# The best Bengali movies of all time

Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen and Rituparno Ghosh: the classics of Bengali cinema, based on Wikipedia's Cinema of West Bengal, Postoast and an IMDb top 100.

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## Top 10

1. **Pather Panchali (1955)** (14 · ▲14 ▼0) — Apu's childhood in a Bengal village; honoured at Cannes.
2. **Aparajito (1956)** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — Apu grows up and leaves for Calcutta.
3. **Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960)** (10 · ▲11 ▼1) — A refugee family after Partition, by Ritwik Ghatak.
4. **Nayak (1966)** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — A film star on an overnight train journey.
5. **Charulata (1964)** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — A lonely wife in 1870s Calcutta, from Tagore.
6. **Apur Sansar (1959)** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — The end of the Apu trilogy.
7. **Saptapadi (1961)** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen in a wartime love story.
8. **Chokher Bali (2003)** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — A young widow in Tagore's Bengal, with Aishwarya Rai.
9. **Subarnarekha (1965)** (5 · ▲7 ▼2) — Partition refugees and a brother and sister, by Ghatak.
10. **Unishe April (1994)** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — A dancer mother and her daughter, by Rituparno Ghosh.
11. **Jalsaghar (1958)** (3 · ▲6 ▼3) — A declining aristocrat and his music room.
12. **Sonar Kella (1974)** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Detective Feluda in Rajasthan.
13. **Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Two hapless musicians granted magic powers.
14. **Ek Din Pratidin (1979)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — A family waits all night for a daughter who hasn't come home, by Mrinal Sen.

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