List of the best Saeed Jaffrey movies: The Deceivers(1988), Chicken Tikka Masala(2005), The Chess Players(1977), My Beautiful Laundrette(1985), Beyond the Next Mountain(1981), Pathar Ke Insan(1990), Dil(1990), The Man Who Would Be King(1975), Eeshwar(1989), Saagar(1985), Yeh Dillagi(1994), Angrakshak(1995) ... ...
Adventure
UK|India
1988
112 Minutes
Fact-based account of a secret society of murderers, and of the man who exposed them in British India 1825.
Comedy
UK|India
2005
95 Minutes
Chris Bisson Saeed Jaffrey Sally Bankes Peter Ash Zohra Segal Katy Clayton Jinder Mahal Sushil Chudasama Shobu Kapoor Jamila Massey Harish Patel
Jimi is surprised when his family announces an arranged wedding to Simran, especially as he is gay and has a boyfriend, Jack. The easy way out? No - he decides to arrange something a little unorthodox instead.
Comedy, Drama, History
1977
129 Minutes
Sanjeev Kumar Saeed Jaffrey Shabana Azmi Farida Jalal Veena David Abraham Victor Banerjee Farooq Shaikh Tom Alter Leela Mishra Richard Attenborough
In 1856, two obsessive chess players fail to notice British rule extending into their Indian province.
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
UK
1985
97 Minutes
Nasser
Daniel Day-Lewis Gordon Warnecke Saeed Jaffrey Roshan Seth Derrick Branche Shirley Anne Field Rita Wolf Souad Faress
journalist entrepreneur punk drug dealer uneasy engaging laundromat london household immigration homosexuality small business drug trafficking rise love 1980s
An ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.
Biography
USA
1981
98 Minutes
Prime Minister
Alberto Isaac Bennett Ohta Saeed Jaffrey
A documentary that explores the subject of near death experiences.
Romance
1990
180 Minutes
Balwant Rai
Vinod Khanna Sridevi Saeed Jaffrey Poonam Dhillon Jackie Shroff Mahesh Anand
Two sisters, Asha and Lata, want to be successful singers and dancers, but a competition drives their rivalry to tragic consequences.
Drama
1990
172 Minutes
Mr. Mehra
A man (Anupam Kher) wants his son (Aamir Khan) to marry the daughter of a millionaire (Saeed Jaffrey).
Action, Adventure
UK|USA
1975
129 Minutes
Billy Fish
Sean Connery Michael Caine Christopher Plummer Saeed Jaffrey Karroum Ben Bouih Jack May Doghmi Larbi Shakira Caine Mohammad Shamsi Paul Antrim Albert Moses
military officer soldier native writer confident engaging gutsy india kafiristan deception ambition aspirations culture clash expedition adventure discovery rise fall wretched excess 1880s
Two British former soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.
Drama
India
1989
180 Minutes
Masterji
Anil Kapoor Asha Sachdev Sadashiv Amrapurkar Saeed Jaffrey Gulshan Grover Vinod Mehra Bharati Achrekar Jayshree Gadkar Bal Dhuri Vikram Gokhale Rakesh Pandey
autistic person widow son artist mother airy charming moving india town street house autism abuse single mothers childhood love marriage love underdog
Ishwar is a simple-minded and honest young man, devout and religious, he cares for everybody. He meets with a young widow with a son and marries her. This story is about him and his trials and triumphs.
Drama, Romance
India
1985
170 Minutes
Mr. D'Silva
Rishi Kapoor Dimple Kapadia Nadira Saeed Jaffrey Madhur Jaffrey A. K. Hangal Shafi Inamdar Sudhir Pandey Satish Kaushik Kiran Vairale
Raja, a fisherman is secretly in love with Mona. When wealthy Ravi comes to live with his grandmother, Kamladevi, he sees Mona and falls in love with her. Mona also reciprocates his love. ... See full summary »
Drama, Romance
India
1994
155 Minutes
Bhanupratap Saigal
Akshay Kumar Saif Ali Khan Kajol Saeed Jaffrey Reema Lagoo Achyut Potdar Neena Softa Deven Verma Karisma Kapoor
father son brother businessman driver daughter amusing charming cool emotional hilarious melodramatic house bungalow office garage car love at first sight love interest love triangle
A poor girl is rebuked by a rich boy. She leaves town to return successful and rich. He falls for her but his brother is already in love with the girl.
Action
India
1995
180 Minutes
Sanghvi
Sunny Deol Pooja Bhatt Rami Reddy Mohnish Bahl Saeed Jaffrey Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Ajay leads a life as a gangster and is known for his short-temper which made him mercilessly murder a man named Ramesh for falling in love with his sister Asha. Years later Ajay takes up ... See full summary »
Drama
India
2001
146 Minutes
Sonia's father
Govinda Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Jackie Shroff Namrata Shirodkar Saeed Jaffrey Johnny Lever
Tony (Govinda) works as a guide, helping tourists, and showing them his native land. Nina (Namrata Shirodkar) finds Tony adorable, but Tony is in his own world, and does not reciprocate her... See full summary »
Drama, Romance
1991
137 Minutes
Annad Verma
Aamir Khan Neelam Kiran Kumar Beena Banerjee Saeed Jaffrey Deepak Tijori Neeta Puri Rakesh Bedi Amita Nangia Raju Shreshta Jaya Mathur
A college-going couple wants to get married, but discover that their families are arch enemies. Faced with parental opposition and arranged marriages, they decide to elope.
Comedy
1989
180 Minutes
Vishwannath
Sridevi Sunny Deol Rohini Hattangadi Annu Kapoor Saeed Jaffrey Rajnikanth Kader Khan Shakti Kapoor Aruna Irani Anupam Kher
young woman identical twin sister young man stepmother emotional moving endearing gripping india house bungalow street separation twins sister relationship body swap love quest pursuit
Separated twins Anju and Manju are poles apart in nature. While the gentle Anju is bullied by all, Manju is a street-smart girl. By a twist of fate, they end up switching places and cause an upheaval.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
2001
97 Minutes
Mr. Basmati
Andrew Howard Geraldine O'Rawe Andrew Tiernan Mark Benton Saeed Jaffrey Clive Russell David Calder
A professional killer (Andrew Howard) questions his lifestyle after meeting a childhood friend (Andrew Tiernan) and his wife (Geraldine O'Rawe).
Musical, Drama
India
1983
165 Minutes
Suri
Naseeruddin Shah Shabana Azmi Supriya Pathak Jugal Hansraj Urmila Matondkar Saeed Jaffrey Ram Gopal Bajaj Satish Kaushik Aziz Qureshi Pran Talwar Tanuja
A happy family goes through turbulent times because of a big mistake by one of the family members.
Adventure
India
1994
103 Minutes
Ayub Khan Samyukta Kabir Bedi Beena Banerjee Goga Kapoor Saeed Jaffrey Roshini Jaffery Raghvinder Singh Khatri
Vijay (Ayub Khan) is an honest young army cadet who finds himself battling the corrupt police department after he comes across evidence that could put Superintendent Gautam (Goga Kapoor) ... See full summary »
Action
India
1987
134 Minutes
Yakub Saeed
Cyrus Broacha Remo Fernandes A. K. Hangal Rohini Hattangadi Saeed Jaffrey
Kapil's (Naseeruddin Shah) younger brother, Buntu, dies as a result of a drug overdose. Kapil vows to put an end to drugs and drug-dealers, by joining the police. He soon attains the title ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama, Action
India
1988
180 Minutes
Aziz
Naseeruddin Shah Sanjna Kapoor Deepa Sahi Kiran Kumar Rohini Hattangadi Saeed Jaffrey
Hyderabadi Hiralal, who is also referred to as 'Hero' due to his obsession with Bollywood movies, drives an auto-rickshaw and often gets into fisticuffs. Things change when he meets with ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
2011
Minutes
Zaf's Dad
James Floyd Adam Deacon Alyy Khan Shivani Ghai Shaheen Khan Saeed Jaffrey Katia Winter Simon Webbe Art Malik
A drama centered on a British Asian torn between honoring his family traditions and his love for DJing.
Romance, Action, Drama
India
2009
154 Minutes
Saif Ali Khan Pooja Bhatt Atul Agnihotri Sheeba Vikas Anand Saeed Jaffrey Shashi Kiran
young man young woman love interest father shocking passionate emotional endearing india city college restaurant wedding flirtation true love love triangle deception cheating love quest
A love triangle forms after a male finds his best friend has married his sweetheart.
Drama
India
1991
180 Minutes
Seth Din Dayal
Amitabh Bachchan Kumar Gaurav Neelam Sadashiv Amrapurkar Avtar Gill Saeed Jaffrey Kader Khan
In order to continue suppressing the workers in his company; multi-millionaire, Din Dayal gets a union leader and his wife murdered. When inspector Indrajeet attempts to arrest Dayal his ... See full summary »
Drama
India
1996
148 Minutes
Vicky's Father
Saif Ali Khan Atul Agnihotri Kajol Vaishnavi Dalip Tahil Vishwajeet Pradhan Saeed Jaffrey Reema Lagoo Viju Khote Sunil Dhawan Mushtaq Khan
Born and brought up in a small village, Vikram alias Vicky comes to Bombay - the big city - to find his fortune. He wants to get rich soon, and he does get lucky when he lands a job with a ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
India
1997
158 Minutes
Rai Bahadur
Rani Mukherji Shadab Khan Gulshan Grover Divya Dutta Shashi Sharma Mohnish Bahl Saeed Jaffrey Gajendra Chouhan
A pretty schoolteacher named Mala (Rani Mukherjee) becomes the victim of the unwanted advances of an evil man named Raja (Shadab Khan). When she rejects him, he rapes her. The teacher then ... See full summary »
Romance
India
1997
165 Minutes
Mr. Sahni
Anil Kapoor Sridevi Urmila Matondkar Kader Khan Paresh Rawal Farida Jalal Johnny Lever Saeed Jaffrey Poonam Dhillon Upasna Singh
husband wife married man married woman couple amusing heartwarming melodramatic india america house bungalow fighting free love lost love love-hate relationship odd couple love pursuit rise
In order to attain wealth and a luxurious life, a greedy wife sells her husband to a rich woman. However she realizes that with a luxurious life, she has to pay a heavy price for this decision.
Comedy
1997
138 Minutes
Chander Nandkishore Kapoor Sharma
Anil Kapoor Govinda Juhi Chawla Anupam Kher Reema Lagoo Shakti Kapoor Upasna Singh Saeed Jaffrey Satish Kaushik
A thief (Anil Kapoor) and a wealthy man (Govinda) both fall in love with a beautiful psychiatrist (Juhi Chawla).
Romance, Action
India
1996
180 Minutes
Roshanlalji
Twinkle Khanna Ajay Devgn Amrish Puri Rakhee Vivek Mushran Suresh Oberoi Shakti Kapoor Bindu Saeed Jaffrey Aruna Irani Johnny Lever
A police commissioner hires a young man to be his granddaughter's bodyguard but does not know that the man is in fact a killer hired by his cousin in order to kill his granddaughter and inherit the family estate.
Adventure
UK|Egypt|Hungary
1981
119 Minutes
Selim
Lesley-Anne Down Frank Langella Maurice Ronet John Gielgud Vic Tablian Martin Benson John Rhys-Davies Nadim Sawalha Tutte Lemkow Saeed Jaffrey Eileen Way
antique dealer criminal enemy adult archaeologist thrilling gripping intense pyramid tomb egypt city desert chamber struggle competition get rich quick dangerous mission courage excavation
Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs: murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse.
Drama
UK|USA
1984
163 Minutes
Judy Davis Peggy Ashcroft Victor Banerjee James Fox Alec Guinness Nigel Havers Richard Wilson Antonia Pemberton Michael Culver Art Malik Saeed Jaffrey
tourist doctor fiancé friend lawyer emotional solemn india cave courtroom court battles lawsuit class distinctions culture clash imperialism social change quest discovery underdog 1920s
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.
Biography, Drama, History
UK|India
1982
188 Minutes
Ben Kingsley Candice Bergen Edward Fox John Gielgud Trevor Howard John Mills Martin Sheen Rohini Hattangadi Ian Charleson Athol Fugard Roshan Seth
mohandas gandhi politician photographer inspiring moving profound india south africa imperialism social change empowerment protest rise quest sacrifice 1940s
The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.