Saawariya (2007)

Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo (stage name ‘Nonko’), but wasn’t popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s,…

An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.

Naoko returns home with her young daughter, where her mother Masako runs the only beauty parlor in town. The local women go there to pass the time lamenting their bad…

Singer and songwriter Hank Williams rises to fame in the 1940s, but alcohol abuse and infidelity take a toll on his career and marriage to fellow musician Audrey Mae Williams.

Set in 1974, an authentic and uplifting tale of two friends whose horizons are opened up by the discovery of black American soul music.

As a solar catastrophe threatens the world, Phillip Katz (Joseph Cross), a stressed-out copywriter, is mistaken for the next messiah by an ambitious reporter (Heather Graham). Instantly becoming the most…

A young Southern college student falls for the charms of a female nightclub owner while on summer break in Chicago – and soon enough meets her club co-owner boyfriend and…

Ichiro Mizusawa, a player from Rukawa’s old junior high school, Tomigoaka, is diagnosed with a crippling leg condition and wants to play one last game with Rukawa. Hanamichi sets out…

The spear signifies political power, the arrow personal ambition. What happens when the two collide?

In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle…

The interwoven dramas of staff and patients in Mayfield Children’s Hospital, where the doctors and nurses are in the business of restoring children’s lives. One small child risks losing his…

Dick Van Dyke stars as a priest accused of murdering a nun. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this 1979 drama also features Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen Stapleton, Ray Bolger, Beau Bridges and…