Biography: Mira Nair |
Born in India, filmmaker Mira Nair studied at the University of New Delhi before earning a degree in Sociology from Harvard in 1976. Based in New York City, she worked on her own independent short films, eventually winning the Best Documentary prize... more
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Cast: Ewan McGregor Richard Gere
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Hilary Swank and Richard Gere star in director Mira Nair's iopic tracing the life of famed aviator Amelia Earhart -- who made history in 1932 by becoming the first woman ever to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Five years later, as Earhart...
Cast: Gus Van Sant Jane Campion
Length: 107min
Eight internationally known filmmakers address vital issues concerning the Third World in this omnibus feature. In 2000, 191 countries affiliated with the United Nations agreed to take part in a program to cut world poverty in half before the year...
Tags: Drama
Length: 18min
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 122min
A couple coming to terms with living in a new culture discover their troubles are compounded by their son in this drama from filmmaker Mira Nair. Ashoke (Irfan Khan) and Ashima (Tabu) are a young couple who are brought together in an arranged marriage...
Cast: Bob Hoskins Reese Witherspoon
Tags: Romantic Drama Drama Period Film
Length: 140min
William Makepeace Thackeray's witty assessment of the British class system, as seen through the experiences of one young woman, is brought to the screen with some serious star power in this period comedy drama. Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) is a...
Cast: Claude Lelouch Ken Loach
Tags: Essay Film Art Film Drama
Length: 135min
In the aftermath of the tragedies on September 11, 2001, the French film company Studio Canal called upon a group of filmmakers, representing various regions of the world, to address the scope of the situation in however broad or intimate a context as...
Cast: Ben Gazzara Gena Rowlands Mira Nair
Tags: Psychological Drama Buddy Film Drama
Length: 93min
Two aging single women in 1980s New Jersey enact a depressing routine of deluded barroom romance in this made-for-cable drama. At least 15 years after her father walked out on her, Debby (Uma Thurman) still has issues with men. She spends her evenings...
Tags: Domestic Comedy Family Drama Comedy Drama
Length: 114min
Following up on her controversial erotic drama Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, Mira Nair directs this charming family drama about a very chaotic Indian wedding. Lalit Verma (Naseeruddin Shah) is a wealthy father who is trying to see that his daughter...
Cast: Hal Holbrook
Tags: Medical Drama Drama
Length: 106min
From the director of the acclaimed Salaam Bombay, My Own Country is based on the best-selling memoir of an Ethiopian doctor who treated HIV and AIDS patients in Johnson City in the smoky mountains of Eastern Tennessee in 1985. The film narrates the...
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996)
Tags: Melodrama Drama Erotic Drama
Length: 117min
In this visually striking saga of one woman's search for personal and sexual freedom in 16th century India, Maya (Indira Varma) is a servant girl who is a handmaid to Tara (Sarita Choudhury), a princess. Maya and Tara have been close friends since...
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