Discoveries from Bangladesh World Cinema

A devout village leader prohibits an array of modern devices, but when his strict measures go too far, the locals rise up in popular rebellion.

University students aspire to visit a beach named Saint Martin.

Famous musician Sohel is found dead in his bedroom. His wife Neela was sleeping peacefully when the body is discovered. Sohel's childhood friend detective Rashed took charge of the investigation. Although Neela seems to be the prime suspect, everyone around Shohel is not telling the truth. When the present is not serving Rashed anything fruitful, he dives into the past. Unsetting events start to unveil and we learn that lie is nothing but a badly expressed truth. How Sohel was killed?

Bibaho Diaries is a romantic comedy about what a couple today looks like under a microscope before and after marriage - an account of all the hilarious things that bind them together and ...

Adnan, a carefree bachelor, falls in love with Bipasha. However, to keep her divorce a secret from her family, Bipasha asks him to pretend to be her husband. Adnan agrees, but this leads to misunderstandings. Will they be able to resolve the complexities of their relationship?

In a series of vignettes, a partially handicapped man lives his days in anguish as he tries to find a way to leave Dhaka.

Arko is a school student who forms a beautiful bond with his teacher, Nayanika. It is more of a relationship between two friends rather than a student-teacher relationship.

Noor Jahaan is the story of two young lovers, Noor (played by Adrit roy) and Jahaan (played by Puja cherry)

A story of Bangladesh’s liberation war of 1971. Where two doppelgängers encounter each other in the war camp. The film revolves around their friendship & journey after the war.

Koshto (English: The Pain, Bengali: কষ্ট) is a 2000 Bangladeshi film starring Manna, Moushumi and Dipjol. Moushumi garnered a Bachsas Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film.

Set in 16th century Eastern Bengal, the film is inspired by the life of Chandrabati, Bengal`s first feminist poet. The story follows her falling in love with another poet, Jayananda, who later leaves her for another woman. The betrayal pushes Chandrabati to renounce marriage, confine herself inside a Shiva temple and start rewriting the Ramayana - an act which eventually led to her becoming a historic figure.

Gauri Shankar Roy looks much like the king of Jhind. When the actual king, Shakar Singh, goes missing, a person from the kingdom approaches Gauri to pretend to be the king.

A journey of a son separated from his mother during the 1971 war. A son embarks on a quest to reunite with his mother in the United States, the profound impact of his search leaving an indelible mark and shattered his life forever.

In a parallel universe in our own space-time continuum, humanity has been overrun by artificial intelligence. The machines are better, faster and more efficient at everything, outstripping their makers. However, one aspect of humanity escapes them: love. Their guidebook attempts to capture the phenomenon in 64 terms, including jealousy, regret and ardour. Posing in homey and romantic settings, they run through the entire spectrum with digital precision, yet without a hint of passion. Director Ashish Avikunthak outlines a worrying, yet confusing impression of a posthuman future in which technology has overtaken and annexed humanity. He presents the new masters of the universe as 2.0 versions of the Hindu pantheon. Yet while Hanuman, Shiva and Kali sometimes reveal all too human traits, this is definitely not the case when it comes to love. Loves dies out with humanity.

Bye Bye Bangkok is a 2011 Bengali comedy film, directed by Aniket Chattopadhyay. It featured Swastika Mukherjee, Rajesh Sharma, Shilajit Majumdar, Rudranil Ghosh, Kharaj Mukherjee, Anjana Basu, Locket Chatterjee, Sonali Choudhury, Kanchan Mullick, Kanchana Maitra, Neel Mukherjee, Rajatava Dutta, Biswajit Chakrabarty, Phalguni Chatterjee, Kunal Padhi, Sudipa Basu and others. The film has been shot in Bangkok and Kolkata.

A heartfelt romantic drama where an arranged marriage begins with confusion, but love slowly blooms like rain from the clouds.

Rafsan Haq is a famous chef of Bangladesh. After disappearing for three years, one day his wife Neela suddenly shows up in a local police station. Everyone around Rafsan including the police became skeptical of this miraculous event and started doubting Neela's identity. What will Rafsan do now? Accept the love of his life or doubt her?

On a tiny river island in southern Bangladesh, life is tough, and every day feels like a fight to survive. The villagers live in fragile homes, battling floods, poverty, and the indifference of the world around them. Like insects and spiders in their small, overlooked corners, they cling to life, love, and hope, finding small victories and quiet courage in the face of constant hardship.

A web of secrets, deceits, games and lies ... and three human beings caught up in a dangerous tangle of love, lust and passion.

Two hearts brought together by fate must overcome misunderstandings and emotional barriers to discover if they were truly meant for each other in Jodi Amar How.

Three shallow, dumbass friends, Samya, Nitin, and Ayan, decide to go on a fun trip to Thailand. However, trouble ensues when they get caught up with a mafia gang.

A middle-class family struggle to make ends meet. Their only hope is their son Rana who always fights injustice which lands him a job in the police force and takes care of the family.

On a special date with a very special girl, the awkward and hopelessly broke Arik goes to hilarious lengths just to keep the total bill under 700 Taka.

For a young woman jogging in a park, a stranger begins telling the story of a giant cockroach. But has the cockroach invaded a home, a mind, or society itself?

The story of a mysterious hotel room and how the lives of those who stay there change - for better or for worse.

Sweety, a runaway bride, accidentally tosses Adnan's beloved camera into the river. Determined to seek compensation, Adnan and his friend chase her to Barisal. There, they find themselves tangled in a web of troubles as Sweety struggles to escape another marriage. How will they get out of this mess?

Drama of Bangladesh

The story revolves around a brave heart Barun Biswas, who raised voice against numerous gang rapes in a village called Dukhiya. Dukhiya, where gang rapes had become a festival. These were celebrated by some political criminals.

It’s a story of Arko and Titas. Both are in love, have a steamy relationship and are about to get married. Through different incident Arko falls for his office boss Mridul and Tiyas falls for Sania. The story revolves around how they find mental peace and love in same sex and how they deal with society.

It's a 1988 Bangladeshi film about romance, love and separation

Sarbari and Saibal are both successful doctors and in love. However, Saibal comes from an affluent family, while Sarbari has to provide for her poverty stricken family, including her invalid father.

An alluring housewife Trishna (Rituparna Sengupta) seduced a professional photographer named Raja (Angshuman Gupta) in her trap to kill her husband Sekhar (Arindam Sil).

During the Bangladeshi war for independence in 1971, a group of people flee from their villages towards a safe border.

A Bangladeshi mystery-thriller film

The first film made in Bangladesh about Cerebral Palsy.

An English couple, a leading London lawyer and his wife re-define later life by motoring rural India in their battered 1936 Rolls Royce, falling into company with tea-wallahs and maharajahs, dodging tribal conflicts and battling with border-officials to get to a photography conference/human rights festival in Bangladesh.

In a family that's equal parts strict and strange, a young man is allowed to make up to a hundred mistakes. Once he reaches that magic number, he will be disowned. The story begins when he is on the verge of making his hundredth mistake.

Cheeni, a working girl, has to suddenly take care of her mother whose lifestyle turned bizarrely eccentric post-widowhood. Putting her hectic city-life on pause, Cheeni moves back with her mother who is suffering from brain cancer in their orthodox Manicktallah neighbourhood in Kolkata where chaotic fireworks ensue as the traditionalist housewife and her rebel millennial daughter battle amidst surprising revelations and family secrets.

The charming story of the film is picked up from village life of our country. The mischief of the so-called 'Molla' who has no knowledge except fanatic sentiments perturbed all. His home is the seat of an oppressive regime.

Based on a true story- A group of robbers broke into a house at night with the intention of committing robbery. The house was inhabited by two young girls and a disabled child and their mother. Not getting the desired money, the robbers started torturing them. And they were raped them more than once and after the rape everyone was killed by cutting their throats.

A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.

A murder A convict A honest headstrong Cop And then steps in an old horse who is too good at the game! Now wait for 'The Last Act"

Lalmohan Ganguly, alias Jatayu − a sidekick of Feluda − gets invited to Mumbai (previously Bombay) to watch the shooting of a film based on a novel written by him. Once in Mumbai, he, along with Feluda and Topshe gets embroiled with underworld kingpins. He seems to have transported the Nana Sahib's necklace. But fortunately because of Feluda the real thief is caught and convicted. Although the original story was written in the 1970s, the movie is set in more recent times and depict the real problem of underworld involvement in Bollywood.

A disguised professional assassin with a mysterious past is tasked with assassinating a top government official.

Gittu, an introverted milkman, regularly goes to an abandoned local temple to smoke cigarettes after performing his duty of delivering milk from door to door. While smoking cigarettes in solitude, he gets to know the secret of the temple.

This is the love story of Krish, son of Advocate Gourisankar Chakladar. Gourisankar has two sons, Harisankar and Krish. Harisankar is an advocate like his father but the younger son Krish is very casual in life, doesn't like working even though his father has given him a factory to handle.

Indrajit is a UK based scholar. While working to preserve historical documents he find a parchment from which he learns about treasures hidden in an old palace in Simulgarh, a village of West Bengal. Indrajit comes to the village, finds out the treasure, but, a local goon Gagan Sapui accuses him of robbery, beats him up and expels him out of the village. Sapui wants to melt those coins to make new jewellery. After being beaten up, Indrajit goes to forest near the village where he meets Chhayamoy, a benevolent ghost. After listening the incidence from Indrajit, Chhayamoy decides to teach him a lesson.

A love story centered around a community of snake charmers.

Fourteen-year-old Naima longs to earn money for her poor Bangladeshi family, but her unrivaled artistic talent is of little use. When her ailing father is at risk of losing his prized bicycle rickshaw to loan sharks, she disguises herself as a boy and attempts to drive the rickshaw herself. Naima crashes the rickshaw, threatening the family's sole livelihood.

A drama-thriller about the men who hide in the shadows of Dhaka city, and a rickshawalla turned bounty hunter named Babu hell-bent on finding these runaways and forcing them to face their past. His life mission comes to an ultimate crossroad when he meets is biggest prey: a corrupt politician named Akbar. Convinced an evil spirit possess him, Babu captures Akbar and forces him to retrace the winding and dark path that led him there. Little does Babu know the dark secrets that haunt Akbar are about to be unleashed…

An young lady's stolen purse was found & returned by a noble man. They didn't meet each other but both fall on love eventually. They overcame all their difficulties & finally unites together.

Ill-treated and disrespected by his sons, an octogenarian man wishes to go back to his youth. Things take a hilarious turn when he falls into a pond and is overjoyed to find his wish to have come true.

Filmmaker-actor couple, Tithi and Farhan, are subjects of criticism and trolls for not taking baby in a patriarchal society. Tithi doesn’t succumb to the pressure of social validation and decides to have a baby when the time is right for her, but the question never ends for her.

A young boy’s innocence challenges human greed and gradually transforms a hardened man’s perspective on life and morality.

This is a story of isolation and hope, of a writer in exile. The writer is banished for her attack on religious fundamentalism and patriarchy and her cat is suddenly left alone.