Best Bangladeshi drama movies

Arindam, a matinee idol, is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by Aditi, a journalist who somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview. Arindam, won over by Aditi's naivete, starts to disclose his past, his fears and his secrets.

A heartbreaking tale of a poor yet honest young man as lies, conspiracies and a horrible betrayal by his rich and influential employer leads his life towards uncertainty.

A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices her own happiness for her unappreciative family.

When eight sailors onboard their fishing trawler find a mysterious girl mid-sea, ill fortune falls upon the boat as they don't catch any fish the next few days. The fishermen try to make it back home, although the sea has other plans for them.

A girl with extraordinary powers goes to a psychiatrist for a solution. Debi: Misir Ali Prothombar or simply Debi is a 2018 Bangladeshi supernatural thriller film based on Humayun Ahmed's novel of the same name. It is directed by Anam Biswas, starring Chanchal Chowdhury as Misir Ali, Jaya Ahsan, Iresh Zaker, Animesh Aich, and Sabnam Faria.

A migrant worker's passing leads authorities on a wild goose chase on his identity and what to do with his corpse.

A devout village leader prohibits an array of modern devices, but when his strict measures go too far, the locals rise up in popular rebellion.

The story of the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 as seen through the eyes of a young boy.

An in-depth look at the lives and struggles of a fishing community living by the River Titas in Bangladesh after the Partition of India in 1947.

A Tale of Touch. ‘Kacher Manush Dure Thuiya’: is a story of going away for the needs of life, and returning to the stirring of feelings. This long-distance relationship saga unveils the poignant struggles of lovers separated by thousands of miles – a narrative steeped in the complexities of distance, evoking doubt, mistrust, anger, and resentment, ultimately culminating in separation. It's a poignant portrayal of the profound longing for physical closeness, encapsulated in the simple yet profound act of a hug, bridging the chasm between distant hearts.

A group of four friends, on the verge of the end of their academic life sets on a tour to Cox's Bazaar. Expecting to live their life at the fullest. But some unexpected events that take place on the tour make their worlds go upside down.

University students aspire to visit a beach named Saint Martin.

A middle-class family shelters a freedom fighter in war-torn Dhaka.

A stealthy criminal gang targets Dhaka city for a series of attacks. To bust the terrorist organization, an elite police force embarks on a risky operation.

A married woman on journey from Mumbai to Howrah by train meets her ex-husband.

After an old college friend offers him a job at an iron foundry, the upright and honest Ishwar leaves a shanty town on the outskirts of Calcutta where he lives with a group of refugees from East Bengal. With plans to forge a solid living for himself, sister Sita and Abhiram, an orphaned boy he offers a home to, Ishwar is accused of selling out and deserting his people.

A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world.

The end of the world forces two sisters together, inside a mosquito net, just to live on—but first they must survive each other.

The story of the life of Lalon Fakir, a great mystical saint, poet and folk singer, who is legendary in his native Bangladesh.

Detective Feluda, with the help of his nephew Topshe and the writer Jatayu, investigates smuggling and illegal trading in ancient sculptures across India.

The story revolves around a brave heart Barun Biswas, who raised voice against numerous gang rapes in a village called Dukhiya. Dukhiya, where gang rapes had become a festival. These were celebrated by some political criminals.

Bilkis Banu lost her husband Hasan on the night of 25th March 1971. She tries to forget him and concentrate on the urban guerrilla movements of Dhaka with Altaf Mahmud, Shahadat, Mrs Khan and many more. But when spies and the razakars inform them, most of their people get arrested and Bilkis has to run for her life, towards her village.

Refugees from East Pakistan flee West Pakistani soldiers aboard a rickety steamboat.

Truck Driver Samad meets a strange and mysterious character named Jamshed who claims to be from the future. As the story unfolds, Samad becomes more confused whether this man is a fortune-teller or some sort of spiritual person or just a fraud. Thus Samad starts a two days long journey with this mystery-man and through that journey, Samad gradually loses grip of his reality and existance.

While shooting a documentary on true love, Pramit learns of a mysterious village named Mohini where anyone who enters will fall in love. He and his camerman decide to seek out this strange place.

Based on a true story- A group of robbers broke into a house at night with the intention of committing robbery. The house was inhabited by two young girls and a disabled child and their mother. Not getting the desired money, the robbers started torturing them. And they were raped them more than once and after the rape everyone was killed by cutting their throats.

A political satire of Bangladesh under the rule of Pakistan metaphorically, where an autocratic woman in one family symbolizes the political dictatorship of Ayub Khan in East Pakistan.

Two people from two poles. One is the complete opposite of the other. Not nineteen-twenty; This is like a difference of nineteen-forty-nine. But what happens when two people with different tastes and preferences come under the same roof? Love are like a jigsaw puzzle. Torn pieces, one does not match the size of the other. But the whole picture is made by combining those pieces sitting side by side. The difference is their match! Separation is the birth of their love!

Adi is devastated after his girlfriend's death while Nayantara is left in shock after her boyfriend leaves her. Adi and Nayantara get married to each other but find it difficult to forget their past.

A manifestation of lives of people coming from different classes and beliefs in a steamer as they set out for their journeys. Things start to get out of hand when the steamer gets stuck amidst the passage and deepest secrets and desires start to unfold.

A teenage boy is hired along with the music group of his father by a Zamindar (landlord) for entertaining him until the annual flood is over in the Haor region of East Bengal. But the boy finds out that he has to do something more than the rest of the members of the group are required- he has to satisfy the landlord sensually as well. The wife of the landlord cannot stand this new 'rival' of hers and conspires to kill the boy.

The barren wife of a rich man allows him to marry a younger woman in order to have a child.

A young woman is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies. Based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore.

Hasu is a young, innocent village boy. He has none to be called as a family in this world. That's why he has made all the villagers his family members. Hasu's life revolves around the love of his life-Kajol and his childhood friend-Anis. When finally Hasu is going to be settled and live happily ever after with Kajol, life takes an unexpected turn and everything falls apart. When Hasu's love and friendship are at stake, what will Hasu do?

On the eve of Eid, a grumpy, miserly loner Jahangir is visited by three mysterious guests, claiming to be ghosts. As they make him revisit his past, Jahangir is forced to confront the life he has built in bitterness and solitude. A heartwarming tale of regrets, memories and rediscovering love and laughter.

An eight-year-old city boy Shuvo is restricted from mixing with others. He goes to spend the summer holiday in the village with his grandmother and enjoys freedom for the first time. Here, Shuvo meets Moinna whom everybody believes is a "bee fated" boy that gets attacked by the bees wherever he goes. Bitten by honey bees, recently Moinna has been captivated at home under the strict surveillance of his mother. Feeling claustrophobic, Moinna conspires with his younger brother Anaira to get out of home exploiting Shuvo. Wandering around the village with Moinna, Shuvo starts discovering a new world but suddenly Moinna is found missing.

Ravi and Masha are just children when they were sold into labour by their parents. When they meet, friendship blossoms between them but when the factory manager threatens to sell Masha, possibly into sex slavery, Ravi gives up his hard earned savings to buy her freedom. They agree on a way to find each other once Ravi has earned enough money to buy his freedom but a series of misunderstandings and fear tear them apart. Though they now have their freedom in life, they have to find their way in love.

A servant boy's world is turned upside down by the arrival of a guest.

During the Bangladeshi war for independence in 1971, a group of people flee from their villages towards a safe border.

A Bangla drama featuring Afran Nisho, Tanjin Tisha, Ziaul Haq Polash and many more.

Life story of a street singer and his little daughter who live from hand to mouth by singing and their day-to-day experiences while performing in the streets.

A beggar called Lyangra (the cripple guy), who lives at the railway station, regularly goes to the house of Kaala, a drug dealer, to buy his weed from him. When kaala's wife sohagi catches his eye, lyangra starts trying to get closer to kaala and eventually has an affair with sohagi. when kaala finds out he beats sohagi and she runs away with lyangra to his hometown. when she hears there that lyangra is a convicted murderer, who runs away from place to place just to avoid his sentence, sohagi gets scared and she wants to return to kaala.

An architect falls in love with his client's daughter.

An anthology series consisting of three episodes: unheard stories from the history of Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), set in distinct timelines of 1952 (Shobder Khowab), 1970 (Lights, Camera...Objection) and 1971 (Bunker Boy)

An assistant professor at a medical college balances her roles as a professional, a mother and a teacher. Her life changes once she witnesses an unexpected incident involving a female student.

Rahmat, a fruit seller from Kabul, comes to Bengal Province to hawk his merchandise and becomes friend of a small girl Mini, daughter of a Bengali writer.

Ovi is suffering from clinical depression. To overcome it, he visits Morshedpur and enters a house being their paying guest. Few days later, he receives a call in the landline of that house and get introduced to Sarah. Thus their story starts. All of a sudden something happens and Ovi realises that no matter how much they tries it's kind of impossible for them to meet. What is the reason?

Everyday Samrat wakes up with the sound of the quarreling of her parents. He doesn't like to study rather he feels comfort and forgets everything when he is in the playground or having fun with friends in the tea-tong of markets. One day their Bangla teacher tells them that the best student will get a chance to go to the picnic. That grew attention in Samrat to go to the picnic for the first time of his life. Out of the, he started studying hard. But suddenly his dad becomes sick, but that doesn't grab any attention of Samrat rather he keeps himself busy with study.

'Pett Kata Shaw' is the modern revival of the mysterious and lurid plots of traditional folk tales told from generation to generation.

The movie is about a poet and singer Lalon Fakir who belongs to a cult called baul and who believes and inculcates that the value of a human being is above the narrow belief of religions.

5 Unprecedented different stories in the maze of illusion and truth.

Five individual stories are connected to each other in the basis of their nature. Actually the Dark Side of the capital Dhaka, has been sketched throughout the film. What happens over our eyes in the dark of the night.

In this omnibus, 11 Bangladeshi filmmakers create a love letter to the city of Dhaka. From young girls looking for a drink in a dry town to a bank scammer's attempted murder to a plumber creating a refugee crisis, the city co-stars every time.

Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight and find a way to register their union.

Just as Moses was found in the river Nile, an infant is rescued from a river, and adopted by Miraj, Karim and Sajib in turns over the years, only to be abandoned at the various stages of his life. From innocence to becoming a gangster, the unpredictable currents of Jalal's journey prove that he is truly a child of the river.

Handa and Bhonda both hate their life and they are looking for a miracle to happen.

Nishan spent more than twelve years behind bars. The story begins as he steps out of prison, only to find that the world he left behind has changed drastically. Society refuses to accept him as one of its own. Thus begins Nishan's struggle to survive in an unfamiliar world.

In this tragic-comic study of religious hypocrisy, a disreputable cleric convinces villagers that their community is home to a famous holyman's grave.

A down-on-his-luck drifter, Omar, stumbles into a dangerous situation when he participates in the accidental death of a powerful businessman's ruthless son. Now forced to work alongside the son's bodyguard, Omar must help conceal the body.

A young Indian man has been assured by an uncle that all he needs to land a lucrative job is to show up to the interview in a Western style suit, but the morning of the interview is fraught with unexpected difficulties.

10-year-old Jamal loves his carefree life with his mum in rural Bangladesh, until the day his childhood friend and playmate is forced to become a child bride. Isolated and lost, Jamal finds the world a harsh reality when his hopes of getting new friends and attending school collide with his mother's past.

Set in the '90s in suburbs of Bangladesh and West Bengal, a love story developed between two young souls against the backdrop of communal riots.

A woman breaks with traditional Muslim culture by living with her boyfriend before getting married, but when the relationship ends, she must face the harsh consequences of being an outcast in her community.

Shirin Rani has lots of lovers, one-sided lovers. They find out that she's getting married to a rich person's son who has a seasonal mental issue. However, she makes an elaborate plan to elope with her true lover.

In a world plagued by crime and corruption, Rohan struggles to navigate the treacherous waters of family expectations and societal pressures, all while trying to stay true to himself. Will he manage to break free from the chains that bind him, or will he succumb to the darkness that surrounds him? Dive into this gripping tale of self-discovery, resilience, and the fight for one's own identity.

This is the story of the indomitable dream of two young brothers and their incredible journey in life and their car that has never been defeated. The story of human spirit, sufferings and simple joy.