
Hishakaku asks his woman, Otoyo, a former geisha, to move to Tokyo, where they are taken in by Boss Kokin. Read More »
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Betsy’s Wedding (1990) Alan Alda, Molly Ringwald, Joey Bishop

The very different fashion student Betsy Hopper and investment banker Jake Lovell are getting married. Read More »
Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920) Paul Wegener, Carl Boese, Albert Steinrück, Ernst Deutsch

In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem – a giant creature made of clay. Read More »
Fireflies / Hotarubi (1958) Heinosuke Gosho, Chikage Awashima, Junzaburô Ban, Ayako Wakao

Tose got incredibly lucky to go from being the peasants’ daughter to the owner of a famous inn. Read More »
Diva (1981) Jean-Jacques Beineix, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Frédéric Andréi, Roland Bertin

Two tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief Read More »
The Radiant Prince / Shin Genji monogatari (1961) Kazuo Mori, Raizô Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao, Hanayo Sumi

Driven to an obsession with the emperor’s new concubine, Lady Fujitsubo, whose resemblance to his late mother Read More »
Graduation / Bacalaureat (2016) Cristian Mungiu, Adrian Titieni, Maria Dragus, Lia Bugnar

Romeo Aldea (49), a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza Read More »
Beauty / Skoonheid (2011) Oliver Hermanus, Deon Lotz, Charlie Keegan, Michelle Scott

Portrait of a closeted gay husband/father living a life of quiet middle-aged desperation who becomes fixated Read More »
Love Letters (1945) William Dieterle, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards

When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. Read More »
So Well Remembered (1947) Edward Dmytryk, John Mills, Martha Scott, Patricia Roc

On the day that World War II ends in Europe, Mayor George Boswell recalls events of the previous 25 years in his home town of Browdley. Read More »
Let Joy Reign Supreme / Que la fête commence… (1975) Bertrand Tavernier, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle

France, 1719. Louis 14th died four years ago, Philippe d’Orleans is the regent. Read More »
Despair (1978) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch

Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis’ rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. Read More »
8 Million Ways to Die (1986) Hal Ashby, Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul

Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff’s Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. Read More »
Rings on Her Fingers (1942) Rouben Mamoulian, Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar

Susan Miller works behind the girdle counter in a department store and dreams about the beautiful clothes Read More »
Phantom Raiders (1940) Jacques Tourneur, Walter Pidgeon, Donald Meek, Joseph Schildkraut

A mysterious rash of cargo ship sinkings in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter Read More »