Indian black-and-white films

1935 film by Jyoti Prasad Agarwala

1928 Indian silent film directed by Naresh Mitra

1969 Hindi film directed by Asit Sen

1953 film by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

1960 film

1959 film by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

1950 film by Chetan Anand

1949 film

Vigathakumaran () is a 1928 (or possibly 1930) Indian silent film written, produced and directed by J. C. Daniel, who also played the hero in the movie. The lead actress P. K. Rosy was a Dalit who played an upper-caste Nair woman, which caused an uproar at the film's premiere at the Capitol Theatre in Thiruvananthapuram. It was the first Malayalam feature film and is considered India's first social drama. Daniel is regarded as the father of the Malayalam cinema industry for this work. Vigathakumaran is a lost film, of which no copy has survived.

1954 film by Chetan Anand

1954 Hindi film directed by Guru Dutt

1951 Hindi film

1956 Tamil film directed by S.U. Sunny

1947 Hindi film

1956 Indian film by Baldev Raj Chopra

Kariyavar is 1948 Indian Gujarati film written and directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi. It was produced by Chimanlal Desai under banner of Sagar Movietone. It was based on the story by Shayda which itself was based on a folklore of a stepwell. The soundtrack was composed by Ajit Merchant.

1931 film

1936 film by Sheikh Fattelal, Vishnupant Govind Damle

1961 Hindi film directed by C. V. Sridhar

1957 film

1932 film by H. M. Reddy, Chilakalapudi Seeta Rama Anjaneyulu

1952 Hindi film directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

1958 film by B. R. Panthulu

1963 film by Moni Bhattacharjee

1950 Hindi film

1956 film

1950 Tamil film directed by Ellis R. Dungan

1955 film

1933 film by Ardeshir Irani

1947 film

1948 Hindi film directed by Shaheed Latif

1933 film

1943 film

1976 Telugu film directed by K. Balachander

1975 Tamil film directed by K. Balachander

1958 film

1947 Hindi film directed by Gajanan Jagirdar

1973 film by Girish Karnad

1952 film

1941 film by P. Pullaiah

Bilwamangal (pronounced ), also known as Bhagat Soordas, is a 1919 Indian black-and-white silent film directed by Rustomji Dhotiwala, based on a story by Champshi Udeshi about the medieval Hindu devotional poet Bilwamangala (also identified with Surdas). This full length (12000 feet) film was produced by the Elphinstone Bioscope Company, Calcutta with Bengali intertitles and is credited as the first Bengali feature film. It was released on 1 November 1919 at Cornwallis Theatre in Calcutta. The National Film Archive of India acquired the footage of film from Cinémathèque Française, France in 20

1921 film by Kanjibhai Rathod

Beqasoor ('Innocent') is a 1950 social drama film, directed by K. Amarnath, produced by M. R. Navalkar and starring Madhubala, Ajit and Durga Khote in lead roles. The film is a family drama and revolves around an inspector who is framed for doing black marketing and his wife who is forced to dance for money.

1949 film

1937 film by Franz Osten

1953 film

1965 Bengali film by Tapan Sinha

1952 film by Jayant Desai

1951 Tamil film directed by Kadiri Venkata Reddy

1959 film by Devendra Goel

Balidan, also called Sacrifice, is a 1927 Indian silent film directed by Naval Gandhi and based on a play by Rabindranath Tagore. It was produced by Orient Pictures Corporation. Balidan is cited as one of the top ten lost films of Indian Cinema by P. K. Nair. Hailed as "an excellent and truly Indian film" by The Indian Cinematograph Committee, 1927–28, Balidan was used by them as one of the films to "show how 'serious' Indian cinema could match Western standards".

Banwra is 1950 Bollywood film directed by G. Rakesh, pseudonym of Raghupat Roy Kapur, grandfather of actor Aditya Roy Kapoor. It stars Raj Kapoor, Nimmi in lead roles.

1943 film by Mehboob Khan

1958 film

1950 film by Kidar Sharma

1946 film by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

1952 Tamil film directed by William Berke

1943 film

2007 black-and-white Indian drama film

1960 film by Kishore Sahu