A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.
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Atta Yaqub
Casim Khan
Eva Birthistle
Roisin Hanlon
Shamshad Akhtar
Sadia Khan
Ghizala Avan
Rukhsana Khan
Shabana Akhtar Bakhsh
Tahara Khan
Ahmad Riaz
Tariq Khan
Shy Ramsan
Hamid
Gerard Kelly
Parish Priest
Gary Lewis
Danny
David McKay
Wee Roddie
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Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
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A fiery Spanish woman is about to marry a kind British man when she meets a Brazilian actor who ignites in her a flame of lust she can't ignore.
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Teenage lovers Tony and Tyan-Hwa tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.
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When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's childhood sweetheart Vera. Despite her joy at seeing Dylan after so many years, Vera is swept off her feet by a dashing officer, William Killick, and finds herself torn between the open adoration of her new found beau and the wily charms of the exotic Welshman.
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