Released after censorship restrictions were lifted by a more liberal Indian government, Amar Akbar Anthony indulged audiences...
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1977
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When a married man seduces his serving girl, it's just for fun. As a spoiled and raw young man of India's upper classes, he...
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1974
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1982
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The lure of the big city is something that country dwellers around the world experience. In every case, the particulars are...
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1990
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Six directors converge to film an ensemble epic detailing the love and companionship of two friends torn apart by the cruel...
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2007
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Deepa Mehta directed this Indian-Canadian romantic drama, the second part of a trilogy. Based on Bapsi Sidhwa's...
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1999
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1980
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1981
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In this India-set Canadian drama, two disparate wives related by marriage and united at first by the oppressiveness of Indian...
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1996
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This ambitious and symbolic musical drama follows the eternal spirit of women as they inspire and confound men throughout the...
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2001
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1985
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Set against the backdrop of a crumbling, historical villa on an ancient feudal holding now going to seed, director...
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1983
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1988
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This Hindi social drama stars Naseerudin Shah as a family man whose everyday domestic life is turned upside down when he...
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1983
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Filmmaker Deepa Mehta adapts author Salman Rushdie's Booker Prize-winning novel about the mysterious connection between two...
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2012
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Love and dreams follow two starry-eyed actors across three decades and two incarnations in this splashy Hindi musical. It's...
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2007
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Mohsin Hamid's international best-seller concerning a Pakistani Princeton graduate whose life is forever altered by the 9/11...
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2013
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1986
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The young Brahmin girl in this story has a disastrous horoscope. In an Indian village in 1828, this can be a real handicap....
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1989
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1993
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Directed by filmmaker Onir (My Brother... Nikhil), Sorry Bhai! is a breezy but moving Bollywood comedy drama about familial...
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2008
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After an arranged marriage, the bride goes to live with her husband's family. She is a girl with some modern ideas, and...
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1977
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A biological act of terror has been unleashed upon Los Angeles, and as the denizens of the West Coast metropolis are...
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2005
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Capitalism at its most brutal is a familiar story in Central Asia, and in this story, set in the lovely but decaying Indian...
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Anjuman
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1987
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Tony Gerber made his directorial debut with this anthology film, a comedy-drama that opens with a 1950s black-and-white...
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Chandra Raj
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1998
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In the north Indian state of Bihar, Ketki (Madhuri Dixit) marries weak Vinay (Ayub Khan), who is exploited by hard-nosed...
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Chandravati
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1997
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Chaudhari Devi
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2013
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Ramulu (Om Puri) is a master weaver whose excellence is noticed by a female government official, and his work is selected to...
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Gauramma
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1986
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Anita Desai and Shahrukh Husain adapted Desai's novel for this comedy-drama about an Indian university teacher who encounters...
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Imtiaz Begum
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1994
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A British engineer and a young Bengali woman feel the backlash of cultural divisiveness in this uneven romantic drama. Allan...
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Indira Sen
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1988
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When Piroji fails to act on an offer of marriage, his best friend Pesi marries the beautiful but masochistic Jerro in this...
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Jeroo
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1987
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This Indian drama provides a sympathetic view of the daily existence of some of India's poorest people. The film is set...
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Jitni
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1994
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In this drama, a wealthy American doctor learns some important lessons about life in one of the poorest cities on Earth. Max...
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Kamla Pal
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1992
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When the blind principal of a school for blind adolescents meets up with a young widow, there is an attraction that leads to...
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Kavita
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1979
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A young courtesan kidnapped from her home and sold into slavery ultimately transcends her grim fate in director J.P. Dutta's...
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Khanum
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2006
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Rajkaran is an ambitious man with no way of accomplishing his goals. He is in debt to moneylenders in a big way, and his...
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Kumud
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1992
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Mirza's Wife
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1977
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A devoted Indian mother resorts to murder in hopes of helping her pleasantly plump daughter find a husband, but discovers...
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Mrs. Sethi
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2010
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Shasanka (Sreeram Lgoo) is a retired teacher who lives with his wife and two daughters. The family is thrown into an uproar...
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Neeta
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1989
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When an Untouchable wins the elections for mayor in his small village in northeastern India, deadly rioting forces an...
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Rama
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1984
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The theme of how power can corrupt even the most well-meaning of souls is explored in this drama from India. Veeram...
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Rambhi
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1999
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A handful of Indian-Americans vie for overnight stardom in a competition for amateur singers in this mockumentary comedy. The...
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Rrita Kapoor
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2008
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With songs and musical numbers that are woven through the storyline, this unevenly-paced drama is about a brothel that has...
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Rukmani-bai
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1983
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Religious and personal tensions escalate steadily in this drama, and nearly everyone in it has some sort of extra-sensitive...
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Samira
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1992
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A young auto mechanic named Albert Pinto (Naseeruddin Shah), enjoys an insulated life of semi-privilege in India where his...
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Stella
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1981
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Shirley MacLaine is Madame Sousatzka, an aging piano instructor of Russian extraction. Entrenched in a dilapidated London...
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Sushila Sen
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1988
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Swarnalatha
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2004
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This is a simple, straightforward tale about the rise and fall of human civilization that focuses solely on four characters:...
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The woman
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1986
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During one of the many violent uprisings against the English colonial overlords in India, a church filled with people is...
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Wife
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1979
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In India in 1945, at the time of independence, there were many isolated semi-autonomous states, which had their own laws. In...
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Wife
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1975
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