Best Movies from India by Rank
36
1
1955
Satyajit Ray
Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Bannerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Chunibala Devi
Drama
India
Bengali
48
2
1959
Satyajit Ray
Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty, Swapan Mukherjee
Drama
India
Bengali
114
3
1956
Satyajit Ray
Pinaki Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal, Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee
Drama
India
Bengali
374
4
1982
Richard Attenborough
Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, Trevor Howard
Drama / Epic / History / Biography / Religion
UK / India
English
527
5
2001
Ashutosh Gowariker
Aamir Khan, Raghuvir Yadav, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley
Musical / Drama / Romance / Comedy / Sports / Period Film
India
Hindi
661
6
1951
Jean Renoir
Nora Swinburne, Patricia Walters, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields, Suprova Mukerjee
Drama / Romance
France / India / USA
English
684
7
1988
Mira Nair
Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma, Sarfuddin Quarrassi, Raghuvir Yadav
Drama
UK / India / France
Hindi
732
8
1957
Mehboob Khan
Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, Raaj Kumar
Drama / Musical / Family / Epic
India
Hindi
765
9
2012
Steven Spielberg
Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader
Biography / Drama / History / War / Period Film
USA / India
English
922
10
2001
Mira Nair
Naseeruddin Shah, Lillete Dubey, Shefali Shetty, Vijay Raaz, Tilotama Shome
Drama / Romance / Comedy
India / USA / France / Italy / Germany
Hindi
1078
11
2002
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai, Jackie Shroff, Kiron Kher
Romance / Drama / Musical
India
Hindi
1108
12
2024
Payal Kapadia
Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon, Azees Nedumangad
Drama
France / India / Netherlands / Luxembourg / Italy
Malayalam
1289
13
1973
Satyajit Ray
Soumitra Chatterjee, Babita, Chitra Banerjee, Govinda Chakravarti
Drama
India
Bengali
1290
14
1958
Satyajit Ray
Chhabi Biswas, Padmadevi, Pinaki Sengupta, Gangapada Basu
Drama
India
Bengali
1352
15
2020
Aaron Sorkin
Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, John Carroll Lynch
Drama / History / Thriller / Crime
USA / UK / India
English
1590
16
2011
Tate Taylor
Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain
Drama / Period Film
USA / India / United Arab Emirates
English
1711
17
1960
Ritwik Ghatak
Supriya Choudhury, Anil Chatterjee, Niranjan Ray, Gita Ghatak
Drama
India
Bengali
1731
18
1964
Satyajit Ray
Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Shyamal Ghoshal
Drama / Romance / Period Film
India
Bengali
1881
19
1957
Guru Dutt
Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Mala Sinha, Mehmood, Rehman
Drama / Musical / Romance
India
Hindi
2067
20
2004
Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
Shanti Das, Avijit, Suchitra, Manik, Gour, Puja Mukerjee, Tapasi, Mamuni
Documentary
India / USA
Bengali
2093
21
1965
Ritwik Ghatak
Abhi Bhattacharya, Madhabi Mukherjee, Satindra Bhattacharya, Bijon Bhattacharya
Drama
India
Bengali
2101
22
1970
Satyajit Ray
Soumitra Chatterjee, Subhendu Chatterjee, Samit Bhanja, Robi Ghosh
Drama
India
Bengali
2109
23
2005
Deepa Mehta
Lisa Ray, Seema Biswas, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Waheeda Rehman, Raghuvir Yadav
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Canada / India
Hindi
2221
24
2022
S.S. Rajamouli
N.T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan Teja, Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt, Olivia Morris
Action / Drama / Epic
India
Telugu
2280
25
1985
Satyajit Ray, Dulal Dutt
Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Swatilekha Chatterjee
Drama / Romance / Period Film
India
Bengali
2307
26
1975
Yash Chopra
Amitabh Bachchan, Neetu Singh, Parveen Babi, Shashi Kapoor, Nirupa Roy
Drama / Action / Crime / Gangster
India
Hindi
2307
26
1995
Aditya Chopra
Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Amrish Puri, Farida Jalal, Anupam Kher, Satish Shah
Comedy / Family / Romance / Drama / Musical
India
Hindi
2346
27
1987
Mani Ratnam
Kamal Hassan, Saranya, Janagaraj, Tinnu Anand
Drama / Crime / Gangster
India
Tamil
2377
28
2006
Tarsem Singh
Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell, Lee Pace, Kim Uylenbroek, Aiden Lithgow
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Period Film
India / UK / USA
English
2470
29
2013
Ritesh Batra
Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Lillete Dubey, Nakul Vaid
Drama / Romance
India / France / Germany / USA
Hindi
2494
30
1999
Santosh Sivan
Ayesha Dharker, Vishnu Vardhan, Bhanu Prakash, K. Krishna
Drama / Crime
India
Tamil
2508
31
2006
Mira Nair
Tabu, Irfan Khan, Kal Penn, Zuleikha Robinson, Jacinda Barrett, Benjamin Bauman
Comedy / Drama / Romance
India / USA
Bengali
2520
32
1971
Kamal Amrohi
Raaj Kumar, Meena Kumari, Ashok Kumar, Nadira, Veena
Musical / Romance / Drama
India
Urdu
2538
33
1992
Mukul Anand
Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi, Nagarjuna Akkineni, Shilpa Shirodkar, Kiran Kumar
Action / Adventure / Drama / Epic / Romance / Crime
India
Hindi
2562
34
2021
Ramin Bahrani
Adarsh Gourav, Rajkummar Rao, Priyanka Chopra, Vedant Sinha, Kamlesh Gill
Crime / Drama
India / USA
English
2574
35
1975
Ramesh Sippy
Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Amitabh Bachchan
Adventure / Action / Drama / Musical / Romance / Thriller
India
Hindi
2591
36
1961
Satyajit Ray
Chandana Banerjee, Nripati Chatterjee, Anil Chatterjee, Khagen Pathak
Comedy / Drama
India
Bengali
2595
37
1960
K. Asif
Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala, Durga Khote, Nigar Sultana
Drama / War / Romance / History / Biography
India
Urdu
2607
38
1995
Shekhar Kapur
Seema Biswas, Aditya Srivastava, Agesh Markam, Ajai Rohilla, Anirudh Agarwal
Biography / Drama
India / UK
Hindi
2625
39
1936
Vishnupant Govind Damle, Sheikh Fattelal
Vishnupant Pagnis, Gauri, B. Nandrekar, Shankar Kulkarni
Drama / Biography / Religion
India
Hindi
2630
40
1931
Ardeshir Irani
Master Vithal, Zubeida, Jillo, J. Sushila, Prithviraj Kapoor, Elizer
Drama / Fantasy / Romance
India
Hindi
2630
40
1950
S.U. Sunny
Nargis, Dilip Kumar, Amar, A. Shah, Munawar Sultana, H. Pahadi, Vinod
Drama / Romance
India
Hindi
2630
40
1951
Nitin Bose
Nargis, Ashok Kumar, Dilip Kumar, Nimmi, Baby Tabassum, Jal Merchant, Parikshit
Musical / Romance / Drama
India
Hindi
2630
40
1950
Kidar Nath Sharma
Nargis, Dilip Kumar, Pratima Devi, Purnima, Baby Tabassum, Pesi Patel, Anwari
Romance / Drama / Family / Religion
India
Hindi
2630
40
1950
Ellis Dungan, T.R. Sundaram
Madhuri Devi, M.N. Nambiar, S.A. Natarajan, M.G. Ramachandran, G. Shakuntala
Drama / Crime
India
Tamil
2643
41
1963
Satyajit Ray
Anil Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Jaya Bhaduri, Haren Chatterjee, Sefalika Devi
Drama / Comedy
India
Bengali
2647
42
2024
Sandhya Suri
Shahana Goswami, Sunita Rajwar, Sanjay Bishnoi, Kushal Dubey, Nawal Shukla
Crime / Drama / Thriller
UK / Germany / India / France
Hindi
2647
42
1965
James Ivory
Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Geoffrey Kendal, Laura Liddell
Drama / Romance
India
English
2648
43
2006
Rakesh Omprakash Mehra
Aamir Khan, Siddharth, Sharman Joshi, Kunal Kapoor, Atul Kulkarni, Alice Patten
Comedy / Drama / History / Romance / Musical
India
Hindi
2659
44
1977
Satyajit Ray
Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Shabana Azmi, Farida Jalal, Veena, David Abraham
Drama
India
Urdu
2683
46
1953
Bimal Roy
Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Ratan Kumar, Murad, Rajyalakshmi
Drama
India
Hindi
2683
46
1982
Mrinal Sen
Anjan Dutt, Mamata Shankar, Sreela Majumdar, Indranil Moitra
Drama
India
Bengali
2685
47
1957
Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram
Rajaram Vankudre Shantaram, Sandhya, B.M. Vyas, Ulhas
Musical / Drama / Crime
India
Hindi
2697
48
2004
Ashvin Kumar
Julfuqar Ali, Sushil Sharma, Megnaa Mehtaa
Drama / Short
India / UK
Hindi
2697
48
2011
Prashant Bhargava
Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Mukkund Shukla, Seema Biswas, Sugandha Garg, Aakash Maheriya
Drama
USA / India
Hindi
2697
48
2006
Rajnesh Domalpalli
Mamatha Bhukya, Urmila Dammannagari, Ramachandriah Marikanti, Krishnamma Gundimalla
Drama
India / USA
Telugu
2699
49
2016
Doug Nichol
Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough, Sam Shepard, David McCullough
Documentary
France / India / Canada / USA
English
2700
50
1957
Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre
Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre, Sandhya, Ulhas, Brij Mohan Vyas, Paul Sharma
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller
India
Hindi
2700
50
1981
Mrinal Sen
Satya Banerjee, Radhamohan Bhattacharya, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Reba Roy Chowdhury
Drama
India
Bengali
2701
51
2015
Pan Nalin
Rajshri Deshpande, Sarah-Jane Dias, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Anushka Manchanda
Comedy / Drama
India / Germany
Hindi
2701
51
2001
Digvijay Singh
Anant Nag, Mita Vasisht, Nitya Shetty, Nikhil Yadav, Veerendra Saxena
Drama
India
Hindi
2702
52
2020
Chaitanya Tamhane
Aditya Modak, Arun Dravid, Sumitra Bhave, Deepika Bhide Bhagwat, Kiran Yadnyopavit
Drama / Music
India
Marathi
2702
52
1965
Satyajit Ray
Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee
Drama / Romance
India
Bengali
2702
52
2010
Julian Schnabel
Willem Dafoe, Vanessa Redgrave, Freida Pinto, Alexander Siddig, Hiam Abbass
Drama
France / Israel / Italy / India
English
2702
52
2000
Buddhadev Dasgupta
Shankar Chakraborty, Masood Akhtar, Jaya Seal, Tapas Pal
Drama / Religion
India
Bengali
2703
53
2025
Neeraj Ghaywan
Ishaan Khatter, Vishal Jethwa, Janhvi Kapoor, Yogendra Vikram Singh
Drama
India
Hindi
2706
54
2023
Tarsem Singh
Pavia Sidhu, Yugam Sood, Gourav Sharma, Sukhwinder Chahal, Sunita Dhir
Drama / Romance / Thriller
India / Canada / USA
Punjabi
2707
55
2009
Laxmikant Shetgaonkar
Chittaranjan Giri, Veena Jamkar, Prasanthi Talpanker
Drama / Romance
India
Konkani
2718
56
1999
Subhash Ghai
Anil Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna, Aishwarya Rai, Alok Nath, Amrish Puri
Musical / Romance
India
Hindi
2718
56
2010
Anurag Kashyap
Kalki Koechlin, Prashant Prakash, Naseeruddin Shah, Gulshan Devaiya, Pooja Swaroop
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
India
Hindi
2725
57
2014
Philippe Falardeau
Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany, Emmanuel Jal, Corey Stoll
Drama
Kenya / India / USA
English
2725
57
1990
Aribam Syam Sharma
Kiranmala, Kangabam, Tomba, Manbi, D. Hiren, Baby Molly, Baby Premita, Tara
Drama
India
Manipuri
2725
57
2011
Shawn Levy
Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Kevin Durand
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Sports
USA / India
English
2735
58
2015
Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Conrad Anker, Grace Chin, Jimmy Chin, Amee Hinkley, Jon Krakauer
Documentary / Action / Adventure / Sports
India / USA
English
2736
59
2021
Adam Wingard
Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA / Australia / Canada / India
English
2737
60
2001
Piyush Dinker Pandya
Deep Katdare, Purva Bedi, Ronobir Lahiri, Rizwan Manji, Kal Penn
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA / India
English
2744
61
1974
Ritwik Ghatak
Gyanesh Mukherjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Utpal Dutt
Drama / Experimental
India
Bengali
2745
62
1959
Guru Dutt
Waheeda Rehman, Guru Dutt, Naaz, Johnny Walker, Mahesh Kaul
Musical / Romance / Drama
India
Hindi
2758
63
1958
Ritwik Ghatak
Kali Bannerjee, Gyanesh Mukherjee, Ganga Pada Basu
Drama
India
Bengali
2758
63
1960
Satyajit Ray
Chhabi Biswas, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore
Drama / Religion
India
Bengali
2762
64
2022
Shaunak Sen
Mohammad Saud, Nadeem Shehzad
Documentary
UK / India / USA
Hindi
2762
64
2025
Rohan Kanawade
Bhushaan Manoj, Suraaj Suman, Jayshri Jagtap, Harish Baraskar, Ram Daund
Drama / Romance
India
Marathi
2763
65
1973
Mani Kaul
Kana Ram, Raisa Padamsee, Hardan, Shambhudan, Ravi Menon, Manohar Lalas
Drama / Fantasy / Romance
India
Hindi
2768
66
2012
Anurag Kashyap
Manoj Bajpayee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Richa Chadha, Reema Sen
Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Adventure / Epic
India / France
Hindi
2772
67
2007
Farah Khan
Shah Rukh Khan, Arjun Rampal, Kirron Kher, Shreyas Talpade, Deepika Padukone
Action / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Musical / Romance / Thriller / Adventure / Horror
India
Hindi
2775
68
1995
Mani Ratnam
Arvind Swamy, Manisha Koirala, Tinnu Anand, Akash Khurana, Nasser, Kitty
Drama / Musical / Romance / Religion
India
Tamil
2775
68
1996
Deepa Mehta
Karishma Jhalani, Ramanjeet Kaur, Dilip Mehta, Javed Jaffrey, Nandita Das
Drama / Romance
India / Canada
English
2783
69
1949
Mehboob Khan
Nargis, Dilip Kumar, V.H. Desai, Cuckoo, Raj Kapoor
Musical / Drama / Crime / Romance
India
Hindi
2783
69
1951
Raj Kapoor
Prithviraj Kapoor, Nargis, Raj Kapoor, K.N. Singh
Drama / Family / Musical / Romance
India
Hindi
2783
69
1952
Vijay Bhatt
Bharat Bhushan, Meena Kumari, Surendra, B.M. Vyas
Drama / Musical
India
Hindi
2783
69
1979
Govindan Aravindan
Ashokan, Kottara Gopalakrishnan
Fantasy / Family
India
Malayalam
2783
69
1993
Subhash Ghai
Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit, Ali Asghar, Subhash Ghai
Action / Crime / Musical / Romance / Fantasy
India
Hindi
2783
69
1961
Ritwik Ghatak
Gyanesh Mukherjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Anil Chatterjee
Drama / Romance
India
Bengali
2783
69
1970
Manoj Kumar
Ashok Kumar, Saira Banu, Manoj Kumar, Pran, Bharti, Nirupa Roy
Drama / Musical / Romance
India
Hindi
NR
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2016
Nitesh Tiwari
Aamir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Aparshakti Khurana
Action | Biography | Drama | Sports
India
Hindi
