Blu-ray
The Lovers (2014)
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- Release date
- Jul 07, 2015
- Studio
- IFC Films
- Resolution
- 1080p
- Region / playback
- 2K Blu-ray: Region A
- Discs
- Blu-ray Disc | Single disc (1 BD-25)
questionable · Unknown
The Lovers
The Lovers is an epic romance time travel adventure film. Helmed by Roland Joffé from a story by Ajey Jhankar, the film is a sweeping tale of an impossible love set against the backdrop of the first Anglo-Maratha war across two time periods and continents and centred around four characters — a British officer in 18th century colonial India, the Indian woman he falls deeply in love with, an American present-day marine biologist and his wife.
Adventure, Science Fiction, Romance, Action
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What kind of time-travel story is this?
Time travel is an important premise, with limited sustained exploration. This assessment is provisional.
A borderline case: the temporal interpretation remains disputed. The mechanism is classified as Unknown.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
Retain provisional 5/10. After a diving accident leaves Jay brain dead, his coma dream carries him to 1778 India as officer James Stewart, linked to the present by a pair of rings. Reviews say most of the film is set in the India sequences, but the dream framing still leaves literal consciousness travel unestablished.
Sources call this time travel but describe the historical action as a comatose dream; literal temporal access versus imagined past remains unresolved.
Check the supporting sources ↓An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.
Explore other films in this classification →Scale, legacy & time
The scores
Titan13.4
Provisional weighting
Time-travel significance5/10
low confidence
Quality consensus4.9/10
Aggregate source ratings
How Titan works
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]
This film: 33.57 base × 40.0% weighting.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
The evidence
Research & sources
Research notes may reveal plot details.
These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Simone Kessell, Tamsin Egerton, Alice Englert, Bipasha Basu
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Releases & formats
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Digital
The Lovers (2014)
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DVD
The Lovers (2014)
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- Release date
- Jul 07, 2015
- Studio
- Unknown
- Resolution
- 1080p
- Region / playback
- Region 1