Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…

Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it f...

One of the first ‘frogmen’ in the Navy Reserve fights to survive missions behind enemy lines and his...

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

Senagaki Isaku will be a first-year high school student starting in spring. Her grandfather is the t...

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

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that featu...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...

In a barren, arranged marriage to an amateur swami who seeks enlightenment through celibacy, Radha's...

While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order t...

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...