Good International Cinema & Indian Cinema Collaborations
by Deepak_Futela | created - 05 Jul 2012 | updated - 19 May 2020 | PublicThe list of movies that are made by a collaborative effort by Indian and International Artists. Movies that have Indian stories set in a foreign land OR Indian actors in a foreign story OR Foreign stories/character set in India or shot in India OR a combination like Indian story directed by a Foreign Creator/Director etc.
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1. East Is East (1999)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
In early 1970s England, a Pakistani father finds the authority he has previously maintained challenged by his increasingly Anglicized children.
Director: Damien O'Donnell | Stars: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi
Votes: 20,053 | Gross: $4.17M
2. Gandhi (1982)
PG | 191 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth
Votes: 240,176 | Gross: $52.77M
3. West Is West (2010)
103 min | Comedy, Drama
An immigrant father decides to take his truant son back to the old country.
Director: Andy De Emmony | Stars: Aqib Khan, Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Robert Pugh
Votes: 3,272
4. 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: 216,897 | Gross: $11.90M
5. Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two ambitious girls, despite their parents' wishes, have their hearts set on careers in professional football.
Director: Gurinder Chadha | Stars: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher
Votes: 116,471 | Gross: $32.54M
6. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A teenager from the slums of Mumbai becomes a contestant on the show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati?' When interrogated under suspicion of cheating, he revisits his past, revealing how he had all the answers.
Directors: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan | Stars: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor
Votes: 877,666 | Gross: $141.32M
7. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
PG-13 | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than advertised, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 99,462 | Gross: $46.41M
8. The Namesake (2006)
PG-13 | 122 min | Drama
American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Kal Penn, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Jacinda Barrett
Votes: 21,757 | Gross: $8.66M
9. Heat and Dust (1983)
R | 130 min | Drama, Romance
Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her grand-aunt, she is led to reconsider her own life.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi, Christopher Cazenove, Julian Glover
Votes: 2,099 | Gross: $0.02M
10. A Passage to India (1984)
PG | 164 min | Adventure, Drama, History
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.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox
Votes: 20,840 | Gross: $27.19M
11. Bhowani Junction (1956)
Approved | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer
Votes: 2,082
12. The River (1951)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance
The growing pains of three young women contrast with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Patricia Walters, Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields
Votes: 6,884
13. La nuit Bengali (1988)
153 min | Drama
A British engineer becomes entangled in a forbidden romance with his Indian employer's eldest daughter. As their passion ignites, the East-meets-West clash of cultures leads to surprising and tragic consequences.
Director: Nicolas Klotz | Stars: Hugh Grant, Shabana Azmi, Supriya Pathak, John Hurt
Votes: 351
14. The Deceivers (1988)
PG-13 | 102 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Fact-based account of a secret society of murderers, and of the man who exposed them in British India 1825.
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Saeed Jaffrey, Shashi Kapoor, Helena Michell
Votes: 1,270 | Gross: $0.35M
15. My Son the Fanatic (1997)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islamic fundamentalists decide to clean up their local town.
Director: Udayan Prasad | Stars: Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths, Akbar Kurtha, Stellan Skarsgård
Votes: 1,664 | Gross: $0.41M
16. Mississippi Masala (1991)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
An ethnic Indian family is expelled from Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972 and lives in Mississippi 17 years later. The dad sues Uganda to get his property back. The grown daughter falls in love with a Black man.
Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore
Votes: 6,200 | Gross: $7.31M
17. City of Joy (1992)
PG-13 | 132 min | Drama
An American doctor, a British nurse, and an illiterate Indian farmer unite to transform a Calcutta ghetto in this uplifting, inspirational movie starring Patrick Swayze and Pauline Collins.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi
Votes: 5,627 | Gross: $14.68M
18. The Other End of the Line (2007)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
An employee at an Indian call-center travels to San Francisco to be with a guy she falls for over the phone.
Director: James Dodson | Stars: Jesse Metcalfe, Sara Foster, Anupam Kher, Austin Basis
Votes: 6,322 | Gross: $0.12M
19. Ocean of Pearls (2008)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama
As a Sikh man with a full beard and turban, Amrit Singh is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dreams of becoming Chief of Surgery at a state-of-the-art transplant ... See full summary »
Director: Sarab Neelam | Stars: Omid Abtahi, Heather McComb, Ron Canada, Frank Zieger
Votes: 315 | Gross: $0.05M
20. The Bong Connection (2006)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama
The film is based on the lives of Bengali's across the world, especially on those settled abroad. It attempts to delineate the pain and dilemma of Bengali's estranged from their places of ... See full summary »
Director: Anjan Dutt | Stars: Mir Afsar Ali, Travis Ammons, Victor Banerjee, Samrat Chakrabarti
Votes: 690
21. Loins of Punjab Presents (2007)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Music
A small New Jersey town is caught in the grips of Bollywood fever as five Indian-Americans and one Jewish Indophile step up to the mic to crown the one and only DESI IDOL!
Director: Manish Acharya | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Ajay Naidu, Ayesha Dharker, Michael Raimondi
Votes: 803 | Gross: $0.04M
22. Bhaji on the Beach (1993)
R | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A group of women of Indian descent take a trip together from their home in Birmingham, England to the beach resort of Blackpool. The events of the day lead them to better mutual understanding and solidarity.
Director: Gurinder Chadha | Stars: Kim Vithana, Jimmi Harkishin, Sarita Khajuria, Akbar Kurtha
Votes: 1,237 | Gross: $0.74M
23. Sita Sings the Blues (2008)
Not Rated | 82 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
An animated version of the epic Indian tale of Ramayana set to the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw.
Director: Nina Paley | Stars: Annette Hanshaw, Aseem Chhabra, Bhavana Nagulapally, Manish Acharya
Votes: 4,955
24. Sam & Me (1991)
R | 94 min | Drama
23-year-old Nikhil comes to Canada from India to find his fortune and is convinced by his uncle to work as a companion and care-giver to Sam, an elderly Jewish man. An unlikely friendship ensues, which gives both men new insight into life.
Director: Deepa Mehta | Stars: Ranjit Chowdhry, Peter Boretski, Om Puri, Heath Lamberts
Votes: 140
25. Cosmopolitan (2003 TV Movie)
53 min | Drama, Romance
The story of an East Indian immigrant who turns to pop culture as he tries to reinvent his life and woo the girl next door.
Director: Nisha Ganatra | Stars: Roshan Seth, Carol Kane, Madhur Jaffrey, Yolande Bavan
Votes: 100
26. The Waiting City (2009)
R | 100 min | Drama, Romance
A mystic-infused love story that follows a young couple's journey to India to collect their adopted baby.
Director: Claire McCarthy | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Joel Edgerton, Samrat Chakrabarti, Isabel Lucas
Votes: 954
27. Bombay Talkie (1970)
GP | 112 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Lucia Lane, an English writer by way of the US, arrives in Bombay to watch the filming of one of her novels. She's nearing middle age, she's had several husbands, she's lonely and self ... See full summary »
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Jennifer Kendal, Zia Mohyeddin, Aparna Sen
Votes: 495
28. American Desi (2001)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
College freshman Krishna Reddy, who has never cared for his Indian-American cultural heritage, looks forward to a new life on campus but is surprised to find that he has been assigned ... See full summary »
Director: Piyush Dinker Pandya | Stars: Deep Katdare, Ronobir Lahiri, Purva Bedi, Rizwan Manji
Votes: 1,669 | Gross: $0.90M
29. 1 a Minute (2010)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Drama
The film chronicles the diagnosis and treatment of a breast cancer survivor, interspersed with personal tales from famous international celebrities who are also survivors, or affected closely by cancer.
Director: Namrata Singh Gujral | Stars: Kelly McGillis, Olivia Newton-John, Namrata Singh Gujral, Jaclyn Smith
Votes: 244
30. 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
31. Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)
101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional couple. They live amid chaos, surround themselves with intellectual street people, and sleep with everybody except each other. Things become interesting when Sammy's father visits.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Claire Bloom, Frances Barber, Ayub Khan-Din
Votes: 1,538 | Gross: $1.20M
32. Trishna (2011)
R | 117 min | Drama
The story of the tragic relationship between the son of a property developer and the daughter of an auto rickshaw owner.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Mita Vashisht, Harish Khanna
Votes: 3,305 | Gross: $0.23M
33. Madame Sousatzka (1988)
PG-13 | 122 min | Drama, Music
Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When Manek's single mother's business fails, he must make a career decision.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Navin Chowdhry, Peggy Ashcroft, Twiggy
Votes: 1,612 | Gross: $3.55M
34. Outsourced (2006)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman (Hamilton) heads to India to train his replacement.
Director: John Jeffcoat | Stars: Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker, Asif Basra, Matt Smith
Votes: 12,191 | Gross: $0.16M
35. Such a Long Journey (1998)
113 min | Drama
Circa 1971, Gustad Noble lives in a one bedroom hall rented apartment in Byculla, Bombay. He travels to work everyday by Central Railway to Victoria Terminus and walks to Flora Fountain to ... See full summary »
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: Roshan Seth, Soni Razdan, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah
Votes: 488 | Gross: $0.09M
36. Brothers in Trouble (1995)
102 min | Comedy, Drama
Amir is an illegal Pakistani immigrant smuggled into England in the 1960's to work, to send money to his family and perhaps even bring them over with him. A skilled laborer, he is forced to... See full summary »
Director: Udayan Prasad | Stars: Om Puri, Pawan Malhotra, Angeline Ball, Ace Bhatti
Votes: 145
37. Brick Lane (2007)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama
In 1980s London, Nazneem, a young Bangladeshi woman, feels her soul is quietly dying in her arranged marriage, until the day hot-headed Karim comes knocking at her door.
Director: Sarah Gavron | Stars: Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Christopher Simpson, Naeema Begum
Votes: 3,273 | Gross: $1.09M
38. Foreign Body (1986)
PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy
An unemployed Indian engineer emigrates to England to find work and through a series of circumstances, ends up impersonating a doctor to win the attention of an attractive young woman.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Victor Banerjee, Warren Mitchell, Denis Quilley, Amanda Donohoe
Votes: 322
39. Junoon (1979)
141 min | Drama
Set during the 1857 War of Independence, an obsessed Indian Nawab desires to wed a young Anglo-Indian woman, but the girl's obstinate mother stands between them.
Director: Shyam Benegal | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Nafisa Ali, Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah
Votes: 572
40. Before the Rains (2007)
PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, History, Romance
A English spice baron settles in South India during the waning years of the Raj.
Director: Santosh Sivan | Stars: Linus Roache, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Jennifer Ehle
Votes: 2,171 | Gross: $1.04M
41. Provoked (2006)
Not Rated | 113 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a Punjabi woman, who was abused by her husband for 10 years. After killing her husband in self-defense, Ahluwalia is imprisoned as those close to her fight to set her free.
Director: Jag Mundhra | Stars: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Michael Watson, Miranda Richardson, Naveen Andrews
Votes: 2,233
42. The Pool (I) (2007)
Unrated | 98 min | Drama
A boy in abject poverty works in a hotel and becomes obsessed with a swimming pool in the opulent hills of Panjim, Goa, India. His life gets turned upside-down when he attempts to meet the mysterious family who lives at the house.
Director: Chris Smith | Stars: Nana Patekar, Venkatesh Chavan, Jhangir Badshah, Ayesha Mohan
Votes: 899 | Gross: $0.09M
43. The Perfect Murder (1988)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Thriller, Action
Police Inspector Ghote lives a middle-class life in Bombay along with his wife, Pratima. He has been employed with the Bombay Police for many years. His wife is generally disgruntled and ... See full summary »
Directors: Zafar Hai, M.R. Shahjahan | Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Stellan Skarsgård, Amjad Khan, Madhur Jaffrey
Votes: 330
44. Anita & Me (2002)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence... See full summary »
Director: Metin Hüseyin | Stars: Kabir Bedi, Max Beesley, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Anna Brewster
Votes: 1,817
45. Flavors (2003)
118 min | Comedy
Flavors tells the stories of 13 different main characters in 5 parallel story lines.
Directors: Krishna D.K., Raj Nidimoru | Stars: Reef Karim, Anjan Srivastav, Bharti Achrekar, Pooja Kumar
Votes: 464 | Gross: $0.09M
46. Gunga Din (1939)
Approved | 117 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Votes: 12,796
47. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard Graham
Votes: 17,291 | Gross: $2.45M
48. Today's Special (2009)
R | 99 min | Comedy
In this super-feel-good foodie comedy, young Manhattan chef Samir rediscovers his heritage and his passion for life through the enchanting art of cooking Indian food.
Director: David Kaplan | Stars: Dean Winters, Aarti Mann, Kevin Corrigan, Jess Weixler
Votes: 6,733 | Gross: $0.40M
49. Partition (2007)
R | 116 min | Drama, Romance
During the turmoil and violence of Partition, a Sikh ex-soldier, haunted by war, offers shelter to a young Muslim woman who has been separated from her family.
Director: Vic Sarin | Stars: Jimi Mistry, Kristin Kreuk, Neve Campbell, John Light
Votes: 2,657
50. The Warrior (2001)
R | 86 min | Adventure, Drama
In feudal India, a warrior (Khan) who renounces his role as the longitme enforcer to a local lord becomes the prey in a murderous hunt through the Himalayan mountains.
Director: Asif Kapadia | Stars: Irrfan Khan, Puru Chibber, Aino Annuddin, Manoj Mishra
Votes: 2,794 | Gross: $0.05M
51. West Is West (1989)
80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Handsome and broke, Vikram arrives from Bombay to the US to find his college plans have fallen through. Exploring exotic San Francisco, he discovers and falls for Sue, a feisty bohemian artist.
Director: David Rathod | Stars: Ashutosh Gowariker, Heidi Carpenter, Pearl Padamsee, Rex Delgado
Votes: 87
52. Masala (1991)
Unrated | 106 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Five years ago, under the watchful eye of the great god Krishna, a plane of Indians returning to the homeland exploded in Canadian skies; a mortal named Krishna lost his family in that ... See full summary »
Director: Srinivas Krishna | Stars: Srinivas Krishna, Sakina Jaffrey, Zohra Sehgal, Saeed Jaffrey
Votes: 220
53.
Sharpe (1993–2008)
Episode:
Sharpe's Challenge
(2006)
TV-14 | 69 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
1817. Sharpe has retired from the army but is summoned by the Duke of Wellington for an important mission. An agent in India has gone missing while trying to track down a traitorous British officer. That agent is Patrick Harper.
Director: Tom Clegg | Stars: Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, Toby Stephens, Padma Lakshmi
Votes: 2,772
54. Life of Pi (2012)
PG | 127 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Tabu
Votes: 666,715 | Gross: $124.99M
55. Good Night Good Morning (2010)
Unrated | 81 min | Drama, Romance
A boy driving from New York to Philadelphia with buddies, and a mysterious girl alone in her hotel room - complete strangers - engage in an all-night phone conversation on New Year's night.
Director: Sudhish Kamath | Stars: Manu Narayan, Seema Rahmani, Vasanth Santosham, Raja Sen
Votes: 421
56. Miss Beatty's Children (1992)
112 min | Drama
English Missionary, Miss Beatty (Jenny Seagrove), comes to Victorian India to rescue orphan children and convert them to Christianity.
Director: Pamela Rooks | Stars: Jenny Seagrove, D.W. Moffett, Faith Brook, Protima Bedi
Votes: 29
57. Shoot on Sight (2007)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Lahore-born London Police Commander deals with personal issues and investigates the shooting death of a fellow-Muslim.
Director: Jag Mundhra | Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Greta Scacchi, Brian Cox, Stephen Greif
Votes: 1,709
58. Puzzle (II) (2018)
R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Agnes, taken for granted as a suburban mother, discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles which unexpectedly draws her into a new world - where her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined.
Director: Marc Turtletaub | Stars: Kelly Macdonald, Irrfan Khan, David Denman, Bubba Weiler
Votes: 8,526 | Gross: $2.03M
59. Tokyo Trial (2017)
105 min | Drama
Following WWII, the Dutch judge Röling becomes one of the eleven Allied judges on the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. The political, professional, and personal conflicts cause this to be the most important of his life.
Directors: Rob W. King, Pieter Verhoeff | Stars: Stacy Keach, Tim Ahern, Paul Freeman, Serge Hazanavicius
Votes: 326
60. The Song of Scorpions (2017)
119 min | Drama
Aadam, a camel trader fell in love with Nooran, a tribal woman. But even before they can get to know each other better, Nooran is poisoned by a treachery that sets her on a perilous journey to avenge herself and find her song.
Director: Anup Singh | Stars: Golshifteh Farahani, Irrfan Khan, Waheeda Rehman, Shashank Arora
Votes: 657
61. Doob - No Bed of Roses (2017)
85 min | Drama
A story surrounding a person named Javed Hasan and about his family, love, fallout and reunion.
Director: Mostofa Sarwar Farooki | Stars: Irrfan Khan, Nusrat Imrose Tisha, Parno Mittra, Rokeya Prachy
Votes: 2,110
62. A Mighty Heart (2007)
R | 108 min | Biography, Drama, History
Mariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband Daniel when he goes missing in Pakistan.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irrfan Khan, Archie Panjabi
Votes: 28,219 | Gross: $9.18M
63. Mango Dreams (2016)
92 min | Adventure, Drama
A Hindu doctor with dementia and a Muslim auto rickshaw driver form an unlikely friendship as they cross India in search of the doctor's childhood home.
Director: John Upchurch | Stars: Ram Gopal Bajaj, Pankaj Tripathi, Sameer Kochhar, Faraz Ahsan
Votes: 490
64. Extraction (2020)
R | 116 min | Action, Thriller
Tyler Rake, a fearless black market mercenary, embarks on the most deadly extraction of his career when he's enlisted to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord.
Director: Sam Hargrave | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Bryon Lerum, Ryder Lerum, Rudhraksh Jaiswal
Votes: 262,849
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