Naalu Pennungal AKA Four Women

Year : 2007
Language : Malayalam
Country : India
Director : Adoor Gopalkrishnan

The film distills to a rare purity four tales of village women in south India. Their titles are elemental: The Prostitute, The Virgin, The Housewife and The Spinster. In each, a woman submits to a role society decides for her. Each role offers a paradox of freedom and bondage in nearly equal measure.

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Buddha Collapsed out of Shame

Year : 2007
Language : Persian
Country : Iran
Director : Hana Makhmalbaf

The youngest of the Makhmalbaf clan of Iranian filmmakers, Hana Makhmalbaf has made her second feature before the age of 20; though Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame has an economy and control directors twice her age couldn't manage.

Set in the Afghan town of Bamian, amid the rubble of the statues of Buddha blown up by the Taliban in 2001, the film follows the heartbreaking attempts of a six-year-old girl to take herself to school. The tenacious and cute Bakhtay's desire, in the absence of her mother, is not easily attained. And her allegorical travails, as she struggles first to find the money to buy a schoolbook, then to get past the barrier of boys "playing" Taliban in the desert – a game that includes putting a hood over the girl's head, threatening to stone her, and digging her grave – speaks volumes about the plight of women in her country.

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Nayagan

Year : 1987
Language : Tamil
Country : India
Director : Mani Ratnam

Godfather style epic movie, great one.

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Before the Rains

Year : 2008
Language : English, Malayalam
Country : India
Director : Santosh Sivan

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Pestonjee

Year : 1988
Language : Hindi
Country : India
Director : Vijaya Mehta

This movie certainly needs a very detailed review as it is a great movie with some awesome craft involved in building each and every character. Another must watch movie.

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Teesta

Year : 2008
Language : Bengali
Country : India
Director : Bratya Basu

Very strange movie. Shows the life of a very lonely young and beautiful lady Teesta, who slowly wins the sympathy of the viewer only to loose all of it as the movie moves forward, for what ? What the director wanted to show I have no clue.... There is some awesome scenic beauty of Darjeeling area though.

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Theeviravaathi: The Terrorist

Year : 1999
Language : Tamil
Country : India
Director : Santosh Sivan

Very very good movie, another great example of Santosh Sivan's craft. Must watch movie...

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Hatey Bazarey

Year : 1967
Language : Bengali
Country : India
Director : Tapan Sinha

Very One dimensional characters depicting fight btw good and evil. But brilliant acting by Ashok Kumar.

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Tahaan

Year : 2008
Language : Hindu
Country : India
Director : Santosh Sivan

Excellent Movie.

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Nimantran

Year : 1971
Language : Bengali
Country : India
Director : Tarun Majumdar

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