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.

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

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the wi...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

In 1962 Hong Kong, neighbors Su Li-zhen (Mrs. Chan) and Chow Mo-wan (Mr. Chow) discover their spouse...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended und...

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

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the he...

The widow of a nobleman bears a son after having an affair with her servant. The servant and the bab...

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though ...

Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase h...

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, ...

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor...

Teenage boy Tom lives with his single mum in a flat in South London. Into the flat below moves Steve...

A college freshman takes advantage of a rumor, straining the relationships with those around him.

A perfect housewife, who just happens to be sex-starved, struggles to keep her emotions in check whe...

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...