Movies

A documentary about making The Remains of the Day.

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

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

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

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

The filmmakers and lead actors of The Remains of the Day (1993) discuss how they came to make the film, and the subtle power of its execution.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

Historical context for The Remains of the Day.

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

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...

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

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...

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