James Ivory Movies

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

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

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

A film about the life of A Passage to India author E M Forster, following his huge growth as a writer and the twists and turns of his personal life.

Award-winning filmmaker James Ivory recounts his life as traveler, outsider, and artist during a trip to Afghanistan in 1960.

This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at...

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

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

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.

This film brings to life a fictional castrato named Zefirino.

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

Nirad C. Chaudhuri expounds his views on culture, history, religion and society from a comparative perspective.

Looks at the musical extravaganzas which constitute the main bulk of commercial cinema in India; in particular at the career of Helen, the undisputed...

Mong just moved to New York from China to take over the family laundry shop. Both her professional and social lives are affected when she finds out...

In collaboration with Academy Award winning Director/Screenwriter, James Ivory, Rich Atmosphere: The Music of Merchant Ivory Films, showcases the...

Ivory's initial effort as a filmmaker was Venice: Theme and Variations, a documentary made as his master's thesis at the USC film school that,...

Leonardo, an Italian immigrant living in New York, marries a Latin American woman, Nikki, to obtain the greencard. In the process the two really...

Roselli grew up in Hoboken five houses down from Sinatra, some considering his vocal talents superior to Sinatra’s. Frank’s mother Dolly...