Writer
1931 - 2022
Dominique LaPierre
Châtelaillon, Charente-Inférieure [now Charente-Maritime], France
Dominique Lapierre (30 July 1931 – 2 December 2022) was a French author. Dominique Lapierre was born in Châtelaillon-Plage, Charente-Maritime, France. At the age of thirteen, he travelled to the U.S. with his father who was a diplomat (Consul General of France). He attended... Read full bio →
City of Joy
Roland Joffé
1992
2h 12m
6.5
Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.
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