At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class “untouchables,” leaving his hometown to serve as an elementary school teacher where he excels and is loved by his students. But he constantly struggles with the secret of his low-birth status and is disturbed by all of the discrimination levelled upon his class. It prevents him from pursuing a romance with Shiho, whom he meets at the temple where he resides, but who descends from a samurai family.
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind...
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, offi...
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirem...
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses o...
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local in...
An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two ...
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physical...
The revolutionary year of 1848 brought great hopes among the hitherto silent classes, awakening soci...
A fiction piece centered around the Czech resistance to the Nazis.
While her boyfriend Jun'ichi is out of town, college student and part-time model Yuri passes the tim...
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a you...
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the ...
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in th...
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further ...
Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence...