The Chosen (1981)

In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe…

This film covers the last years of the Emperor’s life, imprisoned by the British on St Helena, a remote island off the west coast of Africa. Napoleon retains a loyal…

Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents and starts to live with his Indian grandma and grandpa and learn the…

Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally…

Four Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.

The fantastical tale of a little girl who won’t – or can’t – follow the rules. Confounded by her clashes with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoebe seeks enlightenment from…

When successful New York marketing executive Katherine discovers her workaholic ways are taking a toll on her eight-year-old son, Zac, she decides to spend Christmas with him and her mother,…

A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father’s caretaker and becomes closer to…

Explores characters at life-defining moments regarding gender issues like period poverty, child marriage, HIV stigma, family planning, and women’s empowerment.

Two listless friends and a clumsy girl try to make sense of their lives, and perhaps find love along the way.

Angel Adams is independent, beautiful and successful and has everything a woman wants, except a man. Separated by a twist of fate over 10 years ago, Angel and her high…

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…