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David Lean, the Director of "Doctor Zhivago", "Lawrence of Arabia" and "The Bridge on the River Kwai", invites you on . .
David Lean, the Director of "Doctor Zhivago", "Lawrence of Arabia" an...
Adventure, Drama, History - 1984
7.3
77%
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Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.
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A Passage to India
Lawrence of Arabia
(1962)
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
A Passage to India
The Bridge on the River Kwai
(1957)
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil t...
A Passage to India
Doctor Zhivago
(1965)
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
A Passage to India
Brief Encounter
(1945)
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the pot...
A Passage to India
Great Expectations
(1946)
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been le...

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Rated:
PG
Runtime:
163 min
Release date:
14 Dec 1984
Country:
GB, US
Languages:
English, Hindi
Budget:
$8,000,000
Revenue:
$27,201,487
Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. 22 wins & 27 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Not for literary purists, but if you like your entertainment well tailored, then feel the quality and the width.
– ,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
The film is very much 'a full theatrical meal,' and one that conveys a lot of 'the multiplicity of life' one seldom sees on the screen these days.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Forster's novel is one of the literary landmarks of this century, and now David Lean has made it into one of the greatest screen adaptations I have ever seen.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
fresh:
An impeccably faithful, beautifully played and occasionally languorous adaptation of E.M. Forster's classic novel.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
6 Nov 2007
rotten:
David Lean's studied, plodding, overanalytic direction manages to kill most of the meaning in E.M. Forster's haunting novel of cultural collision in colonial India.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
6 Nov 2007
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