The film is based on true events. It centers around Shunzo, a popular greengrocer who lives in a city near Tokyo. Read More »
Drama
Whistle Down the Wind (1961) Bryan Forbes, Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird
Little Kathy discovers a man wanted for murder hiding in her family’s barn. Read More »
The River Niger (1976) Krishna Shah, Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Louis Gossett Jr.
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet Read More »
The Death of Captain Pilecki (2006) Ryszard Bugajski, Marek Probosz, Marek Kalita, Andrzej Niemirski
Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish intelligence officer during WWII who volunteered for a Polish resistance operation Read More »
The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982) Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Claudio Bigagli
The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. Read More »
The Happy Ending (1969) Richard Brooks, Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Shirley Jones
The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson (Jean Simmons) Read More »
Kippur (2000) Amos Gitai, Liron Levo, Tomer Russo, Uri Klauzner
The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. Read More »
The Wings of Eagles (1957) John Ford, John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Dan Dailey
U.S. Navy pilot Frank ‘Spig’ Wead is a fun-loving and rowdy adventurer, but also a fierce proponent of Naval aviation. Read More »
Goliath Awaits (1981) Kevin Connor, Mark Harmon, Christopher Lee, Eddie Albert
During World War II, the passenger liner Goliath is sunk by a German submarine. Read More »
A Chaos of Flowers (1988) Kinji Fukasaku, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Keiko Matsuzaka, Ken Ogata
Poet Akiko Yosano is a poor woman with many children, she composes while doing the housework. Read More »
The Keeler Affair (1963) Robert Spafford, Yvonne Buckingham, John Drew Barrymore, Alicia Brandet
A teenage prostitute in England gets involved with high-level politicians and becomes enmeshed in a sex-and-spy scandal. Read More »
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993) Randa Haines, Robert Duvall, Richard Harris, Shirley MacLaine
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. Read More »
Throw Down (2004) Johnnie To, Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok, Cherrie Ying
A former judo champion quits the tournament cirucit and runs a nightclub. Read More »
Beyond the Sea (2004) Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman
Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin (1936-1973) is making a movie about his life. Read More »
The Mission (1999) Johnnie To, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Francis Ng, Jackie Chung-yin Lui
Triad boss Lung, who has just escaped being killed in an assassination attempt hires the killers Curtis Read More »