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.

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...

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

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, ...

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

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

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

Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. Howeve...

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...

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 a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apar...

An architect becomes a voyeur when he spies upon his female neighbor.

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

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...

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