMAFFINITY)

When he was cutting "Phantom India," Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released theatrically, is at times shocking—a chaotic portrait of a city engulfed in social and political turmoil.

Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.

Bangshi Das is an impersonator of Charlie Chaplin. He earns peanuts by being the 'joker' at birthday parties. However, he prefers to call himself an actor rather than a worker. His life circles around his son who is the greatest critic of his performances. Poverty never seems bitter as the father-son duo knows how to make fun of it.

During the 1947 partition of Bengal, a man and a woman cross a river to begin life anew. Their journey manifests many roles against the backdrop of some horrific events and loss of life.

Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.

Kanchan, all of eight years old, is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, until he reaches there.

Madhuri cannot bear a child yet her husband Shatadal is fond of children. They decide to part ways but years later when they meet in a railway station they realize their fondness for each other hasn't died.

The film is about youngsters and the story of the film revolves around a young sheltered man who suddenly discovers life when he comes out on to the streets one day.

Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the prostitutes when she met and became friends with their children. Briski began giving photography lessons to the children and became aware that their photography might be a way for them to lead better lives.

Siddhartho 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.

The chronicles of Shyamalendu Chatterjee, an ambitious and self-made young man, as he rises his way up the corporate ladder.

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.

Cine negro de bajo presupuesto y limitado metraje. Narra la historia de tres amigos pilotos que, sin miedo a la muerte, recorren Asia en sus aeroplanos. Cuando uno de ellos muere en Calcuta, sus amigos empiezan a investigar y se las tienen que ver con una peligrosa banda de ladrones de joyas.

Basada en un relato de Rabindranath Tagore ambientado a finales del siglo XIX, cuando la India era todavía una colonia inglesa. Charu, una mujer de la alta sociedad bengalí que lleva una vida ociosa, está casada con Bhupati. Éste, que ha heredado una fortuna, utiliza su dinero para publicar un periódico político, y se siente orgulloso de no haberse dejado arrastrar por la comodidad y la desidia.