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- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsTulsi ChakrabortyKali BannerjeeRani BalaAn underpaid middle-aged clerk finds a 'parash pathar', a stone that changes iron to gold on touch.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsMithun ChakrabortyMamata ShankarRobert WrightIn the 1930s, a group of tribals live in a small village in a forest in Odisha. A British administrator arrives at the village who is passionate about hunting. He befriends Ghinua, an exceptional archer.
- DirectorRitwik GhatakStarsRosy SamadKabori SarwarRawshan ZamilAfter their wedding night, a fisherman's young wife is kidnapped on the Titas River in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsAparna SenDebashree RoyDipankar DeyPotrays a sentimental mother daughter relation. How a female dancer sets her priority and became famous but loses her relationship with her daughter on the way .
- DirectorGoutam GhoseStarsRaisul Islam AsadChampaRoopa GangulyHossain, a Bengali Muslim wants to establish a little Utopia on an island in the Padma delta. He doesn't care if the people who populate it are Hindu or Muslim.
- DirectorAparna SenStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeAparna SenRituparna SenguptaExplores the dual themes of friendship and loneliness. Sanaka and Paromita are mother and daughter-in-law who, despite differences in age, backgrounds and temperaments, build a strong bond together.
- DirectorMainak BhaumikStarsSwastika MukherjeeRaima SenParno MittraThree girlfriends--Preenita, Rhea, and Shreemoyee--share everything with one another from the angst of the "will-he-or-won't-he-call" debates, to the addictive gossip sessions, the analysis of dumping and getting dumped, the complaining about husbands, boyfriends, or the lack of boyfriends; over cups and cups of coffee, as they let their hair down on their 'girls-gone-wild' nights on the town.Is this chick-flick a female-buddy film? Sure. Is it a Girl-Power Flick? Absolutely.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeSantanu BagchiAjoy BanerjeeA young boy becomes a target for crooks, after he claims to remember his past life and mentions precious jewels in a golden fortress.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsDhritiman ChatterjeeAsgar AliArabinda BanerjeeA young college graduate is struggling to find 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.
- DirectorTapan SinhaStarsGita DeySwarup DuttAnubha GuptaEkhonee depicts the lives and frustrations of a bunch of youth struggling to cope with the adversities of a bureaucratic society. There's a bunch of college students Arun, Tiklu, Shambhu, Biman, Sujit, Urmi whose lives undergo a change after the carefree days of college are over. Arun, Tiklu, Shambhu, Biman and Sujit struggle to get a job. Sujit is the lucky one who gets a good job through his girlfriend's reference and also gets an opportunity to go abroad. Arun struggles for a job and loses his mother to cancer. Tiklu has to join his father's garage when he fails to get a job. Biman is forced to marry his girlfriend and is trapped in marriage. Shambhu leaves with Atin a comrade to work for the farmers. Urmi becomes pregnant with her fiancée's child but he leaves her and goes abroad. Arun who was her closest friend discloses his love for her and marries her. Their lives lead them to an unknown future.
- DirectorAparna SenStarsRakhee GulzarAparna SenMukul SharmaA 40-year-old married woman falls in love with a young man.
- DirectorBuddhadev DasguptaStarsMamata ShankarPradip MukherjeeAjoy BanerjeeA professor in Kolkata marries a young woman. But when he learns that she is pregnant with someone else's child, he decides to leave her.
- DirectorBuddhadev DasguptaStarsAnjan DuttMamata ShankarGoutam Ghose"The Chief labour officer of a private steel company in Barrackpur senses corruption in the management. An idealist he resigns and is murdered. The secretary of the trade union, Probir gets to know of it and is murdered. His comrade Bijan manages to escape and absconds. Nirupama, the sister, who silently cherishes Bijan, along with Sandipan, a reporter, tracks down the hired gang of killers, which include Sital, the goal keeper in a smalltime football team. Sital reveals that they had been lured with the promise of a job. But the promises were not kept and sital wishes to disown his past. Meanwhile, Bijan has made good as a salesman in Nasik and returns to Calcutta as a changed man. His values had been eroded by time and success. He tries to justify his desertion of his earlier convictions, but fails to convince Nirupama. He wants a settled married life with Nirupama. She still clings to the ideals of her dead brother. But confusion and desperation forces Nirupama to accept his proposal. On the date of marriage, Sandipan is found dead in mysterious circumstances. Confused, Nirupama wants to postpone the marriage. Quarrels follow and Nirupama realises that the void between them is too wide to be bridged. The rift, however, forces a helpless girl to the threshold of self awareness. She realises that she, The film ends with Niupama beginning the struggle all by herself." Watch the full movie, Grihayuddha online, only on Eros Now.
- DirectorGoutam GhoseStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeDebashree RoyIndrani HaldarThe film revolves around an aging poet Sashi Bhusan Sanyal afflicted with glaucoma and nearly blind whose wife has deserted him because of his reckless lifestyle.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsMadhavi MukherjeeGita SenBinota RoyAn angry young man on trial in 1971,a rainstorm in a slum in 1933,a lower-middle-class family during the 1943 famine,teenage smugglers in 1953 and a middle-class group in a posh hotel in 1971.
- DirectorSyed Salahuddin ZakiStarsRaisul Islam AsadSuborna MustafaNasiruddin YousuffThe movie revolves around the protagonist Asad, a freedom fighter who still struggles to get out of the trauma of war. He meets Ghuddi at a film theatre and later falls in love.
- DirectorAlamgir KabirStarsJayasree KabirBulbul AhmedKaffey KhanThe main setting of the movie was a disastrous cyclone and tidal bore which attacked Bangladesh in 1970. That vast spate washed away an opulent girl and a destitute man to a secluded island where no sign of other human was found. Dumping the class-distinction, they fell in love and founded that isolated island as their paradise. Even after their rescue, brutal social prejudices could not separate them and thus they forded across that primitive fringe with the message of love and equal-ism.
- DirectorAmjad HossainStarsBobitaFarooqueAnwar HossainMondol (A.T.M. Shamsuzzaman) is an influential person in the village. His son Milon (Farooque) likes the girl of a street singer (Anwar Hossain) Golapi (Bobita). In the meantime, Mondol brings a bridegroom for Golapi but they demand a cycle. Golapi's father cannot afford this so Milon pay for the cycle. But for some reason the marriage does not take place and Golapi's father commits suicide. As a result, Golapi's family fall into grief and she starts to work in different places by train. The people from the village do not take this positively and sit to desert them to work on trains.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsUttam KumarSharmila TagoreBireswar SenEn route to Delhi to receive an award, a Bengali film star reevaluates his success through his fellow passengers, dreams, and past experiences.
- DirectorSubhash DuttaStarsSubhash DuttaFarid AhmedSharmili Ahmed
- DirectorMostofa Sarwar FarookiStarsNusrat Imrose TishaMosharraf KarimRashed Uddin Ahmed TopuA woman breaks with traditional Muslim culture by living with her boyfriend before getting married, but when the relationship ends, she must face the harsh consequences of being an outcast in her community.
- DirectorHumayun AhmedStarsMeher Afroz ShaonMuktiZahid HasanThe second movie directed by Humayun Ahmed. A village drama interweave around a charming girl, a folk singer, his love interest and the local aristocratic family's involvement, the movie provide with some beautiful songs.
- DirectorChashi Nazrul IslamStarsSuchoritaSohel RanaAruna BiswasA tragic story of a mother who dedicates her only child for the sake of the freedom of the country during liberation war in 1971.
- DirectorSatyajit RayStarsAnil ChatterjeeMadhavi MukherjeeJaya BachchanLife at home changes when a house-wife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a saleswoman.
- DirectorSandip RayStarsHaradhan BannerjeeBiplab ChatterjeeTarun MitraMystery-drama about a botched kidnapping of a Calcutta schoolboy and his relationships and adventures.