Roshan Seth
Also Known As: Rushan Seth, रोशन सेठ
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roshan Seth OBE (Hindi: रोशन सेठ; born April 2, 1942) is an Indian-born British actor, who appears mainly in British and American films. He is best known for his critically acclaimed performances in the films Gandhi, Mississippi Masala, Not Without My Daughter, My Beautiful Laundrette, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Such a Long Journey. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roshan Seth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Patna, Bihar, India
Birthday: April 02, 1942
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Overview: After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-23
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Monsoon Wedding
Overview: As the romantic monsoon rains loom, the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a last-minute arranged marriage in New Delhi. This film traces five intersecting stories, each navigating different aspects of love as they cross boundaries of class, continent and morality.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2001-08-30
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Gandhi
Overview: In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-01
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Mountains of the Moon
Overview: The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-16
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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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Vertical Limit
Overview: Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message and assembles a team to save her and her group before they succumb to K2's unforgiving elements. But, as Annie lays injured in an icy cavern, the rescuers face several terrifying events that could end the rescue attempt -- and their lives.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-08
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Street Fighter
Overview: Col. Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of Dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-23
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Amal
Overview: Autorickshaw driver Amal is content with the small, but vital, role he serves - driving customers around New Delhi as quickly and safely as possible. But his sense of duty is tested by an eccentric, aging billionaire, who, moved by Amal's humility, bequeaths him his entire estate before passing away. With only one month to discover and claim the inheritance, Amal's struggles with duty and wealth are threatened by all those around him - from a young injured beggar girl and a lovely store merchant, to the danger of the old man's upper-caste friends and siblings, all seeking to claim their share of the riches.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2007-09-13
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Proof
Overview: Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-05
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Not Without My Daughter
Overview: An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-11
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Frozen
Overview: It's two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister Annie, but Kath remains haunted by a need to know what happened. When police investigations wind down, Kath continues the search herself. She gets nowhere until she steals some CCTV footage of her sister on her final day. Visiting the spot where Annie was filmed, Kath becomes convinced she has found a portal to another reality and from this portal Kath is trying to say something.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-12
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The Cheetah Girls: One World
Overview: Chanel, Dorinda, and Aqua are off to India to star in a Bollywood movie. But when they discover that they will have to compete against each other to get the role in the movie, will the Cheetahs break up again?
Genres: Family Comedy Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-22
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Mississippi Masala
Overview: Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-18
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Secret of the Andes
Overview: Cusi is a 20th century Incan boy who lives in a high mountain valley with an old llama herder named Chuto. Chuto raised Cusi in a traditional Incan fashion, although the Spanish culture was prevalent in Peru since the conquest of the Incan Empire. Although eager for adventure, Cusi is still drawn to the home he has known all his life. Cusi sets out from his home to try to find a family, but discovers that Chuto is all the family he needs.
Genres: Action Adventure Family Fantasy Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-15
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Running Late
Overview: Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - a matter of life and death - his life is irreversibly altered. And so the frantic search begins for George Grant 's truth - and his wife.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-11
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Trishna
Overview: When her father is killed in a road accident, Trishna's family expect her to provide for them. The rich son of an entrepreneur starts to restlessly pursue her affections, but are his intentions as pure as they seem?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-08
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Ek Tha Tiger
Overview: An Indian agent is sent to observe the actions of a scientist but the mission becomes complicated when he falls in love with the scientist's Pakistani caretaker.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2012-08-15
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Brahmin Bulls
Overview: When Ashok makes a surprise visit to Los Angeles to visit his estranged son, the two begin a journey to mend their relationship until Sid discovers that his father has actually come in search of an old flame. A heartfelt and humorous exploration of the ever-evolving relationship between a father and son, the women in their lives, and the powerful secrets they keep.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-05
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Bombay Boys
Overview: Krishna alias Kris Sahani lives in New York, but decides to travel to his homeland in order to act in a movie. While Ricardo Fernandes leaves Australia to travel to Bombay in search of his missing brother, Roger. And finally, Zeres Mistry, from London also travels to Bombay to find his true love. The paths of all three NRIs cross in the taxi to Colaba, and they decide to stick together. They find an apartment, owned by a gay landlord, Pesi Shroff, who openly and lovingly eyes a visibly uncomfortable Zeres. Things do not go well for Kris as he is asked by Filmmaker, Don Mastana, to act in a movie that is slated to be the worst movie in Bollywood history. Ricardo finds himself at the mercy of the local police, who make it clear to him that they have better things to do than look for his missing brother. It is only a matter of time before the hapless trio to realize that their respective hopes and dreams are soon to turn to hopelessness and nightmares - from which there is no escape.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 1998-09-14
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The Journey
Overview: Kishan Singh. a retired teacher from India, comes out to the US to visit his son Raj. Raj's American-bom wife Laura used to write poetry but 'Life gets in the way of art'. Kishan's presence and the problems raised from gender and cultural expectations cause tension. When Kishan decides to stay indefinitely, conflict erupts. A series of poignant episodes help Laura appreciate Kishan's zest for life and at the same time enable Raj and Laura to examine their lives in a new light.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Solitaire for 2
Overview: Katie can read minds. Being desirable, the male minds she reads are all thinking of one thing. She always responds by hitting them and storming off without explanation. Daniel is an expert in body language and interprets this as a sign she wants to be pursued. Since Daniel spends most of his time, when not terrorizing his students, pursuing women, Katie gets ever more exasperated that he is treating her exactly as he treats every presentable female from the motorcycle cop to the squeegee girl. She cannot read minds when her eyes are covered, or when minds are thinking in a foreign language, so she misinterprets Sandip's desire for hunger. She also holds Daniel responsible for his subconscious desire for his friend's wife (Caroline).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-10
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Sengottai
Overview: Thirumoorthy is a corrupt politician who plans to kill the prime minister as he lusts after his position. However, Sekhar, a young police officer, creates hurdles in his path.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 1996-04-19
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Iqbal
Overview: Iqbal is about an Asian boy who gets sold by his father to a small carpentry production company in which child labour is supported. His "master" is a cruel man, imposing a ridiculous behaviour catalogue with strict charges. The children, about 5-10 years of age, have to work all day and they´re not allowed to go to toilet while at work, let alone visit their parents. Iqbal soon realizes that this is a massive injustice, especially when a member of the (unindentified) country´s Communist and Anti-child labour party takes photographs of the children.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-22
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London Kills Me
Overview: For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible" pair of shoes, an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-13
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1871
Overview: A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-09
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Electric Moon
Overview: Set in an expensive tourist lodge in the forests of central India run by former royalty, Raja Ran Bikram Singh, 'Bubbles', the film is a satirical parody on Westerners visiting India, in search for their stereotypical notions of the country, replete with images of former Indian royalty, and relics of the British Raj. In turn the film was a commentary on social pretense and ecology.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-04
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Partition
Overview: The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen's complex and visually striking film. A lunatic asylum in the city of Lahore becomes a mirror image of events in the outside political world, with the same actors playing both inmates and rulers. Adapted by Tariq Ali and McMullen from famous Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto's short story 'Toba Tek Singh', Partition speaks for the countless millions that the usual British Raj films sweep out of sight. Released to mark the 60th anniversary of the partition of the Indian sub-continent, this is the film's first-ever release on DVD.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-19
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Deadline
Overview: In a small (fictional) emirate of the Persian Gulf a world-weary journalist is caught up in a coup where the Emir's son, under the influence of a political renegade, attempts to depose his father - the ruling monarch. Flashbacks of the journalist's life show us how his relationships with the Emir and a beautiful young woman develop and flourish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Boogie Man
Overview: A British-Indian teenager struggles with his cultural heritage in modern-day London, falling for a white, 20-something actress/model during a 1970s-themed exhibition, and becoming obsessed with both her, the fashion and music of a seemingly more glamorous '70s era, all the while trying to keep his family's Indian traditionalism and the impending responsibilities of adulthood at bay.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-30
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South West 9
Overview: Five very different characters are thrown together in one weird, mashed up day. It started out like any other, but 24 hours later everything had changed. South West 9 takes you through the windscreen of the new millenium. The death of idealism, capitalism, religion and hippies. Even the drugs don't work anymore. The 'summer of love' generation have come down and they're ready to riot. Seattle. Stockholm. Paris. Genoa. May Day riots.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-12
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Little Dorrit
Overview: A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film originally released in two parts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-11
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The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
Overview: Set in Colonial India in 1925, the hunt for the most notorious man-eating leopard of all time.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-02
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The Lovers
Overview: The Lovers is an epic romance time travel adventure film. Helmed by Roland Joffé from a story by Ajey Jhankar, the film is a sweeping tale of an impossible love set against the backdrop of the first Anglo-Maratha war across two time periods and continents and centred around four characters — a British officer in 18th century colonial India, the Indian woman he falls deeply in love with, an American present-day marine biologist and his wife.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-13
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City of Tiny Lights
Overview: In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye into a dangerous world of religious fanaticism and political intrigue.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-12
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The Last Days of the Raj
Overview: Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives in India in March 1947 as Britain's Last Viceroy. He is committed to transfer administrative and authoritative power to an independent and sovereign India. Six months later India indeed was set free, but it had also been partitioned and overwhelmed by an orgy of sectarian violence involving Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-12
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Cosmopolitan
Overview: A single bachelor, an oddly attractive neighbor and a popular women's magazine are the ingredients of this delicious romance that pays homage to classic Bollywood cinema while spinning a unique modern love story.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Juggernaut
Overview: A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-25
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Food for Ravens
Overview: A biopic by the dramatist Trevor Griffiths of Aneurin "Nye" Bevan, the British Labour politician who founded the country's National Health Service in the 1940s.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-11
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Guru
Overview: A villager, Gurukant Desai, arrives in Bombay in 1958, and rises from its streets to become the biggest tycoon in India.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hi
Release Date: 2007-01-12
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Diana and I
Overview: In the week that follows Princess Diana's tragic death on 31 August 1997, four separate stories unfold as four ordinary lives are all affected in different ways in this commemorative drama from writer Jeremy Brock and director Peter Cattaneo.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-04
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Se sarà luce sarà bellissimo - Moro: Un'altra storia
Overview: The film is the result of a planned trilogy about the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades first announced by director Grimaldi in 2003: shot in the UK on a low budget, the project was never completed because of lack of funding and other issues, and the existing footage from the first two planned installments was condensed into a single movie and released on DVD in 2009.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-12-04
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Stalin
Overview: The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-21
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The Happy Valley
Overview: In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. The same events were also dramatised in the feature film White Mischief, which was released seven months after the first transmission of The Happy Valley.
Genres: Crime Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-06
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A Passage to India
Overview: Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-14
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Dumbo
Overview: A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-27
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Tales of Innocence
Overview: In Italy, Indy's espionage work takes him behind enemy lines where he embarks on an important propaganda assignment that he hopes will bring a swift end to the war. Along the way, he engages in a comic rivalry with Ernest Hemingway over the affections of a beautiful Italian girl. After being wounded in action, Indy is transferred to North Africa where he joins the French Foreign Legion. While trying to uncover the identity of a traitor in his own ranks, Indy battles hostile Berber tribesmen and engages in an innocent flirtation with author Edith Wharton.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-28
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Such a Long Journey
Overview: The story, set in 1971 at the time of the war between India and Pakistan, is based on the novel of the same name by Rohinton Mistry, an Indian now living in Toronto. "Such a Long Journey" takes place mostly in and around a large apartment complex, its courtyard and the street, which the municipal authorities want to widen so that even more choking diesel fumes can cloud the air. We meet the hero, Gustad (Roshan Seth), in the process of defending the old concrete wall that protects his courtyard from the street, and later he strikes a bargain with an itinerant artist (Ranjit Chowdhry), who covers the wall with paintings from every conceivable religious tradition, with the thought that all of the groups represented will join in defending the wall.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-13
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Broken Thread
Overview: Ram, a London-based businessman of Indian and English descent, has been experiencing mind-shattering nightmares of a mysterious masked woman who torments him. As Ram mourns the loss of his father, he is assaulted with images, seemingly lost memories for which he has no explanation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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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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In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones
Overview: Annie struggles to to clear his bachelor's degree with one final hurdle-The Thesis. It's his final attempt to clear it. Can he?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-22
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Brokering News: Media, Money and Middleman
Overview: The Film investigates the state of news in India. Journalism is up for sale and selling of editorial space has become both blatant and institutionalised.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-15
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The Peddler
Overview: One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lead. Married, mortgaged, broke, a love-affair gone sour - which drug can help Alec?
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-23
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To Encourage the Others
Overview: The true story of Derek Bentley, whose conviction and execution for a murder committed by someone else provoked a public revulsion.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-27
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Apply, Apply, No Reply
Overview: A young villager struggles to find employment in Calcutta.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-12
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Flight
Overview: Set among a South Asian community in the north of England, the film follows the journey of a teenager after she is discovered by her father as having fallen passionately in love. The story follows youthful naïveté, heartbreak, reckoning, and courage against the hold of toxic patriarchy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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