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The Ghost and the Darkness

The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) more movies like this

directed by Stephen Hopkins
featuring Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson, John Kani, Om Puri, Bernard Hill

A man bringing modern transportation to the ancient jungles of Africa discovers one of man's oldest enemies lays in wait for him in this period adventure drama. John Beaumont (Tom Wilkinson) is the owner of a British railroad firm who is building a rail line through Uganda. A bridge is needed so that the tracks may cross a large river, and ...

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East Is East

East Is East (2000) more movies like this

directed by Damien O'Donnell
featuring Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Emil Marwa

East is East, a fast-moving comedy drama of mixed-race manners, is set in Salford, England in 1970. It centers on the Anglo-Pakistani alliance of the Khan family that is both claustrophobically cohesive and hopelessly dysfunctional. In their over-crowded terrace house, anarchy erupts daily with farcical energy. The Khan children, caught between ...

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City of Joy

City of Joy (1992) more movies like this

directed by Roland Joffé
featuring Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Art Malik

In this drama, a wealthy American doctor learns some important lessons about life in one of the poorest cities on Earth. Max Lowe (Patrick Swayze) is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope ...

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My Son the Fanatic

My Son the Fanatic (1999) more movies like this

directed by Udayan Prasad
featuring Akbar Kurtha, Gopi Desai, Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths

In a small city in the English midlands, a Pakistani immigrant named Parvez (Om Puri) works long hours driving a cab to provide modest comfort for his disapproving wife, Minoo (Gopi Desai), and better opportunities for his collegiate son, Farid (Akbar Kurtha). When Farid breaks off his engagement with the daughter of the city's white police ...

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The Mystic Masseur

The Mystic Masseur (2002) more movies like this

directed by Ismail Merchant
featuring Om Puri, James Fox, Aasif Mandvi, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Ayesha Dharker

Ismail Merchant, best known as the producing half of the successful Merchant-Ivory team, once again steps behind the camera as director for this story of life among Indian expatriates in the 1950s. Ganesh (Aasif Mandvi) is a young man who was born to a community of Indian exiles living in Trinidad. Always bright, Ganesh hopes to hake a career for ...

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Such a Long Journey

Such a Long Journey (2000) more movies like this

directed by Sturla Gunnarsson
featuring Roshan Seth, Soni Razdan, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Ranjit Chowdhry

Based on Robinton Mistry's biting epic novel of the same name, this drama recounts the spiritual and physical consequences that result when a decent man allows himself to be convinced to perform an illegal act in the name of patriotism. The story takes place in India, 1971, a time when the country was fighting Pakistan for control of Bangladesh. ...

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Code 46

Code 46 (2004) more movies like this

directed by Michael Winterbottom
featuring Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Jeanne Balibar, Om Puri, Essie Davis

In the not-so-distant future, a married man investigates a counterfeiter and ends up the perpetrator of an ethical crime in Code 46, the latest film from prolific British director Michael Winterbottom. Set against the backdrop of a technologically advanced Shanghai, where people are only allowed to travel between countries with official passports ...

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East-West

East-West (2000) more movies like this

directed by Regis Wargnier
featuring Linda Bassett, Om Puri, Sandrine Bonnaire, Oleg Menshikov, Catherine Deneuve, Sergei Bodrov Jr., Ruben Tapiero

French director Regis Wargnier's fifth feature film is a romantic period drama which is also a tribute to the victims of a tragic Stalinist episode. In June 1946, Stalin launched a major propaganda campaign aimed at Russians who had settled in the West, offering them amnesty and an opportunity to be involved in the postwar restructuring of the ...

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Second Generation

Second Generation (2003) more movies like this

directed by Jon Sen
featuring Anupam Kher, Christopher Simpson, Danny Dyer, Om Puri, Parminder Nagra

Second Generation stars Parminder Nagra as the free-thinking daughter in a traditional Indian family who has torn herself away from the restrictive traditions of her parents. A family emergency brings her back into the fold, where the entire family must contend with how their world sometimes is at odds with the modern London world they inhabit. In ...

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Gupt

Gupt (1997) more movies like this

Bollywood heartthrob Bobby Deol stars in this musical drama as an innocent man charged with killing his father. Though he did not commit the crime, circumstantial evidence suggests he may have been involved, and the young man is found guilty. Unable to deal with the constraints of prison life, he escapes and sets out to prove his innocence by ...

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In Custody (1994) more movies like this

directed by Ismail Merchant
featuring Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri, Sushma Seth, Neena Gupta

Anita Desai and Shahrukh Husain adapted Desai's novel for this comedy-drama about an Indian university teacher who encounters numerous hassles in his attempts to document the final writings of an ailing, alcoholic poet whom he idolizes. Score by Zakir Hussain and Ustad Sultan Khan. Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide

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Mirch Masala (1985) more movies like this

directed by Ketan Mehta
featuring Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Suresh Oberoi, Deepti Naval, Om Puri

A landmark work of Indian feminism, Spices was made by famed filmmaker Ketan Mehta, featuring Smita Patel in the leading role. Patel, possibly the greatest actress of her generation, plays a woman who faces the oppressive realities of life as a woman in India. Spurning the advance of a corrupt tax collector, the heroine is forced to take refuge in ...

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Ardh Satya (1983) more movies like this

directed by Govind Nihalani
featuring Om Puri, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Sadashiv Amrapurkar

A police drama is a rare film for 1980s Indian cinema, and a successful police drama with a bit of a moral is even rarer -- which makes this film by Govind Nihalani an unusual item. Anant Welankar (Om Puri) is an ethically strait-laced Bombay police officer who reluctantly joined the force at his father's instigation -- his father had been a ...

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Dev (2004) more movies like this

directed by Govind Nihalani
featuring Amitabh Bachchan, Om Puri, Fardeen Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Amrish Puri

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Lakshya (2004) more movies like this

directed by Farhan Akhtar
featuring Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, Om Puri, Sharad S. Kapoor

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