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Salaam Bombay! (Country: UK, India, France; Year: 1988; Director: Mira Nair; Writer: Hriday Lani, Mira Nair, Sooni Taraporevala, Sooni Taraporevala; Stars: Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma, Raghuvir Yadav, Anita Kanwar, Nana Patekar, Anjaan, Amrit Patel, Murari Sharma, Ram Moorti, Sarfuddin Qureshi, Raju Barnad, Irshad Hashmi, Mohanraj Babu, Chandrashekhar Naidu)
Story of a street kid abandoned by his mum.
The Third Man (Country: UK; Year: 1949; Director: Carol Reed; Writer: Graham Greene, Alexander Korda, Graham Greene, Carol Reed, Orson Welles; Stars: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hörbiger, Ernst Deutsch, Siegfried Breuer, Erich Ponto, Wilfrid Hyde-White)
A man searching for his missing friend in post-war Vienna uncovers a ruthless conspiracy.
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