魏斯·安德森改編羅爾德·達爾廣受喜愛的故事，講述一個有錢人決心把一門特異功能練到爐火純青，以便詐賭成精。
地主納拉彥的兒子德夫達（沙魯克·汗飾）生來富貴，他在一個富庶的村莊裏長大，少兒時代和可愛的玩伴帕蘿（艾西瓦婭·雷飾）青梅竹馬。 他們一起長大，彼此之間擁有一種特殊的感情，不顧社會地位和家庭背景的不同，他們之間的感情與日俱增。 這種感情逐漸變成了愛情，但二人都沒有說破。 美好的夢想隨著德夫達的家人把他送到倫敦讀書而破滅了。 得知德夫達的離去，帕蘿感覺自己的世界崩塌了，她默默祈禱希望自己的愛人早日歸來。 十年過去了，德夫達學成返鄉。 他被帕蘿令人目眩的美麗所征服，渴望她做自己的新娘。 但他的父親對帕蘿母親的提親十分傲慢，這導致了兩個家庭間的不和，儘管德夫達試圖說服父親，但父親堅決不同意。 德夫達的嫂嫂庫姆德又挑撥帕蘿母親蘇米特拉和德夫達母親卡薩亞的關係，卡薩亞拒絕接受帕蘿做兒媳，理由是門不當戶不對，並在公開場合辱駡了帕蘿的母親。 帕蘿的母親發誓一定會把帕蘿嫁入比德夫達家更有錢的貴族家庭。 德夫達與帕蘿决定私奔，但是被德夫達的父親發現，帕蘿再次受到羞辱。 德夫達離家出走，並且給帕蘿留下一封信，讓她忘記自己，但他沒有意識到自己是永遠不可能忘記帕蘿的。 許久之後，當德夫達再次開始追求帕蘿時已經太晚了。 帕蘿感到羞耻，她嘲笑了他的懦弱，只能傷心分離。 加之小人離間，傷心欲絕的帕蘿聽從母親的安排遠嫁他鄉，無奈嫁給了豪門的年長鰥夫。 心碎的德夫達陷入痛苦的深淵，他酗酒，沉浸在酒精的麻醉當中，並通過朋友楚尼結識了舞女嬋佐穆琪（瑪杜麗·迪克西特飾），但是始終無法消除失去帕蘿的痛苦。 舞女嬋佐穆琪理解德夫達的痛苦並傾心喜歡他，對他一往情深，但德夫達無法忘懷帕蘿，嬋佐穆琪始終無法取代帕蘿的位置，無法獲取他的心。 與此同時，帕蘿婚後盡守婦道，但心中卻無時不在思念德夫達。 德夫達思念成疾，因酗酒已經病入膏肓，他抱病跋山涉水來到帕蘿跟前，只為了再看她最後一眼。 就這樣，德夫達懷着對昔日戀人帕蘿的愛情走向了生命的終結。 最後他實現了自己的諾言——死在了帕蘿的家門口。
In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art. But over time a sexual attraction develops, with heartbreaking results. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation and Merchant and Ivory Foundation in 1996.
Life at home changes when a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta gets a job as a salesperson.
Apu is a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer. An old college friend talks him into a visit up-country to a village wedding. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1996.
Aparajito picks up where the first film leaves off, with Apu and his family having moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Varanasi (then known as Benares). As Apu progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother. This tenderly expressive, often heart-wrenching film, which won three top prizes at the Venice Film Festival, including the Golden Lion, not only extends but also spiritually deepens the tale of Apu. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1996.
Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.
Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the prostitutes when she met and became friends with their children. Briski began giving photography lessons to the children and became aware that their photography might be a way for them to lead better lives.
Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.
Amitabha Roy is a Calcutta-based scriptwriter, driving around in the country to collect material for a film. His vehicle breaks down in a small town. A tea planter, Bimal Gupta, offers hospitality for the night. Amitabha is forced to accept the offer as he has no alternative.
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
Siddhartho Chowdhury, a brilliant young 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 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.
A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.
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, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.
Kanchan, all of eight years old, is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, until he reaches there.
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
When he was cutting "Phantom India," Louis Malle found that the footage shot in Calcutta was so diverse, intense, and unforgettable that it deserved its own film. The result, released theatrically, is at times shocking—a chaotic portrait of a city engulfed in social and political turmoil.
The chronicles of Shyamalendu Chatterjee, an ambitious and self-made young man, as he rises his way up the corporate ladder. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2001.
The film is about youngsters and the story of the film revolves around a young sheltered man who suddenly discovers life when he comes out on to the streets one day.
An agonizing tale of love and desire, focusing on the difference of power, social values and respect for others among the different classes of the society.