Heat and Dust is a 1983 British historical romantic drama film. It features Christopher Cazenove, Greta Scacchi, Julian Glover, Susan Fleetwood, and Madhur Jaffrey. Anne, a young historical researcher, inherits letters written by her great aunt Olivia and becomes obsessed with their revelations of her past in colonial India. Flitting between the present-day and the 1920's, the film examines their parallel journeys of self-discovery and the eternal, seductive allures of the country. A film restored by the British Film Institute (BFI).