4.5

Everywhere and Nowhere

2011, UK

• Actors: James Floyd, Adam Deacon, Alyy Khan, Shivani Ghai, Shaheen Khan, Saeed Jaffrey, Katia Winter, Simon Webbe, Art Malik, Sophie Berenice, Farzana Dua Elahe, Leah Fatania, Elyes Gabel, Heidi Graham, Rachel Lynes, Neet Mohan, Amber Rose Revah
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Menhaj Huda
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Ash is a man torn between two worlds, that of his family and friends and the other, of his dreams. This is his story set across London with it's fast paced nightlife and run ins with the law all caught on camera from the Director of Kidulthood.

  5.7

Just Ask for Diamond

1990, UK

• Actors: Colin Dale, Saeed Jaffrey, Dursley McLinden, José René Ruiz, Michael Robbins, Donald Standen, Patricia Hodge, Jim McManus, Jimmy Nail, Roy Kinnear, Bill Paterson, Forbes Collins, Peter Eyre, Nickolas Grace, Jonathan Linsley, R.J. Bell, Susannah York, Robert Bathurst, Michael Medwin, Jenny Tomasin, Joanna Dickens, Alison Ruffelle, Auriol Goldingham, Cristina Avery, Charles Simon, Geraldine Muir, Gerald Campion, Ricky Diamond, Mammoth, John McCoy
• Genre: Family, Comedy, Crime
• Director(s): Stephen Bayly
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When all seems lost... just ask for Diamond!

  7.4

A Passage to India

1983, UK, USA

• Actors: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, Richard Wilson, Antonia Pemberton, Michael Culver, Art Malik, Saeed Jaffrey, Clive Swift, Ann Firbank, Roshan Seth, Sandra Hotz, Rashid Karapiet, H.S. Krishnamurthy, Ishaq Bux, Moti Makan, Mohammed Ashiq, Phyllis Bose, Sally Kinghorn, Paul Anil, Z.H. Khan, Ashok Mandanna, Dina Pathak, Adam Blackwood, Mellan Mitchell, Peter Hughes, John Michie
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
• Director(s): David Lean
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Tensions between Indians and the colonial British come to a boil when a white female tourist accuses a young Indian doctor of rape during a visit to some caverns. A study of colonial relations and the nature of memory. Based on E. M. Forster's novel.

  8.1

Gandhi

1982, UK, India

• Actors: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Martin Sheen, Ian Charleson, Athol Fugard, Günther Maria Halmer, Saeed Jaffrey, Geraldine James, Alyque Padamsee, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Rohini Hattangadi, Ian Bannen, Michael Bryant, John Clements, Richard Griffiths, Nigel Hawthorne, Bernard Hepton, Michael Hordern, Shreeram Lagoo, Om Puri, Virendra Razdan, Richard Vernon, Harsh Nayyar, Prabhakar Patankar, Vijay Kashyap
• Genre: Biography, Drama, History
• Director(s): Richard Attenborough
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1893, Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian and traveling in a first class compartment. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all Indians in South Africa. After numerous arrests and the unwanted attention of the world, the government finally relents by recognizing rights for Indians, though not for the native blacks of South Africa. After this victory, Gandhi is invited back to India, where he is now considered something of a national hero. He is urged to take up the fight for India's independence from the British Empire. Gandhi agrees, and mounts a non-violent non-cooperation campaign of unprecedented scale, coordinating millions of Indians nationwide. There are some setbacks, such as violence against the protesters and Gandhi's occasional imprisonment. Nevertheless, the campaign generates great attention, and Britain faces intense public pressure. Too weak from World War II to continue enforcing its will in India, Britain finally grants India's independence. Indians celebrate this victory, but their troubles are far from over. Religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims erupt into nation-wide violence. Gandhi declares a hunger strike, saying he will not eat until the fighting stops. The fighting does stop eventually, but the country is divided. It is decided that the northwest area of India, and eastern part of India (current day Bangladesh), both places where Muslims are in the majority, will become a new country called Pakistan (West and East Pakistan respectively). It is hoped that by encouraging the Muslims to live in a separate country, violence will abate. Gandhi is opposed to the idea, and is even willing to allow Muhammad Ali Jinnah to become the first prime minister of India, but the Partition of India is carried out nevertheless. Gandhi spends his last days trying to bring about peace between both nations. He thereby angers many dissidents on both sides, one of whom finally gets close enough to assassinate him.