Ismail Merchant Movies

The story of a family troupe of English actors who travel around the towns and villages in India giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through...

A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.

An aging silent movie comic star throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career.

On the birthday of her late father, a deposed Maharaja, a displaced Indian princess living in London and his former private secretary watch home...

This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here as Bill...

The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director...

A tribe of primitive "mudpeople" encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Long...

Prem, a young school teacher, is arranged married and begins the journey of learning the roles and responsibilities required of him.

A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past.

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....

The filmmakers and lead actors of The Remains of the Day (1993) discuss how they came to make the film, and the subtle power of its execution.

A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to...

"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...

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...

Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.

An English novelist travels to Bombay to watch one of her novels translated to film. She chases after the movie's leading man while the screenwriter...

Ismail Merchant's feature directorial debut addresses a subject close to his heart: the expressive Urdu language of Northern India, in danger of...

Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan.

Historical context for The Remains of the Day.