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.

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-doo...

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

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in...

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

Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his ...

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlockin...

Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newc...

After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friend...

After the passing of his wife, a lonely newspaper editor discovers Berenalin: a medication that prom...

A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately ...

At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch fami...

Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyon...

Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. Afte...

Ordinary people find extraordinary courage in the face of madness. On 13–14 November 1990 that madne...

A mysterious woman, known as Madame M, kidnaps forty pre-teen girls and transports them to a remote ...

Lifelong hard work for the count makes the servant Anton a cripple. Everybody calls him Crooked Anto...

A story about a family after the Second World War. The petty bourgeois cashier Karl Weber of Berlin ...

A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her st...

Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a rom...