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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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The Chess Players

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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Madame Sousatzka

Madame Sousatzka (1988) more movies like this

directed by John Schlesinger
featuring Shirley MacLaine, Navin Chowdhry, Peggy Ashcroft, Twiggy, Shabana Azmi

Shirley MacLaine is Madame Sousatzka, an aging piano instructor of Russian extraction. Entrenched in a dilapidated London rooming house, the Madame gives lessons only to the most gifted. She does not stop at mere instruction; Sousatzka insists that her pupils conduct their lives in the same genteel, cultured manner in which she was raised. Her ...

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In Custody

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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Sparsh (1979) more movies like this

When the blind principal of a school for blind adolescents meets up with a young widow, there is an attraction that leads to an affair. Both this intense relationship, and a secondary relationship between a young blind boy and his seeing friend explore the world of the sightless and its context, the world around them that they can never see. ...

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Nishant

Nishant (1975) more movies like this

directed by Shyam Benegal
featuring Girish Karnad, Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Amrish Puri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda

In India in 1945, at the time of independence, there were many isolated semi-autonomous states, which had their own laws. In this movie, a man whose wife is abducted by the rulers of such a region seeks to have the men prosecuted for their crime, but no one will help him. Meanwhile, the wife, abused and berated by her abductors, cannot bring ...

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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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Sati (1989) more movies like this

directed by Aparna Sen
featuring Shabana Azmi

The young Brahmin girl in this story has a disastrous horoscope. In an Indian village in 1828, this can be a real handicap. The fact that she is mute only compounds her difficulties. Her horoscope predicts that she will become a widow at an early age. If this turns out as predicted, in addition to being bad luck for her prospective husbands, it is ...

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Side Streets (1998) more movies like this

directed by Tony Gerber
featuring Valeria Golino, Shashi Kapoor, Leon, Art Malik, Shabana Azmi

Tony Gerber made his directorial debut with this anthology film, a comedy-drama that opens with a 1950s black-and-white newsreel focusing on the ethnic diversity of New York City. This multicultural mix is dramatized in five interlinked tales set in each of NYC's five boroughs on a hot summer day: In Manhattan, a Soho fashion designer on the brink ...

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Morning Raga (2004) more movies like this

directed by Mahesh Dattani
featuring Shabana Azmi, Prakash Rao, Perizaad Zorabian, Lillete Dubey, Shaleen Sharma

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Umrao Jaan

Umrao Jaan (2006) more movies like this

directed by J.P. Dutta
featuring Shabana Azmi, Sunil Shetty, Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan, Kulbhushan Kharbanda

A young courtesan kidnapped from her home and sold into slavery ultimately transcends her grim fate in director J.P. Dutta's adaptation of author Mirza Haadi Ruswa's classic 1905 novel. Previously adapted for the screen to great acclaim in 1981, Ruswa's novel tells the story of a middle class girl kidnapped by a habitual offender who had been ...

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