Basmati Blues

2017

English

4.0

♡ 5

10%

Dan Baron Director

Scott Bakula as Eric

Brie Larson as Linda

Lakshmi Manchu as Sita Joshua

Joshua as Younger Brother

Linda Watt is a sheltered but brilliant young scientist who is plucked out of her company's lab and sent to India by her CEO to sell "Rice 9," a genetically modified rice she's created. However, unbeknownst to her, the rice will destroy the Indian farmers she thinks she's helping.

The Photograph

2007

Indonesian

6.7

♡ 2

62%

Nan Triveni Achnas Director

Lukman Sardi as

Indi Barends as

Kay Tong Lim as Johan Tan Shanty

Shanty as Sita

Sita is an escort at a karaoke bar who struggles to raise money to send her daughter out of the city to live with her grandmother and settle her debts with her pimp. She moves in with aging photographer Jan and helps him fulfill his last wishes.

Sita Sings the Blues

2008

English

7.5

♡ 5

100%

san francisco, california

suspicion

Nina Paley Director

Alaudin Ullah as Mareecha / Hanuman

Aseem Chhabra as Narrator - Shadow Puppet 1

Annette Hanshaw as Sita

Pooja Kumar as Surphanaka

Utilizing the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, the epic Indian tale of exiled prince Ramayana and his bride Sita is mirrored by a spurned woman's contemporary personal life, and light-hearted but knowledgeable discussion of historical background by a trio of Indian shadow puppets.

Man-Eater of Kumaon

1948

English

5.8

♡ 2

Byron Haskin Director

Wendell Corey as Dr. John Collins Sabu

Sabu as Narain

Argentina Brunetti as Sita

Ralph Moody as Villager

A doctor hunts a vicious, man-eating tiger that terrorizes a native jungle village. In time the doctor experiences a personal change when he accepts their native customs and beliefs.

Fire

1996

English

7.1

♡ 14

husband wife relationship

infidelity

lesbian relationship

Romance

Deepa Mehta Director

Alice Poon as Julie

Shabana Azmi as Radha

Nandita Das as Sita

Ram Gopal Bajaj as Swamiji

In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's life takes an irresistible turn when her beautiful young sister-in-law seeks to free herself from the confines of her own loveless marriage.