Set in a romantic vision of 1920s Andalusia, the movie centers on a female bullfighter who never knows her birth mother and is hated by her evil stepmother. One day she ran away with a troupe of dwarves, and became a legend.
Set in 1973, the movie tells the story of a gifted high school football player who must learn to embrace his talent and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field to become the first African American superstar. Tony Nathan.
In the years before World War II, a Japanese child is torn from her penniless family to work as a maid in a geisha house. She then reveals how she transcends her fishing-village roots and becomes one of Japan’s most celebrated geisha.
Set in Saigon in 1965, during the Vietnam War, the movie follows an unorthodox and irreverent DJ as he begins to shake up things after being assigned to the US Armed Services Radio station in Vietnam.
The movie tells the story of Kim Hunter who arrives in New York’s Greenwich Village and uncovers a Satanic cult who may have something to do with her sibling’s random disappearance.
Splendor in the Grass follows the unrequited and forbidden but superheated romance between working-class high schooler Natalie Wood and rich kid Warren Beatty. Together they learn the harsh lesson of love and life in the ’20s and sadly go their separate ways.
Gabbeh’s father refuses to allow her to marry a mysterious stranger on horseback who follows her nomadic family wherever they travel whom she falls in love with, until a series of stipulations have first been met.
The movie tells the story of a bamboo cutter who finds a miniature girl and takes her home to his wife so they can bring her up as their own daughter. The girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her, but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment […]
The movie covers 13 years and begins with a 19-year-old college student named Hana who encounters and falls in ‘fairy tale-like’ love with a ‘wolf man.’ After her husband dies in an accident, Hana moves to the rural countryside where her husband grew up to raise her two werewolf children.
Set in an alternate ending to World War II, when the islands of Japan are divided into Union-controlled North and the US-controlled South, and the island of Hokkaido is annexed. A tall tower was built on Hokkaido, which could even be seen from Tokyo. In the summer of 1996, three middle-school students make a promise that they’ll […]
The movie centers on Muriel, a plump and unhappy woman who dreams of escaping to a new and better life through marriage. Then she steals some money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, and turns her world upside down.
When a single 27-year-old Tokyo girl visits her relatives in the countryside, and as the train travels through the night, memories flood back of her younger years: the first immature stirrings of romance, the onset of puberty, and the frustrations of math and boys.
A chain of short stories about the distance between a young man named Takaki and his love through his life as cruel winters, cold technology, and finally, adult obligations and responsibility converge to test the delicate petals of love.
The movie centers on Cheng Chao-an, a Chinese man moving to Thailand from mainland China who sworn to an oath of non-violence works with his cousins in an ice factory where they mysteriously begin to disappear.
The movie follows Jenny as she is sent to a women’s reform school which is operated by a sadistic and evil warden, Sutter, and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.
Woodlawn
Memoirs of a Geisha
Good Morning Vietnam
The Seventh Victim
Splendor in the Grass
Gabbeh
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Wolf Children
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Muriels Wedding
Only Yesterday
5 Centimeters Per Second
The Big Boss
Reform School Girls