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: 1936-09-15

Overview: A silk factory worker is persuaded to support her son's education up to a college level despite their poverty. Many years later, she travels to Tokyo to visit her son.

Rating: 7.384 (99 votes)

Release Date: 1957-04-30

Overview: Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

Rating: 7.727 (143 votes)

Release Date: 1948-09-17

Overview: Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prostitution. One month later her husband returns from WWII to find his desperate wife, who tells him the truth. Together they must deal with the consequences.

Rating: 7.14 (50 votes)

Release Date: 1926-09-24

Overview: A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Rating: 7.363 (153 votes)

Release Date: 1958-09-07

Overview: Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.

Rating: 7.439 (155 votes)

Release Date: 1962-11-18

Overview: Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

Rating: 7.8 (299 votes)

Release Date: 1955-06-24

Overview: Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.

Rating: 6.5 (115 votes)

Release Date: 1936-10-15

Overview: Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and leaving his wife. However her younger sister Omocha tells her she is wasting her time and money on a loser. She thinks that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them. Omocha therefore tries various schemes to get rid of Furusawa, and set themselves up with better patrons.

Rating: 7.158 (73 votes)

Release Date: 1993-09-16

Overview: Scenes of life in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc.

Rating: 6.9 (26 votes)

Release Date: 2012-12-21

Overview: When his wife dies, Carl offers his only son, Janeau, 12, a fresh start. They move to Mont Saint-Hilaire, where Janeau makes friends with Julie, a talented Pee-Wee hockey goalie determined to compete in the annual World Tournament held in Quebec. She convinces Janeau to join the team, but he has a hard time being accepted by the rest of the players, including Joey, the star player who has to endure constant pressure from his father.

Rating: 6.3 (21 votes)

Release Date: 2019-05-22

Overview: A Belgian teenager hatches a plot to kill his teacher after embracing an extremist interpretation of the Quran.

Rating: 6.314 (164 votes)

Release Date: 1999-10-16

Overview: Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.

Rating: 7.5 (214 votes)

Release Date: 1960-10-14

Overview: The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.

Rating: 6.936 (256 votes)

Release Date: 1951-10-03

Overview: A 28-year-old single woman is pressured to marry.

Rating: 7.8 (193 votes)

Release Date: 1959-10-07

Overview: Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.

Rating: 7.128 (295 votes)

Release Date: 1971-09-15

Overview: In 1870, Japanese ambassador Sakaguchi and his entourage travel by train to Washington to deliver a valuable sword to the President of the United States, a gift from the Emperor of Japan. On board the same train are two robbers, Link and Gauche, ready to make their move…

Rating: 6.902 (287 votes)

Release Date: 1953-11-03

Overview: The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

Rating: 8.171 (1131 votes)

Release Date: 1960-02-08

Overview: Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.

Rating: 7.8 (630 votes)

Release Date: 2003-06-22

Overview: After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.

Rating: 8.105 (564 votes)