My Beautiful Laundrette 1985  R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Gordon Warnecke, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth, Shirley Anne Field, Rita Wolf, Richard Graham, Colin(3) Campbell, Derrick Branche, Souad Faress, Winston Graham, Charu Bala Chokshi
Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a young Pakistani, is given a run-down launderette in London. With help from his White friend Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis), the launderette is turned into a very successful establishment. As luck would have it, a racist gang decides to ruin their playhouse and shut them down.
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Second Generation 2003  TV, 136 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jon Sen
Cast: Parminder Nagra, Om Puri, Christopher Simpson, Anupam Kher, Danny Dyer, Nitin Chandra Ganatra, Rita Wolf, Amita Dhiri, Roshan Seth, Lalita Ahmed, William Beck
This made-for-TV, two-part miniseries revolves around an Indian family's problems when the father, Sharma (Om Puri), collapses into a coma. Estranged daughter Heere (Parminder Nagra) returns to their London home and finds her two sisters (Amita Dhiri and Rita Wolf) ready to turn off their father's life support machine and take control of his business. Then, Sharma wakes up, and Heera tries to make peace, but there are many problems to overcome.
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Slipstream 1989  PG-13, 92 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Steven Lisberger
Cast: Mark Hamill, Bob Peck, Kitty Aldridge, Bill Paxton, Susan Leong, Rita Wolf, Eleanor David, F. Murray Abraham, Ben Kingsley, Robbie Coltrane, Paul Reynolds, Ricco Ross
Set in a future era, when pollution reigns over the Earth, two police officers–Tasker (Mark Hamill) and sidekick Belitski (Kitty Aldridge)–arrest a fugitive, Byron (Bob Peck). Bounty hunter Matt (Bill Paxton) hears there is a bounty out for Byron, tricks Tasker and Belitski, grabs the prisoner, and whisks him away on his plane. Tasker and Belitski follow in hot pursuit.
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| 1. My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
2. Second Generation (2003)
3. Slipstream (1989)
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