Films with theme "Bollywood", sorted by rating

, 2h20
Directed by Shyam Benegal
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad, Smita Patil, Anant Nag, Amrish Puri

Vishwam (Naseeruddin Shah) is the youngest brother of the powerful and influential village Zamindar (Amrish Puri). The Zamindar will not hesitate to do anything for the welfare and protection of his family, which also includes bending the law to his own advantage. The shy and quiet Vishwam is married to Rukmani (Smita Patil) and, unlike his brothers, does not indulge in alcohol or women, nor does he have any bad habits. Then the village gets a new schoolmaster (Girish Karnad), who has a wife, Sushila (Shabana Azmi). When Vishwam sees her for the first time, he is unable to take his eyes off her, and unable to get her out of his mind. Sushila does not reciprocate his attentions. Then one night, while the schoolmaster is enjoying a quiet dinner with his family, the bell rings and the two older brothers of Vishwam grab Sushila and take her forcibly when she goes to answer the door. Several people are present, but no one dares to raise a hand nor even a voice to stop this abduction. The distraught schoolteacher, who is denied justice by everyone from the local police officer to the district collector, is helped by the old priest (Satyadev Dubey) and finally they succeed in mobilizing the villagers and they slaughter their oppressors. In the end the frenzied villagers also kill the innocent Rukmani as well as Sushila whom her husband tried to rescue with the help of the rebellious villagers.

, 2h14
Directed by Shyam Benegal
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Musical films, Political films, Bollywood
Actors Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil, Girish Karnad, Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Mohan Agashe

The film traces the origins of the movement through its fictionalised narrative, based around rural empowerment, when a young veterinary surgeon, played by Girish Karnad, a character based on then, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) chief, the 33-year-old Verghese Kurien, who joined hands with local social worker, Tribhovandas Patel, which led to the setting up a local milk cooperative, in Anand, Gujarat.

, 3h5
Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Madhuri Dixit, Jackie Shroff, Kiron Kher, Manoj Joshi

In the early 1900s, Kaushalya (Smita Jaykar) hears that her younger son, Devdas (Shah Rukh Khan), is to return home after he had left 10 years ago for law school in England. Kaushalya tells her neighbor Sumitra (Kirron Kher), who is overjoyed. Sumitra's daughter, "Paro" Parvati Chakraborty (Aishwarya Rai) and Devdas have shared a deep friendship since childhood. When Devdas went to England, Paro had lit an oil lamp to prompt his early return and never allows it to extinguish.

, 2h57
Directed by Karan Johar
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Rani Mukherjee, Salman Khan, Farida Jalal, Sana Saeed

Rahul Khanna (Shah Rukh Khan) and Anjali Sharma (Kajol) are best friends in St. Xavier's College. The college principal Mr. Malhotra (Anupam Kher) has a beautiful daughter Tina (Rani Mukerji), who comes to St. Xavier's from London to finish her degree. She becomes friends with both Rahul and Anjali. When Anjali realizes that she is in love with Rahul, she is encouraged by her motherly guardian Rifat Bi (Himani Shivpuri) to tell him so. Instead, Anjali is left heartbroken when Rahul tells her that he loves Tina. Anjali decides to leave college and shares a tearful goodbye with Rahul, going away from Rahul and Tina's lives forever. Tina then realizes that she came between two best friends. After college, Rahul marries Tina and, in a year of marriage, Tina gives birth to a baby girl. Tina has complications in her pregnancy and has little time left, so she writes eight letters to her daughter (one for each of her first eight birthdays), so that she will know her mother. Before dying, Tina asks Rahul to promise her to name their daughter Anjali.

, 3h33
Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about religion, Musical films, Political films, Films about Islam, Bollywood, Films about royalty
Actors Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai, Sonu Sood, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Suhasini Mulay, Raza Murad

Jodhaa Akbar is a sixteenth-century love story about a political marriage of convenience between a Mughal emperor, Akbar, and a Rajput princess, Jodhaa.

, 1h50
Directed by Ashim Ahluwalia
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Menaka Lalwani, Ragesh Asthana, Kalpana

Miss Lovely retrace l'histoire de deux frères, Vicky et Sonu, producteurs minables de films de gangsters érotiques, de drames sociaux sordides ou de films d'horreur de médiocre qualité, qu'ils distribuent dans des petits cinémas privés. Une jeune femme aspirant à devenir actrice, Pinky, s'englue dans ce milieu glauque du Bombay des années 1980.

, 2h31
Directed by Mani Ratnam
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about terrorism, Rape in fiction, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Manisha Koirala, Preity Zinta, Jiah Khan, Raghubir Yadav, Zohra Sehgal

Amar Kant Varma (Shahrukh Khan) is a Program executive for All India Radio. He is dispatched from New Delhi to cover festivities in Northeast India. On his way there, during a rainy night, Amar stops at Haflong train station to catch Baraks Valley express, as the train runs late, Amar meets a mysterious woman by herself who asks him for a cup of tea. When he returns with the tea, he watches her board the next train with three male passengers. Later, Amar spots the same woman in Silchar. He attempts to talk to her but she says she cannot recall meeting him before. As part of his news reporting assignment, for the occasion of fifty years of Indian Independence, Amar interviews many citizens of Barak Valley, and an extremist leader, who claim that the reason behind human rights violations, and poverty in the region is due to Indian Government, and that the Liberationists do not wish to enter into any dialogue with the government, and further justify their resistance in Utthar Purv.

, 2h36
Directed by Shimit Amin
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Ranbir Kapoor, Shazahn Padamsee, Gauhar Khan, Prem Chopra, D. Santosh, Kyra Dutt

Harpreet Singh Bedi (Ranbir Kapoor), a Sikh B Com graduate with approximately 39 percent marks becomes a salesman with a big corporate computer assembly and service company, AYS. His idealistic vision of the working world shatters quickly. Within a few days, a client asks for a kick-back. Harpreet is against and files a complaint only to find out that that this is how AYS operates. The top salesmen at AYS acquire large client contracts through bribery. In such corrupt company culture, Harpreet's honesty only brings him a demotion and humiliation. After making concessions to a client for the company, Harpreet realizes that sales success is dependent on the customer; so if the customer is satisfied then bribery will not be necessary to secure these contracts. No one agrees with him but Harpreet remains firm on his belief and forms his own company,Rocket Sales Corporation, from within AYS. Rocket Sales is being managed from the AYS offices where the Rocket partners were still employed. Unlike AYS, Rocket Sales Corporation's overall strategic goal is customer service and customer satisfaction as opposed to just selling the product through bribes and providing zero customer service. Other disgruntled employees of AYS find their way to Rocket Sales – a place where even the guy who serves tea is an equal partner because he brings talent to the table.

, 3h26
Directed by Sooraj R. Barjatya
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood, Films about marriage
Actors Madhuri Dixit, Salman Khan, Mohnish Bahl, Renuka Shahane, Laxmikant Berde, Anupam Kher

Prem (Salman Khan) lost his parents at an early age. He lives with his elder brother Rajesh (Mohnish Bahl) and uncle Kailashnath (Alok Nath). Rajesh manages the family business and his family is on the look-out for a suitable bride for him. Professor Siddharth Chaudhary (Anupam Kher) and Mrs. Chaudhary (Reema Lagoo) have two daughters, Pooja (Renuka Shahane) and Nisha (Madhuri Dixit). The Chaudhary couple and Kailashnath are old friends who meet again after several years. They arrange a marriage between Rajesh and Pooja. From their first meeting, Nisha and Prem start bickering lightheartedly with each other, and the fun and mischief continues throughout Pooja and Rajesh's wedding.

, 1h56
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Musical films, Political films, Bollywood, Erotic thriller films
Actors Tannishtha Chatterjee, Adil Hussain, Sayani Gupta, Surveen Chawla, Radhika Apte, Riddhi Sen

La tradition a toujours été respectée dans ce petit village du Gujarat, surtout par les femmes qui ne remettent pas en cause l'organisation patriarcale, voire franchement phallocrate, de cette société rurale. Rani, jeune veuve, négocie, avec son amie Lajjo, le mariage de son fils Gulab avec une jeune adolescente, Janaki. L'affaire est conclue. Quand les deux femmes reviennent à leur village, un conseil est réuni pour décider l'avenir d'une jeune fille qui fuit sa belle-famille parce que son mari la délaisse et que les autres hommes de la belle-famille abusent d'elle. Mais les anciens ne sauraient tolérer une telle infamie : il renvoie la jeune fille à son sort. Rani tente vainement, mais mollement de protester. Rani, Lajjo, questionnées, aiguillonnées par leur amie Bijli, prostituée et danseuse d'une sorte de cabaret, commencent à remettre en cause cet ordre moral qui interdit l'éducation et l'indépendance aux femmes. Le film se termine par la crémation symbolique du démon Rāvaṇa lors de la nuit de Dussehra commémorant la libération de Sītā par son époux Rāma, nuit au cours de laquelle périt par le feu Manoj, le mari alcoolique et violent de Lajjo. Puis les trois femmes partent sur le triporteur bariolé du cabaret, libres et sans but.

, 2h39
Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Nana Patekar, Manisha Koirala, Salman Khan, Seema Biswas, Helen Khan, Raghubir Yadav

The story is about Joseph (Nana Patekar) and Flavy Braganza (Seema Biswas), a deaf and mute couple in Goa. They have a baby girl, Annie (played by Priya Parulekar as young Annie), who is able to speak and hear. A few years later they have another baby, a boy named Sam, who also speaks and hears. Annie's life is divided into two worlds — one with her parents and the other of music, which she loves. Annie gets her musical inspirations from her grandmother, Maria Braganza (Helen).

, 1h56
Directed by Kanu Behl
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Ranvir Shorey, Amit Sial

In the badlands of Delhi's dystopic underbelly, Titli, the youngest member of a violent car-jacking brotherhood, plots a desperate bid to escape the 'family' business.

, 2h
Directed by Sriram Raghavan
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Urmila Matondkar, Saif Ali Khan, Seema Biswas, Aditya Srivastava, Pratima Kazmi, Kavita Kaushik

Karan is a rich, suave businessman. But he can also be very possessive of Sarika. His temper can flare at slightest pretext. After Karan involves Sarika in looking after a suitcase full of illegal firearms belonging to his friend, a hitman, she is arrested for having links with the underworld and is remanded to judicial custody. Karan claims innocence to her and sends her a defense attorney to fight her case. The attorney advises her to confess the crime, arguing that there is no proof exonerating her.

, 2h53
Directed by B Gopal
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Sonali Bendre, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Aarthi Agarwal, Mukesh Rishi, Sivaji, Brahmanandam

Indra opens in a village in Andhra Pradesh showing the rivalry between two families. A police officer wishing to end this hostility comes up with the proposal of marriage between the two families which ultimately is used by Shivraj as a trap to finish off his rival. After the funeral, no one is willing to stake claim for the leadership of the clan when the young Indrasena Reddy comes in and tells his grandmother that he will.

, 1h59
Directed by Shekhar Kapur
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Erotic, Biography, Action, Historical, Crime, Western
Themes Feminist films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Musical films, Rape and revenge films, Political films, Bollywood, Auto-justice
Actors Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Aditya Srivastava, Hemant Pandey, Dolly Ahluwalia, Saurabh Shukla

Bhind, 1968 Phoolan is married to a twenty-something fellow called Puttilal (Aditya Shrivastava). Though child marriages are customary during that time, Phoolan's mother Moola (Savitri Raekwar) objects to the timing of the match. Phoolan's aging father Devideen (Ram Charan Nirmalker) conforming to his culture, regrettably disagrees, and Phoolan is sent off with Puttilal.