In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into ...

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown ...

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the ...

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-...
Getting out of prison doesn't mean being free. After the bloody suppression of the Prague Revolution...

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...

After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert an...

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by ...

Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between t...

In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues...

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s...

One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. ...

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set ad...

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. T...

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to int...

In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman,...

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis ...

The family of a wealthy businessman gather to celebrate his 60th birthday. During the course of the ...