The best Bengali movies of all time
The top 3 according to 124 votes from people: Pather Panchali (1955) · Aparajito (1956) · Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960). (Updated Sep 28, 2023.)
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.
Top 10
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1
Pather Panchali (1955)
Apu's childhood in a Bengal village; honoured at Cannes.
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2
Aparajito (1956)
Apu grows up and leaves for Calcutta.
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3
Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960)
A refugee family after Partition, by Ritwik Ghatak.
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4
Nayak (1966)
A film star on an overnight train journey.
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5
Charulata (1964)
A lonely wife in 1870s Calcutta, from Tagore.
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6
Apur Sansar (1959)
The end of the Apu trilogy.
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7
Saptapadi (1961)
Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen in a wartime love story.
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8
Chokher Bali (2003)
A young widow in Tagore's Bengal, with Aishwarya Rai.
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9
Subarnarekha (1965)
Partition refugees and a brother and sister, by Ghatak.
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10
Unishe April (1994)
A dancer mother and her daughter, by Rituparno Ghosh.
Candidates
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11
Jalsaghar (1958)
A declining aristocrat and his music room.
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12
Sonar Kella (1974)
Detective Feluda in Rajasthan.
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13
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969)
Two hapless musicians granted magic powers.
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14
Ek Din Pratidin (1979)
A family waits all night for a daughter who hasn't come home, by Mrinal Sen.
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Comments (1)
Meghe Dhaka Tara should be number one, Ghatak never gets his due