Bengali movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant bengali movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, suspense, emotional, psychological, dark and thrilling films and TV shows about / with bengali, friendship, investigation, betrayal, society, whodunit, murder, slow burn, village and death plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres shot in India, Brazil, UK and other countries.
bengali movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as bengali: Amazon Obhijaan (2017), Tintorettor Jishu (2008), Days and Nights in the Forest (1970), Devdas (2002), Samantaral (2017), Guptodhoner Sondhane (2018), Bhooter Bhabishyat (2012), Sound (2012), Chotushkone (2014), Baishe Srabon (2011).

List of bengali movies

Amazon Obhijaan (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: India, Brazil, UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Amazon Obhijaan will see daredevil adventurer Shankar Choudhury traverse the length and breadth of South America, including the legendary Amazon in search of the mythical city of gold.
Style: captivating, tense, exciting, scenic
Plot: map, expedition, rescue, father daughter relationship, gold, discovery, legend, explorer, sleeping, rebirth, tree, night ...
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Tintorettor Jishu (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Feluda, the famous Bengali detective tackles an international buyer, a corrupt arts agent, numerous henchmen and impostors in this story that revolves around a painting of Jesus by the famous Italian painter Tintoretto.
Style: detective, thrilling, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: feluda, investigation, art theft, painter, painting, uncover truth, police detective, crime solving, sleuth, crime investigation, police investigation, theft ...
Place: india, kolkata
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The Eunuch and the Flute Player (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Parimal is a woman trapped in a man’s body who runs away from home and joins a ghetto of eunuchs as Puti and sings at traffic signals to earn money. There she falls in love with Madhu, a delivery boy with a Chinese restaurant who moonlights as a ...
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling, poignant, emotional ...
Plot: lgbt, transgender, lgbtq, desire for fame, trans woman, self discovery, relationships, social problems, problem, life is a bitch, relationship problems, identity crisis ...
Place: india, kolkata
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Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Four friends from Calcutta who have very different personalities make a holiday excursion into the country, to a tiny village in the state of Bihar where they set themselves up in a bungalow. A series of minor events, all connected to their ...
Style: epic, realistic, serious, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: summer, friends, forest, holiday, self discovery, countryside, male friendship, love and romance, buddies, social differences, wooing, woods ...
Time: year 1970, 20th century, 60s
Place: india
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 7.6
 52K
Devdas (2002)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story: Devdas is sent away by his father so he can improve himself but upon his return his father still doesn’t welcome him back. Devdas and Paro are in love but Paro is a lower caste and is set to be married to an older widower. Devdas is devastated ...
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, weeping, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, forbidden love, love triangle, alcoholic, losing-it hero, true love, love, unrequited love, prostitution, prostitute, drunkenness, stepmother stepdaughter relationship ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 1900s, 90s, 21st century
Place: india, london, kolkata, asia, europe ...
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 7.6
 1K
Samantaral (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 114 min.
Story: On a family visit, a young man and his girlfriend set out to discover why his eccentric uncle has been mysteriously confined to one room for years.
Style: suspenseful, emotional, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family drama, mental health, social problems, family problems, eccentric family, life is a bitch, secret, uncle nephew relationship, family secret, empathy, intimate ...
Place: india, kolkata
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Guptodhoner Sondhane (2018)
Genre: Adventure
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Subarna Sen, an Oxford University professor, travels to India after the death of his maternal uncle. He learns that his uncle's palace has a hidden treasure and decides to find it.
Style: captivating, entertaining, light hearted, suspense, detective ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: treasure hunt, adventurer, treasure, teamwork, investigation, treasure hunter, hidden treasure, quest, village, treasure map, folklore, humour ...
Place: kolkata, india
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Bhooter Bhabishyat (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A young director listens to a hilariously scary story narrated by a stranger, where a group of ghosts try to save the only place they can haunt in peace.
Style: humorous, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, killing, supernatural power, evil, fear, violence, escapades, good versus evil, deadly creature, murder, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kolkata, india
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 8.1
 2K
Sound (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The film revolves around the life of Tarak, a foley artist of Bengali film. Tarak's job is to create ambient sounds for films, but, he gradually gets trapped in his own world, a world full of sound.
Style: art house, thought provoking, serious, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot: character study, obsession, creative process, isolation, alienation, realism, intimate, family conflict, identity crisis, mental health, slow burn, slice of life ...
Place: kolkata
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 8.2
 4K
Chotushkone (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Four famous directors and old friends are reunited together by an unknown producer to make a film. They have to make four short story in this film with one common theme: Death.
Style: suspense, anthology, thought provoking, psychological thriller, art house ...
Plot: death, creative process, guilt, friendship, regret, road trip, dark humor, slow burn, inspiration, revenge, literary, producer ...
Place: kolkata
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Baishe Srabon (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Several murders have taken place through out the city of Kolkata. A Serial killer is believed to be responsible. The mods operandi being that the killer always caries out the murder according to verses in Bengali poetry. He leaves behind the verses ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, talky, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder mystery, killer, murder investigation, investigator, youth, law enforcement, heroes, violence, testimony, graphic violence, partners against crime ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: kolkata, india
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The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Goopy and Bagha are banished from the kingdom for being bad musicians. However, with their skills, they succeed in pleasing the king of ghosts who grants them three wishes.
Style: horror spoof
Plot: supernatural horror, incompetence, bad singing, forest, magical power, capture, ghost, exile, tiger, king, escape, singing ...
Place: kolkata, india
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Byomkesh Bakshi (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Set against the backdrop of The Partition, Byomkesh Bakshi and his assistant Ajit must solve the murder of the head of the dysfunctional Halder family.
Style: detective, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot: murder, investigation, uncover truth, problem, teamwork, murder investigation, crime solving, crime investigation, sleuth, who done it, whodunit, literary ...
Time: 1940s
Place: kolkata, india
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 7.7
 1K
Noukadubi (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Rameshchandra Chaudhry, a lawyer by profession, is in love with Hemnalini, and is displeased when he finds that his father wants him to marry Sushilla, the daughter of a widow. He initially refuses despite of his father disowning him, but changes ...
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, serious, touching
Plot: true love, fall in love, unfulfilled love, mistaken identity, family relations, dishonesty, moral dilemma, love and romance, unfulfillment, disorder, parents and children, husband ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: kolkata, india, asia
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Hemlock Society (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Hemlock Society is a school that teaches aspirants how to successfully commit suicide. Meghna, one of the aspirants, has a near-death experience, turning everybody's lives upside-down.
Style: psychological, social, thought provoking, satirical, thrilling ...
Plot: mental health, suicide, depression, changing lives, love affair, relationship problems, problem, relationships, couple relations, male female relationship, hopes, empathy ...
Place: kolkata, india
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 8.9
 31K
Mirror Game (2016)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Ayna is an actor and the prison is his stage. He slips into the characters of the powerful convicted in exchange of money and take their place in prison. This strange profession is borne out of a society that doesn't give him a chance to follow ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: deception, actor, identity, prison, double life, survival, moral ambiguity, illusion, impostor, character study, identity crisis, corruption ...
Time: 2010s
Place: bangladesh
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The Adversary (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Siddhartha Chowdhury, a brilliant medical student, is forced to leave his studies after his father's sudden demise. He is forced to navigate the high unemployment rate and the communist socio-political climate of 1960s Calcutta in search of a ...
Style: art house, biting, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: unemployment, underworld, love letter, job interview, medical student, job seeking, fighting the system, politics, youth, life is a bitch, society, rebellion ...
Time: 70s
Place: kolkata, india, asia
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The Middleman (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A bright and idealistic young graduate steels himself for a dog-eat-dog world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls. When he eventually decides to start his own business as a middle-man, he discovers that the ...
Style: art house, realistic, serious, biting, tense ...
Plot: job, depression, underworld, unemployment, injustice, life is a bitch, society, social misfits, unfulfillment, betrayal, downfall, youth ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: india, asia
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Hatyapuri (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Pradosh C. Mitter AKA Feluda, Topshe, and Lalmohan Ganguly go to Puri for vacation. One evening, the trio spot odd footprints on the sand. Later, Lalmohan goes to meet Lakshman, an astrologer who is presumably gifted with extrasensory perception. ...
Style: detective, suspense, captivating, thrilling, tense ...
Plot: murder, investigation, sleuth, feluda, beach, secret, murder mystery, uncover truth, murderer, forensics, crime investigation, murder investigation ...
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Byomkesh Phire Elo (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Byomkesh is called upon for help by police to solve the murder mystery of a wealthy old man Benimadhab and his servant Meghraj. He and Ajit finds the case submerged in crooked intentions of family members.
Style: psychological thriller, detective, suspenseful, twisted, atmospheric ...
Plot: murder, investigation, family secret, whodunit, family drama, double murder, suspicion, betrayal, greed, interrogation, domestic drama, police procedural ...
Place: kolkata
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 7.9
 2K
Antaheen (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Antaheen follows the lives of three couples in tumultous relationships, who lead different lives but are connected by the infinite struggles and pain each of them goes through.
Style: romantic drama, existential
Plot: relationships, longing, bittersweet, realism, soul searching, introspection, tenderness, estranged couple, slice of life, journalism, melancholy, misunderstanding ...
Place: kolkata, india
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 7.4
 3K
Autograph (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Arun, a famous Bengali actor, approves Shuvobrata's proposal of remaking Satyajit Ray's famous film 'Nayak'. Problems arise when Shuvobrata requests his live-in girlfriend Shrin to act opposite Arun.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, romantic drama, meta ...
Audience: adult
Plot: celebrity, filmmaking, behind the scenes, cinema, multiple storylines, lifestyle change, changing lives, actress, filmmaker, conflict, tribute, fame ...
Place: kolkata, india
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 8.0
 3K
Jaatishwar (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Rohit, a Gujarati, studies the life of Anthony Firengee, and in the process meets with a mysterious man Kushawl Hajra.
Style: captivating, emotional, art house, melancholic, period drama
Plot: poet, biopic, reincarnation, life, musician's life, love and romance, historical character, music, relationships, lifestyle, historical figure, musician ...
Time: 19th century
Place: kolkata
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Apur Panchali (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family, History
Country: India
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Arko, a film student, invites Subir Banerjee, who played the legendary role of Apu, to attend an award ceremony in Germany. But the old man hesitates to accept the invitation.
Style: poignant, reflective, emotional, melancholic
Plot: legacy, nostalgia, character study, film history, biopic, memory, old age, bittersweet, tribute, introspection, film industry, regret ...
Place: kolkata, germany
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Har Har Byomkesh (2015)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Famed detective Byomkesh Bakshi investigates the murder of a man who had just thrown a party to celebrate his recovery from a long illness.
Style: detective, suspense, twist ending, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: whodunit, investigation, mysterious death, murder mystery, male protagonist, family secret, illicit affair, moral ambiguity, betrayal, jealousy, family drama, slow burn ...
Time: 60s
Place: kolkata
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Royal Bengal Rahasya (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Feluda alias Pradosh Mitra, a private detective is invited by a rich former Zamindar (and a retired big game hunter) in North Bengal. The task is to solve a riddle which was written by an ancestor long time ago. The riddle ostensibly contains clue ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, dark, psychological ...
Plot: feluda, fear, woods, urban legend, treasure, jungle adventure, unsolved mystery, mysterious place, survival, profanity, panic, spell ...
Place: india, kolkata
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The Lonely Wife (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband Bhupati devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage, he sees her loneliness and asks his brother-in-law,Umapada to keep her company. At the same time ...
Style: intelligent, black and white, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: illicit affair, affair, hindu, family relations, summer, indian woman, newspaper editor, infidelity, writers, love and romance, couple relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: india, kolkata
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Joi Baba Felunath (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Set in the holy city of Benares, this is the second film about the detective Feluda, in which he goes for a holiday along with his cousin, Topshe and his friend, Lalmohan Ganguly. But the theft of a priceless deity of Lord Ganesh (the Elephant God) ...
Style: suspense, detective, crime thriller, cult classic, epic
Plot: feluda, investigation, theft, villain, suspicion, adaptation, wit, street life, cat and mouse, pilgrimage, folklore, friendship ...
Place: kolkata, india
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 8.0
 5K
The Stranger (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: India, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, ...
Style: contemplative, semi serious, thought provoking, psychedelic, extraordinary
Plot: hardcore, travel, suspicion, family relations, long lost relative, stranger, inheritance, interrogation, friends, uninvited guest, disorder, introspection ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: kolkata, india, asia
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The Japanese Wife (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Snehmoy (Rahul Bose) and Miyage (Chigusa Takaku) are pen friends who exchange wedding vows through letters. Fifteen years pass but they never meet. Yet the bond of marriage is strong between them. This unusual relationship comes under a cloud when a ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, offbeat, philosophical ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lovers apart, looking for love, couples, love triangle, unfulfillment, pen pal, friendship, society, interracial, telephone call, unfulfilled love, cure ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, india, kolkata, asia
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