James Ivory Movies

The story of a family troupe of English actors who travel around the towns and villages in India giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through...

Prem, a young school teacher, is arranged married and begins the journey of learning the roles and responsibilities required of him.

Ivory's initial effort as a filmmaker was Venice: Theme and Variations, a documentary made as his master's thesis at the USC film school that,...

A documentary about making The Remains of the Day.

Mong just moved to New York from China to take over the family laundry shop. Both her professional and social lives are affected when she finds out...

In the Mumbai, India, tenement community of Pavanpul, young female courtesans sing, dance and perform sexual favors for male clientele. Directors...

Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan.

Looks at the musical extravaganzas which constitute the main bulk of commercial cinema in India; in particular at the career of Helen, the undisputed...

A tribe of primitive "mudpeople" encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Long...

Visual images consist entirely of Indian miniature paintings, while an off-screen narrator traces the rise of this art form within the courts of...

Two teenagers wander rural Greece after being stranded by a car crash. They encounter an itinerant vagabond on their travels.

Historical context for The Remains of the Day.

This film brings to life a fictional castrato named Zefirino.

A documentary of Delhi, it scans the city's historic past that includes successive Afghan, Moghul, and English invasions, while it reveals its...

Roselli grew up in Hoboken five houses down from Sinatra, some considering his vocal talents superior to Sinatra’s. Frank’s mother Dolly...

Based on the play by William Shakespeare.

Meeting with James Ivory at the Cinémathèque Française on January 18, 2020, presented by Frédéric Bonnaud and Wafa...