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…

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frigh...

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires...

In 1962 Hong Kong, neighbors Su Li-zhen (Mrs. Chan) and Chow Mo-wan (Mr. Chow) discover their spouse...

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is throw...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the stu...

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is ca...

The incredible, untold true story of how a group of prisoners attempt a seemingly impossible escape ...

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...

1945: The last days of the war. In a remote mountain hut, Anton, a deserted SS man, and Hannah, a Je...

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