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A businessman thwarts his wifes bequest of an estate to another woman

The story of a family troupe of English actors in India They travel around the towns and villages giving performances of Shakespearean plays Through their travels we see the changing face of India as the old is replaced by the new,

Benadette Peters stars in this ironic film based on Tama Janowitzs best selling collection of short stories that defined the downtown New York art scene of the 1980s

After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality

When a doctoral student Metwally working on an biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund encounters difficulties with the deceased authors estate, he travels to Uruguay to hopefully meet the executors Gunds brother, widow, and mistress and change their minds

Widower Thomas Jefferson 3rd US president 1801 09 lives in Paris 1785 90 with his daughter He has a pretty slave girl accompany his other daughter to France He has an alleged affair with her resulting in kids

French vs American social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an American visiting her Frenchman wed sister in Paris

A man marries an heiress for her money even though he is actually in love with her friend

With the arrival of talking pictures, a silent film comedian a Fatty Arbuckle type throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career His plan is to release one last, great silent epic In HD

This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotionless slice of life story Jones here is portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero and now successful author who obviously drinks too much and

Lucy meets George in a Florence pensione and the two share a brief romance before Lucy returns home, where she becomes engaged to Cecil However, it isnt long before George unexpectedly enters her life again

In this delightfully droll Henry James adaptation, the lives and routines of the puritanical Wentworths of New England are upended by the not so welcome arrival of their European cousins one particularly golden autumn Lee Remick shines as the snooty and calculating Eugenia, a Baroness whose marriage to a German prince is on the fritz, meanwhile her dapper brother Felix has his eye on one of the We

Britains top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar musical instrument from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan Tom is taken to Zafars home, where he gets to meet his wife and sev

Lucia Lane, an English writer by way of the US, arrives in Bombay to watch the filming of one of her novels Shes nearing middle age, shes had several husbands, shes lonely and self absorbed Hari, a screenwriter, offers to sho

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer

Set in 1930s Shanghai, where a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd and sometimes illicit jobs to support members of her dead husbands aristocratic family

Anne is investigating the life of her grand aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal As Anne delves into the history of her grand aunt, she is led to reconsider her own life

Marya Zelli finds herself penniless after her art dealer husband, Stephan, is convicted of theft Marya accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H J and Lois Heidler, who lets her live in their house

On the anniversary of her fathers death, an Indian princess Madhur Jaffrey celebrates his memory in her London apartment by having tea and showing a selection of home movies to her guest, her fathers old tutor Cyril Sahib James

The passionate Merchant Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot Natascha McElhone, the only lover of Pablo Picasso Sir Anthony Hopkins who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty, and move on with her life

Set during World War II, an upper class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children

A Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her future