Movie List for "united kingdom"

Heavens Above! (1963) Comedy Movie

A minister is accidentally appointed to a snobbish parish. Year 1963.

Generes: Comedy
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Writer: Frank Harvey, John Boulting, Malcolm Muggeridge
Actors: Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Isabel Jeans

Salaam Bombay! (1988) Crime Drama Movie

Young Krishna struggles to survive among the drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes in the back alleys and gutters of India. Year 1988.

Generes: Crime, Drama
Director: Mira Nair
Writer: Mira Nair, Sooni Taraporevala, Hriday Lani
Actors: Shafiq Syed, Anjaan, Amrit Patel

The River (1951) Drama Romance Movie

The growing pains of three young women contrast with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold. Year 1951.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: Jean Renoir
Writer: Rumer Godden, Jean Renoir
Actors: Patricia Walters, Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight

Gandhi (1982) Biography Drama Movie

The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest. Year 1982.

Generes: Biography, Drama
Director: Richard Attenborough
Writer: John Briley
Actors: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Rohini Hattangadi

The Long Duel (1967) Action Adventure Drama Movie

To protest against British oppression and tyranny a tribal leader becomes a bandit. Year 1967.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Drama
Director: Ken Annakin
Writer: Peter Yeldham, Ranveer Singh, Ernest Borneman
Actors: Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews

Maya (1993) Drama Mystery Romance Movie

A beautiful, wealthy woman’s insatiable appetite for romance leads to tragedy and a police investigation. Year 1993.

Generes: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Director: Ketan Mehta
Writer: Gustave Flaubert, Sitanshu Yashaschandra, Ketan Mehta
Actors: Deepa Sahi, Farooq Shaikh, Raj Babbar

Train to Pakistan (1998) Drama War Movie

Seen from the eyes of Hukum Chand the District Magistrate it is an account of the turmoil faced by the inhabitants of village Mano Majra in Punjab on the Indo-Pak border during the period of partition after India attained independ… Year 1998.

Generes: Drama, War
Director: Pamela Rooks
Writer: Pamela Rooks, Khushwant Singh
Actors: Mohan Agashe, Nirmal Pandey, Rajit Kapoor

A Matter of Innocence (1967) Romance Comedy Drama Movie

Miss Polly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a travelling companion. While in India, her aunt’s demise leaves her alone to pursue her freedom and explore an arm’s length romance with a local boy. Tend… Year 1967.

Generes: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Director: Guy Green
Writer: Noël Coward, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall
Actors: Hayley Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Dorothy Alison

The 20 Questions Murder Mystery (1950) Crime Mystery Movie

BBC Radio’s 20 Questions receives anonymous clues that connect to a series of murders. Reporters try and break the code before more deaths come to pass. Year 1950.

Generes: Crime, Mystery
Director: Paul L. Stein
Writer: Patrick Kirwan, Victor Katona, Charles Leeds
Actors: Robert Beatty, Rona Anderson, Clifford Evans

In Custody (1994) Comedy Drama Movie

An editor asks Deven, a teacher who loves Urdu poetry, to interview poet Nur Shahjehanabadi, an aging whale of a man. Deven goes to Bhopal from Mirpur to meet Nur, of whom he is in awe. He finds him living with feuding wives, visi… Year 1994.

Generes: Comedy, Drama
Director: Ismail Merchant
Writer: Anita Desai, Shahrukh Husain
Actors: Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri

Shakha Proshakha (1990) Drama Movie

Four brothers converge around an ailing father. Year 1990.

Generes: Drama
Director: Satyajit Ray
Writer: Satyajit Ray
Actors: Ajit Banerjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee

North West Frontier (1959) Adventure Drama Movie

Set on the North West Frontier of colonial India in 1905. A British Army Officer, Captain Scott is sent to rescue a five year old Indian Prince and his American governess, Catherine Wyatt from certain death at the hands of rebel t… Year 1959.

Generes: Adventure, Drama
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Writer: Frank S. Nugent, Patrick Ford, Will Price
Actors: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom

A Passage to India (1984) Adventure Drama History Movie

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator. Year 1984.

Generes: Adventure, Drama, History
Director: David Lean
Writer: E.M. Forster, Santha Rama Rau, David Lean
Actors: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft

Octopussy (1983) Action Adventure Thriller Movie

A fake Fabergé egg, and a fellow Agent’s death, lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces. Year 1983.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Director: John Glen
Writer: George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson
Actors: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan