Release Date: 1959-05-12

Overview: A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inter­generational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.

Rating: 7.7 (297 votes)

Release Date: 1960-11-13

Overview: A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

Rating: 7.761 (161 votes)

Release Date: 2018-10-08

Overview: In Edo period Japan, a lone ronin lives in a village helping the farmers tend to their land. One day, a group of outlaw swordsmen enter the village.

Rating: 7.395 (62 votes)

Release Date: 1932-06-03

Overview: Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of childhood as well as the tragedy of maturity.

Rating: 7.522 (134 votes)

Release Date: 1969-02-24

Overview: A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.

Rating: 6.862 (116 votes)

Release Date: 1951-06-22

Overview: Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.

Rating: 7.2 (57 votes)

Release Date: 1950-09-27

Overview: An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.

Rating: 7.306 (129 votes)

Release Date: 2011-06-26

Overview: In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the 'little brother number' or 'brother trick', involving advanced role-play and gang rhetoric rather than physical violence.

Rating: 6.8 (128 votes)

Release Date: 1937-03-03

Overview: A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever she wants, including smoking. She even convinces Koyima to take her to a geisha house. When she gets rather tipsy, the professor calls Okada, one of his students, to take her home. The wife becomes suspicious of Setsuko when she sees Okada bringing her home.

Rating: 6.4 (31 votes)

Release Date: 2013-09-01

Overview: Mary is in her last course of school. She'll confront sudden changes in her life, loving relations and friendship. Based on some tweets of an anonymous girl.

Rating: 7.3 (32 votes)

Release Date: 1932-08-04

Overview: When delusional madman Roxor kidnaps a scientist in hopes of using his death ray to achieve world dominance, he is opposed by Chandu, a powerful hypnotist and yogi.

Rating: 6.261 (23 votes)

Release Date: 1973-12-25

Overview: Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling for his artist sister.

Rating: 8 (6 votes)

Release Date: 2001-03-23

Overview: Paper Airplane is a feature-length documentary that looks at the breakdown of China’s socialist systems, which had previously provided jobs and security, now having turned to capitalism allows disenfranchised youths to fall into new lifestyles that sometimes involve the underworld of drugs.

Rating: 7 (6 votes)

Release Date: 1976-09-17

Overview: A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

Rating: 7 (172 votes)

Release Date: 1949-06-25

Overview: An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.

Rating: 6.854 (147 votes)

Release Date: 1949-09-13

Overview: Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

Rating: 8.006 (439 votes)

Release Date: 1963-01-25

Overview: Despite his lack of political convictions, photojournalist Bruno Forestier is roped into a paramilitary group waging a shadow war in Geneva against the Algerian independence movement.

Rating: 7 (169 votes)

Release Date: 1959-11-17

Overview: When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

Rating: 7.476 (188 votes)

Release Date: 1968-09-29

Overview: In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.

Rating: 7.5 (222 votes)

Release Date: 1939-06-09

Overview: After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.

Rating: 7.6 (235 votes)