List of the best Deepa Mehta movies: Fire(1996), Midnight's Children(2012), Heaven on Earth(2008), The Republic of Love(2003), Funny Boy(2020), Bollywood/Hollywood(2002), Beeba Boys(2015), Water(2005) ... ...
Drama
Canada|India
1996
104 Minutes
Director
Shabana Azmi Nandita Das Kulbhushan Kharbanda Jaaved Jaafei Ranjit Chowdhry Kushal Rehki Karishma Jhalani Ramanjeet Kaur Dilip Mehta Alice Poon Ram Gopal Bajaj
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Two women who are abandoned by their husbands, find love and solace in each other.
Drama
Canada|UK
2012
148 Minutes
Director
Satya Bhabha Shahana Goswami Rajat Kapoor Shabana Azmi Ronit Roy Siddharth Seema Biswas Shriya Saran Kulbhushan Kharbanda
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A pair of children, born within moments of India gaining independence from Britain, grow up in the country that is nothing like their parent's generation.
Drama
Canada
2008
106 Minutes
Director
Preity Zinta Balinder Johal Rajinder Singh Cheema Gourrav Sihan Vansh Bhardwaj Geetika Sharma Gick Grewal Orville Maciel
Chand, a young Punjabi woman, travels to Canada to marry a man she has never met. They live in a crowded suburban house and Chand has to also put up with her husband's abusive behavior.
Romance
Canada|UK
2003
96 Minutes
Director
Bruce Greenwood Emilia Fox Edward Fox Martha Henry Jan Rubes Gary Farmer Lloyd Owen Jackie Burroughs Claire Bloom Connor Price Rebecca Jenkins
A thrice-divorced radio host and a commitment-shy art curator fall in love, but their relationship is affected by the experiences of their friends and families.
Drama
Canada|USA
2020
109 Minutes
Director
Agam Darshi Nimmi Harasgama Ali Kazmi Seema Biswas Shivantha Wijesinha Ruvin De Silva Arush Nand Brandon Ingram Orlando Giraldo
Explores Arjie's sexual awakening from a young boy to a teenager who falls in love with a male classmate, just as political tensions escalate between the Sinhalese and Tamils in the years leading up to the 1983 uprisings.
Romance
Canada
2002
105 Minutes
Director
Rahul Khanna Lisa Ray Moushumi Chatterjee Dina Pathak Ranjit Chowdhry Jessica Paré Jolly Bader Rishma Malik Arjun Lombardi-Singh Jazz Mann Leesa Gaspari
A wealthy East Indian man gives an apparently non-East Indian woman a crash course in his culture, so he can marry her with his family's approval.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Canada
2015
103 Minutes
Director
Randeep Hooda Ali Momen Sarah Allen Waris Ahluwalia Steve Dhillon Jag Bal Gabe Grey Ali Kazmi
With the help of his recent recruit, a gang leader takes on an established crime lord in a battle for control over Vancouver's arms and drug trade.
Drama
2005
117 Minutes
Director
Seema Biswas Lisa Ray John Abraham Sarala Manorama Kulbhushan Kharbanda Vinay Pathak Ronica Sajnani Meera Biswas Waheeda Rehman Buddhi Wickrama
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Just as Mahatma Gandhi's tenets begin to sweep through India, an 8-year-old (Sarala) must go to live in an ashram with other Hindu widows.