A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his...

When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red...

A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin...

A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.

After the death of a septuagenarian woman, her three children deliberate over what to do with her estate.

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who,...

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

As a mysterious planetary alignment sets the sky on fire, two brothers are reunited with a childhood friend.

Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover...

In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of...

In a mining town which has been blighted by economic downturns, an elementary school headmaster struggles to obtain social services on behalf of his...

Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the...

Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The...

We all have ghosts (or cosmonauts) in our lives.

A widow shepherd who lives at the Aragonese Pyrenees sees how his three young daughters, Cándida, Visi, and Nieves, go to Madrid to find a...

Three veterans of the Spanish Civil War go rabbit hunting. While doing so, old wounds open up.

Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis in her marriage with...

A virtuous monk descends to the depths of sin and depravity after Satan sends an unholy temptress to lead him astray.

The film is the personal story of a protagonist of our times and traces Carlo Martini's actions and thoughts, as he has remained faithful to its...