Rita Wolf
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Rita Wolf is a British-Indian actress and theatre producer, best known for her role as Tania in My Beautiful Laundrette.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Birthday: February 25, 1960
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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My Beautiful Laundrette
Overview: A Pakistani Briton renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-16
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A View from a Window
Overview: Saleem, an elderly psychiatric patient, is partially paralysed and unable or unwilling to speak. When Kamala, a new student nurse, arrives, he begins to respond, encouraged by her gentle reassurance, and their common cultural identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-21
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Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Overview: Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his play Homebody/Kabul and running through 2004, as he worked on John Kerry's presidential campaign, got married to Mark Harris, worked with Maurice Sendak, and opened the Broadway musical Caroline, or Change.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-15
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Kingdom Come
Overview: Keef owns a small seaside café. His comfortable routine with regular customer Wayne is disrupted by a confrontational punk girl who has seen something extraordinary on the beach.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-02
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Conversion of St Paul
Overview: An atmospheric new jazz film capturing the frustration of a talented young Scottish trumpeter. Paul is playing another lousy gig in Dundee when a sudden confrontation brings his dreams of escape within his grasp.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-04
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The Chain
Overview: Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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This Land, My Land, Eng-Land!
Overview: Sanjay Kak explores life with artists Rita Wolf, Parv Bancil, and Faruk and Harun Shamser of Joi Bangla Crew as they struggle for a place in the sun. Three decades after South Asians first came to Britain in the 1960s, this compelling film follows a new generation of young creatives, and examines the endless rehearsals that go into the construction of identity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Girl 6
Overview: A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-22
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Slipstream
Overview: In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-22
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Majdhar
Overview: Cultural identity, women’s independence and the pressure to conform to British norms are the subjects of this bold and acute feature, which explores both British-Asian experience and the plight of recent immigrants. Rita Wolf (My Beautiful Laundrette), plays Majdhar, a Pakistani woman who transforms herself in London after her husband leaves her for another woman. While Majdhar feels her way towards confident self-determination, husband Afzal is torn between his heritage and his Western aspirations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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