Biography: Ismail Merchant |

Educated in Bombay and the U.S., Indian-born Ismail Merchant was destined for a business administration career. Rather than waste away in banking or speculating, lifelong movie buff Merchant put his skills to work in the creative arts. He found the... more
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Tags: Romantic Drama Drama 
Length: 117min
Ismail Merchant, best known as the producing half of the successful Merchant-Ivory team, once again steps behind the camera as director for this story of life among Indian expatriates in the 1950s. Ganesh (Aasif Mandvi) is a young man who was born to...

Cast: Greta Scacchi   
Tags: Period Film Drama British Empire Film 
Length: 125min
Ismail Merchant, best known as a producer for his work with director James Ivory (including Howards End and A Room With a View), takes possession of the director's chair in this drama. In 1954, seven years after India has gained independence from...

Cast: Jeanne Moreau   
Tags: Family Drama Drama Psychological Drama 
Length: 113min
Noted producer Ismail Merchant stepped up to the director's chair for this drama. Adrienne Mark (Jeanne Moreau) is the most acclaimed French novelist of her generation, whose best known work, Je M'Appelle France, was an international best-seller made...

Cast: Costa-Gavras Theo Angelopoulos John Boorman Peter Greenaway James Ivory Wim Wenders Patrice Leconte Spike Lee 
Tags: Art Film 
Length: 88min
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Lumière brothers' first films, filmmakers Sarah Moon and Philippe Poulet challenged 39 renowned international directors to each complete a 52-second film using the original Cinematographe camera under...

Tags: Comedy Drama 
Length: 123min
Anita Desai and Shahrukh Husain adapted Desai's novel for this comedy-drama about an Indian university teacher who encounters numerous hassles in his attempts to document the final writings of an ailing, alcoholic poet whom he idolizes. Score by Zakir...

The Courtesans of Bombay (1983)
Cast: Ismail Merchant   
Tags: Drama Urban Drama 
Length: 74min
The Merchant-Ivory team adopts a semi-documentary stance in Courtesans of Bombay. Though several scenes are dramatized, this film is essentially an unadorned look at prostitution in modern India. The film details the impoverished conditions that would...

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