India Movies

In the holy city of Varanasi, 16-year-old Ali has one of the most dangerous jobs in the world – catching poisonous snakes. The boy balances...

Early film of a crowded street scene in an unidentified Indian city.

Documenting the production of kerosene tins and their reuse in rural India, this early short by Bimal Roy observes industrial labor and everyday life...

A brief but colorful travelogue of India's biggest cities following the partition of the country in 1947 at the end of the British Raj.

Extraordinary footage of prayers in the Punjabi capital.

Amateur film showing daily life in Bundi, India.

The film chronicles four events that take place over a span of two days, all relating to superstition and spirituality in India. It aims to show the...

Shot using handheld technique from digital camera and partially on smartphone, In Her City is a short film telling the story of love through the...

"Visionary post-war modernist Tyeb Mehta channels the nightmares of the nation in Koodal, at once the artist’s self-described...

Set in Varanasi, an ancient city of India, Tana Bana offers a rare look at the hidden world of Moslem weavers and Hindu traders and how their lives...

Lady Pamela Lytton, wife of the Governor of Bengal, visits the grand marble Victoria Memorial in Calcutta.

A rural village never wanted to be a city’s landfill or a distant blur in Reels but rather home to new imaginations. Bringing Down a Mountain...

Motorcars take shape - outdoors in a Kolkata yard.

The Maharajah of Jind inspects the guard of honour.

After her mother's heartbreaking demise, 11 year old Nandhana disrupts the final mourning day rituals by running away with the 'bali pindam', putting...

This documentary follows the life of Seven children who are working under extreme conditions at India's busiest cremation ground, Manikarnika in...

An evocative and unsettling journey through christian and also deeply communist Kerala. Amidst red flags and altar boys, between the sea and the...

Gorgeously dreamlike colour images of (then) French India – present-day Puducherry.

"Rock Garden", a hidden paradise, tells the inspiring tale of Nek Chand, a government official who secretly transformed a dense forest into a...