Kanchan, all of eight years old, is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, until he reaches there.

A mother keeps making excuses for why her son's father has not returned home. Jon Marco, just celebr...

In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol a...

In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Ci...

Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they inv...
The story, set in 19th century Calcutta during British rule, sees a female prostitute embark on an u...

After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countrysid...

Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an at...

In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy jo...

Angered at stern Uncle Daniel, Toby Tyler runs away from his foster home to join the circus, where h...

Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old co...

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As...

Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in...

A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

A well-off Indian family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be t...

Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he l...

In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended b...

Ambitious businessman Shyamalendu enjoys showing his visiting sister-in-law, Tutul, the extravagant ...

After her husband loses his job, a housewife from a middle-class, conservative family in Calcutta ge...

A selfless young woman, the daughter of a middle-class refugee family from East Pakistan, sacrifices...

Siddhartho Chowdhury, a brilliant young medical student, is forced to leave his studies after his fa...