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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: Katy Clayton,  Jamila Massey,  Saeed Jaffrey
    Director: Harmage Singh Kalirai
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jimi (Jaffrey) is to become a doctor and begrudgingly agrees to marry the girl his grandmother has picked out for him: Simran (Mahal). She is perfect in every way except one. She is not Jimi's one true love, that honour goes to Jack. But the wedding day looms large, and the Patel family has never ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 1,493 member
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  • Day Of The Sirens on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Rik Mayall,  Saeed Jaffrey
    Director: Ray Brady
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    One hot summer's day an ingenious and highly organised gunman goes on a shooting rampage. As he moves from one killing zone to another, regardless of sex, race, age and creed, he leaves a trail of death and misery in his wake. Are his targets random? Is he a madman? Who can stop him?
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 106 members
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  • Mr In-Between (2001)
    Starring: Geraldine O'Rawe,  Clive Russell,  Andrew Howard
    Director: Paul Sarossy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Canadian Paul Sarossy makes his directorial debut with this chilling crime thriller set in the back streets of London. Outwardly, Jon Bennet (Andrew Howard) is an ideal employee: neat, efficient and conscientious. But Jon secretly works for the Tattooed Man (David Calder), an terrifying figure ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 459 members
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  • Being Considered on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Nicholas Le Provost,  Emily Bruni,  James Dreyfus
    Director: Jonathan Newman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Jake (James Dreyfus) is a wannabe filmmaker still struggling to make his first movie when all those around him are enjoying considerable success. His life changes when a small-time crook, Jojo (Tom Farrelly), breaks into his car and steals his briefcase, which contains a book on screenwriting and a ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 89 members
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  • Guru in Seven on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Antony Zaki,  Nitin Chandra Ganatra,  Saeed Jaffrey
    Director: Shani S. Grewal
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Sanjay (Nitin Chandra Ganatra) wants to be a famous artist but his girlfriend Jill just wants to settle down. In addition, Sanjay's strict Punjabi family don't approve of the fact that Jill is black. So when Jill gives Sanjay an ultimatum of marriage or nothing, he decides a return to bachelorhood ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 101 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 86 members
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  • Dil on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Aamir Khan,  Deven Varma,  Saeed Jaffrey
    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 404 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 »
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 5 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: Patricia Hodge,  Bill Paterson,  Michael Medwin
    Director: Stephen Bayly
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This spoof on 'The Maltese Falcon' tells the story of a young boy and his brother who are given £200 to guard a box of Maltesers. However, all sorts of nasty villains want to get their hands on that box of deliciously light chocolates.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 128 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 63 members
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  • A Passage To India on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Victor Banerjee,  Judy Davis,  Alec Guinness
    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 2,808 members
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  • The Courtesans of Bombay on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Saeed Jaffrey,  Zohra Segal
    Director: Ismail Merchant
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Merchant-Ivory team are behind this detailed portrait of the red light district of Bombay, which is filmed as part-documentary, part-drama. The actors function primarily as narrators, detailing the impoverishment that leads otherwise chaste Indian women to seek out work as 'courtesans' - ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 70 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 13 members
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  • The Far Pavilions (2 discs) on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Robert Hardy,  Ben Cross,  Rossano Brazzi
    Director: Peter Duffell
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Epic adaptation of M.M. Kaye's novel. Englishman Ash (Ben Cross) was orphaned at the age of four, but was saved from the Indian Mutiny by a Hindu foster mother who brought him up as her own. Only on her deathbed did she reveal Ash's true origins to him, and he finds himself torn between the British ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 818 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 59% from 42 members
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  • Staying On on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Trevor Howard,  Celia Johnson,  Saeed Jaffrey
    Director: Silvio Narizzano
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This television adaptation of Paul Scott's sequel to 'The Jewel in the Crown' reunites Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson for the first time since their pairing in the classic 'Brief Encounter'. Colonel Tusker (Howard) and his wife Lucy (Johnson) decide to stay on in India after it is granted its ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 238 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 42% from 10 members
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  • The Man Who Would Be King on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Doghmi Larbi,  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 6,358 members
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  • Wilby Conspiracy on DVD
    Starring: Prunella Gee,  Michael Caine,  Saeed Jaffrey
    Director: Ralph Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Drama based on the novel by Peter Driscoll. The film is set in South Africa, at a time when Apartheid was the order of the day. Political activist Shack Twala (Sidney Poitier) finds an unlikely ally in the form of the British Keogh (Michael Caine). Both Twala and Keogh are scrutinised by racist ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 139 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
Mad Dogs - 2.0 stars
Day Of The Sirens - 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

Adam Smith - Complete Series 2 - 3 stars
Bunker Hill - 0.5 stars
Ghar Ho To Aisa - 2.0 stars
Angrakshak - 2.0 stars
Aulad - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Paul Barber - 6 times - show films
Elizabeth Cassidy - 5 times - show films
Ahmed Khalil - 5 times - show films
Maurice Colbourne - 5 times - show films
Nitin Chandra Ganatra - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

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