Bangladeshi movies

A 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.

A story following the life of Ranu (Joya Ahsan) and her paranormal powers. She goes to psychiatrist Misir Ali (Chanchal Chowdhury) to find an answer to all her questions.

A 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.

In this tragic-comic study of religious hypocrisy, a disreputable cleric convinces villagers that their community is home to a famous holyman"s grave.

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

Osman 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.

Chittagong 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.

The 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...

Amar Bondhu Rashed, a fictional story based on the Liberation War of Bangladesh and written by the popular children"s literature Dr Mohammad Jafar Iqbal

As 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

Rebuilding homes and lives after disaster strikes in Bangladesh.

Under Construction is about a modern Muslim woman struggling to find herself in the sprawl of urban Bangladesh.

A 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.

The coffin of an expatriate worker with manipulated identity intense the identity crisis when another person"s corpse is found inside.

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

A story surrounding a person named Javed Hasan and about his family, love, fallout and reunion.

Based on 1947"s book "Ekoi Namer Golpo" by Hasan azizul Haque.

Set in the riverside Chandpur suburbs of the "90s, "Swapnajaal" at its core is the story of Opu (Yash Rohan) and Shuvra (Pori Moni), two teenagers in "young love". Their blooming romance take a dramatic turn south when conniving influential businessman Aynal Gazi (Fazlur Rahman Babu), with the help of his trusted aide Thandu (Iresh Zaker) tactfully oust Shuvra and her family from their home. Opu fights back to bring justice to Shuvra"s family and to get back his love, but even after justice is served, there are bigger obstacles on the way to their reunion.

As the lives of rich and poor passengers aboard a steamship unfold, buried secrets, lustful affairs and selfish desires are exposed.

A 40 year old painter, who lives in a wooden and bamboo house on stilts in the middle of a polluted lake on the outskirts of Dhaka City. Alpha"s house serves as his painting. Dogs, roosters and birds also share the space with him. There are many moments when he feels a oneness with nature and with the birds and animals that surround him. He also feels deeply drawn to "an androgynous" male-female identity. Alpha has neighbors in the nearby slum with whom he has close interaction.

Shimu 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.

A tragic story of a mother who dedicates her only child for the sake of the freedom of the country during liberation war in 1971.

A daring Bangladeshi teenager attempts to help her struggling family by disguising herself as a boy and driving her father"s prized rickshaw for much needed extra money. Based on the acclaimed novel by Mitali Perkins.

An 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.

Miracles about the life story of fishermen.