Kolkata in the media

Several fiction, non-fiction and cinemas were based on Kolkata or depicted Kolkata from certain point of views. Some of such works are listed here.

Travelogues

 * The Great Railway Bazaar (Paul Theroux)
 * Following the Equator (Mark Twain)

Books

 * Around the World in Eighty Days
 * Calcutta (Geoffrey Moorhouse)
 * City of the Dreadful Night and American Tales (Rudyard Kipling) - Where Kolkata is called as the titular city
 * City of Joy (Dominique Lapierre) - a slum within Kolkata is called the City of Joy
 * Calcutta: The Living City Volumes 1 & 2 (ed. Sukanta Chaudhuri)
 * Calcutta - City of Palaces: A Survey of the City in the Days of the East India Company 1690–1858. (Jeremiah P. Losty)
 * Calcutta 1981 (ed. Jean Racine)

Bengali films

 * Nagarik - The Citizen (Ritwik Ghatak) (1952 - Released 1977)
 * Bari Theke Paliye - The Runaway (Ritwik Ghatak) (1958)
 * Mahanagar - The Big City (Satyajit Ray) (1963)
 * Apanjan - (Tapan Sinha) (1968)
 * Pratidwandi - The Adversary (Satyajit Ray) (1970)
 * Seemabaddha - Company Limited (Satyajit Ray) (1971)
 * Interview (Mrinal Sen) (1971)
 * Calcutta 71 (Mrinal Sen) (1972)
 * Padatik - The Guerilla Fighter (Mrinal Sen) (1973)
 * Jukti Takko Aar Gappo - Logic, Debate and Story (Ritwik Ghatak) (1974)
 * Jana Aranya - The Middleman (Satyajit Ray) (1976)
 * Ek Din Pratidin - And Quiet Rolls the Day (Mrinal Sen) (1979)
 * Grihajuddha - Crossroads (Buddhadev Dasgupta) (1982)
 * Paroma - The Ultimate Woman Aparna Sen (1984)
 * Agantuk - The Stranger (Satyajit Ray) (1991)
 * Antareen - The Confined (Mrinal Sen) (1993)
 * Unishe April - Nineteenth April(Rituparno Ghosh) (1994)
 * Dahan - Crossfire (Rituparno Ghosh) (1997)
 * Chokher Bali - Sand in the Eye (Rituparno Ghosh) (2003)
 * Kaalbela - Calcutta My Love (Goutam Ghose) (2009)
 * Houseful (Bappaditya Bandopadhyay (2009)
 * Mahanagar@Kolkata (Suman Mukhopadhyay) (2009)
 * 033 (Birsa Dasgupta) (2010)
 * Ekti Tarar Khonje - Stars Never Sleep (Abhik Mukhopadhyay) (2010)
 * Gorosthaney Sabdhan (Sandip Ray) (2010)
 * Autograph (Srijit Mukherji) (2010)

English films

 * The River (1951 film) (Jean Renoir)
 * 36 Chowringhee Lane (Aparna Sen)
 * City of Joy (Roland Joffe)
 * Citi Life - Calcutta My El Dorado (Mrinal Sen)
 * 10 Days in Calcutta (Gerhard Hauff)
 * Bow Barracks Forever (Anjan Dutt)
 * Call Cutta (Anjan Dutt)
 * 15 Park Avenue (Aparna Sen)
 * The Waiting City - According to the production notes the city acts as a character showing its colonial history and ancient historical relics
 * The Last Lear
 * The Avengers, Bruce Banner's hide-out where Natasha Romanoff recruits him for the Avengers
 * Memories in March
 * Lion starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman
 * The Namesake

French films

 * Calcutta (Louis Malle)
 * The Bengali Night(La Nuit Bengali)

Tamil films
Vedalam

Telugu films

 * Naayak
 * Padi Padi Leche Manasu

Malayalam Films

 * Vasthuhara
 * Calcutta News
 * Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi

Hindi films

 * Howrah Bridge
 * Pyaasa
 * Amar Prem
 * Do Bigha Zameen
 * Devdas (1955)
 * Devdas (2002)
 * Ram Teri Ganga Maili
 * Calcutta Mail
 * Hey Ram
 * Do Anjaane
 * Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa
 * Morning Walk
 * Parineeta
 * Vicky Donor
 * Yuva
 * Raincoat
 * Kahaani (2012)
 * Barfi!
 * I Am
 * Khushi
 * Love Aaj Kal
 * Calcutta Mail
 * Gunday
 * Badmaash Company
 * Kaminey
 * Michael by Ribhu Dasgupta
 * Lootera
 * No One Killed Jessica
 * Special 26
 * Bullet Raja
 * Kolkata Junction
 * Babumoshai Bandookbaaz
 * Piku
 * Highway
 * Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
 * Hamari Adhuri Kahani
 * Tamasha
 * Te3n
 * Kahaani 2
 * Meri Pyaari Bindu
 * Jagga Jasoos
 * Pari
 * Dhadak
 * Chippa