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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - The Merchant Ivory Collection
Amazon.com — Description Three Academy Award® winners-Vanessa Red grave, Keith Carradine, and Rod Steiger-are the stars of this extraordinary 1991 film, directed by British actor Simon Callow. The Ballad of the Sad Café, based on the Carson McCullers novella and ...More…
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Howards End - The Merchant Ivory Collection
Amazon.com — Description Margaret and Helen Schlegel (Oscar® winner Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter) are sisters from a well-educated European family: intelligent, free-spirited, cultured, and highly emancipated by the standards of the time. A series of events ...More…
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In Custody - The Merchant Ivory Collection
Amazon.com — Description Based on the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Anita Desai, In Custody-producer Ismail Merchant's directorial debut-is a wry, lyrical drama about the contemporary Indian culture. Nur (Shashi Kapoor) is considered the greatest living Urdu ...More…
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The Deceivers - The Merchant Ivory Collection
Amazon.com — Description India, 1825: the country is being ravaged by the Thugees, cult members also known as "The Deceivers," who commit robbery and ritualistic murder. Appalled by their activities, English Captain William Savage undertakes a hazardous ...More…
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The Perfect Murder - The Merchant Ivory Collection
Amazon.com — Description Based on the CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning novel by H.R.F Keating, The Perfect Murder follows inspector Ghote (Naseeruddin Shah) of the Bombay police as he pursues his most perplexing case: a savage attack on a rich industrialist's private ...More…
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Jane Austen in Manhattan - The Merchant Ivory Collection
Amazon.com — Description Rival theater companies compete to produce their own unique versions of Jane Austen's childhood play, Sir Charles Grandison, in this delightful film from Merchant Ivory Productions. George Midash (Michael Wager) buys the play's ...More…
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Savages - The Merchant Ivory Collection
Amazon.com — Description A masked, naked, clay-covered band of jungle primitives are disturbed in the middle of a human sacrifice by the sudden intrusion of a croquet ball. Led by their high priestess, they trek through the forest in search of its origins and arrive ...More…
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Shakespeare Wallah - The Merchant Ivory Collection
Amazon.com — Description Elegiac and atmospheric, Shakespeare Wallah was the feature film that put Merchant Ivory Productions on the international movie map, winning them great critical acclaim, and is now recognized as a classic. Starring Shashi Kapoor, Madhur ...More…
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The Householder - The Merchant Ivory Collection
Amazon.com — Description Merchant Ivory Productions, The Criterion Collection, and Home Vision Entertainment are proud to present The Merchant Ivory Collection The Householder is the story of a shy, young, underpaid Delhi schoolteacher (Shashi Kapoor) who marries and ...More…
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Maurice - The Merchant Ivory Collection
Amazon.com — Description Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, E.M. Forster's Maurice is a story of coming to terms with one's sexuality and identity in the face of disapproval and misunderstanding. Maurice Hall (James Wilby) ...More…
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Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures - The ...
Amazon.com — Description This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at nothing to possess them. Peggy Ashcroft and Larry Pine star as two rapacious art collectors ...More…
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Heat and Dust / Autobiography of a Princess - The ...
Amazon.com — Actor Julie Christie Actor Greta Scacchi Actor Shashi Kapoor Actor Susan Fleetwood Actor Christopher Cazenove Aspect Ratio 1.77:1 Audience Rating R (Restricted) Director James Ivory EAN 9780780026780 Format Anamorphic Format Color Format DVD Format ...More…