Mr and Mrs Bridge
(1990) [PG]

Directed by James Ivory, Mr and Mrs Bridge stars Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward as Walter and India Bridge, a traditional couple living in Kansas City in the 1940s. The Bridges have three children: the strong-willed Ruth (Kyra Sedgwick); Douglas (Robert Sean Leonard), a carbon copy of his...  More

A Room With A View
(1985) [PG]

A Room With A View features an incomparable cast which includes Denholm Elliott, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Daniel Day – Lewis, Helena Bonham Carter and Julian Sands. A Room With A View tells of Lucy Honeychurch, a beautiful young English girl abroad, whose emotions are rocked when she witnesses...  More

Heat And Dust
(1983) [M]

The passion, violence, mystery and beauty of India are rapturously evoked in Merchant Ivory Productions' acclaimed Heat And Dust, based on the novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and novelist. Blending east with west, and moving effortlessly between the vibrant world of...  More

Slaves Of New York
(1989) [M]

A New York based drama from Merchant Ivory in which Eleanor (Bernadette Peters), lives with her artist boyfriend Stash who is an aspiring artist. Just like his other artist friends, he is completely unknown but is waiting for his big break, but after their relationship breaks down it is she who...  More

Howard's End
(1992) [G]

From Merchant Ivory, the team that brought us A Room With A View and Maurice, also based on Forster's novels, comes this masterful adaptation of Howard's End. A story of two families who are drawn together by extraordinary circumstances in spite of their vastly differing backgrounds and...  More

Maurice
(1987) [M]

E.M. Forster's (A Room with a View, Howard's End) story, set in pre-World War I England, studies a theme few period pieces dare mention--a young man's struggle with his homosexuality. It is the coming of age for two young men who meet at Cambridge and fall in love. Maurice (James Wilby) and Clive...  More

The Bostonians
(1984) [PG]

Vanessa Redgrave (in an Oscar-nominated performance) and Christopher Reeve are the stars of The Bostonians, Merchant Ivory Productions' acclaimed 1984 screen adaptation of the Henry James classic, which charts the struggle betwen two charismatic forces - a feminist and a chauvinist - to gain...  More

The Remains Of The Day
(1993) [G]

Following the success of HOWARD'S END, Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson reunited with the acclaimed Merchant Ivory filmmaking team and teamed with a stellar support cast that included James Fox, Christopher Reeve and Hugh Grant for this extraordinary, moving story of blind devotion and repressed...  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

Autobiography Of A Princess
(1975) [PG]

Made for British television by the correctly esteemed Merchant/Ivory partnership, with an expected well-wrought screenplay from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, this short (one hour) film is essentially a chamber piece for two characters, shot primarily within a single room of a London town house, but the...  More