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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 husbands aristocratic family

Finding herself penniless after her art dealer husband Stephan is convicted of theft, Marya Zelli accepts the hospitality of a strange couple, H J and Lois Heidler, who let her live in their home

Omar wants to write an authorized biography on a dead writer and travels to a farm in Uruguay to meet the trustees the writers brother, widow and cute mistressmother of his daughter

With the arrival of talking pictures, a silent film comedian a Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle type throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career His plan is to release one last, great silent masterpiece

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

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 gamekee

French vs American social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an American visiting her sister and French brother in law and niece in Paris

A man marries an heiress for her money even though he is actually in love with her friend

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

The passionate Merchant Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot Natascha McElhone, the only lover of Pablo Picasso Sir Anthony Hopkins who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty, and move on with her life

Tom Pickle, Britains top pop artiste, travels to Bombay, India, in the 1960s to learn to play the sitar musical instrument from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan Tom is taken to Zafars home, where he gets to meet his wife and

Benadette Peters stars in this ironic film based on Tama Janowitzs best selling collection of short stories that defined the downtown New York art scene of the 1980s

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

The family troupe of English actors in India, performing Shakespearean plays, witness Indias transformation as Maharajas shift to hotel owners, sports dominate, and theater replaced by Bolliwood movies

Widower Thomas Jefferson 3rd US president 1801 09 lives in Paris 1785 90 with his daughter He has a pretty slave girl accompany his other daughter to France He has an alleged affair with her resulting in children

On the anniversary of her fathers death, an Indian princess Madhur Jaffrey celebrates his memory in her London apartment by having tea and showing a selection of home movies to her guest, her fathers old tutor Cyril Sahib Jam

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

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 author who obviously drinks too much and

Its the fall of 1850, a few miles outside Boston The household of the dour Mr Wentworth receives two unannounced visitors from Europe, Eugenia and Felix, the daughter and son of his half sister Gertrude, one of Wentworths two

A Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her future

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

Lucia Lane, an English writer by way of the US, arrives in Bombay to watch the filming of one of her novels Shes nearing middle age, shes had several husbands, shes lonely and self absorbed Hari, a screenwriter, offers to sho