Release Date: 1980-04-26

Overview: Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.

Rating: 7.821 (682 votes)

Release Date: 1950-08-26

Overview: Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Rating: 8.059 (2342 votes)

Release Date: 1961-04-25

Overview: A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

Rating: 8.098 (1556 votes)

Release Date: 1957-01-15

Overview: Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.

Rating: 7.916 (908 votes)

Release Date: 1990-05-11

Overview: A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.

Rating: 7.703 (502 votes)

Release Date: 1952-10-09

Overview: Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

Rating: 8.3 (1214 votes)

Release Date: 1966-02-25

Overview: Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.

Rating: 7.734 (235 votes)

Release Date: 1994-02-08

Overview: Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

Rating: 8.133 (274 votes)

Release Date: 1965-04-03

Overview: Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

Rating: 8.119 (378 votes)

Release Date: 1927-11-04

Overview: A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Rating: 7.838 (840 votes)

Release Date: 1950-05-17

Overview: A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.

Rating: 7.596 (611 votes)

Release Date: 1975-08-02

Overview: A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.

Rating: 7.9 (571 votes)

Release Date: 1962-01-01

Overview: Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

Rating: 7.954 (651 votes)

Release Date: 1957-08-28

Overview: Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer for the doctor's own first love.

Rating: 8.1 (1696 votes)

Release Date: 1958-12-28

Overview: In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.

Rating: 7.973 (646 votes)

Release Date: 2007-10-26

Overview: Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.

Rating: 6.126 (226 votes)

Release Date: 2018-10-10

Overview: With the help of her delivery-boy friend, Dilili, a young Kanak, investigates a spate of mysterious kidnappings of young girls that is plaguing Belle Epoque Paris. In the course of her investigation she encounters a series of extraordinary characters, each of whom provides her with clues that will help her in her quest.

Rating: 6.7 (141 votes)

Release Date: 1924-12-04

Overview: A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

Rating: 7.4 (189 votes)

Release Date: 1988-10-20

Overview: Karrer plods his way through life in quiet desperation. His environment is drab and rainy and muddy. Eaten up with solitude, his hopelessness would be incurable but for the existence of the Titanik Bar and its beautiful, haunting singer. But the lady is married and Karrer is determined to keep her husband away...

Rating: 7.7 (125 votes)

Release Date: 2024-06-07

Overview: Retired martial arts world champion Alex Faulkner has settled into a simple life, when the disappearance of two of his students leads to an unthinkable discovery close to home. Just when all hope of finding the children is lost, he locates the imprisoned girls and unsurfaces an international child trafficking operation, which draws him back into the fight of his life against those behind it.

Rating: 7.061 (49 votes)