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James Ivory

Born 1928 · American film director

James Francis Ivory is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was a principal in Merchant Ivory Productions along with Indian film producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The trio made film adaptations of stories by authors such as E.M. Forster and Henry James. Their body of work is celebrated for its elegance, sophistication, literary fidelity, strong performances, complex themes, and rich characters.

James Ivory, in order

  1. 1963 The Householder: directed
  2. 1964 The Delhi Way: directed, wrote
  3. 1965 Shakespeare Wallah: directed, wrote
  4. 1969 The Guru: directed, wrote
  5. 1970 Bombay Talkie: directed, wrote
  6. 1972 Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization: directed, wrote
  7. 1972 Savages: directed
  8. 1975 Autobiography of a Princess: directed
  9. 1975 The Wild Party: directed
  10. 1977 Roseland: directed
  11. 1978 Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures: directed
  12. 1979 The Europeans: directed, acted
  13. 1979 The Five Forty-Eight (TV movie): directed
  14. 1980 Jane Austen in Manhattan: directed
  15. 1981 Quartet: directed
  16. 1983 Heat and Dust: directed · critics 79%, audiences 57% · streaming on Prime Video, Kanopy, Fawesome
  17. 1984 The Bostonians: directed
  18. 1986 A Room with a View: directed · critics 100%, audiences 85% · streaming on HBO Max, Shout! Factory TV, YouTube (free)
  19. 1987 Maurice: directed, wrote · critics 81%, audiences 87% · streaming on Prime Video, Philo, Kanopy
  20. 1989 Slaves of New York: directed · critics 22%, audiences 67% · streaming on Prime Video
  21. 1990 Mr. and Mrs. Bridge: directed · critics 81%, audiences 44% · streaming on Hoopla
  22. 1992 Howards End: directed
  23. 1993 The Remains of the Day: directed · critics 95%, audiences 89% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel
  24. 1995 Jefferson in Paris: directed · critics 36%, audiences 36% · streaming on Hoopla
  25. 1995 Lumière and Company: directed, acted · critics 100%, audiences 77%
  26. 1996 Surviving Picasso: directed · critics 31%, audiences 60%
  27. 1998 A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries: directed, wrote
  28. 2000 The Golden Bowl: directed
  29. 2003 Le Divorce: directed, wrote · critics 34%, audiences 26%
  30. 2006 The White Countess: directed
  31. 2009 The City of Your Final Destination: directed
  32. 2010 Arcadia Lost: produced · directed by Phedon Papamichael
  33. 2017 Call Me by Your Name: wrote, produced · directed by Luca Guadagnino