Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.

Based on the 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath, a young woman's summer in New York sees her working for a M...

Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his rema...

The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold Wa...
In July 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams ...

On a Saturday night, in a small 1950s Californian town, a young man, whose parents are an inch from ...

Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwa...

Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical p...

Shun Miyata's new life in Tokyo takes a dark turn when he and coworker Yuka discover their boss Yuri...

Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exi...

Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very danger...

A psychiatrist tells two stories: one of a trans woman, the other of a pseudohermaphrodite.

A troubled family's problems come to a head during a stay in a seaside town.

A wronged woman takes revenge on her wheelchair bound father-in-law.

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work...

Águst Guðmundsson directed this Icelandic period drama, adapted from the short story We Must Dance b...

Bavaria, Germany, 1950s. The sudden return of the young Kathrin to the small village where she was b...

Nemanja leads a normal life with a steady job and a fiancée, until he is waylaid by a sudden downpou...

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of t...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

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