Why did she die? The Supreme Court first sentenced her to death, but then commuted her sentence to life imprisonment and sent her to Tochigi Women's Prison. What happened before she took her own life there? Based on her tanka poems, which convey her raw voice, the film explores her lone fight during the 121 days between her death sentence and suicide, a period that has remained obscure to date.

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dia...

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich ...

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater...

Ailing from a sickness that threatens to silence her forever, Umm Kalthoum, the greatest Egyptian si...

A comic study of 20th-century history, reconstructing the life of writer, creator and professional p...

Chronicles the rise of young Shivaji Bhonsale, who challenged the might of established empires to fo...

In the Welsh town of Port Talbot, 1942, Richard Jenkins lives as a wayward schoolboy, caught between...

Led by Donna and Reverend W.C. Martin, 22 families from a rural Black church in the small East Texas...

A destitute Frank Sinatra pursues sultry starlet Ava Gardner while campaigning for the lead in 'From...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...
Jerzy Kosiński, author of The Painted Bird and Being There, sees his life and literary career unrave...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

It follows the story of Anwar's fight against corruption while in government between the years of 19...

An elderly bell maker reminisces about his life filled with tragedy.

The story of Holocaust survivor Emil A. Fish, who was nine years old when he and his family in Barde...

At an Austrian boys' boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the sadis...
Depicts Hamka's childhood in Maninjau, West Sumatra, where he showed a great interest in tradition a...

Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation....