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.

Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in soli...

An unstable young woman pines for the ex-boyfriend who nearly beat her to death – and who has myster...

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his di...

Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearb...

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to int...

While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly at...

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tr...

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill be...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

Andy moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss is extremely demanding, cruel and w...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

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...

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...