Dev Patel
Pub. Date
2015
Description
As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy - posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals - Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a second hotel.
"It's the kind of movie that provides a perfect answer for when your mother or grandmother calls you up and asks, 'What should I go see with the girls after our weekly canasta game?"--Entertainment Weekly
"...a joy to watch..."--Toronto Star
"...a rare, optimistic...
Pub. Date
[2009] 2008
Description
Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' When the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up. He describes their adventures together...
5) Lion
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia.
8) Chappie
Pub. Date
2015
Description
In the near future, crime is patrolled by an oppressive mechanized police force. But now, the people are fighting back. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself. As powerful, destructive forces start to see Chappie as a danger to mankind and order, they will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo and ensure that Chappie is the last of his kind....
9) Hotel Mumbai
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Dramatized portrayal of the 2008 terrorist attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbia, India.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Twenty years after the arrival of an alien ship over Johannesburg, South Africa, the creatures have been segregated from humanity and when one human discovers the secret behind their technology he is hunted down inside the alien district; in a future world, where crime is patrolled by robot police officers, one police droid is given new programming which gives him the ability to think for himself; a man sets out on a quest to bring equality to a polarized...
18) Hotel Mumbai
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Dramatized portrayal of the 2008 terrorist attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbia, India.
20) The Green Knight
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A fantasy adventure based on the Arthurian legend, the film tells the story of Sir Gawain, King Arthur's headstrong nephew, who embarks on a quest to confront the eponymous knight, a gigantic tree-like creature.