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Sampoorna Ramayanam (Complete Ramayana, Tamil;1956) (சம்பூர்ண ராமாயணம்) The epic of Ramayana has fascinated people for ages. It has b...

Port of Call (Hamnstad, Swedish; 1948) Director: Ingrid Bergman The reason I thought that this movie is of value is that it depicts h...

The Conformist (Italian, 1970) Director: Bernardo Bertolucci With rhetoric like "you're either with us or against us!",...

Tokyo Twilight (Tōkyō Boshoku, Japanese; 1957) Written and Directed by Yasujirō Ozu. Parents usually try to sugar-coat the family envir...

Odd Man Out (1947) Produced and Directed: Carol Reed This film, the first of Carol Reed's trilogy (the other two being ' The Fal...

Bandini (The Female Prisoner, Hindi; 1963) This must surely be one of the early female-centric Hindi movies with Nutan taking the leading...

Macbeth (2015) It is amazing that a writer in the 16th century can pen out such a play so intricate in its emotional interplay. This is, ...

Anna Karenina (2012) Leo Tolstoy is considered the greatest novelist of all time and his novel 'Anna Karenina', the greatest nov...

Shadows (1959) Director: John Cassevetes Another John Cassevetes' direction. This is his early effort at an independent un-main stre...

La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life, Italian; 1961) This is not your typical film with a beginning, build-up, climax, resolution and ending. Th...

Bal el Hadid (@ Cairo Station @ Iron Gate, Egypt 1958) Director:  Youssef Chahine Surprisingly, Egypt has a vibrant movie industry that d...

Public Enemy (1931) The first time I watched James Cagney was when RTM screened 1942 'Yankee Doodle Dandy'. It narrated the biogr...

Animal Farm (1954 animated film) Based on George Orwell's 1945 book Human beings are forever trying to evolve and trying very hard t...

The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru, Japanese; 1960) Director: Akira Kurosawa Films are made day in and day out but a cla...

Easy Rider (1969) This classic of the late 60s glorifies the counterculture spirit of that era. Even though it seem to showcase a decade...

Close up (Persian, 1989) Director Abbas Kiarostami This film opened the highly high quality Iranian cinematic scene to the Western worl...

Tengoku to Jigoku (Japanese, High and Low, a.k.a. Heaven and Hell; 1963) Director: Akira Kurosawa This suspense-filled police procedur...