Salman Rushdie
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.574 |
| Birthday | 1947-06-19 |
| Place of Birth | Mumbai, India |
| Also Known As |
2003
The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch
6.2/10
Twenty-three years after the release of the original Beatles mockumentary, 'The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash', famous artists, actors and musicians sp...
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The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch
2009
The Satanic Verses Affair
0/0
Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. His novel, The Satanic Verses, had sparked riots a...
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The Satanic Verses Affair
2007
Then She Found Me
5.6/163
A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an e...
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Then She Found Me
2014
River of Fundament
6.6/16
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collabora...
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River of Fundament
2014
The Hitch
6.4/5
The life of Christopher Hitchens as told through his own words and through archive footage.
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The Hitch
2012
Midnight's Children
5.53/50
The story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England, growing up in the country that is nothing like their p...
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Midnight's Children
2015
Concerning the Bodyguard
0/0
An anonymous henchman fulfils his role in a rigid hierarchy of power and control in this ingenious and visually dazzling film. Salman Rushdie clearly...
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Concerning the Bodyguard
2016
Bosch: The Garden of Dreams
7.2/19
2016 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch. It is almost the only information about the artist of The Garden of Earthly Delight...
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Bosch: The Garden of Dreams
2009
La Traversée du désir
5.7/3
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.
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La Traversée du désir
2001
Bridget Jones's Diary
6.7/4890
A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
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Bridget Jones's Diary
2018
Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women
0/0
A dark and delicious foray into Angela Carter's extraordinary life with animation by Peepshow Collective, rare archive and family photos, and contribu...
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Angela Carter: Of Wolves & Women
2019
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
6.6/5
An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered...
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Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
2007
Der Unbequeme - Der Dichter Günter Grass
0/0
Documentary film.
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Der Unbequeme - Der Dichter Günter Grass
1999
In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
0/0
A strongly visual look at the life, work and obsessions od the writer Bruce Chatwin, who died of AIDS in 1989. Chatwin was hailed as the greatest nove...
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In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
2009
Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams
0/0
The film chronicles 2 years in the life of Amos Oz as he meets readers in Israel and around the world, working to promote the Two-State Solution to th...
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Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams
2000
The Beatles Revolution
0/0
A primetime special celebrating The Beatles and exploring the lasting impact on pop music of Beatles innovations like stadium concerts, music videos,...
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The Beatles Revolution
2015
Mylène Farmer : sur les pas d'une icône
8/2
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Mylène Farmer : sur les pas d'une icône
On Palestinian Identity: A Conversation with Salman Rushdie
0/0
In 1986, Edward Said and Salman Rushdie sat down to talk at the ICA. Professor Said launched his book “After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives” at the I...
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On Palestinian Identity: A Conversation with Salman Rushdie
2024
Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
7/1
Salman Rushdie speaks to Alan Yentob about the devastating knife attack he was subjected to in 2022, losing his right eye and almost his ability to wr...
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Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly
Knife
0/0
Gibney’s “Knife” will explore Rushdie’s recovery “in the broadest sense,” according to a press release. Through Rushdie’s wife Rachel Eliza Griffiths’...
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Knife
2019
Einübung ins Paradies - Nachdenken über 1989
0/0
November 9, 1989, the day the Wall came down, was one of those days when it became clear that the world had changed "immediately and without delay" on...
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