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Saeed Jaffrey - filmography


  • Bunker Hill (2008)
    Starring: James McDaniel,  Saeed Jaffrey,  Laura Kirk
    Director: Kevin Willmott
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When former Wall Street executive Peter Salem is released from prison, he heads for the small town of Bunker Hill, Kansas, where his ex-wife and their children have started a new life. Soon after he arrives in town, all power is lost - there is no electricity, and cars and computers suddenly shut ..read more »
    0.5 stars out of 5 10% from 2 members
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  • Chicken Tikka Masala (2005)
    Starring: Saeed Jaffrey,  Jamila Massey,  Zohra Sehgal
    Director: Harmage Singh Kalirai
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    It is celebration time for the Chopra family of Preston. Not only their only son Jimi is all set to become a doctor but is going to get engaged to the girl his family likes, Simran, who has come from India. She comes from a respectable Gujarati family, is well educated, pretty and above all, the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 1,470 member
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  • Day Of The Sirens on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Saeed Jaffrey,  Rik Mayall
    Director: Ray Brady
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    DAY OF THE SIRENS tells the riveting story of one sweltering day in the city, when a lone gunman goes on a shooting spree. Unable to be stopped, this ruthless killing machine becomes a mystery that terrorizes the city while confounding authorities. Is there a method to the murderous madness
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 101 members
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  • Mr In-Between (2001)
    Starring: Andrew Howard,  Geraldine O'Rawe,  David Calder
    Director: Paul Sarossy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The Tattooed Man (David Calder, of TV's BRAMWELL) is a cruel hard-man who employs the young, efficient and conscientious Jon Bennet (Andrew Howard, SHOOTERS) to do some of his cold murderous dirty work. When Jon bumps into old friends Cathy (Geraldine O'Rawe, CIRCLE OF FRIENDS) and her husband, he ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 449 members
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  • Guru in Seven on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Nitin Chandra Ganatra,  Saeed Jaffrey,  Jacqueline Pearce
    Director: Shani S. Grewal
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    A man who seeks fame and fortune as an artist finds trouble with his family over his choice of girlfriend. His mates set him a challenge to cheer him up. He is faced with having to date seven girls in seven days...
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 91 members
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  • English Babu Desi Mem (1996)
    Starring: Shahrukh Khan,  Sonali Bendre,  Saeed Jaffrey
    Director: Praveen Nischol
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Vikram Mayur, a wealthy Indian, born and raised in England, returns to his ancestral home in Bombay, India to look up his late brother's eight-year-old son Nandu raised by his caring aunt Bijuriya in which Vikram is torn between choosing to take Nandu back to England to learn his family's business, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 85 members
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  • Yeh Dillagi (1994)
    Starring: Akshay Kumar,  Saif Ali Khan,  Kajol
    Director: Naresh Malhotra
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    When Sapna, the daughter of their driver becomes a model, one of the heirs of Saigal Industries falls for her. However his mother disapproves, so his serious minded brother tries to help out, but ends up falling for Sapna...
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 208 members
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  • Dil on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Deven Varma,  Madhuri Dixit,  Anupam Kher
    Director: Indra Kumar
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A miserly father tries to get his extravagant son married to a rich man's daughter in order to get a dowry in exchange. Unfortunately they fail to get along and proceed to play practical jokes on one another. Eventually they fall in love, but it is revealed that her father was pretending to be a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 396 members
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  • Ghar Ho To Aisa (1990)
    Starring: Anil Kapoor,  Meenakshi Sheshadri,  OM Prakash
    Director: Kalpataru
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The Kumar family consists of Ramprasad, his wife, Durga; their married son, Vijay, his wife, Sharda, their daughter, Pinky; a married daughter who lives with them, Kanchan, her husband, Bajrangi, and a son; an unmarried and unemployed son, Amar. Save for Bajrangi and Amar everyone else likes to ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 4 members
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  • Eeshwar (1989)
    Starring: Anil Kapoor,  Vijayshanti,  Saeed Jaffrey
    Director: K.Vishwanath,  Rajesh Malik
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Eeshwar is a simple-minded and honest young man, devout and religious, he cares for everybody he comes in contact with. But alas nobody really likes him and think him as mentally retarded. Living an unconventional life, he takes pity on a widow named Lalita, with a young son, and marries her, much ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 11 members
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  • Just Ask For Diamond (1988)
    Starring: Jimmy Nail,  Susannah York,  Peter Eyre
    Director: Stephen Bayly
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    When the man who left a package in his care is found murdered, detective Tim Diamond suddenly has every major gangster in the city after him. With only the package and the help of his little brother, the clueless Diamond sets out to unravel the mysterious plot he has suddenly become the center of.
    3 stars out of 5 54% from 120 members
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  • Partition on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Bhasker Patel,  Saeed Jaffrey,  Shaheen Khan
    Director: Ken McMullen
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen's complex and visually striking film. A lunatic asylum in the city of Lahore becomes a mirror image of events in the outside political world, with the same actors ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 61 members
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  • My Beautiful Laundrette on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Saeed Jaffrey,  Roshan Seth,  Daniel Day-Lewis
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE is a highly acclaimed and beautifully rendered portrait of two boyhood friends struggling to survive in racially tense Thatcher-era Britain. Omar, a homosexual Pakistani boy living in London with his alcoholic father, lifts a chunk of drug money from another Pakistani and, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 12,463 members
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  • A Passage To India on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Judy Davis,  Peggy Ashcroft,  Judy Davis
    Director: David Lean
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A Passage to India, director David Lean's final film (for which he also received editing credit), breaks no new ground cinematically, but remains an exquisitely assembled harkback to such earlier Lean epics as Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter. Based on the novel by E. M. Forster, the film is set ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 2,659 members
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  • The Far Pavilions (2 discs) on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Ben Cross,  Amy Irving,  Omar Sharif
    Director: Peter Duffell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This made-for-TV adaptation of M.M. Kaye's novel is a haunting love story set in imperial 19th-century India. Ben Cross plays Ashton Pelham-Martyn, an Indian-reared British officer who is assigned to safeguard a group of Indian princesses en route to meet their new husbands-to-be. During the voyage,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 788 members
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  • Kissi Se Na Kehna on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Utpal Dutt,  Saeed Jaffrey,  Deepti Naval
    Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    What happens when a father wants just a typical, homely Bahu from some village and son ends up marrying a well educated girl from the city? Watch Kisise Na Kehna to find out what happens when the city Bahu portrays to be someone she really isnt. Does the father give in?
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 12 members
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  • Chashme Buddoor on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Farooq Shaikh,  Deepti Naval,  Saeed Naval
    Director: Sai Paranjape
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Two womanizing slackers, Omi and Jai (Rakesh Bedi and Ravi Baswani respectively) attempt to woo the new girl in the neighbourhood, and fail - miserably. Their third room-mate, shy, and a bookworm - succeeds, much to their chargin. The two scheme up comical ideas to split the two lovebirds, so that ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 40 members
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  • Staying On on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Saeed Jaffrey,  Celia Johnson,  Trevor Howard
    Director: Silvio Narizzano
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A retired Indian Army colonel and his wife chose to stay on in India when the British withdrew in 1947. Now, twenty-five years on, they find the new India increasingly difficult to understand. An award-winning companion to JEWEL IN THE CROWN.
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 222 members
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  • Aulad on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Saeed Jaffrey,  Asrani,  Vinod Mehra
    Director: Vijay Sadanah
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Aulad is story based on the relationship of a mother and her child. It deals with unprecedented love of two mothers for the same child.
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 9 members
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  • The Man Who Would Be King on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Sean Connery,  Christopher Plummer
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A late-career masterpiece from legendary director/adventurer Huston and adapted from a Rudyard Kipling story, it stars Sir Sean and Michael Caine as a pair of opportunistic Victorian chappies scheming to take over a remote middle-eastern kingdom, with Saeed Jaffrey and Christopher Plummer rounding ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 6,083 members
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  • Wilby Conspiracy on DVD
    Starring: Sidney Poitier,  Michael Caine,  Nicol Williamson
    Director: Ralph Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Michael Caine stars as Jim Koegh in this underrated chase movie in which Sidney Poitier plays his unwilling partner, Shack Twala, an African political activist. Shack is on the lam with his new non-friend, Jim, who by mutual agreement has planned to escape. This makes for a great drama about ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 126 members
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  • Angrakshak on DVD
    Starring: Sunny Deol,  Pooja Bhatt,  Kulbhushan Kharbanda
    Director: Ravi Raja
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Time changes circumstances, and circumstances change the course of a man’s life. Ajay Verma (Sunny Deol) was also a victim of time and circumstances. Once a picture of bravery, today Ajay was a broken and dejected man, with no goal to look eorward to in life. He lived life because he had to live - ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 11 members
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Saeed Jaffrey facts

5 most recent films

Bunker Hill - 0.5 stars
Chicken Tikka Masala - 2.5 stars
Inspector Lynley Mysteries - Series 2 - 3.5 stars
Day Of The Sirens - 2.0 stars
Mad Dogs - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Inspector Lynley Mysteries - Series 2 - 3.5 stars
The Man Who Would Be King - 3.5 stars
A Passage To India - 3.5 stars
Staying On - 3.5 stars
Dil - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Bunker Hill - 0.5 stars
Ghar Ho To Aisa - 1.5 stars
Mad Dogs - 2.0 stars
Angrakshak - 2.0 stars
Aulad - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Paul Barber - 6 times - show films
Maurice Colbourne - 5 times - show films
Elizabeth Cassidy - 5 times - show films
Ahmed Khalil - 5 times - show films
Michael Caine - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Christopher Morahan - 18 times - show films
Jim O'Brien - 14 times - show films
Alastair Reid - 5 times - show films
Kenneth Ives - 5 times - show films
Roger Tucker - 5 times - show films