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1. Howards End: Featurette (1992 Video)
5 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Nicola Duffett, James Ivory, Ismail Merchant
Votes: 28
2. Love and Roadkill (2008)
14 min | Short
A scenic ride through the country takes an unexpected turn, resulting in a rare moment of reflection on life and death for an urban executive woman. Based on the one-act play by Rose Caruso.
Director: John David Allen | Stars: Bill Camp, Madeleine Potter
Votes: 20
3. In Ismail's Custody (1994 Video)
50 min | Documentary
This documentary film about the legendary film producer Ismail Merchant, Merchant Ivory Productions. Filmed manly in India as he was directing his feature film, In Custody. The film charts ... See full summary »
Director: Derrick Santini | Stars: Ismail Merchant, Simon Callow, Anthony Hopkins, James Ivory
Votes: 83
4. The Wandering Company (1985 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
Director: Humphrey Dixon | Stars: James Ivory, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Ismail Merchant, Robert Powell
Votes: 107
5. De película (1982–1990)
60 min
Stars: Isabel Mestres, José Ruiz, Emilio Linder, María Salerno
Votes: 136
6. Streetwise (1984)
91 min | Documentary, Drama
Gritty documentary that looks at the lives of teenagers living on the streets of Seattle.
Director: Martin Bell | Stars: Annie, Eddie, Antoine, Erica
Votes: 2,956 | Gross: $0.01M
7. Merchant Ivory (2024)
112 min | Documentary
Follows the history of the Merchant Ivory partnership, featuring interviews with James Ivory and close collaborators detailing and celebrating their experiences of being a part of the company.
Director: Stephen Soucy | Stars: John David Allen, Helena Bonham Carter, John Bright, Hugh Grant
Votes: 18
8. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
R | 132 min | Drama, Romance
In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar
Votes: 315,365 | Gross: $18.10M
9. The Remains of the Day (1993)
PG | 134 min | Drama, Romance
A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, John Haycraft, Christopher Reeve
Votes: 84,393 | Gross: $22.95M
10.
3 by Cheever (1979– )
Episode:
The 5:48
(1979)
58 min | Drama, Romance
Louise worries about him as his difficulties with mid-life pull him further away from happiness and comfort with his family.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Laurence Luckinbill, Mary Beth Hurt, Laurinda Barrett, Dale Hodges
Votes: 36
11. Maurice (1987)
R | 140 min | Drama, Romance
Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 23,559 | Gross: $3.13M
12. The Directors (1997–2008)
60 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary series focusing on some of cinema's greatest film directors.
Stars: Harrison Ford, Dave Mann, Tom Hanks, Rod Steiger
Votes: 240
13. Zefirino: The Voice of a Castrato (2007)
23 min | Short, Music
Director: Gerardo Puglia | Stars: Karole Armitage, Anthony Roth Costanzo, James Ivory
Votes: 9
14. 60 Minutes (1968– )
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, News
The classic long-running prime time TV investigative news magazine.
Stars: Andrew Rooney, Lesley Stahl, Steve Kroft, Morley Safer
Votes: 4,338
15. Charlie Rose (1991–2017)
60 min | News, Talk-Show
Charlie Rose interviews noteworthy people in fields including politics and government, business and economics, science and technology, media, sports and the arts.
Stars: Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, Al Hunt, Thomas Friedman
Votes: 1,166
16. Howards End (1992)
PG | 142 min | Drama, Romance
Set in the early 20th century, class distinctions and troubled relations affect the relationship between two families and the ownership of a cherished British estate known as Howards End.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter
Votes: 35,824 | Gross: $25.97M
17. American Playhouse (1980–1994)
61 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s.
Stars: Jeffrey DeMunn, Elizabeth Franz, Edward Herrmann, Sada Thompson
Votes: 413
18.
American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode:
Noon Wine
(1985)
81 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
On a hot day in Texas in the the 1890s, a stranger shows up at the small dairy farm of Royal and Ellie Thompson. He asks for work and is hired. He's a taciturn, English-speaking Swede from ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Fields | Stars: Fred Ward, Stellan Skarsgård, Adam Faraizl, Enrique Brown
Votes: 74
19. Only in Theaters (2022)
94 min | Documentary
There's been a Laemmle in the movie business, since there's been a movie business. Only in Theaters chronicles 4 generations, dedicated to the art of film. This is a story about a family business, but also about the future of cinema.
Director: Raphael Sbarge | Stars: Allison Anders, Cameron Crowe, Ava DuVernay, Neil Freidman
Votes: 77
20. 3 by Cheever (1979– )
59 min | Drama, Romance
Stars: John Harkins, Sigourney Weaver, Edward Herrmann, Baxter Harris
Votes: 21
21. Street Musicians of Bombay (1994)
59 min | Documentary, Music
Off-camera, a Western traveler tells us of hearing singing from his hotel window in Bombay. He searches for the source, and discovers a caste of street performers, eking out a modest living... See full summary »
Director: Richard Robbins | Stars: Trevor Nichols, Rosemary Martin, Richard Robbins
Votes: 42
22. A Room with a View (1985)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, Romance
Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands
Votes: 47,844 | Gross: $20.97M
23. The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A year after their father's funeral, three brothers travel across India by train in an attempt to bond with each other.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Amara Karan
Votes: 216,875 | Gross: $11.90M
24. The Olive Trees of Justice (1962)
81 min | Drama
A man returns to his native Algeria to visit his dying father there, at a time when the French colonial hold on that country is coming to its end.
Director: James Blue | Stars: Pierre Prothon, Jean Pélégri, Marie Decaître, Huguette Poggi
Votes: 85
25. American Marriage (2019)
15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Leonardo, a New York Italian immigrant facing deportation fakes a marriage with Hispanic single mother Nikki to get American citizenship.
Director: Giorgio Arcelli | Stars: Giorgio Arcelli, Shirly Sanchez, Lori Hammel, Emperor Kaioyus
Votes: 7
26. ABC Afterschool Specials (1972–1997)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A teen drama anthology that often touched on social issues of the day.
Stars: Lance Kerwin, Samaria Graham, Mara Hobel, Alexa Kenin
Votes: 1,264
27. E. M. Forster: His Longest Journey (2019 TV Movie)
50 min | Biography
A film about E.M. Forster's life. It is also the story of a special and largely unknown book by E.M. Forster called The Longest Journey, a book that describes Forster's own sense of what his life was to be.
Directors: Adrian Munsey, Vance Goodwin | Stars: James Ivory, Helena Bonham Carter, Wendy Moffat, Santanu Das
Votes: 14
28. Autour du fleuve (2006)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Arnaud Mandagaran | Stars: Adrienne Corri, George Gale, James Ivory, Kenneth McEldowney
Votes: 10
29. Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day' (1993 TV Movie)
29 min | Documentary
Director: Karina Friend Buck | Stars: James Ivory, Emma Thompson, Anthony Hopkins, Ismail Merchant
Votes: 31
30. Lumière and Company (1995)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Drama
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers.
Directors: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Vicente Aranda, John Boorman, Youssef Chahine, Alain Corneau, Costa-Gavras, Raymond Depardon, Francis Girod, Peter Greenaway, Lasse Hallström, Hugh Hudson, Gaston Kaboré, Abbas Kiarostami, Cédric Klapisch, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Spike Lee, Claude Lelouch, Bigas Luna, Sarah Moon, Arthur Penn, Lucian Pintilie, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Jerry Schatzberg, Nadine Trintignant, Fernando Trueba, Liv Ullmann, Jaco Van Dormael, Régis Wargnier, Wim Wenders, Yoshishige Yoshida, Yimou Zhang, Merzak Allouache, Gabriel Axel, Michael Haneke, James Ivory, Patrice Leconte, David Lynch, Ismail Merchant, Claude Miller, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Jacques Rivette | Stars: Pernilla August, Max von Sydow, Merzak Allouache, Jeffe Alperi
Votes: 3,348
31. The South Bank Show (1978– )
53 min | Documentary
ITV's long-running arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg.
Stars: Melvyn Bragg, Ian McKellen, David Hockney, Victoria Wood
Votes: 216
32. Cannes Film Festival (1952– )
News
A festival for international movies, which give each year the Palme d'Or.
Stars: Bjorn Jiskoot Jr., Isabelle Huppert, Pedro Almodóvar, Kristin Scott Thomas
Votes: 119
33. The City of Your Final Destination: Sorting It Out at Ocho Rios (2010 Video)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Vijay Sekhon | Stars: Peter Cameron, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anthony Hopkins, James Ivory
Votes: 21
34. Conversation with James Ivory (2010 Video)
21 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Conversation about the use of the music from James Ivory's films in Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited (2007).
Stars: Wes Anderson, James Ivory
Votes: 13
35. The Remains of the Day: The Filmmaker's Journey (2001 Video)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Meg Staahl | Stars: Kazuo Ishiguro, James Ivory, Ismail Merchant, John Calley
Votes: 50
36. Heights (2005)
R | 93 min | Drama, Romance
Spanning 24 hours, "Heights" follows five New Yorkers challenged to choose their destiny before the sun comes up the next day.
Director: Chris Terrio | Stars: Elizabeth Banks, Glenn Close, James Marsden, Chandler Williams
Votes: 4,832 | Gross: $1.16M
37. A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
R | 127 min | Drama
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotionless slice-of-life story. Jones here is portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero and now successful... See full summary »
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Leelee Sobieski, Kris Kristofferson, Barbara Hershey, Jane Birkin
Votes: 2,488 | Gross: $1.76M
38. Shakespeare-Wallah (1965)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Romance
The story of a family troupe of English actors in India. They travel around the towns and villages giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through their travels we see the changing face... See full summary »
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Geoffrey Kendal, Laura Liddell
Votes: 880 | Gross: $0.00M
39. The Householder (1963)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A young Indian newlywed finds his independent wife troublesome and seeks help and advice from his overbearing mother, a supposedly worldly wise friend, an American seeker of enlightenment and a swami.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Leela Naidu, Durga Khote, Achala Sachdev
Votes: 399
40. 2006 Asian Excellence Awards (2006 TV Special)
120 min | Music
Show about sex, blood and money.
Director: Michael Dempsey | Stars: Keiko Agena, Naveen Andrews, K.D. Aubert, Jackie Chan
Votes: 95
41. Nulle part ailleurs (1987–2001)
120 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
One of the best all time before-prime-time show in France especially the mythical conduction of the couple Antoine de Caune and Philippe Gildas...every night with high level french and ... See full summary »
Stars: Philippe Gildas, Guillaume Durand, Nagui, Valérie Payet
Votes: 104
42. The Delhi Way (1964)
50 min | Documentary
A documentary of Delhi, it scans the city's historic past that includes successive Afghan, Moghul, and English invasions, while it reveals its variegated life of the present.
Director: James Ivory | Star: Leo Genn
Votes: 53
43. The 59th Annual Academy Awards (1987 TV Special)
205 min | Family
The official, annual, Hollywood award show that hands out many movie honors, including the Oscars. That year's show was hosted by Ralph Bellamy, and saw big wins by Marlee Matlin, Paul Newman, and Michael Caine.
Director: Marty Pasetta | Stars: Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, Paul Hogan, Brian Ackland-Snow
Votes: 395
44. Building 'Howards End' (2005 Video)
43 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Luciana Arrighi, Jenny Beavan, Helena Bonham Carter, James Ivory
Votes: 25
45. Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
PG-13 | 126 min | Drama
Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Saundra McClain, Margaret Welsh
Votes: 3,485 | Gross: $7.70M
46. This Is Your Life (1955–2003)
30 min | Documentary, Biography
The UK version of the popular US show. Eamonn Andrews (later Michael Aspel) surprises celebrities by presenting them with the Big Red Book before taking them into the studio to tell viewers... See full summary »
Stars: Eamonn Andrews, Michael Aspel, Elizabeth Dawn, June Whitfield
Votes: 323
47. Mrs Dalloway (1997)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Romance
In 1923 London, socialite Clarissa Dalloway's (Vanessa Redgrave's) well-planned party is overshadowed by the return of an old suitor she had known thirty-three years earlier.
Director: Marleen Gorris | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Michael Kitchen, Alan Cox
Votes: 4,186 | Gross: $3.26M
48. The White Countess (2005)
PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, History, Romance
In 1930s Shanghai, a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd--and sometimes illicit--jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave
Votes: 6,969 | Gross: $1.67M
49. Blind Loyalty, Hollow Honor: England's Fatal Flaw (2001 Video)
15 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Meg Staahl | Stars: Kazuo Ishiguro, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Ivory
Votes: 33
50. A Bigger Splash (2015)
R | 125 min | Drama, Music, Thriller
A famous rock star's vacation in Italy with her boyfriend is disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old friend and his daughter.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson
Votes: 32,787 | Gross: $1.98M