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Merchant Ivory and Maurice

The Bostonians (Country: UK, US; Year: 1984; Director: James Ivory; Writer: Henry James, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; Stars: Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Tandy, Madeleine Potter, Nancy Marchand)

A Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright young woman uncertain of her future.

Howard's End (Country: UK, Japan, US; Year: 1992; Director: James Ivory; Writer: EM Forster, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Joseph Bennett, Prunella Scales, Adrian Ross Magenty, Jo Kendall, James Wilby)

A businessman sets out to thwart his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.

Maurice (Country: UK; Year: 1987; Director: James Ivory; Writer: Kit Hesketh-Harvey, James Ivory, based on the novel by EM Forster; Stars: James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Denholm Elliott, Simon Callow, Billie Whitelaw, Barry Foster, Judy Parfitt, Phoebe Nicholls, Patrick Godfrey, Mark Tandy, Ben Kingsley, Kitty Aldridge, Helena Michell, Catherine Rabett)

A young man has to come to terms with his sexuality.

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Merchant Ivory (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Stephen Soucy; Stars: James Ivory, Simon Callow, Vanessa Redgrave, Madhur Jaffrey, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Helena Bonham-Carter, James Fox, Rupert Graves)

The story of cinema's longest lasting partnership.

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Quartet (Country: UK, France; Year: 1981; Director: James Ivory; Writer: Jean Rhys, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Michel Maingois; Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Maggie Smith, Alan Bates, Anthony Higgins, Suxanne Flon, Sébastien Floche, Daniel Chatto)

Finding herself penniless after her art dealer husband is convicted of theft, a woman accepts the hospitality of a strange couple who let her live in their home.

Shakespeare Wallah (Country: US, India; Year: 1965; Director: James Ivory; Writer: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, James Ivory; Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Geoffrey Kendal, Laura Liddell, Madhur Jaffrey, Utpal Dutt, Praveen Paul)

A family troupe of English actors travels around Indian towns and villages giving performances of Shakespearean plays.