French silkworm trader Hervé is married to the beautiful Hélène. When an outbreak of disease ravages European silkworms, Hervé must travel to Japan to retrieve healthy eggs. After a long journey, Hervé finally arrives at a village where he can buy them. He becomes infatuated with a young concubine and goes to great lengths to see her again. But, when war breaks out in Japan, the concubine flees, forcing Hervé to return home to his wife.

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When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...

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The lives of two French sisters are torn apart by the onset of World War II.

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A female boxing trainer discovers that her champion cage-fighter boyfriend has been cheating on her ...

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A widower and his daughter deal with the death of the man's wife.

A dark fable set in an early 1950s Czech village, a time of Soviet-style socialism which saw the imp...
Getting out of prison doesn't mean being free. After the bloody suppression of the Prague Revolution...

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