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The Crucified Lovers

  In 17th-century Japan, Ishun (Eitaro Shindo) flourishes in business but remains stingy and cruel, often mistreating his wife, Osan (Kyoko Kagawa). When her bumbling brother desperately needs money, Osan Read More

Good Bye, Lenin!

  In October 1989, right before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Alex Kerner (Daniel Brühl) is living with his mom, Christiane (Kathrin Sass), and sister, Ariane (Maria Simon). But Read More

Beautiful Hunter

  Shion is the most merciless assassin of the Magnificat crime group. But when she hesitates to murder the man she loves, her superior marks her for death, and she Read More

Cruel Story of Youth

  In 1960 Japan, restless university student Kyoshi (Yusuke Kawazu) seduces pretty teenager Makoto (Miyuki Kuwanu) and quickly convinces her to take part in a dark, cruel scheme, both to Read More

Bayside Shakedown

  Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder Read More

Early Summer

  Noriko lives in postwar Tokyo with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her friends, her more traditionally minded family worries about the fact that she’s still Read More

The Ballad of Narayama

  Imagine a village so impoverished that thieves are buried alive, and elderly citizens must submit to death on a cold mountain peak.  This is the brutal life portrayed in Read More

An Autumn Afternoon

  In the wake of his wife’s death, aging Shuhei Hirayama (Chishu Ryu) struggles to maintain balanced relationships with his three children. He tends to spoil his eldest, the happily Read More

Bread and Tulips

  BREAD & TULIPS is about a woman’s search for self-fulfillment among the habits and responsibilities of everyday life. Rosalba (Licia Maglietta), a middle-aged woman on a bus trip to Read More

There’s Still Tomorrow

  In this moving comedic drama set in postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of Read More