Charachar
In this Indian drama a young man must cope with a job he is not really suited for. Lakhinder captures exotic birds from the Bengal forests. He is to sell them in Calcutta. Unfortunately he cannot bear to see them caged and always sets them free. He does not earn a lot of money as a result. His wife is angry at him, and begins having an affair with the man who takes the birds to the market. Lakhinder's partner's daughter understands his relationship to the birds. They come to visit him in his lonely hut.
Stars: Indrani Halder Laboni Sarkar Manoj Mitra Rajit Kapoor Sadhu Meher Shankar Chakraborty
Devdas
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 & leaves home. He becomes an alcoholic womanizer and falls in love with a courtesan. Paro tries to get Devdas away from drinking before he self destructs.
Stars: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Ananya Khare Dina Pathak Jackie Shroff Kirron Kher Madhuri Dixit Manoj Joshi Milind Gunaji Shah Rukh Khan Smita Jaykar
2 States
A man and a woman come from two very different cultural backgrounds, and decide that they won't get married until they convince their parents. As feared, differences between the families pose a hurdle.
Stars: Achint Kaur Alia Bhatt Amit Bhargav Amrita Singh Arjun Kapoor Aru Krishansh Verma Bikramjeet Kanwarpal Revathi Ronit Roy Shivkumar Subramaniam
Guide
After being released from prison for Forgery and Theft, Multi-linguist Raju (Dev Anand) reflects on his life as a Guide; his meeting with the daughter of a prostitute, Rosie (Waheeda Rehman), who was unhappily married to Marco (Kishore Sahu), and wants to take up acting and dancing as a career. Rosie separates and moves in with Raju and his mom (Leela Chitnis). Then both re-locate, and with Raju's encouragement, she succeeds in an acting and dancing career, resulting in both becoming very wealthy. He then succumbs to gambling, and alcohol, and forges Rosie's signature. He is arrested, tried in court, found guilty and imprisoned. Now discharged from prison, he changes his mind about returning home to his mother, and decides to go elsewhere and start afresh - a decision that will alter his life and way of thinking forever.
Stars: Anwar Hussain Dev Anand Gajanan Jagirdar Krishan Dhawan Leela Chitnis Praveen Paul Rashid Khan Ulhas Waheeda Rehman
Philomena
A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
Stars: Anna Maxwell Martin Barbara Jefford Judi Dench Mare Winningham Michelle Fairley Peter Hermann Ruth McCabe Sean Mahon Sophie Kennedy Clark Steve Coogan
Walk the Line
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
Stars: Dallas Roberts Dan John Miller Ginnifer Goodwin Joaquin Phoenix Johnathan Rice Reese Witherspoon Robert Patrick Shooter Jennings Tyler Hilton Waylon Payne
Public Enemies
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.
Stars: Billy Crudup Channing Tatum Christian Bale Domenick Lombardozzi Emilie de Ravin Giovanni Ribisi Johnny Depp Leelee Sobieski Marion Cotillard Stephen Lang
Call Me by Your Name
In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant.
Stars: Amira Casar Antonio Rimoldi Armie Hammer Elena Bucci Esther Garrel Marco Sgrosso Michael Stuhlbarg Timothée Chalamet Vanda Capriolo Victoire Du Bois
House of Sand and Fog
Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, and make enough money to send his son to college. However, the house is the legal property of former drug addict Kathy. After losing the house in an unfair legal dispute with the county, she is left with nowhere to go. Wanting her house back, she hires a lawyer and befriends a police officer. Neither Kathy nor Behrani have broken the law, so they find themselves involved in a difficult moral dilemma.
Stars: Ben Kingsley Frances Fisher Jennifer Connelly Jonathan Ahdout Kia Jam Kim Dickens Navi Rawat Ron Eldard Shohreh Aghdashloo
The Reader
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Stars: Alexandra Maria Lara Bruno Ganz David Kross Hannah Herzsprung Jeanette Hain Karoline Herfurth Kate Winslet Lena Olin Ralph Fiennes Volker Bruch
The Untouchables
Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most honorable one on the force. He asks Malone to help him get Capone, but Malone warns him that if he goes after Capone, he is going to war.
Stars: Andy García Billy Drago Brad Sullivan Charles Martin Smith Jack Kehoe Kevin Costner Patricia Clarkson Richard Bradford Robert De Niro Sean Connery
Seven Years in Tibet
Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Llaso, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.
Stars: BD Wong Brad Pitt Danny Denzongpa David Thewlis Duncan Fraser Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk Lhakpa Tsamchoe Mako Iwamatsu Victor Wong
Gumnaami
Gumnaami is a film based on the Mukherjee Commission Hearings which happened from 1999 to 2005 where the three theories about Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's death were discussed and debated. It is a dramatization of the hearings where an investigative journalist supporting the Gumnaami Baba theory locks horns with the official lawyer who supports the plane crash theory. In their clash, the Death in Russia theory also comes up.
Stars: Anirban Bhattacharya Prantik Banerjee Prosenjit Chatterjee Shibashish Bandopadhyay Tanushree Chakraborty
The Last King of Scotland
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
Stars: Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga Adam Kotz Barbara Rafferty David Ashton David Oyelowo Forest Whitaker Gillian Anderson James McAvoy Kerry Washington Simon McBurney
The Revenant
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
Stars: Domhnall Gleeson Duane Howard Forrest Goodluck Joshua Burge Kristoffer Joner Leonardo DiCaprio Melaw Nakehk'o Paul Anderson Tom Hardy Will Poulter
The Irishman
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
Stars: Al Pacino Anna Paquin Bobby Cannavale Harvey Keitel Joe Pesci Kathrine Narducci Ray Romano Robert De Niro Stephanie Kurtzuba Stephen Graham
Room
Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?
Stars: Amanda Brugel Brie Larson Cas Anvar Jacob Tremblay Joan Allen Joe Pingue Sean Bridgers Tom McCamus Wendy Crewson William H. Macy
Kai Po Che!
Three friends growing up in India at the turn of the millennium set out to open a training academy to produce the country's next cricket stars.
Stars: Ajay Jadeja Amit Sadh Amrita Puri Asif Basra Manav Kaul Rajkummar Rao Sushant Singh Rajput Tahir Raj Bhasin
Parineeta
They fall in love before they know its meaning, Lolita, orphaned at an early age & Shekhar, who reaches out & gives her the security she craves.They share joys & sorrows through childhood & adolescence,unknown to them the relationship of an unspoken right they hold over eachother metamorphs into an intense love, they don't even sense coming. It Takes and outsider for them to realize their love.
Stars: Amitabh Bachchan Dia Mirza Raima Sen Rekha Sharma Saif Ali Khan Sanjay Dutt Supriya Shukla Vidya Balan
Maqbool
The Scottish tragedy 'Macbeth' set in the contemporary underworld of India's commercial capital; two corrupt, fortune telling policemen take the roles of the weird sisters, and "Duncan" is Abbaji, the head of a crime family.
Stars: Ankur Vikal Irrfan Khan Manav Kaushik Masumeh Makhija Naseeruddin Shah Om Puri Pankaj Kapur Piyush Mishra Shammi Narang Tabu