The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents.

Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law’s company. Bu...

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who pray...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her ...

A woman who makes her living as a prostitute must decide her fate between two totally different men.

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bot...

Maggie, a quiet retiring grandmother, finds herself helpless as her grandson’s health deteriorates. ...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominic...

Jae-Young is an amateur prostitute who sleeps with men while her best friend Yeo-Jin "manages" her, ...

After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of...

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

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

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the border between Germany ...