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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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...

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Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence...

Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby...

A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she ...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...

Under the USSR oppression a family breaks up and its members find themselves on opposite sides of th...

Convicted murderer Clyde Thompson receives the death penalty for shooting two men in Texas in 1928. ...

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a sho...

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...

Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what s...

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different t...

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death ...