Ismail Merchant Movies

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Hopkins

When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helena Bonham Carter

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emma Thompson

After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Wilby

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kate Hudson

A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greta Scacchi

Circa 1940 in Trinidad, still a British Colony, lives Ganesh Ramseyor, of East Indian origin, along with his wife, Leela. He longs to reach out to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aasif Mandvi

Police Inspector Ghote lives a middle-class life in Bombay along with his wife, Pratima. He has been employed with the Bombay Police for many years....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Naseeruddin Shah

Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shashi Kapoor

An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Moreau

An aging silent movie comic star throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Coco

Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rita Tushingham

"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teresa Wright

In the Mumbai, India, tenement community of Pavanpul, young female courtesans sing, dance and perform sexual favors for male clientele. Directors...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Saeed Jaffrey

After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Embeth Davidtz

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nick Nolte

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeff Alperi

Spanning twenty-four hours, HEIGHTS follows five New Yorkers challenged to choose their destiny before the sun comes up the next day.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Glenn Close

India, 1825: the country lives in mortal fear of cult members known as the “Deceivers." They commit robbery and ritualistic murder. Appalled by...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Pierce Brosnan

The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Hopkins

In the Mumbai, India, tenement community of Pavanpul, young female courtesans sing, dance and perform sexual favors for male clientele. Directors...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Saeed Jaffrey

On the birthday of her late father, a deposed Maharaja, a displaced Indian princess living in London and his former private secretary watch home...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Mason

In the Mumbai, India, tenement community of Pavanpul, young female courtesans sing, dance and perform sexual favors for male clientele. Directors...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Saeed Jaffrey

This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

This 14-minute film talks about the Hindu god Brahma's creation of life, the world and of course the first woman. Saeed Jaffrey narrates the story as...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury

The story of a family troupe of English actors who travel around the towns and villages in India giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shashi Kapoor

Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julie Christie

A tribe of primitive "mudpeople" encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Long...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Lewis J. Stadlen

A New England household is upset by the arrival of two cousins from Europe.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lee Remick

A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vanessa Redgrave

Looks at the musical extravaganzas which constitute the main bulk of commercial cinema in India; in particular at the career of Helen, the undisputed...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Helen

Nirad C. Chaudhuri expounds his views on culture, history, religion and society from a comparative perspective.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Nirad C. Chaudhuri

Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne Baxter

In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia—a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy—and a nightclub created by a blind...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralph Fiennes

An English novelist travels to Bombay to watch one of her novels translated to film. She chases after the movie's leading man while the screenwriter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shashi Kapoor

When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isabelle Adjani

This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here as Bill...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kris Kristofferson

Prem, a young school teacher, is arranged married and begins the journey of learning the roles and responsibilities required of him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shashi Kapoor

A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dianne Wiest

Off-camera, a Western traveler tells us of hearing singing from his hotel window in Bombay. He searches for the source, and discovers a caste of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

This short documentary, shot in July 1976 at the Mannes College of Music on Manhattan's Upper East Side, marks the first collaboration between...

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

In the time frame of a single day (from dawn to dust), the film records the wanderings of an Indian youth who sleeps on the beach, holds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sajid Khan

Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vanessa Redgrave

In the time frame of a single day (from dawn to dust), the film records the wanderings of an Indian youth who sleeps on the beach, holds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sajid Khan

Adam Verver, a US billionaire in London, dotes on daughter Maggie. An impecunious Italian, Prince Amerigo, marries her even though her best friend,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kate Beckinsale

Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bernadette Peters

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Newman

A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christopher Reeve

A young girl agrees to work in a center for girls who can't stay with their parents. She gets wrapped up in the plights of several of the girls, and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Earl Jones

The drama, adapted from a story by Katherine Anne Porter, tells of a Swedish immigrant who arrives on a small Texas farm at the turn of the century...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred Ward