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:5510: 363 - Jukti, Takko Aar Gappo / Reason, Debate and a Story (1974) - 5.5/10 - An intellectual drunk is left by his wife and son and starts to wander with a couple of followers, lamenting about the state of morals and society. It wasn't really all that interesting. :810: 364 - Ghare-Baire / The ...

:310: 355 - Baise-moi (2000) - 3/10 - Well, that was certainly something. :8510: 356 - Breakdown (1997) - 8.5/10 - A married couple is driving from Boston to San Diego in their brand new Jeep when they have an encounter with a man in a truck along a stretch of desert highway. When their Jeep later b...

:710: 350 - Anuradha (1960) - 7/10 - Ten years earlier, Anuradha was a popular singer with records and everything. She gave it all up when she fell in love with a talented village doctor. They now have a precocious young daughter who often accompanies her father on rounds. He is kept very busy with ...

:610: 345 - Maya Darpan (1972) - 6/10 - Taran lives with her father and aunt in an old mansion. She doesn't seem to have much to do and lives a lonely life. The cinematography is decent, but I wasn't too fond of the acting. The film also moves at a very slow pace and it just didn't quite click for m...

:710: 341 - India: Matri Bhumi (1959) - 7/10 - This is a mix of documentary and drama which shows several aspects of life in India. I enjoyed the documentary aspects more, but it's not bad overall. :8510: 342 - Kummatty / The Bogeyman (1979) - 8.5/10 - A group of village children go about their dail...

:610: 334 - Nightmare (1964) - 6/10 - Janet is a 17 year old girl whose mother went insane and murdered her father when Janet was 11. Janet has nightmares about it and the nightmares seem to get worse when she sees a mysterious woman in white wandering the halls. It was okay, but the whole thing was...

:810: 329 - Bandini (1963) - 8/10 - Kalyani is a quiet resident of a women's prison in 1930s India. She volunteers to take care of a TB patient, a dangerous thing to do at the time. She gains the eye and the ear of one of the prison doctors and the story of how she came to be a prisoner is revealed ...

:710: 328 - Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) - 7/10 - Anjali is an 8 year old girl whose mother died in childbirth. She was named after her father's best friend in college, but her father hasn't seen the other Anjali since college. The girl decides to reunite the two and sets out to find her namesake and m...

:810: 324 - Paper Flowers / Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) - 8/10 - A once successful film director looks back on his life. Suresh Sinha (Guru Dutt) is a popular director with a number of hits who is about ready to film Devdas for his next feature. He comes across a young woman named Shanti (Waheeda Rehman)...

:6510: 318 - The Ghost Writer (2010) - 6.5/10 - A former British Prime Minister (Pierce Brosnan) is writing his memoirs, but needs a new ghost writer since his previous one died. A new ghost writer (Ewan McGregor) and gets to work. It's tedious at first, but there seem to be some secrets buried with...

:910: 315 - Awaara / The Tramp (1951) - 9/10 - Raj is on trial for attempted murder and his lawyer is his girlfriend/childhood friend Rita. Rita is the ward of the man Raj is charged with attempting to kill. The story of what led to this moment is told through flashbacks and goes back to before Raj ...

:7510: 313 - Bhumika (1977) - 7.5/10 - Usha is a strong-willed girl who doesn't have the happiest childhood. Her grandmother was a well known singer, but her mother doesn't want Usha to have anything to do with performing. A family friend takes Usha to audition and soon she is performing as a singer...

:810: 306 - Blow Out (1981) - 8/10 - John Travolta stars as a sound engineer for a studio that makes very low budget movie. He is out one night capturing nature sounds to use in the films when he sees a car crash into the river. He manages to save a young woman from the car and soon comes to suspect...

:510: 302 - Devdas (2002) - 5/10 - This one was a real chore to get through. Devdas (Shah Rukh Khan) has been living in the UK for many years when he finally comes home, apparently as a lawyer. He reunites with his childhood friend, Paro, and the two expect to marry, but Devdas's mother (egged on by...

:810: 299 - Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998) - 8/10 - Otto and Ana meet as children and feel an immediate pull toward one another. Their lives are intertwined from that point forward, though a number of events complicate matters and also work to push them apart. The film takes place at three diffe...