
Rita Wolf
Actor · b. 1960 · Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Rita Wolf is a British-Indian actress and theatre producer, best known for her role as Tania in My Beautiful Laundrette.
Movies8
Movie5.1ComedyDramaA struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.
Girl 6
1996 · 126 votes
Movie6.7ComedyDramaA young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
My Beautiful Laundrette
1985 · 324 votes
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Arya Sinha, a disciplined piano teacher from a prestigious Indian conservatory, reluctantly takes an assignment in northern Minnesota, hoping to rescue a struggling band program, as well as fuel her career ambitions back home. As she clashes with her chaotic new environment, Arya is forced to let go of control, confront her hidden insecurities, and embrace a new vision of success.
Movie4.3Science FictionAdventureIn the near future, where Earth has been devastated by man's pollution and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, planning to get the bounty himself.
Slipstream
1989 · 65 votes
Movie5.0DocumentaryFilmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his play Homebody/Kabul and running through 2004, as he worked on John Kerry's presidential campaign, got married to Mark Harris, worked with Maurice Sendak, and opened the Broadway musical Caroline, or Change.
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
2006 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDramaComedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
The Chain
1984 · 7 votes
Movie8.5DramaCultural identity, women’s independence and the pressure to conform to British norms are the subjects of this bold and acute feature, which explores both British-Asian experience and the plight of recent immigrants. Rita Wolf (My Beautiful Laundrette), plays Majdhar, a Pakistani woman who transforms herself in London after her husband leaves her for another woman. While Majdhar feels her way towards confident self-determination, husband Afzal is torn between his heritage and his Western aspirations.
Majdhar
1984 · 2 votes
Movie10.0DramaSaleem, an elderly psychiatric patient, is partially paralysed and unable or unwilling to speak. When Kamala, a new student nurse, arrives, he begins to respond, encouraged by her gentle reassurance, and their common cultural identity.
A View from a Window
1987 · 1 votes
Series6
TV7.3CrimeDramaIn cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
Law & Order
1990 · 722 votes
TV7.6DramaAlicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.
The Good Wife
2009 · 707 votes
TV5.8CrimeDramaRockliffe's Babies is a British television police procedural devised by Richard O'Keefe, and starring Ian Hogg as maverick Detective Sergeant Alan Rockliffe, who is assigned to train seven young recruits to the CID, all fresh out of uniform. Under his irascible guidance, it is hoped that they will blossom into full-blown detectives. But Rockliffe is human – so human that he makes more mistakes than the 'Babies' he's supposed to be training. A follow-up series, Rockliffe's Folly, follows Rockliffe through his relocation to Wessex, dealing with rural crimes as part of a new team of investigators. The seven episode third series proved to be the last, with many citing a change in the programme's formula for the heavy ratings decline. Many viewers stated that the success of the two Babies series came not from Rockliffe himself, but from the popular ensemble cast.
Rockliffe's Babies
1987 · 5 votes
TV6.3ComedyTandoori Nights is a Channel 4 sitcom broadcast in two six-episode series from 1985 to 1987. The programme focuses on the rivalry between two Indian restaurants in East London: The Jewel in the Crown and The Far Pavilions.
Tandoori Nights
1985 · 3 votes
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An inside, behind-the-scenes look at the practice of law, and the lawyers whose lives are caught up in their work with each other.
Wing and a Prayer
1997 · 2 votes
- TVDrama
A series of six short TV plays by writers new to television.
Debut on Two
1990