Best Bangladeshi Films of All Time
According to Bangladeshi Film Critics and Cinephile
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- DirectorTanvir MokammelStarsRaisul Islam AsadMunira Yusuf MemyChandniIn this tragic-comic study of religious hypocrisy, a disreputable cleric convinces villagers that their community is home to a famous holyman's grave.
- DirectorTareque MasudStarsNurul Islam BabluRussell FaraziJayanto ChattopadhyayA family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.
- DirectorAbu SayeedStarsZahid HasanFazlur Rahman BabuK.S. FirozOsman return to his ancestral village on a stormy night, the village he had fled in the dark of the night 27 years ago. He finds shelter in the home of Mannaf Khan, a village elder. Osman seeks to rediscover his childhood and goes about reliving the past in childhood memories. He meets Kunjo Buri who had nursed him as an infant. He also meets his boyhood friend Fazlu. Osman is not after worldly gains, he only wants to spend the rest of his life in the village and the nostalgia of bygone days. That, However, is not to be. He comes face to face with a reality of a markedly different kind.
- DirectorEnamul Karim NirjharStarsSathi YasminHumayun FaridiTariq Anam KhanMr. Rafiq is given an option to develop the ancestral property by a privet developer agent. The house carries the style of typical historic buildings of old Dhaka; which are being pushed aside by urban modernization. With the decision hanging, Ruba, his daughter, leaves her husband in the US and returns to Dhaka. The cause being her husband's excessive misbehave. Ruba tries to find peace in her memory soaked old home but could not as the decision to reconstruct the property is discussed and debated over and over again. Another character, Soleman, obedient servant of Mr. Rafiq becomes irritating to Ruba since he has a rivalry with the local power holders. As Ruba seeks her memories in the home, she occasionally watches a man on a neighboring flat. The man notices this. With the man's efforts they finally get to be friends. But the orthodox mindset of the father desperately looks for ways to stop the developing relationship or perhaps a new hope for Ruba. The story ends with a pathetic turn of events; just like the title AHA!; (what a pity!) exemplifying the enigmatic sorrow wrapped with the old infrastructure of old Dhaka even today.
- DirectorShaheen Dill-RiazChittagong is a seaport in southern Bangladesh that has become the center of a thriving industry in the Third World -- breaking up old and obsolete ships and selling the scrap metal, usually to construction firms.
- DirectorTareque MasudStarsFazlul HaqueRabeya Akter MoniAli AhsanThe story of the film centers around the youth Ruhul, who lives with his family in a small hut next to the runway of the international airport. His mother Rahima struggles to support the family by selling milk from a cow bought with a micro credit loan. His sister Fatima works long hours in a garments factory. There's been no word from their father for over a month, since he left for a job in the Middle East. A Madras dropout, Ruhul spends his days wandering under the shadow of the planes, aimless and frustrated in his futile efforts to find work. One day at a cyber-cafe; he meets Arif, a computer savvy young man who exudes confidence and a sense of purpose. The world Arif introduces him to seems inspiring and new, but eventually Ruhul's life spirals into a nefarious netherworld of intolerance, violence and ultimately, death...
- DirectorMostofa Sarwar FarookiStarsShahir Huda RumiChanchal ChowdhuryNusrat Imrose TishaAs a leader of the local community, Chairman Amin bans every kind of image in his water-locked village in rural Bangladesh. He even goes on to claim that imagination is also sinful since it gives one the license to infiltrate into any prohibited territory. But change is a desperate wind that is difficult to resist by shutting the window. The tension between this traditional window and modern wind grows to such an extent that it starts to leave a ripple effect on the lives of a group of typically colorful, eccentric, and emotional people living in that village. But at the very end of the film, Television, which he hated so much, comes to the rescue and helps Chairman Amin reach a transcendental state where he and his God are unified. A new twist to the story makes him embrace IMAGE and IMAGINATION
- DirectorKamar Ahmad SimonRebuilding homes and lives after disaster strikes in Bangladesh.
- DirectorRubaiyat HossainStarsShahana GoswamiRahul BoseMita ChowdhuryUnder Construction is about a modern Muslim woman struggling to find herself in the sprawl of urban Bangladesh.
- DirectorAmitabh Reza ChowdhuryStarsChanchal ChowdhuryMasuma Rahman NabilaPartha BaruaA struggling actor becomes a professional impostor, hired to impersonate people for financial gain, but as he delves deeper into his work he becomes embroiled in trouble that threatens to unravel his life.
- DirectorShabnam FerdousiStarsSudhir BarmanMonwara ClarkeShabnam FerdousiIt was 1972. Bangladesh just had her independence. Director Shabnam Ferdousi was born at Holy Family Hospital, Dhaka and 12 more babies were born in that hospital on that very day. Later, Shabnam came to know five of them were war babies. Then an idea stuck her that she could have been one of the war babies. She got obsessed with the idea and began a new journey - a journey in search of her birth-mates.She tried to explore their lives. In doing so, She came face to face with colossal questions. The documentary Jonmosathi (Born Together) tends to deal with these queries.
- DirectorTauquir AhmedStarsShahiduzzaman SelimAshraful TusharMosharraf KarimThe coffin of an expatriate worker with manipulated identity intense the identity crisis when another person's corpse is found inside.
- DirectorAbdullah Mohammed SaadStarsMostafa MonwarTasnova TamannaTanvir Ahmed ChowdhuryIn a series of vignettes, a partially handicapped man lives his days in anguish as he tries to find a way to leave Dhaka.
- DirectorNoor Imran MithuStarsTauquir AhmedMosharraf KarimJoyraajAs the lives of rich and poor passengers aboard a steamship unfold, buried secrets, lustful affairs and selfish desires are exposed.
- DirectorMostofa Sarwar FarookiStarsIrrfan KhanNusrat Imrose TishaParno MittraA story surrounding a person named Javed Hasan and about his family, love, fallout and reunion.
- DirectorRubaiyat HossainStarsShahana GoswamiRikita Nandini ShimuShatabdi WadudShimu fled her village as a child when her stepmother threatened to marry her off to a middle-aged man. Now 23 and living in the capital, she works grueling hours for paltry sums at a textile factory while her husband searches for work.
- DirectorMd. Hafizur RahmanGiasuddin SelimStarsChanchal ChowdhuryFarhana MiliShirin AlamA housemaid is killed by a local landlord's son. His servant takes the blame for the murder, to save the landlord's mentally ill son and is marooned in an island named Monpura. There the servant comes across a fisherman's daughter.
- DirectorMejbaur Rahman SumonStarsChanchal ChowdhuryNasir Uddin KhanShohel MondolMiracles about the life story of fishermen.
- DirectorHumayun AhmedStarsBipasha HayatAsaduzzaman NoorAbul HayatIn the middle of the 1971;curfew is going on all over the Bangladesh. The liberation army is operated as effective guerrilla force - Badiul Alam is one them. Alam plans for starting guerrilla operation in the capital and hides himself in Mr. Matin's house. Mr. Matin lives with his loving wife Surma and two beautiful daughters Ratri and Opala. In association with other freedom fighters, Alam operates some successful guerrilla attacks against barbarous Pakistani military . But one after another his fellow freedom-fighters are getting caught by the military, tortured , murdered. Alam being shot and seriously injured is taken to Matin's house ; can he survive? Can he see the light of morning again ?
- 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.
- DirectorNasiruddin YousuffStarsJaya AhsanFerdous AhmedShampa RezaCommon people struggle during independence war of Bangladesh.
- 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.
- DirectorMorshedul IslamStarsArun SahaShubashishBulbul AhmedAn adventure story for young boys.
- DirectorMostofa Sarwar FarookiStarsZahid HasanShahiduzzaman SelimTariq Anam KhanAn apparently passive young man, Khorshed (Zahid Hasan), comes to Dhaka from a rural area looking for a job and a better life. He gets to stay with an uncle (Ahsanul Haq Minu) who literally robs him off every penny he has. A beautiful, flirtatious married woman next door (Rosey Siddiqui) is like a breath of fresh air in this hellhole. Khorshed is soon seen walking into a government bungalow, threatening an unsuspecting DC (Tariq Anam Khan) of Ratanpur and his PA (Shahiduzzaman Selim) that he is armed with a bomb (in a briefcase) and is not afraid to detonate it. Holding the government officials at gunpoint, he asks them to call up influential individuals of the region, including the SP (Masud Ali Khan) and ASP (Hasan Masood), leader of a youth organisation (Marzuk Russell), a leading cultural activist (Fazlur Rahman Babu), political leaders belonging to rival parties (Jayanto Chattopadhyay and Saleh Ahmed) and educationists (Amirul Haque Chowdhury and Tania Ahmed). After they all arrive, thinking they have been called upon to attend an urgent meeting with the DC, Khorshed makes his intentions clear. He reads out an eight-point demand and wants the parliament to pass new legislation to put an end to corruption.
- DirectorZahir RaihanStarsRazzakSuchandaShaukat AkbarA political satire of Bangladesh under the rule of Pakistan metaphorically, where an autocratic woman in one family symbolizes the political dictatorship of Ayub Khan in East Pakistan.
- DirectorHumayun AhmedStarsMamunTariq Anam KhanMunmun AhmedStory of a teenage boy who is hired by a colonial era landlord to entertain him until the annual flood is over.
- DirectorAbdullah Mohammed SaadStarsAzmeri Haque BadhonAfia Jahin JaimaKazi Sami HassanAn assistant professor at a local medical college, finds herself in a difficult position after witnessing a sexual assault where she knows both the victim and the perpetrator.
- DirectorRitwik GhatakStarsRosy SamadKabori SarwarRawshan ZamilAfter their wedding night, a fisherman's young wife is kidnapped on the Titas River in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh.
- DirectorBijonStarsMahmudur AnindoSheuly Akther JarinChinmoyee Gupta10-year-old Jamal loves his carefree life with his mum in rural Bangladesh, until the day his childhood friend and playmate is forced to become a child bride. Isolated and lost, Jamal finds the world a harsh reality when his hopes of getting new friends and attending school collide with his mother's past.
- DirectorAbdul Jabbar KhanStarsAbdul Jabbar KhanPurnima SenInam AhmedA group of bandits found a little injured boy and took him with them. Day by day, their cruelty level was rising. The police officer took bribes from the bandits leader. So some rebellious people had to fight against them.
- DirectorTanvir MokammelStarsMomtazuddin AhmedAfsana MimiTauquir AhmedAfter the partition of India in 1947, Shashikanta's family, like millions of other Hindu families of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), faced the dilemma of whether to migrate from the land in which they have been living for centuries. But Shashikanta Sengupta, an eccentric lawyer, stubbornly refuses to leave his motherland. Widower Shashikanta has two children, Minoti and Bidyut. Anuprava Devi is an affectionate old aunt who lives with the family. The family has a house in Narail, a small provincial town on the bank of the Chitra river. Some Muslim neighbors eye Shashaikanta's house. But the family refuse to migrate. Shashikanta's children Minoti and Bidyut are friends with the neighboring Muslim children- Badal, Salma and Nazma. Minoti and Badal become more than friends. The children grow up. Badal goes to Dhaka University. Those were the days in 1960's when the atmosphere of the universities was charged with political radicalism. Badal got involved in anti-military student movement and while participating in a demonstration for democracy was killed by police firing.Shashikanta's brother Nidhukanta is an idealist doctor who lives in their ancestral village on the other side of the Chitra River. During the 1964 riot between the Hindus and the Muslims, his daughter Basanti, a widow, is raped. Basanti commits suicide by drowning herself in the Chitra River. Nidhukanta's family migrate to India. All these untoward incidents happening around affect Shashikanta's failing health. He suffers a heart stroke and passes away. Minoti and Anuprava finally leave for the border en route to Calcutta.
- DirectorAbu SayeedStarsShabnurIlias KanchanAmirul Haque ChowdhuryA lower-middle class family in Bangladesh's capital city of Dhaka is going through hard times. Their father has gone blind and can no longer work, and most of the family's money has been wasted on their unemployed son Hiru, who refuses to work. All the family's problems fall on the shoulder of their beautiful daughter Tithi, who works as a prostitute to help the family. The film is a fairly non-judgmental look at the lives of Tithi, her family and the people she comes in contact with through her job.
- DirectorCatherine MasudTareque MasudStarsSara ZakerJayanto ChattopadhyayAbdul Momin ChowdhuryA mother and her son return to their home in Sylhet, Bangladesh after 15 years abroad and try to retrace their roots. Beginning with the death of the father of the family, the film proceeds with the central characters seeking a link to their lives.
- 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.
- DirectorTanvir MokammelStarsRaisul Islam AsadShami KaiserTamanna Yasmin TithiThe story of the life of Lalon Fakir, a great mystical saint, poet and folk singer, who is legendary in his native Bangladesh.
- DirectorTauquir AhmedStarsTauquir AhmedChanchal ChowdhuryTaskin SumiAn woman asks an unemployed guy to babysit her child. But she lost the baby and couldn't communicate the unemployed guy. He has to lead a miserable life with this child.
- DirectorSheikh Niamat AliMasihuddin ShakerStarsDolly AnowarRawshan ZamilSitara BegumA poor family returns to their village from Dhaka after The Great Bengal Femine 1943. This movie centers on their struggling life during the World War II period.
- DirectorChashi Nazrul IslamStarsKhosruMuradNantuThe movie is about the liberation war of Bangladesh at 1971. This historical movie say about the sacrifice people had to do for the freedom of their country.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorC.B. ZamanStarsSumonShakilBulbul AhmedA young boy was send to a child prison, where he tries to change the existed situation.
- 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.
- DirectorNurul Alam AtiqueStarsJaya AhsanShehzad ChowdhuryAshok BepariThe story revolves a complicated relationship between a female social worker and a drug addict.
- DirectorZahir RaihanStarsSumita DeviKhan Ataur RahmanSanjibA failed artist along with his family comes to city, then he falls in love with a woman who is an art piece of a rich art connoisseur amidst a national economic crisis.
- DirectorMorshedul IslamStarsGolan Razul BabuAfsar Uddin BhuiyanAmirul Haque ChowdhuryWith a tragic story of the life and death by 'Selim AL-Din', the famous director 'Morshedul Islam' created "Wheel". The movie "Chaka-The Wheel", released in 1994, revolves around a unclaimed body. The drivers ware forced to carry a unclaimed body in fear of local authority. But no address was found in that said village. In this way, they went one village to another one but did not go away from the body.
- DirectorBadal RahmanStarsPartho ShahidMomtazuddin AhmedSharmili AhmedThe only boy of a widow, went for a train trip to Dhaka to receive prize & visit his aunt's house. On this trip, he lost his money & suspected two men. He left the train & followed them. On the way, some local boys & an inexperienced investigation books reader uncle of one joined him.
- DirectorAmjad HossainStarsShabanaAlamgirAnwar HossainA story of poverty and hunger.
- DirectorMohiuddin AhmadStarsRazzakPrabir MitraAnju GhoshThe spiritual capability of a son of a pious man starts diminishing when he becomes weak onto a girl.
- DirectorKazi HayatStarsJohn Napier AdamsSuchoritaBulbul Ahmed