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Browse 170 movies from Film and Television Institute of India
Two siblings escape into a world of adventure aboard a broken ship—until growing up starts to pull them apart.
Nov 2025
an exploration of queerness and fear of illness through personal and shared experiences, reflecting on how they shape the body and identity.
Jun 2024
The film is about a young boy who has just finished graduation and is waiting for the result of a competitive examination. He is quite sure about getting through the examination, but his mother generally grumbles and assumes that her son is not capable of doing anything in this world. Discouraged and fed up with all this, he goes to his college and meets his girlfriend. He does not want to lose these moments. One fine morning he is awakened by the excited voice of his mother informing him that he has been selected in the competitive examination!
Jun 1983
The story of a proud woman, her poetic vindication of unfair social insult, and her inevitable sad destiny. A very culture-specific film dipped in a local festival of rural women.
Jan 2000
A young man's body is overtaken by an undefined itching fever, leading his parents to seek healing.
Feb 2025
This is a fictional story of a young man who is drawn to crime as a revolt against society.
Jul 1970
Shama and Ravi are members of a Marxist party. Shama loves classical Indian music, a luxury of a few, and Ravi is in love with quotations and the philosophy of Marx - a need of the masses. Due to a strike, Ravi is compelled to work full-time for the party. Shama decides to give up music reluctantly and joins Ravi.
Jan 1974
a light comedy about a slovenly young man warned in the nick of time of the imminent visit of his fiance and prospective father-in-law. In the process of tidying up his room, Ravi's frantic efforts to start from one side end up in disturbing the other. Now, Ravi is certain that he will never receive the old man's approval to marry his daughter. But being a dentist, the old man approves Ravi for his well-set teeth.
May 1965
A man desperately searching for cigarettes encounters a trio that's plotting to kill a hen.
Apr 2025
Alarm has been sounded that the hydrogen bomb is about to be dropped. In this atmosphere of panic and fear a cross-section of humanity has been huddled together for safety in an experimental shelter. But even in this crisis the old attitudes and behaviour patterns do not change. FTII Diploma film for acting students of 1964-65 by Ritwik Ghatak.
Jan 1965
Munshi ji, a lover of Urdu wants his daughter to marry a person who knows Urdu. His neighbour who arranges the marriage dupes Munshi Ji who inspite of doubts at the time of the ceremony allows the marriage to be solemnised. Later, when these doubts are confirmed Munshi Ji vows to settle scores with his neighbour.
Jan 1973
In the early 20th century, Karinji, a woman from a lower caste, becomes pregnant after being sexually assaulted and ultimately meets a tragic end.
Dec 2024
The protagonist is a young man staying in a city. He is sensitive, melancholy and a dreamer. He is unable to communicate his feelings to the woman he loves. Everything seems to have been entangled in a mesh, irrespective of these characters. He cannot even differentiate between his capability to love and his passionate desires which have been repressed. That is how he is confused and with his ideals and morality he is living outside his own time and inevitably suffering. His self criticism is endless. He dreams about whatever he lacks and about his ideals. The dreams have led him to the domain of non-communication. His repressed passion along with his self criticism has made him bored with life. Now at every point he expects something exceptional.
Jan 1990
The journey of news coming alive, when an athlete featured on the front page falls in love with a tennis starlet featured on the last page of a newspaper.
Jan 1987
A rift forms between Goldy, a Sikh teenager, and his family when he announces that he wants to cut off his hair, an act forbidden by the tenets of their faith.
Oct 2025
A man leaves his house. Another applies for leave in his office. A third finishes his tea. Another gets himself shaved. All four are fresh entrants in the world of crime: kidnapping to be more precise. But the father of the kidnapped boy refuses to pay up. The son has already played this trick before and collected good ransom. The father does not believe this time it is a real thing; The kidnappers get desperate. The son has in idea. The plot thickens.
Jan 1996
People are involved in daily encounters without ever being aware of how they are connected with one another. A taxi reveals all.
Feb 2006
A matinee draws a young man into desire and fear.
Mar 2024
Amidst the chaos of planning his son's birthday, Sandesh's phone, crucial for an investor call, gets accidentally thrown away. In his quest to retrieve it, he discovers unexpected emotional depths.
Jan 2024
These poor people find that their lives, hopes, desires and even dreams are ruled by the powerful. They are deprived of their natural spontaneity and thought process. As a consequence, the victim's action and reaction is programmed and they are performed mechanically as a ritual. In this film, a family of three falls victim to a middle-aged officer, who controls their lives. The woman is thrown in prison, the man becomes a toy in the hands of the officer and their child looks on innocently.
Jan 1992