Best 5 Movies of Director : Satyajit Ray

Sat1. The Visitor (1991) Agantuk (original title)

Drama

An well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.






Cast

  Dipankar Dey  ...  Sudhindra Bose (as Depankar De) 
  Mamata Shankar  ...  Anila Bose 
  Utpal Dutt  ...  Manomohan Mitra 
  Dhritiman Chatterjee  ...  Prithwish Sen Gupta 
  Robi Ghosh  ...  Ranjan Rakshit 
  Subrata Chatterjee  ...  Chhanda Rakshit 
  Promode Ganguly  ...  Tridib Mukherjee 
  Ajit Banerjee  ...  Sital Sarkar 

Best 5 Movies of Director : Mrinal Sen

1. Baishey Shravana (1960)

Drama

The time is immediately before World War II. The place a remote village in Bengal. Priyanath, a middle aged man and the last offspring of a once wealthy family, gets married to a lovely teenage girl to please his widowed mother. Overcoming the initial inhibitions, he starts enjoying the happiness of a normal married life.
Life continues to be a struggle for Priyanath. He earns a livelihood by hawking motley wares in the local trains. One day, when he is away with his wife Malati to a village fair, a violent storm brings down the roof in his mother’s room and kills her. Priyanath loses his job too for not keeping up with the younger hawkers. The couple is exposed to the events happening outside. The war comes and brings famine in its wake. There is a mass exodus from the village but Priyanath refuses to leave his home.
After three days of starvation, one day, when Priyanath finally manages to get some rice, he eats his food with an animal like greed without leaving anything for his wife. Malati can stand starvation, but cannot accept her husband’s new selfishness. Their relationship gets increasingly embittered. After another confrontation, Priyanath leaves home and finds his wife dead on return.

Cast

  Gyanesh Mukherjee   
  Madhabi Mukherjee   
  Hemangini Devi   
  Umanath Bhattacharya   
  Sumita Dasgupta   
  Anup Kumar   
  Rajyalakshmi   
  Asha Devi   
  Bharati Bannerjee 

Best 5 Movies of Director : Mani Ratnam

1. Mouna Raagam

Drama/Romance

Revathi is forced to marry Mohan in an arranged marriage. She lives in the memory of her lost love Karthik and asks for a divorce. The law requires them to stay together for a year before granting the divorce. That gives time for a lot of incidents in their lives and things change.

Cast

  Karthik  ...  Manohar 
  Mohan  ...  Chandra Kumar 
  Revathy  ...  Divya 
  Ramaswamy V.K  

All Time Best Italian Movies

1. Marriage Italian Style (1964) Matrimonio all'italiana (original title)

Comedy

Domenico, a successfull businessman, with an eye for the girls, begins an affair with Filumena when she is 17 years old. She becomes a prostitute, but also becomes the mistress of Domenico. He eventually sets her up in an apartment, and she works For him in his various businesses. She secretly bears three children, who are raised by nannys. Domenico starts planning to marry a young employee. Filumena tricks him into marriage by pretending to be dying. Domenico annuls the marriage. Filumena then tells him of the three children. She says that one of the children belongs to Domenico, but will not say which one is his. You start to believe that all of the children could be his, and Domenico then marries Filumena again, this time willingly.

Cast
  Sophia Loren  ...  Filumena Marturano 
  Marcello Mastroianni  ...  Domenico Soriano 
  Aldo Puglisi  ...  Alfredo 
  Tecla Scarano  ...  Rosalia 
  Marilù Tolo  ...  Diana (as Marilu' Tolo) 
  Gianni Ridolfi  ...  Umberto 
  Generoso Cortini  ...  Michele 
  Vito Moricone  ...  Riccardo 
  Rita Piccione  ...  Teresina, seamstress 
  Lino Mattera   
  Alfio Vita  ...  Una pasticcere 
  Alberto Castaldi   
  Anna Santoro   
  Enza Maggi  ...  Lucia, maid 
  Mara Marilli 

All Time Best German Movies

1. Run Lola Run (1998) Lola rennt (original title)

Drama/Thriller
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manny. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad

guy. Lola has 20 min to raise this amount and meet Manny. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three

different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run

Cast
Franka Potente ... Lola
Moritz Bleibtreu ... Manni
Herbert Knaup ... Vater
Nina Petri ... Jutta Hansen
Armin Rohde ... Herr Schuster
Joachim Król ... Norbert von Au
Ludger Pistor ... Herr Meier
Suzanne von Borsody ... Frau Jäger
Sebastian Schipper ... Mike
Julia Lindig ... Doris
Lars Rudolph ... Herr Kruse
Andreas Petri ... Sanitäter
Klaus Müller ... Croupier
Utz Krause ... Casino-Manager
Beate Finckh ... Casino-Kassiererin