Release Date: 1946-10-29

Overview: Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise of fascism in Japan and becomes involved with two of his students.

Rating: 6.9 (79 votes)

Release Date: 1945-05-03

Overview: In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.

Rating: 6.1 (54 votes)

Release Date: 1952-04-24

Overview: Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to safety.

Rating: 6.7 (92 votes)

Release Date: 1944-04-13

Overview: The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and tremendous personal hardship, the women persevere in their tasks, devoted to their work and their country's cause.

Rating: 5.6 (51 votes)

Release Date: 1944-04-08

Overview: Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.

Rating: 7.529 (257 votes)

Release Date: 1989-01-15

Overview: The story of a young man who loves crime fiction books, and the daugher of a mafia leader.

Rating: 5.8 (14 votes)

Release Date: 1954-04-20

Overview: An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. Notable for its exquisite framing and cinematography, An Inn at Osaka allows its complicated plotlines to disappear behind the minutiae of penury and humiliation that Mito and others suffer during the post-war economic and social reconstruction.

Rating: 7.3 (12 votes)

Release Date: 2012-10-31

Overview: A young boy comes of age in a Mumbai slum while dealing with his long-suffering mother and violent father, in this gently observational portrait crafted in the tradition of the great neorealist classics. (TIFF)

Rating: 6.125 (8 votes)

Release Date: 1974-12-09

Overview: After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in a small diner.

Rating: 6.962 (486 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: 2023-07-13

Overview: After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless "crypto-bro" son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.

Rating: 6.537 (188 votes)

Release Date: 1992-05-08

Overview: A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Rating: 7.204 (870 votes)

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: 1997-09-28

Overview: A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

Rating: 7.664 (633 votes)

Release Date: 2016-02-08

Overview: A playboy business tycoon, Liu Xuan, purchases the Green Gulf, a wildlife reserve, for a sea reclamation project, and uses sonar technology to get rid of the sea life in the area. Unknown to him, the Green Gulf is the home of merpeople, and the sonar has caused many of them to succumb to illness or die. Xuan's business ventures in the area are threatened when he crosses paths with the mermaid, Shan, who is sent to avenge her people.

Rating: 6.533 (448 votes)

Release Date: 2005-08-31

Overview: Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.

Rating: 7 (1566 votes)

Release Date: 2019-10-04

Overview: The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.

Rating: 7 (1203 votes)

Release Date: 2019-07-12

Overview: A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

Rating: 7.423 (1459 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)