Country: India

Discover the best movies, series, and documentaries made in India. Enjoy the top titles of all time, handpicked for you.


Dhrupad

1983 · Documentary · 72 min. · India

8.5

21 votes

8.5

21 votes

Mati Manas

1985 · Documentary · 92 min. · India

Direction Mani Kaul

Cast Robin Das · Aneeta Kanwar · Ashok Sharma

Synopsis Director Mani Kaul poetically observes the ancient art of pottery and its deep cultural significance.

8.3

36 votes

8.3

36 votes

Aparajito (The Unvanquished)

1956 · Movie · 105 min. · India

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Kanu Bannerjee · Karuna Bannerjee · Pinaki Sengupta · Smaran Ghosal

Synopsis The second chapter in director Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy ('Pather Panchali', 'Aparajito', 'The World of Apu'). Following Apu and his family to the city, Ray explores the crowded streets and busy waterfront, introducing us to a gallery of unforgettable images...

8.2

4K votes

8.2

4K votes

The World of Apu

1959 · Movie · 117 min. · India

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Soumitra Chatterjee · Sharmila Tagore · Alok Chakravarty · Swapan Mukherjee

Synopsis Forced to abandon his education, Apu´s prospects look bleak until fate intervenes in the form of an insane bridegroom. To save the abandoned bride from public disgrace, Apu marries her, beginning a new life as husband and father. Third and...

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8.2

4K votes

8.2

4K votes

The Bogeyman

1979 · Movie · 89 min. · India

Direction Govindan Aravindan

Cast Master Ashokan · Sivasankaran Divakaran · Kothara Gopalkrishnan · Ramunni

Synopsis The eponymous Kummatty is a part of Kerala’s rich devotional folklore: A flamboyant mythical figure who wanders the villages during the season of Onam, the harvest festival.

8.2

35 votes

8.2

35 votes

Pather Panchali

1955 · Movie · 115 min. · India

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Kanu Bannerjee · Karuna Bannerjee · Uma Das Gupta · Subir Bannerjee

Synopsis Tells the story of a Bengali family driven by bad fortune. The father, Harihara, is a secular clerk, healer, dreamer and poet. Sabajaya, the mother, works to feed the family and receives with hope and joy the new birth of...

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8.2

6K votes

8.2

6K votes

Before My Eyes (S)

1989 · Documentary · 26 min. · India

Direction Mani Kaul

7.9

66 votes

7.9

66 votes

Siddheshwari

1990 · Documentary · 93 min. · India

Direction Mani Kaul

Cast Mita Vasisht · Muhar Biswas · Ranjana Srivastava · Shravani Mukherjee

Synopsis An impressionistic biographical look at Siddheshwari Devi (1908-1977), the classical Indian singer whose voice was appreciated by the maharajas and public alike.

7.8

27 votes

7.8

27 votes

The Big City (The Great City)

1963 · Movie · 131 min. · India

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Anil Chatterjee · Madhabi Mukherjee · Jaya Bhaduri · Haren Chatterjee

Synopsis Calcutta in the early 1960's. Bhambal supports his wife Arati, his parents, and two children. Money is tight, so Arati goes to work. She's successful and enjoys it, but this untraditional step throws the household into chaos: her in-laws initiate...

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7.6

266 votes

7.6

266 votes

The Lonely Wife

1964 · Movie · 124 min. · India

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Madhabi Mukherjee · Sailen Mukherjee · Soumitra Chatterjee · Geetali Roy

Synopsis Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage, he sees her loneliness and asks his brother-in-law, Amal, a would-be writer to keep her company. However,...

7.6

575 votes

7.6

575 votes

Mr. and Mrs. Iyer

2002 · Movie · 120 min. · India

Direction Aparna Sen

Cast Rahul Bose · Konkona Sen Sharma · Bhisham Sahni · Anjan Dutt

Synopsis Meenakshi Iyer comes from a devout Hindu Brahmin family, purely vegetarian, who not only abstain from meat, but also food from restaurants, is the only child, married to Subramaniam Iyer from Tamil Nadu, has just given birth to a young...

7.5

37 votes

7.5

37 votes

Like Stars on Earth

2007 · Movie · 165 min. · India

Direction Aamir Khan

Cast Darsheel Safary · Aamir Khan · Tanay Chheda · Tisca Chopra

Synopsis Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate; colours, fish, dogs and kites are just not important in the world of adults, who are much more interested in things like...

7.5

1K votes

7.5

1K votes

3 Idiots

2009 · Movie · 160 min. · India

Direction Rajkumar Hirani

Cast Aamir Khan · Kareena Kapoor · Madhavan · Sharman Joshi

Synopsis Two friends embark on a quest for a lost buddy. On this journey, they encounter a long forgotten bet, a wedding they must crash, and a funeral that goes impossibly out of control.

7.5

3K votes

7.5

3K votes

Dangal

2016 · Movie · 161 min. · India

Direction Nitesh Tiwari

Cast Aamir Khan · Sakshi Tanwar · Fatima Sana Shaikh · Sanya Malhotra

Synopsis Biopic of Mahavir Singh Phogat, who taught wrestling to his daughters Babita Kumari and Geeta Phogat. Geeta Phogat was India's first female wrestler to win at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, where she won the gold medal (52 kg) while her...

7.4

551 votes

7.4

551 votes

The Cloud-Capped Star

1960 · Movie · 126 min. · India

Direction Ritwik Ghatak

Cast Supriya Choudhury · Anil Chatterjee · Niranjan Ray · Gita Ghatak

Synopsis "Meghe Dhaka Tara" tells the tragic story of the beautiful daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, living in the outskirts of Calcutta under modest circumstances. Neeta sacrifices everything for her family, including her personal happiness, her money,...

7.4

344 votes

7.4

344 votes

Delhi Crime (TV Series)

2019 · Series · 50 min. · India

Direction Richie Mehta

Cast Vipin Katyal · Shefali Shetty · Rajesh Tailang · Rasika Dugal

Synopsis TV Series (2019). 7 Episodes. "Delhi Crime Story" is based on real events from 2012. The series begins with the discovery of a naked man and woman in a ditch. He was beaten. She was beaten and gang-raped. The crime...

7.4

309 votes

7.4

309 votes

Distant Thunder

1973 · Movie · 101 min. · India

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Soumitra Chatterjee · Babita · Ramesh Mukherjee · Chitra Banerjee

Synopsis The action, which occurs in a tiny village in 1943, during World War II, is based on the man-made famine that caused the deaths of five million inhabitants of Colonial Bengal. Gangacharan, a Brahmin recently settled in the village with...

7.4

171 votes

7.4

171 votes

The Music Room

1958 · Movie · 100 min. · India

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Chabi Biswas · Ganga Pada Basu · Pinaki Sengupta · Kali Sarkar

Synopsis Depicts the end days of a decadent zamindar (landlord) in Bengal, and his efforts to uphold his family prestige even when faced with economic adversity.

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7.4

717 votes

7.4

717 votes

Black

2005 · Movie · 122 min. · India

Direction Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Cast Amitabh Bachchan · Rani Mukherjee · Shernaz Patel · Ayesha Kapoor

Synopsis Michelle McNally loses her eyesight and hearing at the tender age of eighteen months, causing her to grow up in a world where she is isolated in the darkness of her own existence. She understands nothing of the frustrating world...

7.4

341 votes

7.4

341 votes

Water

2005 · Movie · 112 min. · India

Direction Deepa Mehta

Cast Sarala Kariyawasam · Seema Biswas · Lisa Ray · John Abraham

Synopsis Deepa Mehta's brave exploration of India's storied past continues in her perfectly pitched, finely judged tale of a young Hindu girl whose life is suddenly changed by the traditions of her religion. Delving into Indian society of the thirties, Mehta...

7.4

4K votes

7.4

4K votes