Aurat (1953) Adil (Premnath) is a dashing, brave young man, full of hope and mindful of the rights of all people, especially the downtrodden. It is this last attribute that ends up putting him in the bad books of the Emperor (Ulhas). The Emper ...
Hindi
1953
Patita PATITA' is the story of a girl, Radha (Usha Kiron). Her home is a hovel at the far end of a town and its only family member is her ailing father. Driven to desperation and in a frantic effort to get some money to give much needed ...
Hindi
1953
Aar Paar With this innovative and, for the period, daring film Guru Dutt enters the happiest phase of his career. He plays Kalu, a taxi driver and mechanic who has served a jail sentence for rash driving and is in love with Nicky (Shyama), ...
Hindi
1954
Adhikar (1954) Shekhar, Lata and their child Shashi live in a small town and have just received news that he will be transferred to Bombay. The couple leaves Shashi with their maid and attends a party--but return home to find the building in fla ...
Hindi
1954
'Ferry' Widower Vikas lives a fairly wealthy lifestyle along with son, Raju, on an island off of Bombay's Gateway of India. Raju has not been told of his mother's demise, and believes that she will return home by the next boat. He is look ...
Hindi
1954
Jagriti The film is centered on a rich boy who is badly behaved. He goes to a boarding school and his life turns around due to a caring teacher and a cripple friend.
Hindi
1954
Nagin - (1954 film) Two Adivasi tribes are in conflict for some local economic rights. The daughter of the Nagi tribe's chief, Mala (Vyjayanthimala) vows to kill the son of the Ragi tribe's chief, Sanatan (Pradeep Kumar) as revenge. Trespassing the e ...
Hindi
1954
Amanat A dying man entrusts his lives earnings to Purshotam, a stranger he just met, and asks him to promise to take this money to his wife, and son, Pradeep, in a remote village in India, to which Purshotam agrees. The man passes away, ...
Pather Panchali The story of a young boy, Apu, and life in his small Indian village. His parents are quite poor - his father Harihar, a writer and poet, gave away the family's fruit orchard to settle his brother's debts. His sister Durga and an o ...
Bengali
1955
Funtoosh Ramlal was brought to an asylum after witnessing the death of his mother and sister. Losing his sanity, he calls himself Funtoosh.
When the doctors find they could do no more for him, they release him. Funtoosh soon finds the w ...
Hindi
1956
The Savage Princess A Royal Indian family consists of the Emperor Maharaj (Murad, his brother Shamsher Singh (Premnath) and sister Rajshree (Nadira). A poor villager named Jai Tilak (Dilip Kumar) enters a contest to tame Princess Rajshree's horse and ...
Hindi
1956
Naya Daur Naya Daur is a story of two friends, Shankar (Dilip Kumar) a tongawala, and Krishna (Ajit) the woodcutter, living in a happy and peaceful village.
It is a story of how the two friends become foes due to a chain of events that s ...
Hindi
1957
12 O'Clock (1958) Bani Chowdhury and solicitor Ajoy Kumar are deeply in love with each other. But their world comes crashing down when Bani's cousin, Maya is found dead in the first class compartment at a railway terminus in Bombay. Bani who had go ...
Adalat Nirmala lives with her maternal uncle, his wife, and her widowed mom, studies in an Arts College, has a sweetheart in wealthy Rajinder R. Singh, who she plans to marry. Disagreements flare up at home when her aunt wants her to get ...
Hindi
1958
Aji Bas Shukriya Geeta belongs to a poor family and lives with her mother in a small one room apartment. She is employed as a typist with an organization. She likes to dance and sing, and does so also at work, which ends up in her losing her job. ...
Hindi
1958
Ardhangini Unlucky........these heart breaking words were to echo and re-echo through-out an innocent girl's whole life casting a deep and menacing shadow across the days to come. Chhaya (Meena Kumari) was a very charming child, pristine pur ...
Hindi
1959
Chhoti Bahen Chhoti Bahen is the poignant story about the delicate but powerful bond of filial love. Rajendra (Balraj Sahni) and Shekhar (Rehman) lose both their parents and the only family left is each other and their younger sister Meena (Na ...
