With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money.

A Japanese Tragedy

1953

Japanese

7.3

♡ 1

Keisuke Kinoshita Director

Fujio Suga as Fujita

Masami Taura as Haruko's son

Eijirô Yanagi as Iwami

Sanae Takasugi as Mrs. Akazawa

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.

A Geisha

1953

Japanese

7.6

♡ 6

100%

teacher student relationship

Kenji Mizoguchi Director

Ayako Wakao as Eiko

Seizaburô Kawazu as Kusuda

Ichirô Sugai as Saeki

Eitarô Shindô as Sawamoto

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve their professional integrity, must face the selfishness and ambition of several petty people.

Blood: The Last Vampire

2009

English

5.3

♡ 26

Chris Nahon Director

Yasuaki Kurata as Kato Takatora

Liam Cunningham as Michael Harrison Koyuki

Koyuki as Onigen

Ji-hyun Jun as Saya

On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old "halfling". Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts.

Ashes and Diamonds

1958

Polish

7.7

♡ 11

96%

Andrzej Wajda Director

Zofia Czerwinska as Barmaid Lili

Stanislaw Milski as Pieniazek

Aleksander Sewruk as Swiecki

Ryszard Pietruski as Worker in the Crowd

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.

The Secret Garden

2020

English

5.6

♡ 133

66%

42%

Action

based on children's book

Marc Munden Director

Maeve Dermody as Alice

Edan Hayhurst as Colin Craven

Colin Firth as Lord Archibald Craven

Julie Walters as Mrs. Medlock

Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. She meets her sickly cousin, and the two children find a wondrous secret garden lost in the grounds of Misselthwaite Manor.

Germany Year Zero

1948

Italian

7.8

♡ 13

96%

Roberto Rossellini Director

Alexandra Manys as Amica di Eva

Christl Merker as Christl

Gaby Raak as La donna di generale

Adolf Hitler as Self

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.

Frantz

2016

French

7.5

♡ 27

91%

François Ozon Director

Pierre Niney as Adrien Rivoire

Ernst Stötzner as Doktor Hans Hoffmeister

Johann von Bülow as Kreutz

Torsten Michaelis as Le prêtre

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.

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