Ichikawa’s 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha…

In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.

The doctor (Lionel Barrymore) has a Kansan (Van Johnson), an Australian and an Asian from Brooklyn to choose from.

When a private detective is murdered, a former colleague and a trainee detective are sent to investigate. Along the way, they uncover a tragic truth that triggers memories from their…

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

Adapted from a story by Truman Capote (“In Cold Blood”), the world of the prison convict is open to the viewer. As the story develops, one thing becomes clear. As…

A psychopath calls the police before he kills, in between sessions with his father-figure analyst.

The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action…

After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the…

A neglected Baroness falls in love with her oldest son’s military officer friend, their adulterous romance leading the two to flee to Algeria.

Not to be confused with Luc Besson’s film of the same title from the same year. Documentarian Andrew Horn’s second narrative feature.

This colourful, music-filled and sensual melodrama based on early stories by Maxim Gorky tells the fatal love story between the beautiful and rebellious girl Rada and the handsome horse thief…