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Directed by Shyam BenegalGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Films about music and musicians,
Films about sexuality,
Rape in fiction,
Musical films,
BollywoodActors Shabana Azmi,
Naseeruddin Shah,
Girish Karnad,
Smita Patil,
Anant Nag,
Amrish PuriRating75%
Vishwam (Naseeruddin Shah) is the youngest brother of the powerful and influential village Zamindar (Amrish Puri). The Zamindar will not hesitate to do anything for the welfare and protection of his family, which also includes bending the law to his own advantage. The shy and quiet Vishwam is married to Rukmani (Smita Patil) and, unlike his brothers, does not indulge in alcohol or women, nor does he have any bad habits. Then the village gets a new schoolmaster (Girish Karnad), who has a wife, Sushila (Shabana Azmi). When Vishwam sees her for the first time, he is unable to take his eyes off her, and unable to get her out of his mind. Sushila does not reciprocate his attentions. Then one night, while the schoolmaster is enjoying a quiet dinner with his family, the bell rings and the two older brothers of Vishwam grab Sushila and take her forcibly when she goes to answer the door. Several people are present, but no one dares to raise a hand nor even a voice to stop this abduction. The distraught schoolteacher, who is denied justice by everyone from the local police officer to the district collector, is helped by the old priest (Satyadev Dubey) and finally they succeed in mobilizing the villagers and they slaughter their oppressors. In the end the frenzied villagers also kill the innocent Rukmani as well as Sushila whom her husband tried to rescue with the help of the rebellious villagers., 2h22
Directed by Shyam BenegalGenres Drama,
Biography,
MusicalThemes Films about films,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about television,
Musical films,
BollywoodActors Smita Patil,
Amol Palekar,
Anant Nag,
Amrish Puri,
Naseeruddin Shah,
Dina PathakRating73%
Bhumika tells the life story of an actress, Usha (Smita Patil), who is the granddaughter of a famous female singer of the old tradition from Devadasi community of Goa. Usha's mother is married to an abusive and alcoholic Brahmin. Following his early death, and over her mother's objections, Usha is taken to Bombay by family hanger-on Keshav Dalvi (Amol Palekar) to audition successfully as a singer in a Bombay studio: the first step in a process, watched approvingly by Usha's doting grandmother and with horror by her mother, that will eventually carry her to on-camera adolescent stardom, and to an ill-starred love marriage with Keshav. Usha’s motives for stubbornly pursuing this relationship (culminating in a pre-marital pregnancy) with the unattractive and much older Keshav — who appears to have lusted after her since childhood — are not spelled out. Presumably she feels indebted to him for his loyalty to her family (of which he frequently reminds her) and for her own worldly success; she is also a headstrong girl who clearly enjoys her acting career and is bent on challenging her uptight mother (who opposes the match because Keshav does not belong to their caste, just as she opposes cinema itself because of its presumed un-respectability)., 2h47
Directed by Shyam BenegalGenres Drama,
Comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about prostitutionActors Shabana Azmi,
Naseeruddin Shah,
Kulbhushan Kharbanda,
Smita Patil,
Neena Gupta,
Amrish PuriRating74%
For years an aging Rukmini Bai (Shabana Azmi) has been the Madame of a brothel in Hyderabad, India. One day she gets the news that she now has a new landlord in Mr. Gupta (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), whose daughter is to marry the mayor's son Sushil, shortly. Led by City Councillor, Shantidevi, the people in this town demand that this brothel be moved elsewhere, preferably on the outskirts of the town, and they do succeed, compelling Rukmini to move with her women to their new location, which happens to be near the Dargah of Baba Karak Shah. Ironically, this attracts a lot of people, and the patronage to Rukmini's bordello increases. Then complications set in when Sushil refuses to marry his father's choice, childlike Malti, and wants to marry Zeenat (Smita Patil) - a prostitute, not entirely by choice and seeking for a better existence, who resides with Rukmini., 2h14
Directed by Shyam BenegalOrigin IndeGenres DramaThemes Films about music and musicians,
Politique,
Musical films,
Political films,
BollywoodActors Kulbhushan Kharbanda,
Smita Patil,
Girish Karnad,
Amrish Puri,
Naseeruddin Shah,
Mohan AgasheRating76%
The film traces the origins of the movement through its fictionalised narrative, based around rural empowerment, when a young veterinary surgeon, played by Girish Karnad, a character based on then, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) chief, the 33-year-old Verghese Kurien, who joined hands with local social worker, Tribhovandas Patel, which led to the setting up a local milk cooperative, in Anand, Gujarat., 1h43
Directed by Martin RittOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
RomanceThemes Sports films,
Théâtre,
Martial arts films,
Boxing films,
Films based on plays,
Le boxe anglaise,
Children's filmsActors James Earl Jones,
Jane Alexander,
Chester Morris,
Hal Holbrook,
Moses Gunn,
R.G. ArmstrongRating68%
Set between 1910 and 1915, the story follows Jack Jefferson (James Earl Jones; patterned after real-life boxer Jack Johnson) going on a hot streak of victories in the boxing ring as he defeats every white boxer around. Soon the press and racists announce the search for a "great white hope", a boxer who will defeat Jefferson for the heavyweight title. Meanwhile, Jefferson prepares for a few more matches, but he lets his guard down by courting the beautiful (and very white) Eleanor Bachman (Jane Alexander), and when everyone, including Jack's black "wife", discover this, the tensions grow to fever pitch. Jack's close black friends become scared over his pushing the envelope of success and the white authorities conspire to frame him with unlawful sexual relations with Eleanor and thereby take away his title. It leads to jealousy, a run from the law, and finally, disaster., 1h30
Directed by Roy Ward BakerOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Time travel films,
Films based on plays,
Children's filmsActors Tyrone Power,
Ann Blyth,
Michael Rennie,
Dennis Price,
Beatrice Campbell,
Kathleen ByronRating69%
Peter Standish is an American atomic scientist who is working in a nuclear laboratory in London. His co-worker Roger Forsyth, who is worrying about Peter's lack of social activities, takes him to a house in Berkeley Square he inherited. It is there where Peter announces his wishes of living in the 18th century among the high-class family Petigrew he has studied the last years. Because of a lightning strike, he is brought back to 1784, where he is thought to be the first Peter Standish, the American cousin of the Petigrews who, according to history, will soon romance and marry Kate Petigrew., 1h20
Directed by Henry KingOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Melodrama,
RomanceThemes Films based on plays,
Children's filmsActors Rochelle Hudson,
Henry Fonda,
Slim Summerville,
Andy Devine,
Margaret Hamilton,
Louis KingRating60%
The story centers upon a starving, impoverished gamin who lost everything after a wicked millionaire tricked her into a marriage and impregnated her. The baby doesn't survive the ordeal and the poor girl ends up sheltered by a puritanical farm family. While there, she falls in love with the son., 1h36
Directed by Joseph Schenck,
Paul CzinnerOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Films based on plays,
Films based on works by William Shakespeare,
Children's filmsActors Laurence Olivier,
Elisabeth Bergner,
Felix Aylmer,
John Laurie,
Henry Ainley,
Austin TrevorRating58%
Duke Frederick (Felix Aylmer) has usurped and deposed his older brother, Duke Senior (Henry Ainley). Frederick allows the exiled Duke's daughter, Rosalind (Elisabeth Bergner), however, to stay, as she is the closest friend of his daughter, Celia (Sophie Stewart). Orlando (Laurence Olivier), who has been forced to flee his home due to the oppression from his brother, Oliver (John Laurie), comes to the Frederick's Duchy, and enters a wrestling tournament. On leaving the Duchy, Orlando encounters Rosalind, and it is love at first sight. Frederick then becomes angry, and banishes Rosalind. Celia decides to accompany her, along with a jester, Touchstone (Mackenzie Ward)., 2h55
Directed by Nina Foch,
George Stevens,
David S. HallOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
Comedy,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about religion,
Théâtre,
Political films,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
Films based on plays,
Children's filmsActors Douglas Spencer,
Millie Perkins,
Lou Jacobi,
Joseph Schildkraut,
Shelley Winters,
Richard BeymerRating73%
In 1945, as a truckload of war survivors stops in front of an Amsterdam factory at the end of World War II, Otto Frank (Joseph Schildkraut) gets out and walks inside. After climbing the stairs to a deserted garret, Otto finds a girl's discarded glove and sobs, then is joined and comforted by Miep Gies (Dodie Heath) and Mr. Kraler (Douglas Spencer), factory workers who shielded him from the Nazis. After stating that he is now all alone, Otto begins to search for the diary written by his youngest daughter, Anne. Miep promptly retrieves the journal for Otto, and he receives solace reading the words written by his young daughter three years earlier.