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I have a dream...Someday, may be after 25 years from now, I am going to be the first Academy Awards Winner from Bangladesh. These are the movies which inspire me to dream that dream, but I dream that dream in Bengali...
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- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeMadhavi MukherjeeShailen MukherjeeThe lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.
- DirectorRitwik GhatakStarsKali BannerjeeGangapada BasuSatindra BhattacharyaBimal is a taxi-driver in a small town. His taxi is his only companion and, although very battered, it is the apple of Bimal's eye. The film shows the love of taxi driver Bimal and his pathetic vehicle Jagaddal.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsKanu BannerjeeKaruna BannerjeeSubir BanerjeeImpoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsTapan ChatterjeeRabi GhoshUtpal DuttThe musical duo of Goopi and Bagha make a comeback when they are invited to play for a king.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsTapan ChatterjeeRabi GhoshAjoy BanerjeeGoopy wants to sing, and Bagha wants to play the dhol. They meet accidentally and are helped by King of Ghosts. With newly endowed abilities, they land in kingdom of Shundi, where their adventure begins.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsKali BannerjeeManju DeySmriti BiswasA poor Chinese hawker, Wang Lu, sells his merchandise, China silk in the streets of Calcutta.
- DirectorTareque MasudStarsNurul Islam BabluRussell FaraziJayanto ChattopadhyayA family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
- DirectorAparna SenStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeAparna SenRituparna SenguptaExplores the dual themes of friendship and loneliness. Sanaka and Paromita are mother and daughter-in-law who, despite differences in age, backgrounds and temperaments, build a strong bond together.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsAparna SenDebashree RoyDipankar DeyPotrays a sentimental mother daughter relation. How a female dancer sets her priority and became famous but loses her relationship with her daughter on the way .
- DirectorGoutam GhoseStarsRaisul Islam AsadChampaRoopa GangulyHossain, a Bengali Muslim wants to establish a little Utopia on an island in the Padma delta. He doesn't care if the people who populate it are Hindu or Muslim.
- DirectorHumayun AhmedStarsBipasha HayatAsaduzzaman NoorAbul HayatIn the middle of the 1971;curfew is going on all over the Bangladesh. The liberation army is operated as effective guerrilla force - Badiul Alam is one them. Alam plans for starting guerrilla operation in the capital and hides himself in Mr. Matin's house. Mr. Matin lives with his loving wife Surma and two beautiful daughters Ratri and Opala. In association with other freedom fighters, Alam operates some successful guerrilla attacks against barbarous Pakistani military . But one after another his fellow freedom-fighters are getting caught by the military, tortured , murdered. Alam being shot and seriously injured is taken to Matin's house ; can he survive? Can he see the light of morning again ?
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeVictor BanerjeeSwatilekha SenguptaWhen the movie opens, a woman is recalling the events that molded her perspective on the world. Years ago, her husband, a wealthy Western-educated landowner, challenged tradition by providing her with schooling, and inviting her out of the seclusion in which married women were kept, to the consternation of more conservative relatives. Meeting her husband's visiting friend from college, a leader of an economic rebellion against the British, she takes up his political cause, despite her husbands warnings. As the story progresses, the relationship between the woman and the visitor becomes more than platonic, and the political battles, pitting rich against poor and Hindu against Moslem, turn out not to be quite as simple as she had first thought.
- DirectorAparna SenStarsRahul BoseChigusa TakakuRaima SenPen pals decide to get married and carry on a long-term relationship.
- DirectorAnik DattaStarsSwastika MukherjeeParambrata ChattopadhyaySabyasachi ChakrabartyA rib-tickling comedy about a group of spirits who, in their various idiosyncrasies, try and save their only haunt, their resting place, when some unscrupulous builders try and break it down to build a modern monstrosity.
- DirectorAparna SenStarsMoushumi ChatterjeeKonkona Sen SharmaSrabanti ChatterjeeShirshendu Mukhopadhyay's famous tale of 3 generations of women and their changing position in society, seen in relation to a box of jewels, handed down from one generation to the next.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsPrasenjit ChatterjeeBipasha BasuJisshu SenguptaIndraneel's sudden death averts a possible divorce, and takes Radhika on a fantastic inward journey of discovery of her own roots through the language of poetry, and lost love. A publisher asks Radhika to complete Indraneel's works. This compels her to study his work, and thus begins her journey into the past. She realizes how much he romanticized their mundane, everyday life. Yet in reality, he was often insensitive, negligent and apathetic towards her. She wonders about his dual identity. How can a poet be unaware of his day-to-day realities, yet highlight moments from it in his art? Is art essentially an artifice?
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsDipankar DeyMamata ShankarJisshu SenguptaAbohomaan tells the story of Aniket, one of the finest filmmakers of Bengal in eastern India and the loves of his life. Devoted to his craft, Aniket met and fell in love with his wife Deepti, an actress, while they worked together on the set of a film. They were so in love that Deepti sacrificed her own career for her husband's and for their son Apratim, but lost a little of who she was in the process. The plot thickens when Aniket auditions a young actress, Shikha, who bares an uncanny resemblance to his wife when she was younger. Deepti enthusiastically begins to coach Shikha for her husband's film - so much so that Shikha becomes even more like the girl Deepti used to be and as a result the aging Aniket falls in love with Shikha, a woman as young as his son, despite the sadness and trouble it brings to his family.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsAishwarya Rai BachchanPrasenjit ChatterjeeRaima SenBinodini is a young widow who lives with a woman and her son, Mahendra, who had once refused to marry her. Their lives are thrown into disarray when there is deceit and adultery between Binodini, Mahendra, his wife and his friend.
- DirectorAparna SenStarsRakhee GulzarAparna SenMukul SharmaA 40-year-old married woman falls in love with a young man.
- DirectorSalil DuttaStarsUttam KumarMoushumi ChatterjeeSumitra MukherjeeSuspicion arises as a married person brings a tomboy in his home.
- DirectorSrijit MukherjiStarsAparna SenChiranjitGoutam GhoseFour famous directors and old friends are reunited together by an unknown producer to make a film. They make four short story in this film with one theme: Death.
- DirectorAnjan DuttStarsSaswata ChatterjeeParambrata ChattopadhyayRudranil GhoshThis is a story about four friends, Hari, Shekhar, Ashim, and Sanjay. They studied at the same school. Ashim studied to be a doctor, but decided to never pursue that profession. Sanjay worked for an ad agency but left the job. The rest have never held a job. They started a Bengali band, but they were beaten up by the public at a stage show in North Bengal. They vowed to never perform again. At this point, they start a travelling agency, called 'Gharoa Travels'. On their first trip, they start the journey with only 9 passengers. On the way to the hills, a girl named Ria joins them. The film deals with their journey through North Bengal. The ten tourist and the four operators form an assorted medley of characters. As the journey progresses, their natures are slowly revealed. The film has a style of flash-forwarding to the future juxtaposed with the present, giving the audience a sense of the fates of the characters even as the story progresses.
- DirectorHiren NagStarsUttam KumarDilip MukherjeeKamal MitraSub-Inspector Tinkari Haldar comes to the house of the Industrialist Chandra Madhab Sen to inquire about a Suicide and Mystery starts to Unfold.
- DirectorBelal AhmedStarsSumona SomaFerdous AhmedLitu AnamA simple middle class family having problems because of their mentally sick girl.
- DirectorMostofa Sarwar FarookiStarsNusrat Imrose TishaMosharraf KarimRashed Uddin Ahmed TopuA woman breaks with traditional Muslim culture by living with her boyfriend before getting married, but when the relationship ends, she must face the harsh consequences of being an outcast in her community.