With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
Kunjoonjamma Thomas is a widow living in the village all by herself. People always make fun of her b...
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to v...
On a winter morning, a mother goes to waken her son Heinrich; his bed is empty. She leaves her flat ...
Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl, kill himself because of the ongo...
A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural...
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in th...
A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his fat...
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges f...
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and dis...
The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-...
Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territ...
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-doo...
The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...
Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitor...
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...
After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Toge...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...