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.

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret ...

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become a...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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