This gripping docudrama is a fictionalized account of what could happen to a Japanese family when one of their sons shames them in front of the entire nation.
A successful director is having a midlife crisis. He has an ex-wife, ex-lover and a couple of kids he never sees. He starts getting calls from a beautiful mysterious woman who becomes his obsession and causes him to reflect on his life.
It was only after her death that the work of New Zealand writer, Katherine Mansfield, became well known, thanks to her editor and husband, John Middleton-Murry. She had left New Zealand to ...
A story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to life. She is already pregnant and has her baby in prison. Immediately after...
Fred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay has come. Gégé, his loyal friend, advises him to make money quickly, or face the ...
Babu is a naive young man who likes to go out of his way to help people. He has fallen in love with Kammo, but in the process of helping another, he lands himself in jail for two years. ...
The story of a strong willed girl trying to get her unmarried mother married.
Simple-minded and honest to a fault, Lallu Ram lives a poor lifestyle in a village in Uttar Pradesh. He comes to the assistance of everyone, and has a sister in every household. Champa, the...
Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low-paying but satisfying job and a girlfriend. Then his mother, unable to fight her forbidden desires, shows up.
The "Hissatsu!" band of assassins gets involved in an old mansion with a secret weapon.
Madhav Verma (Om Puri) is a dedicated, honest, and diligent union representative. He represents the majority of the employees in an organization, which recognizes his union. However, there ...
José Pereira, a young medical graduate, meets a young and ardent Maria Eugénia. The time is the eve of the Portuguese Revolution, on 24th April 1974 and only a short time elapses between ...
Based on a novel by Abraham B.Jehoshua,
Two friends get rich running an illegal gambling business. But soon they start to compete, and become rivals.
Two slash-and-burn farmers working on the slopes of Chiri Mountain seem to share a close friendship. However, their friendship proves to be a sham when one of them rapes the other's wife ...
Three poor girls from the provinces of the Philippines are lured to the big city. In Manila they are tricked to work in the sex trade.
A detective tracking down anti-nuclear terrorists gets involved with prostitutes and rogue government agents.
1943. Buryatiya. In a hinterland in far Siberia, many kilometers far from the front battle line there is a small Buryat village... See full synopsis »
The first thing we see in Tikoy Aguiluz's Boatman is the gleaming revealed blade of a balisong (a switchblade knife made in the province of Batangas). A group of prepubescent boys line up ...
A tough street kid from the L.A. barrios is discovered during an examination to have stomach tumors. During his hospitalization, he must learn to cope with not only his medical condition, ...