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 World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

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

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apar...

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 ...

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are h...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

A young man returns to his parental home where his mother has lived alone as a widow for many years.

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

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...

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

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed...

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...

In the 19th century, a young widow named Eva manages a remote winter fishing outpost in an Arctic ba...

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...

World War II is over and Heinrich, a young German boy, influenced by the Russians, starts to act acc...

When a young boy comes in to see a doctor abourt a red mark on his face, the doctor's wife welcomes ...

An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.