Best dark & gritty Bengali movies on ZEE5 in India

By the KyaDekhu team · Updated 23 October 2026 · Availability for India from JustWatch, ratings from IMDb

10 movies on ZEE5 in India match this list, with an average IMDb rating of 6.5. Ranked by vote-weighted IMDb rating and popularity.

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   1. Bohurupi (2024)

   Movie · Bengali · 2h 35m · UA · Action, Drama · IMDb 7.8 (2.1K votes)

   Edge-of-seatDark & grittyFast-pacedCold & detached

   A mysterious dacoit is on the run. A supercop gets involved with him in a cat and mouse chase.

   ZEE5
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   2. Mainkar Chipay (2020)

   Movie · Bengali · 50m · Thriller · IMDb 7.4 (1.4K votes)

   Cold & detachedDialogue-drivenEdge-of-seatMature

   Three men are caught in a situation inside a car. One of them is a rich man who regularly sources cocaine from a fixed peddler at a fixed spot, another is a drug dealer who comes late and the third one is a cop. What happens next?

   ZEE5
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   3. Samantaral (2017)

   Movie · Bengali · 1h 54m · UA · Family, Drama · IMDb 7.5 (1.1K votes)

   TwistyDark & grittySlow-burnDialogue-driven

   On a family visit, a young man and his girlfriend set out to discover why his eccentric uncle has been mysteriously confined to one room for years.

   ZEE5
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   4. 8/12 (Binay Badal Dinesh) (2022)

   Movie · Bengali · 1h 38m · Crime, History · IMDb 8.3 (295 votes)

   Edge-of-seatCold & detachedStraightforwardVisually stunning

   Based on the historical attack on Writers' Building by three Bengal Volunteers in 1930. Releasing on Indian Republic Day.

   ZEE5 · free with ads
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   5. Shaheb Bibi Golaam (2016)

   Movie · Bengali · 2h 1m · Thriller · IMDb 6.5 (742 votes)

   TwistyCold & detachedEdge-of-seatDark & gritty

   Three very different people from three very different worlds collide one winter afternoon in an anarchic Kolkata.

   ZEE5
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   6. F.I.R NO. 339/07/06 (2021)

   Movie · Bengali · 2h 26m · Thriller, Drama · IMDb 6.4 (416 votes)

   Cold & detachedDark & grittyEdge-of-seat

   An upright but idiotic police officer arrives in Raghunathpur, Birbhum, West Bengal to investigate a murder and realises there is more to the crime than meets the eye.

   ZEE5
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   7. Baccha Shoshur (2019)

   Movie · Bengali · 2h 7m · U · IMDb 5.6 (381 votes)

   Family-friendlyDialogue-drivenTwistyCold & detached

   Baccha Shoshur revolves around Spandan, a helpless father and his three year old son Gutlu, who is undergoing weird behavioural patterns, which only Spandan knows about. What follows is the mystery that changes everyone's life.

   Prime VideoZEE5
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   8. Raktabeej 2 (2025)

   Movie · Bengali · 2h 31m · U/A 16+ · Crime, Drama · IMDb 5.9 (1.7K votes)

   TwistyEdge-of-seatDark & grittyCold & detached

   Months after the failed assassination attempt on President Animesh Chatterjee, investigator Pankaj Sinha and SP Sanjukta Mitra uncover a deadly plot, Mission M2, led by Munir Alam.

   ZEE5
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   9. Password (2019)

   Movie · Bengali · 2h 18m · Action, Thriller · IMDb 4.8 (566 votes)

   Cold & detachedEdge-of-seatDark & grittyFast-paced

   A police officer tracks down a cyber criminal that hacks the passwords of innocent people in order to destroy their lives.

   ZEE5 · free with ads
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    10. Madam Sengupta (2025)

    Movie · Bengali · 2h 10m · Mystery, Crime · IMDb 5.1 (1.2K votes)

    TwistyEdge-of-seatDark & grittyCold & detached

    A famed cartoonist's search for her daughter's killer unravels a sinister trail of poetic murders, leading back to her estranged ex-husband, whose forbidden play threatens to expose Kolkata's darkest secrets.

    ZEE5