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a British film company started by the ↑ producer Ismail Merchant(1936–2005) and the ↑ director James Ivory (1928–), known for films such as A Room with a View (1983), Howards End (1991), and The Remains of the Day (1992). Many of their films are based on well-known works of English literature, and they are often about the lives of ↑ upper-class English people in the early 20th century, showing their beautiful clothes, houses etc.