# The best Satyajit Ray films

The Apu trilogy, Charulata, The Music Room: Satyajit Ray's most acclaimed films according to critics and audiences (MovieWeb, The Cinemaholic, IMDb).

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## Top 12

1. **Pather Panchali (1955)** (82 · ▲91 ▼9) — Apu's childhood in a Bengal village, the start of the trilogy.
2. **The World of Apu (1959)** (74 · ▲78 ▼4) — Apu as a young man, marriage and loss; ends the trilogy.
3. **Charulata (1964)** (60 · ▲68 ▼8) — A lonely wife in 1870s Calcutta, from Tagore.
4. **The Big City (1963)** (55 · ▲64 ▼9) — A Calcutta housewife takes a job selling door to door.
5. **Aparajito (1956)** (55 · ▲60 ▼5) — Apu leaves for Calcutta; Golden Lion in Venice.
6. **The Music Room (1958)** (46 · ▲55 ▼9) — A ruined landlord clings to his music salon.
7. **Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)** (43 · ▲47 ▼4) — Four city friends on holiday in the jungle.
8. **Nayak (1966)** (32 · ▲41 ▼9) — A film star on a train journey.
9. **Distant Thunder (1973)** (30 · ▲45 ▼15) — The 1943 Bengal famine; Golden Bear in Berlin.
10. **The Chess Players (1977)** (27 · ▲39 ▼12) — Two nobles play chess as the British annex Awadh.
11. **Agantuk (1991)** (21 · ▲30 ▼9) — His last film: a mysterious uncle comes to stay.
12. **Devi (1960)** (20 · ▲35 ▼15) — A young wife is worshipped as a goddess.
13. **Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969)** (19 · ▲32 ▼13) — A musical fairy tale for children, a huge hit in Bengal.

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