Blackstar

... man whose new responsibility is to vamp up his uncle's (Saeed Jaffrey) launderette. With the help of Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis), an old school friend and ex-National Front thug, Omar begins to ...

The Merchant-Ivory team are behind this detailed portrait of the red light district of Bombay, which is filmed as part-documentary, part-drama. The actors function primarily as narrators ...

A miserly father tries to get his extravagant son married to a rich man's daughter in order to get a dowry in exchange. Unfortunately they fail to get along and proceed to play practical jokes on ...

A lavish costume drama set in Lucknow in 1856. Two indolent chess-obsessed nobleman, neglecting their families, continuing to play while the Maharajah, an effete poet-musician, is being dethroned ...

A shock-horror, Merchant Ivory produced, costume caper set in India with Pierce Brosnan as an insecure young Englishman who breaks colonial taboos by colouring his skin to infiltrate a band of ...

Drama based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham. When Larry (Bill Murray) returns from World War I disillusioned with Jazz Age values, he undertakes a quest which leads him to reject his rich ...

James Dreyfuss stars in this quick-witted comedy as the bitter Jake - a self-possessed artist and filmmaker who can't quite keep life together in the face of other people's success. Jake's life ...

One hot summer's day an ingenious and highly organised gunman goes on a shooting rampage. As he moves from one killing zone to another, regardless of sex, race, age and creed, he leaves a trail of ...

Originating as a Play For Today, Gangsters was made into a series following much critical acclaim. In this hard adventure drama John Kline, who has just been released from prison and back into a ...

All 16 stand-alone episodes from the second series of the macabre television drama, based on the stories by popular author Roald Dahl. In this series, a bee-keeper begins to feed his ill daughter ...

... fairy tale is directed by Ketan Desai and has Puneet Issar and Saeed Jaffrey in supporting roles. The screenplay is by Honey Irani. Music from Raamlaxman includes some tuneful numbers like ...

Gandhi was not a ruler of nations, nor did he have scientific gifts. Yet this small, modest man did what others before him could not. He led an entire country to freedom - he gave his people hope.

Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning epic follows the extraordinary life of Mahatma Gandhi (played by Ben Kingsley), from his beginnings as a young Indian lawyer to his triumph as a ...

All eleven episodes from the first series of the popular comedy-drama centring around dodgy London entrepreneur Arthur Daley (George Cole) and his 'minder', former boxer Terry McCann (Dennis ...

Four epics. 'The Guns of Navarone' (1961) tells the story of a group of mismatched Allied soldiers are sent to sabotage two powerful Nazi guns situated on a Greek island in 1943. If their mission ...

Triple bill of biopics. In the Oscar-winning drama 'Capote' (2005) it is 1959, and Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a popular writer for The New Yorker, learns about the horrific and ...