A powerful clash between science and religion, the morally led and the morally defunct. Dr Ashok Gupta finds that the local holy water is severely polluted, but none of the authorities are interested because of the financial benefits that the holy place entices. As the idealistic doctor gathers together those with like-minded concerns the scene builds towards an inevitable conflict. A strong, beautiful and touching adaptation by Satyajit Ray of the original Ibsen play. find out more...

This is the middle story of Satyajit Ray's Bengali trilogy and, after Pather Panchali, we find Apu on the cusp of adulthood. The young lad moves with his family to Benares but with the death of his father, Apu's desire to continue his learning is affirmed and as his passion for knowledge grows so he and his mother find themselves drifting apart, especially as he wants to leave home and go to Calcutta to study. Aparajito is a beautifully drawn film and an immaculate observation of the characters find out more...

Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage, he sees her loneliness and asks his brother-in-law, Umapeda, a would-be writer, to keep her company. At this point Bhupati's cousin, Amal, visits and spends a long vacation and, after several months, Charu and Amal's feelings for each other move beyond friendship and toward tragedy. A classic piece of early drama from the great Satyajit Ray. find out more...

After being attacked and robbed one night in Kuala Lumpur, Hsiao Kang, a homeless Chinese man, is rescued and taken in by some itinerant workers. One of them, Rawang, lets him share his old mattress that he found on the street. Later, when Chyi, a waitress at a coffee shop meets Hsiao Kang, she is filled with lustful desire. As Hsiao Kang slowly recovers, he finds himself caught between Rawang, Chyi and her female boss; but as a heavy haze descends on the city these men and women and the old mat find out more...

Since the death of his wife Gurupada has been going through a state of deep mental unrest. On his way back from Benaras he encounters Birinchi, a Babaji who claims to be ageless, and Gurtupada becomes his disciple. find out more...

First installment of "The Apu Trilogy". Apu, the young son of an impoverished family, begins life in a small Bengali village. Here he tastes his first experiences of the world some happy, some sad, but always portrayed with compassion and a realism that's almost painful. Poetic and stunning. find out more...

Now well into adulthood and living in Calcutta, where he struggles to get by as a writer, Apu becomes married to the beautiful Aparna, a relationship that quickly develops into one of genuine love; but a terrible tragedy leaves Apu's world in tatters and in his grief he runs from the place he has long come to know as home. 'The World Of Apu' is the final part in Satyajit Ray's trilogy and fittingly it's a stunning emotional masterpiece. find out more...