The story of Uma and Ramesh, who share a platonic love. Ramesh, an engineer, is dedicated to his villagers' welfare. Their relationship is tested when Ramesh's social ideals conflict with the realities of capitalism. To help Ramesh, Uma sacrifices her fortune and marries another man. However, Ramesh tragically misunderstands her immense sacrifice, leading to a deep emotional crisis in their relationship.

A Marathi film directed by P. Y. Altekar.

A young doctor, Dr. Deepak, uses faith cures and is expelled from his profession. After successfully curing a Prince, he becomes a Chief Medical Officer but is framed for murder by a jealous State Physician. When his sweetheart falls ill, Dr. Deepak must cure her from prison, leading to a "satisfactory ending."

Pavalakkodi is a 1934 Tamil language film starring M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar and directed by K. Subramanyam. It was the first film for both of them. The film's music was composed by Papanasam Sivan. Pavalakkodi tells the mythical love story of Arjuna (Thyagaraja Bhagavathar) and Pavalakkodi (S. D. Subbulakshmi), the princess of Coral Island.

Sree Gouranga is a 1933 Indian Bengali biographical film that chronicles the life of the revered spiritual leader, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, also known as Gauranga. The film delves into the early life of Mahaprabhu, born Nimai in Mayapur in 1486, highlighting his mischievous childhood and subsequent intellectual brilliance. Despite family pressure to marry, Mahaprabhu prioritizes his spiritual journey and eventually leaves his home to become an ascetic. The film portrays his deep devotion to Lord Krishna and his eventual return to visit his mother, where he instructs his wife to worship the same deity. The film is a historical and devotional portrayal of the saint's life.

A love tragedy featuring a policeman, Ganpat (Modak) and a prostitute, Mainal (Hublikar). Ganpat saves Maina from a police raid on a brothel and they fall in love. Her reputation and sense of guilt resist his attempts to rehabilitate her. Ganpat's respectable middle-class mother (Sundarabai) symbolizes all that Maina would like to be, but she is arrested for murdering her evil uncle and refuses Ganpat's offer to release her from prison.

Two half-brothers, Mahesh and Ramesh, whose paths cross with Geeta, a spirited village girl. As both develop feelings for her, misunderstandings, hidden identities, and emotional tensions begin to surface, setting the stage for a heartfelt romantic drama.

Raunaq (1944), directed by Dwarka Khosla, is a Hindi social drama set in 1940s Bombay. It stars Swaran Lata, Noor Mohammed Charlie, Chandra Mohan, Motilal, and Subarnalata .

a 1946 film by J.K. Nanda

Javed is a poor student who falls in love with Nazparvar. Circumstances force her to marry his cruel cousin instead. Years later, Javed becomes a lawyer and must defend Nazparvar in court when she’s accused of murdering her husband, confronting their shared past and the quest for justice.

Chandragupta is a 1934 historical film that chronicles the rise of Chandragupta Maurya, the founder of the Mauryan Empire. Directed by A.R. Kardar, the film depicts Chandragupta's journey from a humble background to becoming a powerful emperor, guided by the strategic brilliance of his advisor, Chanakya. The narrative likely covers the political turmoil of ancient India, including the decline of the Nanda Empire, the threat posed by Alexander the Great's invasion, and Chandragupta's efforts to unite various kingdoms to establish a vast and influential empire.

A Bollywood film.

When a local mining company dares to provide its workers a fair wage for a fair day's work, and lets its workers unionize, the kingdom's villainous potentate is less than pleased. After considerable pressure, the company agrees to blame unrest in the region on a blameless worker collective.

An allegory of contemporary political attitudes presented in terms of differing approaches to the institutionalisation of sexuality: marriage. There are three college friends: the liberal Vijay the conservative Loknath and Jagdish, a careerist. Vijay rescues a damsel in distress and marries her. Later, his son Anand repeats his father's history by rescuing Jagdish's daughter from a bandit and marrying her, resolving the differences between the three friends.

Indian classic starring Shyam Kumar, Nusrat and Munawar Sultana

A clerk in a municipal office discovers brandy to save his boss's ill son, leading to adventures.

A village boy seeking work in the city falls for a mill owner's daughter, but their love is tested by escalating labor disputes and class conflict.

Prabhat's expansively mounted historical set at a contentious period of the Maratha empire is a biographical of Ramshastri Prabhune (1720-89), chief justice at the court of Madhavrao and later of Nana Phadnavis, and a major figure in the development of an indigenous legal code.

Khandekar’s didactic script for Vinayak continues his preoccupation with the character of a moral man whose principles conflict with practical reality. Manohar (Salvi, who plays this character’s earlier version: Bappa in Vinayak’s Amrit, 1941) is an alcoholic but idealistic public prosecutor and calls for the death sentence for the nationalist anarchist Ravindra (Vinayak). Ravindra’s girlfriend Shashi (Meenakshi) is pregnant and gives birth in an orphanage. She then becomes a nurse and has to look after Manohar who falls for her. She agrees to marry him but keeps her child a secret. When a child is found dead in the orphanage, Manohar prosecutes its humanitarian manager for infanticide. Shashi, who appears as a witness, reveals the truth of her life in court, causing a dramatic change in her husband’s world-view.

Based on the 'Arabian Nights', this film tells of the Baghdadi woodcutter Alibaba (M. Bose) and his magic 'Open Sesame' formula; of the hero's jealous brother Kasim and the slave girl Marjina (S. Bose). The film adapts the 1897 play, giving it a Hollywood-derived exotic flavour. An improvised 'modern' dance is inserted. The slow, mannered acting with the frontally framed tableau shots are enlivened by the dance scenes, especially the Marjina-Abdallah sequence.

A couple's marriage begins troubling after the doctor carries an extramarital affair with a dancing girl.

Mohan is fascinated by films and eventually meets a big movie star. The actress, in turn, is charmed by his simple ways. His increasing affection for her is merely a game for the actress.

Prestige. An Indian film.

The story begins in heaven a Devakanya Mohini and a Yaksha are in love. Indra, the ruler of Suvarloka, has an interest in Mohini. His emissary Kubera, unable to separate the lovers, curses Yaksha to be born as a human. Mohini refuses to bow to the wish of Indra, who then curses her to be born as a human and pine for her lover. The Yaksha, now Balaraju, is brought up by a shepherd. Mohini is found in a field by Kamma Naidu, who names her Sita and brings her up. As she grows up, pressure mounts on him to perform her marriage. Fearing that the wealth he had acquired after her arrival may disappear if she leaves him, he refuses to get her married and keeps her in a solitary tower in a forest.

A social woman-centered film interrogating aspects of feudal patriarchy. The painter Ashok (Surendra) who loves the orphaned Vimala (Bibbo) is distressed to learn that she is due to marry Jagdish (Yakub). He paints Vimala's portraits with a frenzied obsession and becomes a famous artist. Paralleling this love story is the decline in Ashok's family fortunes.

A 1949 Indian Bengali Film directed by Satyen Bose.

1947 bollywood film.

Razia and Aslam grew up as friends and that deepened into love at maturity. Unfortunately, Aslam was from a wealthy family and Razia from a poor one and Aslam's father disapproved. Instead, he arranged marriages to different partners for both of them. Our heroine got married off and became a good wife. But there's a snake in the grass in the form of Sadiq who wanted her for himself. As a result, unspeakable tragedies follow.

The evil Chand (Motilal) and his rich father Mangaldas (Date) persecute the nice Sunder (Ishwarlal): he kidnaps Sunder's sister Kokila (Khursheed) and frames him for theft. Sunder is jailed. The abducted Kokila succumbs to the villain's charms and her love reforms him. When released, Sunder, unaware of the fact that his enemy has reformed, seeks revenge on the very day that Chand and Kokila are to marry.

This silent film opens with shots of a hand distributing charity from a silver plate to a waiting crowd and tells of the good king of Magadh's fight with his evil ministers. The king is poisoned by his brother, the evil Kalsen and the infant prince Chandrapratab, smuggled out by the loyal sardar Satyapal, grows up in a forest to become the acrobat Hamir (Hamir) in love with his partner, the beautiful Saranga (Pawar, credited as 'Ambu'). Saranga is kidnapped by Kalsen's son Ramanaraj , described as 'the perfect libertine', but Kalsen takes her away from his son and attempts to seduce Saranga with promises of wealth. The fearless Hamir fights dozens of soldiers, in amateurishly staged fights, trying to liberate her. In the end Saranga, rejected by her lover for having been tempted by Kalsen's promises of wealth, dons a mask and turns into a Zorr-type avenger. Hamir is eventually recognized by the royal tattoo on his shoulder and restored to the throne as well as reunited with Saranga.

A Bengali Drama Film directed by Sabyasachi (Ajoy Kar & Binoy Chattopadhyay).

A devoted woman, Badi Maa dedicates her life to raising her deceased friend's child, her love and sacrifices influencing all around her, leading to emotional conflicts as the child matures.

Shyama (Suraiya) gets a job as a servant so she can pay for her younger sister, Kiran's (Geeta Bali) education in the city. Kiran, though, is in love with a rogue, Ajit (Pran).

The story follows a kind princess, facing danger from an evil prince, while a brave warrior helps her and they fell in love, but face unknown dangers.

After losing his entire wealth to a courtesan, Kovalan returns to his wife, Kannagi. She offers him her last piece of jewellery to help him but he is falsely accused of theft and beheaded by the king.

A sculptor falls for an amnesiac woman found after a bombing, whose strange behavior hides a past that threatens their unconventional romance and a brewing love triangle.

A married couple is overcoming social challenges and obstacles, with fate playing a pivotal role in their decisions.

Based on an ancient Hindu epic, the film tells the timeless love story of King Nala of Nishadha and Princess Damayanti of Vidarbha. Their love is sparked by the magical swans who carry messages between them. Despite challenges from gods who also desire Damayanti, and the cunning machinations of the evil Kali who curses Nala, the couple endures separation, hardship, and transformations. The film focuses on their trials, Nala's loss of his kingdom and disguise, Damayanti's unwavering devotion and search for him, and their eventual reunion and restoration of their happiness and kingdom.

A fiery rivalry across two generations of gypsies sparks when a scorned love leads to tragedy. Decades later, a free-spirited young woman, unknowingly caught in the ancestral feud, must reconcile her wild heritage with bourgeois life when a passionate abduction reveals her true lineage and destiny.

A disgraced widow is forced to work as a maid for her fatherless child.

A girl with an MA from Oxford rejects an 'idiot' chosen by her alcoholic father, and falls for the playboy.

A rich, fatherless young man named Vijay faces betrayal when his greedy brother-in-law, Kampta Prasad, plots to seize his inheritance. Led astray by city life and losing his fortune, Vijay's struggles are silently supported by his devoted sister. But when Kampta Prasad sets his sights on Vijay's childhood sweetheart, Dulari, a vengeful Vijay returns, ultimately becoming a brilliant eye specialist who holds Kampta Prasad's fate in his hands. It's a gripping melodrama of deception, resilience, and poetic justice.

In a feudal household ruled by the stern Ranima, a poor governess, Indira (Devika Rani), finds herself entangled in a web of love and deceit. Both the kind-hearted family doctor Ajit (Ashok Kumar) and the manipulative estate manager Ramnath (Girish) vie for her affection. When Ranima dies suddenly, Ramnath frames Ajit for her murder. What follows is a dramatic courtroom showdown that reveals the truth and restores justice — allowing love to triumph.

A young blind girl is the only witness to the murder of a greedy, but repentant, landlord.

A professional thief Dhanji Bhagat uses his street-dancer daughter Raju as cover while working for wealthy schemer Keshav Seth. After Dhanji’s death, Raju’s life spirals into entanglements with Keshav’s shady dealings, a reckless suitor named Ramesh, and a series of misadventures that mix crime, betrayal, and misplaced romance. The story races through thefts, murders, and mistaken loyalties, ending with Ramesh marrying Raju after a turbulent journey of deceit and redemption.

A wealthy and careless man takes his family for granted and loses his fortune to a courtesan, leading him to realise the true values of life.

Kodandavarma, a dictator in an ancient Aryan society, rules with a firm hand. When a collapsing statue threatens slaves, Jeevan, a young aboriginal king, saves them and falls in love with Princess Jayanti. The villainous Madhuvrat plots against Kodandavarma, entrapping heir Uttam and forcing dancing girl Lata to seduce him to help the slaves.

An unusual story of Mangala, a young blind widow who believes her deceased husband still communicates with her

A social drama revolving around a dramatic transformation in the life of Suresh and his lover Nalini, as they confront circumstances that challenge their status and dramatically alter their romantic future.

A 1947 Bengali Film directed by Hemen Gupta.

Twins Vijayan and Vikraman are separated at birth by the doctor who saved them. Later, when the doctor reveals the truth about how their parents were murdered, the two of them vow to exact revenge.

Two movie actors are confronted by startling and hilarious obstacles.

A drama centered around a significant threat, blackmail, or a warning that drives the plot