Merchant Ivory Movies
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1. The Householder (1963)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A young Indian newlywed finds his independent wife troublesome and seeks help and advice from his overbearing mother, a supposedly worldly wise friend, an American seeker of enlightenment and a swami.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Leela Naidu, Durga Khote, Achala Sachdev
Votes: 399
2. Shakespeare-Wallah (1965)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Romance
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... See full summary »
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Geoffrey Kendal, Laura Liddell
Votes: 880 | Gross: $0.00M
3. The Guru (1969)
G | 112 min | Comedy
Tom Pickle, Britain's top pop artiste, travels to Bombay, India, in the 1960s to learn to play the sitar (musical instrument) from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan. Tom is taken to Zafar's... See full summary »
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Rita Tushingham, Michael York, Utpal Dutt, Madhur Jaffrey
Votes: 174
4. The Mummy (1969)
102 min | Drama
An Upper-Egyptian clan robs a cache of mummies and sells the artifacts on the illicit antiquities black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members goes to the police, helping the Antiquities Service find the cache.
Director: Chadi Abdel Salam | Stars: Ahmed Marei, Ahmad Hegazi, Nadia Lutfi, Mohamed Abdel Rahman
Votes: 1,854
5. Bombay Talkie (1970)
GP | 112 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Lucia Lane, an English writer by way of the US, arrives in Bombay to watch the filming of one of her novels. She's nearing middle age, she's had several husbands, she's lonely and self ... See full summary »
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Jennifer Kendal, Zia Mohyeddin, Aparna Sen
Votes: 495
6. Savages (1972)
R | 106 min | Fantasy, Comedy
An allegory about humankind progresses from a savage state to a civilized form, that is only a cover for its innate barbarism.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Susan Blakely, Margaret Brewster, Thayer David, Neil Fitzgerald
Votes: 400
7. The Wild Party (1975)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama
With the arrival of talking pictures, a silent film comedian (a Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle-type) throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career. His plan is to release one last, great silent masterpiece.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: James Coco, Raquel Welch, Perry King, Tiffany Bolling
Votes: 805
8. Autobiography of a Princess (1975)
Not Rated | 58 min | Drama, History
On the anniversary of her father's 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... See full summary »
Director: James Ivory | Stars: James Mason, Madhur Jaffrey, Keith Varnier, Diane Fletcher
Votes: 379
9. Roseland (1977)
PG | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance
"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Teresa Wright, Lou Jacobi, Don De Natale, Louise Kirtland
Votes: 539
10. Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978 TV Movie)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of thieves descend upon an Indian palace to steal a collection of valuable paintings.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Peggy Ashcroft, Larry Pine, Saeed Jaffrey, Victor Banerjee
Votes: 139
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58 min | Drama, Romance
Louise worries about him as his difficulties with mid-life pull him further away from happiness and comfort with his family.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Laurence Luckinbill, Mary Beth Hurt, Laurinda Barrett, Dale Hodges
Votes: 36
12. The Europeans (1979)
90 min | Drama, Romance
It's the fall of 1850, a few miles outside Boston. The household of the dour Mr. Wentworth receives two unannounced visitors from Europe, Eugenia and Felix, the daughter and son of his half... See full summary »
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy, Tim Choate
Votes: 1,145
13. Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
108 min | Drama, Romance
Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: David Redden, Michael Wager, Robert Powell, Gael Hammer
Votes: 302
14. Quartet (1981)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance
Finding herself penniless after her art-dealer husband Stephan is convicted of theft, Marya Zelli accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler, who let her live in their home.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Maggie Smith, Alan Bates, Anthony Higgins
Votes: 1,879 | Gross: $0.01M
15. The Courtesans of Bombay (1983 TV Movie)
74 min | Documentary, Music
Roughly structured over 24 hours, we visit Pavan Pool, a compound in Bombay where poor women sing, dance, and engage in prostitution. By day, they practice singing and dancing, both ... See full summary »
Director: Ismail Merchant | Stars: Saeed Jaffrey, Zohra Sehgal, Kareem Samar
Votes: 106
16. Heat and Dust (1983)
R | 130 min | Drama, Romance
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.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi, Christopher Cazenove, Julian Glover
Votes: 2,099 | Gross: $0.02M
17. The Bostonians (1984)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama, Romance
A Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her future.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy, Madeleine Potter
Votes: 2,440 | Gross: $1.01M
18. A Room with a View (1985)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, Romance
Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands
Votes: 47,844 | Gross: $20.97M
19. My Little Girl (1986)
R | 118 min | Drama
A young girl agrees to work in a center for girls who can't stay with their parents. She gets wrapped up in the plights of several of the girls, and tries to help them, but only gets herself into trouble with her parents and supervisor.
Director: Connie Kaiserman | Stars: James Earl Jones, Geraldine Page, Mary Stuart Masterson, Anne Meara
Votes: 383
20. Maurice (1987)
R | 140 min | Drama, Romance
Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 23,559 | Gross: $3.13M
21. The Deceivers (1988)
PG-13 | 102 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Fact-based account of a secret society of murderers, and of the man who exposed them in British India 1825.
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Saeed Jaffrey, Shashi Kapoor, Helena Michell
Votes: 1,270 | Gross: $0.35M
22. The Perfect Murder (1988)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Thriller, Action
Police Inspector Ghote lives a middle-class life in Bombay along with his wife, Pratima. He has been employed with the Bombay Police for many years. His wife is generally disgruntled and ... See full summary »
Directors: Zafar Hai, M.R. Shahjahan | Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Stellan Skarsgård, Amjad Khan, Madhur Jaffrey
Votes: 330
23. Slaves of New York (1989)
R | 124 min | Comedy, Drama
Benadette Peters stars in this ironic film based on Tama Janowitz's best-selling collection of short stories that defined the downtown New York art scene of the 1980s
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Bernadette Peters, Adam Coleman Howard, Chris Sarandon, Mary Beth Hurt
Votes: 1,113 | Gross: $0.46M
24. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
PG-13 | 126 min | Drama
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.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Saundra McClain, Margaret Welsh
Votes: 3,485 | Gross: $7.70M
25. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991)
PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A tangled triangle. In the rural South of the early 20th century, Miss Amelia is the town eccentric, selling corn liquor and dispensing medicine. She takes in her half-sister's son, a ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Callow | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Keith Carradine, Cork Hubbert, Rod Steiger
Votes: 868 | Gross: $0.18M
26. Street Musicians of Bombay (1994)
59 min | Documentary, Music
Off-camera, a Western traveler tells us of hearing singing from his hotel window in Bombay. He searches for the source, and discovers a caste of street performers, eking out a modest living... See full summary »
Director: Richard Robbins | Stars: Trevor Nichols, Rosemary Martin, Richard Robbins
Votes: 42
27. Howards End (1992)
PG | 142 min | Drama, Romance
Set in the early 20th century, class distinctions and troubled relations affect the relationship between two families and the ownership of a cherished British estate known as Howards End.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter
Votes: 35,824 | Gross: $25.97M
28. The Remains of the Day (1993)
PG | 134 min | Drama, Romance
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.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, John Haycraft, Christopher Reeve
Votes: 84,393 | Gross: $22.95M
29. In Custody (1994)
PG | 126 min | Comedy, Drama
A poet of Urdu fame is struggling with his legacy while an aspiring poet and historian comes to document him like never before and in return becomes custodian of the great poets last verses.
Director: Ismail Merchant | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri, Sushma Seth
Votes: 399 | Gross: $0.09M
30. Feast of July (1995)
R | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.
Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Embeth Davidtz, Tom Bell, Gemma Jones, James Purefoy
Votes: 600 | Gross: $0.29M
31. Jefferson in Paris (1995)
PG-13 | 139 min | Biography, Drama, History
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 children.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Gwyneth Paltrow, Estelle Eonnet
Votes: 3,193 | Gross: $2.47M
32. The Proprietor (1996)
R | 113 min | Drama
An expatriated French novelist (Jeanne Moreau) returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block. What she doesn't count on is that she has to ... See full summary »
Director: Ismail Merchant | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Sean Young, Sam Waterston, Christopher Cazenove
Votes: 257 | Gross: $0.11M
33. Surviving Picasso (1996)
R | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The passionate Merchant Ivory drama tells the story of Françoise 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.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Julianne Moore, Joss Ackland
Votes: 7,887 | Gross: $2.00M
34. Side Streets (1998)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy
Staten Island cab-driver Bipin Raj picks up a passenger and mistakes her for a movie star; he tells her that his brother, Vikram Raj, is a Bollywood megastar with millions of fans and is ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Gerber | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Valeria Golino, Shashi Kapoor, Leon
Votes: 272
35. A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
R | 127 min | Drama
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... See full summary »
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Leelee Sobieski, Kris Kristofferson, Barbara Hershey, Jane Birkin
Votes: 2,488 | Gross: $1.76M
36. Cotton Mary (1999)
R | 124 min | Drama
A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past.
Directors: Ismail Merchant, Madhur Jaffrey | Stars: Greta Scacchi, Madhur Jaffrey, James Wilby, Sarah Badel
Votes: 541 | Gross: $0.30M
37. The Golden Bowl (2000)
R | 130 min | Drama, Romance
A man marries an heiress for her money even though he is actually in love with her friend.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Uma Thurman, Jeremy Northam, Kate Beckinsale, James Fox
Votes: 4,605 | Gross: $3.04M
38. The Mystic Masseur (2001)
PG | 117 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 1950s Trinidad, a frustrated writer supports himself as a masseur--and soon becomes a revered mystic and politico.
Director: Ismail Merchant | Stars: Om Puri, James Fox, Aasif Mandvi, Albert Laveau
Votes: 475 | Gross: $0.40M
39. Merci Docteur Rey (2002)
R | 91 min | Comedy
A hot young phone sex addict and his narcissistic opera diva mom. A dangerously agitated hustler and a half-dozen dangerously agitated hustlers who look just like him. A tittering neurotic ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Litvack | Stars: Dianne Wiest, Jane Birkin, Stanislas Merhar, Bulle Ogier
Votes: 586 | Gross: $0.02M
40. Le divorce (2003)
PG-13 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
French vs. American social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an American visiting her sister and French brother-in-law and niece in Paris.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Stockard Channing, Jean-Marie Lhomme
Votes: 12,080 | Gross: $9.07M
41. Heights (2005)
R | 93 min | Drama, Romance
Spanning 24 hours, "Heights" follows five New Yorkers challenged to choose their destiny before the sun comes up the next day.
Director: Chris Terrio | Stars: Elizabeth Banks, Glenn Close, James Marsden, Chandler Williams
Votes: 4,832 | Gross: $1.16M
42. The White Countess (2005)
PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, History, Romance
In 1930s Shanghai, 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 husband's aristocratic family.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave
Votes: 6,969 | Gross: $1.67M
43. The City of Your Final Destination (2009)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance
Omar wants to write an authorized biography on a dead writer and travels to a farm in Uruguay to meet the trustees - the writer's brother, widow and cute mistress/mother of his daughter.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Omar Metwally, Anthony Hopkins, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nicholas Blandullo
Votes: 3,238
44. Before the Rains (2007)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, History, Romance
A English spice baron settles in South India during the waning years of the Raj.
Director: Santosh Sivan | Stars: Linus Roache, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Jennifer Ehle
Votes: 2,171 | Gross: $1.04M
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