When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
• January 15th, 1960 • 1h 51min
Drama
Overview
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
The Summer I Turned 15
Released on: 1976-03-04
Drama
The story Peter is telling the about a special summer, when he is invited over to summer holiday fro...
Fist of Fury
Released on: 1972-03-22
Drama, Action, Thriller
Chen Chen returns to his former school in Shanghai when he learns that his beloved instructor has be...
School Ties
Released on: 1992-09-18
Drama
When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feel...
Suddenly, Last Summer
Released on: 1959-12-22
Thriller, Drama, Mystery
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What ...
Body Shots
Released on: 1999-10-07
Drama, Romance
The Los Angeles club scene is a place of booze-fueled decadence and debauchery. In a night full of p...
Violated Paradise
Released on: 1963-06-07
Documentary, Romance, Drama
A modern geisha travels through Japan trying to find a job as entertainer, and ends up by finding lo...
Sagan
Released on: 2008-06-11
Drama
France, 1950s. From the Quartier Latin to Saint-Tropez via New York, a young Parisienne becomes the ...
Miss You, Love You
Released on:
Drama
With her husband's funeral to plan and grieving to be done, a woman reaches out to her estranged son...
Set Fire to the Stars
Released on: 2014-11-07
Drama, History
An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retre...
Mulholland Falls
Released on: 1996-04-26
Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Barfly
Released on: 1987-09-02
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedde...
Malena
Released on: 2000-03-16
Drama
During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman livi...
The Accused
Released on: 1988-10-14
Crime, Drama
Out drinking one night after a fight with her boyfriend, three men brutally rape Sarah Tobias in a b...
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Released on: 2004-03-06
Animation, Drama, Science Fiction
Cyborg detective Batou is assigned to investigate a series of murders committed by gynoids—doll-like...
Mona Lisa Smile
Released on: 2003-12-19
Drama, History, Romance
Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female ...
Places in the Heart
Released on: 1984-09-11
Drama
In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a...
Intimate Enemies
Released on: 2007-10-03
Drama, War, History
A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
Children of Glory
Released on: 2006-10-23
Drama, History
During the ill-fated Hungarian revolution of 1956, Karcsi Szabo, star player on the water polo team,...
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Released on: 1989-07-26
Drama
A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a uni...
Ghost Town
Released on: 2008-09-19
Comedy, Romance, Drama, Fantasy
Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dea...