The Man Who Would Be King (1975) more movies like this

directed by John Huston
featuring Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Saeed Jaffrey, Shakira Caine

The Man Who Would Be King opens with author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) working in his study. His solitude is broken by the arrival of a tattered, half-mad derelict, who is soon revealed to be his old acquaintance Peachy Carnahan (Michael Caine). As Kipling listens in rapt fascination, Peachy relates the incredible adventures of himself ...

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The Chess Players (1977) more movies like this

directed by Satyajit Ray
featuring Richard Attenborough, Amjad Khan, Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Shabana Azmi

Based on a story by Munshi Premchand, and much influenced by Vsevolod Pudovkin's 1925 film Chess Fever, this satirical film by noted Indian director Satyajit Ray is set in colonial India in 1856. The British Resident of the East India Company (Richard Attenborough) has observed that the monarch of Lucknow, which is in his trading region, seems to ...

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My Beautiful Laundrette (1986) more movies like this

directed by Stephen Frears
featuring Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Shirley Ann Field

After the death of his wife and his subsequent descent into alcoholic near-agoraphobia, a crotchety Pakistani intellectual convinces his shady entrepreneur brother to provide work for his son in this multi-layered portrait of the immigrant experience in Great Britain. Young Londoner Omar (Gordon Warnecke) isn't sure what he wants out of life, but ...

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The Deceivers (1988) more movies like this

directed by Nicholas Meyer
featuring Pierce Brosnan, Saeed Jaffrey, Shashi Kapoor, Helena Michell, Keith Michell

This historical drama, based on a novel by John Masters that was in turn inspired by actual events, follows William Savage (Pierce Brosnan), a British agent of the East India Company, as he is sent with his new wife to India in the early 19th century. While Savage holds the unusually progressive view that the people of India are human and deserve ...

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Masala (1992) more movies like this

directed by Srinivas Krishna
featuring Saeed Jaffrey, Srinivas Krishna, Sakina Jaffrey

A Toronto family of East Indian immigrants seeks to gain a foothold in the Canadian world in this 1992 production. The patriarch (Saeed Jaffrey) is a postal worker struggling to make ends meet, while his nephew (played by writer/director Srinivas Krishna) makes trouble both in the family and on the streets of Toronto. John Bush, All Movie Guide

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Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978) more movies like this

directed by James Ivory
featuring Peggy Ashcroft, Victor Banerjee, Larry Pine, Aparna Sen, Saeed Jaffrey

Produced for British TV by the Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala triumvirate, this India-based comedy was released theatrically in the US. Victor Banerjee, best known to American audiences for his star turn in David Lean's A Passage to India, plays a young rajah named George, while Aparna Sen portrays his sister Bonnie. Brother and sister are the proud ...

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Mandi (1983) more movies like this

directed by Shyam Benegal
featuring Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil, Naseeruddin Shah, Saeed Jaffrey, Kulbhushan Kharbanda

With songs and musical numbers that are woven through the storyline, this unevenly-paced drama is about a brothel that has been an institution in a small town for a very long time. The women entertain the local clients with suggestive songs and dances and are not the type of prostitutes that ply their trade in New York City, for example. ...

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The Courtesans of Bombay (1983) more movies like this

directed by Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
featuring Saeed Jaffrey, Zohra Segal, Kareem Samar

The Merchant-Ivory team adopts a semi-documentary stance in Courtesans of Bombay. Though several scenes are dramatized, this film is essentially an unadorned look at prostitution in modern India. The film details the impoverished conditions that would prompt otherwise chaste Indian women to seek out employment as "performers"--a euphemism for the ...

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