Year

Film Title

Director

Duration

Ages

Colour

Information on Movie

Information on Director

1956

Aparajito (The Unvanquished)

Satyajit Ray

113 min.

all

Black and White

Apu Trilogy 2

Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), an Indian filmmaker and among the dozen or so great masters of world cinema, is known for his humanistic approach to cinema. He made his films in Bengali, a language spoken in West Bengal, the eastern state of India, and Bangladesh. In 1992, Satyajit Ray received the honorary Academy Award

1955

Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road)

Satyajit Ray

125 min

All

Black and White

Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), an Indian filmmaker and among the dozen or so great masters of world cinema, is known for his humanistic approach to cinema. He made his films in Bengali, a language spoken in West Bengal, the eastern state of India, and Bangladesh. In 1992, Satyajit Ray received the honorary Academy Award

1959

Apur Sansar (The World of Apu)

Satyajit Ray

106 min.

All

Black and White

Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), an Indian filmmaker and among the dozen or so great masters of world cinema, is known for his humanistic approach to cinema. He made his films in Bengali, a language spoken in West Bengal, the eastern state of India, and Bangladesh. In 1992, Satyajit Ray received the honorary Academy Award

1964

Charulata (The Lonely Wife)

Satyajit Ray

117 min.

15+

Black and White

Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), an Indian filmmaker and among the dozen or so great masters of world cinema, is known for his humanistic approach to cinema. He made his films in Bengali, a language spoken in West Bengal, the eastern state of India, and Bangladesh. In 1992, Satyajit Ray received the honorary Academy Award

1969

Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest)

Satyajit Ray

115 min.

Black and White

Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), an Indian filmmaker and among the dozen or so great masters of world cinema, is known for his humanistic approach to cinema. He made his films in Bengali, a language spoken in West Bengal, the eastern state of India, and Bangladesh. In 1992, Satyajit Ray received the honorary Academy Award

1974

Sonar Kella (The Fortress)

Satyajit Ray

136 min.

All. (for schools primarily)

Colour

Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), an Indian filmmaker and among the dozen or so great masters of world cinema, is known for his humanistic approach to cinema. He made his films in Bengali, a language spoken in West Bengal, the eastern state of India, and Bangladesh. In 1992, Satyajit Ray received the honorary Academy Award

1962

Abhijan (The Expedition)

Satyajit Ray

150 min.

Black and White

Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), an Indian filmmaker and among the dozen or so great masters of world cinema, is known for his humanistic approach to cinema. He made his films in Bengali, a language spoken in West Bengal, the eastern state of India, and Bangladesh. In 1992, Satyajit Ray received the honorary Academy Award

1958

Jalsaghar (The Music Room)

Satyajit Ray

93mins

15+

Black and White

Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), an Indian filmmaker and among the dozen or so great masters of world cinema, is known for his humanistic approach to cinema. He made his films in Bengali, a language spoken in West Bengal, the eastern state of India, and Bangladesh. In 1992, Satyajit Ray received the honorary Academy Award

1931

City Lights

Charlie Chaplan

86 min

All

Black and White

The Tramp falls in love with a blind girl in this, what would have been Chaplin’s last fully silent film if he had not been forced to add sound – with hilarious results. Charlie befriends a millionaire drunk in order to get money for his sweetheart’s operation. A charming and hilarious film that includes an unforgettable ending.

1925

The Gold Rush

Charlie Chaplan

95 mins.

All

Black and White

Considered by many to be Chaplin’s masterpiece and perhaps the finest comedy ever made, this original version of the immortal silent classic finds the Little Tramp caught under an avalanche of hilarious mishaps while in gold rush Yukon, including run-ins with a bear, a starving prospector, a cliff-hanging cabin and a meal as tough as boot leather. Co-stars Mack Swain, Georgia Hale. Special edition includes both the restored original 1925 version and the 1942 re-release version featuring an all-new music score and narration by Chaplin, with title cards deleted. 

1936

Modern Times

Charlie Chaplan

83 min

All

Black and White

Timeless Charlie Chaplin satire savagely critiques the industrial age and its dehumanizing effects on the working class. After his monotonous assembly line job leads to a stay in a mental asylum, Chaplin is released and encounters lovely hobo Paulette Goddard. Soon, his desire to make a better life for his new love leads to a side-splitting series of failed jobs and prison stays. Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford co-star. 

1940

The Great Dictator

Charlie Chaplan

All

In his first full talking film, Chaplin plays two roles, ruthless dictator Adenoid Hynkel of Tomania and a meek Jewish barber. An outlandish and poignant satire of Europe just before WWII, the film co-stars Paulette Goddard and Jack Oakie in his best role, as a Mussolini caricature.

1954

Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa

207 mins

All

Black and White

1950

Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa

17+

Black and White

1957

Throne of Blood

Akira Kurosawa

110 mins

14+

1957 film directed by Akira Kurosawa, which transposes the plot of William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth to medieval Japan. It is regarded as one of Kurosawa’s best films, and by many critics as one of the best film adaptations of Macbeth, despite having almost none of the play’s script

1980

Kagemusha

Akira Kurosawa

14+

1954

La Strada

Federico Fellini

108mins

15+

Black and White

1957

Wild Strawberries

Ingmar Bergman

17+

1957

Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman

17+

1978

Autumn Sonata

Ingmar Bergman

17+

1961

Komal Gandhar

Ritwik Ghatak

128mins

17+

Black and White

1960

Meghey Dhaka Tara

Ritwik Ghatak

120mins

15+

Black and White

1952

Nagrik

Ritwik Ghatak

106mins

15+

Black and White

1948

Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thief) (Bicycle Thieves)

Vittorio De Sica

90 mins

Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, Vittorio De Sica’s Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) defined an era in cinema. In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle, his main means of transportation for work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and dazzlingly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodied all the greatest strengths of the neorealist film movement in Italy: emotional clarity, social righteousness, and brutal honesty.