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James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is an American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Their films won six Academy Awards.
Ivory has been nominated three times for the Best Director Oscar, and won his first Academy Award at the age of 89 in 2018, Best Adapted Screenplay for Call Me by Your Name.
Most Popular James Ivory Trailers
Total trailers found: 58
01 October 2017
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture.
01 July 1980
Two teachers vie for the right to stage a play written by Jane Austen when she was twelve years old.
11 January 2019
A young writer tries to obtain romance letters a poet sent to his mistress.
18 November 1970
An English novelist travels to Bombay to watch one of her novels translated to film. She chases after the movie's leading man while the screenwriter chases after her.
21 January 1985
The drama, adapted from a story by Katherine Anne Porter, tells of a Swedish immigrant who arrives on a small Texas farm at the turn of the century for work, is hired, and subsequently, and inadvertently, causes the downfall of his employer when a suspicious visitor comes to call.
26 March 2021
Hopkins’ career has spanned several decades, which is why we will also use many interviews that he gave throughout his life, allowing us to put him back into the context of each period and will be helpful in understanding his role in the history of cinema, because he was far from following the trends.
01 January 1984
Documentary about Merchant Ivory Productions, including interviews with the principals of the film production company and actors which have appeared in their films.
07 March 1986
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation.
25 October 1981
When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.
02 October 1977
"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York City dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
05 November 1993
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain.
13 March 1992
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
18 September 1987
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
01 January 1959
Visual images consist entirely of Indian miniature paintings, while an off-screen narrator traces the rise of this art form within the courts of Akbar (1542-1605), who united what is now India and Pakistan, and his son Jahangir (1569-1627).
10 February 1969
Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the sitar from renowned maestro Ustad Zafar Khan.
08 August 2003
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
18 November 2022
ONLY IN THEATERS, a film by actor/director Raphael Sbarge, is an intimate and moving journey taken with the Laemmle family, spanning nearly three years of challenges, losses, and personal triumphs.
30 October 2005
In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.
19 October 2019
A film about the life of A Passage to India author E M Forster, following his huge growth as a writer and the twists and turns of his personal life.
12 June 2010
Two teenagers wander rural Greece after being stranded by a car crash. They encounter an itinerant vagabond on their travels.
14 May 2000
Wealthy American widower Adam Verver and his daughter Maggie live a refined life in Europe, surrounded by art.
20 October 1963
Prem, a young school teacher, is arranged married and begins the journey of learning the roles and responsibilities required of him.
01 January 2006
This film brings to life a fictional castrato named Zefirino.
23 November 1990
Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.
01 January 2018
Leonardo, an Italian immigrant living in New York, marries a Latin American woman, Nikki, to obtain the greencard.
20 December 1995
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895.
17 May 2023
In the early 1970s, art historian and curator Stephen Scher turned a camera on the complex ecosystem of Parisian dining.
31 March 1995
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry.
01 September 1997
Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh.
25 June 2022
Mong just moved to New York from China to take over the family laundry shop. Both her professional and social lives are affected when she finds out about an affair happening in the building where she works.
01 March 1975
An aging silent movie comic star throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career.
01 January 1983
Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal.
21 March 2009
28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund.
04 September 1996
The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.
05 October 1975
On the birthday of her late father, a deposed Maharaja, a displaced Indian princess living in London and his former private secretary watch home movies and reminisce about royal India.
01 September 1978
A legendary collection of miniature paintings have been locked up in the storeroom of an Indian palace for years; the collection's fame attracts a group of art lovers and fortune seekers who converge simultaneously on the palace.
01 March 1957
Ivory's initial effort as a filmmaker was Venice: Theme and Variations, a documentary made as his master's thesis at the USC film school that, although only 28 minutes long, is rich in composition and aesthetic texture.
30 August 2024
The first definitive feature documentary to lend new and compelling perspectives on the partnership, both professional and personal, of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and their primary associates, writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and composer Richard Robbins.
18 March 1989
Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion while hoping for love and acceptance.
27 June 1972
A tribe of primitive "mudpeople" encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Long Island estate.
22 October 2001
The filmmakers and lead actors of The Remains of the Day (1993) discuss how they came to make the film, and the subtle power of its execution.
01 May 1984
A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.
01 December 1965
The story of a family troupe of English actors who travel around the towns and villages in India giving performances of Shakespearean plays.
17 May 2019
In collaboration with Academy Award winning Director/Screenwriter, James Ivory, Rich Atmosphere: The Music of Merchant Ivory Films, showcases the impact of composer Richard Robbins on Merchant Ivory films.
01 January 1983
In the Mumbai, India, tenement community of Pavanpul, young female courtesans sing, dance and perform sexual favors for male clientele.
01 May 1979
An adaptation of Henry James' novel about the Countess Eugenia Münster and her brother Robert, expatriate Americans who have grown up in Europe.
04 February 2020
Meeting with James Ivory at the Cinémathèque Française on January 18, 2020, presented by Frédéric Bonnaud and Wafa Ghermani.
03 January 1973
Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music.
18 September 1998
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story.
01 January 2001
A documentary about making The Remains of the Day.
07 November 1979
An advertising man, emotionally estranged from his wife and those around him, has seduced and then fired and discarded his secretary.
01 January 2001
Historical context for The Remains of the Day.
07 October 2022
In 1960, acclaimed filmmaker James Ivory traveled to Afghanistan to shoot scenes for a documentary that was never completed.
01 March 1973
Looks at the musical extravaganzas which constitute the main bulk of commercial cinema in India; in particular at the career of Helen, the undisputed Queen of such sagas, having appeared in some five hundred since 1957.
10 March 2026
In a secluded village in the French Pyrenees, American writer Olivia returns to her family’s ancestral home – where her grandmother fled Paris during the Nazi invasion in World War II – seeking material for a long-stalled novel.
01 January 1964
A documentary of Delhi, it scans the city's historic past that includes successive Afghan, Moghul, and English invasions, while it reveals its variegated life of the present.
01 April 1972
Nirad C. Chaudhuri expounds his views on culture, history, religion and society from a comparative perspective.
