Salman Rushdie

Born: 1947-06-19

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie FRSL is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize.


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as Salman Rushdie
Released: 2001-04-13

Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a...

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Then She Found Me

as Dr. Masani
Released: 2007-09-07

A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves,...

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River of Fundament

as Wake Guest
Released: 2014-02-12

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention...

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Midnight's Children

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2012-08-31

The story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England,...

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The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch

as Self - Interviewee
Released: 2003-08-16

Twenty-three years after the release of the original Beatles mockumentary, 'The Rutles: All You...

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Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail

as Self - Writer
Released: 2019-01-08

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The...

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Dirty Pictures

as Self
Released: 2000-05-27

A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs...

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La Traversée du désir

as Self
Released: 2009-03-16

What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to...

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365 Day Project

as uncredited
Released: 2007-12-31

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in...

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Bosch: The Garden of Dreams

as Self
Released: 2016-06-09

2016 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch. It is almost the only...

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Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams

as uncredited
Released: 2009-04-30

The film chronicles 2 years in the life of Amos Oz as he meets readers in Israel and around the...

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The Hitch

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2014-05-10

The life of Christopher Hitchens as told through his own words and through archive footage.

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Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly

as Self - Interviewed Guest
Released: 2024-05-07

Salman Rushdie speaks to Alan Yentob about the devastating knife attack he was subjected to in...

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Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women

as Himself - Contributor
Released: 2018-08-04

A dark and delicious foray into Angela Carter's extraordinary life with animation by Peepshow...

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The Satanic Verses Affair

as Himself
Released: 2009-03-07

Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his...

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Der Unbequeme - Der Dichter Günter Grass

as Self
Released: 2007-04-19

Documentary film.

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Self
First aired: 2015-09-08

Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,...

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Curb Your Enthusiasm

as Salman Rushdie
First aired: 2000-10-15

The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe...

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Real Time with Bill Maher

as Self
First aired: 2003-02-21

Each week Bill Maher surrounds himself with a panel of guests which include politicians, actors,...

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The Daily Show

as Self
First aired: 1996-07-22

The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

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The One Show

as Self - Guest
First aired: 2006-08-14

A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.

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DAS!

as Self
First aired: 1991-01-02

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Markus Lanz

as Self
First aired: 2008-06-03

TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to...

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Beckmann

as Self
First aired: 1999-01-25

Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.

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Prisoners of Gravity

as Self
First aired: 1989-08-21

Prisoners of Gravity was a Canadian public broadcasting television news magazine program that...

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Kulturzeit

as self
First aired: 1995-10-02

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Lo + plus

as Self - Guest
First aired: 1995-04-04

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The Culture Show

as Self
First aired: 2004-11-11

A weekly BBC Two magazine programme focusing on the best of the week's arts and culture news,...

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W1A

as Self
First aired: 2014-03-19

The follow-up to 'Twenty Twelve' as Ian Fletcher takes up the position of 'Head of Values' at...

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Shrink Rap

as Himself
First aired: 2007-04-02

Actress and writer Pamela Stephenson is now a successful therapist – Dr Pamela Connolly – with a...

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