Soundtrack: Ravi Shankar

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Kanu Bannerjee · Karuna Bannerjee · Pinaki Sengupta · Smaran Ghosal

Plot The second chapter in director Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy ('Pather Panchali', 'Aparajito', 'The World of Apu'). Following Apu and his family to the city, Ray explores the crowded streets and...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Soumitra Chatterjee · Sharmila Tagore · Alok Chakravarty · Swapan Mukherjee

Plot Forced to abandon his education, Apu´s prospects look bleak until fate intervenes in the form of an insane bridegroom. To save the abandoned bride from public disgrace, Apu marries her,...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Kanu Bannerjee · Karuna Bannerjee · Uma Das Gupta · Subir Bannerjee

Plot Tells the story of a Bengali family driven by bad fortune. The father, Harihara, is a secular clerk, healer, dreamer and poet. Sabajaya, the mother, works to feed the family...

Direction Richard Attenborough

Cast Ben Kingsley · Roshan Seth · Martin Sheen · Ian Charleson

Plot Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Fed...

Direction Conrad Rooks

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Conrad Rooks · William S. Burroughs

Plot Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran.

Direction Ralph Nelson

Cast Cliff Robertson · Claire Bloom · Lilia Skala · Leon Janney

Plot This intriguing drama, directed tenderly by Ralph Nelson, is based on the story FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON by Daniel Keyes. The plot centers around a mentally retarded adult who instantly matures...

Direction Norman McLaren · Claude Jutra

Cast Claude Jutra

Plot A young man wishes to sit down on a plain white chair in order to read. The chair resists this whole idea strenuously. Finally the young man admits defeat and...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Tulsi Chakraborty · Kanu Bannerjee · Ranibala · Ganga Pada Basu

Plot On a rainy afternoon, an elderly bank clerk - Paresh Dutta - finds a mysterious "Parash Pathar" as he his returning from work after learning that his office is closing...

Direction Jonathan Miller

Cast Anne-Marie Mallik · Freda Dowie · Jo Maxwell Muller · Wilfrid Brambell

Plot Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his...

Direction Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Cast Balraj Sahni · Leela Naidu · Abhi Bhattacharya · Nasir Hussain

Plot After Mrs. Chaudhary passes away, her husband asks his son, Nirmal, to study medicine, become a doctor, and live in a small village to help patients who are unable to...

Direction Karan Razdan

Cast Agast Annand · Shiven Basnet · Surmeet Basra · Sonarika Bhadoria

Plot The depths of Hinduism is seen through its principal characters.Friendship, love and student politics are put in place.

Direction Chetan Anand

Cast Uma Anand · Kamini Kaushal · Rafiq Anwar · Hameed Butt

Plot Chetan Anand directs this Indian Peoples' Theatre Association-funded, expressionist look at social injustice in rural India. The film centers on a fantastically wealthy and capacious landlord who lives in a...

Direction Mark Kidel

Cast Anoushka Shankar · Ravi Shankar · Uday Shankar

Direction Bruno Monsaingeon

Cast Yehudi Menuhin

Plot This film includes a wealth of archival footage, much of it hitherto unknown, documenting Yehudi Menuhin's prodigious career. I did not intend this film to be a re-make of what...

Direction Natti Kumar

Cast RajeevSalur · NattiLaxmiKaruna · SupurnaMalakar · Hemanth

Plot Its a revenge drama of a girl Naina, on social media. And victims who try to take them on, get killed without a trace or a clue for police to...

Direction James Ivory

Plot Ivory's second documentary, The Sword and The Flute, also dealing with schools of art, grew out of his experience in making Venice: Theme and Variations. Only here, instead of photographing...

Direction Tapan Sinha

Cast Chabi Biswas · Oindrila Tagore · Radhamohan Bhattacharya · Manju Dey

Plot The central character is a farmer who hopes to strike it rich in the big city, forced to leave his daughter behind.

Direction Arne Sucksdorff

Cast Chendru · Martin Held · Ginjo · Riga

Plot After mainly having explored the nature and wild-life of his own Sweden, Sucksdorff this time took his cameras (for the first time loaded with colour film), his hand-picked crew and...

Direction Ram Gopal Varma

Cast Amitabh Bachchan · Yami Gautam · Jackie Shroff · Ronit Roy

Plot The third film in Ram Gopal Varma's Sarkar trilogy, which chronicles the exploits of a powerful political figure.

Direction Mrinal Sen

Cast Shabana Azmi · Naseeruddin Shah · Om Puri · M.K. Raina

Plot A parable of man's exploitation of his fellow man. A weaver and a farmer live peacefully on the edge of a desert until, one day, a woman wanders into their...