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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

The explosive (and not entirely unexpected) success of Raiders of the Lost Ark ensured that the movie-going public would meet Indiana Jones again. And, indeed, as soon as Harrison Ford removed the mantle of Han Solo for the final time, he once aga...

Run Time: 1:58
U.S. Release Date: 1984-05-23
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, ...
Little Indian, Big City

Little Indian, Big City, the American name given to Herve Palud's 1995 French fish-out-of-water comedy, L'Indian dans la Ville, is easily one of the most tedious viewing experiences of 1996. I came as close to walking out of this movie as anything...

Run Time: 1:30
U.S. Release Date: 1996-03-22
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: COMEDY
Director: Herve Palud
Cast: Thierry Lhermitte, Ludwig Briand, Patrick Timsit, ...
Monkey Man

Monkey Man, the feature directorial debut of actor Dev Patel, is a blood-soaked revenge tale with a high body count that refuses to pull its punches to make the protagonist more likable. Although generally following a superhero “origin story” ...

Run Time: 2:01
U.S. Release Date: 2024-04-05
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Dev Patel
Cast: Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Sikander Kher, ...
Namesake, The

The Namesake is an affecting drama spanning two generations of an Indian American family and exploring the generational and cultural conflicts that arise as a result of their assimilation into society. By carefully developing her characters and al...

Run Time: 2:02
U.S. Release Date: 2007-03-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Mira Nair
Cast: Kal Penn, Tabu, Irfan Khan, ...
Nayagan

It’s a fair assessment that my overall unfamiliarity with Indian cinema may have amplified some of my criticisms of Mani Ratnam’s Nayagan (or, as it is also known, Nayakan). Two aspects that I found to be distracting – the oddly-placed mu...

Run Time: 2:25
U.S. Release Date: 1987-10-21
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Director: Mani Ratnam
Cast: Kamal Haasan, Saranya, Delhi Ganesh, ...
Pather Panchali

When discussing "giants" of the non-English-speaking, international film world, four names leap immediately to mind: Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, and Satyajit Ray. Of these men, Ray has received the least North American e...

Run Time: 2:05
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Nothing Objectionable)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Satyajit Ray
Cast: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Bannerjee, ...
RRR

Although some aspects of RRR may seem foreign to mainstream North American movie-goers, the meat of the tale – an epic adventure featuring two mighty figures – is the kind of thing that American motion pictures used to do well. RRR tosses asid...

Run Time: 3:07
U.S. Release Date: 2022-03-25
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: S.S. Rajamouli
Cast: N.T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Alia Bhatt, ...
Water

Water, a meditative drama that evokes the movies of the great Satyajit Ray, brings Deepa Mehta's "Elemental Trilogy" to a close. (The previous two films were Fire and Earth.) A film that takes a long, hard look at the second-class status of widow...

Run Time: 1:54
U.S. Release Date: 2006-04-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Deepa Mehta
Cast: Lisa Ray, Seema Biswas, Sarala, ...
World of Apu, The (Apur Sansar)

The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) concludes one of the greatest film series of all time, Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy, which chronicles the life of one Bengali boy as he traverses the road from childhood through adolescence to maturity. Ray, a mast...

Run Time: 1:46
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Satyajit Ray
Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Alok Chakravarty, ...
World's Fastest Indian, The

The World's Fastest Indian is not, as the title might suggest, a National Geographic special. Instead, it's a based-on-a-true-story tale that crosses no fewer than four genres in the space of a little more than two hours. Although some aspects of...

Run Time: 2:07
U.S. Release Date: 2005-12-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Kennedy Lawford, Chris Williams, ...