The Man Who Would Be King
(1975) [PG]

Based on a Richard Kipling story and packed with spectacle, humor, excitement and bold twists of fate, The Man Who Would Be King earns its crown as "an epic like no other. One of the screen's great adventure yarns." (Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic) Sean Connery and Michael Caine -- chins...  More

My Beautiful Laundrette
(1985) [M]

Set within the Asian community in London, My Beautiful Laundrette is an unusual love story concerned with identity and entrepreneurial spirit during the Thatcher years. Omar (Gordon Warnecke) takes over the running of his wheeler-dealer uncle's laundrette with the intention of turning it into a...  More

The Far Pavilions
(1984) [PG]

HBO's first mini-series, set in 19th century British colonial India, involves war battles, love, treachery and intrigue as well as love and honor involving a romance between a British calvary officer and an Indian princess who has been promised in an arranged marriage to a despotic ruler.  More

Staying On
(1980) [PG]

A retired Indian Army colonel and his wife chose to stay on in India when the British withdrew in 1947. Now, twenty-five years on, they find the new India increasingly difficult to understand. An award-winning companion to 'Jewel In The Crown'.  More

The Jewel In The Crown Vol. 1: The Incident at Mayapore
(1984) [M]

It is 1942. India is in turmoil. The Japanese are poised to invade and the movement for independence is about to explode. This is the beginning of a story about the men and women whose lives were irrevocably affected by the violence around them. Worlds collide in a land of magnificent beauty and...  More

Hullabaloo Over George & Bonnie's Picture
(1978) [PG]

A film by Merchant Ivory Productions (written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant). In India, a young maharaja, Georgie (Victor Banerjee), and his sister, Bonnie (Aparna Sen), possess a collection of Indian miniature paintings rotting away in a...  More

The Razor's Edge (1984)
(1984) [M]

Larry Darrell returns from the battlefields of World War I to America a different person. His fiance (Isabel) resigns herself to a delay in the wedding plans when Larry heads off to Paris. There he finds he prefers a simpler existence and begins to read. One book inspires him to visit India and...  More