James Ivory Movies

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

Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.

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.

In the Mumbai, India, tenement community of Pavanpul, young female courtesans sing, dance and perform sexual favors for male clientele. Directors...

An adaptation of Henry James' novel about the Countess Eugenia Münster and her brother Robert, expatriate Americans who have grown up in Europe....

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...

A documentary about making The Remains of the Day.

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.

An advertising man, emotionally estranged from his wife and those around him, has seduced and then fired and discarded his secretary. She pursues him...

"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York City dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding...

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

Two teenagers wander rural Greece after being stranded by a car crash. They encounter an itinerant vagabond on their travels.

The drama, adapted from a story by Katherine Anne Porter, tells of a Swedish immigrant who arrives on a small Texas farm at the turn of the century...

Documentary about Merchant Ivory Productions, including interviews with the principals of the film production company and actors which have appeared...

Historical context for The Remains of the Day.

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

Visual images consist entirely of Indian miniature paintings, while an off-screen narrator traces the rise of this art form within the courts of...