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8.3
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3.8
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Two Acres of Land (1953)
An impoverished man and his young son travel to Calcutta and look for work, in order to make money that'll save their ancestral land from being seized by a corporation.
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65
28
7.7
/2124/
64
/23/
56
/24/
3.6
/1058/
60
/4/

Devdas (1955)
Childhood sweethearts grow up in a small village with a love-hate relationship which changes to love when they mature.
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22
7.7
/1716/
65
/17/
68
/11/
3.6
/1018/
75
/1/

Madhumati (1958)
Two men take shelter in a derelict mansion situated in the countryside during a storm. One of the men suddenly becomes aware that he once visited this mansion in a past life; he recounts a story about when he was Anand, a painter, who fell in love with a tribal girl named Madhumati.
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70
13
7.7
/936/
73
/13/
60
/12/
3.6
/424/
71
/1/

Bandini (1963)
In 1930s British-ruled Bengal, a prison-doctor falls in love with a convicted murderer with past connections to a freedom fighter.
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13
7.6
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57
/9/
62
/12/
3.7
/387/
100
/5/

Sujata (1959)
An orphan adopted by an upper caste family never learns of her untouchable caste background. This proves problematic when years later, she falls in love with an upper caste man.
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6.7
/15/

Hamrahi (1945)
An idealistic writer from a humble background clashes with a wealthy capitalist who steals his work. When factory workers strike, the capitalist's sister, disillusioned by her privileged life, abandons her wealth to join the writer in his fight for social justice and equality for the poor.
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6.4
/13/
10
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Pehla Aadmi (1950)
It was 1943. Burma was under Japanese control. In Pegu, a small place near Burma lived two Indian families. They were neighbors Kumar and Lata loved each other. Their parents were also willing to see them engaged. Suddenly one day, it came out in the news paper the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had called on the people to give him blood so that he could give them freedom. Kumar was reluctant but later on he decided to join the INA.
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6.9
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50
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Tins for India (1941)
The manufacture of kerosene tins in an Indian factory.
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10
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Immortal Stupa (1961)
Documentary on the Great Stupa at Sanchi, built by the Emperor Ashoka, and adorned with some of the finest examples of Buddhist art in the world.
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7.7
/87/
40
/3/
65
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Prem Patra (1962)
Arun begins hating Kavita when he loses his scholarship due to a misunderstanding with her. But after his new fiancé asks Kavita to write Arun letters on her behalf, Kavita falls in love with him. An accident intertwines their futures.
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7.4
/42/
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/3/
57
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Udayer Pathey (1944)
Acclaimed director Bimal Roy’s debut feature about a struggling writer established him as an important Bollywood voice through its realistic portrayal of the simmering class conflicts in pre-independence India. Anup (Radhamohan Bhattacharya) loses his job writing speeches for a wealthy industrialist and decides to focus on finishing his novel. But when his former boss steals Anup’s unpublished book, he throws himself into socialist politics.
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60
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7.1
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54
/5/
57
/3/

Yahudi (1958)
In ancient Rome, a mourning Jewish man raises the kidnapped daughter of Roman royalty as his own - and she grows up without learning her true identity. Years later, she falls in love with a Roman prince.
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6.9
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10
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Maa (1952)
Chanderbabu (Nazir Hussain), a retired postmaster, lives in the village with his wife and two sons, Rajan (Paul Mahendra) and Bhanu (Bharat Bhushan). He continues to live there and work for the Zamindar, while his children are getting their education. Rajan is studying for his law exam. He is married to a girl (Padma) from a wealthy family whose haughty ways alarm and frightens him. Bhanu, the younger brother is fun-loving but studious. He gets influenced by the Nationalist Movement in the campus and stops his education in the last year of college. His father is disappointed and feels that Rajan is the one they can depend upon in their old age. Bhanu meets Meena (Shyama), and the two fall in love. Meera's father, Ramnarayan, is the school Principal and is impressed by Bhanu. He decides to get Meera married to Bhanu.
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7.2
/174/
41
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62
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Naukari (1954)
The comic, tragic and heartrending saga of Ratan Kumar Chaudhary, who leaves his village, aging mom and seriously ill sister, to obtain employment in Calcutta, only to end up in a tiny tenement apartment full of other unemployed youths.
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56
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7.5
/160/
35
/2/
60
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The Test (1960)
The postmaster of a village receives a check for 500,000 rupees, for the purpose of bequeathing it to the village’s most upstanding citizen.
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6.6
/68/
42
/4/
60
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Biraj Bahu (1954)
Nilambhar Chakravorty belongs to a poor family, and lives in a joint family with his married brother, Pitambar, unmarried sister, Punnu, and wife, Biraj. Since his sister is of marriageable age, he arranges her marriage, and borrows some money. When Pitambar comes to know about this, he refuses to share any expense in his sister's marriage, and decides to separate, resulting in a fence being put up between their homes. Nilambher, unable to find employment, is unable to pay back the loan, and soon both he and his wife barely have enough to live on. To complicate matters further, Deodhar, a wealthy young contractor has his eye on Biraj's beauty and would like to be intimate with her, in return for money and a better life.
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7.2
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/3/
65
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Parineeta (1953)
In Calcutta at the turn of the century, two families (one wealthier than the other but both belonging to the same caste) live in adjoining properties. Their respective patriarchs fall out over the repayment of a loan and the intervention of a member of a lower caste in the families' financial arrangements. The rift causes much heartache to the younger members of the families, two of whom have secretly plighted their troth to each other.
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Anjangarh (1948)
When a local mining company dares to provide its workers a fair wage for a fair day's work, and lets its workers unionize, the kingdom's villainous potentate is less than pleased. After considerable pressure, the company agrees to blame unrest in the region on a blameless worker collective.


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