List of the best Mira Nair movies: Salaam Bombay!(1988), The Namesake(2006), Queen of Katwe(2016), Monsoon Wedding(2001), The Reluctant Fundamentalist(2012), Mississippi Masala(1991), Kama Sutra(1996), The Perez Family(1995), Amelia(2009) ... ...
Drama
USA|India|France|UK
1988
113 Minutes
Director
Shafiq Syed Hansa Vithal Aneeta Kanwar Raghubir Yadav Chanda Sharma Nana Patekar Anjaan Amrit Patel
young boy mother brother drug dealer prostitute friend dark emotional bombay, india small town street slum circus poverty addiction abandonment family homelessness homesickness growing up
The boy Krishna is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and she tells him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for the bicycle of his brother that he ... See full summary »
Drama
USA|India
2006
122 Minutes
Director
Kal Penn Tabu Irrfan Khan Zuleikha Robinson Jacinda Barrett Glenne Headly Brooke Smith Sahira Nair Jessica Blank
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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.
Biography, Drama
USA
2016
124 Minutes
Director
Madina Nalwanga David Oyelowo Lupita Nyong'o Martin Kabanza Taryn "Kay" Kyaze Ronald Ssemaganda Ethan Nazario Lubega Esther Tebandeke
young girl missionary chess player parent rival chess grandmaster uplifting emotional cool uganda hut chess tournament classroom street market poverty struggle chess hope determination
A Ugandan girl sees her world rapidly change after being introduced to the game of chess.
Comedy, Drama
India|USA|Italy|Germany|France|UK
2001
100 Minutes
Director
bride father uncle photographer love interest amusing dreamy lighthearted hilarious india house love wedding wealth infidelity tradition family dysfunction love discovery 2000s
A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.
Drama
USA|UK|Qatar
2012
128 Minutes
Director
Riz Ahmed Liev Schreiber Kate Hudson Kiefer Sutherland Om Puri Shabana Azmi Haluk Bilginer Martin Donovan Nelsan Ellis Adil Hussain Christopher Nicholas Smith
fundamentalist professor pakistani emotional engaging new york wall street life story middle class chases transformation underdog future
A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.
Comedy, Drama
USA|UK
1991
118 Minutes
Director
carpet cleaner cleaning lady refugee emotional inspiring passionate touching greenwood, mississippi uganda interracial romance tradition unlikely romance racism family running away forbidden love discovery 1990s
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.
Romance, Gay & Lesbian
USA|India|UK|Japan|Germany
1996
114 Minutes
Director
Indira Varma Sarita Choudhury Ramon Tikaram Naveen Andrews Rekha Ranjit Chowdhry Pearl Padamsee
princess maid king brother sculptor courtesan sultry melodramatic tense india palace bedroom river sex marriage adultery jealousy palace intrigue royalty love
Two female friends become sexual rivals at maturity.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1995
112 Minutes
Director
Marisa Tomei Alfred Molina Anjelica Huston Chazz Palminteri Trini Alvarado Celia Cruz Diego Wallraff Ellen Cleghorne
immigrant political prisoner prostitute wife clerk daughter hilarious melodramatic frenetic cuba boat miami mistaken identity family immigration love triangle marriage mariel boat lift forbidden love transformation
In an attempt to secure a sponsor, an unlikely group of Cuban refugees become a "family" as the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service gives families priority over others. In the ... See full summary »
Biography, Drama, History
USA|Canada
2009
111 Minutes
Director
Hilary Swank Richard Gere Ewan McGregor Christopher Eccleston Joe Anderson Cherry Jones Mia Wasikowska William Cuddy Virginia Madsen
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A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.