"Director: Ismail Merchant"

• Cotton Mary | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £7.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  1954 the Malabar Coast. British and Anglo-Indian identities blur when an English-woman with a neglectful husband births a sickly baby. Cotton Mary a hospital aide and moralizing Anglophile who claims her father was a British officer takes over the infant's care and without a word to the mother takes the baby daily to her sister to nurse. Mary moves into the English household taking over more and more duties as she plays on the mother's fatigue and lack of spousal counsel: in eff

• The Mystic Masseur | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ganesh a young man living in a community of Indian exiles in Trinidad has ideas of becoming a successful writer. Ganesh is persuaded to marry a local woman who is used to living in luxury unfortunately he cannot afford to finance the lifestyle that she is used to. Together they dream up an idea to make more money Ganesh becomes a 'Mystic Masseur' and claims to be able to cure the sick...

• In Custody (the Merchant Ivory Collection) | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Drama based on the novel by Anita Desai which follows Deven a teacher at an Indian college and his attempt to interview a famous poet...

• The Proprietor (the Merchant Ivory Collection) | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A story of changing times constant relationships and reconciliation with the past.

• The Courtesans of Bombay (the Merchant Ivory Collection) | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £22.50   |  Saving you £-12.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Intriguing colourful and revealing The Courtesans Of Bombay is Merchant Ivory's 'docu-drama' about Pavan Pool the enclosed area where that city's courtesans ply their trade. It presents a portrait of a unique location both exotic and tawdry: crammed tenements housing thousands men playing up to the camera as they seek out forbidden pleasures - and the courtesans themselves who appear more as entertainers than sex workers. It shows how young girls are groomed in the arts of singing dancing and by inference seduction. Yet The Courtesans Of Bombay is neither sensationalist nor prurient and is as much about a tradition with a special place in Indian society.

• Merchant-Ivory In America | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The Bostonians The daughter of a faith healer is forced to choose between her mother's religious activities and her desire to use her speaking ability to further the women's suffragette movement. To complicate matters more the man she loves is strongly opposed to the feminist cause. The Europeans In 1850 a few miles outside Boston the household of the dour Mr. Wentworth receives two unannounced visitors from Europe Eugenia and Felix the daughter and son of his half sister. Gertrude one of Wentworth's two daughters is instantly infatuated with her cousins and trouble brews... The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe A tangled triangle. In the rural South of the early 20th century Miss Amelia is the town eccentric... Jane Austen In Manhattan Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old... Roseland Three interlocking stories set in the legendary New York City dance palace make up this charming film the third to be shot by Merchant Ivory Productions in America. In the first segment 'The Waltz' Teresa Wright is a widow who comes to Roseland in order to sustain the memory of her late husband where she meets Stan (Lou Jacobi) a man who offers her an opportunity for happiness in the present. In 'The Hustle' Christopher Walken stars as a gigolo with three women in his life all of whom depend on him for different degrees of romance and companionship. In the final segment 'The Peabody' an older Vietnamese woman (Lilia Skala) sets out to win a dance competition despite warnings that it could imperil her health. The Proprietor A story of changing times constant relationships and reconciliation with the past.

• The Merchant Ivory Collection | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £169.99