Chirodini Tumi Je Amar 2 (2014)

The Cloud-Capped Star

A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

The Big City

Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1996.

Clive of India

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.

The Coward

Amitabha Roy is a Calcutta-based scriptwriter, driving around in the country to collect material for a film. His vehicle breaks down in a small town. A tea planter, Bimal Gupta, offers hospitality for the night. Amitabha is forced to accept the offer as he has no alternative. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

Rosogolla

Based in the backdrop of 19th century Bengal, Rosogolla is a story of a young man with a romantic heart and brilliant mind — Nabin Chandra Das, who had set his heart on making the most delicious sweet of all time for his wife, Khirodmoni. Rosogolla is a story of the many trial and tribulations in his journey of making something unique, of innocent love, struggle and human aspiration for novelty.

The Bengali Night

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.

Devdas

In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.

Calcutta

Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.

Apur Sansar

Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1996.

Aparajito

Aparajito picks up where the first film leaves off, with Apu and his family having moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Varanasi (then known as Benares). As Apu progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother. This tenderly expressive, often heart-wrenching film, which won three top prizes at the Venice Film Festival, including the Golden Lion, not only extends but also spiritually deepens the tale of Apu. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1996.

Charulata

In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art.

The Adversary

Siddhartho Chowdhury, a brilliant young 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. He lives in a flat with his younger, employed sister, revolutionary brother and widowed mother. The strain of the situation ultimately causes him to hallucinate.

The Stranger

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.

Company Limited

The chronicles of Shyamalendu Chatterjee, an ambitious and self-made young man, as he rises his way up the corporate ladder. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2001.

City of Joy

Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.

Aami Ashbo Phirey

Aami Ashbo Phirey is a musical that is about four different stories that are all connected by a violent incident. A young, unknown and unheard singer and songwriter accidentally enters the stories through virtual media and changes their lives for the better. The film re-asserts that art can surpass all differences, violence, intolerance and give them a chance to redeem oneself.

Bolo Dugga Maiki

Bolo Dugga Maiki is an entertaining movie about Samya who always leads his life as a liar. However, when he meets a gorgeous girl in a train, Uma, his life changes in the blessings of Ma Durga.

Uronchondi

Uronchondi is a film about the dream, desires and emotions of three women.

Professor Shanku O El Dorado

Based on Satyajit Rayʼs iconic character, this film portrays the story of Trilokeshwar Shanku - a respected scientist and inventor who travels to Brazil for a science convention. But once he`s there Shanku gets involved in an adventure, a quest for the mythical city of El Dorado. Through the journey, he encounters native tribesmen and anacondas, but will Shanku and his friends ever find El Dorado?

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.

Howrah Bridge

Rakesh lives with his brother, Madan, and his dad in Rangoon. Madan has fallen into bad company and steals the family heirloom, in the shape of a dragon, some cash and runs away to India. Shortly thereafter, his dead body is found under Calcutta's Howrah Bridge. Rakesh travels to Calcutta in order to find out the mystery behind Madan's death, and also try to recover the family heirloom.

Bapi Bari Jaa

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.

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

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.

Panorama of Calcutta

One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?

Chaamp

It is the story of a boxer names shibaji. Who was a hero and inspiration for every indian but suddenly he falls down and everyone forgets him. The film is about how he rises up again.

Annual Inspection of the Bodyguard by His Excellency Lord Lytton

The Governor of Bengal and family - on and off duty.

Edward Prince of Wales' Tour of India: Calcutta and Delhi

The future Edward VIII opens a durbar and enjoys a day at the races before inspecting the fire brigade in Calcutta.

Arrival of the Earl of Lytton at Calcutta

Lord Lytton takes up the post of Governor of Bengal.

Picturesque India or, In and About Calcutta

Botanical gardens in Bombay plus the highly decorative Jain Temple in Calcutta.

Calcutta Topical No. 2

The race is on - for the Viceroy's Cup.

From England to India by Air

A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata.

Her Excellency Lady Lytton At The Victoria Memorial

Lady Pamela Lytton, wife of the Governor of Bengal, visits the grand marble Victoria Memorial in Calcutta.

Scenes at his Excellency the Viceroys's Garden Party at Belvedere

Indian high society enjoy themselves at a Calcutta garden party held to welcome the new Viceroy, Lord Irwin.

Government House Garden Party

Scenes at a garden party given by Earl Lytton, Governor of Bengal, at Government House, Calcutta.

Calcutta Topical No. 1

Fashionably attired folk attend the races in Kolkata.

If Not For You

A tribute film on Bob Dylan, depicting Calcutta's affinity with Dylan through cityscape and interviews of notable Indian musicians who were inspired by him. The film also draws parallels between Dylan's body of work and the Baul tradition of Bengal.

Car Assembly, Calcutta

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

The Justice of Bunny King

Bunny King is a mother of two, a rough cut diamond with a sketchy past. While battling the system to reunite with her children, a confrontation leads her to take her niece Tonyah under her wing. With the world against her and Tonyah, Bunny’s battle has just begun.

Forgiveness

An authoritarian father, who makes his living in a mountain village with tree trade, has a deeper problem with his family due to his oppressive and unjust behavior. The way out of this psychological crisis that the family is in depends on the ability of family members to forgive each other.

Fortuna

Fortuna (6 years old) lives with her mother in an anonymous suburb. She spends her time with two playmates, Nicola and Anna, dreaming of being Nancy, an alien princess chased by giants who want to kidnap her and her friends. After a tragic accident happened to Nicola, an obscure secret surfaces in a struggle between reality and imagination, unveiling a horrible truth. A dark fairy tale, based on a true story.

Héliogabale

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The Undertaker

Joed, a 25-year-old law graduate, is hesitant to take over his father's undertaker business because he is afraid of ghosts. However, his father's condition is worsening, and he has no choice but to help. Siang, a heartbroken man who have left the monkhood, is obsessed with finding a way to meet his deceased ex-girlfriend, Bai Khao. He learns of a ceremony that can allow astral travel to the dream world, where he could meet dead people. Siang offers to help Joed with the undertaker business in exchange for Joed's father performing the ceremony. In the end, everything has its time, and everyone learns and understands the nature of truth, holding on to someone, and losing a loved one.

Wrong Numbers

A beautiful twenty-something subsequently strikes up an essential conversation with Jack, a happily married, middle-aged and very successful businessman who is seated at another table, having just finished up a business dinner. The pair thereafter stumble into an intense one-night stand that turns into something more complicated and destructive than either of them could have expected.

Hellion

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other in order to bring Wes home.

Bojhena Shey Bojhena

A horrible accident takes place between two buses on the highway in Behrampore which includes students returning after winning their kabadi match, a newly-wed couple, a lover taking his love of life to meet his parents and a girl traveling for the very first time to the city of Kolkata - later it's revealed how lives of two couples among those passengers were connected and things take a tragic turn after the accident.

Ricochet

A simple man in a small and quiet town faces a painful episode that reveals the most primitive and not always explainable impulses that can turn a simple good man into a cold murderer.

Jamie Marks Is Dead

No one seemed to care about Jamie Marks until after his death. Hoping to find the love and friendship he never had in life, Jamie’s ghost visits former classmate Adam McCormick, drawing him into the bleak world between the living and the dead.

Life After Beth

Zach is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth. When she mysteriously returns, he gets a second chance at love. Soon his whole world turns upside down...

Son of Monarchs

A Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown, nestled in the majestic butterfly forests of Michoacán. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his hybrid identity, sparking a personal metamorphosis.

Jester's Night: Seriously Off Nut

"Jester's Night: Seriously Off Nut" tells us a story that happened the day before - The New Year. It is the time when we wait for the wishes to come true. The picture is about our dreams that change with time and, unfortunately, become more pragmatic. The characters dedicate their lives to the career without noticing anything around them even their lovers' worries. Living this day together with characters, a viewer understands that it is never too late to implement in life their dreams. A businessman and a housewife; a cab driver and a man-hater; a secretary and a barbershop; a director and an ordinary tutor - everyone has their own New Year. For someone it is a pleasant fuss and an opportunity to make a secret wish. For others it is an annual tradition to make fun of oneself and to laugh at others during "Jester's Night".

The End of Endless Love

Xin Tan has the ability to create happiness for others through sound, but after using it three times on the same person, his life will be bound to that person. Only when the other party is happy can Xin Tang can survive. Incidentally, Xin Tang rescued the school internet celebrity Ji Ze, who was about to commit suicide, and the two bound together.

1921

Tells the story of a Communist Party's early history during the turbulent era, examining the remarkable Chinese revolutionary leaders' zeal and contrition for the ascension of the Chinese people.

The Tipping Point

A female college student falls from a building in a bizarre manner. Cheng Rui, the deputy captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment who has just been transferred to the post, is assigned by the deputy director Du Yulin to investigate the hidden story behind the case.

The Curse

Flooding in Krumau am Kamp: three infant bodies, two girls and a boy, are found in the basement of the Trummler family's farm, which has long been uninhabited. The children were suffocated immediately after birth and buried on the spot. A dark reputation precedes the Trummlers – the word "cursed" is used more than once, after the daughter's disappearance without a trace...

Men Are From QC, Women Are From Alabang

Two lovers navigate post-graduation life, facing challenges of long-distance relationship and career demands. Their perspectives on shared experiences diverge as physical and emotional distance grows, straining their bond over time.